Harmanpreet Kaur becomes first cricketer to play 150 T20Is
The 33-year-old Harmanpreet became the first cricketer ever (men or women) to get to the milestone of 150 matches in the shortest format of the game.
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Indian Super League final to be played in Goa on March 18
The JLN Stadium has been chosen for the finale due to availability of training grounds and other infrastructure for the teams.Mumbai City FC, Hyderabad FC, ATK Mohun Bagan, Bengaluru FC and Kerala Blasters FC have already qualified for the play-offs with Odisha FC and FC Goa still in fray.The play-off matches will start from March 3, the release ISL stated.
Deepika Kumari falters, Atanu Das returns after year; compound star Abhishek Verma out of top-4
The multiple World Cup gold medallist, who finished seventh in the first phase of the trials in Kolkata last month, ended outside top eight in the women's recurve event to miss the cut in the final leg of the three-day trials, which concluded at the SAI Sonipat here.On a day of upsets, reigning junior and former cadet world champion Komalika Bari and former national champion Ridhi Phor also finished outside the top-eight, which will be split into two teams for the six big events lined up this year -- Asian Games, four stages of the World Cup and the World Championships.Bhajan Kaur, Aditi Jaiswal, Ankita Bhakat and Simranjeet Kaur completed the top four who will compete in all the premier tournaments this year.
Top India wrestlers opt out of another international meet
After pulling out from the Zagreb Open, earlier this month, top wrestlers Vinesh, Bajrang, Ravi Dahiya, Deepak Punia, Anshu Malik, Sangeeta Phogat and Sangita Mor have once again decided to sit out, saying they are not ready for the competition.The Ibrahim-Moustafa tournament will be held in Alexandria, Egypt from February 23 to 26.The Mary Kom-headed oversight committee managing the WFI affairs cleared a contingent of 27 Indian wrestlers for the upcoming tournament.
India's continuing dominance vs Australia in Test series: The big stats
Since then there have been three completed series and the ongoing one, which has had 2 Tests played so far and Team India have been on top in all. Rohit Sharma and co. went into the ongoing series having won a hat-trick of Border-Gavaskar Trophy series, including two back to back 2-1 series wins in Australia.By virtue of their two emphatic wins in the ongoing series, India have not only retained the Border-Gavaskar Trophy, but also ensured that for the fourth consecutive time they will remain undefeated in a Test series against the Aussies.There is a long gap now before the third Test starts in Indore on March 1. India of course have named an unchanged squad for the remaining two Tests, as the hosts eye a series whitewash.
IND vs AUS: We failed the examination of India, says Australia coach Andrew McDonald
Andrew McDonald made no bones about his team's capitulation in the second innings of the second Test here, saying they "failed the examination" of India.Australia, who seemed to be shaping up well for the challenge with 61 for one at stumps on day 2, lost nine second-innings wickets for just 48 runs to be all out for 113. India then reached the winning target of 115 for the loss of four wickets to take a 2-0 lead and retain the Border-Gavaskar Trophy."Our methods are going to be critiqued, and rightfully so," McDonald was quoted as saying by Australian Associated Press on Monday."At the end of day two, if you said our preparation was good (with Australia on 61/1), you'd probably have a different slant on it, but within an hour (on day 3) then people start to critique what happened in the past...
'Needs to play county cricket': Venkatesh Prasad fires fresh salvo at out-of-form KL Rahul
Venkatesh Prasad on Monday slammed the struggling India opener KL Rahul for his poor run in Tests. Prasad, who represented India in 33 Tests, pointed out KL's overseas and home records and compared his statistics with the likes of Shikhar Dhawan, Mayank Agarwal, Shubman Gill and Ajinkya Rahane.KL's last century in Tests came way back in December 2021 - vs South Africa in Centurion.In the ongoing Border-Gavaskar trophy, KL has scored just 38 runs in 2 Tests at an average of 12.67."There is a view that KL Rahul has an outstanding overseas Test record. But stats speak otherwise. He has a test avg of 30 overseas in 56 innings. He has scored 6 overseas centuries but followed it up with a string of low scores that's why averaging 30. Let's look at a few others," Prasad wrote on his Twitter handle.
'Super confident' Ravindra Jadeja gets self-belief from his batting: Aakash Chopra
Jadeja is having a dream Test series against Australia, with his 7 for 42 in India's victory in the second Test being the latest highlight of a series being dominated by the Indian all-rounder. And former India opener Aakash Chopra believes it's Jadeja's batting form that has been the source of self-belief for him in red-ball cricket. Before his seven-wicket haul in Australia's second innings to set up India's win in Delhi, Jadeja took five wickets to help the hosts bowl out the Aussies for 177 in the first innings of the first Test, besides scoring a half-century in Nagpur.