India beat Sri Lanka by 8 wickets in the Women’s Asia Cup here on Saturday. India were restricted to 65 for nine after asking Sri Lanka to bowl first and then chased down the target in 8.3 overs. Vice-captain Smriti Mandhana scored an unbeaten 51. Earlier, Sri Lankan batsmen offered a track offer after their captain decided to bat.
Saturday, October 15, 2022
Women’s Asia Cup 2022: India crush Sri Lanka by 8 wickets; win the title for 7th time – The Economic Times Video
Women's Asia Cup final 2022: India to clash with Sri Lanka in the finals today
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Friday, October 14, 2022
Sideshow to money-spinner: The rise and rise of Twenty20 cricket
In barely 20 years, Twenty20 cricket has gone from being a light-hearted side to a central issue in the sport’s global calendar.
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With the eighth T20 World Cup starting Sunday in Australia, AFP Sport sees the rise and rise of the sport’s big-hitting, crowd-pleasing format.
the beginning
The end of the Benson & Hedges Cup one-day competition in 2002, due to a ban on tobacco advertising, left a gap in the domestic calendar of English cricket.
England and Wales Cricket Board marketing manager Stuart Robertson proposed a 20-overs-per-side event, a format already known in amateur and junior cricket.
The aim was to attract a younger audience who may not have time to engage with longer formats.
The first official Twenty20 county match took place in 2003 and proved to be an instant success in terms of attracting crowds.
More than 27,000 people came to see Middlesex play Surrey at Lord’s, the largest attendance for any county game in the “home of cricket” outside a one-day final since 1953.
That success was noted elsewhere, with the batsmen’s frantic pace and dynamic hitting that proved popular with audiences across the globe.
Yet there was a feeling that this was not “proper cricket”.
international sport
The first international T20 match between New Zealand and Australia at Eden Park in Auckland in 2005 saw both teams wearing retro kits from the 1980s, with New Zealand decked out in exact replicas of their “beige brigade” colors of that era.
Some players even wore fake beards and mustaches in honor of the styles of the time.
Australia’s man of the match Ricky Ponting said, “I think it is difficult to play seriously.”
But the growing popularity of the format was noted by the International Cricket Council and the 2007 Men’s T20 World Cup was inaugurated in South Africa. India defeated arch-rivals Pakistan in a thrilling final.
It has become so popular that most international tours now feature T20 games and there is a fear among conservatives that the shortest format is thriving at the expense of Test cricket.
IPL
Just as India’s victory in the Men’s One Day World Cup in 1983 changed cricket’s most populous nation’s attitude towards the limited-overs game, the title success of 2007 was equally transformative.
The Board of Control for Cricket in India, capitalizing on that success and intrigued by the Indian Cricket League, a private T20 event, introduced the Indian Premier League in 2008.
Not only did it effectively end the ICL, the new six-week tournament changed the global environment of cricket.
With the city-based IPL, where teams were controlled by wealthy private owners and squads based on players auctioned off, prominent cricketers could earn huge sums of money in a short amount of time.
Traditionally, the way to build a lucrative career was to become an established international in multi-day Test cricket and profit from the sponsorship deals that followed.
Now, however, there was another way, creating a global T20 circuit with the creation of other leagues like Australia’s Big Bash and England’s Blast.
This concept only extended to the Caribbean, with Pakistan and Bangladesh now included in the act.
Future
The IPL has changed the game so much that the ICC has effectively put international men’s matches on hold during the normal April-May time frame for the tournament to ensure top-class cricketers remain available.
Now there is an uneasy co-existence between the formats, with the ICC creating the World Test Championship to consolidate the five-day game.
Some prominent players like India’s Virat Kohli recently declared that Test cricket will always be the “absolute pinnacle of the game”.
He said, ‘I will give everything to Test cricket as long as I play, I can assure you that, but how long his attitude in cricket lasts, it remains to be seen.
In a sign of the times, new cash-up T20 leagues are slated for South Africa, the United States and the United Arab Emirates from 2023, and woo players with big-money offers.
Indian cricket team: After 15 years, Indian cricket team may tour Pakistan in 2023
The Indian cricket team may tour Pakistan after a hiatus of 15 years, according to the BCCI, ahead of the crucial Annual General Meeting (AGM) to be held in Mumbai on October 18.
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The BCCI has decided to share an overview of last year’s work with all state unit representatives, as well as future plans and schedule for the national team’s tours, including the Asia Cup in Pakistan next year. .
The Indian team will compete in the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup (South Africa), ICC Women’s Under-19 T20 World Cup (South Africa), Asia Cup (Pakistan) and ICC Cricket World Cup, India. report good.
England, Australia, West Indies and Sri Lanka have already toured Pakistan in recent years, it will be interesting to see how things go, as BCCI needs permission from the central government to allow the team to travel to Pakistan. Will be
“Obviously, when the time comes, it will be a government decision. But there is one aspect. The government allows India vs Pakistan to participate in global and continental competitions. So India is likely to travel but it’s entirely too much. Will soon be committed that a team will go to Pakistan. But putting it on the report is a broad indication,” a senior BCCI source told PTI on conditions of anonymity.
The Asian Cricket Council is currently headed by BCCI Secretary Jay Shah, and his decision will carry significant weight in the future. The two neighbors last played a bilateral white-ball match in 2012, when Pakistan toured India for three Twenty20 Internationals and three One Day Internationals.
India last toured Pakistan in 2008 for the 50-over Asia Cup. Bilateral cricket ties were suspended due to political tensions between the two countries.
jasprit bumrah: Mohammed Shami replaces Jasprit Bumrah in India’s ICC T20 World Cup squad
Fast bowler Mohammed Shami was on Friday replaced Jasprit Bumrah in the Indian squad for the upcoming T20 World Cup in Australia.
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The BCCI said that the replacement has been done due to Bumrah’s injury.
“The All-India Senior Selection Committee has named Mohammed Shami as Jasprit Bumrah’s replacement in India’s ICC Men’s T20 World Cup squad. Shami has reached Australia and will join the team in Brisbane ahead of the warm-up matches,” PTI Quoting BCCI, Secretary Jay Shah is saying.
Last month, PTI had reported that Shami would replace Bumrah in the main team. Mohammad Siraj and Shardul Thakur have been named as backups and will travel to Australia shortly. The tournament will take place from October 16 to November 13. Bumrah has been out of competitive cricket indefinitely due to a stress-related back injury.
Shami last played T20 Internationals during the last edition of the ICC T20 World Cup in the United Arab Emirates.
He was to play in six T20Is at home against Australia and South Africa but tested positive for COVID-19 and had to remain in isolation. He had to prove his fitness on his return before the NCA approved the tour of Australia. Shami has played 17 T20 matches and has taken 18 wickets.
(with inputs from agencies)
rudrankksh: Rudrankksh patil becomes second Indian shooter to win 10m air rifle gold at Worlds, secures Paris Olympics quota
Young Rudraksh Patil won a gold medal in the men’s 10m air rifle event at the ISSF World Championships here on Friday, becoming only the second Indian after the legendary Abhinav Bindra to achieve the feat. Patil also secured the 2024 Paris Olympic quota for the country in the process. This was India’s second Olympic quota.
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The 18-year-old Rudrank made a brilliant comeback effort to beat Italy’s Danilo Denis Solazzo 17-13 in the gold medal match.
There are four quota spots available in Olympic events at this year’s World Championships.
India recently earned its first quota in the men’s trap event at the Shotgun World Championships in Croatia, courtesy of Bhaunish Mendiratta.
Rudraksh, who participated in his first World Championship, was trailing 4-10 to decide the top two in the new format in the gold medal match.
The Italian shooter held the lead for the majority of the finals but the Indian came back victorious.
Rudraksh topped the qualification and was assured of a quota after entering the gold medal match at the second place in the ranking round.
Beijing 2008 Olympic champion Bindra won World Championship gold in his pet 10m air rifle event in Zagreb, Croatia in 2006.
T20 World Cup 2022: Mohammed Shami replaces injured Jasprit Bumrah in team India squad
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