Top Stories: Things that made news in the cricket world today

Anushka Sharma flies to England to join husband Virat Kohli

• The Indian cricket team is currently busy in England. The team has a long schedule ahead in the country with 2 more T20Is to be played.
• This will be followed by 3 ODIs and 5 Test matches. The Indian team has started off the tour on a positive note with a win the first T20I.
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Outstation players to feature in Sankar Cement TNPL 2018

• Sixteen outstation cricketers will feature in the upcoming third edition of the Sankar Cement-sponsored Tamil Nadu Premier League (TNPL) for the first time, decided to open the doors to up to two uncapped other-state Indian players for each of the eight franchises.
• A total of 112 players from 13 state associations, namely Baroda, Karnataka, Kerala, Hyderabad, Andhra, Goa, Saurashtra, Madhyapradesh, Rajasthan, Haryana, Delhi, Gujarat and Jammu & Kashmir, registered for the outstation Player draft of TNPL 2018 which was held at the MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai on Wednesday.
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ENG vs IND: Jos Buttler praises Kuldeep Yadav on his jaw-dropping show

• There was a lot of hype surrounding the series between England and India. The T20I series began a couple of days earlier and enthralled the audience.
• However, the visiting team wilted versus Virat Kohli and Co. Kuldeep Yadav was outstanding, to say the least, and was the primary reason why the Men in Blue were able to carve a stupendous victory by eight wickets.
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ENG vs IND: James Anderson set to prove his fitness ahead of the Test series

• Team India have started their England tour with a resounding victory and have cleared that they are not in the country only to make up the numbers.
• The visitors are also upbeat about their chances to win the upcoming five-match Test series even as England are fretting over the fitness of their key bowler James Anderson.
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Zimbabwe fined for slow over-rate in Harare

• Zimbabwe has been fined for maintaining a slow over-rate in their T20I Tri-series match in Harare on Tuesday, which Pakistan won by seven wickets.
• Jeff Crowe of the Emirates Elite Panel of ICC Match Referees imposed the fine after Hamilton Masakadza’s side was ruled to be one over short of their target when time allowances were taken into consideration.
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KL Rahul reveals his inspiration behind the post-century celebration with Virat Kohli

• KL Rahul is in the form of his life as he has continued in the same vein since the Indian Premier League (IPL) and began his England tour with a ton as well.
• India managed to thump the hosts in the first of the three-match T20I series on the back of his brilliant show with the willow.
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ENG vs IND: English team resorts to ‘Merlyn’ to figure out Kuldeep Yadav

• Kuldeep Yadav turned out to be a tough nut to crack for the English batsmen in Manchester. He became the first Chinaman to pick up a five-wicket haul in T20Is.
• The tweaker started the havoc with the wicket of Alex Hales in his second over.
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Rashid Khan’s mystery spin continues to baffle the opposition in T20 Blast

• Rashid Khan has been scaling new heights in the shortest format of the game with his mystery spin over the last couple of years now.
• He is very hard to be picked for the batsmen, especially for the teams and players outside Asia, and no wonder he has continued to bag a lot of success in the early part of his career.
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Mohammad Amir spills the beans on the toughest batsman he has bowled to

• Mohammad Amir is currently in Zimbabwe where Pakistan is taking part in a triangular T20I series involving the hosts and Australia.
• It will be followed by a five-match ODI series versus Zimbabwe and Amir is expected to play a major role in it.
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Kuldeep Yadav completely deceived us, admits England skipper Eoin Morgan

• England are preparing for the second T20I of the series against India and one certain problem that was exposed in the first match is their skill to deal with spin.
• India’s Kuldeep Yadav ran through the English batting line-up as he foxed the likes of Alex Hales, Eoin Morgan, Joe Root as well as Jos Buttler all the batsmen who are expected to make a difference for the home team.
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Dale Steyn sets his goal clear coming back from the injury

• Dale Steyn is one of the biggest icons in South African cricket. Undoubtedly, he is one of the best fast bowlers the country has ever produced.
• He has got one of the cleanest actions and has got quite a few tricks up his sleeve.
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