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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 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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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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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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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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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…
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…
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…
An old cricketing stereotype about India entirely revolved around wristy batters and wily spinners. The willow-wielders with their wide bouquet of aesthetic shots were expected to defy geometry on the turf. The practitioners of the slow-art were supposed to spin a web, luring perplexed batters to their doom. This was essentially about poetry at one…
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