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Saturday, November 12, 2022
Jay Shah to head Finance and Commercial Affairs Committee of ICC – The Economic Times Video
Jay Shah to head Finance and Commercial Affairs Committee of ICC
BCCI secretary Jay Shah will add another feather to his cap as the head of the influential Finance and Commercial Affairs committee of the International Cricket Council (ICC).
Originally published at Pen 18
The Finance and Commercial Affairs Committee of the international cricket governing body decides the budget allocation for ICC events and oversees the distribution of funds to member countries from the total revenue pool.
More than a week ahead of the ICC Board meetings this weekend in Melbourne, a BCCI team led by Jay Shah and IPL chairman Arun Dhumal arrived in Australia. As the BCCI representative (BCCI President from 2019 to October) on the ICC board, Shah took the seat of former India captain Sourav Ganguly.
Dhumal will be a member of the Chief Executive Committee. More importantly, Shah will also be a member of the F&CA and is set to replace former Cricket Ireland chairman Ross McCullum, who will retire soon, as chairman of the committee at its next meeting in March 2023, as quoted by ESPNcricinfo. In form of.
The ICC board unanimously re-elected Greg Barkley as the independent chairman of the International Cricket Council (ICC) for a second two-year term, as announced by the international cricket governing body on Saturday.
Barkley was unopposed following the withdrawal of Tawengwa Mukuhlani from the process, and the board reaffirmed his full support to remain on as chairman for the next two years.
Former Indian cricketer Roger Binny was elected as the 36th President of the Indian cricket body, BCCI, in October, replacing Sourav Ganguly after the 91st Annual General Meeting of the BCCI.
Notably, Binny was the only candidate to file nomination for the top post and ended Sourav Ganguly’s tenure as BCCI President after three long years.
Jay Shah continued to serve as the BCCI Secretary. Ashish Shelar has been appointed as the BCCI Treasurer. Rajeev Shukla was declared as the Vice-President, while Devjit Saikia was elected as the Joint Secretary. Arun Dhumal has been appointed as the chairman of IPL.
Friday, November 11, 2022
View: The way forward for Team India
Please give me a break!” Many watching England trample India by 10 wickets in the semi-final of the T20 World Cup in Adelaide would have left scratching their heads as to what India’s batsmen were trying to do when they came out to bat. Were.
Originally published at Pen 18
Conventional wisdom goes out the window in a 20-over game. You should not put a premium on your wicket as the available balls are limited and the wickets are still the same as in a Test or an ODI. You can’t spend an over to get your look. It would be better not to confuse T20 as a game of small differences, where the decision you make now won’t cost you too much down the road.
There will be a lot of postmortems on India’s campaign in the World Cup in Australia, but a realist would admit that reaching the semi-finals was a good result. The T20 game has changed dramatically with each passing year, and ironically, the nation with the biggest and most competitive franchise tournament, which has been going on for over a decade, is yet to embrace some of the basic realities .
You can’t get into T20 cricket like other formats and expect to be successful. And, when you have been conditioned to believe, in order to quit, you must have great mental strength and lateral thinking. The easier thing to do, and the more obvious, is put people in key positions – selection, coaching, sports – at different levels, who instinctively think in T20 mode.
When players are bringing the lap sweep paddle over long leg in front of a fast bowler who is sending them down at 140 kmph on the first ball, coaching young hitters to keep the ball on the ground. Doesn’t make sense, as it happened. Forever in cricket. Suryakumar Yadav’s free mind and boldness of expression is an example of this.
At a time when batsmen make the most impact when they play fewer than 20 deliveries, strike at astronomical rates and tilt the balance of the game in their team’s favor, there is no point in selectors looking at batting averages. are. Dinesh Karthik is an example. In an era where a player is most valuable when he is able to contribute in more than one discipline, there is a real need to seek and nurture the most versatile players at the forefront rather than investing in experts. Ravindra Jadeja, and to a lesser extent, Hardik Pandya are in the case. Readers may wonder why the people who are being blamed the most for the loss on social media are yet to be named. This is because each World Cup marks the end of one phase and, hopefully, the beginning of planning for the next cycle.
In two years’ time, it is difficult to see Rohit Sharma or Virat Kohli being part of the main batting group, or even KL Rahul, who has in the other two years but has dramatically revamped his T20 game. They need to start with if they have to be relevant. Till the next World Cup, DK will be in the commentary box and R Ashwin will not be asked why he is taking a place that Yuzvendra Chahal would have used better.
There will also be no Mohammed Shami and Bhuvneshwar Kumar, and Jasprit Bumrah is expected to show the way forward like Arshdeep Singh, whose bowling is very clearly built for T20 cricket.
The defeat against England was a brutal one, but it is an opportunity to draw a line in the sand, stop looking backwards and instead embrace the brave new world of T20 cricket for what it really is.
Not exactly Imran Khan’s team but Babar Azam’s Pakistan ready to repeat history
The stage is the same as it was three decades ago, but Imran Khan with his aura and charisma was a different animal than Babar Azam, who is a victory away from emulating the iconic former captain.
Originally published at Pen 18
More than 30 years ago, the then 39-year-old Imran mentally retired as a cricketer but turned into the men’s leader to beat a solid England team led by Graham Gooch to win Pakistan’s first global trophy – 50 Over World Cup at MCG.
Even though Imran, with his Oxford education and world outlook, was very different from Babar, the quintessential Lahori, both the Pakistan captains are bound by a common thread – taking their team to the finals of the World Cup with a piece of luck and a lot.
Imran was the “captain” for every player on that team and could command undeniable loyalty. Babar is the kind of ally and brother who can put a kind hand around a troubled player who may be out of form.
Emraan was happy to have an interviewer and his debonair look made him a darling among the opposite sex.
Babar is a family man, a reticent man, who gives the impression that he wants to disappear from the light of the arc.
On 25 March 1992, when Imran went out for the toss with Gooch, he was wearing a white round neck T-shirt with a picture of a cornered tiger on it.
In that incident Pakistan came back from the brink. After losing the first three games, they were the fourth loser after being all out for 74.
England were scoring 24 for one when the rain god smiled at Imran. Points from that match were shared and Pakistan won their next four round robin games before winning the semi-finals and final.
Also, it was the first time they had met India in a World Cup game and they were badly beaten by Mohammad Azharuddin’s team.
Coincidences are such that this time Pakistan lost to Virat Kohli’s India and then Zimbabwe in the T20 World Cup.
If divine intervention was opening heaven in their do-or-die game against England in 1992, not even the best bookmakers would have predicted that the Netherlands would beat South Africa in 2022.
A handful of them would have committed murder.
The 1992 semi-final was also a thrilling chase against the best team of the tournament, New Zealand, with Inzamam-ul-Haq announcing his arrival on the world stage.
The 2022 semi-final saw the rise of Mohammad Haris, who was not part of the team initially selected.
After reaching Sunday’s final, Pakistan is a favorite of all gamblers, especially those who love the game of roulette. They are unique numbers that can appear on any given day and the difference will be left in everyone’s mouth.
If that team had Wasim Akram as an enforcer, then this side has Shaheen Shah Afridi.
If Imran had a street smart Javed Miandad, who was like the conductor of a musical band, Babar has a perfect foil in Mohammad Rizwan, who often doesn’t set the narrative for his team with his strokeplay.
That team did an MBA from Ramiz Raza and consists of Soumya Shan Masood, who was raised and educated in the United Kingdom.
Naseem Shah can be compared to Aaqib Javed while Shadab Khan is a slightly more all-round cricketer than Mushtaq Ahmed.
But if one looks at this England team, it has limited overs cricketers like Jos Buttler, Alex Hales, Chris Woakes, Adil Rashid and Moeen Ali.
india: What have India done since winning 50-over World Cup? asks ex-England skipper Michael Vaughan
Former England captain Michael Vaughan on Friday said India have achieved “absolutely nothing” since winning the World Cup at home in 2011 and have been the worst-performing team in history.
Originally published at Pen 18
Vaughan blamed the team’s dated approach to white-ball games for the lack of performance after the team’s exit from the T20 World Cup.
Vaughan wrote in his column for ‘The Telegraph’, “India are the lowest performing white-ball team in history.”
“Every player in the world who goes to the Indian Premier League says how does it improve their game but what has India ever given?
“What have they done since winning the 50-over World Cup on home soil in 2011? Nothing. India is playing a white-ball game that is old and has been done for years.”
Despite having a talented Rishabh Pant in the team, India opted to go with the experienced Dinesh Karthik in the first four Super 12 matches. These include the last group match against Zimbabwe and then the left-arm pacer in the semi-finals.
But even in those two matches, Pant was of little use as he came to bat at No. 5 and No. 6 respectively and there were hardly any overs left.
Vaughan said he was surprised by India’s attitude in the shortest format.
He wrote, “How he didn’t maximize someone like Rishabh Pant is unbelievable. In this era, top him to launch it.”
“I am just amazed at how they play T20 cricket to their talent. They have players, but they don’t have the right process. They have to go for it,” he added.
In the absence of pacer Jasprit Bumrah and star all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja, Indian bowlers cut a sorry figure defending 169 against England as Alex Hales and Jos Buttler took 0 wickets in the powerplay before securing the target with four overs to spare. But scored 63 runs. ,
Vaughan wrote, “Why do they give the opposition bowlers the first five overs to sleep?”
“They have a left-arm bowler in Arshdeep Singh who swings it back to the right. So what do they defend 168? They give width to Jos Buttler and Alex Hales to outswing Bhuvneshwar Kumar.
“Where did the left-arm pacer get Buttler and Hales to swing in the first over?
“Madness. Cramp them for room. Don’t give them a chance to get off a flyer in the first over and let nerves settle.”
The 48-year-old also highlighted the paucity of bowling options in the current Indian team and said that the need of the hour is to have more batting all-rounders, a fact also pointed out by spin legend Anil Kumble.
He said, “When you think 10 or 15 years ago all of India’s top six were Sachin Tendulkar, Suresh Raina, Virender Sehwag and even Sourav Ganguly, they only had five. How are the bowling options?
“No batsman bowls so the captain has only five options. Their (India) bowling options are very few, they don’t bat deep enough and spin moves are lacking.”
The team management’s decision to not play leg-spinner Yuzvendra Chahal for the entire tournament also cost India dearly.
“We know that statistics in T20 cricket tell you that a team needs a spinner who can spin it both ways. India have a lot of leg spinners. Where are they?”
He also questioned India’s record in major ICC tournaments and felt that they need to achieve more success to justify the skill level of their players.
Vaughan wrote, “India is very important to world cricket but for India to have all the advantages, they have to win more. Even in their own backyard in the 2016 World T20 they didn’t reach the final. They Last year was nowhere.”
“A humiliating innings by Virat Kohli this time, probably the best innings ever in T20Is, to beat Pakistan in the group stages. They achieve massively less for their skill levels.”
Pandits are afraid to criticize India
Vaughan feels that experts are afraid to criticize India because they fear losing work or being “hammered” on social media.
“India now have to be honest. What happens when India reach the World Cup? Everyone plays them.
“No one wants to criticize them because you’re on social media and pundits worry about losing work one day in India,” he wrote.
However, Vaughan feels now is “the time to say it straight”.
“They (experts) can hide behind their greats but it’s all about playing a team the right way.”
laxman: Rahul Dravid rested for NZ tour, VVS Laxman to coach India
National Cricket Academy chief VVS Laxman will be India’s acting head coach for the upcoming tour of New Zealand as the Rahul Dravid-led coaching staff has been given a break following the team’s exit from the T20 World Cup. India will play six white-ball games in New Zealand, including three T20 Internationals and as many One Day Internationals, starting November 18 in Wellington.
Originally published at Pen 18
While senior players like regular captain Rohit Sharma, star batsman Virat Kohli, opener KL Rahul and spinner Ravichandran Ashwin have been rested for the tour, the entire coaching staff has also been rested after the T20 World Cup.
A BCCI source told PTI, “The NCA team led by Laxman will join the team traveling to New Zealand along with Hrishikesh Kanitkar (batting) and Sairaj Bahule (bowling).”
This will not be the first time that Laxman will take charge of the Indian team. The former cricketer had earlier coached India during tours of Zimbabwe and Ireland and the recent ODI home series against South Africa.
All-rounder Hardik Pandya will lead the team in the T20I series while veteran opener Shikhar Dhawan will lead the ODI side.
Rohit will return to lead the team in Bangladesh. Kohli and Ashwin will also return to the squad for the Bangladesh tour where India will play three ODIs and two Tests, starting December 4.
India were unceremoniously knocked out of the T20 World Cup after England lost the semi-final by 10 wickets in Adelaide on Thursday.
Members who are not part of the New Zealand leg have already started to disintegrate. While Kohli left from Adelaide, Rahul and Rohit are also expected to take off soon.
Many squad members will also participate from Sydney and Perth.
anil kumble: Indian T20 team needs more batters who can bowl: Anil Kumble
Former India coach Anil Kumble has suggested that power hitting will rule T20 cricket going forward and the Indian team needs to play a brand of cricket where the big batsmen contribute to balance with the ball.
Originally published at Pen 18
The Indian team was blown away by England’s power hitters Alex Hales and Jos Buttler in the T20 World Cup semi-final played in Adelaide on Thursday.
India’s timid batting approach invited criticism from all quarters as it led to a massive defeat that pulled the team out of the major ICC event.
“… I see that definitely something needs to be done, how we keep talking about bowlers,” Kumble was quoted as saying by ESPNcricinfo.com.
“That’s exactly what England have. They had a lot of options. They used Liam Livingstone. Moeen Ali has hardly bowled in this tournament. So those are the options you need.”
Kumble found fault with the selection of Indian teams and said the current trend needs to be changed.
“Unfortunately even in the India A team that gets picked, it’s mostly batsmen who don’t bowl. It’s important to build that brand of cricket and say how the Indian team is going to do it and do it the right way. The rule should be followed.
He said, “I think the more you play T20, it will be like this, where you just come and show your strength. So I think T20 is going to go ahead.”
Kumble is of the view that each player should understand the specific role assigned to them and once it is decided, the team should stick to it.
He even said that the role should not be restricted to just the national team and players should go back to domestic cricket with the same mindset.
“One is definitely that brand of cricket and then it’s up to the players to choose to do that, but I think it’s also important that these players play their specific roles wherever they play.
“Because it’s not just about playing that role for India and then going back to your domestic cricket and franchise cricket and then changing the way you go about it. For example, Pant today (Thursday) for India Batted at No. 1. 6, he went in the 19th over. He never does that in domestic cricket.”
“So you also need some kind of role definition and that’s something that I think is very important if you’re going to build a powerful team where you need back-up for those roles and not necessarily That your six best players can do whatever role they play. It’s very difficult to do that in the World Cup.”
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