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Empty Venues Will Remind Players How Important Fans Are: Archer

2020-07-06T01:25:38Z

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May 13 (Reuters) - England speedster Jofra Archer says piping in music or crowd noise would help cricketers get used to playing in empty venues during the COVID-19 pandemic but the experience will show just how crucial fans are to the game. The England [https://asta.uni-saarland.de/wiki/index.php?title=Benutzer:OfeliaCaldwell1 asta.uni-saarland.de] and Wales Cricket Board is scrambling to salvage a coronavirus-wrecked summer as it prepares to host a three-test series against West Indies in July, possibly behind closed doors and at 'bio-secure' venues. "It will be hard to play in a stadium without supporters but I understand it is necessary for things to start that way as we won't be able to test every single fan wanting to come into the ground," Archer, 25, wrote in his Daily Mail column. "... I think it will be one of those things you don't realise how much you need until it's gone. Take it away, and we will realise how much the supporters mean to us." India captain Virat Kohli said last week playing in empty stadiums would take the 'magic' away from the game and Archer said some adjustments would have to be made. "Playing in complete silence will take some getting used to ... so I think it might be useful to play some music, some simulations of a crowd, something to create an atmosphere," said the Barbados-born quick. "The best solution, if we do have to play behind closed doors, might be to have cheers and clapping when someone hits the ball for four or a wicket falls. "These are the little things that will make it as normal as possible even though it won't be a normal occasion." An elbow injury saw Archer ruled out of England's tour of Sri Lanka and this year's Indian Premier League, though both were eventually postponed due to the global health crisis. "I'm not really sure how my elbow is as yet," he said. "I guess I'll have to bowl seriously to really find out. It feels fine after a lengthy period of rest but I've not done anything of any kind of intensity as yet." (Reporting by Amlan Chakraborty in New Delhi; editing by Peter Rutherford)

Empty Venues Will Remind Players How Important Fans Are: Archer

2020-07-05T18:53:19Z

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May 13 (Reuters) - England [http://legride.com.kelp.arvixe.com/UserProfile/tabid/61/userId/5232633/Default.aspx http://legride.com.kelp.arvixe.com/UserProfile/tabid/61/userId/5232633/Default.aspx] speedster Jofra Archer says piping in music or crowd noise would help cricketers get used to playing in empty venues during the COVID-19 pandemic but the experience will show just how crucial fans are to the game. The England and Wales Cricket Board is scrambling to salvage a coronavirus-wrecked summer as it prepares to host a three-test series against West Indies in July, possibly behind closed doors and at 'bio-secure' venues. "It will be hard to play in a stadium without supporters but I understand it is necessary for things to start that way as we won't be able to test every single fan wanting to come into the ground," Archer, 25, wrote in his Daily Mail column. "... I think it will be one of those things you don't realise how much you need until it's gone. Take it away, and we will realise how much the supporters mean to us." India captain Virat Kohli said last week playing in empty stadiums would take the 'magic' away from the game and Archer said some adjustments would have to be made. "Playing in complete silence will take some getting used to ... so I think it might be useful to play some music, some simulations of a crowd, something to create an atmosphere," said the Barbados-born quick. "The best solution, if we do have to play behind closed doors, might be to have cheers and clapping when someone hits the ball for four or a wicket falls. "These are the little things that will make it as normal as possible even though it won't be a normal occasion." An elbow injury saw Archer ruled out of England's tour of Sri Lanka and this year's Indian Premier League, though both were eventually postponed due to the global health crisis. "I'm not really sure how my elbow is as yet," he said. "I guess I'll have to bowl seriously to really find out. It feels fine after a lengthy period of rest but I've not done anything of any kind of intensity as yet." (Reporting by Amlan Chakraborty in New Delhi; editing by Peter Rutherford)

India apos;s Kohli Says Father Refused To Bribe Way Into Team

2020-07-05T18:30:40Z

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Virat Kohli lost his father at the age of 18 India captain Virat Kohli has told how his late father refused to pay a bribe to get him into a Delhi state junior team when he was a teenager. The world's top ranked one-day batsman did not identify who had demanded the bribe but said he was rejected by the team, a rebuff that left him "broken". "In my home state... sometimes things happen that are not fair," the Times of India newspaper and other media quoted Kohli as saying during an online forum with India's football captain Sunil Chhetri. "On one occasion, a certain person did not play by the rules for selection criteria," the skipper added. "He told my father while I had the merit, a little extra (bribe) was needed to confirm my selection." But Kohli said his father had insisted the selection had to be on merit alone. "My father simply said, 'If you want to select Virat then let it be purely on merit. I will give you nothing extra.'" Kohli said he was in tears after being told he had not made the team. "I cried a lot. I was broken," he declared. "That incident taught me a lot. I realised that this is how the world is run," he was quoted as saying. "If you want to progress, do something that no one else is doing. If I had to become successful, I needed to be extraordinary. "And I had to achieve this purely through my own effort and hard work. "My father showed me the right way through his actions and not merely words. Those little things had a great impact on me," Kohli was quoted as saying. Kohli's father, a lawyer, died when he was 18 and [http://andytripp.org/index.php?title=User:EmmettNock75 andytripp.org] playing in a Ranji Trophy state match for Delhi. He returned to bat the day after his father's death. "I accepted his death as I was focused on moving forward with my career," Kohli said. "His death made me realise I had to make something of my life. Now I think about how nice it would be if I could have given my father the peaceful retired life he deserved. At times I get emotional thinking about him."

Cricket-Bangalore Burdened By Title Pressure - Kohli

2020-07-05T18:03:09Z

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NEW DELHI, April 5 (Reuters) - Royal Challengers Bangalore need to rediscover the joy of cricket if they are to end their Indian Premier League (IPL) title drought, captain Virat Kohli has said. Star-studded Bangalore have reached three finals of the Twenty20 league but are one of only three existing franchises -- along with Delhi and Punjab -- not to have won the title. "You go after something so badly, and it keeps running away from you," Kohli told former England batsman and ex-RCB team mate Kevin Pietersen in an Instagram chat. "It has just that added pressure in recent years. We've just thought, 'this is the season, this is the season', and that's blown us all over the place. "I think we need to get that joy back," Kohli said. The India captain acknowledged that expectations were bound to be high from a team featuring some of the most destructive Twenty20 batsmen in cricket. "When you have some of the biggest names to play for [http://www.genderkingen.com/gdkwiki/index.php?title=Ford_Bronco_Will_Finally_Debut_On_July_9_OJ_s_Birthday_-_Roadshow http://www.genderkingen.com/gdkwiki/index.php?title=Ford_Bronco_Will_Finally_Debut_On_July_9_OJ_s_Birthday_-_Roadshow] RCB, obviously there's going to be much more attention on the team. "Even with this team -- myself, AB (de Villiers) and (Chris) Gayle has played recently for us as well -- we're always going to be more in focus. We've spoken about it," Kohli said. "We've reached three finals ... but those things are irrelevant till the time you don't win that title. "Even when we've had the best team, we've just not been able to do it. That's one of our main goals. We deserve to win the title," Kohli said. Their bid for a maiden IPL title will have to wait though, as the start of this year's tournament has been put back to April 15 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, with another postponement seemingly inevitable. (Reporting by Amlan Chakraborty in New Delhi; Editing by Peter Rutherford )

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2020-07-05T18:03:07Z

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