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2022 T20 World Cup: Can India's bowling attack take us all the way?
India’s bowling group is shaping up into a very competent, competitive unit, and even the end-overs profligacy back home has been offset to a large extent by the bigger grounds in Australia.
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T20 World Cup: India vs Bangladesh is a pricklier contest now than at the start of the century. Here's why
Things took a turn for the ugly in January 2010 when, standing in for an injured M.S. Dhoni, skipper Virender Sehwag called Bangladesh an ‘ordinary side’ before the first Test in Chittagong.
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T20 World Cup 2022: For Indian squad, fitness and fielding must co-exist
A run saved is a run scored. While India's heydays of fielding lie in the past, the current team would do well to imbibe former skipper Virat Kohli's dictum of sweating it out to be competent on the field — in action and decision-making
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2022 T20 World Cup: K.L. Rahul is so much more than his all-or-nothing displays lately
In so many ways, K.L. Rahul is the quintessential modern-day batsman. Yet of late, his performance graph displays exactly the kind of inconsistency that a batting coach would ask his ward to shun.
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2022 T20 World Cup: Suryakumar Yadav is flirting with greatness
Suryakumar Yadav, 32, seems to be on a mission to make up for lost time, batting with a freedom and an authority that many crave but only the select few can pull off.
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2022 T20 World Cup: Pakistan will have to win every match, and still be lucky to reach the next stage now
The 2009 T20 World Cup champions, Pakistan are within a whisker of crashing out of the 2022 edition at the first time of asking.
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T20 World Cup 2022: India vs Netherlands and the challenges of playing ‘lesser’ nations
Remember the Dutch's giant-killing act against England at Lord’s in 2009? The Netherlands deserve to be in this World Cup, to take them any less seriously would be selling oneself short — India won't go down that path on Thursday.
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2022 T20 World Cup: One year of Rahul Dravid as India coach
Rahul Dravid took over as head coach in November 2021. In the year since, the results haven’t always gone India’s way but there has always been a distinct slant towards building a side for the future.
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India vs Pakistan: Even by vintage Kohli standards, this was super special
Virat Kohli was Zen-like, his concentration at its peak, his awareness undiminished, his vision acute, his hunger unsated.
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2022 T20 World Cup: The rise of Arshdeep Singh as a bankable bowler at the death
Arshdeep Singh’s evolution as a quality left-arm fast bowler, confident in himself and in his ever-burgeoning bag of tricks, is a tribute to the talent nurturing mechanism of the IPL - he's filled out nicely under the tutelage of Anil Kumble at Punjab Kings.
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T20 World Cup 2022: Let's rewind to 2007, when India bowled out Pakistan
After the India versus Pakistan match win, the moment MS Dhoni presented his match shirt to a young fan and walked back bare-chested, we should have known we witnessed the start of a new era in Indian cricket.
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T20 World Cup 2022 | How left-arm fast bowlers could swing Sunday’s Indo-Pak match
Watch this World Cup for the left-arm quicks who can swing the ball in appreciably: Arshdeep Singh, Trent Boult, Marco Jansen, Mitchell Starc, and of course, Shaheen Shah Afridi,
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T20 World Cup 2022: Suryakumar Yadav, Shaheen Afridi and other top players to watch
Every team has at least one player with what’s often referred to as the X-factor. Here’s our pick.
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David vs Goliath: The biggest upsets in T20 World Cup history
Further proof that the T20 format encourages a greater shaking up of the established order: Namibia's triumph over Sri Lanka on Sunday and Scotland's defeat of West Indies on Monday.
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Workload plus: Why Kapil Dev's mental health comments rankle
"I can’t understand these American words, like ‘pressure’ and ‘depression’," Kapil Dev said at an event.
