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NEW DELHI : Cheteshwar Pujara does not fit into the popular image of a modern-day cricketer - the muscle-flaunting and social media-savvy lot - but is on the verge of a milestone that would be the stuff of dreams for most of them.
Virat Kohli owned a plethora of records in international cricket but the star Indian batter was on next level to complete a record-breaking performance five years ago in the ODI series against South Africa in their own backyard.Kohli left South African clueless with his exemplary batting performance as he amassed mind boggling 558 runs in the six ODIs at an astonishing average of 186. Kohli scored these runs at a strike rate of 99.46.His 558 runs in the series is still the highest in a bilateral ODI series ever that also fetched him player of the series award for his heroic run.With this victory, Kohli also became the first India captain to win a bilateral ODI series against South Africa in South Africa.
Balaram was 87 and a widower living in a flat on the banks of Hooghly river in Uttarpara.The 1962 Asiad champion was hospitalised on December 26 last year and was being treated for urinary infection and abdominal distension."His condition did not improve and he breathed his last around 2pm today," a source close to the family told PTI.
The International Cricket Council (ICC) has apologised for the technical glitch, which saw India displace Australia to attain the No.1 spot in the men's Test team rankings on Wednesday. Hours after India had 'topped' the Test ranking, the ICC issued another updated list that showed Rohit Sharma's side back at No.2. It gave the impression that Rohit's team had briefly claimed the top spot following its innings and 132-run win over the Pat Cummins-led Australia in Nagpur.
India's Asian Games gold-medal winning footballer and Olympian Tulsidas Balaram died in Kolkata on Thursday after a prolonged illness, sources close to his family said. Balaram was 87 and a widower living in a flat on the banks of Hooghly river in Uttarpara. The 1962 Asiad champion was hospitalised on December 26 last year and was being treated for urinary infection and abdominal distension.
Hours after India had 'topped' the Test ranking, the ICC issued another updated list that showed Rohit Sharma's side back at No.2.It gave the impression that Rohit's team had briefly claimed the top spot following its innings and 132-run win over the Pat Cummins-led Australia in Nagpur.On Thursday, the game's global body admitted the error and said in a statement that the "ICC acknowledges, for a short period of time on February 15, 2023 that, due to a technical error, India were erroneously displayed as the No.1 Test team on the ICC website.
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Allan Border is still at pains to understand why middle-order batter Travis Head was excluded from the side that suffered an innings and 132-run defeat against India in the opening Test at Nagpur.Head has been in sublime form since the 2021/22 Ashes series, where he was adjudged Player of the Series after Australia won the five-Test series 4-0. He was the joint second-highest run-getter during the three-Test series at home against South Africa recently, which Australia won 2-0.But despite achieving several milestones in the past one year, Matt Renshaw got the selectors' nod ahead of Head for the opening Border-Gavaskar Test. Renshaw couldn't make an impact in Nagpur, getting dismissed for 0 and 2 respectively.Border felt the Australians were "overthinking" their strategy, and decided to drop Head only because of his two mediocre runs during the previous tours of Sri Lanka and Pakistan.