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Former India batter Ambati Rayudu has pulled out of the inaugural Major League Cricket in the USA due to personal reasons. Rayudu was signed by CSK's sister franchise Texas Super Kings soon after announcing retirement from the IPL in June. The development comes at a time when the BCCI is mulling a cooling off period to prevent the trend of "pre-determined" retirement of Indian players.
Wimbledon 2023 is on and the tennis fans around the world are witnessing some thrilling, breathtaking games as the biggest names of the sport are in action. To make this occasion more special, tennis legend and 20-time Grand Slam winner Roger Federer returned to the Centre Court for the first-time, since his retirement last year. The official Twitter handle of Wimbledon shared the picture of Federer and captioned it as, "THALAIVA", which means a leader. However, India's Axis Bank gave a hilarious reply on the picture.
Pakistan Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif has formed a high-level committee, headed by Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto, to decide on the national cricket team's participation in the 2023 ODI World Cup in India. The committee will explore and discuss all aspects of Pakistan and India relations, the government's policy of keeping sports and policy apart, and the situation in India for the players, officials, fans, and media before submitting its recommendations to Sharif. The Prime Minister is also the patron-in-chief of the Pakistan Cricket Board.
Formed India captain Sourav Ganguly has questioned star batter Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli's exclusion from the squad for the upcoming T20I series against West Indies. While Rohit and Kohli headline India's Test and ODI squads, the veteran batters have been left out for the T20Is, with the selectors offering no clarification behind the decision. Both have not played a T20I since the World Cup semi-final defeat to England last year. Ganguly was of the opinion that both Rohit and Kohli can still contribute to the team in the shortest format.
Commonwealth Games champions PV Sindhu and Lakshya Sen notched up contrasting wins to advance to the semifinals of the Canada Open Super 500 badminton tournament in Calgary. Sindhu, a double Olympic medallist, stamped her authority over Fang Jie to register her first victory in four meetings against her opponent with a dominating 21-13 21-7 margin in the women's singles quarterfinals late on Friday night. Later, Sen staved off a spirited fight from German qualifier Julien Carraggi 21-8 17-21 21-10 in the men's singles quarterfinal.
Imagine MS Dhoni or Ravindra Jadeja dressed in all white and playing tennis at Wimbledon. Chennai Super Kings came up with edited pictures of their players in tennis outfits playing at the coveted Grand Slam tournament. The post came alongside Wimbledon calling 20-time Grand Slam winner Roger Federer ‘Thalaiva' on social media. It is a nickname that is synonymous with Tamil superstar Rajnikanth and later, it was bestowed upon Dhoni for his heroics with CSK. The post by the Indian Premier League (IPL) franchise went viral and users came up with brilliant responses.
Former India pacer Ajit Agarkar was named chairman of India's senior men's selection committee earlier this week. However, former India batter Aakash Chopra feels that Agarkar will have some tough decisions to make, especially deciding the T20I future of Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli and KL Rahul. While Rohit and Kohli are in West Indies to take part in the upcoming Test and ODI assignments, Rahul is recovering from a knee injury at the National Cricket Academy in Bengaluru. Both Rohit and Kohli, however, have not been selected for the T20Is.
MS Dhoni celebrated his 42nd birthday on Friday and his long-time Indian cricket team and Chennai Super Kings teammate Ravichandran Ashwin had a rather unusual wish for him. Ashwin posted on Twitter that this is the last time he is wishing Dhoni on social media and even made a sly remark about "gossip mongers and story spinners" for whom he had a strict disclaimer. "Tweeting on July 7th without wishing the great man a happy birthday can prove to be catastrophic. Happy birthday Mahi bhai. #disclaimer this will be my last birthday wish on Twitter for anyone. I believe I will stick to wishing them directly or call them. The disclaimer was for all gossip mongers and story spinner," he tweeted.