Indian Origin Players who represented other nations in U19 World Cup 2024

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The recently concluded U19 World Cup 2024 held in West Indies saw participation from several Indian origin players who opted to represent other countries. While India fielded an all-Indian squad in the tournament, seven players of Indian descent featured for nations like New Zealand, Australia, South Africa, Scotland and Zimbabwe. Their families had migrated to these countries earlier and the …

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Chaos in PCB, Mohammad Hafeez sacked as director, to disclose inside politics

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Mohammad Hafeez who was appointed Director of Pakistan men’s cricket team in the aftermath of a disappointing ICC World Cup 2023 campaign, is going to resign from the prestigious job in just 2 months. Though the planned contract was for 4 years, but after dismal performace of Pakistan in 3 test matches against Australia and 5 t20 matches in Newzealand, …

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Only this player is playing real “Bazball” and he is not from England

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England are playing their third test match against India in Rajkot. While India saw good contributions from Rohit Sharma and Ravindra Jadeja, as both made 131 and 112 runs, but the strike rate was “below par” if we consider the new modern “Bazball” approach as Rohit Sharma took 196 and Jadeja took 225 balls in total. In reply, came the …

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Has K.S Bharat already played his last test?

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Cricket is a funny game. K.S Bharat started as replacement of Rishabh Pant. There are so many incidents in which a player out of nowhere comes into the limelight with one innings, and how many times we have seen a player who was given lot of chances and suddenly he is out of the team and never plays again. For …

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Cricketers who follow Buddhism: A rare but diverse group 

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Buddhism is one of the oldest and most widespread religions in the world, with over 500 million followers. However, among the cricketing fraternity, Buddhists are a rare and diverse group, as only a handful of cricketers have publicly professed their faith in the teachings of Gautama Buddha.  One of the most prominent Buddhist cricketers is Tillakaratne Dilshan, the former Sri …

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