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‘A captain’s job is not just toss and manage bowlers… your primary role is to score runs’: Aakash Chopra’s scathing words on Suryakumar Yadav’s form | Cricket News

‘A captain’s job is not just toss and manage bowlers… your primary role is to score runs’: Aakash Chopra’s scathing words on Suryakumar Yadav’s form | Cricket News

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With 201 runs in 19 T20Is this year, Indian T20 captain Suryakumar Yadav is not in the best of form in the shortest format of the game. The 35-year-old played a four-ball knock of five runs during India’s 51-run loss against South Africa in the second T20I at Mullanpur on Thursday. It also meant Yadav’s average in T20Is this year dropped to 14.35 in a total of 17 innings and the Indian captain has a strike rate of 126.45 in the format this year. Former Indian cricketer Aakash Chopra sees this as a problem and termed Yadav’s primary role in the team ‘to score runs’. “You are the team’s captain, but a captain’s job is not just to toss and manage the bowlers. It’s not just about making the strategy. If you bat in the top four, your primary role is to score runs. It’s been many matches. If you have an average of 14 in 17 innings and the strike rate is also not very good, you don’t have a single fifty, and have …

Dale Steyn after 2nd IND vs SA: ‘Axar Patel can bat, but sending him at No 3 felt like throwing him to the wolves’ | Cricket News

Dale Steyn after 2nd IND vs SA: ‘Axar Patel can bat, but sending him at No 3 felt like throwing him to the wolves’ | Cricket News

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With the Indian team management sending all-rounder Axar Patel at the number three slot in the team’s chase of a total of 214 runs against South Africa in the second T20I played at Maharaja Yadavindra Singh PCA New International Stadium, Mullanpur, it meant that captain Suryakumar Yadav did not come to bat at his usual number three spot. Patel played a 21-ball knock of 23 on Thursday with Yadav coming at four after the fall of Abhishek Sharma during India’s innings. With India losing vice-captain Shubman Gill in the first over, former South African pacer Dale Steyn questioned the move to send Patel at the number three spot and has termed it as ‘throwing him to the wolves’. “He (Axar Patel) is supposed to be your best batter. That’s not a trial-and-error situation — that’s just a major mistake in my opinion. And yes, Axar can bat, but sending him there felt like throwing him to the wolves. What was the role? If he walked in to slog from ball one, fine. Or if Abhishek …

Irfan Pathan: ‘Form of captain Suryakumar Yadav and Shubman Gill is real cause of concern for India’ | Cricket News

Irfan Pathan: ‘Form of captain Suryakumar Yadav and Shubman Gill is real cause of concern for India’ | Cricket News

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Former India cricketer Irfan Pathan has said that the form of India captain Suryakumar Yadav and his deputy Shubman Gill is a real cause of concern for India after the Indian cricket team lost the second T20I to South Africa by 51 runs at the Maharaja Yadavindra Singh International Cricket Stadium, Mullanpur. The scrutiny turned on captain Yadav and his Gill’s runs with the bat with the T20 World Cup approaching in two months’ time. Gill was dismissed for a first ball duck on Thursday at New Chandigarh while Yadav managed five runs from four balls. In the first T20I, Gill had been dismissed for four while the captain could only make 12 with the bat. ALSO READ | India vs South Africa 2nd T20I Highlights: Quinton de Kock shines as SA beat IND by 51 runs in Mullanpur “At the toss, we said it would not be bad for South Africa to bat first. Because they were chasing in the first match and here in New Chandigarh, they batted first which meant you do …

India vs South Africa 2nd T20I: Visitors put on clinical display despite dew to level 5-match series | Cricket News

India vs South Africa 2nd T20I: Visitors put on clinical display despite dew to level 5-match series | Cricket News

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It had been an unusually subdued first half of the first international men’s match to be played at the New PCA Stadium on Thursday. The venue’s location, in Mullanpur on the outskirts of Chandigarh, meant it took a while for it to fill up. The elegant batting masterclass from Quinton de Kock, which had powered South Africa to a hefty-looking 213-run total, had flattened the home crowd too. On his first ball, Punjab lad Shubman Gill nicked one to second slip to depart. Abhishek Sharma had given the fans some cause to roar with a couple of early sixes, but nicked one to the wicketkeeper himself a few minutes later. The hush grew. It meant that the local troika – the first time in nearly 20 years that as many as three players from the state were playing an international on home turf – had all flopped after Arshdeep Singh’s wicketless, error-ridden spell that leaked 54 runs. Bad omens persisted. The rest of the noise was hopeful, at best, and sometimes hapless. A clinical performance …

India vs South Africa, 2nd T20I: ‘They are like brothers’: Arshdeep’s mother on watching her son play alongside Shubman Gill and Abhishek Sharma on home turf | Cricket News

India vs South Africa, 2nd T20I: ‘They are like brothers’: Arshdeep’s mother on watching her son play alongside Shubman Gill and Abhishek Sharma on home turf | Cricket News

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Thursday’s India-South Africa T20I would be the first men’s international match at the plush New Punjab Cricket Association (PCA) Stadium, built on the outskirts of Chandigarh in Mullanpur, but the bigger buzz is about four Punjabi youngsters taking to their home turf. So while jersey-sellers are making a killing with the usual suspects – India captain Suryakumar Yadav, Dhoni, Rohit, Kohli. But demand is also unusually high for the local names -Abhishek Sharma, Shubman Gill and Arshdeep Singh. It will be the first time in nearly a quarter of a century that three Punjabi players will turn out for India in their home state. Baljit Kaur, Arshdeep’s mother, shares palpable excitement. “All three are like brothers; they share a very close bond. And to see them playing for India together is like family members playing for India,” she tells The Indian Express. “We had also met Abhishek in Australia, and both families travelled together and cheered for them. At Mullanpur too, we all will be cheering.” The feeling is shared by many. “I have seen …

Despite’s Varun Chakravarthy’s wrong’un masterclass South Africa level T20 series 1-1 | Cricket News

Despite’s Varun Chakravarthy’s wrong’un masterclass South Africa level T20 series 1-1 | Cricket News

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Pulling Arshdeep Singh through the square-leg fence, Tristan Stubbs roared in delight. His sidekick in a memorable heist at Gqeberha, Gerald Coetzee, swiped the air in anger before the two locked in a mid-pitch embrace. No victory from the jaws of defeat against India could reduce the pain of their World Cup final loss a few months ago in Barbados. But the win could offer a fleeting respite, as the hosts rallied back from 86 for seven to knock off 42 runs off 20 balls to inflict a series-levelling win, chasing 125, putting to waste a supreme exhibition of white-ball spin bowling by Varun Chakravarthy (5/17). Varun’s 13th over, wherein he consumed two finishers of devastating nature, Heinrich Klaasen and David Miller, seemed to stamp the match in India’s favour. Two overs later, South Africa lost Andile Simelane too to have them reeling at 86 for 7. But a final twist was lurking in the shadows. It began with Coetzee, he of Tarzan-like shoulder, swatting Arshdeep over long-off for a six. But India did not …