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Ishant Sharma, who had made himself unavailable for the Ranji Trophy league stage, is set to join the Delhi squad ahead of its opening match against Tamil Nadu on Thursday. However, Ishant will not be available for the tough showdown as he will be in five-day mandatory quarantine. He will be available for the second game against Jharkhand from February 24.
Veteran India pacer Ishant Sharma, who had made himself unavailable for the Ranji Trophy league stage, is set to join the Delhi squad ahead of its opening match against Tamil Nadu on Thursday. However, Ishant will not be available for the tough showdown as he will be in five-day mandatory quarantine. He will be available for the second game against Jharkhand from February 24. The third and final Delhi match is against Chhattisgarh.
Chinnaswamy stadium, it marked a new beginning for the venue. It was the first day/night cricket match hosted by the city and India won that World Cup quarterfinal match against Pakistan by 39 runs. Twenty-six years later, the iconic stadium is being readied for another slice of history - its maiden day/night Test match. The second Test between India and Sri Lanka to be played from March 12-16 was on Tuesday confirmed as a pink-ball contest by the BCCI.
India will use the three-match home series against West Indies to identify players for this year's Twenty20 World Cup in Australia, captain Rohit Sharma says.
Flush with exciting talent and focussed on the T20 World Cup in exactly eight months' time, the Rohit Sharma-led Team India would be aiming to get its combinations right when it takes on the West Indies in a three-match series beginning in Kolkata on Wednesday. India were the pre-tournament favourites but made a shocking group stage exit in the last T20 World Cup held in the UAE in October-November. The shambolic campaign exposed loopholes in the team combination and temperament, spoiling Virat Kohli's swansong as T20 skipper.
MUMBAI : India will use the three-match home series against West Indies to identify players for this year's Twenty20 World Cup in Australia and work towards building a bigger talent pool, captain Rohit Sharma said on Tuesday.
Gujarat Titans is one of the two new entrants to the Indian Premier League. Led by Hardik Pandya, the team had also signed India opener Shubman Gill and Afghanistan's all-rounder Rashid Khan as their three pre-auction signings. Building the team from scratch, Gujarat Titans spent Rs 89.85 crore out of their total kitty of Rs 90 Crore (pre auction and during). Talking to TimesofIndia.com after the auction, Gujarat Titans head coach and former India pacer Ashish Nehra sounded confident ahead of the 15th season of the IPL and the first for the Ahmedabad based franchise. Nehra also sounded a warning to the other teams that they are not here just to participate, but to compete and win.
Shivam Dube. On Wednesday, the Mumbaikar became a father for the first time when his wife Anjum Khan gave birth to their son Ayan in a city hospital. However, the premature baby had to be rushed to the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), and stayed there for a couple of days due to a few complications. The weekend, though, brought plenty of good news for the 28-year-old. While Ayan became healthy again, on Sunday, the Chennai Super Kings bought him for Rs 4 crore, giving him a chance to revive his career under the captaincy of MS Dhoni.