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

All the news stories that hogged the headlines today.

Published - 23 Aug 2020, 22:50 IST | Updated - 23 Aug 2020, 22:50 IST

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Vijay Shankar last played for the Indian team during the World Cup 2019. He got injured during the tournament and had to come back midway through the mega-event.
Shankar became the second cricketer to get engaged during this month. He followed the steps of leg-spinner Yuzvendra Chahal.
The leggie recently got engaged to Dhanashree Verma a popular choreographer and dancer on Youtube.
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Indian wicketkeeper-batsman KL Rahul has reached UAE with his Kings XI Punjab squad where he will be leading his side for the very first time.
The team is undergoing a mandatory quarantine period before hitting the ground to gear up for the fancy T20 league getting underway from September 19.
A thing that needs attention amid all this is, the batsman has a golden heart, and he didn’t forget to display that recently.
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The moment when India crumbled during the 2019 World Cup semis against New Zealand still hurts millions of Indian fans around the world.
Sadly, it also turned out to be the legendary MS Dhoni’s last international outing for the Men in Blue.
Talking in the same light, former captain and an excellent batsman Sunil Gavaskar opined that lack of a proper no.4 batsman during the 2019 World Cup could’ve been the very reason why India lost in the mega event.
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Babar Azam has been a centrepiece of the Pakistan batting line-up from past few years. He is also deemed as one of the top batsmen of this generation.
Recently, after scoring a decent fifty in 2nd Test match against England, he became the only batsman to feature in top five ICC batting rankings of all three formats.
He was rewarded for his excellent performance with the full-time captaincy for ODIs in May this year after he became the T20I captain in 2019.
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After lots of discussions and rounds of planning, the 13th season of the most-awaited Indian Premier League (IPL) is commencing on September 19 in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
Players have landed in the Gulf country and will hit the grounds with full vigour post their mandatory quarantine period.
In the meantime, former Indian skipper Sunil Gavaskar draws attention to another aspect of IPL, which is criticism.
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MS Dhoni didn’t make an auspicious to his international career, falling for low scores in his first four ODIs.
But it was his promotion up the order to number three that turned his career around for the better.
In the match against Pakistan at Vizag, Dhoni slammed the Pakistan bowling attack to a swashbuckling 148, helping India win the match by 58 runs.
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Tim Paine took over the captain’s duty from Steve Smith after the highly dramatic Test match in 2018 at The Newlands, Cape Town.
The stumper has honoured the captain’s hat quite satisfactorily since then. While the ‘sandpaper trio’ was suspended, Cricket Australia (CA), slammed David Warner with a lifelong ban from all leadership roles.
But, they left a door open for Steve Smith as they asked him to wait for 24 months.
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In December last year, Virat Kohli’s ‘notebook celebration’ amassed a lot of popularity on social media.
The Indian skipper hit a length ball from Kesrick Williams straight over covers for a six and celebrated in the popular style.
This came after Williams celebrated in the same fashion in 2017 after dismissing Kohli in the West Indies.
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Saqlain Mushtaq, the former Pakistan cricketer, lashed out at the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) for not treating MS Dhoni in the appropriate manner.
On Saturday, August 15, Dhoni called it a day for the Men in Blue after serving the national team for as many as 16 years.
The 39-year-old last played in the 2019 World Cup and bowed out through an Instagram post.
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Former India cricketer Suresh Raina is still considered as one of the best fielders the sport has ever witnessed. He was a live wire in the field while playing for India.
He announced his international retirement on August 15 along with MS Dhoni and will be seen only playing in the Indian Premier League (IPL).
His fielding skills will be on show in the shortest format though not in the blue jersey.
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One of the most popular and dramatic Test matches ever was played in 2001 at Kolkata.
India won the game against the mighty Australians, who were at their best, and had won the first encounter of the series rather easily.
It was only the third time a team won the match after being made to follow on. There are a lot of stories about the Test and how the two heroes of the game, VVS Laxman and Rahul Dravid, turned the tables on the visitors.
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England and Pakistan are currently locking horns in the third Test match at the Rose Bowl in Southampton.
The host nation won the opening Test by three wickets while the second one resulted in a draw with majority of the game, being washed off.
In the meantime, former England captain Nasser Hussain has some advice for the English batsmen.
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