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“He was really nice, and just said any time to reach out and even sent me a message on Instagram, so that was pretty cool”

AAP15-Mar-2023Ravindra Jadeja is a man of his word. The India allrounder had promised Australia spinner Matt Kuhnemann a masterclass after the Border-Gavaskar series – and he did just that.As soon as the fourth Test in Ahmedabad ended in a draw on Monday, Jadeja made time to speak to the Australian newcomer. A self-confessed “massive fan” of Jadeja, Kuhnemann revealed after taking 5 for 16 in the third Test in Indore that he spoke with Jadeja after his debut in Delhi.”I said, ‘Have you got any tips for me after the [second] Test?’ He said, ‘Yes, at the end of the series’,” Kuhnemann had said in Indore.Related

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The left-arm spinner was still buzzing on Tuesday about playing three Tests on his debut tour, after only flying over to join the squad following Australia’s series-opening defeat in Nagpur.Adding to it all, Kuhnemann was nicknamed “Jaddu” by his Sheffield Shield team-mates after running through South Australia in a game for Queensland in 2021.”It was probably about 15 minutes, he [Jadeja] was just giving me some awesome tips; we talked about everything,” Kuhnemann told AAP. “Nathan Lyon helped organised it [the chat] as well. He [Jadeja] was really impressed with Todd [Murphy], Gaz [Lyon] and myself so that was really cool to hear that from him.”He gave me some good tips for the next time we’re in the subcontinent, and some tips to go back home with as well. He was really nice, and just said any time to reach out and even sent me a message on Instagram, so that was pretty cool.”Interacting with some of the game’s greats during a whirlwind month has only fuelled the 26-year-old’s hunger and desire to keep improving at international level.Kuhnemann, Lyon and Murphy received the ultimate praise from Indian coach Rahul Dravid after the series, calling the Aussie trio the best spin attack the hosts had faced in their own conditions for more than a decade. All three had their turn taking bags of wickets across the four Tests, claiming 45 scalps between them, headlined by Lyon’s 22.”The way that it happened, I wouldn’t change it for the world,” Kuhnemann said. “Nathan Lyon took myself and Todd under his wing from the get-go, he was pretty much like a big brother to us over here.”I think we’re very lucky to have Gaz and his experience to learn off. I’m ready to get back in the nets, get back in there after speaking to Jadeja. I’m really keen to tinker with a couple of things, trying just to keep improving my skills and play as much cricket as I can.”If all of that wasn’t enough, Kuhnemann put his hand up to open as a nightwatch-opener during Australia’s second innings in Ahmedabad after Usman Khawaja was troubled by a leg injury. Kuhnemann became the first Australian to open and bat at No. 11 in the same Test match since Percy Hornibrook against England in 1929.

Opening batter Mayank Agarwal has been added to India’s squad

Nagraj Gollapudi02-Feb-2022India have been dealt a severe blow four days ahead of their ODI series against West Indies with seven members of their camp, including four players, testing positive for Covid-19. The players are Shikhar Dhawan, Shreyas Iyer, Ruturaj Gaikwad and the reserve fast bowler Navdeep Saini.The other three are members of the support staff: fielding coach T Dilip, security liaison officer B Lokesh and sports massage therapist Rajeev Kumar.While announcing the development in a media release late on Wednesday, BCCI secretary Jay Shah said the selectors had added opening batter Mayank Agarwal to the ODI squad.Related

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The BCCI said that all positive results emerged after the India squad had undergone three RT-PCR tests upon landing in Ahmedabad on January 31. Dhawan and Saini returned positive tests after the first round of testing on January 31. Dilip and Lokesh also tested positive on the same day. Gaikwad, who had cleared the January 31 test, returned a positive test the next day, while Iyer and Rajeev returned positive tests on Wednesday during the third round of testing.The India squad started to arrive in Ahmedabad at the end of last week while West Indies landed early on February 2. Both teams are staying at the same hotel, but on separate floors. As per the BCCI’s guidelines both India and West Indies have to serve a minimum of three days’ quarantine in their hotel rooms before breaking out for training. India were scheduled to start training from Thursday while West Indies from second half on February 4.All members of the Indian contingent, the BCCI said, had been asked to take a PCR test before they travelled to Ahmedabad. All the seven members who tested positive will now isolate in Ahmedabad. As per the guidelines issued by Indian government, any person testing positive needs to isolate for minimum of seven days.The ODI series is set to be played behind closed doors, with India currently experiencing a third wave of the pandemic. India recorded over 160,000 fresh cases on Tuesday, with the state of Gujarat, where Ahmedabad is located, reporting over 8000 of them.Dhawan, Iyer and Gaikwad will now most likely miss the three-match ODI series, which will be played on February 6, 8 and 11. But the three batters will aim to be back for the T20I leg of the series. The T20Is will be played in Kolkata on February 16, 18 and 20.Vice-captain KL Rahul has not yet joined the India squad and is set to miss the first ODI in order to attend his sister’s wedding. This means India will have only five batters from the original squad to choose from for the first ODI: captain Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Suryakumar Yadav, Rishabh Pant and allrounder Deepak Hooda. Agarwal is likely to arrive in Ahmedabad on Thursday, which means he could slot into the XI for the first ODI, immediately after completing his three-day quarantine.

TKR are unbeatean this season but the Zouks are quietly confident of a maiden CPL title

Deivarayan Muthu10-Sep-2020The captains of the last two teams standing in CPL 2020 set up the scene perfectly for the final on Thursday. Pollard’s Trinbago Knight Riders have been so dominant that they have won all their 11 matches in the lead-up to their fourth final appearance. On the other hand, Sammy’s St Lucia Zouks have overcome tremendous odds to enter their first-ever CPL final.Sammy believes that the Zouks can still topple the Knight Riders if they continue to rally and execute their plans under pressure.”Everybody knew before we left and from the time the tournament started, we said whoever has to win the tournament has to go through TKR. That was a given, and if you have to win the tournament you have to beat TKR,” Sammy said on the eve of the final.”And that’s what is left to do. They’ve played some really exciting, dominant brand of cricket, but – like I said – we have the silent confidence in our team. They play well as a unit by dominance and we play well as a unit by us pulling together and believing in ourselves.”The last time two these two sides came up against each other in the second leg of the tournament at the Brian Lara Cricket Academy, the Zouks had made the Knight Riders dig deep. They got rid of the Knight Riders’ openers fairly early, then pinned down Tim Seifert and Darren Bravo in the middle orders, but Pollard launched three fours and as many sixes at the death to lift his side to 175 for 5. Former Knight Rider Mark Deyal and Andre Fletcher made forty-somethings each for the Zouks, but the experience of Pollard and Dwayne Bravo trumped them. Both bowlers shifted their lines wider and restricted the batsmen from targeting the smaller boundaries.Pollard conceded that the Zouks “pushed” them last week, but emphasised that past records would count for nothing in the final. Instead, he counted on the Knight Riders’ vast experience in finals to help them clear the final hurdle. Pollard and Bravo have featured in 43 T20 finals between them, and nobody has more T20 titles than the two – both are tied on 13.”Four other teams would’ve liked to be in a position that both teams are in,” Pollard said. “So, you just have to go out and play good, consistent cricket and at the end of the day the result takes care of itself. One good thing is we have guys who would have played in a lot of finals before, so [that helps] to settle the nerves of guys who are new to these things.”Again, last year we were pretty disappointed to lose in the semi-final. We made some changes and came with a different sort of mentality this year and it has shown on the cricket field, so it’s just a matter of jumping the last hurdle and hopefully be four-time champions.”Akeal Hosein struck with the new ball for Trinbago Knight Riders•Randy Brooks – CPL T20 / Getty

Among the changes that the Knight Riders made for this season was letting go of Denesh Ramdin and giving local players like left-arm fingerspinner Akeal Hosein, who was the player of the match in the first semi-final, and top-order batsman Tion Webster greater exposure. While some of those changes have been forced, with Colin Munro (finger fracture), Sunil Narine (kidney stones) and Ali Khan (hamstring tear) not being fit during various stages of the tournament, it has provided a peek into the next-gen Caribbean players.”We found ourselves in a position where we could get these guys into the team and into the tournament and give them exposure,” Pollard said of giving the new faces a go. “Because when you look at it and when you look at what has transpired in the CPL in the last seven or eight years, you tend to continue to recycle old guys because you don’t have that other [domestic T20] tournament where you can unearth other talent in the Caribbean – not only Trinidad & Tobago, also Jamaica, Barbados.”We had the Caribbean T20, but now that’s no more. Akeal Hosein would have come in, Tion would have come in not expecting to play much games, but when you look at they have played four-five games and they have been stars in what they’ve done. So, we have talent on the bench, it’s just a matter of exposure. Mark Deyal was with us last year, he played a couple of games only, but he went to St Lucia and he played over half the games. So, we have talent, but there’s one thing that’s stopping us and that’s something we need to look at if we are about bringing up youth and future generation of West Indies cricketers.”With the Caribbean T20 having been scrapped, Sammy echoed Pollard’s comments, saying it wasn’t “ideal” to pick players for CPL from four-day and one-day tournaments.‘You can’t complain about pitches’
One of the major talking points this season has been the nature of the pitches, with the entire tournament being played in Trinidad in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. Some teams have struggled to chase down sub-100 totals, with five-time finalists the Guyana Amazon Warriors getting rolled over for 55 by the Zouks in the second semi-final. Both Pollard and Sammy refused to blame the pitches, with the Knight Riders captain pointing out that West Indies batsmen haven’t been able to adjust to different pitches in international cricket as well.”If I’d be a little critical, yes, the pitches haven’t been up to standard in terms of batting, but what I’ve seen is that the guys haven’t mentally changed their game to suit the conditions,” Pollard said. “And that’s something that has not only happened to us in CPL, but it has happened to us in international cricket as well.”You can’t complain all the time about pitches when we [are] not changing as individuals. I didn’t see the mental fortitude of batsmen in other teams throughout the tournament. In all honesty, we, TKR, have tried to adjust to the situation that has presented itself because in the same games we score 180-plus, but teams score 70 and 80 and there’s a big disparity there. If you go to Australia where pitches are bouncy, what will you say? You don’t get bouncy tracks in the Caribbean? We can’t continue to make excuses; we go to Sri Lanka, where pitches are spinning and stuff like that.”

Latest update comes after BCCI called it a “non-issue”; Dhoni likely to use the same gloves going forward, with the insignia covered by a tape

Nagraj Gollapudi07-Jun-2019The ICC has rejected BCCI’s request to allow MS Dhoni to wear wicketkeeping gloves with the dagger insignia. ESPNcricinfo understands the ICC sent it its response on Friday afternoon (UK time) explaining that Dhoni had breached two clauses of the clothing and equipment regulations: one relating to display of “personal messages” and the other concerning the logo on his gloves.The latest update followed a statement by Vinod Rai, the chairman of the BCCI’s Committee of Administrators, saying that the Indian board would not escalate the matter if the ICC insisted on following the regulations but had requested for some “flexibility” on the matter. It is expected to end a story that had run through most of Friday in India’s news cycle.The ICC raised the red flag after noticing the insignia of a dagger on the back of Dhoni’s green gloves during India’s tournament opener against South Africa on June 5. Dhoni is an honorary lieutenant-colonel in the Parachute Regiment of the Indian Territorial Army. The dagger is similar to the regimental emblem.It is believed that Dhoni is likely to continue to wear the same gloves but cover the insignia with tape.ESPNcricinfo understands that, in its email to the BCCI, the ICC explained that Dhoni had violated the G1 clause in of its clothing and equipment regulations. The clause reads: “Players and team officials shall not be permitted to wear, display or otherwise convey messages through arm bands or other items affixed to clothing or equipment (“Personal Messages”) unless approved in advance by both the player or team official’s Board and the ICC Cricket Operations Department. Approval shall not be granted for messages which relate to political, religious or racial activities or causes.”ESPNcricinfo Ltd

Dhoni also flouted the specific rule related to the display of logos on wicketkeeping gloves in the clothing and equipment regulations for the World Cup. The diagram in clause 19.47 shows that only two manufacturer’s identifications are allowed on the back of each glove. “No visible logos permitted other than those identified in the diagram,” the note accompanying the illustration says.Though the matter gained traction in India and even prompted the intervention of the country’s sports minister, the BCCI called it a “non-issue” earlier in the day. “We will play the game by the rules of the ICC in letter and spirit,” Rai told ESPNcricinfo. “If there is a specific norm that has to be followed, we will not break that norm. However, if there is any flexibility available, we have sought permission for the ICC to allow the player to wear the gloves.”The matter was discussed in the CoA meeting held in Mumbai on Friday, which was attended by Rai’s two other colleagues – Diana Edulji and Ravindra Thodge – as well as the BCCI chief executive officer Rahul Johri.Making the issue more complex was the Indian government’s support for Dhoni’s gloves. India’s sports minister Kiren Rijiju told the news agency ANI: “The government doesn’t intervene in affairs of sports bodies. But when the issue is related to the country’s sentiments, then the interest of the nation has to be kept in mind. I would like to request BCCI to take up the matter with ICC.”As per the rules, Dhoni would be reprimanded if he wore the gloves with the insignia on Sunday, when India face Australia in their second group match. The second offence, in case it took place within 12 months, would attract a fine of 25% of the match fee. A third offence would mean a 50% fine of the match fee, and a fourth would see the player losing 75% of his match fee.There is precedent for the ICC’s decision. In 2014, Moeen Ali was asked to remove wristbands bearing the slogans “Save Gaza” and “Free Palestine” during the third Test against India in Southampton. The ECB said Moeen’s actions were humanitarian rather than political, but the ICC’s view was that it was inappropriate for the field of play. No further action was taken. In January 2017 South Africa’s Imran Tahir was reprimanded by the ICC for a wicket celebration during a T20 match against Sri Lanka in which he revealed a t-shirt under his playing kit with an image of the late Junaid Jamshed, a one-time Pakistani pop icon and religious preacher who had died weeks before in an air crash.

Ben Stokes’s hopes of making his return to Test cricket in the first Test against New Zealand at Auckland next week have received a set-back

ESPNcricinfo staff13-Mar-2018Ben Stokes’s hopes of making his return to Test cricket in the first Test against New Zealand at Auckland next week have received a set-back after he was ruled out of England’s opening two-day warm-up match at Hamilton on Wednesday with a back injury.Although the injury is not thought to be serious, the fixture against a New Zealand XI would have been his first outing in long-form cricket since the West Indies Test series in September, after he was omitted from England’s Ashes plans in the wake of his arrest in Bristol later that month.It would also have been Stokes’s one opportunity for match practice with a pink ball, ahead of the day-night first Test which starts on March 22. If he recovers in time, he may yet be able to feature in the second of England’s two-day games, this time with a red ball, which follows on immediately on Friday.Stokes had been a noticeably low-key presence at England training in the past couple of days, as had Chris Woakes, who will also miss the pink-ball fixture, along with Craig Overton, another of England’s seam-bowling options.

Mushfiqur Rahim has been informed that he will play the upcoming Tests against Sri Lanka as a specialist batsman. Liton Das will take over the wicketkeeping duties

Mohammad Isam02-Mar-20171:33

Isam: Liton’s gain, Sabbir’s loss

Bangladesh’s manager Khaled Mahmud has said that Mushfiqur Rahim has been informed he will play the upcoming Tests against Sri Lanka as a specialist batsman, and has to give up his position as the designated wicketkeeper. This means Liton Das, the other specialist wicketkeeper in the Test squad, will take over the role.Mushfiqur’s wicketkeeping came under focus after he missed plenty of chances during the Afghanistan series last year. In Bangladesh’s last Test, against India in Hyderabad last month, his missed stumping of Wriddhiman Saha cost the team and highlighted his frailties behind the stumps. During the interim, the BCB had said that the matter will be discussed with Mushfiqur, which is what the team management has done ahead of the Test series in Sri Lanka.”The coach [Chandika Hathurusingha] and I have informed Mushfiqur officially [that he will play only as a batsman],” Mahmud told the Bengali daily . “He is the best batsman in the team. He is in such form that we believe he will be able to give more to the team, which is why he will bat at No. 4 and will not be keeping wickets. Mushfiqur has taken the decision positively, which is the best part.”We gave him examples of Kumar Sangakkara and Brendan Taylor whose batting improved as soon as they gave up wicketkeeping in Tests. It is hard to play as wicketkeeper, captain and batsman.”Liton kept wickets in the three Tests he played in 2015, against India and South Africa. The last time Mushfiqur was told to play as a batsman was during the 2016 Asia Cup T20s when he shared the duty with Nurul Hasan during the tournament at home.With Mushfiqur now slated to bat at No. 4 and Liton being confirmed a place in the XI, the team management will now have to decide between Mahmudullah and Sabbir Rahman in the middle order. While Mahmudullah has just struck his first Test fifty after a long gap, Sabbir hasn’t got a big Test score despite a promising start to his career.