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2Jul

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Captain Rohit told us, he can’t climb this mountain alone… he will need everyone’s oxygen: Suryakumar Yadav

It has not even been 24 hours since India’s much-awaited T20 World Cup win and Suryakumar Yadav is amused by the contrast in the curfew-like view of the street below his team hotel at Barbados and the videos of mass celebrations that he has been getting from back home.Suryakumar had returned from a post-win party, where the entire team danced till the wee hours, to find 1,014 Whatsapp congratulatory messages on his phone. But ask him about the game and his sleep-deprived mind comes alive as he recalls the riveting speech captain Rohit Sharma gave at the team huddle, minutes before the final against the South Africans. Talking to The Indian Express from Barbados, Surya, whose spell-binding catch on the ropes to dismiss David Miller turned the match on its head, says, “He told us to keep ...

1Jul

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Rahul Dravid stepped down as head coach due to family commitments: Jay Shah

BCCI secretary Jay Shah has revealed the reason why Rahul Dravid didn’t wanted to continue as Team India’s head coach after the T20 World Cup. “He told me that due to family commitments he wants to quit and we respect his decision. I didn’t forced him to extend,” Shah told reporters in Barbados. Shah lauded Dravid for his contribution to the Indian cricket first as a cricketer, then as administrator and coach. “Rahul bhai has served Indian cricket for the past five and half years. He was director of the National Cricket Academy for three years and then for the past two and half years, he served as head coach of Team India,” said Shah. India coach Rahul Dravid celebrates after winning the T20 World Cup REUTERS/Ash Allen Shah also revealed the decision behind extending Rahul Dravid’s...

30Jun

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Axar Patel, the Jayasuriya of Nadiad, makes years of perfecting his cricket count in World Cup final

Occasionally, Rishabh Pant can be heard chirping from behind the stumps, “Jayasuriya, left mey ja,” referring to Axar Patel. That’s his childhood nickname, earned from his bludgeoning efforts on the flood-lit tennis-ball circuit in Nadiad, 60 kms away from Ahmedabad. The man who never wanted to bowl in his growing up years, but would play for India for his left-arm spin, found the biggest stage to relive his childhood highs. Incidentally, Axar was the last person to be inked in the 15-member squad as the selectors tussled between him and Washington Sundar but in the end they made the right call to trust Axar to come good. But it’s an entirely different matter to do it in a World Cup final under pressure, with the big guns Rohit Sharma and Suryakumar Yadav back in the hut. To arch back ...

29Jun

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India vs South Africa: Harmanpreet Kaur and Co smash the record for highest ever total in women’s Test cricket

Records tumbled at Chepauk as Harmanpreet Kaur-led India became the first ever team to cross 600 in the history of women’s Test cricket on Saturday. India declared on 603/6 after 115.1 overs, a few minutes after they broke the record set by Australia just earlier this year (575/9 in Perth). Unfortunately for South Africa, they were at the receiving end on both occasions, having now conceded 1178 runs in the two innings they have bowled in Tests this year. It was India’s highest score already in Test cricket on the opening day, when they crossed 467 that they made against England in Taunton in 2002. There were two record-breaking partnerships in the innings as well. With an opening stand of 292 on Day 1, Smriti Mandhana and Shafali Verma recorded highest-ever partnership for the first ...

22Jun

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David Johnson’s death and cricket’s depressingly inglorious uncertainties

A few years back, unable to bear the sudden silence of his post-retirement life at his home at Meerut in Uttar Pradesh, a clinically depressed former India cricketer Praveen Kumar decided to end it all. On a winter night, with his wife and children fast asleep in their warm quilts, he snuck into his car, carrying with him his licensed gun, resisting the urge to take one final glimpse of his family.When on the highway, the magical fingers that hid the rare art of moving a cricket ball the way he willed placed the weapon on his own temple. Just in time, just before he shut his eyes and plunged into eternal darkness, he saw the picture of his smiling kids on the car’s dashboard. PK these days is seen in studios talking about mental health. The Jaat boy from UP scoffs at the misplaced machi...

18Jun

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Gautam Gambhir, only applicant for job of India men’s cricket coach, to be interviewed today

Former India Test batsman Gautam Gambhir, the only candidate to have applied for the coach’s post of the Indian men’s team, will appear for an interview before the Cricket Advisory Committee over a Zoom call on Tuesday. The term of current India coach Rahul Dravid ends after the ongoing T20 World Cup in USA and West Indies. The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) had invited applications for the post in mid-May and the deadline was May 27, the day after the IPL final. Gambhir is also mentor of the current IPL champions Kolkata Knight Riders. The CAC comprises former cricketers Ashok Malhotra, Jatin Paranjpe and Sulakshana Naik. Interviews will also be conducted by the CAC to find a selector, who will replace Salil Ankola. Ankola and chief selector Ajit Agarkar are both from the...

8Jun

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World T20: How the fearless Rishabh Pant nosed ahead of Sanju Samson and Yashasvi Jaiswal

Last year in October during the 50-overs World Cup in India, former England captain and cricket correspondent of The Times newspaper Michael Atherton had bumped into Rishabh Pant at a Bangalore hotel gym. He would mention in his tour diary how the Indian superstar, all alone doing his endless repetitions, reminded him of the long, lonely hours athletes are forced to spend during rehabilitation.In December of 2022, Pant, driving his SUV late at night on the Delhi-Haridwar highway, had driven into a divider. The vehicle was damaged beyond repair, the right leg was equally mangled. Most bones had smashed, every ligament had also snapped – the lower part of the right leg hung at a worrying angle. After 10 months, Pant had looked cheerful to Atherton. The wicket-keeper showed him a surgery s...