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Former Indian cricketer Ravi Shastri shared some nostalgic pictures of his Audi100, which he had won after being named Player of the Tournament in India's famous victory at the 1985 World Championship of cricket. Led by Sunil Gavaskar, Team India had defeated Pakistan in the summit clash of the tournament by eight wickets at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG).
India completed a phenomenal series victory in Australia at the start of 2021 as it beat the 'Baggy Greens' at their stronghold, Brisbane, in the fourth and last Test of the series by 3 wickets. It was India second successive series win down under. But this victory was special as it came against all odds. India had been humiliated in the first Test as they were blown away for just 36 runs in the second innings at Adelaide as the hosts took a lead in the series.
Former Indian cricket team player Aakash Chopra, in a video on his YouTube channel, asked viewers to imagine a scenario where the T20 World Cup was to start immediately. Keeping this as the primary condition he chose an Indian squad based purely on the players' performances in the recently concluded IPL 2022 and omitted some big names including captain Rohit Sharma, former captain Virat Kohli and wicket-keeper batter Rishabh Pant.
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.
Renowned Bollywood singer Krishnakumar Kunnath, popularly known as KK, died on Tuesday at the age of 53 in Kolkata, hours after performing a show. The 53-year-old singer collapsed at the hotel where he was staying after the concert in Kolkata's Nazrul Mancha auditorium. Doctors at CMRI hospital said the singer was brought dead. He is best known for his songs like 'Aankhon Mein Teri' from the movie Om Shanti Om, 'Khuda Jaane' from the movie Bachna Ae Haseeno, 'Tadap Tadap' from the movie Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam among others. Soon after the news broke out, several current and former cricketers took to social media and mourned KK's death.
The IPL 2022 season came to an end on Sunday after the Hardik Pandya-led Gujarat Titans defeated Rajasthan Royals in the summit clash at Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad. Gujarat Titans defeated Rajasthan by seven wickets and 11 balls to spare in the final and the side won the title in their debut season. Since the season has come to a close, Twitter India has revealed that Royal Challengers Bangalore won on Twitter – becoming the most Tweeted about team of the season.
After the 15th edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL) concluded on Sunday, the Indian cricket team is all set to arrive in New Delhi on June 5 for the five-match T20I series against South Africa. India and South Africa will facing each other in the first match in Delhi on June 9. "Both the teams will undergo RT-PCR testing on the arrival at their respective hotels. Since there is no bio-bubble for this tournament, both the teams will undergo regular RT-PCR testing on the arrival and after that, the tests will be conducted every day," a source from DDCA told ANI.
Virat Kohli has had a difficult time of late as a batter. He has not scored an international century since November 2019 and struggled to get going in IPL 2022. The former Indian cricket team captain could not perform up to the expectation in the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2022. Playing for Royal Challengers Bangalore, Kohli scored 341 runs in 16 matches at an average of 22.73. He scored two half-centuries, but failed to take his team into the IPL final. While there have been mixed reactions to Kohli's dry spell, several former cricketers have come down hard on him after his recent string of poor scores.