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India captain Rohit Sharma is back, after having rested for the ODI series against West Indies, and now he would be leading the side for the upcoming five-match T20I series, beginning Friday. Ahead of the series, Rohit addressed a press conference on Thursday, where he said that according to him, India were not playing conservative cricket in the shortest format last year ahead of the World Cup.
IPL) trophies, three Champions League T20 trophies, followers in excess of 50 million on social media platforms across Twitter and Instagram, mass following across the world's largest cricket fanbase that's India, a healthy global diaspora to look at and television numbers crashing through the roof every single time these teams have walked out on the field. Put all these numbers together and crunch. Mumbai Indians, Chennai Super Kings, Rajasthan Royals, Sunrisers Hyderabad, Delhi Capitals and Lucknow Supergiants have taken to South Africa - by way of buying franchises in the country's upcoming T20 league - a cricket jamboree like none other anywhere in the world.
The debate on Virat Kohli's form continued after he failed to register big scores in the T20Is or ODIs against England. He was rested from the ODIs against West Indies that followed and is not in the squad for the T20Is either, and it is unclear whether he will travel to Zimbabwe for India's series there. Former India selector Saba Karim said that the team management should not force Kohli to play against Zimbabwe or tell him that he won't be in contention for the T20 World Cup squad if he doesn't play against Zimbabwe.
Covid-struck team hopes to erase scars of 2020 T20 WC final lossLeft reeling after two of their players, S Meghna and allrounder Pooja Vastrakar, were struck by Covid-19, India's women's cricket team members face an uphill task when they takes on seven-time ODI world champions and hot favourites Australia in their opening game at Edgbaston on Friday. In an encouraging development, it has emerged that Meghna has recovered and has flown to Birmingham. She was slate to join the squad late on Thursday night, and should be available for the opener. However, Vastrakar is likely to be in quarantine till Saturday. Even if she flies to England on Sunday, she will only be available for India's last league game against Barbados on Wednesday.
Rohit Sharma believes the new fearless approach adopted by India in the shortest format will result in occasional failures but disagrees that they were playing "conservative" cricket during last year's T20 World Cup in UAE. Rohit said the new approach provides more freedom to players, which has yielded success after the disappointing World Cup campaign, where India were eliminated in the league stage. "We didn't get the result from the last World Cup but that doesn't mean we played bad cricket all these years and I don't agree we were playing conservative cricket," Rohit said ahead of the five-match T20 series against the West Indies which begins here on Friday.
After registering a ODI series sweep against West Indies, Team India would hope for a good show in the five-match T20I series against West Indies, beginning Friday. Rohit Sharma will be back to lead the side, and Rishabh Pant and Hardik Pandya will also be back after being rested for the ODI series. It would be interesting to see whether the side continues to play that attacking brand of cricket which was on show against England. The biggest question is whether the side would give a chance to Ravichandran Ashwin in the playing XI for the first T20I
Left-hander Hetmyer had been frozen out of the international set-up due to question marks over his fitness. The 25-year-old played the last of his 42 T20 Internationals against Australia in November last year at the 2021 World Cup in the UAE.
Two-time World Cup-winning captain Ricky Ponting has backed Steve Smith to come out of his "indifferent" form as Australia gears up for the much-anticipated tour of India early next year, saying there is nothing wrong with the star batter's technique. Ponting reckons the opposition teams may have found ways to put brakes on Smith's free-flowing batting.