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England Hopeful Of A Good Start After Winning Toss In The Second Test With New Zealand In Hamilton

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Joe Root won the toss and elected to bat first in the second and final Test series of two matches with New Zealand. Joe Root also made two changes in his team – Ollie Pope and Zak Crawley are inducted into the team for the last Test.

Why is this Test important for England?

England has to win this Test, if it wants to save the series. It is to be noted that the English team has already lost the first Test by an innings and 65 runs. Joe and Co would want to strike hard tie up the series by winning the last Test. It has already made changes in the team to strike hard.

Winning of toss is seen as an opportunity to put those dispiriting days behind and hope for a win this time. Also, Joe Root can take advantage of the conditions that could be helpful in getting a good start.

What is the winning strategy of England?

The skipper Joe Root said that he would be happy if the series closes with 1-1. His performance in the last test was below average as he could garner only 13 runs in the two innings. But this time, he is confident that he would make a difference to his performance.

How is New Zealand team doing in Test?

Kiwis are ranked second in Test in the world and they are dominant at home in recent times. They have displayed their firepower in the previous Test that they won with an impressive score.

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Pink Ball Injures Bangladesh Batsmen But Virat Kohli Makes 136

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Virat Kohli became the first Indian batsman to make a hundred after hitting 136 in the first Pink Ball Test in Kolkata. Earlier Virat spoke at length about the challenge of facing pink ball but he was more comfortable on the ground.

Virat Kohli makes hundred with pink ball

Skipper Kohli maintained discipline while hitting the pink ball hard. Most of his shots were aimed at the “V” area where he found much room for his ball. The 136 runs he made include 18 boundaries that gave Bangladesh bowlers a chase to the boundary. Finally, the Bangladesh spinner Taijul Islam sent Virat Kohli to pavilion.

With this century, Virat Kohli is now standing alongside top batsman with highest hundreds. He has crossed Steve Smith and moving ahead to join South Africa’s Graeme Smith and Australia’s Allan Border who also have 27 Test hundreds.

Indian bowlers relished bowling with pink ball

According to Cheteshwar Pujara, Indian pacers and spinners were quite excited to bowl before a jam-packed stadium where the audiences were shouting to encourage bowlers at every ball. The Bangladesh batsmen found it quite difficult to face the pink ball.

Injuries to Bangladesh batsmen

Bangladesh became the first Test Team to replace 2 players due to concussion injuries.Litton Das and Nayeem Hossain were retired hurt. Mushfiqur Rahim was also hit in the helmet but he continued and made 59 runs.

Reason given for more concussion injuries with pink ball is the color and light the ball carries. It comes with a great force that makes it very difficult to spot the ball.

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James Pattinson Faces One-Time Suspension For Personal Abuse Of a Player

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Cricket Australia found James Pattinson guilty of player abuse and bans the fast bowler from playing the first Test against Pakistan at Brisbane. The Test starts on Thursday.

Why as James Pattinson banned?

The governing body of Cricket Australia found James Pattinson guilty of violating code of conduct during Victoria’s Sheffield Shield game against Queensland last week. Statement released by the head of integrity and security Sean Carroll reads that James Pattinson was banned for personal abuse of a player while fielding.

The statement further read that it was his third breach in the past 18 months and for this reason he was handed only one-match suspension. The earlier incidents happened in March.

First Incident: Abuse of equipment in a match against NSW

Second Incident: Showing dissent during a Shield game in Adelaide just a week after the first incident

CA considered the first two incidents as minor and classified those incidents as Level One breaches. Also, CA denied any replacement for the Test squad.

Did James Pattinson accept the breaches?

The paceman admitted to doing faults in the three occasions and offering his apologies as soon as he realized the mistake. He said that he apologized to both the umpires and the opponent but his apologies yielded no results. The matter was brought into the notice of the CA and he was banned for a day.

James Pattinson ban is seen as a blessing for Mitchell Starc that is hopeful of playing in the Test at Brisbane. Australia will play with Pakistan on Thursday.

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Mumbai Indians And Chennai Super Kings Release 12 And 5 Players Respectively

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Mumbai Indians released 12 players from its squad but retained its core squad of 18 players that won a record fourth Indian Premier League (IPL) title this year. The three traded-ins in form of New Zealand seamer Trent Boult, Sherfane Rutherford of West Indies and Dhawal Kulkarni from Rajasthan Royals are in the core squad.

List of retained players:

Rohit Sharma, Hardik Pandya
JaspritBumrah
Krunal Pandya
Ishan Kishan
Surya Kumar Yadav
Rahul Chahar
Anmolpreet Singh
Jayant Yadav
Aditya Tare
Anukul Roy
Dhawal Kulkarni (Traded in)
Quinton de Kock
Kieron Pollard
Sherfane Rutherford (Traded in)
Lasith Malinga, Mitchell McClenaghan
Trent Boult (Traded in)

List of released players:

Evin Lewis, Adam Milne
Jason Behrendorff
Beuran Hendricks
Ben Cutting
Yuvraj Singh
Mayank Markande (Traded out)
BarinderSran
Rasikh Salam
Pankaj Jaswal
Siddhesh Lad (Traded out)
Alzarri Joseph

Mumbai Indians looking for more players

The 2020 edition of IPL will be held in Kolkata in December. But Mumbai Indians is far from prepared for the tournament. It requires 5 domestic and 2 foreign players to complete its squad.

Chennai Super Kings rejigged its squad

The three-time IPL champion also felt the need for restructuring of its squad. But it released only five players and retained rest of the squad. It is to be noted that MS Dhoni is captain of this team.

List of retained players:

MS Dhoni (captain & WK)
Suresh Raina
Ambati Rayudu
Shane Watson
Faf du Plessis
Murali Vijay
Kedar Jadhav
Ravindra Jadeja
Rituraj Gaikwad
Dwayne Bravo
Karn Sharma
Imran Tahir
Harbhajan Singh
Mitchell Santner
Shardul Thakur
K M Asif
David Willey
Deepak Chahar
N Jagadeesan (WK)

List of released players:

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Bangladesh Struggling To Save Wickets In the First Day Of 1st Test In Indore

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The first day of 1st Test between India and Bangladesh in Indore saw the guest team kneeling down before the Indian attack. Bangladesh lost its three top players including Mohammad Mithun in 26 overs and it accumulated only 63 runs.

Start of the match

Bangladesh won the toss and decided to bat to give India a huge score to chase. Also, it put good resistance to Indian bowlers for 11 overs when Mohammed Shami got Mithun lbw on an out-swinging ball that Muthun tried to play across the line and caught unaware. The umpires didn’t even feel the need to ask for a review and gave the decision in the favor of India. The little resistance provided by Bangladesh batsmen seems to be failing before Indian attack.

Highlights of Bangladesh batting

• Imrul Kayes was the first wicket down in 6th over. He played 18 balls but could score only 6 runs.

• Skipper Mominul Haque joined the opening batsman Shadman Islam but Islam was also sent to pavilion in the 7th over.

• Mohammad Mithun joined the captain and gave some resistance to Indian attack. They took the score from 12 to 31 in 18th over when Mithun lost his wicket to an outswing ball.

Highlights of Indian bowling

• Ishant Sharma was the most economical bowler with a strike rate of 1.71. He bowled 7 overs out of which 4 are maiden. He game 12 runs and got one wicket.

• Ravichandran Ashwin proved the most expensive bowled with 2.75 strike rate. He gave 11 runs in 4 overs and took no wickets.

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Recent ICC Ranking for T20 Internationals: Deepak Chahar Stand up with 88 slots in latest T20 Rankings Post Hat-Trick

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The fast Bowler of India set a world record of 6 for 7 against the country Bangladesh last Sunday, he stands up with 88 slots to 42 position in the latest T20 Ranking for players. In his whole career, it is its best series. After Match, he admits that he never thought this even in his dreams and he said his hard work making this happen. He also said this is a very big responsibility that all the team given to me to bowling the main overs but “I am so happy that team trust me fully and have faith in me to give this responsibility on this stage”.

The bowler’s list lead by all the slow bowlers. The eight of the top nine and top five I’m bowlers are spinners, with the second place where Mitchell Santner Reach. It is it’s best to top position ever after since January 2018 when he topped the match.

David Malan, Aaron Finch are also on the list of Batting

In per ICC release, the highest run maker’s batsman, Dawid Malan who makes 458 runs in all the first nine matches can proceed to No.3 on Ranking of batting. And Aaron Finch, the caption of Australia moved to the second position in ICC Men’s T20 player ranking. Pakistan’s Babar Azam also included in this list.

The recent update also said that the series of ICC Men’s T20 world cup Qualifier 2019 also held between New Zealand and England and Australia and Pakistan and one between India and Bangladesh. Mohammad Naim the Bangladesh Batsman score 143 runs in three matches and stand up with the 38th position with Bairstow.

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Deepak Chahar Took 6 Wickets Including A Hat-Trick In 3rd T20I Against Bangladesh in Nagpur

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Deepak Chaharhelped India win the T20I series with Bangladesh by taking 6 wickets in 7 runs in the 3rd and the last match of the series. He also broke the record of Sri Lanka’s AjanthaMendis of taking 6 wickets in 8 runs but 6/7 in the 3rd T20I against Bangladesh in Nagpur. India won the series by 2-1.

Highlights of Deepak Chahar bowling

• Became 1st Indian bowler to take a hat-trick in T20I

• His hat-trick is spread over 2 overs

• He bowled Shafiul Islam out on the last ball of the 18th over

• Mustafizur Rahman and bowling Aminul Islamwere also bowled out by Chahar

Bangladesh batting highlights

• India set a target of 175 runs for Bangladesh

• Mohammad Naim scored 81

• Naim scored maiden T20I fifty off 33 balls

• Mohammad Mithun scored 27

• Bangladesh crossed 100-run mark in the 12th over

Match summary

Bangladesh put a brave front with Naim and Mithun pooling 98-runs for third-wicket. The newbies including Sivan Dube and Yuzvendra Chahal couldn’t stop the batsmen from scoring runs. Naim also scored his 50 runs while making the Indian fielders run after his shots to boundaries.

Introduction of Chahar in the last leg of the match tilted the game in the favor of India and finally the Bangladesh team was packed to pavilion by Chahar taking maximum 6 wickets by giving only 7 runs.

Indian bowlers with hat tricks

Tests: Harbhajan Singh and Irfan Pathan

ODIs: Chetan Sharma, Kapil Dev, Kuldeep Yadav & Mohammed Shami

T20Is: Deepak Chahar

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The All Blacks Is The Most Successful And Well-Mannered Rugby Team Of The World

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The All Blacks of New Zealand are the most popular players of the Rugby World Cup tournament in Japan. They are good players but more than being that they are well-mannered guests that know how to say thanks to their hosts.

How Kiwis won over the hearts of Japan?

Audiences in Japan and rugby fans all over the world are appreciating the respectful displays of Kiwis. Also, the fans are talking about the impressive baggage handling skills of All Blacks. Also, the New Zealand Says 39 campaign received big applause for Kiwis. Japanese people responded very positively to the respectful manners of the All Blacks. They performed haka to impress Kiwis gathered at training sessions to meet All Blacks stars.

Why Kiwis bowed before Japanese?

It is learnt that the All Blacks took training in Japanese culture much before their arrival for the Rugby World Cup in Japan. And they displayed their knowledge of Japanese culture and willingness to respect the hosts in their first pool match against South Africa on September 21. The All Blacks lined up and bowed to the crowd. This gesture made them popular in Japan.

The All Blacks again displayed their knowledge of Japanese culture by bowing before the crowd after winning their quarterfinal match against Ireland by 46 – 14 on Sunday night. They said thanks by bowing before the crowd and proved that it had become the culture of the Kiwis to say thanks to their hosts.

Also, the Kiwis rugby team shared a video of their efforts on social media with a caption “Arigato Tokyo”.

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BCCI To Elect Sourav Ganguly President In Mumbai AGM On October 23

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Sourav Ganguly is set to become BCCI president after the Committee of Administrators ends its 33-month rule post Lodha Committee reforms. His name cropped up in an informal meeting of all the affiliated units of the BCCI. The officials met to finalized names of their new-office bearers.

Bio-Data of Sourav Ganguly

  • Senior cricket player
  • Successful captain of Indian cricket team
  • Coach-mentor of the team
  • Media personality
  • Chairman of the BCCI technical committee

The BCCI officials are of the opinion that Sourav Ganguly would bring vast cricket experience he has. Also, the team would be benefitted from his experience as a coach and mentor. Presently Ganguly is the front runner for the post of president.

Who are the other officials of BCCI?

Consensus was made on making Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s son Jay Shah new secretary; Arun Dhumal, the younger brother of MoS Finance and former BCCI president Anurag Thakur the treasure. Monday is the last day to file nomination for new BCCI committee.

When would BCCI hold AGM?

The BCCI officials want to end the 33-month rule of Committee of Administrators by having the AGM as soon as possible. But five state units – Tamil Nadu, Haryana, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh and Manipur – are barred from the AGM. These state units are contemplating moving to court. The barred state units won’t be allowed to participate and vote in the AGM. The Committee of Administrators took the strong action to bar state units for non-compliance in their amended constitution. The BCCI AGM is scheduled in Mumbai on October 23.

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