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Virat Kohli, the master sculptor who shaped India’s Champions Trophy triumph — and earned redemption | Cricket News

Virat Kohli, the master sculptor who shaped India’s Champions Trophy triumph — and earned redemption | Cricket News

Virat Kohli had just sought a review. But, his eyes hollow, he knew the irrevocable fate of his. Kohli grimaced, shook his head in angst and stared ruefully at the twilight skies. The day was not to be his, yet in a larger sense, the day was his too. After 12 years, he felt the lustre of the Champions Trophy. In this span, he had endured several nearly moments, teary nights when he left the stadium with a heavy heart of losses and spent the night sleepless on his bed. But this night in Dubai, he would sleep peacefully, probably cuddling the trophy’s replica. The aberration in the final, this was a tournament the master sculptor has helped chiselling. Donning a titular role in winning an ICC trophy has been like a revolver pointed at his head. He has conquered everything a cricketer could possibly do — love and adulation, respect and riches, countless trophies and individual milestones. In fact, he has won too much; everything cricketing-kind could offer him, the WTC mace aside. But …

‘I feel very annoyed’: Sir Vivian Richards wants West Indies to emulate Afghanistan to improve | Cricket News

‘I feel very annoyed’: Sir Vivian Richards wants West Indies to emulate Afghanistan to improve | Cricket News

Legendary player Sir Vivian Richards urged West Indies to learn from Afghanistan and re-establish themselves as a force in ODI cricket. The West Indies and Sri Lanka, both former world champions, have failed to qualify for the ongoing Champions Trophy with WI even failing to take part in the 2023 ODI World Cup in India. “I’m just hoping that my West Indies team can take a leaf out of these guys’ book, because there is a passion and energy that the Afghanis have brought to the game,” Richards said. “They haven’t been in the cricket world for so long as maybe some other teams around the world, but just their fighting spirit. To me, the ability to learn as the years go by, that would have given them the experience that’s needed in order for them to be where they’re at. When you can see Afghanistan in the Champions League, and the West Indies not, it means that Afghanistan is doing something right,” he added. Story continues below this ad As compared to West Indies, …