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Lasith Embuldeniya gets Virat Kohli with a peach of a delivery

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Indian batsman Virat Kohli, who became the 12th Indian cricketer to feature in 100 Tests, was dismissed for 45 during the first Test of the two-match series against Sri Lanka in Mohali on Friday. He couldn’t make the occasion an even more special one as he got out five runs short of his half century.

Former indian captain Virat Kohli  was sent off by Sri Lankan spinner Lasith Embuldeniya in the first innings of the match. After Mayank Agarwal’s wicket, Virat Kohli came out to bat to a standing ovation at Mohali Stadium. The right-handed batsman again looked in good form. However, in the 43rd over of India’s first inning, Lasith Embuldeniya hit a longer ball around his stump and spun on Virat Kohli’s bat, resulting in a clean pitch. Kohli scored 45 runs from 76 balls and hit 5 bounds during his tenure. Kohli couldn’t even touch the ball as his off-stump was disturbed.

India opted to bat first on what looked like a great pitch for batting.  India  off to a flying start with openers Rohit Sharma and Mayank Agarwal attacking bowlers from the outset. The openers managed a 52-run stand before Rohit was dismissed for 29. India lost Mayank Agarwal for 33 ahead of Lunch. Kohli then combined with India’s new No.3 Hanuma Vihari to stitch a 90-run stand.

Meanwhile, Virat Kohli achieved another milestone during Day 1 of the first Test match between India and Sri Lanka. Playing his 100th Test match, Kohli completed 8000 runs in Test cricket and becomes the 6th Indian batter to achieve the feat. Earlier, Kohli was felicitated by the BCCI on Friday commemorating his landmark 100th Test match.

Former captain Virat Kohli has been felicitated by India head coach Rahul Dravid with a special on his 100th Test match

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India’s batsman Virat Kohli reached the 100th Test landmark at Mohali on Friday. The former skipper became the 12th Indian cricketer to join the elite club.

India head coach Rahul Dravid felicitated Virat Kohli with the 100th Test cap ahead of India vs Sri Lanka 1st Test in Mohali on Friday. Ahead of the match. While felicitating Kohli with the 100th Test match, India head coach Rahul Dravid congratulated the former Indian skipper for the wonderful achievement.

“Congratulations to you and your family on this wonderful achievement. It’s well deserved, well earned, and hopefully, it is just the start of many things to come. As we say in the dressing room, double it up,” said Rahul Dravid.

In response, Virat Kohli thanked Dravid and BCCI for their support. He said “It is a special moment for me. My wife is here and so is my brother. Everyone is very proud. It is indeed a team game and it couldn’t have been possible without you. Thanks to the BCCI as well. In present day cricket, with the amount we play with three formats and an IPL, the one takeaway the next generation can take from me is that I played 100 games in the purest format”.

Meanwhile, several former cricketers have congratulated Kohli for achieving the feat. However, he can reach another landmark by scoring a century in his 100th Test. Notably, Virat Kohli made his test debut against West Indies in 2011. However, young Kohli couldn’t perform as his reputation suggests he might have, scoring 19 runs in his first test match. However, over a period of 11 years, Virat Kohli will be playing his 100th test which is a testament to his excellence in the format. The Delhi-based cricketer has scored 7962 runs in 99 Tests with an average of 50.39.

Cheteshwar Pujara, Ajinkya Rahane And Hardik Pandya Get Demoted In BCCI Central Contracts

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BCCI has finalised the latest Central Contracts list for India players for the year 2022. Meanwhile, Cheteshwar Pujara and former Test vice-captain Ajinkya Rahane, who have been axed for the Sri Lanka Test series, were on Wednesday downgraded in the latest central contracts list of the BCCI that was ratified by the Board’s Apex Council.

The BCCI has four categories — A+ which has annual remuneration of Rs 7 crore while A, B and C categories are valued at Rs 5 crore, Rs 3 crore and Rs 1 crore respectively. Although , Ajinkya Rahane, Cheteshwar Pujara, Hardik Pandya and Wriddhiman Saha have been downgraded in the latest BCCI central contracts. However, the list is updated each year based on the performance of the cricketers.

Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli and Jasprit Bumrah retained in the as A+ grade. However, Pujara, Rahane and Ishant Sharma, who were in Grade A until last year, are now in Grade B. This comes after the trio were dropped for the Test series against Sri Lanka, which begins in Mohali on Friday.  Category A has five players including Ravichandran Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Rishabh Pant, KL Rahul and Mohammed Shami.

Hardik Pandya, who has not played any international cricket since the T20 World Cup in UAE last year, has been demoted to Group C, along with Shikhar Dhawan. While, Wriddhiman Saha, who has been dropped from the Test team, will still be richer by Rs 1 crore after being demoted from group B to C.

IPL 2022: R Ashwin slams former cricketers who are bashing IPL

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Indian Premier League is the biggest T20 cricket league in the world at present. There have been many countries that have started their own T20 league, following the footsteps of IPL. However, IPL being the only T20 tournament with Indian cricketers’ presence along with the best of the overseas players, makes it the best franchise-based tournament in the world. 

However, IPL has been blamed, every now and then, for its negative impact on international teams. For example, this year after losing Ashes, former England players and experts argued that English players priortising IPL has led to the decline of Test cricket in England. Meanwhile,Indian off-spinner Ravichandran
Ashwin has come out bashing such criticism on his YouTube channel.

“IPL has been under the radar for so many years. Suddenly, some former cricketer will say something bad about IPL for no reason. Imagine the situation in 2008 or 2010. There were only 20-25 cricketers who would be there. Team India To represent in the Indian setup.” Ashwin further said that a few nations schedule their international fixture keeping IPL in mind. However, since the IPL is kicking off on March 26 this year in place of April 8/9 many teams will be suffering because of this.

“Lawrence Booth (English journalist) had tweeted about IPL fixtures saying it takes almost one-third of the year. Even the English Premier League happens and almost has a six-month window. The players will have more gaps between matches and they will have only one or two matches per week. Of course, cricket getting to that stage will always remain a huge question mark. But IPL as a league has all the potential to take cricket into that stage for sure. And all the cricket viewers, cricket nations, stakeholders know this already,” said Ashwin.

Ashwin also spoke about how Indian cricket has benefited from the IPL. “Even when I started, my parents and grandparents asked me if cricket would help me financially. Only 15-20 or 25 cricketers would get a chance in 10 years. But now, because of IPL, every year,” he said. At least 75-80 Indian cricketers are getting the opportunity. “

Rohit Sharma Reveals His Favourite Virat Kohli Century In Test Cricket

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Virat Kohli will play his 100th Test match against Sri Lanka on Friday, 4th March. Former India captain Virat Kohli has 27 hundreds and 28 half-centuries in Test cricket before he is set to take the field for the 100th appearance for India in red-ball cricket against Sri Lanka.

Notably, this Test match is also special occasion for Rohit who will lead Team India in red-ball cricket for the first time. He has been appointed as the new India all-format captain after Kohli’s resignation from Test captaincy following the series defeat in South Africa earlier this year. While, Rohit Sharma lavished huge praise on Virat Kohli ahead of his 100th Test match.

Rohit went on to say that Kohli deserves all the credit for making India the top-ranked Test team, and he will try to carry forward the job. “It’s been a brilliant journey for him and a long one since he made his debut. Now to go and play his 100th game, it’s been a wonderful one. He has done exceedingly well in this format, changed so many things in the way team is moving forward, it’s been brilliant to watch that.” Rohit said in the virtual press conference ahead of the Mohali Test.

When asked his favourite Kohli knock, Rohit picked Kohli’s Test hundred in South Africa, back in 2013. “As an individual, my best memory of him is his Test hundred against South Africa in 2013. The pitch we were batting on was very challenging; it had a lot of bounce and a lot of us were playing a Test in South Africa for the first time. He scored a hundred in first innings and 90 odd in the second innings. That hundred for me is his best. Then there is Perth 2018 but 2013 South Africa beats Perth,” Rohit said.

Sreesanth’s emotional celebration after getting his first wicket in 9 years

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Former India fast bowler S. Sreesanth while playing for his state team took his first wicket after a gap of nine years for his state team in the Ranji Trophy. Sreesanth faced a life ban from professional cricket in 2013 after getting involved in a spot-fixing scandal during his stint with Rajasthan Royals. However, his ban was reduced to seven years and he returned to professional cricket in September 2020.

While playing against Meghalaya in the ongoing first-class season, Kerala bowler Sreesanth dismissed Aryan Bora to register his first Ranji Trophy wicket in 9 years. After taking the wicket and confirming it with the on-field umpire, Sreesanth was seen laying down on the ground and kissing the pitch. Sreesanth registered figures of 2 for 40 in his 11.5 overs in the first innings but did not take any wickets in the second innings.

The veteran pacer was overjoyed at his performance in the game and has now posted a video of the emotional moment on social media on Wednesday, 2 March. “Now that’s my 1st wicket after 9 long years..gods grace I was just over joyed and giving my Pranaam to the wicket” was the caption of the video.

Sreesanth played 27 Tests, 53 ODIs, and 10 T20Is for India before facing a life ban for his involvement in the IPL spot-fixing scandal of 2013. He was part of the 2007 T20 World Cup and 2011 Cricket World Cup squads which won the competition. His last appearance in international cricket came in 2011. However
he was keen on returning to professional cricket after his life ban got reduced to seven years in August of 2019. The paceman had said that he was ready to give it his all and believed he had another five to seven years of cricket left in him.

IPL 2022 : Fans want Gujarat Titans to name Suresh Raina as a replacement of Jason Roy

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Former Indian cricketer Suresh Raina wasn’t retained by Chennai Super Kings at the Indian Premier League auction 2022, and he was remained unsold in IPL 2022 mega auction, however he was expected to be roped in by some other franchise. 

Meanwhile, Gujarat Titans – who are one of the two new IPL franchises – were dealt with a blow, as English batter Jason Roy pulled himself out of the tournament. The right-hander cited that he wants to spend more time with his family. There are many speculations about who will replace the English opener in the Gujarat Titans squad. Although there’s no official confirmation, many fans want the Hardik Pandya-led side to rope in Suresh Raina as a replacement. 

The moment Roy announced that he is opting out of the mega event, cricket fans started trending with Raina’s hashtag on Twitter as fans believe that the southpaw is the perfect replacement for Roy. Notably, both Roy and Raina played together in the 2017 edition of IPL for now-defunct Gujarat Lions. Raina was the skipper of Gujarat Lions when Chennai Super Kings were banned from taking part in the IPL in 2016 and 2017 on corruption charges.

Raina is the fourth-highest run-getter in IPL history. During his IPL term, he made 5528 run by playing 205 matches. However, his performance in the last two season was not good. He missed the 2020 IPL due to the personal reason while he made only 160 runs in the 2021 IPL.

Star Sports Shares A wonderful Promo Ahead Of 100th Test Of Virat Kohli

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Virat Kohli will play his 100th Test match when India host Sri Lanka in the first of a two-match Test series starting Friday in Mohali. The former India captain will become only the 12th Indian to play 100 Test matches.

It will also be Virat Kohli’s first Test match as a non-captain of India since relinquishing the post after losing the away Test series to South Africa in January. While Rohit will be captaining the Indian team for the very first time in red-ball cricket.

Meanwhile, Star Sports shared a promo video about Virat Kohli’s 100th Test match. Captioning the promo ahead of the 100th Test of Virat Kohli, host broadcaster Star Sports wrote on their social media handle: “The who makes us #BelieveInBlue is ready for his 100th Test! us if you’re in for a #ViratKohli special in the 1st Paytm #INDvSL Test.

While, ahead of the special day for Kohli, BCCI also shared a video where veteran Indian cricketers Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid, Sourav Ganguly and Virender Sehwag shared their best wishes to Kohli. 

“I remember the first time I heard about you was when we were in Australia in 2007. You guys were playing the U-19 World Cup in Malaysia and that’s when there were certain players in the team who were discussing about you. This is one player to watch out for, achhi batting kar leta hai (he can do good batting),” Tendulkar said in the video.

“To be able to play one is great, to be able to play 100 is a fantastic achievement. It’s an achievement Virat Kohli can be very proud of,” said India head coach Rahul Dravid.

“Virat has had a great journey. Starting from 10-11 years ago and getting to where he has reached, is an exceptional achievement. On behalf of BCCI, and also as a former captain and a former cricketer who has played 100 Tests and more, I wish him all the very best,” said BCCI president Sourav Ganguly.

“Mein toh kehta hoon. Haazme ki goli, tyohaar mein Holi aur batting mein Kohli, poore Bhaarat ko pasand hai,” said Virender Sehwag.

Medium-Pacer kieron Pollard bowls off-spin In Trinidad T10 Blast

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Kieron Pollard is one of the best all-rounders of all time in the T20 format. In the last few years, Pollard has restricted his bowling and only comes on when the team requires him badly with the ball. 

Pollard is Generally a medium-pace bowler, he uses a mixture of cutters to outfox the batters. His bowling has been so effective that he has more than 300 T20 wickets to his name as well. However, recently, the all-rounder, who usually bowls medium pace, turned into an off-spinner in a T10 match. This move worked brilliantly for his side, as pollard took a wicket bowling off-spin. The rare incident took place during a Trinidad T10 Blast 2022 match between Scoa King and Scarlet Ibis Scorchers.

On the fifth delivery of the over, Leonardo Julien tried to play a shot towards the on-side but he was castled by the “off-spinner” Pollard as he completely misjudged the delivery. Nobody really expected this sort of an approach from Pollard. Though Pollard got the first wicket for his team. The video clip spread like wildfire on social media portals.

While, that was not the end of the drama between the two. A few balls later, when Pooran was at the non-striker’s end, Pollard the bowler, stopped midway through his run-up again, this time in an attempt to Mankad Pooran. What made things even more bizarre.

Meanwhile, Kings eventually posted a mammoth total of 150/3 in their allotted quota of 10 overs. The target proved to be too good for the Scorchers and they lost the match by 42 runs eventually by D/L method. Notably Kieron Pollard will soon be seen with the Mumbai Indians franchise in the upcoming season of the IPL. The all-rounder was retained by the franchise before the auctions.

‘Cricket balls are edible…right?’: Fans on Twitter claim Rohit Sharma’s account is hacked

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India skipper Rohit Sharma has tweeted a series of cryptic tweets on Twitter on Tuesday. Fans seem to think that Rohit Sharma’s Twitter account has been hacked after the Indian cricketer had some cryptic tweets on his official account. 

Rohit Sharma posted a couple of tweets that were out of order. While it struck several of his fans as odd, a few other tweets in quick succession made it clear that the Twitter account of the captain of the Indian cricket team was possibly hacked.

“I love coin tosses…especially when they end up in my belly.” This tweet went out from skipper Rohit Sharma account at 11 am on Tuesday.

Three hours later, another funny post appeared and it read: “Bzz….! Did you know? Buzzing beehives make for great boxing bags!”

The third tweet came up two hours after the second one and that one said: Cricket balls are edible…right?”

With the series of strange tweets coming from the skipper account, fans on social media got engaged as they came up with some witty replies. In fact, a majority of the fans were assured of Rohit’s account being hacked. Even Harsha Bhogle reacted to Rohit Sharma’s tweets, saying, “Uh…What? All okay Captain? Can’t make heads or tails of this.”