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Aussies Name Unchanged XI Opt To Bowl

2020-06-26T17:33:38Z

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Australia have stuck with an unchanged XI and opted to bowl in Bangalore, where they are seeking a maiden Twenty20 series win over India. Australia have never defeated India in a T20 series, at home or abroad, with their best effort being victory in a one-off T20 at the MCG in 2008. Aaron Finch's team also haven't won a limited-overs series since the Cape Town cheating scandal. The visitors hold a 1-0 lead in what is a two-game series, having prevailed in a final-ball thriller in Vizag after Pat Cummins hit the winning runs. India have made three changes, resting star Rohit Sharma while dropping Mayank Markande and Umesh Yadav. Shikhar Dhawan, [https://inborncricketer.blogspot.com/2020/06/dipika-pallikal-karthik-squash.html https://inborncricketer.blogspot.com/2020/06/dipika-pallikal-karthik-squash.html] Siddarth Kaul and Vijay Shankar have been recalled by the hosts. Virat Kohli admitted he would also have bowled if the coin fell the other way. "It looks like a pretty nice wicket," India captain Kohli said at the toss. "It looks like it's back to a normal Bangalore wicket, which is a good sign, so we don't mind batting first." The rivals start a five-match ODI series in Hyderabad on Saturday. Australia XI: D'Arcy Short, Marcus Stoinis, Aaron Finch (capt), Glenn Maxwell, Peter Handscomb, Ashton Turner, Nathan Coulter-Nile, Pat Cummins, Jhye Richardson, Jason Behrendorff, Adam Zampa. India XI: Shikhar Dhawan, KL Rahul, Virat Kohli (capt), Rishabh Pant, Dinesh Karthik, MS Dhoni, Krunal Pandya, Yuzvendra Chahal, Jasprit Bumrah, Vijay Shankar, Siddarth Kaul.

Cricket-NZ Stun India To Reach Final Despite Jadeja Heroics

2020-06-25T17:12:44Z

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By Amlan Chakraborty MANCHESTER, England, July 10 (Reuters) - New Zealand survived Ravindra Jadeja's late onslaught to stun India by 18 runs in a low-scoring thriller on Wednesday and reach the Cricket World Cup final for the second time in a row. Twice champions India were reeling at 24-4 in their chase for a modest victory target of 240 in what had appeared to be a lop-sided semi-final. Jadeja (77) partnered Mahendra Singh Dhoni in a century-plus stand but India were bowled out for 221 in the final over and New Zealand will play hosts England or defending champions Australia in Sunday's final at Lord's. "Great semi-final over two days and very pleased to be on the right side of it," New Zealand skipper Kane Williamson said. "We just wanted to put the ball in the good areas and put pressure on India. We just wanted some early wickets and it was great start for the bowlers." "The way Jadeja and (MS) Dhoni were hitting the ball, they were likely to win, but our fielders were then outstanding." Opting to bat first in the rain-hit contest played over two days, New Zealand's 239 for eight looked far from imposing against India's formidable batting lineup. But Matt Henry (3-37) and Trent Boult (2-42) ripped the heart out of India's top order and spinner Mitchell Santner struck two crucial blows in the middle overs. Henry dismissed Rohit Sharma, the World Cup's leading scorer, and Boult trapped Virat Kohli lbw in the next over. India's captain reviewed the decision but could not get it overturned. The horror continued for India as KL Rahul became the third Indian top order batsman to depart for one, Henry's second caught-behind victim. Jimmy Neesham took a magnificent left-handed catch to dismiss Dinesh Karthik as India slumped to 24-4 in 10 overs. Rishabh Pant added 47 runs with Hardik Pandya to arrest the slide and Pant made 32 before his wild heave off Santner found Colin de Grandhomme near the mid-wicket boundary. Pandya, struggling with a hip injury, also made 32 before throwing away his wicket. Jadeja injected fresh excitement into the match with his brave counter-attack that left his team needing 90 runs off the last 10 overs with four wickets in hand. He and Dhoni (50) kept India afloat in the chase which was eventually derailed when both fell in successive overs. "We thought we had restricted them to a total that is chaseable on any surface," Kohli said. "But the way they bowled in that first half an hour was the difference in the game. "We had a good day yesterday and I'm very proud of that effort. Then it was a professional effort with the ball this morning and [https://inborncricketer.blogspot.com/2020/06/dipika-pallikal-karthik-squash.html https://inborncricketer.blogspot.com/2020/06/dipika-pallikal-karthik-squash.html] we had the momentum. "But credit to the New Zealand bowlers - the way they bowled with the new ball, moving it around, it was an outstanding skill level on display and they made life very difficult for our batsmen." Williamson had won the toss on Tuesday and opted to bat at a venue where teams batting first had won all five previous matches in the tournament. India's new ball pair of Bhuvneshwar Kumar (3-43) and Jasprit Bumrah bowled with impeccable discipline while Jadeja was also very economical with the ball. Resuming on the reserve day at 211-5, New Zealand added 28 runs from the remaining 23 deliveries as Ross Taylor top-scored with a gutsy 74 to go with Williamson's 67. Jadeja proved his value as a fielder with a pinpoint throw to run out Taylor and in the next delivery, took a well-judged catch near the ropes to dismiss Tom Latham. (Reporting by Amlan Chakraborty in Manchester; editing by Ed Osmond)

Dhoni Denied India Contract Amid Retirement Speculations

2020-06-25T01:25:34Z

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By Amlan Chakraborty NEW DELHI, Jan 16 (Reuters) - The Indian cricket board signalled it is ready for life without Mahendra Singh Dhoni after dropping the long-serving wicketkeeper from its list of centrally contracted players on Thursday. The former captain quit test cricket in 2014 and has not played for India since taking a break after the team's semi-finals exit at the 50-overs World Cup in England last year. Coach Ravi Shastri said earlier this month that Dhoni, who will turn 39 in July, could be considered for this year's Twenty20 World Cup in Australia. The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), however, seemed to have made up its mind and Dhoni, who has stonewalled retirement talks in his rare media interactions, was conspicuous by his absence in the 27-player list. In the new list, captain Virat Kohli, opener Rohit Sharma and pace spearhead Jasprit Bumrah have retained their place in the A+ grade, worth 70 million Indian rupees ($986,923) a year. The 11 players grouped in the A grade with retainers of 50 million rupees include Rishabh Pant, who is seen as Dhoni's successor in limited-overs cricket. Test wicketkeeper Wriddhiman Saha was promoted to grade B where he joins opener Mayank Agarwal and three others who will earn 30 million rupees each. The final group comprises eight players with retainers of 10 million rupees for the period from October 2019 to September 2020. Dhoni, who was in grade A in the previous list, remains India's most successful limited-overs captain who led the team to World Cup victories both in the 20-overs (2007) and [https://inborncricketer.blogspot.com/2020/06/dipika-pallikal-karthik-squash.html inborncricketer.blogspot.com] 50-overs (2011) formats. Dinesh Karthik, Khaleel Ahmed and Ambati Rayudu also missed out on a contract. Grade A+ - Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma, Jasprit Bumrah Grade A - Ravichandran Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Cheteshwar Pujara, Ajinkya Rahane, KL Rahul, Shikhar Dhawan, Mohammed Shami, Ishant Sharma, Kuldeep Yadav, Rishabh Pant Grade B - Wriddhiman Saha, Umesh Yadav, Yuzvendra Chahal, Hardik Pandya, Mayank Agarwal Grade C - Kedar Jadhav, Navdeep Saini, Deepak Chahar, Manish Pandey, Hanuma Vihari, Shardul Thakur, Shreyas Iyer, Washington Sundar ($1 = 70.92 Indian rupees) (Reporting by Amlan Chakraborty in New Delhi; editing by Christian Radnedge)

My Son s Minecraft Obsession Is Boring Me To Tears

2020-06-24T19:43:12Z

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id="article-body" class="row" section="article-body"> Andrew Chin/Getty A big weird stupid thing goes on when you have kids. A thing where you want them to live their best lives, follow their dreams, grow and develop into their own little people independent of you. But you also want them to like the stuff you like. Me? I like [/topics/video-games/ video games]. Well, I sorta like video games. Despite spending the vast majority of my working life [/news/three-years-on-im-still-recovering-from-breath-of-the-wild/ writing about video games], I'd call it a love/hate relationship. Video games are an art form unlike any other. They dazzle, inspire, empower. But video games are also kinda super annoying. CNET Culture Entertain your brain with the coolest news from space to superheroes, memes to robots. They're derivative. Desperate for mainstream critical attention, but burdened with the kind of juvenile writing that makes it mostly impossible to take them seriously. Worse, [ decades of being marketed solely toward young boys] has left games and games culture with a misogyny hangover that can only be described as "problematic." Do I want to share my love of video games with my children? Yes. Do I want them to become stereotypical hermit crabs, locked inside their room as their bodies decay toward puberty and incel subreddits? Ideally no. Apologies in advance for the hyperbole, [https://inborncricketer.blogspot.com/2020/06/dipika-pallikal-karthik-squash.html inborncricketer.blogspot.com] but right now I've got problems. Minecraft problems. In recent years the concept of "games as services" has exploded. Nowadays we don't play games for a month or two, finish them and move on to the next like the "good old days." No, now we're picking one single game and playing it for years. [/news/valorant-riot-games-league-of-legends-followup-launches-june-2/ League of Legends], Fortnite, [/news/world-of-warcraft-classic-launches-in-summer-2019/ World of Warcraft] … [/news/amid-covid-19-minecraft-sees-sharp-spikes-over-126m-players-a-month/ Minecraft]. That's the dark path my oldest son has decided to take. I regret to inform you my 7-year-old has become a "Minecraft guy." He. Won't. Stop. Playing. Minecraft. He won't stop talking about Minecraft, either. He'll wake me up at 6 a.m., [/reviews/nintendo-switch-review/ Nintendo Switch] in hand, to show me the armor he's carefully crafted, or the house he's just built. In the car, driving home from school he'll regale me with blow-by-blow accounts of his graduation from Creative to Survival mode. Questions. Endless questions.

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2020-06-24T19:43:07Z

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