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KL Rahul, who was supposed to lead India in the upcoming five-match T20I series against South Africa, has been ruled out due to an injury, BCCI informed through a tweet on Wednesday. Left-arm wrist spinner Kuldeep Yadav has also been ruled out of the series owing to injury. Wicket-keeper batter Rishabh Pant is going to lead India in the series now. Hardik Pandya has been appointed vice-captain.
Former India captain Virat Kohli is going through a lean patch. While he has managed to score half-centuries in international cricket, but the man who was synonymous with converting his fifties into hundreds, has not scored one since November 2019. The extent of his struggle was visible during IPL 2022, as he failed to get going throughout the tournament.
Babar Azam's stocks in international cricket have been on the rise ever since he was handed captaincy of the Pakistan national team. A precocious young talent, Babar was tipped for greatness since his age group cricket days. He made an immediate splash in international cricket, after making his debut and has since then gone from strength to strength. He is currently the top ranked batter in ODIs and T20Is in ICC players rankings and 4th in Test cricket.
India take on South Africa in the first game of the five-match Twenty20 International (T20I) series on Thursday. The match will be played at the Arun Jaitley Stadium, New Delhi. India have some big names like Virat Kohli, captain Rohit Sharma and fast-bowling ace Jasprit Bumrah missing and the T20I series will be an opportunity for a fair few to make an impression, especially looking ahead to the T20 World Cup this year in Australia. Two names that fans and everyone else concerned will be keeping a keen eye on will be Dinesh Karthik and Umran Malik. Both were exceptional in IPL 2022 and will be hoping to replicate those performances on the international stage.
Dinesh Karthik has made a comeback to the Indian cricket team on the back of some stupendous show in the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2022. Playing for Royal Challengers Bangalore, the 37-year-old wicketkeeper-batter aced the finisher's role scoring 330 runs in 16 matches at a strike-rate of 183.33. Courtesy that performance, the veteran has made a comeback into the squad. That last time he played for India was at the 2019 ICC World Cup. As Team India looks to get its house in order ahead of the 2022 T20 World Cup in Australia in October, the T20I series against South Africa will be a massive opportunity for Karthik.
India and Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) star Virat Kohli on Tuesday became the first Indian to cross the 200 million followers mark on social media platform Instagram. Kohli, one of the most popular cricketers in the world, is known for breaking records on the field, but this milestone shows how widely he is loved across the planet. Kohli, in fact, is the most followed cricketer on Instagram, and among sportspersons, only Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo have more followers than the prolific batter.
Joe Root is the toast of the cricket world right now after becoming only the 14th batter to score over 10,000 runs in Tests. He became just the second England batter after Alastair Cook to score 10,000 Test runs during a match-winning hundred against New Zealand at Lord's on Sunday. The 31-year-old Yorkshireman's typically composed 115 not out took England, who had been faltering at 69 for four, to a target of 277 and a five-wicket victory over the World Test champions with more than a day to spare.
Mohammad Rizwan is one of the fastest rising stars in world cricket. The wicketkeeper-batter has left his mark in international cricket in the last couple of years. During Indian cricket team's match against Pakistan cricket team at the 2021 T20 World Cup, Rizwan top-scored with an unbeaten 79 to take his team to a 10-wicket win. It was the first time that Pakistan defeated India in a World Cup match. After the match, then India captain Virat Kohli walked up to Rizwan and talked to him. The Pakistan opener has never revealed what was said to him by Kohli, but in a recent interview he has described the feeling of meeting the India great for the first time.