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England vs India: Hardik Pandya declared fit for the third Test

• There are injury issues in the team as well but things are falling in place for the visitors slowly but steadily.
• But they showed that the pitch wasn’t unplayable and it was a lesson for the top-order batsmen.
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New Zealand name Gary Stead as the new head coach

• Stead played 101 first-class games and scored 4,984 runs at an average of 32. He also helped Canterbury win three Plunkett Shield titles.
• Hesson cited that he wanted to spend more time with family as one of the reasons for quitting the job.
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Indian team stays away from the nets session after Lord’s defeat

• A humbling defeat at Lord’s has left the fans worried about their team competing in the five-match Test series.
• The visitors opted for an off day on Sunday which was understandable as they were thumped by their opponents.
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BPL 2019 could be devoid of overseas cricketers

• The sixth edition of the Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) is scheduled to start on January 5, 2019.
• The Rangpur Riders, who beat the Dhaka Dynamites by 57 runs in the final last year in Dhaka, are the defending champions.
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Jonny Bairstow doesn’t want England to take their foot off the pedal

• England are currently leading their five-match Test series against India 2-0 and have arguably been the dominant force.
• However, despite India’s lacklustre performance thus far, Jonny Bairstow doesn’t want complacency to sneak into the English camp.
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Robin Uthappa picks his best captain between MS Dhoni and Sourav Ganguly

• Robin Uthappa has been a part of the Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) ever since 2014 and has carved himself as an indispensable member of the Shah Rukh Khan-owned franchise.
• He replaced Karun Nair in this year’s auction of the event. His team will lock horns with Belagavi Panthers.
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Women set to venture in the world of pitch-making

• Preparing the pitch for a cricket match is a fine-art. At the same time, it is also one of the most demanding jobs in the stream.
• This course was held from July 16 to July 29 with a total of 29 candidates who attended the event two of which were women.
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Sania Mirza reacts to Shoaib Malik’s India’s I-Day tweet

• The occasion of the 72nd Independence Day is being celebrated all over India on Wednesday.
• She also brought laurels to India in the Grandslam Doubles event and won a few titles sensationally.
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Cricketers pick their preferred actors in their biopics

• Dhoni, the 37-year old former Indian captain, has scaled heights in his illustrious career and the flick was expected to live up to expectations.
• Sushant Singh Rajput, the television actor, and entrepreneur acted in the movie and became a popular personality thereafter.
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Mitchell McClenaghan expects Jasprit Bumrah to perform well in the third Test

• During his first ever Test series, the speedster claimed a five-wicket haul in the game which India won by 63 runs.
• It will be interesting to see how the Indian pacers perform with the Dukes ball in the series-deciding third Test.
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Sourav Ganguly, Sachin Tendulkar and VVS Laxman to be removed from the CAC?

• Tendulkar, on the other hand, cannot be a part of the CAC because his son Arjun is now part of the Under-19 set-up.
• While captain Virat Kohli may not make too many changes, young pacer Jasprit Bumrah is available for selection after proving his fitness.
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Former Indian Hockey captain surpasses Virat Kohli’s yo-yo test score

• Yo-Yo fitness test has become the centre of attraction for all the wrong reasons in the recent times.
• However, the former India Hockey captain Sardar Singh has surpassed him with ease in terms of the yo-yo test score.
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AB de Villiers opens up on his decision to retire from international cricket

• The 34-year-old South African said it wasn’t fair for him to “pick and choose” his formats behind his decision.
• He remains one of the few cricketers to average above 50 in both Tests and ODIs with over 18,000 international runs.
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Kumar Sangakkara stands firm in support of Team India

• Coming in here with 134 runs in 10 innings from 2014, he responded with a 149 and 51 at Edgbaston.
• In the second Test match, the skipper returned with a total of 40 runs and the Indian team could just score 107 in the first innings and 130 in the second.
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