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Sri Lanka batter Kusal Mendis has tested positive for COVID-19 in Australia ahead of the T20 International series beginning on Friday, the country's cricket board said on Tuesday. The 27-year-old Mendis returned positive during a routine Rapid Antigen Test (RAT) conducted on Monday.
Legendary India cricketer Sunil Gavaskar backed Virat Kohli to score runs for India irrespective of the captain he is playing under. There have been a lot of speculation about Kohli's body language and approach now that he is no longer the captain in any format but Gavaskar said he is a quality player and would be back amongst runs very soon. Kohli, who came out all guns blazing, hitting his first two balls for four in the first ODI against West Indies in Ahmedabad, was holed out in the deep in the same over when he failed to control a pull shot off Alzarri Joseph.
With the women's Ashes series run and won across all three formats, it's time to look back at what became apparent about Australia's juggernaut of a cricket team before the upcoming World Cup.
IPL 2022 auction to sell the hot picks. The next edition of the IPL player auction is scheduled to take place in Bengaluru on February 12 and 13 with 590 players set to go under the hammer - out of this 370 are Indian players and 220 are overseas players. All the 10 franchises, including the two new entrants Lucknow and Ahmedabad, will battle it out to buy the best of the talents on offer in intense bidding wars. They are ready to shell out mind boggling amounts of money, as is usually the case, to snatch the best of the best in the high-octane dramatical setup that is an IPL auction. But the big bucks don't always translate into big performances. Over the years, a number of the hot picks at the IPL player auction have not done anything to set the stage on fire. In fact, most of the players who have commanded the biggest price tags at the auction have been disappointing on the field, while there have been some exceptions. So before the IPL 2022 auction makes new record-breaking millionaires in the cricketing world, let us roll back the years and take a look at the most expensive price tags commanded by Indian and foreign players in the history of the IPL auction over the years and how those players did in those seasons for their respective franchises. 5 MOST EXPENSIVE PRICE TAGS FOR INDIAN PLAYERS SO FAR
Sri Lanka batsman Kusal Mendis has tested positive for COVID-19 ahead of their Twenty20 series in Australia.
Sri Lanka's opening batsman Kusal Mendis has tested positive for Covid-19 in Australia days before the start of a five-match T20 series, his country's cricket board said Tuesday.
India showed a lot of intent while chasing 176 in the first ODI against West Indies and going forward the team will continue to bat in a similar fashion, hinted Suryakumar Yadav on Tuesday. India had chased down the target in just 28 overs. Surya also feels that batting first isn't really a big challenge for the side. “Not really, I think, we have kept things really simple, we are going to bat the same way, we did in the last game, it is just that when we bat first, we need to try and bat till the end to have that defendable score, but the way we batted in the second innings in the last game, I think it was perfect.
Senior India batter Ajinkya Rahane, who is going through a prolonged lean patch, was on Tuesday named in Mumbai's Ranji Trophy squad for the upcoming season. The 41-time Ranji Trophy champions and domestic heavyweights, Mumbai, have been placed in Elite Group D along with Saurashtra, Odisha and Goa. They will play their league matches at Ahmedabad. The Mumbai senior selection committee, consisting of chairman Salil Ankola, Gulam Parkar, Sunil More, Prasad Desai and Anand Yalvigi, picked young opener Prithvi Shaw as the captain of the 21-member squad.