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Oct 21, 2024 | 
goodareas.co | Jarrod Kimber |Estelle Vasudevan |Behram Qazi |Varun Alvakonda
Ajaz Patel was the only New Zealand player alive the last time they went to India and won a Test match. That is an entire generation of pretty good cricketers travelling to India and losing. There is no doubt that the conditions played a part on day two, but so did New Zealand's fielding and Rachin Ravindra's counter attack with the bat. So to throw this win away as a fluke of the Bengaluru rain is unfair. Let's be honest, New Zealand have been coming to India for almost 40 years—to lose.
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Oct 19, 2024 | 
goodareas.co | Jarrod Kimber |Estelle Vasudevan |Behram Qazi |Varun Alvakonda
Rishabh Pant hit such a massive six today that it could cost India their shot at one of the greatest comebacks in Test cricket history. I know that sounds ridiculous but stick with me. India collapsed for 46 runs—sorry for not giving a trigger warning. Then New Zealand piled on 400. Tim Southee alone outscored the entire Indian team, which is something that’ll always be funny. But because of all that, the pitch became easier to bat on. India came out with a renewed approach.
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Oct 18, 2024 | 
goodareas.co | Estelle Vasudevan |Jarrod Kimber |Behram Qazi |Varun Alvakonda
Picture Credits - bcci.tvHow does a very good team get bowled out for 46 at home? Turns out, easily. But we wanted to dissect what happened because this is not normal. I don’t see these many ducks when I head to the local park. India have been on the verge of getting rolled out cheaply at home for a while, but today they fully embraced that low total. Great catches, ideal bowlers, a wacky pitch—everything came together to kill off this Indian innings. Consider this the autopsy.
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Oct 16, 2024 | 
goodareas.co | Behram Qazi |Jarrod Kimber |Varun Alvakonda |Estelle Vasudevan
When they say it can’t be done, be the first to do it. That is something Chamari Athapaththu lives by. She uses it as her Whatsapp quote. And in cricket, that is what she does. Over the past 15 years, she’s been the first to achieve many things for Sri Lanka. In 2010, just seven ODIs into her international career, she became the first Sri Lankan woman to make a century in a limited-overs game. Between then and August 2024, she was Sri Lanka’s ONLY centurion in white-ball cricket.
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Oct 14, 2024 | 
goodareas.co | Jarrod Kimber |Behram Qazi
Stats updated as of October 14, 2024. Fazal Mahmood was a vibe. Look at him. Does it even matter that he was one of the best quicks of his era? He’s just a cool-looking guy. Holding a cigarette like he’s posing for a photo shoot. And while this was natural, he also was a model for Brylcreem. This is a man who knew how to look, and how to bowl. In 1952, when Pakistan won their first Test, Fazal took 12 Indian wickets. This may have been their maiden win, but it was only their second Test.
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Oct 10, 2024 | 
goodareas.co | Jarrod Kimber |CS Chiwanza |Behram Qazi |Varun Alvakonda
— 6 min read There’s a line in Jurassic World when they talk about the new dinosaur escaping from its paddock: “She is learning where she fits on the food chain, and I’m not sure you want her to figure that out.”I’ve been thinking about this a lot while watching India destroy Bangladesh and now England demolish Pakistan. For over a century, we’ve been saying cricket is a batter’s game. Yet, there haven’t been many times when batters truly dominated.
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Sep 15, 2024 | 
goodareas.co | Jarrod Kimber |Behram Qazi |Varun Alvakonda |Shayan Ahmad Khan
Download Hitwicket FREE for iOS/Android and build your dream team!Steve Smith stood his ground and asked umpire Aleem Dar to send the decision upstairs to the third umpire. The Australian had danced down the track to a flat Keshav Maharaj delivery on middle and off. Smith meant to nudge the ball but missed, and was struck on the pads. The South African players stood around Maharaj for an eternity while the third umpire, Richard Kettleborough, studied the footage.
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Sep 14, 2024 | 
goodareas.co | Jarrod Kimber |Shayan Ahmad Khan |Varun Alvakonda |Behram Qazi
Download Hitwicket FREE for iOS/Android and build your dream team!Do you see this toe? I have been looking at it for days. Hundreds of balls, slow motion, frame by frame, yelling enhance like I'm in a Hollywood movie looking for the killer. Is this it? Have I found the root of Babar Azam's problems? Is it the toe that did it? Babar Azam has gone from being one of the best players in the world to someone who would be dismissed when he was miming his batting.
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Aug 21, 2024 | 
propakistani.pk | Behram Qazi
Day 1 of Pakistan’s home season. A damp and gloomy monsoon morning in the Rawalpindi cricket stadium, with overnight rain. A strong tinge of green on the playing surface, far removed from the barren tracks that have become synonymous with the venue over the last couple of years. Test cricket has made its way back to the cricket-mad nation after a lengthy hiatus of 20 months, and is accompanied by a proper roll of the dice by skipper Shan Masood.
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May 4, 2024 | 
propakistani.pk | Behram Qazi
T20 cricket has changed an awful lot since its formal inception in 2003, in the English domestic circuit. Even if we look back at the inaugural World T20 in 2007, which is what the T20 World Cup was known as back in the day, the format has evolved from being perceived as somewhat of a gimmick, to what is now looked upon as serious business, with a fair bit of method behind all the madness that goes on in the field.
