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How being extra daring and precise with his movements helped Sanju Samson play the knock of his life | Cricket News

How being extra daring and precise with his movements helped Sanju Samson play the knock of his life | Cricket News

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A gravelly voice in Malayalam stopped Sanju Samson when he was boarding the bus after the last day of the Duleep Trophy fixture in Anantapur. He turned back and met a request that sounded more like a demand: “Kalakkane mone.” Translated as, “make a splash, son.” Sanju reciprocated with a wistful smile and a thumbs up. He entered the bus and muttered to a support staff member: “Ivdem Malayali!” A Malayali here too, in the dead of rural Andhra Pradesh. The fan had biked some 500km from Hyderabad to watch Sanju bat, capturing the burden of being an international cricketer from a cricket-starved corner of India’s domestic field. For nine years, since his debut in Harare, Sanju has been the brightest cricket hope for an excessively emotional fanbase in his state, Kerala. They have celebrated even half a good knock of his, they have mourned every half a failure of his, they have read paragraphs between the lines when he was ignored. Had his chances dwindled, the strike-savvy state would have staged a dharna in …

Sanju Samson on five sixes over against Rishad Hossain: ‘I have been practicing and visualising it and I am very grateful it happened’ | Cricket News

Sanju Samson on five sixes over against Rishad Hossain: ‘I have been practicing and visualising it and I am very grateful it happened’ | Cricket News

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There was no bowler on Saturday who did not feel the wrath of Sanju Samson, who scored his first T20 international hundred. Among the Bangladesh bowling bunch leg-spinner Rishad Hossain felt the heat more compared to the others. In the 10th over of the innings Samson amassed five consecutive sixes of the bowler. “From the last two years, I have been thinking I can hit six sixes in an over, said Samson after the the third T20I in Hyderabad. Accordingly, I have been working with my mentor, Raiphi Gomez, and telling myself that four-five sixes in an over are possible and I should do something like that.” “I have been practising and visualising it and I am very grateful it happened today,” he said. Samson’s new-found strength against spin was born in the confines of the Covid-19 lockdown in 2020. Samson’s new-found strength against spin was born in the confines of the Covid-19 lockdown in 2020. It was then that a wiry batter decided to add “muscle mass” to his frame, improving physically to boost …

‘2016 T20 World Cup loss still hurts’: Mahmudullah announces retirement from T20I | Cricket News

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Bangladesh all-rounder Mahmudullah on Monday announced his retirement from the T20Is. The third match in Hyderabad will be his last match in this format. “I have no regrets, not a single bit. I think playing for Bangladesh for so many years, is quite a good thing personally. As much as I’ve played T20Is, I probably made my debut in 2007, it’s been 17 years. I don’t know how good I could do for the team, but I tried my level best. I tried to serve the team.” The 38-year-old made his debut in this format in 2007 against Kenya and has played 139 matches. He is just behind Rohit Sharma (157), and the Ireland duo Paul Stirling (147) and George Dockrell (141). The 38-year-old made his debut in this format in 2007 against Kenya and has played 139 matches Mahmudullah had previously retired from Tests in 2021 but has maintained that he will continue to feature in ODIs. The veteran was Bangladesh’s leading run-scorer in the 2023 Men’s World Cup in India with 328 runs. …

Arshdeep Singh: ‘T20 gets easier after playing red ball’ | Cricket News

Arshdeep Singh: ‘T20 gets easier after playing red ball’ | Cricket News

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In a free-wheeling interview to The Indian Express after India’s T20 world cup triumph, left-arm pacer Arshdeep Singh had expressed how deeply he desired to play Test cricket. “Wearing the whites gave me a different feeling. It’s a true joy,” he had said. It is also the breakfast table chat with Jasprit Bumrah that had ignited Arshdeep’s love for the longer format. “he would keep telling me that Arsh dhyan mein rakh tere ko teeno formats khelna hai (Keep it in your mind that you must play all three formats). He says when you do well in Test cricket, people remember you and rate you more highly.” However, the 25-year-old missed out on the Test selection in the recently-concluded Test match series against Bangladesh after his poor outings in the first two rounds of the Duleep Trophy. He was pipped by Yash Dayal. But he turned up the heat in the last round of the match, picking up nine wickets, including a 6 for 40 in the second innings. Arshdeep Singh during Duleep Trophy match. …

India vs Bangladesh: Surrounded by the ravines of Bihad, Gwalior’s new international stadium is set to make its debut | Cricket News

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Built on the outskirts of Gwalior, the newly-built Shrimant Madhavrao Scindia Cricket Stadium will make its international debut on Sunday when it hosts the first T20 match between India and Bangladesh. Captain Roop Singh Stadium in the city had hosted Gwalior’s last international match in 2010 when Sachin Tendulkar smashed the first ODI double hundred. “Only phase 1 of the stadium has been completed now. We will start the second phase as soon as we get the funds from the BCCI. Jay Shah has promised us to give Rs 110 crores to complete phase 2 of this stadium. On our end, we will start our work after the match,” Prashant Mehta, president of the Gwalior Division Cricket Association (GDCA) tells The Indian Express. The current capacity of the stadium is 30,000 and once phase 2 is completed it will have a total capacity of 55,000. “It took us seven years to complete this stadium. The stadium is equipped with all the modern facilities. The drainage is top-class. But we need to improve our drainage system …

Mayank Yadav and Harshit Rana, ‘Rolls Royce and Ferrari’: Two pacers from West Delhi defining the speed rush in India | Cricket News

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In West Delhi, international cricketers aren’t a novelty. You shake a tree and an Indian cricketer can fall. Be it Virat Kohli, the current Team India head coach Gautam Gambhir, Ishant Sharma, Virender Sehwag or Ashish Nehra, all of them hail from the West Delhi locality. Now on Sunday, two 22-year-olds Mayank Yadav and Harshit Rana, coming from West Delhi are likely to make their international debuts in the first T20I match against Bangladesh in Gwalior. The pacer Mayank is from West Delhi’s Motinagar, a few kilometres from where Virat Kohli grew up. Harshit has lived his whole life in Village Ghevra, closer to Najafgarh, from where Virender Sehwag belongs. Mayank has been fast-tracked into the senior team, after recovering from the injury, while Harshit was a member of the Indian team, which won the five-match T20I series in Zimbabwe in July earlier this year. On Sunday, while Mayank is looking set to make his debut, Rana will have to compete with spinners Washington Sundar and Varun Chakravarthy for a spot in the playing XI. …

IND vs BAN: Head Coach Chandika Hathurusinghe suggests how Bangladesh can compete with India | Cricket News

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After Day 3 of the second Test between India and Bangladesh at the Green Park Stadium in Kanpur, the result of the game felt improbable. However, what has transpired in the next two days has been indicative of stark differences between the two sides. Coming into the series the visitors were high on confidence after whitewashing Pakistan in their backyard, but the series against the Men in Blue was a reality check. Bangladesh Head Coach Chandika Hathurusinghe would acknowledge though they have improved, India is on a different level. He also gives his view on how to compete with India. “Only this group shouldn’t improve. This is the top. We need to improve what’s underneath. We cannot expect to perform if we don’t have a foundation or system in place,” acknowledged the Bangladesh coach during the Press Conference after a seven-wicket defeat on Tuesday. “Not that we haven’t improved. We have improved lately, and we are competing with other teams. India has completely gone to another level. It is not just their first eleven, but …

R Ashwin on Gautam Gambhir’s coaching: ‘I was seeing some posts about ‘Gamball’…’ | Cricket News

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India registered a historic win against Bangladesh in the second Test at the Green Park stadium in Kanpur on Tuesday. Despite losing more than two and a half days of the Test match due to rains India has been able to force a result through their attacking batting. The hosts scored at 7.36 Runs Per Over (both innings combined) which is the highest for any team since records are being noted. “I was seeing some posts about ‘Gamball’–someone had shared something about it, which was interesting,” said Ravichandran Ashwin after the game at Jio Cinema. “When we bowled them out yesterday, Rohit was very keen and said that we needed almost 80 overs to bowl at them and told us that we would go hard straight away and went out and hit his first ball for six, and everyone followed that,” the 38-year said about the approach. Speaking about Gautam Gambhir’s coaching style Ashwin said “The coaches are here for the welfare of the team, and I don’t see huge differences in how they approach …

Ashwin credits first-class cricket for India’s relentless bowling attack | Cricket News

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Indian bowling attack in Test matches at home has been relentless. For the visiting teams if it is the pace of Jasprit Bumrah and Mohammed Siraj upfront then it is Ravichandran Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja’s willy spin to follow. If a visiting batter does get away with these four then he might have to face the relentless accuracy and precision of Akash Deep. Which Bangladesh batters have found too hot to handle in the recently concluded series. Be it Akash Deep, Kuldeep Yadav (In a series against England earlier this year) or Axar Patel (Against Australia in 2023 and England in 2021) have all raised their hands up on different occasions through the last few years to get the job done. “Look, I think when you play first-class cricket, more often than not, the fine-tuning of a bowler or any cricketer is about harping on the basics,” Ashwin said in the press conference after the game on having such potent attack. In addition to picking wickets, one of India’s major strengths has been drying the …

World Test Championship: Where does India stand after whitewashing Bangladesh 2-0? | Cricket News

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On Tuesday India beat Bangladesh by seven wickets. With the win India whitewashed the visitors 2-0 and won their 18th home series in a row. As a result, India continues to stay at the top of the World Test Championship (WTC) table. Both the 2023 finalists India and defending champions Australia lead the WTC standings, with PCTs of 72.24 and 62.50 respectively. Sri Lanka on the other hand with their series win against New Zealand has reached the third position and has 55.55 PCT. Sri Lanka are next slated to tour South Africa for two Tests before hosting Australia in January. India too will face Australia later this year in a five-match Test series away from home. These series might play a pivotal role in which teams may face each other in WTC final 2025 to be held in Lords. England also has a chance to play in the final and they face Pakistan in a match Test series later this month. Here is a look at the updated ICC World Test Championship Points Table …