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New chasemasters: Why Shubman Gill and Dhruv Jurel are a throwback to MS Dhoni-Yuvraj Singh | Cricket News

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Only 32 times in 158 instances have India completed a successful chases in their Test history. Chennai 1999, Pune 2017, Chennai 2021, Bangalore 2004, 2005, 1987, or most recently Hyderabad 2024; there have been many instances of India failing to handle the fourth-inning pressure at home. On Monday, on a flaking pitch where the ball turned and occasionally kept low, India was struggling. Chasing 192, they were 120/5. Ranchi 2024 seemed like a repeat of the same old story. However, in Shubman Gill and Dhruv Jurel India would discover a pair of potential chase-masters. Gill likes fourth innings — in 10 knocks, he averages 44. To contextualise, Rohit Sharma averages only 32 and has scored a half-century fewer than Gill, having featured in eight more innings. Steve Smith, arguably the best batsman of his generation, averages 29. It shows how devious a pursuit it is. Gill did post a foundation-laying 91 in a historic Brisbane chase. But this was a sterner challenge. At the Gabba, he was en route to stardom, but not a star …

Everyone loves Dhruv Jurel: Ben Stokes names an England player who has a ‘man crush’ on Indian wicketkeeper | Cricket News

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In just his second Test match, Dhruv Jurel took home the player of the match award after dragging India home to a series victory with a 72-run stand with Shubman Gill in the second innings of the Ranchi Test. Dhruv Jurel added his second innings knock of 39* to his first innings total of 90. It came at an invaluable time: India were reduced to 120-5 while chasing a target of 192. His batting earned him praise from India skipper Rohit Sharma. “It has been a very hard-fought series. To come on the right side after four Tests feels really good,” said Rohit. “Jurel showed solid composure, calmness and has the shots as well. In the second innings he showed a lot of composure and maturity.” Jurel is the son of a Kargil War veteran. India’s Dhruv Jurel during a practice session ahead of the third cricket test match against England in Rajkot, India, Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki) Rich praise for Dhruv Jurel from both captains But not just in India, Jurel’s …

IND vs ENG LIVE Score, 4th Test Day 4: India 152 runs away from series victory at Ranchi | Cricket News

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The young spinner was with the Rajasthan Royals Academy in Somerset, where the late Warne was there to interact with the trainees. Bashir caught his eye and took him aside for a chat. Siddartha Lahiri, head of coaching at RR Academy, remembers the exchange like it was yesterday. India vs England: How Shane Warne steered Shoaib Bashir, the Rajasthan Royals academy product, on the path to best Rohit Sharma and Ravindra Jadeja It was a brief conversation with Shane Warne, exactly five years in February 2019, that left an indelible mark on Shoaib Bashir, then just 16. The young spinner was with the Rajasthan Royals Academy in Surrey, where the late Warne was there to interact with the trainees. Bashir caught his eye and took him aside for a chat. Siddartha Lahiri, head of coaching at RR Academy, remembers the exchange like it was yesterday. “Are you a spinner or a fast bowler?” asked the former Australian leg-spinner, according to Lahiri. “Spinner,” responded Bashir, who’s an offie. (READ MORE) Source link

Low bounce, high-flying Indian spinners make English batting bend and bow down to their wiles | Cricket News

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The third day ended like the first and second. In twilight, the game in a delicious balance, neither England’s nor India’s, replete still with the prospect of turning either way. On the fourth day, India could complete a famous come-from-behind series win. Or England could level the see-sawing series and make the final Test in Dharamsala meaningful. In isolation this was India’s day—Dhruv Jurel led a fightback that reduced the deficit to 46 runs, Ravi Ashwin and Co. wrapped up England’s second innings for 145, and India’s openers shaved off 40 runs from the series-winning target of 192. India fought back from the brink, England failed to twist the knife, but there could yet be twirls and turns that could make a gripping fourth day. The signs were promising for India. Rohit Sharma and Yashasvi Jaiswal—their presence significant in India’s pursuit—batted with stressless freedom, defending stoutly, punishing the loose balls and exchanging strikes. But the chase would be no straightforward exercise. New wrinkles are bursting; older ones are widening and deepening. “It’s rapidly deteriorating and …

Kuldeep Yadav a left-armed Shane Warne, says Michael Vaughan: Here’s how the Australian leggie helped the chinaman make a mark in his early Test cricket days | Cricket News

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India were at a spot of bother at the start of the third day of the fourth Test against England in Ranchi. Already having lost seven wickets in their first innings, the hosts still trailed by a sizeable margin with the duo of Dhruv Jurel and Kuldeep Yadav hanging in the middle. It was then that Kuldeep showed his acumen with the bat as he batted out 131 deliveries in a hard-toiled partnership to keep India in the game. As the day progressed, the chinaman spinner would take over the proceedings with the ball, closing out the day with four wickets in hand, having put India not too far away from clinching the series. Such was the impact of Kuldeep’s bowling that former England skipper Michael Vaughan would compare him to the late Shane Warne no less. “The best compliment I can give Kuldeep Yadav…today he has bowled like a left armed Shane Warne,” Vaughan wrote on X.  The Indian left-arm spinner has been vocal about his special bond with the former Australian leg spinner. In late …

India vs England Live Score, 4th Test Day 3: Dhruv Jurel and Kuldeep Yadav hold fort, India trail by 134 runs | Cricket News

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The young spinner was with the Rajasthan Royals Academy in Somerset, where the late Warne was there to interact with the trainees. Bashir caught his eye and took him aside for a chat. Siddartha Lahiri, head of coaching at RR Academy, remembers the exchange like it was yesterday. India vs England: How Shane Warne steered Shoaib Bashir, the Rajasthan Royals academy product, on the path to best Rohit Sharma and Ravindra Jadeja It was a brief conversation with Shane Warne, exactly five years in February 2019, that left an indelible mark on Shoaib Bashir, then just 16. The young spinner was with the Rajasthan Royals Academy in Surrey, where the late Warne was there to interact with the trainees. Bashir caught his eye and took him aside for a chat. Siddartha Lahiri, head of coaching at RR Academy, remembers the exchange like it was yesterday. “Are you a spinner or a fast bowler?” asked the former Australian leg-spinner, according to Lahiri. “Spinner,” responded Bashir, who’s an offie. (READ MORE) Source link

Indian batsmen can’t blame pitch with low bounce for their failures | Cricket News

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When the second day ended, the sun was a distant, drowning spot in the Ranchi skies. The backdrop was more akin to an English evening, and the sorry scorecard would suggest that India were subjected to a harrowing spell of swing and seam bowling. The story couldn’t have been more conflicting, as it was not the seaming ball but the spinning ball that confounded India’s batsmen. Paras Mhambrey, India’s bowling coach, would take objection to calling the surface a turner. “It was not a turner,” he emphasized. “No ball spun alarmingly. It was the low bounce that made batting difficult here,” he added. When variable bounce kicks in, batting becomes nightmarish. Anywhere in the world; any time of a Test match. Suddenly, the judgement fades, the confidence fizzles and doubts creep in. It’s like watching a horror movie, even when you watch the quiet passage, you are on the edge of the sofa, breaking into a cold sweat, fearing a sudden pang of dread lurking in the corner. Stumps on Day 2 in Ranchi! A …

India versus England: How Shoaib Bashir foxed Indian batsmen | Cricket News

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Yashasvi Jaiswal stared at a zigzagging crack. From here the ball had shot into the under-side of his bat and crashed onto the stumps. A few metres away, his terminator Shoaib Bashir could not hold his joy back. He roared and leapt into the embrace of his joyful colleagues. Bashir had dismissed the prickliest thorn in his country’s flesh in this series, Jaiswal. The Indian opener was his fourth victim of the afternoon, but the most precious in his scalp-list. Either side of his resistance, India would wilt, and eventually settle for 219/7, 134 runs adrift of England’s total at stumps on Day Two. He has already pounded and grounded them for 618 runs and racked up a pair of double hundreds. Here, he, like in Visakhapatnam and Ranchi, seemed to hurt them and drag India out of the mess. And then struck Bashir, the twenty-year-old parachuted to Test cricket just because Ben Stokes happened to watch a clip of Bashir bowling to Alastair Cook on Twitter two months ago. Bashir breaks the crucial partnership …

India vs England: How Shane Warne steered Shoaib Bashir, the Rajasthan Royals academy product, on the path to best Rohit Sharma and Ravindra Jadeja | Cricket News

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It was a brief conversation with Shane Warne, exactly five years in February 2019, that left an indelible mark on Shoaib Bashir, then just 16. The young spinner was with the Rajasthan Royal Academy in Somerset, where the late Warne was there to interact with the trainees. Bashir caught his eye and took him aside for a chat. Siddartha Lahiri, head of coaching at RR Academy, remembers the exchange like it was yesterday. “Are you a spinner or a fast bowler?” asked the former Australian leg-spinner, according to Lahiri. “Spinner,” responded Bashir, who’s an offie. An incredible day for Shoaib Bashir 🔥 Thank you, @CountyChamp admin 😂 🇮🇳 #INDvENG 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 #EnglandCricket pic.twitter.com/wtDZHGpuza — England Cricket (@englandcricket) February 24, 2024 “What do you need to do then?” the Aussie quizzed him again. It’s one of those trick questions, Bashir reckoned. “Bowl?”. Warne corrected him, “No, spin the ball. Don’t think of anything else. T20, T10, five-day, four-day, nothing. Just spin the ball.” It was a lesson Bashir put to good use as he bowled a compact …

India vs England Live Score, 4th Test Day 2: IND look to end Joe Root’s resistance in Ranchi | Cricket News

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Akash Deep celebrates the wicket of England’s Zak Crawley on the first day of the fourth IND vs ENG Test where he made his debut. (PTI Photo) How good is Akash Deep? Shami-like nip-backer, Bumrah’s length, 140kph speed and one rare priceless quality The television screen on the ground kept playing the wickets of Akash Deep on a loop. The bowler, standing at mid-on, restlessly waiting to grab the ball again, would gaze sideways towards the screen and soak in the moments. The spectators on the stands beside, to the left of the MS Dhoni Pavilion, would chant his name. Flashing a coy smile, he would wave back at them. A hero was born – his first six overs yielded three England wickets, just an hour into his Test career. The hours that made the hour were hard; from cramming into a train to Kolkata, sweating countless hours in maidan cricket, before breaking through the Bengal team in 2019, then acquiring an IPL contract with RCB three years later and finally realising the dream of playing …