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13Mar By source belowNo Comments

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R Ashwin highlights fatal flaw with England’s Bazball: ‘Test cricket cannot be played like airplane on runway’

[ad_1] After England’s 1-4 Test series defeat against India, there has been a lot of questions about the future of Bazball, the style of play England have employed where they go for broke and try to dominate their opponents with aggression. Despite the doom and gloom back in England, Indian cricketer Ravichandran Ashwin believes that the ‘Bazball method has a future’. “So many people have commented that they lost 1-4, but in my opinion, we really came under immense pressure in the series. If the team manages to get the right balance, it is bound for success,” Ashwin, who claimed nine wickets in the final India versus England Test, said on his YouTube channel. Ashwin had much to celebrate, he played in his 100th Test and went past the 500-wicket mark during the five-match series. WTC...

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13Mar By source belowNo Comments

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Yashasvi Jaiswal exclusive interview: ‘Whatever happens, Rohit Sharma will be there to stand by you’

[ad_1] In the span of seven weeks, Yashasvi Jaiswal transformed from a bright young potential to the new torchbearer of India’s batting. His immaculate body of work in the series against England—712 runs at 79.91 including a pair of double centuries compiled with a blend of youthful aggression and technical rectitude—not only fueled India’s comeback and the dismantling of Bazball, but also set his destiny rolling. But he remains firmly grounded and has already turned his focus to the IPL. Yashasvi Jaiswal takes The Indian Express through his journey in the series: Yashasvi Jaiswal: It’s a great feeling, I’m happy but I want to be more focused, so that I can do well for my team. I’m not thinking about anything today. I want to take one match at a time. I don’t know what will happen tomo...

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19Feb By source belowNo Comments

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Rajkot Test: India seem to have the blueprint to crack England’s Bazball code – it’s 22-yard long

[ad_1] The battle between England’s Bazball and India’s Jamball, as R Ashwin titled a video on his YouTube channel, reached a pivotal point at the end of the third Test. With India leading 2-1 after the record-breaking 434-run win, coach Rahul Dravid and captain Rohit Sharma seemed to have arrived with a blueprint to crack the Bazball code and its 22 yards in length. As Rajkot proved, a paata, a track that does its thing on the final two days, is the perfect antidote for England’s aggressive Bazball style of play. Those in the know say that the Indian team have done away with the turners not due to some ethical concerns, but a deeply-thought-out punt on how it will play out against this England team. Though Rohit Sharma would deny any involvement with the pitches at the end of the third ...

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13Feb By source belowNo Comments

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Eye on Rohit Sharma: Batting clinic with Kuldeep, meditation with Rahul and applauding batsmen in the nets

[ad_1] With his ever-present 13-day stubble, Rohit Sharma stopped Kuldeep Yadav at the nets. It wasn’t about bowling, though; instead a long batting clinic was held, with Rohit often taking the left-hander’s stance and instructing Kuldeep, among other things, the bat flow. “Nah, na, utna high nahi, re (not that high)”, and he would shorten the bat-lift. Around their bubble, the Indian cricketers were moving around doing their training, two days before the vital third Test against England. Away from them, the administrators were busy setting up signages and arrangements for Wednesday’s naming ceremony – the stadium will be named after the long-standing administrator Niranjan Shah, an impish man with a mischievous smile. Once Kuldeep soaked up the nearly 20-minute tutorial, Rohit caught ho...

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12Feb By source belowNo Comments

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IND vs ENG: Why a more aggressive batting approach could benefit Ravindra Jadeja and India

[ad_1] “Ravindra Jadeja, lekin voh idhar nahi pada (but he didn’t study here)” the sentry at the gate of the famous The Rajkumar College in Rajkot, the alumni includes Ranjitsinghji, Duleepsinhji, Ajay Jadeja, five other Test cricketers and several first-class players, announces grandly about his favourite player in the Indian team. The sun has begun to sink, the college has just shut for the day, and the man who will guard nothingness in the nights perks up: “Voh humare jaisey hain. (He is like us).” Not from the clan of rajas and the royals who once dotted the college, that is. Jadeja, born in a one-room government flat to a nurse and a security guard, has risen in stature to being called ‘Bapu’, endearment for kings and mass leaders these days. The few around the guard bristle when i...

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12Feb By source belowNo Comments

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Sarfaraz Khan set to get Test cap at Rajkot, another debutant also expected to be in playing XI

[ad_1] After averaging over 100 for three successive domestic seasons, Sarfaraz Khan is all set to get a Test cap. With middle-order mainstay KL Rahul failing to clear the fitness test, the Mumbai batsman is expected to be in the playing XI for the third Test at Rajkot. “Sarfaraz will be making his debut. As KL has been ruled out for this Test, Sarfaraz will be getting his first game,” a source confirmed. Sarfaraz has been toiling hard since the past few years. Even though selectors picked Rajat Patidar ahead of him after Virat Kohli’s withdrawal from the first two Tests, the 26-year-old didn’t lose hope. A day after the selection day snub, he scored 161 against England Lions. “The game is all about patience. If we have to play Test cricket, we have to be patient. In life, there are time...

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12Feb By source belowNo Comments

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Breaking: KL Rahul ruled out of third Test against England, fellow Karnataka batsman to replace him

[ad_1] One of India’s batting mainstays KL Rahul has been ruled out for the third Test match against England in Rajkot. The senior selection committee, while naming the Karnataka batsman for the last three Test matches, had added a rider. On Saturday, while announcing the team, the BCCI statement had said that “the participation of Ravindra Jadeja and KL Rahul is subject to fitness clearance from the BCCI medical team”. The Indian Express understands that while Rahul wasn’t found to be fully fit yet, Jadeja was given the green signal to take the field for the crucial third Test in the series which is tied 1-1. The medical team, it is learnt, has told the selectors that they would observe Rahul for one more week to take a call on his availability. Rahul is still at NCA and he hasn’t trav...

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10Feb By source belowNo Comments

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Interview: Mind guru Paddy Upton on why Test batting is proving difficult – ‘Decline in concentration due to intensity and volume of T20 games’

[ad_1] One of the trends so far in the ongoing Test series between India and England is a lot of batsmen have gotten off to starts but haven’t been able to build that into a long innings. In Hyderabad, Ollie Pope’s 196 was a class knock but only other player apart from him spent more than 100 minutes in the middle. In Vizag, while Yashasvi Jaiswal batted for more than a day on course to a double century, not a single other Indian batter spent more than 90 minutes in the middle.Paddy Upton, former Indian men’s cricket team mental conditioning coach, spoke to The Indian Express about what it takes to bat long in Test cricket and the importance of recharging the batteries. What does it take mentally to play long innings in Test matches? There is a difference between attention focus in T20 C...

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6Feb By source belowNo Comments

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Does Jasprit Bumrah have the best slower ball in world cricket now?

[ad_1] The Jasprit Bumrah slower ball is a thing of beauty and also a rarity. It’s not an everyday spectacle but when he does brings it out, the audience and the hapless victim of his sleight-of-hand sorcery are bemused and dazzled.It’s a paradox that some of the most-remembered deliveries of one of the fastest bowlers his country has produced have been his slower balls. There’s the Shaun Marsh curveball, Mohammad Rizwan snapper, Ollie Robinson gripper and Steve Smith corker from the past. More recently, from the ongoing England series, there’s the Rehan Ahmed stunner and Ben Foakes ripper. Bumrah’s action is made for slower balls, just as it is made for shoe-crushing yorkers. The run-up is short, whereupon the body explodes into the action. The elbow is hyper-extended. The natural relea...

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6Feb By source belowNo Comments

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A break for Jasprit Bumrah: Team India mulling when to give their biggest match winner some rest

[ad_1] With a decent break before the third Test and the five-match series locked 1-1, the biggest concern for India is how their biggest match-winner Jasprit Bumrah shapes up in the next week.India are yet to name the squad for the remaining three Tests. Though Bumrah is certain to make it, the lingering question is when to give him a rest. Last week, despite Mohammed Siraj bowling full throttle at the nets two days before the Test, India’s think-tank decided to send him home from Vizag. He could have avoided taking the flight to Vizag in the first place, which would have given him a few extra days to spend at home. But it was a decision they took at the eleventh hour, keeping the larger picture of workload in mind and it wasn’t just that of Siraj, but also Bumrah. With both needed for ...

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5Feb By source belowNo Comments

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‘We’re not forcing him to do anything’: India coach Rahul Dravid on Ishan Kishan’s comeback

[ad_1] After India defeated England by 108 runs in the second Test to level the five-Test series 1-1, head coach Rahul Dravid was once again asked about the way back into the Indian team for Ishan Kishan. The wicketkeeper has not played for India since November and had requested the team management for a break in the middle of the South Africa tour in December citing personal reasons. He has since not featured for Jharkhand as well in the ongoing Ranji Trophy. But with Rishabh Pant out of action due to his long term injury and KS Bharat struggling with the bat, the focus has understandably turned back on Ishan. “There is way back for anyone and everyone. I don’t want to go on labouring about the Ishan Kishan point. Have tried to explain this as best as I can, the point was he had reque...

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5Feb By source belowNo Comments

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India make massive gains in WTC rankings after defeating England in 2nd Test

[ad_1] Thanks to their victory over England in the second Test at Visakhapatnam on Monday, the Indian cricket team rose by four spots to sit in the second position in the World Test Championships standings. Jasprit Bumrah and Ravichandran Ashwin shared six wickets between them to help the hosts level the five-match Test series at 1-1. India’s 106-run victory sets up the rest of the series nicely, with the third Test to be played in Rajkot from February 15. While Bumrah picked up 3-46 in 17.2 overs (ending the match with nine wickets), Ashwin finished with 3-72 in 18 overs to bowl out the chasing visitors for 292 runs. For India, Yashasvi Jaiswal had cracked a double century in the first innings while Shubman Gill relieved pressure from him with a century in the second. England had won t...

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1Feb By source belowNo Comments

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IND vs ENG: Rajat Patidar reveals what he’s learnt from Virat Kohli ahead of possible debut

[ad_1] Ahead of his potential debut for India in the second Test against England, Rajat Patidar has opened up about aspects of Virat Kohli he has tried to pick by observing the India cricket talisman. “I always observe his (Kohli) batting from back of the nets, especially his footwork and body movement while batting. I try to learn and add these things into my batting,” Patidar told BCCI.TV. Patidar and Kohli have been teammates at their Indian Premier League team Royal Challengers Bangalore. Patidar was one of the stars for RCB in IPL 2022, after he came in as a replacement of the injured Luvnith Sisodia. Patidar could make his debut for India in the second Test against England after KL Rahul and Ravindra Jadeja were forced to withdraw from the second Test due to injuries. Kohli, meanw...

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1Feb By source belowNo Comments

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IND vs ENG: England spinner Jack Leach to miss second Test due to knee injury

[ad_1] England have suffered a setback ahead of the second Test against India with experienced spinner Jack Leach being unavailable from the second Test due to an injury, skipper Ben Stokes confirmed on Wednesday. The 32-year-old — who is the most experienced spinner in the England ranks who has come to India as part of the touring party — sustained an injury to his knee during the first Test on Sunday. Leach picked up the injury to his knee while fielding on the first day of the Test in Hyderabad, where England stunned the hosts by 28 runs to take a 1-0 lead in the five-match series. Leach is then said to have exacerbated the issue on the second day’s morning session. Despite the injury, Leach bowled 10 overs in the second innings and got the crucial wicket of Shreyas Iyer for 13 runs...

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30Jan By source belowNo Comments

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How Tom Hartley studied Ravindra Jadeja on way to bowling England to Test victory over India

[ad_1] From the time Lancashire spin bowling coach Carl Crowe met Tom Hartley, there has been one ritual that has been followed till date. After discussing everything under the sun, the conversation would gradually veer towards spin bowling. And it will ultimately end with Crowe and Hartley studying the footage of Ravindra Jadeja. At times, even Instagram reels of the all-rounder outfoxing batsmen are shared. Ahead of the ongoing tour to India, the two even watched a lot of videos of Axar Patel.When England picked three inexperienced spinners to partner Jack Leach, Hartley’s was mostly seen as a back-up to the frontline left-arm spinner. But during the two trips that Hartley made to the UAE in December and January – first with England Lions and then with the senior team for a pre-series ...

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29Jan By source belowNo Comments

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How Ollie Pope and England systematically humbled R Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja and Axar Patel

[ad_1] On a wearing pitch, England amassed 420 in the second innings against Ravichandran Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja and Axar Patel, deploying the reverse sweep, conventional sweeps and down-the-track charges in an tactically-done Bazball way. Here is how Ollie Pope and Co. systematically targeted the Indian spinners, forcing them to alter their plans. A plan emerges with opener Zak Crawley reverse-sweeping Ashwin’s length ball on the middle and off from round the stumps square to the point boundary. It was his second reverse sweep. Earlier, he had opted for the same shot and got the same result in the second over. * 7th over: Crawley hits six, Duckett reverses Moments after Crawley paddles a Axar delivery around the corner, Rohit Sharma moves midwicket to short-fine. Immediately, Crawley...

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29Jan By source belowNo Comments

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India vs England: Day after win, Tom Hartley gets a Whitney Houston inspired Barmy Army chant

[ad_1] Barmy Army’s lead trumpeter Simon Finch had a task on hand for the day after, what he and other travelling England fans are calling, “the best away win ever”. Having flown to India without a chant for Hyderabad’s unexpected hero, the left-arm debutant spinner Tom Hartley, he was busy composing the background score.With figures of 7/69 in the first game of the tour, there was an urgency in the Barmy Army rank and file to come up with a special song for Hartley. By evening it was ready. “The chant is ready, it is inspired by the Whitney Houston song ‘I wanna dance with somebody’,” he tells The Indian Express. Late into the night on Sunday, the 1,000-odd strong Army of England fans in Hyderabad didn’t the Houston-kind of complain. Gathered at the city’s ’10 Downing Street’ watering h...

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29Jan By source belowNo Comments

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IND vs ENG: Why does Sarfaraz Khan have a chance to be preferred over Rajat Patidar for Vizag Test?

[ad_1] A rare Test defeat at home has already put India under pressure, and the team, that will be without their talisman Virat Kohli for the second game as well, suffered a twin blow on Monday as middle-order mainstay KL Rahul and all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja were ruled out of the contest in Visakhapatnam starting on Friday. Jadeja sustained a hamstring injury during play on Day 4 of the Hyderabad Test while Rahul complained of pain in his right quadriceps, a BCCI release said. For a team trying to come to terms with the challenge and positivity of Ben Stokes’ England, losing two senior players for such a crucial game sends them back to the drawing board. The selection committee has added domestic run-machine Sarfaraz Khan, left-arm spinner Sourabh Kumar and off-spinning all-rounder Wash...

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29Jan By source belowNo Comments

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IND vs ENG: Ravindra Jadeja, KL Rahul ruled out of second Test; Sarfaraz Khan among trio called up

[ad_1] The Board of Control for Cricket in India has announced that Ravindra Jadeja and KL Rahul will not feature in the second Test against England, which will be played at Vizag from February 2. While Jadeja has been ruled out after sustaining a hamstring injury during play on Day 4 of the first Test in Hyderabad, Rahul complained of a right quadriceps pain, as per a statement issued by BCCI. This will come as a blow to the Indian team which is already without the talismanic Virat Kohli for the second Test. India lost the first Test in Hyderabad by 28 runs on Sunday. The BCCI Medical Team is monitoring the progress of the duo, the Board added in its statement. Consequently, the Men’s Selection Committee has added Sarfaraz Khan, Sourabh Kumar and Washington Sundar to India’s squad. Sar...

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29Jan By source belowNo Comments

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IND vs ENG: After India’s defeat, Michael Vaughan says Rohit Sharma’s captaincy was ‘very, very average’

[ad_1] Former England captain Michael Vaughan has called England’s victory in the first Test over India at Hyderabad as the “finest England Test match victory of my lifetime”. India lost the Test by 28 runs after debutant Tom Hartley took 7-62 in the second innings to engineer India’s collapse: the hosts were 42-0 at one stage but succumbed for 202 runs in 69.2 overs. What was stunning was that the hosts held a 190-run first innings lead, scoring 436 in reply to England’s 246. The win gave the visiting side a 1-0 lead in the five-match Test series. Besides Hartley, who returned the fourth-best figures for a debutant visiting bowler in India, Ollie Pope scored 196 runs in the second innings to resurrect England. A fifer 🖐 on debut Tom hardly put a foot wrong as he brings the visitors ...

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