IPL 23 1st match CSK vs GT this match GT won by 5 wickets. Rashid Khan (Player of the Match): "First of all,thanks to almighty Allah. This crucial man of thematch award gives you a lotof confidence. I trymy best for all the three formats, try to give my100 percent every time andits great to help theside toa win.It was hard to the leftie, but the plan was to keepit more tight. The two crucial wickets gave usmomentum. I had it at the back of my mind toget those wickets. Those two are very dangerousbatters [Moeen Ali and Ben Stokes]. Moeen triedto go over the square leg but I tried to keep theline and length tight as I desired. More the timeyou be in the nets, more the better result you get.Thanks to the time I spend with the coachingstaffs and the confidence that Hardik gave. Theygive me more batting sessions in the net as well. Hardik Pandya (Gujarat Titans Captain): "Yeah,Imean, it was a brilliant performance. But wedid put ourselves in a fix with Rashidand Rahulgetting us over the line. At one stage, they werecruising towards 200, but we bowled really well torestrict them under the big total.It becomes difficult for me (Pandya) to pick thecorrect players when you have the new impactplayer rule. But Alzarri and others bowled well torestrict CSK. I realised that bowling hard lengthswas the way to go here and hence I asked Alzarrito bowl late in the innings.Rashid Khan as always was brilliant with both batand ball. I mean he is a fantastic player underpressure, he delivers. He is a real asset to theteam. He will give you wickets and some runs latedown the order.See, Shubman's and my shot selections weren'tright that time and we got out. We needed to batwell and take the game deep and finish the jobso that we don'tput massive responsibility for theplayers coming down the order."Shubman Gill: "I felt really good. Butdisappointed with the way, I got out. Happy withthe startI gave for the team. Ah definitely, itmakes a difference when you have got some runsunder the belt, got some international experience.The wicket is soo good here. You don't need tooverhit it. You just need to time the ball here and itflies away.No specific roles here. It's about who gets we/'settled and you need to keep going. The inteWriddhi bhai was setting in was to get as manyruns as possible in the powerplay. Yeah, very MS Dhoni (Chennai Super Kings Captain): "Well, Ithink we were slightly short with the total. Not thatwe batted badly. Just that we needed some extraruns since there was some dew during the hase.I thought we cOuld have just batteda bit morepositively earlier. We could have added somegood batsmanship during our innings. We justtried tO muscle every ball in the latter stages ofthe innings. Could have done a bit better.Imean Ruturaj is a classy batter. The way hebatted was delightful to watch. He times the ballreally wel. He knows when to accelerate andtakes the right decisions.Hangargekar is an upcoming bowler. He bowledwell. He has pace with him. We can'tafford tobowl any no balls. We should control what wecan. I felt that two left arm spinners were betteroptions and hence went with them. Yes, ShivaDube was an option, but I felt comfortable wiother bowlers." March 31, 2023 Read more
Ireland tour of Bangladesh 2nd t20 this match Bangladesh won by 77 runs. That's it from another brilliant game of cricket inBangladesh as the hosts clinch another series.Ninaad Dixit here taking your leave on behalf ofmy co-commentator Deepak Prakash and scorer/analyst Manish Bishnoi. Stay tuned for morecricketing action from all around the world.Shakib Al Hasan (Bangladesh Captain & POTM):"It obviously feels good to be on top as aBangladeshi. Important was we turn up todayand put up the same show that we have beendoing from the last four games in the T20 formatand that's what exactly we did. That's what we have already discussed in thedressing room. That's how we want to play. If wewant to be great, competitive side in T20, we haveto do that (batting approach). All other teams aredoing this and are getting the result so no pointin sitting back so that's what we discussed and weagreed that's how we're gonna play and luckily it'scoming offWhen I batted Harry Tector was bowling. Whenhe bowled slowly, it spun and gripped so that'swhat I was thinking because there is somethingon the wicket. Why not start with a spinner fromthe other side?Ifyou are a good team and you go to Australiaor England, if you are 2-0 down they willalwaystry to win 3-0 so that's what we'll try to do but in aT20 game it can be anybody's game. Its shorterformat, one or 2 boys can play well and changethe game so there is no point that we will becomplacence. We might change few guys, try fewother players but they will be equally hungry tomake runs or take wickets for Bangladesh."Shakib Al Hasan is the player of the match. Paul Stirling (Ireland Captain): "That wasundoubtedly difficult. some of the samemistakes from the previous two weeks. Wellthink tomnorrow and hopefully will improve onFriday. Every game must be taken as it comes;batting for ourselves wouldn't have beenfantastic.Ibelieve it was a combination of them being asolid team. I didn't anticipate it being as one-sided as it has been. There aren't any deadrubbers, in our opinion. Therefore, anticipate thegame on Friday." March 31, 2023 Read more
WPL match no 20th UPW vs DCW this match DCW won by 5 wickets. Alice Capsey (Player of the Match): "Yes, it was adifferent role I played today which was pleasing.More responsibility today. Yesterday was fun.Coming at 3 was having fun. We needed to buildthe partnership and we did that with Kapp. It'sgood fun battling with Sophie. It was good funbattling with her. She is the number 1 bowler inthe world. I think we are looking forward to thefinal. It's exciting. First edition of WPL to play inthe finals is amazing. We will get some rest andcome back refreshed for the final on Sunday."Meg Lanning (Delhi Capitals Women Skipper):"It's not something I have thought about it. Justlove to contribute and getacross the line. I don'tthink we were at our best tonight. We were sloppyin the field. The bowlers did well to keep thembelow 140. We believed in ourselves to chase itdown before the ball started to turn. It seemedlike it came onto the ball nicely with the new ball.As the innings went on, it stuck a bit in the surface.We havea good batting depth and don't rely onone or two players. That helps in these types oftournaments.Jess Jonassen (Delhi Capitals Women): "It is reallyCool to get that one down to the final day. Weget the advantage of qualifying directly for thefinal. We get some days off. We will watch theEliminator closely and who will play. To get acrossthe line like today was a pleasing thing. We havegot bundles of international experience. There isa local Indian talent as well. We have got someincredible talentand we are as a family, It hasreaped rewards for us on the field. One big gameto go. The games have come thick and fast for usand there is no time for us to rest SoI guess girlswill spenda couple of days resting and then trainfor two days before the final. Hopefully, we will liftthe trophy"Alyssa Healy (UP Warriorz Skipper): "We decidedto give chance to the players and they hadavery good outing. We were outplayed tonight.Shabnim gave a couple of wickets and gave somesniff. Those weren't easy batting conditions. Wesaw in the end there, the ball was turning andgripping. Hopefully, we will reflect on what wentwrong and we need to fix those things. We willtrain on Thursday and see how things go. We areextremely proud to get to the finals and that wasour aim. DY Patil will be a packed stadium againstMumbai and we need to be at our best." So, the Delhi Capitals Women aredirectly through to the finals as they beat theUP Warriorz Women by 5 wickets with 13 ballsto spare. They top the group ahead of MumbaiIndians Women on Net Run Rate. A complete all-round performance from Meg Lanning and hergirls.Chasing 139 on a tricky surface, Delhi Capitalscame all guns blazing scoring 56 runs inside 5overs with Ismail going for 20 in her openingover. Lanning was the aggressor today. ShafaliVerma SCored 21 off 16 balls. Meg Lanning wasgreat in her 39 off 23 balls. UP pulled it back toreduce them to 70/3 at one stage. But then theduo of Alice Capsey and Marizanne Kapp scored34 apiece to steer the side home in 17.5 overs. 11extras were given by the fielding side.Earlier in the game, UP Warriorz struggled intheir innings against a disciplined bowling attack.Shweta Sehrawat was aggressive in her 19 off 12balls. Alyssa Healy scored 36 off 34 balls. SimranShaikh struggled in her 11 off 23 balls. But it wasTahlia McGrath's 58* off 32 balls that took thescore to 138/6 in 20 overs. 6 extras were given bythe fielding side.Alice Capsey was the pick of the bowlers for theCapitals as she finished with 3/26 in 4 overs.Radha Yadav picked up a couple of wickets for28 runs in 4 overs. Jess Jonassen had the other . Alice Capsey was the pick of the bowlers for theCapitals as she finished with 3/26 in 4 overs.Radha Yadav picked up a couple of wickets for28 runs in 4 overs. Jess Jonassen had the otherwicket as she finished with 1/24 in4 0vers. Allwickets falling to the spinners in the first innings.All the bowlers were disciplined, while the fieldingwas a little off today.So, the Delhi Capitals wins this game by 5 wicketsand qualify directly into the finals. Stick arounthe presentation ceremony. March 21, 2023 Read more
WPL match No 18th DCW vs MIW . ÷ This match DC won by 9 wickets. ÷ Marizanne Kapp (Player of the Match): "Yes, lookto be honest, the bowling group deserves thisaward. They did a great job. On this wicket, wewant to bowl as the ball does quite a bit early on.It workedand happy with the win and team'sperformance. The more I play I get into rhytmand I read the wicket to do best. The catches thisteam is taking is amazing. The girls are putting agreat effort. This is an awesome fielding side asfar as I am concened. We want to continue thisgoing forward." Meg Lanning (Delhi Capitals Women Captain):"It was a great game, hard to fault much. We setthe match nicely with the ball. Kapp gave us ahead start with the ball and the way we chasedwas brilliant. Everyone came with the ball and didthe job for us. She (Kapp) is very talented. Sheis always eager to play andperform. It was thebowlers who did the job for us tonight. To restrictMumbai Indians to just above 100 was reallygreat. I was happy with the blue (after gettingthe orange cap). I don't think much about thesethings. A quick turnaround for us and we will lookto repeat what we did tonight." Alice Capsey (Delhi Capitals Women): "Delightedto get the win. We bowled well to restrict them tothat score. And then it was not doing much. Wedid well and we wanted to play this kind of brand.We showed our class. This is what wve wanted toplay and glad to get to the top of the table. Weboth are different and Shafali Verma strikes theball well and Ijust stick to my strengths.Important game tomorrow. We play UP and wewant to win. This game will give us confidencegoing forward and hope to win the game andfinish top." Harmanpreet Kaur (Mumbai Indians WomenCaptain): "We were 45 runs short. MWe wantedbreakthroughs. But they batted well. We bowledbadly, too many short balls and they battedwell and took advantage of it. Credit to themWe have to do well tomorrow. This is a wake upcall and hope to come back stronger tomorrow.Sometimes these things are needed. Iam happythat we will not be overconfident going intotomorrow and the coming games." Delhi Capitals Women won the toss earlier inthe evening and opted to field. The decision wasproved right by their seamers, who decimated theMumbai batting line-up and didn't allow any ofthe batters to stick around.Marizanne Kapp started the destruction bydismissing Yastika Bhatia and Nat Sciver-Brunt insuccessive deliveries of the second over. Mumbaididn't recover from this and finished at 109/8 intheir allotted 2O overs.They were 24/4 at one stage and it was theinnings' from Harmanpreet Kaur (23 off 26),Pooja Vastrakar (26 off 19), Amanjot Kaur (19 off16) and Issy Wong (23 off 24) which took thempast the 100-run mark. The partnership betweenHarmanpreet and Pooja of 377 runs for the 5thwicket was the highest of the innings.For DC, Marizanne Kapp (4-0-13-2), JessJonassen (4-0-25-2) and Shikha Pandey(4-0-21-2) picked two wickets while ArundhatReddy scalped a wicket.Chasinga small target of 110, DC openers ShafaliVerma and Meg Lanning came out all gunsblazing taking the attack to the MI bowlers. Bothadded 56 runs for the first wicket in just 4.2 oversbefore Hayley Matthews provided the teamwith the first breakthrough by dismissing thedangerous Shafali (33 off 15).Then Alice Capsey came and outplayed thebowlers to smash five biggies and score anunbeaten 38 runs off 17 balls, adding 54 runsthe second wicket alongside Lanning (32* off zzy,who anchored the innings. In the last ball of the. March 20, 2023 Read more
By Chetan pandey ÷ IndvsAus 1st ODI match india win by 5 wickets.Earlier in the afternoon, Hardik Pandya of Indiawon the toss and invited Australia to bat first.Travis Head and Mitchell Marsh opened thebatting for the visitors but didn't get off to a goodstart, with Mohammed Siraj rattling the stumpsof Head in just the second over. Then Marshand Steven Smith added 72 runs for the secondwicket, with the former taking the role of anaggressor. Smith (22 off 30) was taken care of byhis opponent number just before the first drinksbreak. Marsh continued his assault on the bowlers andspanked 10 fours and 5 biggies in his whirlwindinnings off 81 from 65 balls. The Delhi Capitalsall-rounder added another 52 runs for the thirdwicket alongside Marnus Labuschagne (15off 22). The Indian spinners removed both ofthese batters in a matter of ten runs to put thepressure back on the Steven Smith-led side.While Ravindra Jadeja took the wicket of Marsh,Kuldeep Yadav in tandem with Jadeja the fieldersent back the Queenslander. At this stage, theMen in Yellow were 4 down for 139 in the 23rdOver. A small rebuilding partnership of 30 runs for thefifth wicket was formed between Cameron Green(12 off 19) and Josh Inglis (26 off 27). But onceMohammed Shami came back for his secondspell, it looked like the match was happening onadifferent track. He seamed the ball in and out verynicely to decimate the Aussie middle and lowerorder. Shami's dream second spell read 3-2-8-3.Siraj came back and cleaned up the tail to bundleAustralia out for just 188 runs in the 36th over.Moreover, Australia had played eight batters inthe line-up but couldn't go past 200. They losttheir last8 wickets for just 59 runs. For India, Shami and Siraj picked three wickets,while Jadeja scalpeda couple of wickets. WhilePandya and Kuldeep bagged a wicket each,Shardul Thakur went wicketless.Chasing the precarious target of 189 runs to win,India too lost the first wicket in the second overbowled by Marcus Stoinis who had Ishan Kishan(3 off 8) trapped plumb infront. Hosts slippedfurther in the run chase when Mitchell Starc ranhavoc with a fiery new ball spell from the otherend. While Virat Kohli (4 off 9) and SuryakumarYadav (0 off 1) were pinned at the pads by theleft-arme, Shubman Gill (20 off 31), who lookedvery scratchy was out caught at point. Reeling at 39/4 in the 11th over, dark clouds werelooming around Team India. Right when neededKL Rahul and Hardik Pandya joined hands tostitch 44 runs for the ffth wicket. Both battedcautiously to ride out the storm produced by theAustralian bowlers. Ever hard-working Stoinisbounced out Pandya (25 off 31) who holed out todeep backward square leg when everything wasshining bright for India. Ravindra Jadeja and Rahul knitted an unbeatenpartnership of 108 runs for the sixth wicket,helping the side cross over the victory line. Inthe process, KL Rahul reached his 13th ODI fiftyand was unbeaten on 75 off 91 deliveries, whileJadeja was not out at 45 off 69 deliveries.For Australia, Mitchell Starc with 9.5-0-49-3 wasthe successful bowler, while Marcus Stoinissupported him with a couple of wickets. March 17, 2023 Read more
#indvsAus test series. #indvsausTestseries 4th Test match draw. india win the series 2-1 . It was really a hard fought series. We were put in extreme pressure at times. When we needed someone to put an impactful performance we found them. Rohit notched upa century in the first Test, Virat Kohli put up a 180 runs knock when needed. Be it Axar, Ashwin jadeja and ifI miss any names, I think we have put up a good fight. Australia putting up 480 in this match, we needed someone to step up and respond to them. It has been a heartening thing for me as a coach. Australia are the no.l team in the Test. To be abl to fight against them and step up when required ii has been a great thing.It has been some exciting 4-5 months for Shubman,. Scoring a hundred in the white ball format, scoring a double hundred, and century here. Coming up and maturing, taking on the responsibility, putting up the performances that is in demand. Works hard for his skills, great opportunity for him to learn from Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma, to watch Steve Smith bat in the opposition. Lovely kid, a good thing for him to learn and grow. We followed it over four or five overs. We followed it in bits and pieces. It's not easy tp produce results home and away. To get the chane to play in the Oval again, it is a great thing to put the performances and play the final again.It has been absolutely brilliant. He has been exceptional the way he bowled. Just the kindof pressure or the control he gave. And also the two spinners they came with - Matt Kuhnemann and Todd Murohy, they were brilliant. Great thing for them to not leak runs and maintain the pressure. Some of the players were saying like Panesar and Swann, they havent played a quality spin attack,m but to have this attack with Nathan Lyon has been brilliant thing. Kartik, we just qualified at Lunch time today, I didn't count my chickens before they hatched. Obviously, we have the three One Day matches, we will play. It is going to be a challenge. There are logistics. March 13, 2023 Read more