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Tendulkar decodes Bhuvneshwar’s success ahead of RCB vs GT IPL final: ‘He developed a variation’

Tendulkar decodes Bhuvneshwar’s success ahead of RCB vs GT IPL final: ‘He developed a variation’

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3 min readMay 31, 2026 05:27 PM IST Bhuvneshwar Kumar has been the toast of the veterans’ club in the IPL 2026 season, rewinding the clock with his classical swing and seam movement, castling oppositions throughout the season. The 36-year-old Bhuvneshwar will head into Royal Challengers Bengaluru’s second IPL final in successive years on Sunday in Ahmedabad with a special bit of acknowledgement coming his way from none batting maestro Sachin Tendulkar. Tendulkar took to social media to applaud Bhuvneshwar for refining his skills this season, one that has seen him lead the seam-bowling pack of RCB, with a haul of 26 wickets across 15 matches. Tendulkar explained the key reason behind Bhuvneshwar’s form revival, indicating that the Meerut swing king has developed a subtle variation that has stunned batters. FOLLOW: RCB vs GT IPL 2026 Final Live “Bhuvneshwar Kumar has been bowling really well this season. In the previous seasons, he had a lengthy outswinger or inswinger. He has developed a variation this season. He has been bowling as straight as possible. When you …

‘We’re playing on at present are certainly more seam-friendly than spin-friendly’

‘We’re playing on at present are certainly more seam-friendly than spin-friendly’

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Australian stand-in skipper Steven Smith indicated that Australia may play without a specialist spinner for the Boxing Day Test on Friday. Nathan Lyon was also not part of the first two Tests of the series in Perth and Brisbane. He returned to the side in Adelaide, where he managed to scalp five wickets and played a crucial role in Australia’s win in the third Test, but injured himself and is out for the rest of the series. Although Lyon is absent, Australia does have decent spinners in their ranks. Smith said the surface at the MCG might be more conducive to seam bowling. “A lot of wickets we’re playing on at present are certainly more seam-friendly than spin-friendly,” Smith said on Thursday, speaking to the reporters. “Last week was an anomaly; we saw some rough, and we saw Nathan come into play big-time.” “It’s a tricky one. You’ve just got to play what surface you’re presented with, and this one out here looks like it’s going to offer a fair bit of assistance for the …

Champions Trophy: How Shreyas Iyer, Rohit Sharma are the faces of India’s risk management | Cricket News

Champions Trophy: How Shreyas Iyer, Rohit Sharma are the faces of India’s risk management | Cricket News

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As pitches in Dubai seem to be getting slower with each outing, all eyes are on the Indian spinners. However, for India to go the distance a lot is riding on the batting unit, which so far has adapted exceptionally to the sort of tracks that have been their biggest undoing in recent times. With a century each to Shubman Gill and Virat Kohli, they have two in-form batsmen in the top three to go with Rohit Sharma to provide rapid starts. In the middle overs where they need to be flexible with their approach against spinners, they have a solid middle-order which includes an enforcer in Shreyas Iyer and two busy players in Axar Patel and KL Rahul before the finishing job is handed over to Hardik Pandya and Ravindra Jadeja. This is as good a top 8 as a team could get in these conditions where batting depth is absolutely a non-negotiable factor. But two of those, Rohit and Shreyas, strategically placed at the top and at No 4 provide the right sort …

What lies behind Mohammed Shami’s march to 200 ODI wickets? A romantic heart with a sadist’s skill | Cricket News

What lies behind Mohammed Shami’s march to 200 ODI wickets? A romantic heart with a sadist’s skill | Cricket News

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The eyes of television cameras searched for Mohammed Shami. When they located him, he wore a shy, warm smile. He soon broke from the crowd and ambled to the run-up point, the trajectory of the next ball playing in his mind, the off-cutter that marked his two hundredth ODI wicket now a mere time-stamp on his remarkable cricketing journey. The moment suitably captured the essence of Shami the man— un-theatrical and un-obsessed with the statistical peaks, a superstar with an everyman’s persona, seam-scientist with a common man’s air. He wouldn’t have burned the midnight oil digging numbers or spent sleepless nights dreaming about his No 200, or evaluated his spot in the pantheon of India’s great fast bowlers. Such trivialities don’t fuss him. He is, at the heart, a pure romantic. The bowling is an extension of it—the flowing action, dancing as though to the percussive beats from the stands, the pliant fingers and loose, tensionless fingers coaxing the straight-seamed ball into a curvy, gyroscopic, path, and the sudden violence the ball assumes upon landing. …