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WPL 2023: Women’s Premier League schedule announced, 1st match between Gujarat and Mumbai
448 players entered the auction, only 87 players got bids. 5 franchises, Mumbai Indians, Delhi Capitals, UP Warriors, Gujarat Giants and Royal Challengers Bangalore together spent Rs 59.50 crore at the auction.

The Board of Cricket Control in India has announced the schedule for the first edition of the Women’s Premier League. The tournament will start from March 4 and will be played till March 26. Total five teams will play 22 matches at two stadiums in Mumbai – DY Patil stadium and Brabourne stadium. 11-11 matches will be played at both these stadiums.
Within 23 days, 20 matches will be played in the league round. Apart from this, an eliminator and a final match will be played at the last stage. The first match will be played between Gujarat Giants and Mumbai Indians at DY Patil Stadium on March 4. At the same time, four double header matches will be played during the league round, which means two matches will be played in a day.
The first match will start at 3.30 pm, while the second match will start at 7.30 pm. The last match of the league stage will be played on March 21 between UP Warriors and Delhi Capitals. Whereas, the only eliminator will be played at DY Patil Stadium on March 24 and the final will be played at Brabourne Stadium on March 26.
The five teams for this WPL are as follows:
Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB)
Gujarat Giants (GGT)
Mumbai Indians (MI)
Delhi Capitals (DC)
UP Warriors (UPW)
Earlier on February 13, the auction of the Women’s Premier League was held. Smriti Mandhana was the most expensive player. She was bought by Royal Challengers Bangalore for Rs 3.40 crore. At the same time, England’s Natalie Sciver (MI) and Australia’s Ashley Gardner (GGT) got a bid of Rs 3.20 crore. Both of them were the most expensive foreign players. India’s Deepti Sharma (UPW) fetches a bid of Rs 2.60 crore. Whereas, Jemima Rodrigues (DC) was sold for Rs 2.20 crore and Shefali Verma (DC) for Rs 2 crore. Australia’s Beth Mooney was also bought by Gujarat Giants (GGT) for Rs 2 crore.
Out of the total 448 players who entered the auction, only 87 players got bids. 5 franchises, Mumbai Indians, Delhi Capitals, UP Warriors, Gujarat Giants and Royal Challengers Bangalore together spent Rs 59.50 crore at the auction. Gujarat, Delhi and Bangalore bought maximum 18-18 players. Whereas, Mumbai bought 17 players and UP bought 16 players.
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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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