West Indies cricket team decides to embed Black Lives Matter emblem on the collars of their shirts during July’s Test series against England.
Skipper Jason Holder indicated in his first question and answer session of the visit that West Indies would hope to help the development somehow or another, and said in an announcement on Sunday: “We believe we have a duty to show solidarity and also to help raise awareness.”
The logo utilized will be that ragged on the shirts of every one of the 20 Premier League football clubs since the game’s restart recently, structured by Alisha Hosannah, whose accomplice Troy Deeney is Watford’s commander. Deeney was reached by CWI for endorsement, and the ICC gave consent for the token to be worn on the groups’ collars.
“This is a pivotal moment in history for sports, for the game of cricket and for the West Indies cricket team,”Holder said. “We have come to England to retain the Wisden Trophy but we are very conscious of happenings around the world and the fight for justice and equality.
“As a group of young men, we know of the rich and diverse history of West Indies cricket and we know we are guardians of the great game for a generation to come.
“We did not take our decision lightly. We know what it is for people to make judgments because of the colour of our skin, so we know what it feels like, this goes beyond the boundary. There must be equality and there must be unity. Until we get that as people, we cannot stop.
“We have to find some way to have equal rights and people must not be viewed differently because of the colour of their skin or ethnic background.”
Deeney said: “Alisha and I are immensely proud to be asked and take part in a monumental moment in world sport, this amazing decision by the West Indies cricket team to show their support for Black Lives Matter.
“Watching cricket with my grandad, and seeing Brian Lara transcend from being a cricketer to a worldwide superstar, shaped my childhood, so it’s great to be able to help West Indies cricket show their support in such a meaningful way.”
The shirts are expected to be worn for the first time in this week’s first-class, four-day warm-up match at Emirates Old Trafford, which starts on Monday.
A 31-member Pakistan contingent, including 20 players, arrived at England as six out of their 10 corona virus-contaminated cricketers were kept down despite returning negative when tried the subsequent time.
The Pakistan cricketers and 11 care staff individuals showed up on a sanctioned departure from Lahore and will be moved to Worcestershire.
Coming out individually, wearing veils, the Pakistani players and care staff individuals were seen looking after separation.
England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) has caused game plans for their testing before they to go on a 14-day seclusion period, during which they will be permitted to prepare.
The side will move to Derbyshire on July 13 to plan for their three-Test and three T20 international series against the home side in August-September.
Fakhar Zaman, Mohammad Hasnain, Mohammad Hafeez, Mohammad Rizwan, Shadab Khan and Wahab Riaz have tested negative in their subsequent tests however they would be sent to England simply after two of their progressive tests bring negative back.
The six players will experience the third round of testing at some phase one week from now.
Players who have again tried positive are Haider Ali, Haris Rauf, Kashif Bhatti and Imran Khan, alongside masseur Malang Ali.
Quick bowler Musa Khan and wicketkeeper-batsman Rohail Nazir, who were among the reserve players reached here alongside the group.
The players who came to here on Sunday are Azhar Ali (Captain), Babar Azam (Vice-Captain), Abid Ali, Asad Shafiq, Faheem Ashraf, Fawad Alam, Iftikhar Ahmad, Imad Wasim, Imam-ul-Haq, Khushdil Shah, Mohammad Abbas, Musa Khan, Naseem Shah, Rohail Nazir, Sarfaraz Ahmed, Shaheen Shah Afridi, Shan Masood, Sohail Khan, Usman Shinwari, and Yasir Shah.
Zafar Gohar, the left-arm spinner who played an ODI in 2015, will join the side from England and may be engaged with pre-coordinated arrangements.
India’s limited-overs deputy Rohit Sharma was known for his lazy elegance from the time he entered the international stage, but former teammate Irfan Pathan believes that there has always been more to the stylish opener than just talent.
Speaking on Star Sports show Cricket Connected, former India all-rounder Irfan spoke about how Rohit always worked hard in early years even if his body language suggested otherwise, “Lot of people are mistaken when they see a guy who has a lot of time and he is slightly more relaxed than compared to Rohit.
Then you say he needs to work hard! Same things were said about Wasim Jaffer when you look at his aura when he used to run very relaxedly when he used to bat he had a lot of time and we used to think — why isn’t he working hard — but actually, he was working hard.
“Similarly with Rohit, from outside we used to think he might need to work harder, he might need to put more application. Whenever you talk to Rohit Sharma, he used to always talk about sensible things, he used to always talk about working hard and he used to always talk about the team first as well, that is why you see some of the results he got at the captain of the Mumbai Indians team. He got the beating of not playing the World Cup and then came back really hard because of a strong mindset after 2012.”
Former teammate Robin Uthappa had also recently praised Rohit and said: “When I look at Rohit, I feel he has got eternity to play a ball. It just baffles you like where does he create that time. It’s amazing to watch and so effortless. He has always done well in India and abroad. In white-ball cricket, he dominates the scene right now. He is arguably one of the best batsmen in the world.
“Given that situation, he must be going through a huge surge in confidence. He has reached a point in his career where he understands his batting well and he knows what works for him and how to approach him. I think he has figured out opening the batting and this opportunity came at the right moment for Rohit to capitalise on it. So it’s not a surprise that he is successful.”
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Known for his straightforwardness, former India captain MS Dhoni – who has been away from the game since the 2019 Cricket World Cup – was seen doing some natural cultivating in his farmhouse in Ranchi.
The video surfaced on social space on Saturday and became a web sensation in a split second, by and by demonstrating the ubiquity has not decreased by any means. Dhoni – who has an interest for bicycles was seen driving a tractor with equivalent impact through the homestead.
Toward the finish of the video, Dhoni, in a real to life way says, “Ek Round aur”. Dhoni turns 39 on July 7 and his fans would be eager to wish him as they do each year.
Dhoni was scheduled to make an arrival to cricket in the money-rich Indian Premier League, which has now been delayed inconclusively due to the coronavirus pandemic. Dhoni would lead the CSK side as and when IPL 13 happens, which looks unsure starting at now because of the current situation.
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Indian former cricket team captain MS Dhoni has taken a long break from cricket without any announcement. Dhoni has last seen in semifinals of the world cup 2019 a game where India lost to New Zealand and exits from world cup tour.
Literally, Mahi’s name hit the media in January when BCCI announced the names of centrally contracted players without Dhoni’s name. After a huge break, Thala Dhoni is expected to make his return in 13th edition of cash-rich Indian Premier League where he leads the Chennai Super Kings(3 times IPL trophy winners).
Mahendra Singh Dhoni owns an enviable collection of cars and bikes. From heavy-duty bikes like Suzuki Hayabusa, Ninja H2, to SUVs like Hummer H2 and the GMC Sierra, Dhoni is a proud owner of several mean machines. However, his latest acquisition is a different one altogether.
S Sreesanth is anticipating speaking to Kerala again after his spot-fixing boycott concludes this September.
Sreesanth was given a lifetime restriction from cricket after his supposed inclusion in 2013 IPL spot-fixing embarrassment. The boycott was in the end decreased and the pacer is presently peering toward an arrival to serious cricket.
“I am bowling with passion and slowly getting back my rhythm. I am enjoying my bowling and the process that a first-class cricketer has to undergo to perform at the Ranji level,”Sreesanth was quoted as saying by The New Indian Express.
Kerala mentor Tinu Yohannan had before affirmed that the group will consider Sreesanth during the current year’s Ranji Trophy and that everybody is anticipating having him in the group once more.
The 37-year-old Sreesanth has 211 wickets from 73 five star coordinates and is quick to speaking to Kerala once more.
“Having a fast bowler as a coach is a blessing in disguise. Tinu understands the mind of a fast bowler and he will help me bowl at the optimum level. I am keen to turn out for Kerala and help them win a few tournaments in the process,”he said.
Sreesanth is additionally peering toward to play in the Tamil Nadu Cricket Association (TNCA) class having cleaned his speciality at the MRF Pace Foundation in Chennai.
“I have fond memories of Chennai. I learnt the ropes of fast bowling from Dennis Lillee and TA Sekar. I have great memories of playing at MA Chidambaram Stadium. The wickets, conditions and quality of batsmen make it challenging for bowlers. I would love to play in the TNCA league,”Sreesanth said.
“It was all sorted and thanks to Sachin paaji (Sachin Tendulkar), you guys play in the same team, I said absolutely fine, I’ll go and meet him. We met and had dinner on the same night but the media took it to the next level,” Sreesanth told Cricketaddictor.
“And even in front of Nanavati sir, they have the video clipping also if not, where I’m literally crying and begging and telling him not to ban or do anything with Bhajji paa, we are going to play together. I don’t want anything to be taken away from Bhajji paa because he is a match-winner, he has taken hat-tricks for India. I’ve just started playing and I want to win matches with Bhajji paa because I consider him as my elder brother…there is a video…. I don’t know whether they will give it to you or not….you can ask Nanavati sir,” he said.
“But I’m absolutely fine with Bhajji paa….he’s changed a lot, I’ve….in public also he has said ‘Sree tu kahi bhi ho yaar, Maaf karde’….he was always my elder brother, maybe at that point of time it was different but he will always be a legend,” concluded Sreesanth.
In an offer to improve his speed, India cricketer Mohammed Shami had a run with his pet, Jack. On Friday, the pacer took to Instagram and shared the video where he can be seen running with his dog. It without a doubt seems to be a successful method to prepare under the current COVID-19 conditions.
He captioned the video, “Speed work with the jack.”
In the interim, different cricketers like Rohit Sharma, Cheteshwar Pujara and Ravichandran Ashwin have just begun preparing.
With the cash-rich Indian Premier League delayed uncertainly because of the pandemic, this is by all accounts a decent method to remaining fit.
During the 2017-18 tour of South Africa, 12 of his 15 wickets came in the second innings. Asked about this piece of statistics, Shami said,” I’m not sure, it just happens.”
“I use the game very smartly in the second innings. Like in the recent match we played in Vizag (against South Africa) where I got a five-for, the pitch was pretty dead and wasn’t offering any bounce,”Shami told former India wicketkeeper Deep Dasgupta on Cricketbaazi, a talk show on ESPNcricinfo.
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Shami made his debut in Twenty20 Internationals on 21 March 2014 against Pakistan in the opening match of the World T20 and took the wicket of Umar Akmal. He was played for only three matches in the tournament and dropped from the rest. He was included in the side in 2014 tour of England, following the Test series, in July. He played in the lone match of the series and finished with 3 wickets conceding 38 runs.
On this day in 2019, fast bowler Mohammad Shami sacked a four-wicket take and captain Virat Kohli show with the bat to assist India with fixing a monstrous success over West Indies in an International Cricket Council (ICC) World Cup conflict at Old Trafford.
The ICC took to its official Twitter handle and educated its adherents regarding India’s devastating 125-run triumph over the Caribbean side on June 27 a year ago.
The world’s cricket overseeing body additionally expressed that Virat Kohli and MS Dhoni crushed half-hundreds of years during the match while Shami came back with figures of four for 16.
“#OnThisDay last year, India claimed a massive 125-run victory over West Indies in #CWC19. Mohammad Shami returned 4/16 in the chase after Virat Kohli and MS Dhoni scored the fifties,” the ICC tweeted.
#OnThisDay last year, India claimed a massive 125-run victory over West Indies in #CWC19 👏
Mohammad Shami returned 4/16 in the chase, after Virat Kohli and MS Dhoni scored fifties.
The Men in Blue won the hurl and selected to bat first during the clash. India lost opener Rohit Sharma inexpensively for 18 runs.
Consequently, opener KL Rahul (48) and captain Virat Kohli (72) united and the pair scored significant thumps as well as sewed a 69-run organization for the subsequent wicket.
Experienced wicketkeeper-batsman MS Dhoni (56) and all-rounder Hardik Pandya (46) likewise made huge commitments to assist India with posting 268 for seven in their specified 50 overs.
For West Indies, Kemar Roach packed away three wickets while Jason Holder and Sheldon Cottrell guaranteed two wickets each.
In answer, Shami got done with splendid figures of four for 16, while Jasprit Bumrah and Yuzvendra Chahal took two wickets each to help the Men in Blue group out the Caribbean side to 143.
Pandya and Kuldeep Yadav likewise contributed with a wicket each. Sunil Ambris and Nicholas Pooran were the top scorers for West Indies with 31 and 28 runs, separately.
Kohli was proclaimed ‘Man of the Match’ for his great show with the bat. The Indian captain proceeded to make a semi-last exit at the 2019 World Cup in the wake of losing to New Zealand by 18 runs.
Virat Kohli has exhorted Hardik Pandya to take a shot at his legitimacy and not become overly energetic. The Indian captain has likewise recommended that every single rounder has the stuff to be a main cricketer on the world and has requested that he be steady on his methodology and not deprecate anybody to arrive at the zenith.
“Just two days ago, I was speaking to Virat. I asked him ‘what is the reason for your success?”Pandya is quoted as saying by Sports Tak.
“He replied back ‘your attitude is fine, everything is fine, just you have to keep one thing in mind to reach and have that level of consistency. You should have a great hunger to be the no. 1 in the right way. Not by pushing anyone down. By your hard work and on your merit, to become the no. 1 should be your goal’,” Pandya said.
Pandya made his international debut under M.S. Dhoni and his Test debut under Virat Kohli. He likewise plays for Mumbai Indians under the captaincy of Rohit Sharma.
“Now I know how why Virat is so consistent. Players like Rohit Sharma, MS Dhoni — they don’t like being at no. 2. At the same time, if these players come 2nd, they don’t mind that either.
“They want to be no. 1, but their greatness is such that if they come at 2nd place, they have no problems. They will re-start the process of hard work to be the no.1,” the all-rounder said.
“You have strived to be the best. If you’re a bowler, you have to be the best. If you’re training, then you have to be eager to train. In life, you need to compete with yourself,” Pandya said.
The 26-year-old has just played 11 Tests for India where he has made 532 runs and taken 17 wickets. Pandya has scored one century and four 50s, while with the ball he has one five-wicket pull under his name.
In restricted overs cricket, the right-handed all-rounder has 957 and 310 runs in 54 ODIs and 40 T20Is separately. He has four half-hundreds of years in ODI and bats at a strike rate of over 147 in the shortest format. His bowling numbers remember 54 wickets for the 50-overs game and 38 in T20Is.
Throughout the previous three decades, Balvir Chand had constructed the greater part of his life around the way that he is a doppelganger of Sachin Tendulkar, however, like numerous others, his life has self-destructed during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Having been an ordinary on Indian TV as Tendulkar’s twofold in a few commercials during the maestro’s playing days, Balvir Chand had from that point forward been utilized as the brand diplomat of an inexpensive food chain in Mumbai. He lost his employment in the lockdown and came back to his town in Punjab prior this month, just to discover on coming to there that he had gotten the infection.
“They (Goli Vada Pav No 1, Chand’s employers) lost business after the lockdown and let go of a lot of staff. I too was asked to leave; they said they would hire me back when things improve,” Chand was quoted as saying by Hindustan Times on Wednesday.
On June 10, on coming to Sahlon town in Punjab, the 50-year-old and his relatives tried positive for coronavirus and were moved to an emergency clinic. Prior this week, the 50-year-old was told he can leave the detachment ward.
‘These are my photos, not yours’
Balvir Chand had received national recognition when Sunil Gavaskar had invited him to the commentary box during an India Test in 1999. “Later, they took me to Taj hotel to meet Sachin Ji. I asked for autographs on six photos I had carried. He was busy signing them when I told him ‘these are my photos, not yours’. He was startled, looked at me and smiled,” recalled Chand.
From that point forward, he has bent over for Tendulkar in commercials for brands, for example, MRF, Toshiba, Reynolds and TVS, which the cricketer embraced. He was likewise given jobs in Bollywood movies to play Tendulkar. In Mumbai, he would be the star fascination at shop openings, interest guests with jokes, and posture for photos.
He had likewise been roped in for political races by ideological groups, which he would take an interest in wearing the India shirt.
“Sachin Ji’s face has given me lot of shahurat (fame), not so much Daulat (riches). But I can write, compose songs; I will try to use my talent. Hopefully, jobs will be back and people will find value in my freaky appearance again,”he said on Wednesday.
Even though MS Dhoni hasn’t been in real life for a year given a purposeful rest, the gestures of recognition for the previous India skipper don’t appear halting at any point shortly after Afghanistan’s Mohammad Nabi hailed his impact on the game and portrayed as “a great human being”.
The 38-year-old rose to distinction at first with his capacity hitting in white-ball cricket in 2004, and in the wake of improving as a wicketkeeper, he turned into a backbone in each of the three configurations for India. Under his captaincy, India won every one of the three significant ICC titles – 2007 T20 World Cup, 2011 ODI World Cup, and 2013 Champions Trophy, attributable to his cool and formed nature.
Aside from cutting out a legend status for him with his exhibitions and on-field height, the Jharkhand dasher additionally helped the professions of any semblance of current skipper Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma, Ravindra Jadeja, Suresh Raina, Ravichandran Ashwin and so forth.
In a recent interaction with Anis Sajan, previous Afghanistan captain Mohammad Nabi uncovered how Dhoni even affected him.
“MS Dhoni is the best… calm and a great human being. The doors of his room are open 24/7 for everyone where he has tea with people and talks to them. I have met him 2-3 times and he is really a nice man,”said Nabi.
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Aside from Nabi, any semblance of wicketkeeper-batsman Mohammad Shahzad and leg-spinner Rashid Khan have additionally recently piled commends on Dhoni. Nabi and Rashid have even played with Dhoni during their spell with Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) in IPL.
Dhoni’s exceptionally foreseen rebound to cricket was ended because of the Covid-19 pandemic, as the Indian Premier League (IPL) was inconclusively suspended in March as a result of it. Due to his absence of association with the national group, previous legends like Sunil Gavaskar, and Kapil Dev accept that it’s hard for Dhoni to make a universal bring now back.
This day in 1999 was an uncommon one for the Indian women’s cricket team. Two adolescents who were making their introduction pummeled tons against Ireland and carved their names everlastingly ever. These players were Mithali Raj and Reshma Gandhi.
Batting first, India scored 258/0 in their assigned 50 overs, and both the openers crushed unbeaten centuries. In a total strength, they didn’t permit any opportunity to break the partnership and continued ahead smoothly.
Ireland bowlers, however, didn’t look over the top expensive, yet were insufficient against the two openers and had no responses for 16-year-old Raj. The best bowling figures were from M.Grealey, who parted with 38 runs in her portion of overs.
Come to the subsequent innings, India indicated the matchless quality over the minnows indeed. They were confined to 97/9 out of 50 overs. Purnima Rau was the pick of the bowlers who came back with figures of 4/33. She was capably bolstered by Rupanjali Shastri, who packed away two wickets for nine runs.
India dominated the game serenely by 161 runs. This triumph additionally began a period in Indian ladies’ cricket, that would change whole socioeconomics of the game in the nation.
Mithali Raj Best innings ever :
In 2005, Mithali was appointed as the captain of the Indian women’s cricket team. So far, Mithali has appeared in 89 T20Is, 209 ODIs and 10 Tests for India, amassing a total of 9,951 runs in it.
Last year, Mithali bid adieu to the shortest format of the game to shift her focus entirely on her preparations for the ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup 2021.
Under Mithali’s captaincy, India has played 132 ODI matches and won 82 of them besides also playing six Tests and winning three of them.
Mithali remains the highest run-scorer in women’s international cricket and the only female cricketer to surpass the 6,000-run mark in ODIs.
She is also the first player to score seven half-centuries in a row besides also holding the record of scoring most fifties in the format.
Mithalu is also the only player to have led India in more than one ICC ODI World Cup final–leading the side in 2005 and 2017.
Team India at present has outstanding amongst other bowling assaults on the world and Bhuvneshwar Kumar accepts that one of the explanations behind the accomplishment of the pace battery is the relationship they share which implies they don’t have to impart a lot of while assaulting the restriction batting line-up.
“It doesn’t matter who is bowling from the other end. Because I have to do what I have to do. But since both Mohammad Shami and Jasprit Bumrah are senior players, in a few words we can communicate with each other what the batsman is trying to do. It is like our bowling partnership. We don’t have to tell each other much. We make a conscious effort to bowl well and maintain the pressure from both ends,”he said in the second episode of ESPNcricinfo Cricketbaazi.
Statics show that Bhuvneshwar has a superior strike rate and a superior economy rate when bowling second when contrasted with bowling first in ODIs. Bhuvnenshwar thinks it is subliminal and not an inclination. “Subconsciously you tend to go into a defensive mode bowling second.
It’s not like you don’t want to pick wickets, but the mindset is defensive. Your length remains the same, your run-up is the same, but somewhere I feel it’s all about the field position. I feel defending or attacking depends on your field placement. If you want to attack, you’ll have slips in place. If not, then you’ll have a sweeper cover. So that impacts the mindset.
“I think it’s subconscious. Like how a batsman knows the target while chasing along with the balls and wickets remaining, somewhere for a bowler also he knows when the opposition is chasing 350, the batsmen will take chances against you, so you try to bowl more variations to deceive the batsmen, and from the first ball, your mindset is clear that you have to defend the target.
Sometimes it happens that you’ve been dismissed for a score of under 200, and as a bowler, you know you have to go for wickets. The mindset is different then as you have to bowl to pick wickets, and the captain and management know as well that this is the plan and it’s all right if a few runs are leaked in the process.”
Commenting on his debut, Bhuvneshwar said: “My India debut was in the T20I series against Pakistan, just before the ODIs. When I got to know that I was playing the next day, contrary to the sleeplessness that others go through, I slept very well.
I don’t know how, but I slept well. But when I woke up the next morning, I felt nervous. It was a night match, so I could feel the anxiety for 5-6 hours that I had after waking up until the start of the game.
There so many thoughts. But once I entered the field, it felt very normal. I also motivated myself by repeating that I have played so much of first-class cricket over the years and have also observed the players from Uttar Pradesh who have played for India. And it helped.”
Talking about the 2014 tour of England, Bhuvi said: “I was confident that will get assistance to swing the ball. And my confidence gets a boost whenever that happens because I have done that all my life. Before that series, I had played about 11 to 12 Tests, and all of them were in India. Give the conditions in India, I didn’t get to bowl much in those games.
So somewhere I was excited that I would be ”tested” over five days of cricket and do what I had done for so many years in first-class cricket. I was nervous as well. But like I said earlier, if a few of your initial deliveries go well, your confidence gets a boost. And in that series, the first couple of matches were very good from my performance perspective.”
The tag of a ”swing bowler” never bothered Bhuvneshwar. “This tag was associated with me for about two years when my pace was not that much. It was slightly lesser than what was considered decent for an international bowler. But I was able to get more swing because of this. Everyone has a strength as a player and I realized that swing is my strength.” He adds, “Although, I wanted to increase my pace, not at the cost of my ability to swing. And the process to increase your pace is to pay attention to your fitness, train harder in the gym, which I did. I tweaked my workout along with the team”s new trainer. This training was different and helped me increase my pace. And that”s when my body also adapted and helped in the process.”
Jasprit Bumrah Vs Bhuvneshwar Kumar Vs Mohammad Shami Comparison
Fast bowlers have a different mindset as against swing bowlers, so did the increase in pace change his mindset too. Bhuvneshwar says, “In 2015, in the series against South Africa in India, I realized that my pace had increased. I usually bowled at 130-132 kmph on an average, but in that series, it went up to 137-138 kmph. And for me, it was a big shift. But I never went with a mindset that I have to bounce the batsmen out.” He adds, “I struggled a bit in that series because I was doing something which wasn’t my strength. Not because I had started bowling very fast, but my body made me realize that I was bowling fast. I thought it was decent enough pace to get the ball to swing and after the series, I worked on it. Luckily, I was aware of my strength getting the ball to swing and gradually, at 135-138 kmph, I was able to get the desired swing which helped me gain confidence.”
Talking about the current situation and how is he keeping himself motivated, Bhuvneshwar says, “I was very motivated for the first 15 days of the lockdown. No one knew how long it would last and I didn’t have any equipment to exercise at home either. We thought things would get better in a couple of months. I did bodyweight workouts to keep myself fit. But after 15 days, I started finding it difficult to motivate myself. I then ordered equipment at home and things have improved since. We, or I rather, generally give excuses that I don’t have enough time to improve my fitness. Even after the lockdown, if I give the same excuse, others will say that I only give excuses. So, I am working on coming out of this lockdown as a better version of myself. On-field performance is different, but I can work on my fitness, or my athletic ability, or gaining more strength. I have almost stopped playing PubG but I still play PlayStation with my friends,” he added.
