Tag: Bowler

  • Chetan, who came out of the bio bubble to meet his father directly, said- I am getting the father’s treatment with the amount received from IPL.

    Corona, father of Rajasthan Royals fast bowler Chetan Sakaria, has been infected. After reaching Sakariya’s house, go straight to the hospital and see her father. Chetan hails from Gujarat. His father Kanji brother is admitted to the hospital due to corona infection. The IPL was intercepted due to some players being corona infected. After which Sakariya returned to Gujarat from Delhi. His team was to play second leg matches in Delhi. Chetan told the media that he had received information about his father’s infection a week earlier. He sent the money from the IPL to the father for his treatment. He said ‘I was lucky because I received my share payment from Rajasthan Royals a few days ago. I had transferred the money home so that my family could work under adverse circumstances. Chetan’s father is an auto driver Chetan’s father is an auto driver. A few days earlier, his brother had committed suicide. The amount of Chetan’s earnings is the amount received from IPL. Chetan was added to the IPL auction for 2021 by Rajasthan Royals for Rs 1.20 crore. Under IPL rules, the player is paid 30 per cent of the amount by the franchisee after joining the camp. After that 50% of the amount is given after the half of the tournament is over. As there are 60 matches in the 14th season of the IPL and 29 matches are over. Only then the IPL has been stopped. In such a situation, 60 to 70 percent amount has been paid to the players from the teams. Teams will pay the remaining amount after the IPL is over. Chetan took 7 wickets in 7 matches Chetan Sakaria has taken 7 wickets in seven matches played in his first IPL at an economy rate of 8.22. He took the wickets of MS Dhoni, KL Rahul and Mayank Agarwal. He has taken 35 wickets from 23 T20 matches at an economy rate of 7.44, playing for Saurashtra. Dhoni’s parents have also been corona infected Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s parents have also become corona infected. Dhoni’s parents became corona infected during the IPL, due to which he was admitted to the hospital in Ranchi. Now both have recovered and gone home.

  • Mohammed Shami preparing for long haul in India’s tour of Australia

    After about a week of quarantine in Sydney, the Indian team is now training every day ahead of the contests against Australia. Three ODIs and three T20Is will precede a marquee four-Test series. As for Mohammed Shami, he is concentrating more on red-ball cricket.

    “We are going to have a long tour starting with the white ball followed by pink and red ball Tests. My focus area has been the red ball and I am working on my lengths and seam movement,” Shami told bcci.tv.

    The first ODI in Sydney is on November 27, while the first Test in Adelaide, a day-nighter, commences on December 17. Over the past two-and-a-half months, Shami had been playing white-ball cricket in the Indian Premier League (IPL) and the limited-overs leg of the Australia tour will be a sort of continuation.

    The Adelaide Test will be a played with a pink ball, which swings more than its red variant. The next three Tests, in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane respectively, are traditional red-ball encounters. For a bowler, especially a pacer, adjusting lengths will be important.

    “I have always felt that once you start pitching the ball at the lengths you desire, you can succeed in different formats. What you need is control. I have done well with the white ball and now spending time in the nets bowling with the red ball. You don’t bowl in the same area since both formats are different, but your basics don’t change much,” Shami said.

    His first tour of Australia in 2014-15 wasn’t a very successful one, although Shami was India’s highest wicket-taker with 15 scalps from three Tests. A relative newcomer back then, he was still learning the ropes as regards to handling the red Kookaburra, and his length wasn’t consistent. Two years ago, during India’s triumphant tour in 2018-19, he took 16 wickets in four Tests and his series average was 26.18 compared to 35-plus in 2014-15. Last time around, he bowled a lot fuller, swung the ball, and was rewarded. Shami targeted a few batsmen with bouncers, but used it more as a shock weapon.

    Some fast bowlers, especially from the subcontinent, tend to get a little carried away on hard and bouncy Australian pitches and resort to an overdose of short-pitched bowling in Test cricket. At 30 years of age, Shami is now one of the senior bowlers in the group and India’s chances to a great extent will depend on how he and Jasprit Bumrah perform as a pair.

    Then again, even for a bowler of Shami’s experience, it’s not easy to make an instant switch from white-ball length to its Test-match equivalent. Little wonder then that he is focusing on red-ball cricket at the moment.

  • Kings XI Punjab out of IPL tournament, Chennai Super King defeated

    Chennai Super Kings easily defeated Kings XI Punjab in the 53rd match of IPL 2020. With this defeat, Chennai also crushed Punjab’s dreams of reaching the playoffs. Kings XI Punjab had to win the match in every appearance to reach the playoffs. In this match played in Abu Dhabi, Kings XI Punjab scored 153 for 6 wickets in 20 overs, but Chennai easily achieved this goal.

    Deepak Hooda’s unbeaten 62-run aggressive innings helped Kings XI Punjab to a challenging score of 153 for six in 20 overs in the Indian Premier League (IPL) T20 match, batting first against Chennai Super Kings here on Sunday. Hooda hit three fours and four sixes in his 30-ball unbeaten innings.

    For Chennai, Lungi Ngidi took three wickets for 39 runs in four overs, while Imran Tahir took 24 runs in four overs and Ravindra Jadeja took one wicket for just 17 runs in three overs. Shardul Thakur took one wicket for 27 runs in four overs. Mayank Agarwal and captain Lokesh Rahul gave Punjab a great start to bat first after losing the toss. Mayank celebrated his return to the team with two fours against Deepak Chahar. Captain Rahul hit an attractive six against the same bowler from above the point in the third over.

    Rahul then welcomed Shardul Thakur with two fours in the fifth over, but Ngidi gave Mayank the bold Chennai first success in the next over. Mayank made 25 runs with the help of five fours in 15 balls and also shared 48 runs for the first wicket. Punjab’s score was 53 for one wicket in the power play, but after this the bowlers controlled the run flow and Punjab meanwhile lost the wickets of Rahul, Nicholas Puran and Chris Gayle. Engidi bowled Rahul in the ninth over to end his 29-run knock off 27 balls, while Shardul caught Puran (two runs off six balls) in the 11th over at the hands of wicketkeeper Mahendra Singh Dhoni.

    Chris Gayle (12 runs off 19 balls), running in great rhythm, also failed to play a big innings. He also lost the review after being lambasted by veteran Imran Tahir. At this time the team’s score was 72 runs for four wickets in 11.5 overs. Mandeep Singh hit Deepak Chahar’s first ball in the 14th over, which was the team’s first boundary after seven overs. Hooda then hit a brilliant six over the covers in the 16th over against Imran Tahir, but Jadeja bowled Mandeep (14) in the very next over to break the 36-run partnership for the fifth wicket.

    Jimmy Neesham (two) could not walk but Hooda was not impressed. He hit two sixes in this over of Engidi. He completed his half-century in 26 balls with a single off the third ball of the 19th over. Hooda also hit a six in the last over of Ngidi. He also had an unbroken 40-run partnership for the seventh wicket with Jordan, with Jordan contributing just four runs.