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WPL 2O23: Kiara Advani kickstarts the opening ceremony of Women’s Premier League

5 team, Delhi Capitals, Royal Challengers Bangalore, Uttar Pradesh Warriorz, Mumbai Indian and Gujarat Titans will fight to lift for WPL trophy.

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The opening ceremony of the first ever Women’s Premier League has been kickstarted at the DY Patil Stadium, Mumbai. Bollywood actor Kiara Advani set the stage on fire as she performed on her film songs as the first performer of the opening ceremony of 1st WPL.

This is a momentous time for the Indian cricket and Women’s cricket. Men’s Indian Premier League turned out to be a big success and is now termed as the most successful leagues in the world.

And now BCCI has taken a step ahead to take the women’s cricket forward. 5 team, Delhi Capitals, Royal Challengers Bangalore, Uttar Pradesh Warriorz, Mumbai Indian and Gujarat Titans will fight to lift for WPL trophy.

Sports presenter Mandira Bedi drew curtains for the TATA Women’s Premier League’s inaugural season. Her words on women empowerment did bring goosbumps in the DY Patil stadium where the first match will be played between Mumbai Indian and Gujarat Titans.

The first actor who took over the stage was Kiara Advani. She started off by dancing on her film Govinda Naam Mera’s song Kya Baat Hai 2.0.

Later another Bollywood actor Kriti Sanon took over the stage and started her performance with a inspiring dance number on Badal Pe Paun Hain from SRK starrer Chak De India.

The most awaited performance from the TATA WPL 2023 opening ceremony is of Punjabi Singer AP Dhillon’s. And the 30-year-old singer did live up to the expectations and entertained the audience in the stadium. The young crowd present at the DY Patil stadium was seen dancing to his tunes.

WPL is also special because the entry of women in the Women’s Premier League is absolutely free. There will be a ticket but no payment will have to be made for it. Yes ladies have to register their seat by going to book my show. The ticket price for men is Rs.100.

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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.

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ODI series against Australia

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.

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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.

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Virat Kohli shakes a leg with Norwegian dance group Quick Style

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.

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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.

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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.

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Prithvi Shaw assault case

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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