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IPL 2023: Shardul Thakur, Sunil Narine in race for Kolkata Knight Riders captaincy | Cricket News – Times of India

MUMBAI: With Shreyas Iyer almost ruled out of the IPL due to a serious back injury, the Kolkata Knight Riders are set to name a new captain for IPL 2023 in the next couple of days. TOI has learnt that the job could go to either India's pace bowling allrounder Shardul Thakur, or veteran West Indies' spin bowling all-rounder Sunil Narine, who has been a stellar performer for the franchise since he joined them in 2012.https://t.co/uqV9aNCyzD— KolkataKnightRiders (@KKRiders) 1679764523000"Within a day or two, KKR are set to make the announcement of their new captain in a grand function, with their owner, Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan and an overseas pop star set to light up the occasion," a source told TOI. The new KKR captain will have to attend the IPL captains' meeting in Ahmedabad ...
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India ready to bid for 2036 Olympics: Anurag Thakur | More sports News – Times of India

NEW DELHI: India will bid for hosting the Olympic Games in 2036. A roadmap for the same will be presented before the full members of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) during the IOC Session in Mumbai in September next year, union sports minister Anurag Thakur informed here on Tuesday.In an exclusive interview, Thakur told TOI that the government will back the Indian Olympic Association's (IOA) bid for hosting the Games and that Gujarat's Ahmedabad will likely be the 'host city' with world-class sporting infrastructure available there. The union minister said that with India having previously hosted the 1982 Asian Games and 2010 Commonwealth Games, the next logical pit stop for the country was the Summer Olympics."If India can host the G20 Presidency in such a big way, I am sure ...