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

CPL 2019: Dinesh Karthik marks his presence in the Trinbago Knight Riders’ dressing room

• Both the Trinbago Knight Riders and the Kolkata Knight Riders are owned by the same owners.
• Furthermore, Brendon McCullum has been recently appointed as the head coach of the KKR team.
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Disappointed Ambati Rayudu opens up on his ‘3D glasses’ tweet

• He wasn’t picked in the later stages of the mega event despite being a part of the standby list.
• The likes of Shikhar Dhawan and Shankar got injured during the World Cup but selectors didn’t go for Rayudu as a replacement.
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Pitches during our previous India Test tour were terrible, feels Kagiso Rabada

• In the team’s last India tour, they managed to make India taste defeat in the shortest form of the game and will look to script the written story again.
• Speaking ahead of the start of the tour, Kagiso Rabada pointed out the areas which the team will look to focus on when they step on the field against India.
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Virat Kohli asked me to hold the trophy and hugged me, reveals Hanuma Vihari

• The recently-concluded tour of West Indies has pretty much sealed Hanuma Vihari’s spot in the playing eleven of the Test team.
• On the fast and tricky pitches, Vihari displayed remarkable maturity to help India sweep the two-match series.
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Virat Kohli explains why Ravindra Jadeja was picked over Ravinchandran Ashwin

• Ravichandran Ashwin grabbed all the headlines when he was dropped from the playing XI for the first Test against West Indies.
• His fans weren’t impressed with Virat Kohli dropping him and going for Ravindra Jadeja instead.
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Ashes 2019: Umpires decide to play without bails due to the strong winds

• A bizarre incident took place during the fourth Ashes Test when the umpires decided to play without the bails.
• There were passing showers throughout the day at the venue and play had to be stopped on multiple occasion.
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Harbhajan Singh cheekily responds to Virender Sehwag’s claim of his amazing record against spinners

• Virender Sehwag was a revelation in Test matches. His aggressive batting and taking on the fast bowlers from the get-go, helped Indian team immensely as it put the opposition in pressure from the start.
• No matter what the purists thought of his non-existent feet movement and unorthodox shots, Sehwag made a name for himself in a format where he shouldn’t have succeeded.
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ICC brutally trolls David Warner for becoming Stuart Broad’s bunny yet again

• Soon after his comeback to international cricket post the ban, David Warner managed to create an impact.
• He had a terrific World Cup 2019 and was amongst the leading run-scorers in the tournament.
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