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Hardik Pandya impressed one and all in the manner in which he took to captaincy, leading his team, Gujarat Titans, to the IPL 2022 title in their maiden season. Hardik in fact is being seen as a potential future Team India captain. Gujarat Titans thrashed Rajasthan Royals by 7 wickets in the IPL final on Sunday, with Pandya taking three wickets and scoring 34 runs.
Pakistan wicketkeeper-batter Mohammad Rizwan on Wednesday celebrated his 30th birthday. Rizwan, who enjoyed a lot of success with the bat in the year 2021, was also named men's T20I player of the year for his exploits with the willow. The 30-year-old also had a successful debut stint in the English County cricket, where he shared the dressing room with India batter Cheteshwar Pujara. Both Pujara and Rizwan made their debuts for Sussex in the same match, and the former had a special birthday wish for the wicketkeeper-batter.
Mumbai Indians finished bottom of the IPL points table after with just four wins to show in the 14 matches they played in IPL 2022. Despite their poor outing this season, there were a few positives for Rohit Sharma and his team. Among them was the performance of Singapore-born cricketer Tim David. Though, he was dropped after the first two games by Mumbai Indians, he returned for MI's final six matches and took the tournament by storm courtesy his power-hitting. David is being touted to represent Australia in international cricket and current national team captain Aaron Finch reserved high praise for the 26-year-old.
England have recalled veteran pace bowlers James Anderson and Stuart Broad to their side for the first Test against New Zealand at Lord's starting on Thursday while giving a debut to Durham quick Matthew Potts.
England have recalled veteran pace bowlers James Anderson and Stuart Broad to their side for the first Test against New Zealand at Lord's starting Thursday while giving a debut to Durham quick Matthew Potts. Anderson, 39 and Broad, 35, England's two most successful bowlers of all time, with a combined 1,177 wickets between them, were both controversially left out of the squad for a 1-0 series loss in the West Indies earlier this year.
India wicketkeeper-batter Dinesh Karthik on Wednesday celebrated his 37th birthday. Karthik, who had an impressive Indian Premier League (IPL) 2022 campaign, was recently rewarded with a national team call up for the upcoming T20I series against South Africa. During IPL 2022, Karthik scored 330 runs in 16 matches at a strike-rate of 183.33 for RCB. For the record, he played his last T20I match against Australia in February 2019. As Karthik turned 37 on Wednesday, the cricketing fraternity took to social media and extended their birthday wishes to him.
Shastri reckons that T20 format is not meant for bilateral series between international teams and the slam-bang style of cricket should be restricted to just World Cup. Shastri, one of the most successful India coaches, also feels that franchise cricket together with a biennial T20 World Cup is best way forward when it comes to shortest format, considering fans' appetite for it. Shastri's comments have come, days before India's five-match T20 series against South Africa. "...there's too much of bilateral stuff going on in T20 cricket. I've said that (before), even when I was the coach of India, I could see it happening in front of my eyes," Shastri told ESPNcricinfo.
Proteas limited-overs captain Temba Bavuma says teenage sensation Dewald Brevis needs a bit more time to make his way into the national set-up.