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Ind Vs SL: Shock to Team India before ODI series against Sri Lanka, Jasprit Bumrah out of the team
Bumrah is yet to reach Guwahati with the rest of the players where Team India has to play the first ODI on January 10
Just a day before the start of the ODI series against Sri Lanka, Team India has suffered a major setback. Fast bowler Jasprit Bumrah, who is returning after injury, is now out of this ODI series. Jasprit Bumrah was not made a part of this series earlier, but later he was included in the squad. Now once again he has been dropped from the team.
According to reports, Jasprit Bumrah has not yet reached Guwahati with the rest of the players where Team India has to play the first ODI on January 10. The ODI team was changed by the BCCI on January 3, when Jasprit Bumrah was included in this series against Sri Lanka. During that time it was felt that Jasprit Bumrah is fully fit and ready to play.
But keeping in mind the ODI World Cup, BCCI does not want to take any risk. This is the reason why Jasprit Bumrah has been kept out of the series at the last moment, so that there is no haste and he gets full time to recover.
Notably, Rishabh Pant is already injured due to a car accident and there is still doubt about his participation in the World Cup.
Jasprit Bumrah is away from cricket action since September 2022. The T20I series was then played at home against Australia, in which Jasprit Bumrah took part. After that he remained out of the team due to injury, Jasprit Bumrah did not participate in Asia Cup, T20 World Cup 2022.
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Squad of both teams for ODI series
Team India: Rohit Sharma (captain), Shreyas Iyer, Suryakumar Yadav, KL Rahul (wicketkeeper), Virat Kohli, Shubman Gill, Akshar Patel, Washington Sundar, Hardik Pandya (vice-captain), Ishan Kishan (wicketkeeper), Yuzvendra Chahal, Arshdeep Singh, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohammad Shami, Mohammad Siraj, Umran Malik.
Sri Lanka: Dasun Shanaka (captain), Nuwanidu Fernando, Avishka Fernando, Ashen Bandara, Pathum Nissanka, Dhananjay D’Silva, Charit Aslanka, Chamika Karunaratne, Kusal Mendis (wicketkeeper), Sadira Samarawickrama (wicketkeeper), Dilshan Madushanka, Pramod Madushan, Dunith Velage, Jeffrey Vandersay, Kasun Rajitha, Lahiru Kumara and Mahish Tikshna.
ODI series schedule:
January 10 – First ODI, Guwahati, 1.30 pm
January 12 – Second ODI, Kolkata, 1.30 pm
January 15 – Third ODI, Thiruvananthapuram, 1.30 pm
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ICC annual team rankings: India maintains top in place both white-ball formats
India continues to be ranked at the top in men’s ODIs and T20Is following the yearly update that the International Cricket Council (ICC) announced on Friday. India is currently ranked second in the Test rankings, with Australia holding the top spot.
According to the ICC, all series finished since May 2021 are reflected in the annual update for the Test rankings, which excludes results from the 2020–21 season. With 124 rating points, Australia, the victors of the World Test Championship, are currently top of the table.
India, who lost the top spot to them, is only four points ahead of third-place England and fifteen points ahead of them. With 103 points, South Africa is the fourth team above the 100-point threshold. India’s decline was primarily caused by their 2020–21 2-1 series win in Australia being removed from the rankings.
The teams that placed third through ninth are still in the same order. There are currently just nine countries in the rankings because Afghanistan, Ireland, and Zimbabwe have not played enough Test matches. Zimbabwe has only played three Test matches in the last three years. To be listed on the rankings table, a team must participate in eight Test matches within a three-year period.
India leads the ODI and T20I standings in terms of white-ball matches; according to the annual update, matches played before May 2023 are worth 50% of the total points, and matches played after then are worth 100%.
Despite losing to Australia in the 2023 Men’s ODI World Cup final, India now leads the standings with 122 points, up from three points to six. The top ten remains unchanged, however Ireland has moved up to the eleventh spot, surpassing Zimbabwe.
In other changes, Scotland moved up to 12th place, surpassing Zimbabwe, and Pakistan fell two spots to seventh. Outside the top 20, Spain (moving up from 33rd to 30th), the Isle of Man (moving up from 44th to 41st), and Switzerland (moving up from 50th to 45th) have had the largest rating increases.
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Rohit Sharma breaks silence on losing MI’s captaincy to Hardik Pandya, says it is part of life
India captain Rohit Sharma has finally broken the silence on losing MI’s captaincy to Hardik Pandya in the Indian Premier League.
India’s star cricketer and Mumbai Indians former captain Rohit Sharma on Thursday finally opened on why MI’s captainship was given to Hardik Pandya before the beginning of IPL 2024.
Rohit Sharma acknowledged this by saying that not everything goes your way. Being removed from Mumbai’s captaincy was a shock to many in the cricket world and a bitter pill to swallow for Rohit’s horde of fans, many of whom also booed Hardik during the team’s opening games this IPL season.
The roles of Hardik and Rohit Sharma will be switched during the T20 World Cup, which will begin on June 2. As part of MI’s significant leadership transition, which has not gone as expected, Rohit is currently playing under Hardik. He will return as Pandya’s captain for the crucial ICC match. For the majority of his career, Rohit has served as Hardik’s captain and senior, but the events of the last month and the upcoming 30 days threaten to alter the relationship.
Rohit emphasized, but not in a bad way, describing how playing under Hardik before returning to captain him would not throw off the rhythm. He also said, it is part of life. When questioned by the media about his experience playing in the ongoing Indian Premier League under Pandya, the Indian captain responded, it has been a great experience.
The 37-year-old received criticism for not scoring enough runs with the willow in the preceding three seasons, but in the competition’s 17th edition, he had an entirely different appearance. Whatever is there and you go by it and then try and do what is required from you as a player. He said he has only tried to do that in the last one month. In 10 IPL 2024 innings, India’s skipper Rohit has already scored 314 runs.
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Bollywood star Amitabh Bachchan motivates Indian cricket team for ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2024, video goes viral
Amitabh Bachchan wishes Men in Blue ahead of T20 World Cup tournament in his Kalki 2898 AD avatar.
Bollywood star Amitabh Bachchan has a special message for the Indian cricket team who are getting ready to play the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2024. The legendary actor shared a video in which he assumed the role of Ashwatthama, his character from the upcoming film, Kalki 2898 AD, and motivated the players of the Indian cricket team for the upcoming ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2024.
The video was shared by the official social media accounts of the Nag Ashwin film, Kalki 2898 AD and began with Amitabh Bachchan announcing, Ye mahayudh hai, ab hoja tu taiyaar (This is a war, get ready for it). Through his poetry, the megastar tried to pump up the players as he said, Ab ban ja veer, buland kar le apni taqdeer, dikha dum, laga dum (Now, become brave, elevate your destiny, show your strength, put in effort). The video has gone viral on social media with 87,505 likes till now which are only increasing.
As the Bollywood star narrated the poem with the background music of Kalki 2898 AD playing, visuals of the Indian cricket team played on the screen. Players like Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli and Hardik Pandya, were seen along with former players like Harbhajan Singh and Mahendra Singh Dhoni celebrating their victory on the cricket ground in the viral video.
In the end of the video the actor concluded with Maan mat tu jeet se kam, garv se uthe har matha, ye mahadwand hai, mahayudh, virodhi se tu nazrein mila, ab hoja tu taiyaar (Do not belittle yourself in front of victory, let every head rise with pride, this is a great struggle, a great battle, meet the opponent eye to eye, now get ready).
The video was shared with the caption, T20WorldCup2024 ka Shankhnaad ho chuka hai! @amitabhbachchan, #TeamIndia’s biggest cheerleader, has a special message. Star Sports lekar aaye hain yeh T20 World Cup ka Mahayudh! Are you Ready?
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