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India vs Australia: Rinku Singh, Jitesh Sharma personify new Indian intent as Suryakumar Yadav and Co complete series win in Raipur

The selection committee and the team management may have left a few ends open, but India’s new-look T20I side is taking it upon itself to provide answers. A day after the selectors sent signals of bringing back some of the established names, this young side led by stand-in Suryakumar Yadav sealed the series against Australia in Raipur by 20 runs, with a match to go. That this win came despite India making four changes to the playing XI and still managed to retain the intent that they have shown all along gives plenty to ponder on what the plan needs to be for the World Cup next year.Right through the past 12 months, in the period where the selectors have gone with young legs, the aggression India have shown with the bat has proven to be the noticeable difference. Run-hungry players, sho...
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India vs Australia tip-off XI: Shreyas Iyer to make a mark, Mukesh Kumar back in action and watch out for Chris Green

Glenn Maxwell’s heroics on Tuesday helped Australia to keep the series alive by clinching the nail-biter and make the five-match T20I series 2-1. The visitors will now look to make it all square in Raipur. The pitches provided in this series thus far have been a paradise for the batters. However, that’s the intriguing part about this venue as there have not been too many international or IPL games played at this ground. One international match played here was an ODI when India faced New Zealand and the latter were bundled out for 108 in the first innings which the hosts chased with ease. The pitch was green on that day and the bowlers in this series can use a bit of help. Indian death bowling has been below par in the series in addition to spell with the new ball. It has been only Ravi...
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Glenn Maxwell: How Big Show became the Real Deal after six barely-believable weeks in India

Glenn Maxwell’s Guwahati hundred was one for the road, a goodbye bow to six surreal weeks in India. Those six weeks would come to define Maxwell, shape his legacy and place him among the greatest to have worn the gold and yellow stripes of his country. In this span he peeled off the fastest ever hundred by an Australian in ODIs; he became Australia’s first double centurion in the format when producing one of the greatest knocks of all time, he hammered 400 runs at 66 with a strike rate of 150; he snaffled six wickets while maintaining an economy rate of 4.81, he kissed and held aloft the World Cup, and before he signed off, blasted an astonishing hundred in a T20 game. More significantly, in six barely believable weeks, Maxwell went from being an incredibly good white-ball utility cric...
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India vs Australia: Suryakumar Yadav aces T20s again, less than a week after World Cup final struggle

Often during the 50-over World Cup, Suryakumar Yadav seemed in two minds about what he needed to do. The longer period to bat at his disposal may just have given him too many options with regard to how he had to play – like a miniature artiste puzzled when given a bigger canvas to paint on.His designated role was not batting position-specific, but overs-remaining-specific. In the final too, Ravindra Jadeja was sent in before Surya, so that he only had limited overs to bat, leaving no scope for confusion. That he didn’t quite manage to do the job there has more to do with the planning and execution of the Australian team. In the T20 format, with much less scope for ambivalence and the need to step on the accelerator at all times, he feels right at home. This comfort level came to the for...
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India versus Australia: Low-key early audition for next year’s T20 World Cup

Players and fans should be excused if they find it difficult to get excited about a five-match T20I series three days after the World Cup final. But such are the vagaries of the international cricket calendar that the two countries that contested the Grand Final of the 50-over format will face off in the shorter format, starting in Vizag on Thursday.Though there may not be too many of the players who featured in Ahmedabad on Sunday in action in the first T20I, it reminds one of the ODI series England had to stay back in Australia for after winning last year’s T20 World Cup. With the next marquee world event, in the T20 format, just over six months away in the Caribbean and the United States, there’s not much time to ponder, even though the Indian and Australian players that turned up at...