Saturday, October 22, 2022
India vs Pakistan T20 WC: Open to changing playing XI in every game, says Rohit Sharma
Originally published at Pen 18
babar: We have plans for everyone, not just Surya: Babar Azam
Suryakumar Yadav makes a formidable presence owing to his exceptional shot hitting ability but Pakistan skipper Babar Azam doesn’t want to give extra importance to one particular batsman as they prepare for the much-awaited clash against arch-rivals India here on Sunday.
Originally published at Pen 18
The fastest batsman to touch the 1000-run mark in T20Is, Suriya plays all-around shots and troubles the bowlers of all the teams.
“We have plans for every player, not just for Suriya. We have a plan and hopefully we can execute them properly,” Babar said on the eve of the match.
There is good news for the Pakistan team that Shan Masood has recovered from a head injury. He was hit on the head by a shot from Mohammad Nawaz during the practice session.
“Shan Masood has recovered. He has cleared all the tests. The pitch was covered for two days but we know in the back of mind what our XI will be,” the captain said. be unavailable for the game.
If the game is cut short because of rain, Babar and his boys are ready.
“Whatever the duration of the match, we are ready. But it will be great for the fans if we can have the full match,” Babar said.
While Shaheen Shah Afridi is crazy about the eyes, Babar called Haris Rauf the best bowler.
“The amount of improvement he has shown, the confidence has given to the bowling unit. His home ground in the BBL is the MCG. The way he took the responsibility, he did not let us miss Shaheen,” Babar said.
Whenever we have met off the field it has been cordial.
There could be a lot of tension between the BCCI and the PCB due to the Asia Cup controversy but Babar said that the players from both the sides share a good relationship.
“We share a great bond with the Indian players and that’s what professional players do. It also helps in on-field relations as we all give 100 percent for our teams.”
Babar was clearly annoyed when asked about a certain approach that Pakistan has a two-man batting side in him and Mohammad Rizwan.
He said, ‘What shall I say now? You will know that day. T20 is a shorter format and anything can happen.
tendulkar: Strategy to deal with Shaheen Shah Afridi is to play within ‘V’: Sachin Tendulkar
Legendary Sachin Tendulkar said Shaheen Shah Afridi is one of the world’s leading white-ball bowlers and Indian batsmen need to try to play him “straight”, even if he is attacking the talented Pakistani left-arm fast bowler. be.
Originally published at Pen 18
At his peak, Tendulkar played a lot of limited-overs cricket against Wasim Akram, perhaps the greatest left-arm fast bowler of all time and the maestro shared his comments with PTI during a chat.
Asked what he would have done if he had faced a bowler of Shaheen’s caliber during his playing days, Tendulkar laughed and said: “I haven’t kept my mind that way because I know I won’t face him. ”
But then on a serious note he shared his point.
“Shaheen is an attacking bowler and he likes to go for the wickets. He lifts the ball up and supports himself to swing the ball. He has the ability to hit the batsmen in the air and off the pitch at his own pace. So the strategy with him should be to play straight and within the ‘V’,” Tendulkar said.
Shaheen’s greatest quality is the ability to bring the ball back to the right hand at high speed and even achieve to keep some of the ball in his line without any change in pace.
He also has a good short ball that can quick the batsmen and make them candidates for the leg before.
Tendulkar, an excellent technician, also warned that even if a batsman makes a trigger movement, it should not equate to making a commitment to play the shot.
“The trigger movement is a preparation to play the ball, not a commitment, if you are not committed to playing the ball, it can be on the front-foot or the backfoot, but it is a trigger movement, not a commitment,” he said.
“Because once you commit on the backfoot, you can’t get on the front-foot and vice versa. The trigger movement is all about preparation.
Tendulkar concluded, “Every ball, there is some sort of pace, as long as it’s not a commitment, it’s fine.”
India and Pakistan will face each other in the first match of the T20 World Cup at the Melbourne Cricket Ground here on Sunday.
India vs Pakistan: The Big Cricket Rivalry: Confident India hoping to turn tables on Pakistan team
Its immaculate record of success against arch-rivals in marquee ICC events is a thing of the past, with a hurt Indian team desperate for revenge against a high-quality Pakistan team in the Super 12 clash of the T20 World Cup. , here on Sunday.
Originally published at Pen 18
While the rain is threatening to play bad games, it is unlikely to wash out completely, according to people with knowledge of the weather conditions here.
Thousands of fans from both countries have circled the world to see their team in action and rely on rival captains Rohit Sharma and Babar Azam to tell you that it is another ‘match’ for them all but 22 players and reserves know it’s ‘the’. match’.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni, under whose leadership India never lost to Pakistan in ICC events, used to repeat himself time and again that the word ‘revenge’ has no place in the cricket field.
But a lot has changed in the last one year as Shaheen Shah Afridi led the Pakistan team to their first World Cup win in the opening round.
It was not just a match won or broken spell, but 3/31 by Shaheen also managed to break the ego of some of the biggest batting legends of the contemporary cricket world.
While Rohit, Virat Kohli or KL Rahul are not the ones to easily forget last year’s humiliation in Dubai, the fact is that India as a team has been looking a little less ripe in recent times.
And at least on Sunday, “Men in Blue” won’t start as a favorite in “Mother of All Clash.”
The BCCI’s statement that India will not travel to Pakistan to play the Asia Cup followed by the PCB’s threat to pull out of the 50-over World Cup in India has made the atmosphere more politically charged and vicious.
India will have no problem going into a match as the underdog and it will be Pakistan who will have to live up to the high expectations.
Combination still a matter of concern for India
,
This has been a trend with the Indian team for quite some time now – not to be a systematic combination. In 2019, they still didn’t have number four after meeting for two years.
And now, a year after the last T20 World Cup, India may have to drop a specialist left-handed batsman (Rishabh Pant) out of the top five to accommodate an extra bowler.
The uniformity in the batting order is a bit worrying as it could throw a line each in the absence of Shaheen, Naseem Shah and Haris Rauf Pant, who have also been out of form.
How India’s top three handle Shaheen in the powerplay will decide how the match will turn out.
One person, who might perhaps face Shaheen, is India’s current No. 1 batsman Suryakumar Yadav, who is someone who never changes his game irrespective of circumstances or circumstances.
But in wet conditions, Rohit would pray that luck would shine on him and he would win the toss and might opt to chase down when his bowling line-up looks a bit poor.
While India have three spinners in the line-up, only one can play in the end if incessant rains and a sharp drop in temperature make the conditions seam-friendly.
In that case, out-of-form Harshal Patel, with good batting skills, can be back in the scheme of things.
But with three left-handed batsmen – Shan Masood/Fakhar Zaman, Mohammad Nawaz and Khushdil Shah, a bowler who can pull it off will always be in the mix. So Ravichandran Ashwin can never be completely out of the equation.
Last time, the strategy of promoting Nawaz as a pinch hitter in the Asia Cup Super 4 literally stumped India, but he must have done better homework this time so that he doesn’t get caught off-guard.
The only thing holding Pakistan a bit ahead on Sunday is Shaheen, who is slowly getting closer to his best.
37 years later at MCG
,
After almost 37 and a half years, the India vs Pakistan match is to be held at the MCG. The Benson & Hedges World Championship of Cricket final took place for the first time since 1985.
This was Sunil Gavaskar’s last match as India captain and back home in India, fans saw Ravi Shastri taking a gleaming Audi for a spin around the MCG.
There were barely 30,000 fans that day and an objectionable poster in the stands by locals that day read, “World Cup Final: Tram Conductors vs Bus Drivers,” basically downplaying the social status of the two South Asian neighbours.
At that time no one would have imagined that the India vs Pakistan match would become a major commercial vehicle in multi-team events. It’s not just another match, it’s ‘The Match’.
Squad:
India: Rohit Sharma (capt), KL Rahul, Virat Kohli, Suryakumar Yadav, Hardik Pandya, Dinesh Karthik (wk), Rishabh Pant (wk), Yuzvendra Chahal, Axar Patel, Ravichandran Ashwin, Mohammed Shami, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Arshdeep Singh, Harshal Patel and Deepak Hooda.
Pakistan: Babar Azam (capt), Mohammad Rizwan (wk), Fakhar Zaman, Shan Masood, Mohammad Nawaz, Khushdil Shah, Asif Ali, Haider Ali, Iftikhar Ahmed, Haris Rauf, Naseem Shah, Shaheen Shah Afridi, Mohammad Wasim, Shadab Khan , Mohammad Hasnain.
Match starts: 1:30 PM IST.
Friday, October 21, 2022
Ireland dump out two-time champion West Indies to progress at T20 World Cup
Veteran opener Paul Stirling smashed an unbeaten 66 as Ireland stormed into the Twenty20 World Cup Super 12 on Friday and crashed two-time champions West Indies.
Originally published at Pen 18
Disciplined bowling restricted the Caribbean to 146-5, Gareth Delany won a career-best 3-16 before the Irish chased down their target for the loss of just one wicket in Hobart with 15 balls to spare .
In his seventh World Cup, the 32-year-old started with a blistering 73 with captain Andy Balbirnie to supercharge Ireland’s run chase.
The final Super 12 slot will be decided later on Friday when Zimbabwe take on Scotland.
“It means everything. We had a disappointing loss at the same level last year,” Balberni said.
“Losing the first game and then coming back and beating the two-time champions in a winning game… just can’t be prouder. Very emotional end to the game.”
West Indies won the tournament in 2012 and 2016, but came to Australia with a new team after Chris Gayle, Dwayne Bravo and Kieron Pollard retired, and Andre Russell was overlooked.
They stumbled badly in their opening match against Scotland, crashing for 42 runs, before recovering to defeat Zimbabwe emphatic.
But in Ireland, who are playing in their seventh straight World Cup and had only been able to go past the first round once, in 2009, they hit the wall again.
“It’s tough, we haven’t batted well in this tournament at all,” said West Indies captain Nicholas Pooran.
“It’s a learning experience for us. We have let our fans and ourselves down. It’s definitely hurting.”
at goal
After West Indies won the toss and batted at a breezy Bellerive Oval in Hobart, the Irish bowlers sent nine of their first 15 dot balls.
In desperation, Kyle Meyers launches on a delivery from Barry McCarthy and is caught at mid-off for one by Harry Tector.
The dangerous Johnson Charles slammed Curtis Camper 4-4-6, but his luck ran out in the next over, leaving Camper off-spinner Simi Singh for 24.
Brandon King was dropped two balls later and he made the most of it, hitting four boundaries to take West Indies to 67-2 at the halfway point.
Evin Lewis underwent treatment for a hamstring problem and was dismissed for 13, ending a 44-run partnership.
Pooran (13) and Rovman Powell (6) could not hold up as King (62 not out) tried his best to move up the scoreboard.
In reply, Ireland got off to a fine start with Sterling and Balbirnie on a mission, scoring 54 runs in the first five overs with eight boundaries, four of them sixes.
Akil Hossein’s spin finally caught Balbirnie at the hands of Meyers after an entertaining run of 37 off 23 balls to give West Indies a decisive start in the eighth over.
The run rate came down but Sterling continued in his 177th international and reached his 21st T20I half-century with another boundary and Lorcan Tucker (45 not out) saw him at home.
arshdeep: Bumrah can’t be replaced, but Arshdeep can deliver the same results with a different approach
Arshdeep Singh was the first Indian player to walk in the nets in India’s optional training session at the Melbourne Cricket Ground two days before their match against Pakistan.
Originally published at Pen 18
For India and Indians, Pakistan is the conflict peak, yet, despite genuine aspirations to go all the way.
Arshdeep is the most inexperienced player in India’s team, having played only 13 T20 Internationals. He hasn’t played 50 overs of cricket for India and hasn’t even come close to getting selected in the Test team.
Going a bit further, Arshdeep has played only six first-class matches and 17 List-A (or domestic 50-over matches) so far.
And yet, he is a gun bowler.
There is no reason to believe that Arshdeep cannot perform well in other formats, but there is enough evidence to show that he is a T20 gem.
At a height of 1.9 metres, he brings a vertical element that is challenging, in that he can hit slightly shorter lengths and still get the ball to kick in and take the batsmen by surprise.
Irritated and sinful, Arshdeep can hit the ball at a length if the situation so demands.
But, most importantly, he is a banker in the death overs. Arshdeep has a yorker that he can control and for now bowls almost at will.
This has been India’s biggest challenge – the death over – and there is no sign that it has been solved.
Bhuvneshwar Kumar is a great swing bowler, but his 19th over figures in T20 cricket recently are shocking to read. Despite not playing in this format for a year, Mohammed Shami’s return to the team was like a wild card. Shami bowled his yorker in just one over in the practice match, the final one, but that was a time and place when there was no pressure.
With Jasprit Bumrah out, India have fewer death options. Hardik Pandya bowled himself all the time to guide Gujarat Titans to the Indian Premier League title, but he is yet to be trialled by India as a death bowling substitute.
Teams will be flexible about their playing XI in the World Cup. Rishabh Pant one day and Dinesh Karthik the other, depending on whether you want to be top heavy or a ready finisher.
But when it comes to bowling the last few overs in the 18th and 20th or 17th and 19th overs, you need to be very clear.
In T20 matches, whether defending or chasing a total, these are the crucial overs that decide the game. make or break.
Arshdeep comes. He drives his mark farther, farther, from the well outside the 30-yard circle, but his mind is on the last few moves as he extends his left hand and lets go of the ball.
Arshdeep’s yorkers are usually yorkers. They don’t end up as full tosses that get smacked.
Arshdeep, being young and inexperienced, thinks like a T20 bowler. He has variations, but does not use them for fun.
In many ways, Arshdeep is a return to cricket as it once was. After all, which ball of a fast bowler is more lethal than a yorker? A bouncer can send you to the hospital, but if you can’t keep the toe out, you’re gone and so is your team.
Death bowling is in front of India in this World Cup.
At the top of the innings, you have Rohit Sharma, KL Rahul and Virat Kohli, who have all seen the light and come into this format to entertain with skill. Suryakumar Yadav is a stunner who has taken T20 batting to another fickle and unpredictable level.
In the spin department you have Yuzvendra Chahal, an IPL stud, R Ashwin, the all-time great, and Axar Patel, a gun replacement for Ravindra Jadeja.
There is no doubt that there is immense wealth in this Indian team. But, when it comes to picking the playing XI, there will be tough choices. But after the dismissal of Jasprit Bumrah, the first name in the team list should be Arshdeep.
Bumrah’s strong arm, his punchy shoulders and backbone cannot be changed. But, Arshdeep can give the same result with a completely different approach.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)