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IND vs NZ: Twitter hails Washington Sundar’s all-round performance in 1st T20I, Black Caps defeat India by 21 runs
Washington Sundar scored the first half-century of T20 international career in 25 balls. Sundar got out after scoring 50 runs in 28 balls.

New Zealand has finally beaten India for the first time on their India tour. Both the teams played the first T20I in Ranchi and Black Caps won the match by 21 runs. Batting first after losing the toss, New Zealand scored 176 runs losing six wickets in 20 overs. Devon Conway scored 52 and Daryl Mitchell scored an unbeaten 59. In response, the Indian team could only manage 155 runs on the loss of nine wickets.
For India, Suryakumar Yadav scored 47 runs and Washington Sundar scored 50 runs. With this victory, New Zealand has taken a 1-0 lead in the three-match T20I series. The second match of the series will be played on Sunday at the Ekana Stadium in Lucknow. However, India might have lost the first T20I but Sundar’s all-round performance has won the internet.
The Indian all-rounder did not only take 2 important wickets in the first power play but also scored his first T20I half century against New Zealand. Sundar also took an unbelievable catch at mid-off.
Second defeat under Hardik’s captaincy
This is the second defeat of the Indian team under Hardik’s captaincy. Earlier the team had lost to Sri Lanka. At the same time, the Indian team has lost to New Zealand in the T20 format after 15 months. Before this match, India got the last defeat from the Kiwis on 31 October 2021. Then New Zealand had defeated India in the T20 World Cup 2021 in Dubai.
Indian batters failed
Apart from Suryakumar and Sundar, the Indian batting flopped in the match. Seven batsmen could not even touch double figures. At the same time, the performance of the Indian bowlers was also disappointing. Arshdeep gave away 51 runs in four overs. Umran also gave 16 runs in one over, Mavi got 19 runs in two overs and Hardik, the skipper gave 33 runs in three overs.
Chasing the target of 177 runs, the Indian team got off to a very poor start. By the score of 15 runs, India had lost three wickets. Ishaan Kishan was dismissed for four runs and Shubman Gill for seven runs and Rahul Tripathi could not even open the account.
After this, Suryakumar Yadav and captain Hardik Pandya shared a 68-run partnership in 51 balls for the fourth wicket. But Ish Sodhi broke the partnership. Surya missed out on his half-century and was dismissed for 47 runs in 34 balls with the help of six fours and two sixes.
After this Hardik also returned to the pavilion. He could score 21 runs in 20 balls. Deepak Hooda (10) and Shivam Mavi (2) also could not do anything special. Kuldeep Yadav could not even open the account. Meanwhile, Washington Sundar held one end and kept playing shots.
He scored the first half-century of T20 international career in 25 balls. Sundar got out after scoring 50 runs in 28 balls. Arshdeep and Umran remained unbeaten. For New Zealand, Captain Santner, Bracewell and Ferguson took two wickets each. At the same time, Jacob Duffy and Sodhi got one wicket each.
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IND vs AUS: Sanju Samson to replace Shreyas Iyer in ODI series against Australia
Iyer complaint of back injury ahead of the Ahmedabad Test day 3.

The Indian team has suffered a setback before the series of three ODIs to be played between India and Australia. If the report is to be believed, Shreyas Iyer will not be a part of the ODI series against Australia. The BCCI issued a statement on Monday saying that the medical team is monitoring Shreyas’s injury.
If Shreyas is ruled out of the ODI series against Australia, then Rajat Patidar or Rahul Tripathi will be included in the team, or BCCI could opt for Sanju Samson.
If media reports are to be believed, on the other hand, the way Axar Patel got a chance in place of Ravindra Jadeja and Axar Patel also capitalized on that opportunity. Similarly, in place of Shreyas Iyer batsman Sanju Samson might come to the fore.
For the unversed, Iyer complaint of back injury ahead of the Ahmedabad Test day 3. The batsman could not even run properly hence, Team India was one batsman short during the first innings.
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On the other hand, Sanju Samson ODI Carrier includes 330 runs in 10 innings of 11 matches, including two half-centuries. Moreover, in the absence of Rohit Sharma in the first match of the ODI series, Hardik Pandya will take over the responsibility of captaincy only in the first ODI against Australia.
India won the Border-Gavaskar Trophy Test Series by 2-1 and lifted the trophy. Men In Blue have also qualified for the World Test Championship’s final. Now in the absence of Rohit Sharma, in the first ODI, Hardik Pandya would like to start the ODI series with a win for the Indian team under his captaincy.
Indian Squad: Rohit Sharma (c), Yuzvendra Chahal, Ishan Kishan, Ravindra Jadeja, Virat Kohli, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohammad Shami, Mohammad Siraj, Hardik Pandya, Axar Patel, KL Rahul, Shubman Gill, Shardul Thakur, Umran Malik, Jaydev Unadkat, Washington Sundar and Suryakumar Yadav.
Sapna Gill moves Bombay High Court in Prithvi Shaw assault case, demands cancellation of FIR
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Virat Kohli shakes a leg with Norwegian dance group Quick Style | Watch
Virat Kohli played a marathon inning of 186 off 364 balls in the last Test of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy against Australia in Ahmedabad.

Virat Kohli met members of Norwegian dance group Quick Style in Mumbai on Tuesday. He was seen grooving to the song Ishq by Stereo Nation with the Quick Style group. The cricketer also shared a picture with the members of the dance crew.
During the shoot, Kohli made a reel with the group. In it, a member of Quick Style picks up a cricket bat, not knowing what to do with it. Dressed in a white T-shirt and black jeans, Kohli enters the scene and does the steps while holding the bat. The dance crew follows them.
Watch the video here:
For the unversed, Norway’s dance crew is famous for quick style dance on Bollywood songs. Quick Style danced to the songs Kala Chashma and Saddi Galli at his own partner’s wedding a few months back. Its video too went viral on social media. After this the popularity of the dance crew has increased vigorously. The dance group keeps uploading dance videos on Indian and Pakistani songs on social media.
When the former Indian skipper met the dance group, he had also shared a photo with them on social media. It caption read, “Guess who I met in Mumbai.”
However, this is not for the first time that Kohli was spotted dancing. Indian players had played Holi fiercely in Ahmedabad before the fourth test. During this, Virat Kohli also danced with Shubman Gill in the team bus. Kohli also did the hook step of Shahrukh Khan’s movie Pathan song in Nagpur in the first Test against Australia.
On the sport front, Virat Kohli played a marathon inning of 186 off 364 balls in the last Test of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy against Australia in Ahmedabad. He batted for 520 minutes and scored the 28th century of his Test career, which came after 1205 days. Including all three formats, Virat has now 75 international centuries.
The last Test between Australia and India was drawn, but India have now reached the final of the WTC Yano World Test Championship. India will compete against Australia on June 7 at The Oval Ground in London, the capital of England.
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Sapna Gill moves Bombay High Court in Prithvi Shaw assault case, demands cancellation of FIR
Sapna Gill alleged that Shaw was in collusion with influential people and the allegations leveled against her were false.

The case of Prithvi Shaw and social media influencer Sapna Gill still remains in the headlines. According to reports, Sapna Gill has now approached the Bombay High Court for allegedly assaulting the Indian cricketer and his friends outside Hotel Sahara Star in Santacruz, Mumbai.
Sapna Gill alleged that Shaw was in collusion with influential people and the allegations leveled against her were false. Sapna Gill also alleged that she was falsely implicated in the present FIR by the complainant, a friend of Shaw. She said that the law was misused at Shaw’s direction to fulfill his personal vendetta and harass and entrap Gill and promote his ajenda.
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Her plea has sought a direction to the police not to register a case against him. Her plea has also sought initiation of action against the investigating officer and senior police inspector of Oshiwara police station.
Mumbai’s Oshiwara police station had registered an FIR against Gill and others in February this year for allegedly abusing and assaulting Shaw and damaging his car. Following the alleged assault by Gill and his friends, Gill was accused of threatening Shaw with a false complaint and demanded ₹50,000 to withdraw.
Significantly, Gill was booked for rioting, extortion and criminal intimidation under the Indian Penal Code (IPC) in the FIR. She was arrested on February 17 and was kept in custody till Gill was granted bail by a Mumbai court on February 20.
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