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Emotional RollerCoaster: Varun slides into direct contention, Glenn Phillips takes a stunner & Rohit ‘stepping down the track’ needs a rethink | Cricket News

Emotional RollerCoaster: Varun slides into direct contention, Glenn Phillips takes a stunner & Rohit ‘stepping down the track’ needs a rethink | Cricket News

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Has Varun Chakravarthy powered himself to earning a spot In the semifinal and maybe beyond? Ravi Shastri roared: “What he’s done is that he has put his hand up now for a spot in the semifinal in the playing XI, because the pitches will be the same, he has been outstanding tonight. Well more headaches for the think-tank and selectors.” With his figures of 5/42, Varun has almost definitely sealed his spot to take on the Aussies in Dubai on Tuesday. Earlier though amidst his flipper and top spinner variations, while aiming at the stumps, there was a tiny slice of luck. And he had Michael Gough to thank. When the English umpire gives a decision on field, rarely has it been overturned in recent times. But he made a rare mistake on Sunday in Dubai when he gave Michael Bracewell out LBW against Varun Chakravarthy. He got the tough part right, that the ball first hit the pad and not the bat. But Varun’s delivery was angling away and later, ball-tracking showed it was …

ICC Champions Trophy: New Zealand pacers flourish on spin-friendly track | Cricket News

ICC Champions Trophy: New Zealand pacers flourish on spin-friendly track | Cricket News

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Of the three matches played here, the pitch for the India-New Zealand game was by far the toughest the batsmen had encountered. On a pitch that offered 4.5 degrees of turn – the most in the three fixtures so far — India posted the highest total of the tournament at this venue as their game plan against the New Zealand spinners worked. Yet as India walked back with 249/9 on board despite acing their match-up against spinners, picking 5.12 an over, there was a sense of disbelief as to how they didn’t get more. What prevented them from getting a total above par on this surface was the combination of Matt Henry (5/42) and an exceptional fielding performance which saw Glenn Phillips and Kane Williamson convert half-chances into catches that left India stunned. With the surface being on the slower side in the afternoon, Rohit Sharma lost another toss – the last time he won one was in the semi-final of the 2023 World Cup – and were made to bat first. While it definitely …

Champions Trophy | Tale of 2 catches: NZ fielders Glenn Philips and Kane Williamson help restrict India to 249/9 | Cricket News

Champions Trophy | Tale of 2 catches: NZ fielders Glenn Philips and Kane Williamson help restrict India to 249/9 | Cricket News

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Glenn with the wind, dares like an eagle Before the match, Glenn Phillips was asked in the press conference about the incredible catches he takes. Jokingly, a reporter, wondered: ‘any particular glue stick you use?’ Philllips, the understated NZ cricketer that he is, said: “I think a great deal of luck comes involved. I wish I could say that I’ve got a special little glue tag that I use, but unfortunately, that’s not the case. If anything, my palms are more sweaty than anything else. Obviously comes down to a lot of hard work and doing the basics as much as I can and then sometimes luck just plays a good part in it.” If it is luck, Phillips must be like Domino in the Deadpool movie. On Sunday in Dubai, he pulled off another stunner in the ICC Champions Trophy. This one that left Virat Kohli awestruck in his 300th ODI. The Indian star absolutely belted a square cut to a short ball wide outside offstump, and the ball seemed to be flying towards …

‘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

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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, …

Ranji Trophy final: Will Kerala pay the price for Sachin Baby’s ill-timed slog sweep? | Cricket News

Ranji Trophy final: Will Kerala pay the price for Sachin Baby’s ill-timed slog sweep? | Cricket News

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For an eternity, Sachin Baby stood frozen on his bent knee. His batting ally Jalaj Saxena let out a shriek in anger so loud that it could have been heard as far as the Wardha Road. But Sachin was too shocked to even scream or shout or curse himself, or to move from his crouched follow-through. He had just played the stroke that could define his career, self-destroying a knock that could have defined his life. Two runs away from his hundred, 56 runs away from snatching lead in the Ranji final, half his batting colleagues dismissed, he fatally slog-swept Parth Rekhade to deep mid-wicket. It was his lone moment of indiscretion in an innings that lasted 235 balls, where he was the wall of resistance and the fountain of hope that kept Kerala in the game and dragged them to the promised land. It was the exact second the game took a decisive shift towards Kerala. Psychologically battered, they were shot out for 342 runs, the visitors losing the last four wickets for 18 …

Champions Trophy | ‘Kuldeep has a miracle in his hands. He showed the world’ : Ashwin showers praise on Yadav | Cricket News

Champions Trophy | ‘Kuldeep has a miracle in his hands. He showed the world’ : Ashwin showers praise on Yadav | Cricket News

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While the talk has been about Virat Kohli’s 51st ODI hundred during India’s six wicket win over Pakistan in the Champions Trophy match at Dubai on Sunday, left-arm wrist Kuldeep Yadav returned back to form in International cricket with a three-wicket haul. Yadav had made a comeback to international cricket after more than three months in January early this year post a sports hernia injury, a soft tissue injury that happens on an athlete’s groin area. With wickets of Slaman Ali Agha, Shaheen Shah Afridi and Naseem Shah in the match against Pakistan, the 30-year-old had his best wicket haul in his last four matches since injury and former Indian spinner Ravichandran Ashwin has backed the bowler for the comeback. “People should understand that a spinner is making a comeback after an injury. Sometimes in our country, we don’t give so much time to the bowlers. If the batsman fails after a comeback, we tell that he has just come after an injury. If you think it happens with Virat and he plays 2-3 games, …

Sanjay Bangar says Shubman Gill will lead India’s batting in years to come | Cricket News

Sanjay Bangar says Shubman Gill will lead India’s batting in years to come | Cricket News

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Former India player Sanjay Bangar heaped praises on India ODI vice-captain Shubman Gill and said that the Punjab player will lead the Indian team’s batting in the years to come. The 25-year-old continued his stellar performances in the ODI format when he made a classy 46 against Pakistan on Sunday. “Clearly, he’s the guy who is going to shoulder the responsibility of the Indian team going forward in years to come,” Bangar said on JioHotstar. “(His) foundations are really, really strong and add to that the confidence of nearly two-and-a-half years of performing in one-day cricket. In one-day cricket, he’s been phenomenal. Now look, the straight drive, the on-drive are the shots wherein you cannot actually hit the ball really hard. But here, he was hitting the ball so hard that despite the mid-off and the mid-on fielder being on that 30-yard circle, the ball was going and hitting them. That’s the kind of timing he possesses,” he added. Story continues below this ad Before his steady innings against Pakistan, Gill had scored a century …

I had won them back: Hardik Pandya looks back at how he got fans to cheer him after T20 World Cup triumph | Cricket News

I had won them back: Hardik Pandya looks back at how he got fans to cheer him after T20 World Cup triumph | Cricket News

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The beginning of 2024 was not a good one for Hardik Pandya with the allrounder being roundly booed by fans in the Indian Premier League after he was declared the captain of Mumbai Indians in place of Rohit Sharma. But as the year went on, Pandya turned his fortunes around after his match-winning performances in India’s T20 World Cup winning triumph. “They (fans) said, life for me, had come a full circle. They said, from here on, there was no looking back. I had won them (fans) back,” said Pandya in a video posted by the BCCI on social media. Pandya scored 144 runs and took 11 wickets in the global tournament as India reclaimed the T20 World Cup after 2007, ending India’s 13-year long ICC Trophy drought. There’s no looking back for Hardik Pandya and #TeamIndia 🇮🇳 We get ready to conquer another day 👊 Chapter 2 in the #ChampionsTrophy awaits ⌛️ WATCH 🎥🔽 #PAKvIND | @hardikpandya7https://t.co/9ggnp36nvR — BCCI (@BCCI) February 23, 2025 “A new year, a new tournament and a new challenge awaits …

Amitabh Bachchan praises Rohit Sharma for shutting down his haters: ‘Best way to silence criticism is to perform’ | Bollywood

Amitabh Bachchan praises Rohit Sharma for shutting down his haters: ‘Best way to silence criticism is to perform’ | Bollywood

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Megastar Amitabh Bachchan has expressed his admiration for cricketer Rohit Sharma and praised his outstanding performance that led India to a win over England. In a recent blog post, the actor commended Rohit, saying he silenced his critics in the most convincing manner. Also read: Amitabh Bachchan reveals why he agreed to host Kaun Banega Crorepati: ‘My family called it a big mistake’ Amitabh Bachchan found the cricket match thrilling and incredible. Big B supports Rohit “The feet we stand on .. the ground it covers .. the distances it is used for .. and at the end of day , when it has been given a massage , is the realisation what has been missed all these years,” he began in his blog. The actor added, “A slight fade in the main event , but the courageous beating given to the Brits in Cricket .. simply incredible ..The best way to silence criticism is to perform beyond expectation .. and Rohit did just that”. The megastar then went on to talk about the capacity …

Ira Jadhav smashes triple century in Women’s U-19 One Day Trophy

Ira Jadhav smashes triple century in Women’s U-19 One Day Trophy

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14-year-old Ira Jadhav created history on Sunday by becoming the first Indian women’s cricketer to score a triple century in a limited-overs match. Playing for Mumbai in the Women’s U-19 One Day Trophy, Ira smashed an unbeaten 346 runs off 157 balls against Meghalaya at Alur Cricket Ground. Her explosive innings included a staggering 42 fours and 16 sixes, as Mumbai posted a massive total of 563/3 in 50 overs. Ira was instrumental in two key partnerships: she added 274 runs for the second wicket with captain Hurley Gala, who scored 116, and then formed a 186-run stand with Diksha Pawar, who contributed 39 runs. Ira’s remarkable achievement also makes her the first Indian (man or woman) to score a triple century in a BCCI-organised limited-overs tournament. 🚨Record ! Ira Jadhav of Mumbai has shattered the record for the highest individual score in Women’s Under 19 One Day Trophy history! 🔥 She scored a sensational 346* off 157 balls against Meghalaya in Bangalore, leading Mumbai to a massive 563/3 total! #WomensCricket… pic.twitter.com/2qxD9mdJND — The Bridge …