[[{“value”:” Rishabh Pant against Bangladesh (Image: ICC) Soumya Sarkar had bowled the ball on middle stump. In fact, we could even say off and middle. Rishabh Pant, to our complete surprise, had his head down, and with just a flick of his wrists, dispatched the ball over fine leg for a boundary. This was …
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[[{“value”:” Image: BCCI India sprang a surprise or two in their warm-up match against Bangladesh at the Nassau County International Cricket Stadium in New York, but despite the tinkering, they were emphatic winners in their only tune-up before they start their T20 World Cup campaign against Ireland on June 5. Rishabh Pant smashed a …
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[[{“value”:” Jay Shah and Rahul Dravid (Image: BCCI/X) Between March 2001, when he scored 180 against Australia at Eden Gardens in India’s greatest-ever Test win, and 2006, Rahul Dravid was the best batsman in the Indian team. He was even better than Sachin Tendulkar during that phase. The dressing room tipped its collective hat …
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[[{“value”:” Virat Kohli for India in WC 2023 (PC: BCCI/X) The Indian cricket team led by Rohit Sharma will take on Bangladesh in their only warm up game of ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2024 on Saturday at the Nassau County International Cricket stadium, on the outskirts of New York. It will be the …
[[{“value”:” Team India’s T20 WC Triumph in 2007 (PC: BCCI/X) The ICC T20 World Cup assumes the adventurer’s role today, journeying to the United States of America in search of a new audience, even if they are primarily expats from cricket-playing nations. But, back in 2007, during the inaugural tournament, few knew what to …
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[[{“value”:” Team India and ICC T20 World Cup 2024 (Image: BCCI/ICC) Every evening, when I watch the IPL with one eye on the T20 World Cup, now just two weeks away, I have this dilemma. The IPL on its own is great. But the moment it is about the Indians in the IPL, and …
Virat Kohli after the match in MCG, India vs Pakistan, T20 WC, 2022 (Image: BCCI) India v Pakistan in New York on June 9, as part of the T20 World Cup, is just 25 days away. And India-Pakistan always bring about fascinating stories. During the last T20 World Cup in Australia, I was going through …
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Robin Peterson (PC: X) A glut of outlandish batting performances in the ongoing edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL) is threatening to change T20 benchmarks. Teams have gone past the previous highest total of 263 four times. There have been 35 tallies in excess of 200 in 58 matches and eight above 250. Hundred …
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Image: ICC In separate statements, the Cricket West Indies (CWI) and International Cricket Council have tried to assure the stakeholders in relation to the upcoming T20 World Cup, in the backdrop of the West Indies board receiving a terror threat to the mega event. As per a report on Cricbuzz, pro-Islamic State (IS) media sources, …
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Kuldeep Yadav, Rohit Sharma, and Yuzvendra Chahal (PC: X) The assumption is that the pitches in the Caribbean for the T20 World Cup would be slow-turners. The 15-member Indian squad for the ICC event in June has an overload of spinners, because captain Rohit Sharma wanted it that way. “I definitely wanted four spinners,” Rohit …
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