Australia limited-overs captain Aaron Finch wants the home team players to strike a "fine balance" when they confront Virat Kohli in the opening Test as he believes, if provoked too much, the India skipper can be "ruthless" against his opponents.
Kuldeep Yadav, who represents India in all formats of cricket, was born on December 14, 1994. Yadav started out as a fast bowler, but upon his coach’s advice, he switched to a rare left-arm unorthodox spin bowler. The bowling switch had not only led to his inclusion to the 2014 ICC Under-19 World Cup squad, but has also won him laurels in first class and international cricket.
Central Districts have been without a win since the beginning of the New Zealand ODD league 2020. Out of five matches, they were on the losing side of four while one match had gotten abandoned. Canterbury, on the other side, are leading the New Zealand ODD 2020 point table. The team have won four out of five matches and have 18 points in total.
Even though there have been a series of concussion cases in this ongoing series between India and Australia, but pacer Josh Hazlewood, believes cricket needs to address concussion by reviewing why more batsmen are being hit in the head than ever before. While Will Puckovski was hit on the head during the warm up match, others in the line of fire are Ravindra Jadeja, Cameron Green and Harry Conway.
Brisbane Heat players Chris Lynn and Dan Lawrence are potentially involved in a biosecure bubble breach but have been allowed to play in Monday's Big Bash League match against Sydney Thunder while maintaining physical distance from other players and officials.
West Indies captain Jason Holder pressed Monday for an end to cricket's insistence on home umpires because of the coronavirus pandemic, although he had no serious complaints about the officiating in New Zealand.
Just after a few days, India and Australia will begin playing in the four match prestigious Border Gavaskar Trophy. While players of both the sides have been amicable throughout the ODI and T20 series, former cricketer Mohammad Kaif thinks that there is a chance for that to change in the upcoming Test series.
Shubman Gill is yet to play Test cricket for India, a box that could well be ticked in the pink-ball Test against Australia in Adelaide starting on December 17. Gill said playing Australia in their territory is 'intimidating', but called it a huge opportunity.
Gazi Group Chattogram are set to clash with Gemcon Khulna in the Qualifier match of the Bangladesh T20 tournament. The teams finished in the top two positions at the league stage. GGC, however, were the best performer by far, with seven wins in eight matches. GKH won four out of eight matches and were slightly better than the third-ranked Beximco Dhaka in terms of run-rate.
Retirement is normally for silver-haired sagacious men who can’t hide their age. Yes, sport retires you early, but one could contest that Parthiv in retirement and in debut, looks just as young. He doesn’t look like he has aged but given a “what could have been career”, the regret has certainly aged him.
Rishabh Pant said his unbeaten 73-ball 103 in the second innings of India A's warm-up match against Australia A was a 'confidence booster' ahead of the Test series.
Legendary batsman Sunil Gavaskar feels Ajinkya Rahane won't be under any pressure to lead Team India in the last three Tests of the upcoming series against Australia once regular skipper Virat Kohli leaves after the Adelaide match. After the culmination of the first Test which will be played under lights at the Adelaide Oval from Thursday, Kohli will return to India to be with his wife Anushka Sharma who is expecting their first child. Rahane, who is the vice-captain, is expected to lead the side in the remaining matches.Beximco Dhaka and Fortune Barishal previously faced each other in the Bangladesh T-20 tournament on December 12. In the match, Fortune Barishal were on the winning side as they scored two more runs than Beximco Dhaka. The two teams have been in bad shape since the beginning of the league. Beximco Dhaka and Fortune Barishal have both played eight matches each. BDH, till now, have 4 wins and 8 points to their credit, while FBA have three wins and six points with them.
New Zealand standin captain Tom Latham said on Monday their sole focus was the upcoming test series against Pakistan despite their 20 sweep of West Indies putting them in contention for a place in next year's world test championship final.
In the seventh match of the Big Bash League (BBL) 2020-21, Sydney Thunder will be going head to head against Brisbane Heat. The BBL 2020-21 Sydney Thunder vs Brisbane Heat match will be played at Manuka Oval and it will start at 1.45 pm IST. Both the teams have faced defeats in their opening games of the season to the Melbourne Stars and will be keen to register a win. Callum Ferguson-led Thunder lost their first match to the Melbourne Stars as they failed to chase 170 runs, ending up only with 147 runs despite the skipper’s half-century.
Nathan Lyon believes the Australian bowling attack is older, wiser and better than it was two years ago when India won a test series Down Under for the first time.
Jason Holder is unsure when he will set foot in Barbados again as he bounces from one biosecure bubble to another, but after the COVID-19 pandemic took a huge bite out of his pay packet the West Indies skipper wants to grab every opportunity that comes his way.
Moises Henriques has been added to the Australian squad for the first Test against India in Adelaide starting on Friday, Cricket Australia confirmed.
Sanjay Manjrekar recalled how Virat Kohli turned his Test fortunes around in the 2011-12 tour of Australia with a few crucial performances in the last two Tests after being on the verge of being dropped.
Alex Carey, who captained Australia A during their second warm-up match against India ahead of the Test series between Australia and India, said that he would "love" having a chat with former captain Allan BorderThere have been a number of positives for India from the matches vs Australia A ahead of the Pink Ball Test at Adelaide which commences from December 17.
December 9-14, First Test, Australia vs West Indies, Brisbane: It was the 1960-61 series' opener between Sir Frank Worrell's West Indies and Richie Benaud's Australia at the Gabba.Jim Carrey is reportedly interested in doing a sequel to one of his most acclaimed movies. Despite the amount of hit films the star has been in over the decades, Carrey is generally averse to doing sequels, following the lackluster reception of Ace Ventura 2 back in the day. He did break his rule for 2014’s Dumb and Dumber To, though, and he’s about to do so again for the Sonic the Hedgehog follow-up. So it seems he’s changed his mind on the matter by this point.
And the next one of his classics that he wants to do a sequel for is Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Insider Daniel Richtman has shared on his Patreon page that he’s heard the star has made it known that he’d be up for returning for some sort of continuation of the 2004 psychological romantic drama. No further details are available at this time, however, so it’s unclear if the project is actually formally underway or not.
Eternal Sunshine starred Carrey as Joel, who goes to a specialist firm that can erase memories to remove the pain of splitting up with his ex-girlfriend, Clementine (Kate Winslet). During the procedure, though, Joel changes his mind and fights to save the memories of his time with Clementine from being wiped from his brain. To say anymore would be to spoil it, but the film does leave the door open for more from these characters, so a sequel could make sense.
That said, it might be difficult to get the talent involved with the original back together again. Director Michel Gondry hasn’t helmed a new movie in a while and screenwriter Charlie Kaufman has never penned a sequel before. It would also probably all depend on whether Winslet would want to do a sequel, too, as the whole appeal of the first film is the couple’s chemistry.
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