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  • India vs Pakistan: Babar Azam booed throughout toss at Narendra Modi stadium in Ahmedabad

    Pakistan captain Babar Azam was booed by the jampacked crowd on the Narendra Modi stadium within the World Cup match on Saturday.

    The second Babar stepped out for the toss, the group began chants of ‘India, India’. Thereafter, Indian captain Rohit Sharma received the toss and elected to bowl first.

    Pakistan captain Babar Azam mentioned they may area an unchanged facet from the final match.

    However, the second Babar began talking, the group began their loud jeers and boos. The Pakistan captain smiled flippantly and mentioned he would take pleasure in this crowd.

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    “We also wanted to bowl first. We have had good two wins, momentum and confidence is high. Jam-packed stadium, we will enjoy it. We want to be good in the field, we had a couple of good practice sessions. Same team for us,” mentioned Babar on the toss.

    Boo in stadium when babar azam come to speak after toss #INDvsPAK #babarazam pic.twitter.com/IJZekgRSCm

    — ANSH SHRIVASTAV (@ANSHSHR23715370) October 14, 2023

    Meanwhile, for India, Shubman Gill, who missed the primary two matches due to dengue, will play rather than Ishan Kishan.

    Teams:

    India: Rohit Sharma (c), Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, KL Rahul (wk), Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja, Shardul Thakur, Kuldeep Yadav, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Siraj.

    Pakistan: Abdullah Shafique, Imam-ul-Haq, Babar Azam (c), Mohammad Rizwan (wk), Saud Shakeel, Iftikhar Ahmed, Shadab Khan, Mohammad Nawaz, Hasan Ali, Shaheen Afridi, Haris Rauf.

  • Cricket, squash on cusp of constructing minimize for LA 2028 Olympics; Compound archery, light-weight sculls take a success

    Cricket stands one step away from making a comeback into the Olympic fold after an absence of over a century. This comes after the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) Executive Board, on Friday, beneficial the game’s inclusion for the Los Angeles Games in 2028. Following the IOC Executive Board’s choice, the IOC Session will now vote on the matter on Monday, which is able to formalise the addition of cricket to the LA 2028 program.

    The sport is about to be a six-team occasion, with USA prone to get a direct berth by advantage of being hosts. This would go away simply 5 spots for different groups from world wide to vie for. The qualification course of will probably be introduced at a later date, the IOC stated.

    “This is a win-win situation. The Olympic Games will give cricket a global stage and the opportunity to grow besides the traditional cricket countries and regions. For the Olympic movement, it’s an opportunity to engage with new athlete and fan communities,” stated IOC chief Thomas Bach, earlier than including that the published offers had not been signed for LA 2028 program.

    “Not just in India but across the world, we see growing popularity of cricket and, in particular, the T20 format. Now the World Cup is a huge success already so we are looking forward to welcoming the world’s best players in cricket to perform in the US in 2028.”

    Cricket was final on the Olympics in Paris 1900, when simply two groups competed: France and Great Britain. The two performed a Test match over two days, fielding 12 gamers on all sides. While the match was by no means given the standing of a first-class recreation, Great Britain gained the competition.

    What’s in, what’s out

    Squash, flag soccer, baseball and lacrosse are the opposite sports activities set to be included within the LA Olympics.

    The IOC has been capping the variety of members at 10,500 on the Olympics, and the inclusion of a crew sport like cricket is prone to push that over.

    “We will need to go over 10,500. How far we need to go we will know in 2025, when we finalise the sports programme. We will try to limit how far we can go,” stated IOC’S Sports Director Kit McConnell.

    Meanwhile, compound archery, the place Indian archers accomplished a clear sweep of 5 gold medals on the Hangzhou Asian Games, is not going to be part of the LA Games, with seaside dash rowing being the one new self-discipline to be added to present programme. This additionally implies that light-weight sculls in rowing will take a success.

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    Weightlifting, a sport that gained India a medal at Tokyo 2020, had been left off the preliminary programme at Los Angeles 2028 following doping and corruption scandals and a sequence of governance failures. However, it has now been authorized for inclusion as a result of International Weightlifting Federation’s delegation of anti-doping administration to the International Testing Agency and sanctioning to the Court of Arbitration for Sport.

    Boxing’s standing nonetheless stays unsure, as Bach reiterated that they needed the game to remain within the Olympic fold. The International Boxing Association has been suspended since 2019 by the IOC.

    The selections are all set for approval on the second day of the IOC Session on Monday (October 16).

  • How squash helped Abhay Singh drop 26 kilos in a yr as a teen, and propelled him to stardom after Asian Games

    Despite the towering glass partitions of the cage surrounding him, Abhay Singh managed to deposit his racquet into the gang with an almighty heave. In the times since that second — which sealed the lads’s squash group’s gold medal on the recently-concluded Asian Games with a win over Pakistan — Abhay has replayed it a good few instances courtesy of clips on the web.

    He admits now that he can not keep in mind an excessive amount of of what occurred throughout that adrenaline-soaked, testy remaining in opposition to Noor Zaman.

    “I lost myself (in that moment) which is why I chucked my racquet into the crowd. I didn’t know what was happening. I was really feeling a lot of emotion. Even after everything had settled there was too much going on. So many emotions,” Abhay recollected to The Indian Express on a Twitter Space earlier this month. “It’s the first time I have thrown my racquet into the crowd. It went flying. There is a video on Twitter which I watch over and over. It’s funny how different people react to that moment.”

    It was the form of gripping match that individuals speak about a long time later. The destiny of the gold medal rested on Abhay’s match in opposition to Noor Zaman after Mahesh Mangaonkar misplaced to Nasir Iqbal, and Saurav Ghosal defeated Muhammad Asim Khan. Just just a few days earlier than the ultimate, each groups had met in one other conflict, the place India had misplaced. This one too appeared destined to finish the identical means with Noor two factors away from the title.

    The India vs Pakistan remaining had an additional edge. Not that an India-Pakistan recreation wants one. But after Pakistan had received the group stage encounter, a member of the Pakistani contingent posted a video on how that they had crushed their neighbours on social media which the Indians deemed disrespectful.

    “Before that video, we wanted the clash to be cordial. But after seeing that, it became a bit more personal. Me being the young, hot-headed one, I took it differently to the other three. They were like let it go. I was like, ‘Inko hum dikhayenge.’ I took it personally. Maybe it was a lack of maturity in these situations.”

    While Abhay was enjoying in opposition to Pakistan, again house, his mom wasn’t watching. She was as a substitute taking a nap.

    Indian squash gamers Abhay Singh, Mahesh Mangaonkar and Harinder Pal Sandhu have a good time after profitable the gold medal within the Men’s Team squash occasion on the nineteenth Asian Games, in Hangzhou, China, Saturday, Sept. 30, 2023. India beat Pakistan 2-1 within the remaining. (PTI )Photo/Shailendra Bhojak)(PTI09_30_2023_000249A)

    “My mum is a heart patient so she can’t watch me play. She can’t deal with the nerves. Usually what happens when I play is that my dad is watching on TV. And he gets pretty excited and starts shouting. And my mum will be in another room where she can figure out what’s happening in the match thanks to my dad who is quite vocal. During the Pakistan game, my dad was at work and my mom was home. Their phones started blowing up with messages after the result. That’s when they found out I had won.”

    For Abhay, that second was an indication that he had made the suitable determination two years again when he contemplated quitting the game.

    “Pre-COVID, I was playing the best squash of my life. But during the pandemic, as an athlete I wasn’t able to compete. It was a weird situation. Post-COVID, getting back to sport was not that easy. I struggled with a few results. It just got to a point where I was like if I have given so much to the sport, the least the sport could do was make me happy. And it didn’t. Maybe at that point, if I had walked away it would not have been forever. Maybe at some point I would have tried to come back,” he mentioned.

    “One of the options would have been becoming an assistant coach. It would have been something to do with sport. Maybe I would have pursued an undergrad degree in the UK.”

    As he ruminated over that call, he obtained the e-mail in January 2022 from the squash federation in regards to the trials for the Commonwealth Games in April 2022. That e-mail modified the course of his profession.

    Peak health

    At the Asian Games in Hangzhou, Abhay performed 13 matches over the house of 10 days. After serving to the lads’s group to a gold medal, he partnered teenager Anahat Singh to say bronze. It was the form of factor that required him to be in peak health.

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    “I have put in a lot of work in the summer, to be in the shape and conditioning that it is in now,” mentioned Abhay. “On the day I won that game to seal India’s gold, I was with the physio till 1:30 am in the morning. My body was busted. I had two very tough matches. The next morning I had to start mixed doubles. I had two matches the next day,” he mentioned.

    This conditioning is in sharp distinction to when he began enjoying as a young person on the Indian Squash Academy in Chennai.

    “When I was 15 years old, I was quite overweight. Must have been about 96 kilos. I remember thinking I needed to shed this weight. So I thought playing squash would help. Within months, I not only went into the top 4 in India, but also lost 26 kilos in the span of a year to drop to 70 kg,” he mentioned.

  • Cricket World Cup: Mitchell Santner, Rachin Ravindra give New Zealand all-round energy as they thrash Netherlands for second straight win

    Just earlier than the toss, within the sweltering warmth of Hyderabad, Kane Williamson strolled into the bottom for a pitch-peep. The scant crowd went wild, yelling wildly to collect the eye of the previous Sunrisers Hyderabad captain. Williamson acknowledged with a heat wave and their day was already made.

    The buzz then was whether or not the recovering-from-injury captain would function within the match. He didn’t. But for New Zealand it didn’t appear to matter, as they rolled over the Netherlands with out a lot pressure, trumping them by 99 runs, headlined by Mitchell Santner’s all-round heroics.

    Suddenly, with two thumping wins in as many video games, hopes of them strolling one step additional than they’d within the final two editions is swelling. It just isn’t a mere phantasm. For, they’re getting stronger by the day, even with out Williamson and seamer Tim Southee.

    Against the Dutch, returned their middle-overs enforcer and death-overs destroyer, Lockie Ferguson. Returning from a niggle that had confined him to the bench towards England, he produced the same old bark and chew. Though he went wicketless, Ferguson regarded probably the most penetrative of New Zealand’s seamers, pounding the deck as laborious as he may. He largely formed the ball into the right-hander, however made the odd ball seam away, a lot to the dread of the Dutch batsmen. After repeatedly being overwhelmed, they began throwing the bat at him, crease-tied, and have been overwhelmed for tempo.

    Even with out Southee, the Kiwi tempo agency appears to be like fearsome. Trent Boult swung the brand new ball each methods; Matt Henry hustled them with further bounce and tempo, and bowled the left-handed Vikramjit Singh with a corker. Southee’s spot, even when he’s absolutely match, could be unsure. Were there ever any doubt in regards to the high quality of this assault, expert and skilled as they’re?

    A extra urgent concern would have been the type of the spinners. The solely specialist is Ish Sodhi; Mitchell Santner is the everyday utilitarian bowler-batsman; Rachin Ravindra is extra a batsman than a bowler, although his coaches in Wellington swear that he’s a extra pure bowler than he’s a batsman. Both are typical economy-over-strike charge bowlers, their first function is to avoid wasting runs slightly than buy wickets. Neither have eye-popping variations. Santner has the usual left-arm orthodox spinner’s away-spinner, an undisguised arm-ball (simply watch the arm-speed and launch). The carrom-ball that he christened “crack” has hardly been noticed as of late.

    But he does his job, retains tight lengths, shuffles tempo, retains the batsman glued to the crease, and on surfaces with an oz. of assist, may make the ball grip the floor. He would later elaborate on his craft: “You could be a bit more aggressive on these tracks with a bit more help, especially with the field settings. I had a mid-on up for most of the time. The lines too were more attacking than I would have back home. It’s about adjusting.”

    In his first spell — which started within the ninth over — Santner coerced appreciable side-spin. The textbook double-bluff fetched the primary of his 5 wickets — he would spin a couple of away from the New Zealand-born Max O’Dowd after which rip within the snappier arm ball. O’Dowd merely planted his entrance foot and was duly adjudged leg earlier than wicket. Deception doesn’t come simpler.

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    But thereafter, earlier than the wicket-flurry on the loss of life, Santner misplaced his fabled management that displays on his general economic system charge of 4.86, usually erring on the shorter facet. He leaked 5.9 runs an over on Monday, however would take it any day with a five-wicket haul. Besides, he had held himself firmly towards an aggressive England (2/37 in 10 overs).

    Rachin a revelation

    But like a buddy standing up for an additional in duress, Ravindra bowled thriftily and pumped stress from the opposite finish. He is significantly faster (with a faster arm motion too) and flatter than Santner, will get extra skid however much less side-spin. He was wayward towards England, conceding 76 in his 10 overs, he gave away 30 much less towards the Dutch.

    The pair furnished ludicrous steadiness to the staff. Ravindra bats at No.3, has scored 100 and a half-century in two innings, bowled 10 overs in each video games and snared two wickets. Santner has picked seven wickets in two video games, in addition to crunching a rope-a-dope 17-ball 36 not out that included a pair of sixes off the final two balls. One breathes top-order stability, the opposite affords death-over ballast. Williamson wouldn’t wait to make his comeback — he could be leaping on his mattress, Santner chimes in — and weave a web of invincibility round them.

  • Run-dezvous at Kotla: South Africa and Sri Lanka plunder 754 runs, hit 74 fours and 31 sixes on a batting magnificence

    After South Africa and Sri Lanka piled on a mixed 754 runs on a six-lane expressway of a floor, at a run-rate of practically 8 runs an over all through the sport, the spectators would have been left questioning whether or not they have been watching a T20 sport or an ODI encounter. The boundary depend boggles—the stadium witnessed 74 fours and 31 sixes, three South batsmen scored a whole bunch at breakneck tempo. So a lot in order that it regarded like Kotla was an Instagram app, and the sixes and fours have been like watching reels, one after one other.

    The pre-winter ODI night had a midsummer IPL-night really feel. Perhaps, the batsmen, most of them IPL regulars, too thought as a lot and tucked in. Spectators, after all love, boundaries that rolled off each sixth ball of the match. Bowlers might do nothing a lot, apart from curse their wretched luck. Only two maidens have been bowlers, one every by Kasun Rajitha and Lungi Ngidi. The most economical bowler was Dasun Shanaka, and he conceded six an over. The floor neither swung nor spun. Hardly any ball misbehaved. It was fast and sufficiently bouncy, however not fast or bouncy sufficient to hassle batsmen. It was as if the pitch was by chance ready for an IPL sport.

    It could possibly be the recurring theme in most venues, barring a number of. In the opening match New Zealand had effortlessly hunted down England’s 282 in merely 36.2 overs. Despite sloppy batting, Pakistan placed on 286 towards the Netherlands. The sport in Dharmsala aside, this has been a batsmen’s match. And it might turn into the one for batsmen.

    South Africa’s batsmen accepted the placid floor and the lightning-quick outfield with glee. Quinton de Kock slammed 100 off 84 balls, the silken Aiden Markram blasted 106 off mere 54 balls; by their requirements, Rassie van der Dussen registered an exceedingly gradual 108 off 110 balls.

    Show-stealer Markram

    Markram was the show-stealer. Walking out to bat within the thirty first over with South Africa already in a robust place, courtesy a 204-run second-wicket partnership between de Kock (100 off 84 balls) and van der Dussen. Justifying claims that he’s the inheritor obvious to AB de Villiers, AB de Villiers, Hashim Amla and Faf du Plessis, he produced a knock that stood out each energy and style, timing and aggression.

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    He teed off with a luxurious drive off Shanaka. One over later, he hit a hat-trick of boundaries off Dilshan Madushanka, two of them have been an inch-perfect straight drive. Then, hitting a flat six over the sq. leg off Madushanaka’s bowling, he accomplished the quickest century in a World Cup, overtaking Ireland’s Kevin O’Brien (50 balls for 100) within the 2011 version towards England. He saved his finest for Matheesha Pathrina, hitting three boundaries and one six within the forty third over.

    The impetus, although, was set by de Kock and van der Dussen. The former took his time to get the attention in, consuming 62 balls for his 50 runs; the following got here in solely 21 balls. Van der Dussen performed his half to perfection, although in the long run, he was dissatisfied that he couldn’t meet his self-imposed goal of reaching hundred in 90 balls.

    Stoic battle

    Facing such a monstrous complete, Sri Lanka didn’t give up meekly. They produced a battle, and piled the stress on South Africa’s bowlers. Especially Kusal Mendis, who’s undoubtedly his nation’s finest batsman. Picking lengths early, Mendis smoked eight sixes.

    Three have been struck in a Lungi Ngidi over, and the group maybe sensed an exhilarating chase. It was to not be. Rabada, who Mendis had swatted for 2 sixes, had the final snigger. Thereafter, the South Africans have been within the temper of charity. Charith Asalanka, who scored a strokeful 79, was dropped twice on 44 by van der Dussen and on 52 by substitute Andile Phehlukwayo. Marco Jansen was the unfortunate bowler on each events. Dasun Shanaka, who in his previous 20 innings has crossed double figures solely six occasions, additionally crunched a fifty to fill the evening with extra boundaries. In the tip, Sri Lanka fell behind.

  • Asian Games: India at unprecedented excessive on medal desk after archers, athletes style gold

    The day started with an arrow piercing the morning chill. It ended with a spear floating throughout the night time sky. And each yielded comparable outcomes: a gold medal.

    The archers ensured India’s best-ever total medal tally on the Asian Games when the compound blended group received the gold. The athletes made certain the gold depend, too, can be greater than ever earlier than.

    The observe and subject athletes, who received seven medals on Wednesday and have a complete haul of 29, took India’s medal depend to 81 – 11 greater than that on the 2018 Games. The 18 gold medals, too, are two greater than the earlier version in Jakarta with javelin and relay offering the ultimate push.

    𝐆𝐎𝐎𝐒𝐄𝐁𝐔𝐌𝐏𝐒 ❤️❤️❤️ 𝐈𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐚 𝐂𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐇𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲🥇🥇🥇

    Witness India’s INCREDIBLE record-breaking moments as we soar greater than EVER on the Asian Games!

    81 Medals and COUNTING! Our spirit echoes. Our flag flies excessive. We are unstoppable!

    Join the… pic.twitter.com/6UnVuZxJVM

    — Sony Sports Network (@SonySportsNetwk) October 4, 2023

    “When we finished our events and posed for photos,” javelin gold medallist Neeraj Chopra mentioned, “(silver medal winner Kishore) Jena told me, ‘aaj sab taraf apna flag dikh raha hai (our flag is everywhere)’.”

    While the duo have been navigating by means of a controversial closing, Neeraj and Jena noticed the Tricolour being hoisted 4 occasions. The 35km blended stroll group was the primary to be handed their bronze medals after a punishing race within the morning. Harmilan Bains then claimed the silver within the 800m adopted by Avinash Sable’s battling silver medal within the 5,000m and the ladies’s 4x400m relay group’s second-place end.

    Then, as Jena and Neeraj launched into a lap of honour with the flag draped round their shoulders, they noticed 4 smiling faces on the other finish of the sphere. “I looked up and saw the relay team was celebrating their win,” Jena mentioned.

    Like Mother, Like Daughter 🏃‍♀️👏

    21 years after her mom received the Women’s 800m on the Asiad, @HarmilanBains takes silver in the identical competitors 💙#SonySportsNetwork #Cheer4India #Hangzhou2022 #Athletics #HarmilanBains #WorkforceIndia | @Media_SAI pic.twitter.com/c7yv8INbgV

    — Sony Sports Network (@SonySportsNetwk) October 4, 2023

    India’s 4x400m quartet introduced the curtain down on the observe occasions in some fashion to win the gold medal. For a short second, it regarded past their attain – similar to it did with the ladies, who couldn’t retain the title they’ve held each time because the Busan Asiad.

    Mohammad Anas, who ran the opening leg, began effectively and was quickest among the many 4 Indians. But the oldest man of the group, at 28, was nonetheless fifth finest within the subject. On the ultimate stretch, he ran out of steam and from pushing for first place, he completed far behind the remainder of the pack with a timing of 43.60 seconds.

    𝐒 for Sable, 𝐒 for Silver 🥈@avinash3000m took house his second medal for #WorkforceIndia displaying yet one more magical efficiency on the nineteenth #AsianGames 🏃#SonySportsNetwork #AsianGames #Cheer4India #Hangzhou2022 #AvinashSable #Athletics #WorkforceIndia | @Media_SAI pic.twitter.com/VJSkDJsUwQ

    — Sony Sports Network (@SonySportsNetwk) October 4, 2023

    India’s baton alternate was clean and Amoj Jacob took off. He coated the hole inside the primary 200m, overtook Sri Lanka’s Kaushika Dewage and Qatar’s Ashraf Osman and as he got here out from the curve, Jacob prolonged the hole between him and the second-placed Sri Lankan by almost a second.

    Muhammed Ajmal, together with his lengthy strides and endless vitality, didn’t let the lead slip regardless of coming below growing stress from Qatar’s Ismail Abakar, who ran a quicker leg. But the cushion supplied by Jacob got here in helpful as India have been nonetheless in pole place going into the anchor leg.

    And Rajesh Ramesh, the youngest of the lot aged 23, didn’t let it burn up. India completed the race in 3 minutes, 1.58 seconds forward of Qatar (3:02.05) and Sri Lanka (3:02.55).

    As he crossed the end line, Ramesh kissed the baton and held his arms vast open. From the opposite aspect, Jena and Neeraj watched because the 4 males embraced one another.

    Comeback tales

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    Behind the smiling faces have been tales of candy redemption for a quartet that hasn’t been in one of the best of kind in recent times. Anas has struggled and was nearly written off. Ramesh’s prospects light after a promising begin to his profession after accidents, work commitments and the pandemic almost ended his profession in 2020. Until lately, the Tamil Nadu runner labored full-time as a ticket checker at Trichy railway station.

    The golden boy and the brand new star within the making get 🥇 & 🥈for 🇮🇳@Neeraj_chopra1 secured the highest spot and defended his #AsianGames title with a MASSIVE throw of 88.88 m whereas @Kishore78473748 took the silver passing his personal private finest twice 😮💙#SonySportsNetwork… pic.twitter.com/VjHsdIny4f

    — Sony Sports Network (@SonySportsNetwk) October 4, 2023

    Jacob, too, contemplated quitting the game after being slowed down by accidents whereas Ajmal became a quarter-miler solely a 12 months in the past.

    The upturn in fortunes was evident on the World Championships in Budapest, the place they challenged the mighty Americans within the heats to qualify for the ultimate. The relay gold, India’s first because the 1962 Asiad, has now stoked Olympic ambitions.

    “Overall, it feels good that we won gold, so happy,” Jacob mentioned. “We tried for a new record but gold without a record is also fine. A record without gold will not feel good. Aim fulfilled for this season, now let’s focus on the Olympics.”

  • India schedule for ICC World Cup: Fixtures listing and venues for India matches

    Hosts India will likely be favourites coming into the 2023 World Cup and can begin their marketing campaign towards five-time champions Australia in Chennai. The final time the event was held within the sub-continent in India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh underneath the captaincy of MS Dhoni India lifted the trophy after 28 years.

    This time round underneath Rohit Sharma the expectations from the followers could be the identical. Coming into the event the Men in Blue are in gorgeous type profitable the Asia Cup 2023 and outplaying Australia within the three-match ODI sequence and profitable it 2-1. Another huge optimistic for India is all of the gamers who’re making a comeback into the aspect are wanting in good contact and have had adequate recreation time forward of the showpiece occasion.

    However, the World Cup is an extended event the place Rohit’s males will play a round-robin league. Across 9 venues India will face all the opposite remaining 9 groups within the event. The hosts have to complete within the prime 4 to achieve the semi-finals of the event. It is the same format to the one performed in 2019 the place India misplaced to New Zealand within the semifinals in Manchester.

    R Ashwin replaces injured Axar Patel within the 15-member squad.

    We want Axar a speedy restoration 👍 👍#WorkforceIndia’s ultimate squad for the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup 2023 is right here 🙌#CWC23 pic.twitter.com/aejYhJJQrT

    — BCCI (@BCCI) September 28, 2023

    Let us take a look at India’s fixtures for the World Cup

    October 8: India v Australia, Chennai, 2 pm

    October 11: India v Afghanistan, New Delhi, 2 pm

    October 14: India v Pakistan, Ahmedabad, 2 pm

    October 19: India v Bangladesh, Pune, 2 pm

    October 22: India v New Zealand, Dharamsala, 2 pm

    October 29: India v England, Lucknow, 2 pm

    November 2: India v Sri Lanka, Mumbai, 2 pm

    November 5: India v South Africa, Kolkata, 2 pm

    November 11: India v Netherlands, Bengaluru, 2 pm

  • ‘Thiru…varam…putnam’, ‘Thiru…vantram…pitrum’, ‘Tarum…param…pum’: Watch South Africa cricketers struggling to say Thiruvananthapuram

    The South Africa crew is at the moment situated in Thiruvananthapuram the place they’re scheduled to tackle New Zealand within the second World Cup Warm-up match.

    However, a hilarious video has surfaced on social media the place the lads in inexperienced will be seen struggling to pronounce Thiruvananthapuram.

    A clip of the identical was additionally shared by the senior Congress chief Shashi Tharoor on Sunday.

    Earlier, their first match in opposition to Afghanistan was abadoned because of the rain.

    The South African have arrived in Thiruvananthapuram ! But can they inform anybody the place they’re? pic.twitter.com/N9LnyVLVH9

    — Shashi Tharoor (@ShashiTharoor) October 1, 2023

    The Proteas are taking their follow matches with utmost seriousness, in keeping with head coach Rob Walter.

    “From our point of view, it’s really important to put warm-up games into context, we need to get out of it what we need. The most important one is to keep playing well with our brand. We’ll certainly be looking to make sure we get the max out of that fixture as we possibly can,” he mentioned.

    South Africa might be led by their common ODI skipper Temba Bavuma. However, he needed to return dwelling from India attributable to private causes forward of the facet’s two warm-up video games of the ICC Cricket World Cup.

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    Eight out of the 15 gamers have earned their maiden World Cup call-ups together with captain Bavuma.

    South Africa will kick off their World Cup marketing campaign in opposition to Sri Lanka on 7 October on the Arun Jaitley Stadium in Delhi.

    South Africa squad: Temba Bavuma (c), Gerald Coetzee, Quinton de Kock, Reeza Hendricks, Marco Jansen, Heinrich Klaasen, Sisanda Magala, Keshav Maharaj, Aiden Markram, David Miller, Lungi Ngidi, Anrich Nortje, Kagiso Rabada, Tabraiz Shamsi, Rassie van der Dussen.

  • Mihir Vasavda at Asian Games: Avinash Sable leads from begin to end, wins steeplechase by a rustic mile

    THE EUPHORIC wave, he knew, wasn’t for him. Avinash Sable noticed himself on the massive display, heard the roar that echoed inside the large bowl that the Hangzhou Olympic Sports Centre is, and glanced in the direction of Jianan Wang, the Chinese lengthy jumper for whom the packed stands cheered.

    As he waited for his race to start, Sable was in no phantasm about his fame. But he was confident about his prowess. “I knew I was faster than all my competitors, and I wanted to run a fast race,” he stated.

    And quick he was. By a rustic mile.

    The Indian steeplechaser ran a Games document time of 8 minutes, 19.5 seconds to win India’s first athletics gold medal of the Hangzhou Asiad, a staggering 4.25 seconds sooner than the second-placed Japanese Aoki Ryoma.

    Sunehra Pal 🟰 𝐒𝐔𝐍𝐇𝐄𝐑𝐀 𝐌𝐄𝐃𝐀𝐋🥇@Avinash3000m, take a Bow 🫡🇮🇳#StaffIndia #Cheer4India #Hangzhou2022 #Hockey #AsianGames #IssBaar100Paar | @Media_SAI pic.twitter.com/nznpixvOpz

    — Sony Sports Network (@SonySportsNetwk) October 1, 2023

    Sable’s gold was the primary of a busy – but wonderful – night the place Indian athletes completed on the rostrum in every of the 8 medal occasions that passed off.

    Track and subject on a Games night time is like an orchestra the place the sounds of devices, every sounding so totally different, mix superbly to type the right symphony. Rich, expressive and stuffed with feelings.

    The stage for this musical is the sprawling subject of play. The devices, athletes. Jumpers stretching their limbs and lunging in a single nook; throwers rolling their arms; distance runners and sprinters jogging up and down the observe. All warming up for his or her act to start.

    On China’s National Day, the Indian anthem performed twice as shot putter Tajinder Toor defended the title he gained 5 years in the past with some flourish.

    “My wife asked me to bring her gold,” he laughed. “Only gold.”

    He very almost couldn’t. Outright favorite to win the title, Toor had a wobbly begin. The 6’4” big couldn’t land a authorized throw in his first two makes an attempt, as Bahrain’s Mahmoud Abdelrehman raced into the lead with a primary throw of 19.67m.

    When Saudi Arabia’s Mohamed Daouda Tolo and China’s Liu Yang managed greater marks of 19.93m and 19.97m of their third and fourth makes an attempt, respectively, it regarded sport over for Toor, particularly after he fouled his fifth throw.

    𝗔𝗩𝗜𝗡𝗔𝗦𝗛 𝗦𝗔𝗕𝗟𝗘 – Remember the identify. He is destined for 𝙂𝙍𝙀𝘼𝙏𝙉𝙀𝙎𝙎 🫶 🇮🇳

    The phenomenal athlete smashed the #AsianGames document with a timing of 8:19:50s to clinch #StaffIndia‘s first 𝗚𝗢𝗟𝗗 in Track & Field 🏃🏽@avinash3000m #SonySportsNetwork #Cheer4India… pic.twitter.com/sUKQwuzMVx

    — Sony Sports Network (@SonySportsNetwk) October 1, 2023

    But in his final try, he mustered all of the energy he may to hurl the iron ball an enormous 20.36m away to run away with the gold medal.

    India clinching the primary two gold medals of the night obtained the Chinese spectators stressed and their athletes responded to stress, successful 4 titles – in males’s lengthy leap, ladies’s discus throw, heptathlon and ladies’s 100m hurdles.

    The Indians made their rivals work additional onerous. Murali Sreeshankar, who like Toor was gradual off the blocks, recorded a leap of 8m or extra in every of his 4 legitimate makes an attempt to maintain pushing Jianan Wang earlier than in the end settling for a silver.

    India’s Avinash Mukund Sable celebrates after successful the lads’s 3000-meter steeplechase closing occasion on the nineteenth Asian Games in Hangzhou, China, Sunday, Oct. 1, 2023. (PTI Photo)

    In discus, Seema Punia completed behind two Chinese throwers who have been a category aside, particularly gold medallist Feng Bin, who threw a Games document 67.93m, almost 10m greater than Punia whose greatest was 58.62m.

    As the motion stored alternating between observe occasions and subject, Ajay Saroj exploded within the closing 200m of an exhilarating 1,500m run to beat his teammate Jinson Johnson within the race for a silver medal. Saroj lay flat on the observe after his dash to the end line because the Indian duo managed a silver-bronze end.

    Like Saroj, Harmilan Bains shifted gears in the direction of the top to assert the 1,500m ladies’s silver whereas Nandini Agasara gained the heptathlon bronze. The night time ended with Jyothi Yarraji’s controversial however scintillating run to clinch the 100m hurdles silver.

    Few, although, dominated their occasion from begin to end as strongly as Sable.

    Often falling into the entice of working the race arrange by his opponents when it comes to tempo and technique, and with the World Championship failure nonetheless haunting him, Sable course-corrected in a subject the place he was the tallest determine.

    Moments after the race started, he went across the exterior to overhaul the pack and ran the race on his phrases.

    “I did not want to repeat the same things I had done before,” he stated. And so, he took off. By the half-way stage of the 7-lap race, Sable had opened up nearly a 200m hole between him and the remainder.

    He realised how far he’d run forward of the others solely when he regarded on the big display after 5 laps. “I noticed I had a big lead. That’s when I relaxed a little,” Sable stated.

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    He strolled previous the end line with a time that was method beneath his nationwide document of 8 minutes, 11.40 seconds. But Sable wasn’t obsessive about that mark.

    He got here into the race with the straightforward purpose of successful it, timing being secondary. As he crossed the tape, the mantra, ‘Indo, Jiayou!’ – ‘Come on, India!’ reverberated across the stadium.

    He regarded on the huge display. The euphoric wave, he knew, was for him.

  • ICC unveils names of World Cup mascots as Blaze and Tonk after fan vote

    The International Cricket Council on Saturday introduced that their two World Cup 2023 mascots will likely be generally known as ‘Blaze’ and ‘Tonk’ after majority of followers voted for these two names.

    The duo had been unveiled again in August and followers from across the globe had been requested to assist identify them, with Blaze and Tonk rising because the winners.

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    The feminine mascot will likely be known as ‘Blaze’, who in line with the ICC press launch said, “will be bowling at rapid pace, leaving batters in sheer awe. She is a fast-bowling sensation due to her pinpoint accuracy, unmatched reflexes, boundless flexibility, and unwavering determination. She is adorned with a belt carrying six power cricket orbs, each meticulously prepared for various game-changing tactics.”

    Introducing BLAZE & TONK! 📢 👫 🏏

    You spoke, we listened, the ICC mascots are named and able to interact and entertain younger followers beginning with the #CWC23 🤩

    More 👉 https://t.co/inSvWrrw21 pic.twitter.com/J640DFUwqF

    — ICC (@ICC) September 30, 2023

    “Tonk is a male mascot, with icy-cool composure, making him a batting champion. His range of shots sizzle and leave the crowds electrified, with finesse and power on display in equal measure. Tonk has an electromagnetic bat and versatile shot repertoire, lighting up the grandest stage,” the discharge added.

    This time round, the organizers went for a extra new age vibe with the characters, straying away from their typical animal and different associated designs when representing the 50-over extravaganza in India like Stumpy the Elephant in the course of the 2011 World Cup and the Googlee cricket ball which had legs and arms and was wearing a helmet, gloves and pads in 1996.

    The marquee 50-over extravaganza will start on October 5 with a heavyweight conflict between England and New Zealand in Ahmedabad. The matches will likely be performed throughout 10 venues and can conclude on November 19, culminating within the last conflict on the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad.