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IPL 2024 | Gujarat Titans name Sandeep Warrier as Mohammed Shami’s replacement

March 20, 2024 admin

Mohammed Shami has not played competitive cricket since last year’s ODI World Cup final. File | Photo Credit: PTI Gujarat Titans have roped in Kerala medium-pacer Sandeep Warrier as a replacement for injured senior Indian seamer Mohammed Shami, the Indian Premier League said on Wednesday. Shami recently underwent a successful Achilles heel surgery in London…

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Indian Premier League 2024 | Rishabh Pant declared fit as keeper-batter; set to return as Delhi Capitals captain

March 12, 2024 admin

The BCCI has declared Rishabh Pant is fit to play the Indian Premier League 2024 brightening his prospects of a national comeback in the T20 World Cup. | Photo Credit: PTI The BCCI on March 12 declared Rishabh Pant fit to play as a wicketkeeper-batter in the upcoming IPL, brightening his prospects of a national…

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The physics of why Shami’s ‘bolt upright’ seam works magic

March 9, 2024 admin

Mohammad Shami about to deliver a ball in a one-day international match against New Zealand, October 23, 2023. | Photo Credit: Deepak K.R./The Hindu At the 2023 ICC Men’s ODI Cricket World Cup, Mohammad Shami ended with the most wickets – 24 from only seven games. The standout feature of Mr. Shami’s bowling was his…

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Watch | How India became a pace-bowling superpower

February 29, 2024 admin

Watch | How India became a pace-bowling superpower India’s success in Test cricket has always been associated with its batting prowess and its unique spin-bowling core, several generations of which have helped build India as a Test fortress. But in the past half a decade or so, a breed of fast bowlers have changed the…

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Shreyas, Kishan dropped from BCCI central contract

February 28, 2024 admin

India’s Ishan Kishan and Shreyas Iyer take a run during the second one-day international cricket match between India and South Africa, in Ranchi. | Photo Credit: K.R. Deepak Shreyas Iyer and Ishan Kishan, who were members of India’s ODI World Cup squad, have been stripped off the Board of Control for Cricket in India’s (BCCI’s)…

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Shami undergoes ankle surgery, set to miss IPL

February 27, 2024 admin

File picture of India’s Mohammed Shami | Photo Credit: PTI Senior India pacer Mohammed Shami has undergone a successful surgery on his left achilles tendon, which rules him out of next month’s Indian Premier League and possibly the T20 World Cup in June. The 33-year-old, who last played for India in the ODI World Cup…

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Ruthless Men in Blue demolish listless Islanders

November 2, 2023 admin

Wrecker in chief: The Sri Lankan batters found Shami too hot to handle and fell like nine pins. | Photo Credit: EMMANUAL YOGINI Like biting into a bun-maska dunked in Irani tea in those old Parsi restaurants in this teeming metropolis, India revealed a similar ease as it tucked into a hapless Sri Lanka here…

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India dismantles Sri Lanka to book semifinal spot at Cricket World Cup with 302-run win

November 2, 2023 admin

Mohammed Siraj celebrates the wicket of Sri Lanka’s Dimuth Karunaratne during their match in the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup 2023, at Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai on November 2. | Photo Credit: ANI India became the first team to secure a semifinal spot at the Cricket World Cup after Mohammed Siraj bowled a stellar opening…

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Cricket World Cup 2023 | India in perfect space but Bangladesh can be a tricky customer

October 18, 2023 admin

India’s Shubman Gill during a practice session at Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium. | Photo Credit: DEEPAK KR “It takes one day,” is the theme of the current World Cup. Across venues, these words leap from ICC banners. Perhaps it is the unspoken motto within the teams as fortunes get altered and a new dawn is…

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Cricket World Cup 2023 | Consistent India has set it up nicely for tougher battles on the road ahead

October 17, 2023 admin

Strike force: Siraj and Bumrah have combined well to deal timely blows. | Photo Credit: DEEPAK KR Traversing India’s geographical diversity is inevitable for the Men in Blue while they chase World Cup glory. Be it the humid Coromandel Coast, northern hinterland, Gujarat’s dusty plains or now the leap across the Western Ghats just in time…

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