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  • ICC rejects PCB’s four-nation match plan

    The Pakistan Cricket Board’s (PCB) proposal to have an annual four-nation match which options Pakistan, India, Australia and England didn’t in finding favour with a majority of the World Cricket Council (ICC) participants, it’s learnt.

    PCB’s leader Ramiz Raja had proposed the theory right through the ICC board assembly in Dubai on Sunday and gave an in depth plan.

    The Indian Categorical understands that a couple of forums did strengthen the theory however majority weren’t in favour of it. “He (Raja) spoke about at duration however the majority felt it is crucial for forums to center of attention extra on bilateral dedication. The Asian Cricket Council (ACC) participants felt that going forward they are going to most effective have the Asia Cup as a multi-team tournament in Asia and didn’t again the four-nation match,” a member, who attended the ICC meet stated.

    On the identical time, different forums who didn’t function within the proposal didn’t like PCB’s thought of going forward with the match with out them. Additionally, it used to be tough to search out area within the packed calendar.

    “On the identical time the FTP is simply too tight, it’s onerous to get in a brand new match at this degree needless to say,” the member added. In an interplay with this paper ahead of the ICC match, Raja had mentioned that he used to be taking this proposal ahead as an ICC Board member and now not as a PCB leader.

    “It’s now not Us as opposed to Them, it’s Us as opposed to Us. The closing nice idea used to be the T20 International Cup, which used to be held in 2007. So not anything new has come since that 2007 tournament, and right here’s a possibility. This factor occurs in rugby, so we’ve got a precedent. I’m simply hoping that we take a look at this idea as a cricketing idea and now not as a political idea,” Raja had stated. India as opposed to Pakistan bilateral cricket has been come to a prevent after India’s stand not to play till terror assaults are stopped. On the other hand, India does play Pakistan in ICC occasions.

    PCB chairman, Raja later within the day tweeted, “Nice dialogue relating to 4 Countries sequence as of late on the ICC meet. As an idea it used to be welcomed and debated upon and noticed as selling the pastime of the sport. Palms crossed. Extra when I’m again on the place of business day after today.”

    Have left to its participants to take the verdict whether or not to have ladies Take a look at fits or now not. A crew like India doesn’t have a ladies’s Take a look at fit calendar. On the other hand, they have got performed Purple-ball Checks. In its press unencumber, ICC knowledgeable that it has granted ODI standing to quite a few Affiliate participants.

    “Following the hot resolution to enlarge the ICC Girls’s Championship to ten groups, the ICC Board authorized a advice that ODI standing be prolonged to quite a few Affiliate Member ladies’s groups to permit them to growth to world qualifying occasions in response to ODI scores,” the ICC stated in its press unencumber.

    The ICC Board assembly agreed with the advice from the ICC Males’s Cricket Committee that extra impartial fit officers will have to be utilised as commute restrictions are lifted whilst construction at the good fortune of using house umpires.

    Shah in committee

    PTI provides: Board of Keep an eye on for Cricket in India secretary Jay Shah is among the new inductees within the ICC cricket committee with former Sri Lankan captain Mahela Jayawardene being reappointed as former participant. New Zealand leader trainer Gary Stead, ICC Elite Panel umpire Joel Wilson and MCC consultant Jamie Cox also are a part of the panel.

  • Cricketer Pravin Tambe on enjoying skilled cricket at 41, his biopic: ‘How do you surrender on love?’

    Cricketer Pravin Tambe is enjoying the continuing season of Indian Premier League (IPL) at 50. He made his IPL debut at an age when maximum sportspersons grasp up their boots, he was once 41 and was the oldest ever IPL debutant who had by no means performed skilled cricket earlier than this. Via his lengthy years of fight to make his mark, Tambe says he performed each fit that got here his method. He by no means dreamt of enjoying the game professionally however stored making an attempt to take action.

    Kaun Pravin Tambe? will movement in Disney+Hotstar from April 1. On this interview with indianexpress.com, the cricketer stocks his emotional adventure, and pleasure that actor Shreyas Talpade is portraying his function in Kaun Pravin Tambe, as he “may relate to Shreyas’s skilled struggles”.

    Excerpts from the interview:

    How does it really feel figuring out your tale goes to be observed in a movie. 

    I’m feeling emotional. There are lots of other people like me who’ve been suffering, however a movie has been made on my adventure. I’m an emotional guy, and after I watched the trailer for the primary time, I teared up. Once I first got here to understand {that a} movie goes to be made on my lifestyles, I assumed it was once surreal, it was once unthinkable. That is the primary time I’m experiencing this sort of happiness. I used to be meant to be that loser who didn’t get to play cricket for the longest time, till I after all did.

    When you had been suffering, did you suppose you’d play the game professionally at some point, otherwise you simply stored going?

    I by no means idea I’d play the rest. I used to play at Dadoji Kondadev Stadium in Thane for a corporation. I used to have amusing. Whilst I sought after to play the game professionally, I by no means dreamt about it. However, if you’re enjoying cricket in Mumbai, each kid in each ‘galli’ needs to play Ranji, and that was once my dream too.

    I by no means selected my suits, I performed each fit that got here my method. At any level in day, if any individual known as me to play fit underneath my development, I might opt for it. I’ve performed numerous under-arm cricket too. Over-arm, leather-based ball, tennis ball fit, the rest, I’ve performed all of it. In case you love one thing with your whole middle, it is going to come to you. So, I feel no matter I’m doing these days, is on account of that love.

    How would other people react whilst you performed cricket at your age?

    I listen numerous feedback about my age. But if I’m on box, I’m deaf to those feedback. Folks stay asking why I’m enjoying within the crew at this age, however I don’t need to pay attention to them. My teammates don’t query the truth that I’m enjoying, they don’t have any doubts about my sport. Till they don’t have an issue, I’ll play.

    How did you react whilst you got here to understand that Shreyas Talpade can be enjoying Pravin Tambe within the movie?

    When other people got here to understand {that a} movie goes to be made on me, they’d question me if Shreyas goes to play my function, and I’d ask them how they know. They mentioned they may be able to relate him to the function.

    In case you evaluate his lifestyles with mine, we’ve had a identical roughly a adventure. I believe very fortunate that Shreyas is enjoying my function and Jayprad Desai is directing my movie. I’ve observed their paintings and I’ve cherished it. Folks will love this mixture. From what I’ve observed of the movie, each body is proven the way in which I’ve felt about myself and my game someday or the opposite.

    Did you ever suppose that your tale would encourage others?

    I by no means idea my tale would encourage somebody. I most effective sought after to play. Once I after all were given to play skilled cricket, everybody requested how I might arrange. Folks would question me how I didn’t surrender after I didn’t get a certified spot for goodbye. However I didn’t know the way to surrender, I didn’t are aware of it was once even an choice; how do you surrender on love? Via this film, I need to display other people how I did it, even I had paintings power, social power, but it surely was once inconceivable to surrender on my sport. This can be a tale everyone will relate to, this is a very private tale and each one will really feel that chunks from the movie have came about of their lifestyles too. They’ll, confidently, like me, by no means surrender.

  • India entire WI collection sweep with out a lot hassle

    Jointly, West Indies had been a shambles, their batting particularly. All over again, their peak order used to be in give-away mode, enjoying with the gaiety of leisure cricket. 169 all out, chasing 266 for victory, finished a 3-0 ODI collection sweep for India. Underneath lighting at Motera, the hosts slightly broke a sweat. Commentating for the host broadcaster, Ian Bishop known as for putting in place a Prime-Efficiency Centre within the Caribbean.

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    — BCCI (@BCCI) February 11, 2022

    The West Indies bowling used to be excellent and a few particular person beneficial properties had been their handiest takeaway from this defeat. Alzarri Joseph and Odean Smith enhanced their reputations forward of the Indian Premier League public sale.

    Joseph went unsold ultimate 12 months. In all chance, it could be other this time. Smith (36, 18 balls) added his batting pyrotechnics to his bowling, laying into Kuldeep Yadav and almost certainly scary the chinaman bowler’s public sale possibilities just a little. However within the context of the 3rd ODI, which India gained through 96 runs, it used to be simply delaying the inevitable.

    The hosts, too, suffered a top-order cave in, however that used to be most commonly right down to the very good Joseph (2/54), bending his again on a bouncy and a bit two-paced pitch. Virat Kohli fell prey to a comfortable dismissal, stuck down the leg-side, one thing that occurs throughout a lean patch. Kohli is having an elongated one, and he had a rueful smile after you have out for a duck.

    Rohit Sharma, who had began off with a rasping sq. minimize in opposition to Kemar Roach off the primary ball of the fit, used to be Joseph’s first scalp. The India captain went for a canopy power with out shifting his toes and inside-edged a fullish supply directly to the stumps. Kohli’s wicket a few balls later gave Joseph a double-wicket maiden. It used to be the second one time within the collection that he brushed aside Sharma and Kohli in the similar over.

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    — BCCI (@BCCI) February 11, 2022

    The returning Shikhar Dhawan departed in Smith’s first over, failing to care for the additional jump and India had been 42/3 within the tenth over. KL Rahul sat out of this recreation owing to a niggle and Shreyas Iyer got here at No. 4 after convalescing from Covid. He had Rishabh Pant for corporate to resurrect India’s innings. Each scored half-centuries, in contrasting types, and added 110 runs for the fourth wicket. If Pant’s knock used to be silken, Iyer’s used to be a tad laboured. However the latter step by step grew into the sport.

    Pant’s batting in some way defines the Orwellian ‘doublethink’, which concurrently accepts duty and irresponsibility. He’s in a position to chic in addition to messy stuff. No person is aware of which Pant would flip up. On Friday, it used to be the previous, with all his grace and wide selection of photographs. The left-hander gave himself time, didn’t err in shot variety and made batting glance simple. He used to be the one batsman who appeared relaxed proper from the start.

    Making it glance simple

    Pant charged down the observe handiest when Fabian Allen lured him with flight. The ball went a number of rows again over the long-on boundary. From thereon, he used to be having a stroll within the park. Dancing right down to Kemar Roach and flat-batting a supply from the tempo bowler for 4 confirmed his audacity. A 47-ball fifty used to be the most efficient piece of batting at the day. It promised much more, however Pant misjudged the duration of a Hayden Walsh supply and used to be stuck at the back of for 56.

    Iyer used to be taking the sport deep, taking a look set for a large one. His dismissal on 80 got here in opposition to the run of play. He went inside-out and attempted to transparent long-off with out attending to the pitch of a Walsh supply, giving the leg-spinner his 2d wicket.

    Deepak Chahar scored a treasured run-a-ball 38. He had singlehandedly taken India very on the subject of victory within the 3rd ODI in South Africa. The crew control had most popular Shardul Thakur over him within the first two suits right here. Given a chance, the swing-bowling all-rounder installed any other fantastic efficiency; two wickets on peak of his batting contribution.

    As soon as India had publish 265, they had been in command. West Indies had bowled greater than 3 further overs – 18 wides and a no-ball.

    The munificence of the West Indies peak order made the hosts’ task simple. A Mohammed Siraj nip-backer struck Shai Hope above the knee-roll. However the opener selected to stroll, when a evaluation would have overturned the on-field umpire’s LBW determination because the ball used to be heading over the stumps.

    Brandon King causally poked at a Chahar outswinger and used to be stuck through Suryakumar Yadav at 2d slip. Shamarh Brooks softly sliced any other Chahar supply to Iyer at level and Darren Bravo went for an expansive power, enjoying clear of his frame, in opposition to Prasidh Krishna, when Sharma had saved a 2d slip. Kohli gleefully authorised the catch. At 68/4, the vacationers had been down. When Prasidh superbly arrange Jason Holder and did him in with further jump, they had been out.

    Kuldeep returned to the fold as Yuzvendra Chahal’s substitute after a seven-month surgery-forced hiatus. Sharma introduced him on when there used to be little or no drive and the spinner accounted for Fabian Allen and Nicholas Pooran. However underneath the pump in opposition to Smith, he appeared clueless.

    A few dropped catches, each off Siraj’s bowling, didn’t move down smartly with the India captain. Sharma made his displeasure identified.

  • I feel ODI revolution came about with 1996 International Cup: Tendulkar on eve of a thousandth ODI

    Sachin Tendulkar has performed 463 out of India’s 999 One Day Internationals in ultimate 48 years and when he says the “ODI revolution” began in all its would possibly right through the 1996 International Cup within the sub-continent, one can hardly ever argue.

    British writer Mike Marqusee’s seminal paintings ‘Warfare Minus Taking pictures’, in response to his adventure during the sub-continent right through the 1996 International Cup, has not too long ago been re-published and no matter he seen right through the ones six weeks in India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka unearths resonance in Tendulkar’s phrases.

    Financial liberalization came about in 1991, the Logo Tendulkar emerged in a big style round the similar time, and it used to be the Tendulkar in Blue that lovers embraced.

    “I utterly agree that dream used to be to play Take a look at cricket for India. That used to be the one factor that used to be in my thoughts and along side that ODI got here however you don’t dream of ODIs while you had been a child in that generation,” Tendulkar advised PTI at the eve of India’s a thousandth ODI, in opposition to the West Indies.

    “The hype of ODIs came about in 1996 International Cup and that used to be when greatest transformation came about. Prior to that 1983 came about and it used to be magnificent. Sure, there have been complete capability stadiums however submit 1996 International Cup, issues began converting and the ones adjustments had been visual adjustments.

    “I skilled the ones adjustments and a brand new measurement used to be given to ODIs,” Tendulkar stated, talking in regards to the industrial behemoth that the layout ultimately was, after being known as ‘Pyajama Cricket’ right through Packer generation.

    Indian Cricket group leaves lodge for observe forward of India Vs West Indies ODI in Ahmedabad. (Categorical picture via Nirmal Harindran)
    ‘From purple ball ODIs to morning white ball video games, observed all of it’

    That includes in India’s 2 hundredth, three hundredth, four-hundredth, five hundredth, 600th, 700th and 800th ODI, Tendulkar had performed the ones purple ball 50 over video games within the hazy unmarried digital camera Doordarshan generation and in addition the glitzy right kind 50-over evening video games until 2012.

    On the other hand, having performed maximum of his cricket with a unmarried ball in use and discipline restrictions that allowed further fielder outdoor the 30-yard circle, one wonders if his 18000 (18426) plus ODI runs would have shot as much as 22 and even 25,000 runs on this generation.

    “I had observed all of it. If I keep in mind accurately, we performed ODI in whites until as past due as 2000-01 in opposition to Zimbabwe. I keep in mind my first white ball enjoy used to be day video games in New Zealand in 1990 tri-series.

    “In India, the primary D/N sport I performed, we got colored T-shirts and white trousers at JLN soccer stadium in Delhi,” he recollected.

    He concept the primary time that India was desirous about Day/Night time cricket used to be within the 1993 Hero Cup on the floodlit Eden Gardens.

    “However even right through that generation, there could be white ball video games beginning at 8:45 am or 9 am within the japanese a part of the rustic. There used to be one white ball and when it were given grimy, it could be tricky to sight and it additionally reversed. Now you have got two white balls,” he stated.

    “Now, we’ve got very other surroundings together with adjustments in regulations with two new balls and the fielding restrictions are very other. However ODI fever began within the Nineteen Nineties. On-field noticeable adjustments, early to mid 90s used to be k, however from 1996 issues modified at fast tempo,” he seen.

    “Publish my retirement one morning white ball ODI involves thoughts the place I feel a boy from Pakistan — Junaid — truly were given assist and disregarded Indian top-order at Chennai. The white ball in the ones prerequisites in Chepauk did so much and I had simply retired from ODIs.”

    In 1991 Australia, it took time to regulate to color of ball

    In Australia, Tendulkar recollected how the itinerary used to be in every single place with the excursion beginning with a few Exams, adopted via a couple of suits of the tri-series and alternatively Take a look at suits and after that the general leg of the tri-series. It used to be adopted via Exams and alternatively white ball.

    “It wasn’t simply psychological adjustment nevertheless it required being used to color of the ball. Australia, I keep in mind, I will be able to discuss for myself, I took a while to get used to white ball after which went to purple ball after which again to white ball.

    “It took time to regulate to purple ball because it got here another way and as soon as you were given used to white ball, it didn’t mater a lot, along side psychological and bodily adjustment. It used to be distinctive factor for us.”

    My 5 best possible ODI innings

    “It’s very tricky to make a choice 5 memorable ODIs. I might stay the International Cup ultimate out of listing because it’s a sense past phrases. You’ll be able to’t combine that with different video games because it used to be the most efficient day of my existence,” Tendulkar stated.

    The 2 ‘Wilderness Typhoon’ loads in opposition to a high quality Australian assault in Sharjah would rank amongst his best, but even so the 200 in opposition to South Africa in Gwalior.

    “That’s a memorable knock because it used to be a just right South African assault and it used to be the primary time any person scored a double hundred in an ODI. It used to be particular,” he stated.

    Speaking about ODIs, the six off Shoaib Akhtar and the ones 98 smashing runs in opposition to Pakistan within the 2003 International Cup at Centurion unearths its satisfaction of position some of the peak 5.

    “It used to be a power sport and I may bat the best way I sought after to. Centurion knock shall be certainly one of my best possible in International Cups.”

    Final however no longer the least is the hundred in opposition to Kenya at Bristol, simply after the demise of his father, professor Ramesh Tendulkar.

    “I had come house and seeing my mom, I was very emotional. She used to be crestfallen after my father’s demise. However even in that hour of grief, she didn’t need me to stick and sought after me to return on nationwide responsibility.

    “I used to be in a deeply emotional state after I performed that knock, and therefore, it could be amongst my peak 5 ODI innings,” he stated.

  • Fresh happenings gained’t have an effect on emblem of Indian cricket: Rashid Latif

    Former Pakistan skipper Rashid Latif reckons that adjust of guard in Indian cricket gained’t adversely have an effect on its emblem for the reason that nation has sufficient intensity in skill excluding monetary would possibly to resist the churning.

    The BCCI lately got rid of Virat Kohli as ODI skipper and later the famous person batter introduced quitting management in Checks as smartly. He had already hand over T20 captaincy.

    The way wherein the entire fresh tendencies befell and the talk created offered a deficient image of Indian cricket. On the other hand latif mentioned none of it will have to adversely have an effect on Indian cricket.

    “They’ve a powerful base within the IPL and Indian cricket is now established as financially very sturdy so in the end I don’t suppose those fresh adjustments or happenings will have to have any referring to Indian cricket as a emblem,” Latif mentioned at the ‘Cricket Baaz’ Youtube channel.

    “I feel so much now is determined by how Rohit Sharma handles the workforce however he has his personal taste of main the aspect and he has already completed so much with Mumbai Indians within the IPL.

    “It is still observed how motivated he’s going to be to captain in Checks. Kohli introduced power and function to his captaincy and workforce.”

    Latif regardless that felt the Board of Keep watch over for Cricket in India (BCCI) erred in disposing of Kohli as captain of the One-day workforce.

    “I feel it was once a case of getting treated issues the fallacious approach and no approach of going again as smartly. I do know from non-public revel in having long gone via it myself that during one of these scenario when a long-serving captain comes to a decision to step down or is got rid of it’s by no means imaginable that he do not have had discussions with the board best officers.”

    “Once I stepped down as captain in 2004 it was once most effective when I spoke with our board chairman. For this reason I’m pronouncing I feel the BCCI has made a mistake in how it treated this actual factor. It’s not excellent for Indian cricket.”

    The previous wicketkeeper-batsman mentioned it was once by no means simple to modify a captain who has been round there as a pacesetter for such a lot of years.

    “When you’ve got somebody as a pacesetter for 5 years or extra and such a success as captain that clearly they’re folks within the workforce who’re dependable to him and it does disturb the dressing room setting.”

    Latif mentioned that India’s defeats in South Africa have been a results of the unsure setting within the Indian workforce. The workforce misplaced each the Check and ODI collection.

    “I’m really not pronouncing somebody intentionally didn’t need to carry out, each skilled desires to do smartly but if the surroundings in a workforce adjustments it does have an effect on the gamers in some ways.”