After India’s historic win of 0-5 over the New Zealand they stepped into the first ODI match against them at the Seddon Park in Hamilton on 5th of February. Mayank Agarwal with an average of 67.10 is supersede the injured Rohit Sharma. In the world cup 2019 he initially called to replace Vijay Shankar but withdrawn after the tournament.
Mayank Agarwal
New Zealand vs India 1st ODI Mayank Agarwal replace Rohit Sharma
In the U-19 Cooch Behar Trophy(2008-09) he scored 432 runs in 5 matches. Made his List A debut in Vijay Hazare Trophy in 2012. He made his first-class debut in 2013 against Jharkhand and scored 90 from 144 balls. In the 2017-18 Ranji trophy he scored a spectacular maiden Triple hundred. In the Vijay Hazare trophy he scored a magnificent 723 runs in just eight matches. He made his test debut against Australia and also holds a record for highest score of 76 by an Indian cricket in his first Match.
Prithvi Shaw
New Zealand vs India 1st ODI Prithiv shaw and Mayank Agarwal holding the U19 World cup.
On the other hand it is Prithvi Shaw joins the hand with Mayank Agarwal in the first ODI. He successfully won the U19 World cup for India with a contribution of 261. At an young age of 14 he made an unbelievable strike of 546 off 330 balls in an innings. Moreover in Ranji Trophy (2016-17) and Duleep Trophy (2017) shaw includes centuries. Which is previously achieved by The Master Blaster Sachin Tendulkar. After the successful achievement of U19 World cup these two joins their hand once again in the 1st ODI against New Zealand. Moreover it make Indian cricket fans to expect higher performance.
A year out from the ICC T20 World Cup in Australia, Southern Stars wicketkeeper Alyssa Healy has set a new world record for the highest catch of a cricket ball.
Alyssa Healy Australian Women’s Wicket Keeper set the World Record with the presence of Pete Fairbairn – GWR Adjudicator.
As per the records, the previous record for highest catch of a cricket ball is 62 Metres which was set by Kristan Baumgartner in the United Kingdom in 2016. Nearly on the same year, former England Cricket Captain Nasser Hussain set the previous mark of 49 Metres.
The plan is to send the drone up holding the ball and drop it from the particular height. The Official Attempt started with 64 Metres as an initial mark. Alyssa Healy doesn’t carry ball on her first attempt, the ball left his gloves on finger tips. But she got it right on her second attempt.
Next them aim to challenge the height of 70 Metres. She just got the catch perfectly on the first attempt and makes it look so easy.
But again she wanted to challenge the height of 80 Metres which will the height of stadium lights. We know that it’s not so easy to catch a ball from that height and the variation will be more compared to the previous heights.
Unfortunately, everyone was excited to see the first attempt and she misjudged the ball and left it on finger tips. That should have hurted her bad but she want to try it again. She is ready and ball is not at 80 metres top.
In the second attempt for a 80 Metres Catch, she again dropped it and got bit disappointed. As there are only 3 valid attempts allowed on Guinness World Record break and she is ready to get her final attempt for a 80 metre catch.
Finally, she got it well on the final attempt and breaks the Guinness World Record by catching a Cricket Ball from 82.5 Metres.
Highest Catch of a Cricket Ball – Guinness World Record Break
Alyssa Healy wife of Mitchell Starc is also an cricketer who is playing for Australian Women’s cricket team. She is a Wicket Keeper batswomen who averages 32.1 in ODI and 33.5 in Test cricket matches. Recently she breaks an Guinness World Record in MCG Australia.
During the 3 ODI of India vs Australia series decider, Mitchell Starc came to bat for 5 wicket than his usual position. Australian team lost three wickets(David Warner, Aaron Finch and Marnus Labuschagne) and brought Mitchell Starc to set a challenging total.
But Mitchell Starc failed to prove his position by losing his wicket on a third ball without scoring a single run – Golden Duck. Alyssa Healy wife of Mitchell Starch and who herself is a women’s cricketer trolled her husband by replying to a video in twitter.
Fox Cricket Twitter channel tweeted the Mitchel Starc’s wicket video and Alyssa Healy’s reply tweet leaves twitter in splits. Her hilarious reply for the tweet got so many reactions.
Alyssa Healy commented with a face palm emoji on one of Mitchell Starc’s dismissal posts on Twitter.
But anyhow Australia just scored 286 runs at the end of 50 overs by losing 9 wickets. Only man behind this score is Steve Smith with 131 runs including 14 fours and a six.
During the 2nd Innings, Indian Openers started the show well with their partnership. Also got support from Virat Kohli who scored 89 runs bring up the chase so easy with 15 balls to spare.
Finally, India won the series with the 7 wicket victory in the 3rd ODI Series Decider.
Steve Smith – Australian Men’s Cricketer praises Virat Kohli while speaking to IANS after the 3 Match ODI series against India.
Series Overview
Series started well for Australia with a thumping case of 255 runs with a 10 wicket remaining during the 1st ODI on Jan 14, Tuesday at Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai. David Warner was presented as “Man of the Match” for his brilliant batting of 128 runs in 112 balls with strike rate 114.29.
Indian team showed a strong comeback in the 2nd ODI winning by 36 runs. After some brilliant start from Rohit Sharma and Shikhar Dhawan, Lokesh Rahul gave India a superb finishing with his unbeaten 80 runs in 52 balls with strike rate 153.85. It gave India a good total to restrict them back. Lokesh Rahul was presented as “Man of the Match” for his wonderful strike at the end.
The 2nd ODI of the series won by India and it made the 3rd ODI as a series decider. After a much excited match India won the series decider by 7 wickets. Rohit Sharma was presented with “Man of the Match” and Virat Kohli with “Man of the Series”.
Steve Smith answered about Virat Kohli
Steve Smith, Australian Men’s Cricketer asked about his bating skills and special training for the T20 world cup, he replied as
“No real specific training, but just playing a lot more T20 cricket and just getting the right tempo I guess for the game is the most important thing for me. I would love to be a part of the World Cup, it’s obviously at home in Australia. I was involved in the ODI World Cup here in 2015 and had the most amazing six-weeks of my cricketing career and loved every minute of it. So yeah would love to be involved in another World Cup at home for sure!”
Asked him that, whether he have any plan to implement new shots or training during his IPL session this year under Rajasthan Royals, he replied as
“Ah, don’t want to try too much different. I don’t really know, maybe a bit more bowling perhaps, but then that takes time away from my batting. So yeah, it’s a difficult one but we’ll wait and see,”
When interesting question arises about Kohli’s skills in leadership and batting, he replies as
“Yeah, he is terrific. His batting numbers just speak for themselves. I think he’s an incredible player in all three formats and I think we will see him break many records. He’s already broken plenty of them and I see him breaking many more over the years. He has got the hunger for runs and doesn’t stop getting them. Hopefully he can stop getting them against Australia, that’ll be nice. As a captain he’s already made India the number one side in the world in Test cricket. From what I have seen he sets really good standards for them. He is a lot about fitness and is health conscious and things like that. He’s got the Indian side into a really good place and leads them exceptionally well,”
During World Cup 2019, Virat Kohli asked the fans to cheer up and support Steve Smith. While asking about that to Steve, he replied back as
“In the World Cup it was really nice of Virat to do what he did. He did not have to do that and yeah it was a lovely gesture and really appreciated that”
It was a series decider between India and West Indies in Cuttack. India made an enthralling win over West Indies by 4 wickets with the climax heroics from Jadeja (39 runs off 31 deliveries) and a valuable cameo from Shardul Thakur by scoring 17 runs off 6 deliveries with a six. It extended India’s 10th consecutive series win against West Indies in ODI, where the streak started since 2007 under Rahul Dravid’s Captaincy.
India had been a dominant side in 2019 apart from the World Cup loss against New Zealand. In the post Match presentation, on asking to summarize India’s performance in 2019 to Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli, both haven’t forgot the loss in the World Cup Semi-Final.
Rohit said the world cup would have been nice, whereas Kohli said India only had a half an hour bad of play in the whole year.
Rohit Sharma in the Post Match Presentation: (Player of The Series)
Performance on the Series Decider:
It was a decider and we wanted to win this game and especially here in Cuttack, it’s a good batting track. It was a little sad that I couldn’t bat longer, but then Rahul and Kohli batted well and I quite enjoyed that Shardul pull shot, it was much needed at that point.
Summarizing Performance of India and himself in 2019:
Extremely grateful for the year I had, the World Cup win would have been nice. The team gelled together collectively well and every individual stepped up which is a good sign. There is no way I’m stopping here and there’s an exciting year coming up and I’m looking forward to it.
Special Year for Rohit Sharma:
I understand my batting really well and knowing the game plan you want to execute is very, very important. The challenge will come once we start traveling, we want to win games and want to stay on top.
Virat Kohli in the Post Match Presentation: (Player of The Match)
Successful Chase Even After Virat Kohli Getting Out:
Having done it so many times you obviously have bit more calmness about it, all you need is a mini partnership and the opposition will start to crumble. Shardul and Jaddu finishing is very good to see, these guys finishing the game is a much bigger thing. I had a nervous look when I walked back, but when I watched Jaddu he looked very confident.
Summarizing India’s 2019 Overall Performance:
It’s been one of the best years in Indian cricket and apart from that 30-minutes at the World Cup, its been a beautiful year. We will keep chasing the World Cup, we have that vision in place.
Indian Fast Bowler’s Dominance:
Having a bunch of fast bowlers is a brilliant thing to have in Indian cricket and them taking the attention away from the spinners is a huge statement. We have it in us to win series overseas and our pacers deserve it fully. We are in the process of trying to find how people react to pressure. It’s just about identifying those people and that’s something we will keep striving for.
With this being said, India will be eyeing towards the next ICC T20 World Cup at the end of 2020. While India will be playing against Sri Lanka and Australia at the start of next year in India. For India versus Sri Lanka Series, both the teams are yet to announce their squad for 3 match T20I Series. Whereas, Australia had already announced its ODI Squad which will be touring to India.
On 17th December 2019 (Tuesday), the International Cricket Council (ICC) announced the ICC Women’s ODI Team of the year and ICC Women’s T20I Team of the year for 2019.
December – last month of the year and the month to award the best performers throughout the year.
Smriti Mandhana earned a Spot in ODI & T20I Squads
Because of her brilliant performance in 2018, she received the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Award during the year 2018. She misses it this year as the other players performed well than her.
Smriti Mandhana has played 51 ODIs with 2025 runs and 66 T20Is with 1451 runs respectively. In the ODI team of the year 2019 along with her, Shikha Pandey, Jhulan Goswami, and Poonam Yadav have also found the spots.
In the T20I team of the year 2019 along with her, Deepti Sharma and Radha Yadav found the spots.
Women’s Cricketer of the Year & Women’s ODI Player of the Year
Ellyse Perry
Ellyse Perry from Australia has been named as the Women’s Cricketer of the Year and Women’s ODI Player of the Year. She will take home the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Award which was bagged by Smriti Mandhana last year(2018).
It was an amazing year for Ellyse Perry across the formats as she scored three hundred in tests including one in Ashes. She played 12 ODI’s this year and stands with an average of 73.50 along with that she has also taken 21 wickets including 7/22.
Also, Perry is the First Player to complete 1000 runs and 100 wickets in T20I Cricket.
Women’s T20I Cricketer of the Year 2019
Alyssa Healy
2019 is the year of records for the Australian Wicket Keeper and Opener, Alyssa Healy.
She was named as the T20I Cricketer of the year for the second year running.
She entered into the record books in October by scoring a brilliant knock of 148 runs not out in just 61 balls against Sri Lanka.
It is the highest score by a woman in T20Is and in which she reacher her 50 in 25 balls and 100 in just 46 deliveries. It is the fastest century ever by an Australian Man or Woman.
Women’s Emerging Player of the Year 2019
Chanida Sutthiruang
Chanida Sutthiruang of Thailand was named as the ICC Women’s Emerging Player of the Year.
She is the only Women’s Cricketer from Thailand to get named in the ICC Women’s Award for the year 2019.
The year 2019 came to an end and it’s time to award the players based on their performance for the whole year.
On Tuesday 17th December 2019, the International Cricket Council (ICC) announced the Women’s ODI Team of the year. Indian Women’s Team Opener Smriti Mandhana grabbed a spot in both the ICC Women’s ODI and ICC Women’s T20I teams of the year. This is one of the proud moments for the Indian Women’s Cricket Team but there is still a lot to come.
Alyssa Healy, Meg Lanning, Smriti Mandhana, Ellyse Perry, Megan Schutt are the players made into both the T20I team and the ODI Team of the Year. Whereas, Meg Lanning and Alyssa Healy are the players named as Captain and Wicket Keepers of both the team.
The ICC Women’s ODI Team of the Year (in batting order):
Alyssa Healy (Wicket Keeper, Aus 🇦🇺)
Smriti Mandhana (Ind 🇮🇳)
Tamsin Beaumont (Eng 🇬🇧)
Meg Lanning (Captain, Aus 🇦🇺)
Stafanie Taylor(WI )
Ellyse Perry (Aus 🇦🇺)
Jess Jonassen (Aus 🇦🇺)
Shikha Pandey (Ind 🇮🇳)
Jhulan Goswami (Ind 🇮🇳)
Megan Schutt (Aus 🇦🇺)
Poonam Yadav (Ind 🇮🇳)
In the 11 members, World ODI Team for 2019, women cricketers from Australia and India filled up most of the slots.
Below is the country based list on ICC Women’s ODI Team of the year 2019:
Indian Premier League Auction is a grant cricket event that will be conducted every year to bid for players and add them to 25 Players Squad, where 18 Indian Players and 8 Overseas Players. With already teams have announced their retention and releases for this year’s IPL, in the auction most important players will go for big prices. Here, Times Of Sports had come up with the live streaming update.
Stay Connected here to know the Final Bid Price for each of the players and which team had finally won the bid for the player in this IPL 2020 Auction.
IPL 2020 Auction Live Streaming Updates
992 Players registered for this year’s auction, only 332 Players are shortlisted from it.
Indian Players
143 Players Registered
In which, 19 were capped players
In which, 124 were uncapped domestic players
Overseas Players
189 Overseas Players
In which, 3 were associate nation players comprises of the United Arab Emirates, Scotland, and the USA.
All the 332 players are competing only for the 73 Vacant Places available across 8 teams.
The base price starts from 20 lakhs and ends up with 200 Lakhs as the maximum. Players like Chris Lynn, Pat Cummins, Glenn Maxwell, Dale Steyn, Josh Hazelwood, Mitchell Marsh, and Angelo Mathews are the 8 players, who will start of their base price with 200 lakhs, where usual domestic uncapped and associate nation players across the globe had gone for 20 lakhs zone.
Slots and Purse Money For Each Team:
Team
Purse remaining
Slots available
Overseas slot
Royal Challengers Bangalore
Rs 6.40 Crore
4
0
Delhi Capitals
Rs 9.00 Crore
3
0
Kolkata Knight Riders
Rs 8.50 Crore
2
0
Rajasthan Royals
Rs 14.75 Crore
0
0
Kings XI Punjab
Rs 16.50 Crore
0
0
Mumbai Indians
Rs 1.95 Crore
1
0
Sunrisers Hyderabad
Rs 10.10 Crore
0
0
Chennai Super Kings
Rs 0.15 Crore
1
0
(It will be updated each time a player bought by each team)
This year’s IPL Auction starts off with the first player as Australia’s Aaron Finch and Ends with India’s Domestic All Rounder Pratyush Singh.
With this being the last year as a major shuffle expected in the team for 2021’s IPL Auction, teams are eager to win the season.
Date:
December 19 from 2:30 PM
Venue:
Kolkata
LIVE on Star Sports 1 Hindi/1 HD Hindi, Star Sports First, 1 Tamil, 1 Telugu, 1 Kannada, 1 Bangla; from 3:20 PM on Select 1/1 HD,”
The IPL auction 2020 live streaming online will also be available on Hotstar.
The Internation Cricket Council (ICC) announced the Women’s T20I Team of the year for 2019. This is the best way to recognize the skills each year and remembered forever.
The stats and team selection show that the Indian’s and Australian Women’s Cricket are the best performing teams.
Most of the people like to see T20I matches than any other format because of the exciting shots that cricketers used to play from the first ball. It really makes the game interesting.
Also, these days the women’s cricketers competing strongly with the record books of men’s cricketers. If you remember, Alyssa Healy Wicket Keeper and opening batswomen of Australia scored a world record 148 not out off just 61 balls.
It was a match against Sri Lanks and in that particular match, she scored her half-century off 25 balls and a maiden hundred in just 46 balls. It is the fastest century ever by an Australian man or woman cricketer.
Meg Lanning, Alyssa Healy, Ellyse Perry, Smriti Mandhana, Megan Schutt are the players made into both the ODI Team and the T20I team of the Year. Whereas, Meg Lanning and Alyssa Healy are the players named as Captain and Wicket Keepers of both the team.
The ICC Women’s T20I Team of the Year (in batting order):
Alyssa Healy (Wicket Keeper, Aus 🇦🇺)
Danielle Wyatt (Eng 🇬🇧)
Meg Lanning (Captain, Aus 🇦🇺)
Smriti Mandhana (Ind 🇮🇳)
Lizelle Lee (RSA 🇿🇦)
Ellyse Perry (Aus 🇦🇺)
Deepti Sharma (Ind 🇮🇳)
Nida Dar (Pak 🇵🇰)
Megan Schutt (Aus 🇦🇺)
Shabnim Ismail (RSA 🇿🇦)
Radha Yadav (Ind 🇮🇳)
This ICC Women’s T20I team of the year is comprised of 4 Australian Cricketers, 3 Indian Cricketers, 2 South African Cricketers, 1 Pakistan Cricketer and 1 England Cricketer.
Even in this playing 11 most of the players are from Australia and India.
The last time India lost against West Indies for five successive home ODIs was way back in Jan 1988. West Indies is touring India with heavy heart losing 15 ODI bilateral series straight and ended up that streak against Afghanistan recently by winning 3-0. As they already won the 1st ODI of this 3 Match Series, they would be eyeing on to clinch the series before heading to Cuttack for 3rd ODI.
West Indies had won the toss and elected to bowl first. Below are the playing XI for the 2nd ODI International 2019 at Visakhapatnam.
India vs West Indies Playing XI for 2nd ODI:
West Indies Playing XI:
West Indies has made 2 changes from which they have played in the 1nd ODI in Chennai.
On 23rd May 2018, Ab De Villiers has announced his retirement from all forms of international cricket, which lead to surprise all over the cricketing fraternity with age and form behind him to continue at international stages. He’s still riding on his top form, where he had scored 37-ball 51 runs in the recently concluded Mzansi Super League final. The loss was against his fellow South African Faf du Plessis, who lead his side Paarl Rocks to triumph chasing 148 runs in just 14.2 overs.
In the press conference after the triumph, there comes the most anticipated question on Ab De Villiers Retirement and he getting back to national colours for T20 International. Faf responded in way, “I’m so used to that question now”.
He further adds to the question of wanting De Villiers to come out of retirement.
“People want AB to play and I am no different, Those conversations [with De Villiers] have been happening for two or three months already – what does it look like, how does it look over the next year, and that’s where it starts”.
Faf has tagged his long-time friend as a beast in the T20 format and said they have only 20 matches before heading to T20 World Cup in 2020, which won’t be that hard for his standards.
“T20 cricket is a different beast; it’s not a lot of time away from home. If you are a full campaigner you have to really get stuck in and spend a lot of time on the road. Test cricket now is the most important thing but also the T20 World Cup is not too far away. I reckon there are 20 T20s over the season, which won’t be that hard. Those conversations have already taken place and will do before the next T20 series starts”
Former South Africa wicketkeeper Mark Boucher has been appointed as head coach of South Africa recently. He’s no different in the stand of getting back AB De into Proteas team and said, they can’t leave the best player of the nation when they’re heading into big events like T20 World Cup.
“When you go to a World Cup you want your best players. If you feel he’s one of the best players, then why wouldn’t you want to have conversations with him? If there are a couple of issues you’ve got to iron out, if it’s for the best of South Africa, absolutely. Let’s try and do it.”
There is a lot has been happening even out of South Africa’s dressing room. Graeme Smith has been appointed as Director of South African cricket, even after withdrawing from the run last month. Jacques Faul is now the chief executive and obviously veteran Mark Boucher as head coach. Du Plessis had seen the positive side of it and said anything can change in a week of time and what happened in South African cricket is no different from it.
“A lot can change in a week, We’ve seen that first-hand. It was the dark ages last week and there’s a little bit of light this week and that’s very good. It’s very important; it will help the dressing room and even the supporters. Everyone wants the team to do well, everyone wants to make sure we get the right people in the right positions. It’s good that there is a bit of positivity around in and there’s excitement in the air, for myself included.”
South Africa will be playing against India in the T20 World Cup as their first game on October 24th, 2020.
