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“45 Minute Conversation…”: Yuvraj Singh’s Cryptic Tweet On Rishabh Pant Goes Viral

Rishabh Pant turned out to be the hero for the Indian cricket team on Sunday with a maiden ODI century against England in Manchester. Pant’s unbeaten 125 off 113 balls helped India recover from 72/4 to chase down a 260-run target in 42.1 overs. Pant and Hardik Pandya (71, 55 balls) shared a 133-run stand for the fifth wicket to help India register a five-wicket win and clinch the series with a 2-1 margin. Pant had been battling poor form in white-ball formats but rose to the task when needed the most. Read More

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BCCI chooses not to renew contracts of 11 National Cricket Academy coaches

The BCCI has decided not to renew the contracts of 11 National Cricket Academy (NCA) coaches, four of them former India players, in the wake of the Covid-19 crisis, because of which there has been no activity at the academy in Bengaluru for the past few months and no plans for a restart in the foreseeable future. These coaches – former players Subroto Banerjee, Shiv Sunder Das, Hrishikesh Kanitkar, Ramesh Powar, Mansur Ali Khan, and Sitanshu Kotak among them – were on one-year contracts for salaries ranging from INR 30 lakh to INR 50 lakh [$40,750 to $67,900 approx.]. They were informed by Rahul Dravid, the NCA boss, that they would not be needed after the deals end on September 30. The other members of the coaching staff to lose their jobs are Rajiv Dutta, Apurva Desai, Atul Gaikwad, Subhadeep Ghosh, and T Dilip. As such, no clear reason for the decision has been conveyed to them, ESPNcricinfo learnt after speaking to some of the coaches who will be without jobs after a week. “It came as a shock, because there was no warning, when Rahul called me and said he had some bad news…

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Lala Amarnath, the shining light of early Indian cricket who transcended borders

New Delhi: No discussion on the first set of Indian cricket greats can be complete without mentioning Lala Amarnath, who played 24 Tests for the country between 1933 and 1952. Amarnath, who was born on this day in 1911, was the first Indian to score a Test century, incredibly achieving this feat on debut against England in Bombay (now Mumbai) in 1933. Amarnath never replicated his debut performance, and his records may not always reflect his exalted stature in Indian cricket, particularly when contemporaries like the two Vijay’s — Merchant and Hazare — were far more prolific run-machines. However, Amarnath’s utility as a bowler, his leadership skills and the ability to occasionally don the wicket-keeping gloves cement his place among India’ early greats. He played 24 Tests, scoring 878 runs at an average of 24.38, with that debut century and four half-centuries. He, however, made up for this with the handy medium-pace bowling that earned him 45 wickets at 32.91. Lala’s benefactors Nanik Amarnath Bharadwaj was born on 11 September 1911, and only later acquired the Punjabi honorific Lala. Hailing from Kapurthala, he was sent to live with his grandfather in Lahore when his mother…

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