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  • ‘(If Australia and England can)….why not the Indian team’: Shardul Thakur on batting deep in white ball format

    There’s no rocket science behind Shardul Thakur’s success as a cricketer up to now. He can get essential wickets with the ball, usually towards the run of play. And he can rating runs decrease down the order. Just like he did within the first ODI towards South Africa. Thakur dismissed Janemman Malan and Temba Bavuma and scored 33 runs off 31 deliveries within the chase of 250, which India fell wanting 9 runs finally.

    “If you see the teams who have done very well on the international platform, their batting lineup has been quite deep,” Shardul mentioned in a media interplay forward of the second ODI.

    “For that matter Australia, if you see Pat Cummins, Mitchell Starc, they bat at number eight and nine. Even for that matter England. Even their batting lineup is deep. Why not the Indian team? Even we can have our batting lineup deep and make that difference in the game. The difference of 15-20 runs which can be crucial in winning the match, especially in white ball format.”

    Further explaining his function with the bat, the 30-year-old, “I’ve been focusing on batting since quite a long now. Obviously batting at number seven or eight or even the one who’s coming on nine, if he can add few runs to the team’s total it’s always great. That gives you cushion to defend the total or if you are chasing then it allows the top order batters to play freely.”

    Innings Break!

    South Africa publish 249/4 on the board.

    2⃣ wickets for @imShard
    1⃣ wicket every for @imkuldeep18 & @bishnoi0056

    Over to #StaffIndia batters now. 👍 👍

    Scorecard ▶️ https://t.co/d65WZUUDh2 #INDvSA | @mastercardindia pic.twitter.com/QjufluMv2y

    — BCCI (@BCCI) October 6, 2022

    Thakur, who made his comeback within the Indian squad after that includes within the India A sequence towards New Zealand, was excluded within the squad for the T20 World Cup in Australia.

    “Nirasha bilkul hai (the disappointment is definitely there),” he mentioned when requested about the identical. “It’s a player’s dream to play in a World Cup and also win it with the team. It’s okay if I didn’t get selected this time. There’s a lot of cricket coming ahead. The One Day World Cup is upon us as well. So my focus would be on performing well in all the games that I play ahead.”

    The bowling all-rounder is nevertheless, assured of the Indian workforce that arrived in Australia on Friday.

    “Ye team bhi koi kam nahi hai (This team is no less),” he mentioned.

    “I think balance-wise our team is very good. The variety is good. Different kinds of spinners, fast bowlers and batters. If you ask me about recent times, we’ve created history every now and then. We’d created history the last time we played in Australia as well,” added Thakur who scored a fifty and picked a 4-fer in India’s Test win on the Gabba final 12 months.

    Not simply India’s, different bowlers are leaking huge as effectively

    India’s bowling has leaked huge within the ongoing residence season. In the final six T20Is that have been performed towards Australia and South Africa, India conceded above 200 fifty p.c of the occasions. And whereas the hosts regarded in management in the course of the first ODI in Lucknow with the Proteas 4 down for 110, David Miller and Heinrich Klassen’s 139 run partnership off 109 deliveries modified that.

    Thakur nevertheless believes it’s essential to take a look at the opposition numbers as effectively whereas assessing India’s bowling woes.

    “Baaki ke bowlers jo khelne aa rahe hai India mai, unko bhi maar pad rahi hai (The other bowlers who are coming to play in India are conceding runs as well),” he mentioned.

    “If you criticise the (Indian) bowlers from the T20 series against South Africa, then you should criticise the South African bowlers as well because the series was won by us. Maar toh unke bowlers ko bhi padi hai. I think before asking about the consistency, we need to look at the pitch and the conditions. There are times when we play One Day games where more than 350 runs are being scored. In those games all the bowlers are definitely going to get battered but is the opposition able to score those runs?”

    He additionally elaborates on how these a part of India’s ODI squad might take time to hit their stride, sporting India’s blue after a spot.

    “The boys are playing are in the team after a long time. Ishan (Kishan) has made a comeback. I’ve played after a month and half since the Zimbabwe tour, Shubman (Gill) was playing red-ball cricket in England. So all the boys here have come after a gap of a month or more barring Shreyas (Iyer), who just played the T20 (vs South Africa). He has scored good runs. Sanju (Samson) was playing with India A. He scored as well. I was also playing for India A and batted well.”

    “There’ll be the odd days when you don’t score many runs and that can happen when you are playing after a gap. In the games to come, the team will perform well in all three departments,” Thakur concluded.

  • Anurag Thakur flags off two new tasks at SAI – Patiala, says tasks a present to athletes on 61st Foundation Day

    The energy and conditioning corridor has the capability to accommodate 150 athletes at one go and guarantees to be one of many largest such facility within the nation.

    Anurag Thakur. Courtesy: PTI

    HIGHLIGHTSAnurag Thakur put forth the significance good well being and hygiene for athletesAnurag Thakur visited varied different components of the sprawling 268 acre campusThe new infrastructure contains an indoor 3 lane observe and a restoration fitness center

    Honourable Union Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports Shri Anurag Singh Thakur, on Saturday, May 7, laid the muse stone of two new tasks on the premier institute on the event of the 61st Foundation Day of Sports Authority of India’s (SAI) Netaji Subhash National Institute of Sports – Patiala (NSNIS)

    This is a part of the revamping of NSNIS Patiala whereby the federal government is investing greater than Rs 150 crore in 3 years. The first venture is the establishing of a National Centre of Sports Coaching, together with a high-tech sports activities science lab and Strength & Conditioning Hall for the schooling of diploma holders.

    The new infrastructure contains an indoor 3 lane observe and a full rehabilitation and restoration fitness center for athletes. The energy and conditioning corridor has the capability to accommodate 150 athletes at one go and guarantees to be one of many largest such facility within the nation.

    The second venture is the development of a centralised totally air-conditioned Kitchen and Food Court with a sitting capability of 400 folks and a modular kitchen with a capability of getting ready 2000 meals.

    The third venture is the rise of hostel capability by 450 with the constructing of two information hostels within the campus.

    Speaking concerning the significance of the tasks, Shri Thakur mentioned, “NSNIS Patiala is India’s premier sporting institute and on the event of its 61st Foundation Day, these tasks are a present to athletes. An excellent, hygienic food plan and rehab and restoration are fundamental necessities of each athlete and subsequently, it was felt that these two tasks should be taken up on precedence.

    “The two projects are among the 13 infrastructure projects lined up for 2022-23. From 2014 to 2021 23 projects have been launched to ensure that athletes have the facilities they need to train well and excel in their sport.”

    The Union Sports Minister additionally visited varied different components of the sprawling 268 acre campus and met athletes, coaches and officers for casual interactions.

  • T20 World Cup: Hardik Pandya unlikely to play as pure batsman; Thakur an choice

    Hardik Pandya is unlikely to play purely as a batsman on this T20 World Cup. The Indian Express understands that the workforce administration has taken the decision after the loss to Pakistan within the opening sport.
    Pandya, who began bowling on the nets on Wednesday, might be monitored throughout apply periods within the lead-up to India’s subsequent sport towards New Zealand on Sunday. If the workforce administration is satisfied about his bowling health, solely then will he be included within the workforce.
    At the identical time, Shardul Thakur, too, might be watched intently on the nets, as he’s tipped to be Pandya’s alternative if the latter fails to make the lower.
    After a protracted hole, Pandya, finally bowled on the nets throughout India’s coaching session yesterday. Bowling in high-intensity matches, nonetheless, is a distinct ball sport and the workforce administration must be satisfied about his match readiness.
    Yesterday’s web session was primarily about specializing in the allrounder’s power and conditioning, with a watch to regularly develop his peak bowling health.
    The 28-year-old has bowled simply 19 overs in seven T20Is this yr, and 23 overs in six One-Day Internationals. He didn’t bowl in any respect on this yr’s Indian Premier League season. And but, whereas selecting the squad for the ICC occasion, nationwide selector Chetan Sharma had backed him to bowl his overs on the T20 World Cup.
    “Hardik is fit and will bowl the full quota of his overs,” Sharma had mentioned on the squad announcement.
    But because the event approached, unsure about Pandya, the choice committee began to stress over the inclusion of an extra quick bowler and accordingly Thakur was drafted into the squad on the expense of Axar Patel, whose World Cup hopes crashed abruptly.
    Bereft of a sixth bowling choice, Virat Kohli put up a courageous entrance forward of India’s event opener, saying that No. 6 being a specialist’s place, the workforce had completely no drawback to play Pandya solely as a batsman, gaining from his death-overs hitting expertise. The India captain rubbished the suggestion that Pandya could be ignored if he didn’t bowl.

    “These things (uncertainty over Pandya’s selection) from a talking or discussion point of view, feel very interesting that if he doesn’t bowl, will he be left out. But we understand the value he brings to the team as a No. 6 batter and in world cricket, if you look around, there are specialists who do that job,” Kohli had mentioned.
    Following a 10-wicket hammering towards Pakistan, the place on a dew-soaked Dubai pitch, India badly missed a sixth bowler, the workforce administration, it’s learnt, is looking for a Plan B. And Thakur might match into that plan.
    Thakur is a really respectable lower-order batsman, adequate to vary the course of a match in Test cricket, as he did towards Australia on the Gabba earlier this yr and extra lately towards England on the Oval. Of course, Pandya boasts a strike-rate north of 145 in T20Is and he’s a match-winner solely together with his batting on his day. But his current batting kind has not been as much as normal, as a tally of 127 runs in 12 matches on the IPL would attest.
    At the second although, after a impolite awakening, the Indian think-tank appears to be extra involved in regards to the workforce’s bowling imbalance and Thakur, who had 21 scalps from 16 video games throughout Chennai Super Kings’ title-winning marketing campaign this yr, might present an answer.
    A persistent again drawback, which first surfaced throughout an Asia Cup sport towards Pakistan in Dubai three years in the past that pressured Pandya to be stretchered off, has chequered the participant’s profession. For now nonetheless, the main focus shifts on India’s back-up plan, with Thakur getting additional minutes with the bat throughout the coaching session, and likewise entering into the nets early, in contrast to a tail-ender. For India, Sunday’s sport is a digital quarterfinal.

  • TOPS will likely be expanded additional for advantage of extra athletes: Anurag Thakur

    Driven by India’s greatest medal haul in Tokyo Olympics, the federal government will broaden the scale and scope of the Target Olympic Podium Scheme (TOPS) protecting the 2024 and 2028 Games in thoughts, Sports Minister Anurag Thakur mentioned on Sunday.
    During a felicitation programme organised for the triumphant Indian athletes, the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) awarded Olympic champion Neeraj Chopra with a money award of Rs 75 lakh.
    This is the primary time, IOA is providing money incentives to Olympic medallists.
    The silver medallists — wrestler Ravi Dahiya and weightlifter Mirabai Chanu — acquired Rs Rs 50 lakh every for his or her heroics in Tokyo.
    The bronze medallists — shutter P V Sindhu, boxer Lovlina Borgohain and wrestler Bajrang Punia — received Rs 25 lakh after their superb present on the recently-concluded Olympics.
    “I assure you we are going to increase TOPS so that more and more athletes can be benefitted,” a delighted Thakur mentioned on the sidelines of the programme.
    Optimistically, he added, “When such a function is held after 2024 Olympics, I hope the medallists are so many that there is no space left here (for them to occupy).”
    Each member of the bronze-medal successful males’s hockey workforce received richer by Rs 10 lakh every. The coach of gold winner Chopra will obtain Rs 12.5 lakh, whereas coaches of Dahiya and Chanu received Rs 10 lakh. The coach for the bronze winners was given Rs 7.5 lakh.
    It was additionally introduced that Rs 1 lakh will likely be given to all 128 Tokyo Olympians. All the medallists have been current.
    Besides, the medal-winning National Sports Federations (NSFs) have been offered with cheques of Rs 30 lakh every.
    Along with Thakur and the opposite dignitaries current, Indian Olympic Association (IOA) president Narinder Batra, too, lauded the nation’s athletes for his or her efficiency on the showpiece.
    “There was a lot of gloom and despondency in the country due to COVID-19 before the Olympics. But your (athletes) performance in Tokyo Olympics has changed all that and you have brought smile to 1.3 billion people of the country,” Batra mentioned.
    “You must have realised what you all have done for the country.”
    Chopra’s coach Klaus Bartonietz and Jaiveer Choudhary, who launched the athlete to the Shivaji Stadium in Panipat, didn’t flip up for the occasion.

  • Panchayat and Rural Development Minister Mr. Singhdev will give radio information about the Forest Rights Act

    Panchayat and Rural Development Minister Shri T.S. Singhdev will give information about the Forest Rights Act on radio. He will tell about its various provisions and rights given to the Gram Sabha in the special program ‘Hamar Gram Sabha’ broadcast from Akashvani Raipur from 7:30 pm to 8pm on 1 November. During this time, he will also answer the questions asked by the audience. This program can be heard on Medium Web 981 kHz. All the stations of All India Radio located in the state will relay this program simultaneously.

    It is noteworthy that the weekly radio program ‘Hamar Gram Sabha’ prepared by the Panchayat and Rural Development Department and Thakur Pyarelal State Panchayat and Rural Development Institute, Nimora, to give information about departmental schemes and motivate people to take advantage of them every Sunday evening by seven and a half It is broadcast from 10 AM to 8 PM.