Cricket News Live Updates, January 22: Cummins Picks Kohli Ahead of Tendulkar, Shami's Golden Advise to Umr – News18

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Last Updated: January 22, 2023, 22:23 IST
New Delhi, India
Hello everyone and welcome to our live coverage of the events from the world of cricket today. Stick with us through your Sunday for the latest updates. On Saturday, the Indian men’s senior team crushed New Zealand by eight wickets in what turned out to be a one-sided clash in Raipur. With that, the Rohit Sharma-led side also took the series by winning the first two matches. Meanwhile, India’s unbeaten run at the ICC Women’s U-19 T20 World Cup came to an end with a seven-wicket thrashing by Australia in the Super Six stage. Invited to bat, the India batters, who have looked formidable so far in the tournament, were Read More
When he’s not outfoxing batters with his legspinners, India cricketer Yuzvendra Chahal is hatching plans to prank his team-mates. Chahal is quite the entertainer who is known to lighten the mood with his witty remarks and hilarious antics. The latest to have fallen victim to his tomfoolery is his close mate and fellow spinner Kuldeep Yadav. Chahal shared a picture on his Instagram story with his 8.3 million followers in which he has used gender-swapping filter to turn Kuldeep into a woman and captioned it as ‘Traveling Partner’. (Read Full Story Here)
Rwanda stunned West Indies  by four wickets in their final match of the 2023 ICC Women’s T20 World Cup in South Africa on Sunday. After bowling out their much stronger opponents for a mere 70, Rwanda stuttered before chasing down the small total for a famous win. Read More Here.
The 2nd ODI between India and New Zealand ended early after the tourists were skittled for 108 in Raipur. Chasing the small total, India overhauled the target in just 20.1 Overs. Former India opener Aakash Chopra thinks that Rohit Sharma would’ve scored a century if the target was much bigger. Red More Here
“It’s a team of XI players. I might have my own likes or dislikes, but every generation is going to get better,” Kapil Dev said while reacting on the Virat Kohli vs Sachin Tendulkar debate. Read More Here.
The Indian women team produced a dominating display during their ICC U19 T20 World Cup 2023 match against Sri Lanka today. Parshavi Chopra took 4/5 to restrict Sri Lanka to 59/9  before India chased down the small target in 7.2 Overs. Read More Here.
“I am repeatedly saying that you shouldn’t worry too much about Rohit Sharma’s form at all. This was his first half-century while chasing against New Zealand and it came at the right time,” Pathan said. Read More Here.
“I think it (playing next round of Ranji Trophy) will make a lot of sense. If they play maybe one game – two innings in a Ranji game – that will surely help. No matter how experienced you are, you surely need that game time, especially in red ball cricket. You don’t want to be undercooked when you play that first Test.” Read More Here.
“When you look at the modern era, in the last 20 years or so, Virat Kohli is right up there. Tendulkar also one of the time all-time greats. Virat Kohli, in my book just fits in as a pure one-day player. MS Dhoni is another player that comes to my mind,” Manjrekar said. Read More Here
“There’s only one piece of advice I want to give (you),” Shami said during a conversation with Umran in a video shared by BCCI. “I don’t think it’s easy to play against the pace that you have. Just that we need to work a little on line and length. If we can get a command over it, we can rule the world.” Read More Here
“I think I have played Sachin only once in a T20 years ago. So I will say Virat,” Pat Cummins replied when his team-mate Usman Khawaja asked him to pick one from Sachin Tendulkar and Virat Kohli. Read here
“I think it’s changed across all formats. I believe that technology has changed around vets, as has the mindset. I believe we’ve seen that, and it’s now flown into Test cricket, T20 cricket, with the way and pace of the game being played in London showing that, but the 360 natures of the game, players like Suryakumar Yadav, Jos Butler, those sorts of players who score everywhere and aren’t afraid to play shots, you know from day one,” Shane Bond says. Click here for more.
Having started the series on an impressive note, the Indian women cricket team will be hoping their senior players are fit to face West Indies in their second match to be played against West Indies. Harmanpreet Kaur, Shikha Pandey, Renuka Singh and Pooja Vastrakar sat out of India’s tournament opener and it’s not certain whether they will play in the next match as well. Read more here
“As a proud Muruwari woman and reflecting on what Jan 26 means to me and my people it is a day of hurt and a day of mourning. My culture is something I hold close to my heart and something I’m always so proud to speak about whenever asked. I also am fortunate enough to play cricket for a living which is something I dreamt of as a kid,” Ashleigh Gardner wrote in a note on her social media accounts on Sunday morning.
After suffering a loss in the second ODI against India, New Zealand captain Tom Latham admitted that the unswerving accuracy of Mohammed Shami and Mohammed Siraj with line and lengths didn’t give any easy scoring options to the visitors.
The Rohit Sharma-led side registered a dominating eight-wicket win against New Zealand in Raipur on Saturday, where the fast bowlers won the game for India in the opening exchanges, reducing New Zealand to 15/5 inside 11 overs.
Shami was the pick of the bowlers, claiming 3 wickets after conceding just 18 runs in six overs including a maiden over. While Siraj scalped one and has an impressive economy of 1.70.
“I have given you a new nickname, Smoothman Gill. I hope you don’t mind,” Sunil Gavaskar said to the youngster. Gill, who was all smiles and slightly embarrassed to hear such things from the great man, said, “I don’t mind at all, sir.”
India’s easy win over New Zealand made sure that there was not much to talk about the on-field tactics and the major news point became how Rohit Sharma had forgotten what he wanted to do upon winning the toss earlier in the day. Former cricketer and popular cricket pundit Sanjay Manjrekar ensured he too takes a cheeky dig at New Zealand even as he remembered how the forgetful skipper had become the talk of the town at the toss.
The MI Emirates kept their winning run intact in the DP World International League T20 after pulling off a thrilling five-wicket over Abu Dhabi Knight Riders at the Zayed Cricket Stadium, here.
The Abu Dhabi Knight Riders put up a strong total of 170 for seven, riding on the brilliant innings of 65 runs from 40 balls by Dhananjaya de Silva. In reply, the MI Emirates were in a spot of bother when they needed 20 runs off the last over. However, Dwayne Bravo and Najibullah Zadran batted smartly and took their team over the line.
India’s easy win over New Zealand made sure that there was not much to talk about the on-field tactics and the major news point became how Rohit Sharma had forgotten what he wanted to do upon winning the toss. Former cricketer and popular cricket pandit Sanjay Manjrekar ensured he too take a cheeky dig at New Zealand even as he remembered how the forgetful skipper had become the talk of the town at the toss.
“I think Rohit Sharma’s pause at the toss was longer than the New Zealand innings,” he said.
After the game ended, Dravid was caught on camera doing ‘ninja’ gesture. The video shows him moving both his hands; it seemed he was premeditating some shot. Even Harsha Bhogle, who was commentating, said: “Try and decode that for us.”
he MI Emirates kept their winning run intact in the DP World International League T20 after pulling off a thrilling five-wicket over Abu Dhabi Knight Riders at the Zayed Cricket Stadium in Abu Dhabi on Saturday night.
The Abu Dhabi Knight Riders put up a strong total of 170 for seven, riding on the brilliant innings of 65 runs from 40 balls by Dhananjaya de Silva. In reply, the MI Emirates were in a spot of bother when they needed 20 runs off the last over. However, Dwayne Bravo and Najibullah Zadran batted smartly and took their team over the line.
India had managed to defend 97 against Australia in a warm-up game earlier this month but the Shafali Verma-led side couldn’t repeat the feat as its opponents raced to the finish line with 37 balls to spare.
The loss has dented India’s net run rate (+1.905), which could play a vital role in deciding who qualifies for the semifinals. The Women in Blue have dropped to second place behind Australia in the Super Six Group 1.
Australia, India, South Africa and Bangladesh all have four points while Sri Lanka and UAE are on zero points.
It was a day when India’s strong batting line-up looked clueless. After conceding a couple of boundaries, Milly Illingworth (2/12) got the prized wicket of the Indian skipper as Shafali (8), once again, fell early.
The Australian quick then struck in her next over, as Gongadi Trisha (4) edged the ball and wicketkeeper Paris Hall did the rest.
The Australian bowlers were all over India with Sonia Mendhiya (2) crumbling under pressure.
With wickets falling like nine pins at the other end, Shweta Sehrawat (21) tried to relieve the pressure by collecting a boundary an over with the dangerous Richa Ghosh (7) also joining her with a four, but the keeper-batter was sent back to the hut two balls later, leaving India at 43/4.
Sehrawat was dismissed for the first time in the tournament by Sianna Ginger, who went on to claim Parshavi Chopra (8) and Mannat Kashyap’s (1) wicket in her next two overs, finishing with figures of 3 for 13.
With the top-order falling early, the onus was on the middle-order batters to get some runs on the board in the crucial clash, but they too wilted under pressure as only three Indians managed to reach double digit scores.
In reply, the Australians came out all guns blazing and the Indian bowlers had no answer. They leaked runs before Titas Sadhu (1/13), Archana Devi (1/7) and Sonam Yadav (1/22) took a wicket each.
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