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  • AUS vs IND | Cheteshwar Pujara suffers harm scare throughout nets session forward of Sydney Test towards Australia

    Image Source : TWITTER/@MELINDAFARRELL Cheteshwar Pujara
    Indian batsman Cheteshwar Pujara suffered an harm scare on Saturday throughout India’s nets session on the Melbourne Cricket Ground forward of their third Test towards Australia on the Sydney Cricket Ground.
    Pujara incurred a blow on his finger on the suitable hand whereas batting and was instantly taken inside. BCCI is but to supply an replace on the matter. 

    India have already misplaced three of their key gamers to harm. Ishant Sharma was dominated out of the Test collection earlier than India had taken off for the tour. Mohammed Shami copped a blow on his forearm throughout the first Test and was dominated out for no less than six weeks. Umesh Yadav limped off with a calf harm throughout the second Test. 
    India misplaced the Adelaide opener by eight wickets after struggling a collapse of 36 all out, their lowest rating in Test historical past. But they bounced again impressively in Melbourne to outplay the Aussies with a victory of an analogous margin. 
    India will now play the third Test in Sydney which begins from January 7 onwards. The ultimate Test will probably be performed on the Gabba. 

  • Had sufficient of umpire’s name, let’s simply ban it: Daryl Harper

    Image Source : GETTY IMAGES In a state of affairs the place the umpire has dominated not out, even when the ball is proven to be hitting the stumps on assessment, the TV umpire has no powers to vary the choice.
    Former ICC elite panel umpire Daryl Harper has steered a ban on the contentious Umpires’ Call within the Decision Review System (DRS), saying that after over a decade there are nonetheless “deficiencies in either the communication or the understanding” of the idea.
    The Umpires’ Call primarily comes into the image if a assessment has been searched for LBW.

    In a state of affairs the place the umpire has dominated not out, even when the ball is proven to be hitting the stumps on assessment, the TV umpire has no powers to vary the choice.
    The solely comfort for the bowling crew is that its assessment stays intact.
    “I’ve had enough of umpire’s call. Let’s just ban umpire’s call. Get rid of the controversy and just go with it. Any contact with ball on stump will dislodge a bail. No 48 per cent, 49 per cent,” Harper was quoted as saying by ‘Sydney Morning Herald’.
    “The fact it’s been going for 12 years and the public are still mystified, and the players are still mystified, would suggest that there are some deficiencies in either the communication or the understanding,” he added.
    Harper reckoned the idea is flawed and urged the ICC to totally revisit it.
    “So there needs to be some serious work done from the ICC’s end. Because we shouldn’t be talking about umpiring decisions.”
    The Umpires’ Call has been a topic of widespread debate since just a few contentious calls within the recently-concluded Boxing Day Test between India and Australia in Melbourne.
    Australia skipper Tim Paine was given out, caught behind off Ravindra Jadeja on the third day.

    He was dominated out after the on-field name by Paul Reiffel was overturned by third umpire Paul Wilson.
    The wicketkeeper-batsman did not disguise his disappointment over the choice whereas leaving the sphere.
    “You could get 10 Indians in a room and 10 Australians in a room and they would see the Tim Paine run out in the first innings, and the 10 Indians would say ‘oh that’s out’ and the 10 Australians would say ‘oh that’s not out,’” Harper stated.
    “If there’d been one other image in between the 2 we have been taking a look at, I feel we in all probability may have dominated him out.
    So the expertise after 12 years of this, it nonetheless is not as much as scratch,” he added.
    In the identical match, Australian batsmen Joe Burns and Marnus Labuschagne have been fortunate to outlive LBW appeals regardless of replays exhibiting that the ball would have gone on to clip the bails, prompting the legendary Sachin Tendulkar to boost doubts in regards to the idea.
    “I am not convinced with the DRS rule at all. Once you have gone upstairs to the third umpire then the on-field umpire’s decision should not come into the picture at all,” Tendulkar had stated.
    “It doesn’t matter whether the ball is hitting 10 per cent or 15 per cent or 70 per cent because when you get bowled, none of this matters. I understand that the tracking system is not 100 per cent accurate but can you name one umpire who has never made a mistake?”
    He stated it was unfair on the bowlers.
    “Even if the ball is simply clipping the bail and the umpire has given not out, that call ought to be overturned once they have referred to the third umpire. It (umpire’s name) is just too complicated and someplace it’s unfair to bowlers additionally.

  • AUS vs IND: Will play third Test ‘even when I’m not 100 per cent match’: David Warner

    Image Source : GETTY IMAGES Warner says that he’ll get a transparent concept of the place he stands in the course of the coaching periods on Saturday and Sunday.
    Australia opener Daavid Warner has been included within the squad for the third Test towards India in Sydney, which begins on December 7. Warner had missed the primary two Tests of the four-match sequence owing to a groin harm. However, the Aussie batsman steered that even when he would not make a full restoration, he goals to be within the enjoying XI for the Sydney Test.
    Warner has undergone rehabilitation taking jabs, utilizing hyperbaric oxygen chamber and penguin cryotherapy for fast restoration.

    “Am I going to be a 100 per cent? It is highly doubtful. But I will be doing everything I can to be able to get on that park and play and even if I am not 100 per cent I will let the selectors give me that green light,” Warner instructed the media on Saturday morning throughout a digital interplay.
    Warner says that he’ll get a transparent concept of the place he stands in the course of the coaching periods on Saturday and Sunday.
    “We have a training session today and tomorrow. I can’t give you any more indication of where I am at. I haven’t ran the last couple of days but today and tomorrow will give me a better indication of where I am,” he added.

    The dashing batsman mentioned that enjoying his photographs just isn’t a fear however it’s the working between the wickets and taking catches in slips by transferring to his proper and left that can matter ultimately in deciding if he’s match to play.
    “Batting in the nets the other day actually helped me because I had to wait for the ball to be in my actual area. I mean I didn’t have to throw my hand at it, so that actually made me play nice and tight. You are going to have some restrictions here and there. But I think when you are getting into the game, adrenaline takes over as well. You don’t cast any doubt over your ability to play shots,” he mentioned.
    “For me, it is about the speed between wickets. That is all that matters. It doesn’t matter about what shots I can and can’t play. It is about drop and run, helping the guy at the other end get off-strike. They are the things that I work on. They are the things that I like to be 100% fit for. In this case I am not going to be but I am going to work out myself in the nets on how I am going to manage that. That is going to be the most important thing for myself and the team,” Warner added.
    The 34-year-old batsman, who captains SunRisers Hyderabad within the Indian Premier League added that he can even not play if he’s unable to maneuver within the slips to take catches transferring to his proper and left.
    “I know I can manage the shot-making… it is whether or not I have the capacity of catching the ball left and right of myself and with Gazza (Nathan Lyon) bowling. Am I going to field at first slip or leg slip? I have got to be agile enough to make sure that I am taking those chances because if I am not, given the 50% of the time of the Test that I (and Australia) will on the field, I don’t want to be dropping those chances and not giving our team the best chance of taking them. That is all it comes down to,” he mentioned.

  • AUS vs IND | Sydney Test underneath menace as areas close to SCG placed on alert: Report

    Image Source : TWITTER Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG)
    The third Test match between India and Australia, beginning on January 7 on the Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG), has come underneath menace after 10 circumstances of Covid-19 emerged on December 31 in Sydney’s neighborhood, taking the entire variety of constructive circumstances to 170 over the past two weeks.
    According to a report in Channel 9, there have been calls to play the third Test on the SCG with out spectators contained in the stadium.

    “The Blue Mountain and Illawarra, a broad area is being affected by these outbreaks,” mentioned a report on Nine News Sydney.
    The areas of Berala and Smithfield, that are simply 30-odd kilometres from the SCG have been placed on alert.
    “There have been calls to make [wearing] masks mandatory and, of course, not to have crowds which is due to kick off from seventh [of January]. Whether that happens, remains to be seen. We are expecting to hear from the New South Wales premier later in the day. But the numbers are really significant, we had 10 cases diagnosed for the lat day of 2020,” the report added.
    “Over the last two weeks, cases have risen from zero to 170 cases and that is significant. We are talking of a wide area, city blue mountain and Illawarra.”

    Cricket Australia had this week confirmed that the third Test will go forward in Sydney.
    It is but to make clear on the variety of spectators to be allowed on the venue.
    It additionally reduce down on the travelling broadcasting workers, decreasing it to as a lot as one-fourth for the final two Tests and guaranteeing that solely gamers, help workers and match officers journey.
    Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison mentioned that he would have beloved to be on the Sydney Test however for journey journey restrictions that will not permit it to occur.
    “If I was in Sydney, I would love to go there and sing the national anthem in its new form,” he was quoted as saying by AAP.
    Morrison exchanged textual content messages with Australia skipper Tim Paine and coach Justin Langer on Friday, as the continued pandemic ensured there was no Kirribilli meet and greet with the Test squad. The Kirribilli meet is an annual affair with the 2 Test groups visiting Kirribilli House, the official residence of the Australian Prime Minister in Sydney.
    Although the present restrictions will permit followers on the SCG, the New South Wales Premier Gladys Berejiklian has mentioned that the “pandemic is an evolving situation and every day things can change”.

  • AUS vs IND | ‘Vice-captain’ Rohit Sharma hits the nets forward of Sydney Test towards Australia – Watch

    Image Source : TWITTER GRAB/@BCCI Rohit Sharma again within the nets
    Indian cricketer Rohit Sharma, who was not too long ago named because the vice-captain of the Test group for the final two video games towards Australia within the Border-Gavaskar collection, hit the nets for the primary time since IPL 2020 within the UAE. 
    BCCI shared a 55-seconds video of Rohit on the nets, practising towards throwdowns, forward of the Sydney Test which begins on January 7.

    “The wait is over! The Hitman @ImRo45 show is about to unfold. #TeamIndia,” BCCI captioned the video. 
    The wait is over!The Hitman @ImRo45 present is about to unfold.💥😎 #WorkforceIndia pic.twitter.com/DdagR1z4BN

    — BCCI (@BCCI) January 1, 2021

    Rohit had joined the group in Melbourne on Wednesday after finishing the obligatory two-week quarantine in Sydney, strengthening the Indian facet who impressively levelled the four-match collection 1-1 in Melbourne. 
    Earlier, head coach Ravi Shastri, throughout the press convention after the MCG Test, mentioned that Rohit’s inclusion within the enjoying XI for the third Test will not be assured. But on Friday, India introduced their squad for the third and fourth Test the place Rohit was named because the vice-captain, changing Cheteshwar Pujara. 
    The determination therefore ensures Rohit a spot within the XI implying that he’ll change Mayank Agarwal within the XI.
    This might be Rohit’s first Test look since November final yr. He was injured for the New Zealand Test collection in February. 

  • AUS vs IND | Rohit Sharma picked as vice-captain for final two Tests towards Australia

    Image Source : GETTY IMAGES Rohit Sharma
    Rohit Sharma, who spent his second consecutive day coaching on the Melbourne Cricket Ground on Friday as the remainder of the Indian staff unwound, has been picked as vice-captain of the Indian staff for the final two Tests.
    In a press release that introduced T Natarajan and Shardul Thakur as replacements for Umesh Yadav and Mohammed Shami, the Indian cricket board (BCCI) additionally named Rohit as Ajinkya Rahane’s deputy.

    Rahane is the stand-in captain rather than common skipper Virat Kohli who has returned to attend the delivery of his baby.
    Rohit, who has not performed any aggressive cricket since main Mumbai Indians to title victory within the Indian Premier League (IPL) in early November, had arrived in Australia in mid-December and had been below quarantine for the previous two weeks in Sydney. He had been recuperating in India from a hamstring damage sustained in the course of the IPL.
    He landed in Melbourne from Sydney on Wednesday to affix the staff and had two days of observe on Thursday and Friday at the same time as the remainder of the Indian staff relaxed following its victory over Australia within the Boxing Day Test which ended on the fourth day of the Test, i.e. December 29.

    Rohit has not performed a Test match since November final yr when he featured in India’s first pink-ball Test, towards Bangladesh. He had obtained completely slotted on the prime of the batting order however damage compelled him to overlook the two-Test sequence towards New Zealand the place Prithvi Shaw opened.
    Rohit might now open with Shubman Gill within the third Test rather than out-of-form Mayank Agarwal though Ravi Shastri had mentioned this week that they are going to speak to him and see if he’s match sufficient.
    “We will have a chat with him to see where he is placed physically because he has been quarantined for a couple of weeks. We will have to see now how he feels before we take the call,” Shastri had advised media after the second Test which India gained.
    The Indian staff administration has been unaware of his progress and common skipper Virat Kohli advised media on November 26, forward of the ODI sequence, that he had not been saved abreast with batsman’s progress.
    India squad for the final two Tests: Ajinkya Rahane (captain), Rohit Sharma (vice-captain), Mayank Agarwal, Prithvi Shaw, KL Rahul, Cheteshwar Pujara, Hanuma Vihari, Shubman Gill, Wriddhiman Saha (wicket-keeper), Rishabh Pant (wicket-keeper), Jasprit Bumrah, Navdeep Saini, Kuldeep Yadav, Ravindra Jadeja, R. Ashwin, Mohammed Siraj, Shardul Thakur, Thangarasu Natarajan.

  • From MS Dhoni’s gloves to Virat Kohli’s bat: Shikhar Dhawan flaunts his cricket assortment in newest video

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    Image Source : INSTAGRAM/SHIKHAR DHAWAN Shikhar Dhawan
    Team India opener Shikhar Dhawan, on Wednesday, left the social media in splits by sharing a hilarious video on his official Instagram deal with. Dhawan, presently in India after ending white-ball leg of Australia tour, danced to a catchy tune within the clip alongside together with his canine.

    Amused by Dhawans’s dancing present, even KL Rahul reacted to it. “Hahhahahahahahahhaah,” commented Rahul on the video. While Dhawan entertained everybody together with his strikes, followers have been fast to note the background within the video. The left-hander was dancing forward of a set of souvenirs together with a number of bats and Man of the Match trophies.

    Netizens additionally observed MS Dhoni’s wicketkeeping gloves hanging above Dhawan’s assortment of bats. His bat assortment was additionally extraordinary, comprising the willows of stars like Virat Kohli, David Warner and Virender Sehwag.

    Dhawan, prior to now, has additionally acknowledged Dhoni for backing him within the 2013 Champions Trophy. Despite not performing properly in warm-up video games, Dhawan was entrusted by Dhoni. India had an excellent run within the event because the MS Dhoni-led aspect did not lose a single match on their option to raise the coveted trophy. Dhawan, in 5 video games, scored 363 runs and completed as the very best run-getter of the event.

    “I’ve nice recollections with Dhoni bhai, particularly 2013 Champions Trophy, which was my comeback sequence so he backed me quite a bit. I had not carried out properly in my warm-up matches as properly regardless of which he backed me. 

    We did nice as a workforce, didn’t lose a single match, began profitable the warm-up fixtures, gained the Champions Trophy. Those have been the happiest moments on and off the sphere as they loved quite a bit collectively,” Dhawan had stated in a Q&A on Twitter.

    The 34-year-old opener is presently gearing as much as play within the Syed Mushtaq Ali T20 Championship. He’ll be main the Delhi aspect which may even characteristic speedster Ishant Sharma. Delhi will play their first match towards the hosts Mumbai on January 11. Others notable names within the Delhi squad are Nitish Rana, Pawan Negi and Manjot Kalra.

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  • IND vs AUS | Pujara has to determine play in opposition to Pat Cummins, says Zaheer Khan

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    Image Source : AP India’s Cheteshwar Pujara
    Australian speedster Pat Cummins having the higher hand over Indian batting mainstay Cheteshwar Pujara is an space of concern for India however it is usually symptomatic of batsmen discovering it troublesome to attain runs all through the collection, former quick bowler Zaheer Khan has mentioned.
    Pujara, who scored 521 runs at a median of 74.42 on India’s earlier tour of Australia in 2018, has been dismissed three out of 4 occasions by Cummins within the first two Tests of the four-match collection. The batsman is but to attain a half-century.

    “There is no doubt that it is a topic of concern. But it is similar to the way we were talking about Steve Smith, that he will get the feel, he said he found his grip in the one-dayers,” mentioned Zaheer on Sony Sports Network.
    “He has to figure out that thing because it was the same attack against whom he had scored three centuries in the last series. Yes, the angle of Cummins’s deliveries are troubling him and somewhere or the other I feel this is form-related.”

    Zaheer mentioned that Pujara could should rethink his set off motion and might be helped by revisiting the 2018/19 tour. “It could be the trigger movement; he might have to go back down memory lane and think about it. He just has to get that feel,” he mentioned.
    “Yes, if Pat Cummins had not played in the previous series and not exploited his weakness like this, then it would have been a different thing but he has played him in the last series and scored centuries when he was there.”
    Commentators have usually noticed that Pujara has been felled by extraordinarily good deliveries from Cummins, who’s the top-ranked Test bowler on the planet. Zaheer feels that it is just a matter of time earlier than the India’s Test batting stalwart comes good.
    “I think it is a matter of time. We should see it from that viewpoint but at this moment, you can say that it has become a slight area of concern,” he mentioned.

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  • IND vs AUS | Ravichandran Ashwin goes previous Muralitharan to attain distinctive feat towards left-handers

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    Image Source : AP Ravichandran Ashwin
    Ravichandran Ashwin has surpassed Sri Lanka spin legend Muttiah Muralitharan’s file of most wickets towards left-handed batsmen in Test cricket. Ashwin ended the Australian innings on the fourth day of the second Test with the wicket of Josh Hazlewood, who grew to become the 192nd left-hander to fall to the Indian spinner.
    With 191 wickets, Muralitharan was essentially the most profitable bowler towards left-handers earlier than the Boxing Day Test, adopted by England’s veteran quick bowler James Anderson (186), Australia legends Glenn McGrath (172) and Shane Warne (172) and former India captain Anil Kumble (167).

    Ashwin was integral to India’s eight-wicket win on the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG), returning with figures of three/35 an 2/28 within the two innings he bowled in.
    He has notably been necessary in conserving the damaging Steve Smith silent up to now within the sequence, dismissing the highest ranked Test batsman for only one run within the first innings of the primary Test and a duck within the first innings on the MCG. Smith was bowled for eight runs by Jasprit Bumrah within the second innings.

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  • Australia’s batting line-up doesn’t look settled, full marks to Indian bowlers: Sachin Tendulkar

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    The legendary Sachin Tendulkar has performed in opposition to a few of the best Australian groups in his time however when he seems at their present batting line-up, he feels it’s “less settled” with some “playing for their spots”.
    Following India’s unimaginable turnaround within the second Test at Melbourne after the Adelaide debacle, Tendulkar spoke to PTI about Australian batsmanship, Ajinkya Rahane’s captaincy, the efficiency of debutants Mohammed Siraj and Shubman Gill.
    “When I look at this Australian batting line-up and look at some of the earlier line-ups, I feel earlier line-ups were settled ones. Those players batted with a different kind of intent but this team doesn’t look very settled,” Tendulkar mentioned.
    In three accomplished Australian innings within the first two Tests, the Indian bowlers bundled them out for 191, 195 and 200 respectively, one thing not heard of within the days of Allan Border, Mark Taylor, the Waugh brothers. Or throughout Ricky Ponting, Matthew Hayden, Damien Martyn, Adam Gilchrist and even Michael Clarke’s time
    “In this current Australian team, there are players who are not in good form and are unsure about their spots. In earlier teams, those batsmen batted in their slots as there was a lot of surety in their batting line-up,” Tendulkar mentioned.
    One of the highlights of the collection to this point has been Ravichandran Ashwin’s duels with Steve Smith and Tendulkar defined why the senior off-spinner loved an higher hand.
    “In the first Test, Smith got out to an arm ball or you can call it a straighter which Ashwin releases differently. An off-spinner bowls a straighter which skids off the surface when fingers are not on top of the ball.”
    Tendulkar then defined how Ashwin will get the ball to show and bounce.
    “In the second Test, it was not a slider however fingers had been on prime of the ball which produced bounce and switch.
    “Steve Smith performed a traditional flick to a regulation off-break that any batsman does by intuition and fielder was brilliantly positioned there.
    “It was a well-planned ball and wicket by Ashwin. Both are class players, so someone is going to have a better day and so far, Ashwin has come out winner in first two Tests.”
    Tendulkar was all reward for Rahane’s captaincy in addition to his match-changing hundred on a day when batting was troublesome underneath overcast circumstances.
    “I felt this was a brilliant performance by our team, the manner in which our team was able to play and the way Ajinkya led the team. Also if you look at senior cricketers and their contribution, it has been good,” he mentioned.
    For somebody who has all the time disapproved of any form of comparisons, Tendulkar didn’t need to examine the management kinds of Rahane and Virat Kohli.
    “People shouldn’t get into comparisons with Virat. Ajinkya has different personality. His intent was aggressive.“I would like to remind everyone that they are both Indians and they both play for India, so no individuals comes above India. Team and country is above everything else,” he mentioned.
    Rahane’s knock of 112, in response to Tendulkar, was an ideal mix of warning and aggression.
    “I assumed Ajinkya batted brilliantly. He was calm, relaxed and composed. He had aggressive intent however aggression was rightly balanced by calmness and surety.
    “So he did not miss opportunities when a boundary ball was there. And when one had to be patient, he was patient. The intent was very good.”
    He didn’t neglect to say tempo spearhead Jasprit Bumrah’s contribution within the victory.
    “In the fast bowling department, Bumrah as the leader of the attack has taken more responsibility and whenever the chips are down, he has pushed himself harder. That’s the sign of a champion bowler,” he mentioned.
    The maestro additionally praised Gill, who performed two spectacular innings of 45 and 35, and Siraj, who picked 5 wickets on debut.
    “Shubman looked confident and comfortable. He played some good shots off short pitched stuff that Australians bowled. Someone upfront who goes out and scores 45 and 35 so, it is surely a good start,” Tendulkar mentioned of the 21-year-old.
    He was liberal in his reward for Siraj.
    “Let’s also not forget how Siraj has also bowled. It did not appear to me that he was playing his first Test match,” mentioned the person, who has performed 200 Tests.
    “The way he bowled his first over and then built it up gradually but never did it look that he was playing his first match. The plans were well thought out. He executed it well. Both debutants were comfortable in execution of their plans.”
    One of the largest causes for India’s victory, in response to Tendulkar, was the presence of three multi-dimensional cricketers within the center and lower-middle order.
    “Jadeja has batted effectively and it labored. We preserve speaking about 5 bowlers, however having Rishabh Pant at No. 6, Jadeja at No. 7 and Ashwin as No. 8 with 4 a whole bunch additionally helps.
    “That partnership between Jadeja and Ajinkya was crucial. They added invaluable runs and that put them under pressure. Also crucial were runs that Pant was able to score,” he concluded.

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