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.
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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.
Indian allrounder Vijay Shankar uncovered how a Pakistani fan manhandled them in ahead of the high-octane 2019 World Cup conflict and they couldn’t do anything. The occurrence occurred in Manchester and Shankar said it was his first experience of the vibe of an India-Pakistan conflict.
“Few of us players had gone out for coffee one day before the game when a Pakistan fan came up to us and he was literally abusing us. So that was my first experience of an India-Pakistan game,” Shankar said on the Bharat Army Podcast.
Explaining further, Shankar said that the Indian players couldn’t do anything as the Pakistani fan was recording it.
“We just had to take it. He was abusing us and recording everything, so we couldn’t react. All we could do was sit and watch what he was doing,” added.
Shankar was additionally making his World Cup debut for the nation in that coordinate and will have great recollections of it as he picked up a wicket with his absolute first ball.
Because of Rohit Sharma’s ton, India dominated the match by an enormous edge of 89 runs using DLS technique, hence keeping their unbeaten record at WC matches against Pakistan unblemished.
India did well in the WC as they arrived at the semi-finals before losing to New Zealand.
Former West Indies captain Darren Sammy and Chris Gayle have also spoken about the menace of racism.
“It’s sad to see what’s going on around the world,” Bravo told former Zimbabwe cricketer Pommie Mbangwa during an Instagram chat. “As a black man, we know the history of what black people have been through. We never ask for revenge, we ask for equality and respect. That’s it.”
“We give respect to others. Why is it that we are facing this over and over? Now enough is enough. We just want equality. We don’t want revenge, war. We just want respect. We share the love and appreciate people for who they are. That’s what is most important,” he added.
Days after his staggering cases that the 2011 ODI World Cup last was fixed, previous Sri Lanka sports serve Mahindananda Aluthgamage has now said it was only his doubt that he needs to be explored.
Aluthgamage had stunned the cricketing scene guaranteeing “certain gatherings” in Sri Lanka offered the world cup to India.
Following his claims, the Lankan government has requested an enquiry and an uncommon Police examination unit recorded Aluthgamage’s announcement on Wednesday.
Be that as it may, he told the police those are his doubts.
“I want my suspicion investigated,” Aluthgamage told reporters. “I gave to the Police, a copy of the complaint I lodged with the International Cricket Council (ICC) on 30 October 2011 regarding the said allegation as then Sports Minister.”
“Today I am telling you that we sold the 2011 world cup, I said this when I was the sports minister,” Aluthgamage, who was the sports minister at the time, had claimed.
India and Sri Lanka got down to business in the last at the Wankhede Stadium which the hosts proceeded to win by six wickets.
“He needs to take his ‘evidence’ to the ICC and the Anti-corruption and Security Unit so the claims can be investigated thoroughly,”Sangakkara, who was the Sri Lanka captain at that time, tweeted.
Jayawardene, the former captain himself who scored a splendid century in that final, also rejected the match-fixing allegations. “Is the elections around the corner…like the circus has started…names and evidence?” he tweeted.
However, Aluthgamage also said that no players were involved in fixing the result, “but certain parties were.” Aluthgamage alongside the then Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa were among the invitees at the final.
The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) has chosen to drop Dynamos Cricket and other national rivalries amid the continuous COVID-19 pandemic.
“As we continue to work towards recreational cricket returning on or around 4 July, though, it has become clear that given the current restrictions we will sadly be unable to run certain elements of the scheduled 2020 cricket season. This includes Dynamos Cricket, and some national competitions,”ECB stated in an official statement.
The cancelled tournaments include National Counties Championship (Three-day cricket), National County Showcase Fixtures v First-Class Counties, Royal London Club Championship, Vitality Men’s Club T20 Cup and Plate, Vitality Women’s Club T20 Cup and Plate, U18 Boys County Championship, U17 Super Fours, Royal London Boys County Age Group Under 14, 15 and 18 Cup Competitions, Royal London Girls County Age Group Under 15 and 17 Cup Competitions, ECB David English Bunbury Festival, ECB City Cup, ECB Over 50s County Championship, ECB Girls Regional Development Centre Festival and ECB Girls U15 Festivals.
Many of these tournaments would require rescheduling, which logistically could make it difficult for clubs to arrange other cricket, and the health and safety of everyone involved in the game have been our priority throughout this period, said the cricket board.
“Also, to ensure maximum flexibility for all clubs pursuing a return to action and because we believe it is safer for clubs and players to reduce their amount of travel we will be prioritising local playing opportunities over national and regional competitions,” the statement further read.
English Prime Minister Boris Johnson had as of late maintained the prohibition on recreational cricket in the nation. Johnson had said that the cricket ball is a “characteristic vector of sickness” and consequently recreational cricket can’t be permitted to continue.
His remarks, nonetheless, won’t have any impact on England’s up and coming three-series Test arrangement against West Indies or the resumption of County cricket as they will be administered by direction for world-class sports.
2008 saw probably the best spinner, Harbhajan Singh experience a spate of discussions. First, it was the monkey gate with Andrew Symonds, and afterwards the slapgate with S Sreesanth, his then India colleague.
It was the debut period of IPL and Mumbai Indians tasted rout on account of Kings XI Punjab. Sreesanth attempted to focus on it, and Harbhajan responded unequivocally to it by slapping the former cricketer.
Sreesanth recently revealed what he actually told the off-spinner. “Punjab Bombay ko haraayenge, Punjab Bombay ko haraaynge,” The Kerala-born told Bhajji.
In another disclosure, Sreesanth has said that he asked and cried before BCCI-designated Commissioner, Sudhindra Nanavati, with the goal that they don’t rebuff Harbhajan.
“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.
On the 37th commemoration of India’s 1983 World Cup triumph, Ravi Shastri accepted the open door to settle the score with Yuvraj Singh with a blow for blow answer after the last commended the success at Lord’s on his social media.
Prior, Shastri had praised the individuals from the 2011 World Cup-winning group on Twitter on the ninth commemoration of the event, just labelling Virat Kohli and Sachin Tendulkar.
On Thursday, Yuvraj tweeted about India’s verifiable first-since forever World Cup win in 1983 which the group had overseen in the wake of beating West Indies in the finals by 43 runs.
However, the 38-year-old did not tag any player from the 1983 squad, and Shastri pointed out to Yuvraj that he had not tagged then India captain Kapil Dev.
Hahahahaha senior ! Your a legend on and off the field 🤪👍👊🏽 Kapil Paaji was a different league altogether
Thereafter, Shastri answered to Yuvraj and said that he was a legend in World Cups. The previous India all-rounder assumed an indispensable role in India’s effective crusades in the 2007 T20 World Cup and the 2011 World Cup in the sub-mainland.
Concerning the 1983 triumph, in the last, it was West Indies who won the hurl and put India in to bat first. In any case, the Kapil Dev-drove side could just put 183 on the board. In answer, West Indies were bowled out for 140 to a prevalent bowling execution by India. Mohinder Amarnath was picked as the man of the match as he scored 26 runs with the bat and got three wickets with the ball.
