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  • Indian cricketer Yo Mahesh retires from all formats of cricket

    Indian cricketer Yo Mahesh announced on Sunday to retire from all formats of cricket. The 32-year-old Mahesh has played 50 first-class, 61 A list and 46 T20 matches since 2006. Mahesh has also played for Chennai Super Kings and Delhi Daredevils in IPL. Mahesh thanked the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), saying, “I thank the BCCI for giving me the opportunity to represent India at the under-19 and India-A level. It was an honor for me Is. I proudly call it the best time of my career. “

    He said, “Thank you also to my two IPL teams – Chennai and Delhi – for showing confidence in me and giving me the opportunity to share the dressing room with great players. The last five years I was troubled by injuries but I am India Cements I also want to thank you for supporting me.

    I also want to thank my state Tamil Nadu Cricket Association for nurturing me since I was 14. “Mahesh played his first first-class match against Bengal in the year 2006. In the first season of IPL in 2008, he played in Delhi. He took 16 wickets while playing in the following three seasons of the IPL, after which he played seven matches, out of which he could take only five wickets. There are also more run runs.

  • 14th editon of IPL will be delayed minimum by 2 weeks vis a vis last IPL in India

    BCCI is yet to announce the dates for the Indian Premier League (IPL) 14th edition. However, the latest England tour of India schedule has given a hint of when it IPL 2021 can start from.

    IPL 2019 started on 23rd March and vis a vis – IPL 2021 will be delayed by minimum 2 weeks owing to the two month long England tour of India which will conclude on March 28th.

    The BCCI recently announced the dates for India’s four-Test, five T20I and three ODI series against England. The two-month-long series begins from February 5 in Chennai for the first Test. The longest-format of the game ends on March 8.

    It will be followed by T20I series which is scheduled from March 12 to 20. Following this, India and England play the ODI series which ends on March 28.

    After this long and hectic series, it is likely that the players would want a small break before joining their respective IPL franchises for IPL 2021. Even franchises will also want their star players to fulfill commercial commitmments with sponsors.

    BCCI will most likely decide to host the new edition after April 10. It would give the players some time to gel up with their supposedly new team members, if the proposed mega-auction takes place.

  • Hanuma and Pant hit an unbeaten century, Gill also claimed

    India, on their second day of the night practice match against Australia A with a pink ball against Australia A with brilliant centuries from Hanuma Vihari (104 not out) and wicketkeeper Rishabh Pant (103 not out) and half-centuries from Mayank Agarwal (61) and Shubman Gill (65). In the second innings, batting practice made a strong score of 386 runs for four wickets. India now has a total lead of 472 runs.

    India scored 194 runs in their first innings on the first day of this warm-up match before the Test on the first day to be held in Adelaide from 17 December, in which fast bowler Jasprit Bumrah scored an unbeaten 55 and the first half of his career in any format . Australia A team was reduced to 108 runs. But in the second day’s game, the sting was missing in the pitch which appeared on the first day, due to which 20 wickets fell in one day.

    In the second day’s play, Indian batsmen made a great practice of batting. Barring opener Prithvi Shaw, all the other top-order batsmen left behind scoring runs and failure of the first innings. Hanuma, batting brilliantly, hit 13 fours in an unbeaten 104 off 194 balls, while Pant scored 4,4,6,4,4 from five consecutive balls in the last over of the day to complete his century in just 73 balls. Pant has hit nine fours and six sixes in an unbeaten 103 off 73 balls and has firmly asserted his claim to the place of wicketkeeper.

  • Virat Kohli has been the most influential player in ODIs for India this decade: Sunil Gavaskar

    The legendary Sunil Gavaskar believes skipper Virat Kohli has been the most impactful player for India in the last 10 years, considering the number of games that he has won for the country in this span of time.
    Kohli, who made his India debut in 2008, has emerged as one of the best batsmen in all formats of the game in the past decade. He recently became the fastest cricketer to score 12,000 ODI runs, breaking the record of cricket icon Sachin Tendulkar.

    “I think if you look as an individual, then certainly it’s got to be Virat Kohli, because if you look at the number of matches he’s won for India when India has been chasing big scores,” Gavaskar said on Star Sports show ‘cricket connected’.

  • 5 Indian cricketers who can form a good finishing pair with Hardik Pandya in T20Is

    Team India is considered as one of the dominating sides across all the formats of the game. The cut-throat competition in the current team has even made great players wait for their chance in the playing XI. Talking about the T20I format of the game, Hardik Pandya is in red hot form for his team. The way he has pulled off chases for men in blue in recent times is awe-inspiring, and it is becoming his regular feature now.

    As T20 World Cup is scheduled in 2021, all the cricketing nations around the world would be putting their best foot forward to grab the limelight. In the same reference, India would need some of the best finishers to turn tables for them. As Hardik is already at his utter best, if a player pairs up with him perfectly, it will be a cherry on the cake. Keeping in mind the coming up T20 World Cup, let’s take a look at-

  • Gambhir and Akash clash over captaincy between Virat and Rohit in T20

    Former Indian cricket team player Gautam Gambhir advocated handing over T20 team captaincy to five-time IPL winner Rohit Sharma while commentator and former player Aakash Chopra has the right to retain current captain Virat Kohli as captain in all three formats of the game. Are in

    Former Indian players Gautam Gambhir, Akash Chopra and Parthiv Patel discussed about who is the better captain of Rohit and Virat in the Star Sports program Cricket Connect, in which the three players expressed their opinion. These days, in fact, this discussion is very loud whether T20 captaincy should be handed over to Rohit.

    Under Rohit’s captaincy, Mumbai Indians have won their fifth title in the IPL, while Virat’s Bangalore team could only reach the playoffs and under their captaincy, Bangalore has not won the title even once in eight years. Amid the ongoing debate over sharing of captaincy, however, India’s first World Cup winning captain and legend all-rounder Kapil Dev, dismissed the idea of ​​Team India’s sharing of Test and limited-overs captaincy, saying that Indian cricket culture is two captains. Is not there and if Virat is doing well in T20, then he should be allowed to remain captain.

    Gambhir said about Virat and Rohit being the better T20 captain, “Virat is not a bad captain but the discussion here is who is better captain and according to me Rohit is a much better T20 captain and in the captaincy of both There is a huge difference. “Akash Chopra said,” This is not the time for change. Now you do not have time to prepare a new T20 team. If you want to start the team process or something new, then for that you must have many matches to play but before the T20 World Cup, the team has only five to six T20 matches. “

  • Instagram launches new feature, ‘Branded Content Tag’ in Reels

    Branded Content Tag’ is the new feature launched by Instagram. The new feature has been updated on its platform ‘Reels’. After the launch of branded content tag on Reels, it may soon be launched to Live as well.

    “We want to ensure creators can clearly disclose when they’re creating branded content, no matter what format they choose to use. To help increase transparency, the Branded Content tag is launching in Reels today, and will begin testing in Live in the coming weeks,” Instagram said in an official blog post.

    Instagram is also launching a new workflow where advertisers will have freedom to create Branded Content ads, to post organically on Instagram first. Branded Content ads in Instagram Stories will now have tappable elements, such as @mentions, location and hashtags.

    “We want brands to have access to organic Stories’ creative that is native and authentic to the Stories experience,” said Instagram in its blog post. Instagram recently launched the ability for businesses and creators to set a minimum age for their branded content feed posts on Instagram.

    Now, creators will be able pick a default minimum age or a minimum age for specific countries, or a combination of both.

  • Kapil Dev warns against split-captaincy in Indian cricket team

    The talk of Rohit Sharma being named the T20I captain has been buzzing around the Indian cricketing spectrum for a while. After the right-handed batsman helped Mumbai Indians lift their 5th Indian Premier League (IPL) title, the talks intensified with many experts of the game asking for Rohit to be given the Team India captaincy in T20Is at least. Former India skipper Kapil Dev, however, doesn’t feel the concept of split-captaincy works in India.

    “In our culture it is not going to happen that way. In one company you make two CEOs? No. If Kohli is going to play T20s and he is good enough. Let him be there. Even though I would like to see other people coming out. But it’s difficult,” said Kapil at the HT Leadership Summit.

    “Our 80 per cent, 70 per cent of the team across formats is the same team. They don’t like captains having different theory. It may bring more differences between the players who look up to the captain. “If you have two captains, players might think he is going to be my captain in Tests. I will not annoy him.”

    Swing more important than speed:
    The IPL 2020 saw pace bowlers really come to the fore utilising their skills, with the likes of Kagiso Rabada, Jasprit Bumrah and Trent Boult topping the wicket-taking charts. There are other bowlers too like Sandeep Sharma who made an impact with the ball.

    Analysing how the pacers went about the T20 league, Kapil feels they have to understand how important swinging the ball is in comparison to bowling fast. Kapil cited the example of Sandeep who regularly picked wickets in the powerplays.

    “I am not happy with fast bowlers (these days). The first ball cannot be cross seam. Players in IPL realised that swing is more important than pace. Sandeep (Sharma), who bowled 120 kph, was tougher because he was moving the ball,” he explained.

    “Bowlers have to understand it’s not the pace, it’s the swing. They should learn but are running away from art. T Natarajan was my hero of IPL. Young boy was fearless and bowling so many yorkers,” the legendary all-rounder said.

    “Keep your wrist straight, hold the ball seam-up. Whenever the ball moves Tests matches become important. Wasim, Botham, Willis, Hadlee. McGrath, look how good he was.

    “The art of swing bowling should come back. Learning the knuckle ball and all is fine. If you don’t know how to swing the ball, everything is waste,” he further said.

    Kapil, however, is quite impressed with the current crop of pacers in the Indian cricket team.

    “Our fast bowlers are brilliant. Look at Shami, Bumrah. As a cricketer, it gives me a lot of happiness to say that today we depend on our fast bowlers. Our bowlers are capable of taking 20 wickets in a match.