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Hardik Pandya was deservingly named skipper of the Indian team for the two-match T20 International series against Ireland in Dublin on June 26 and 28. The only new face in the side is Maharashtra right-hand batter Rahul Tripathi, who was rewarded for his stellar batting during this edition of IPL where he scored more than 400 runs for Sunrisers Hyderabad.
Despite several youngsters being picked in the squad for the T20I series against South Africa, the Indian cricket team management went with an unchanged XI for the second T20I in Cuttack on Sunday, after going down in the first T20I. Their fortune also remained the same as India slumped to a loss yet again to trail 0-2 in the five-match series. After the defeat, former Indian cricket team captain Sunil Gavaskar gave his take on the changes that India might bring in starting from third T20I. Youngsters like Arshdeep Singh and Umran Malik and Gavaskar had an interesting take on the latter.
Umran Malik's speed and his great show has won the pacer a lot of admirers in the last couple of months. The 22-year-old was not only one of the fastest bowlers in the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2022 but he also finished as the fourth-highest wicket-taker with 22 scalps in 14 matches. The good show for SunRisers Hyderabad earned Umran a place in the squad for the ongoing T20I series against South Africa. The fast bowler, who hails from Jammu and Kashmir, was not part of the XI in the first T20I that India lost.
Dilip Vengsarkar feels that tearaway pacer Umran Malik is ready to play international cricket. Malik, the Jammu-based pacer, who made heads turn by clocking speeds above 150kmph consistently in IPL 2022, is a member of India's ongoing T20I series against South Africa. But Malik didn't get a chance to play in India's seven-wicket loss to South Africa in Delhi on June 9.
Former Pakistan captain Salman Butt feels India pacer Umran Malik should have made his debut in the first T20I against South Africa. Umran was in top form for SunRisers Hyderabad during IPL 2022 as he took 22 wickets from 14 matches. He was also named as the emerging player of the season, and was rewarded for it with a maiden India call-up for the ongoing five-match T20I series against the Proteas. Butt said the management could've rested veteran pacer Bhuvneshwar Kumar, and played Umran instead, which would have given the youngster some much-needed exposure.
Rassie van der Dussen said the experience of South African players in the IPL helped them defeat India by seven wickets in the first Twenty20 international on Thursday.
Umran Malik is one young pacer who has garnered a lot of attention of late. Fans are eagerly waiting to see him representing the Indian cricket team. Umran picked up 22 wickets for SunRisers Hyderabad in IPL 2022 and was named in India's squad for the T20I series against South Africa, beginning Thursday at Arun Jaitley Stadium in New Delhi. Rishabh Pant, who will lead India in the five-match series on Wednesday said that with time, Umran will learn to control his aggression.
women's cricket, which spanned more than two decades, came to a 'reluctant' end on Wednesday. Hyderabad's legendary player Mithali Raj, who was literally 'pushed' into the game by her mother Leela Raj, finally called it quits. Mithali has set several records in her illustrious career and her aggregate of 10,868 international runs in 333 matches — ODIS, Tests and T2OI — will take some beating. With most runs in women's cricket and the only Indian captain - man or woman - to have led the side in two 50-over World Cup finals, the 39-year-old, however, retires without the World Cup trophy in her cabinet.