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Kolkata Knight Riders have a perfect home record against Sunrisers Hyderabad, who will be looking to change that with their strong bowling line-up

The Preview by Rachna Shetty14-Apr-2017

Match facts

Kolkata Knight Riders v Sunrisers Hyderabad
Kolkata, April 15, 2017
Start time 1600 local (1030 GMT)3:49

Agarkar: Will pick Shakib ahead of Woakes

Head to head

Last season: Kolkata Knight Riders beat Sunrisers Hyderabad in two of their three encounters – by eight wickets and 22 runs respectively. The only match they lost was the Eliminator, where Sunrisers won by 22 runs on their way to a maiden IPL title.Overall: Knight Riders have won six out of the nine matches between the two sides. At Eden Gardens, their record stands at four wins in four matches.

Form guide

• Knight Riders (second): beat Gujarat Lions by 10 wickets; lost to Mumbai Indians by four wickets; beat Kings XI Punjab by eight wickets

• Sunrisers Hyderabad (third): beat Royal Challengers Bangalore by 35 runs; beat Gujarat Lions by nine wickets; lost to Mumbai Indians by four wickets.

In the news

Moises Henriques missed Sunrisers’ last match due to an illness, after scoring successive fifties in the first two. A team source said he trained with them on the eve of the match but the only spot available to him might be Ben Cutting’s. David Warner is the captain, Mustafizur Rahman is likely to get a longer run and Rashid Khan has performed impressively enough to stay in the XI.For Knight Riders, Trent Boult’s early form could be a source of concern. The New Zealand quick has been unlucky, with fielders having missed catches off his bowling in the last two matches. He has also conceded 123 runs for one wicket so far with an economy rate of 10.39, the third poorest among those who have bowled more than 10 overs this season, after Ashok Dinda (11.9) and Mitchell McClenaghan (10.75).The Knight Riders’ middle order has not had much to do in two of their three games so far. That might change, given the potency of Sunrisers’ attack. With Chris Lynn still recovering from a shoulder injury, KKR might look to fill his spot with an allrounder. Colin de Grandhomme performed the role on Thursday, but he could face competition from Shakib Al Hasan and Rovman Powell, whose playing style has been likened to Andre Russell’s by the franchise’s CEO.

Likely XIs

Sunrisers Hyderabad: 1 Shikhar Dhawan, 2 David Warner (capt), 3 Deepak Hooda, 4 Yuvraj Singh, 5 Ben Cutting / Moises Henriques, 6 Naman Ojha (wk), 7 Vijay Shankar / Bipul Sharma, 8 Rashid Khan, 9 Bhuvneshwar Kumar, 10 Ashish Nehra, 11 Mustafizur RahmanKolkata Knight Riders: 1 Gautam Gambhir (capt), 2 Robin Uthappa (wk), 3 Manish Pandey, 4 Yusuf Pathan, 5 Suryakumar Yadav, 6 Colin de Grandhomme / Shakib Al Hasan / Rovman Powell, 7 Chris Woakes, 8 Sunil Narine, 9 Piyush Chawla, 10 Umesh Yadav, 11 Trent Boult

Stats

• Barring Lasith Malinga, Bhuvneshwar Kumar is the most successful bowler in the last five overs against Knight Riders in the IPL. The Sunrisers seamer has struck 13 times in this period and averages 8.92 runs per dismissal.
• In the 2017 IPL, Sunrisers have the second-best economy rate in the slog overs – 7.65 – and the second-highest wicket tally (10). Knight Riders, despite taking eight wickets, have conceded runs at 10.44 runs per over.
• David Warner and Gautam Gambhir hold the record for the most half-centuries (centuries excluded) in IPL. Gambhir brought up his 33rd against Kings XI Punjab on Thursday.
• Sunil Narine’s economy rate of 7.06 is second-best among spinners who have bowled at least 40 overs in the IPL since 2015. However, his average and strike rate – which were 16.13 and 16.7, respectively, the best for spinners before 2015 – have dropped to 30.60 and 26 respectively.
• The only Knight Riders batsmen Mustafizur Rahman has dismissed in the IPL so far are Jason Holder and Andre Russell. Against Gambhir, Manish Pandey and Yusuf Pathan, combined, Mustafizur has bowled 43 balls and given away 62 runs.
• There isn’t much difference between the overall run-rates of Sunrisers and Knight Riders in the last five overs – 9.14 and 9.29 respectively. However, in head-to-head encounters, Sunrisers have only scored at a rate of 7.96, their lowest against any team. Knight Riders, meanwhile, have managed to score at a rate of 9.24 in the last five overs against Sunrisers.

James Pattinson’s international future is clouded, after scans showed a worrying recurrence of shin stress problems, following his exertions for Australia in their recent Test series victory in New Zealand

Daniel Brettig01-Mar-20161:02

Cloud over Pattinson’s immediate future

Fast bowler James Pattinson’s international future is clouded, after scans showed a recurrence of shin stress problems, following his exertions for Australia in their recent Test series victory in New Zealand.”James had a recurrence of his left shin soreness following the second Test in Christchurch and had follow-up scans in Melbourne yesterday,” Australia physio David Beakley said. “These scans have shown some inflammation around the shin consistent with bone stress. James will now require some time off to allow this injury to resolve and will not be available for the remainder of the domestic cricket season.”After working to find his rhythm in Wellington, Pattinson bowled with pace, hostility and accuracy in Christchurch, while also gaining useful reverse swing. However his demanding stints at Hagley Oval, including one eight-over spell in which he claimed two vital wickets, have taken a toll.The shin soreness had been a problem for Pattinson earlier in the summer. Following the West Indies series, he was unavailable for Big Bash League and Sheffield Shield duty until immediately before the New Zealand tour began. He had admitted previously that he was gambling on his maturing body being able to cope with the stresses of his action, which has been modified several times in order to try to reduce chances of an injury.After his debut against New Zealand in November 2011, Pattinson was first ruled out of Australian duty by a foot stress fracture at the SCG in January 2012. He did not return to the team until South Africa’s visit in November of the same year, whereupon he suffered a torn side in Adelaide and resumed on the tour of India the following year. He then suffered further injury during the Lord’s Ashes Test, and was out of Test cricket until the third Test of the 2014 tour of South Africa due to a back stress fracture.Having bowled well there, Pattinson was found to have suffered the early signs of more back stress, and was again kept out of international cricket for a long time, not playing a Test again until Hobart against the West Indies last December.

On the most difficult day to bat in the Investec Ashes series so far, with Stuart Broad breathing fire in the sorts of spells he can occasionally conjure, Chris Rogers scrapped, scraped, nudged and edged his way to a vital century

The Report by Daniel Brettig10-Aug-2013
Scorecard and ball-by-ball detailsChris Rogers made his maiden Test century to put Australia in a strong position at the close of day two•Getty Images

Ugly was beautiful for Chris Rogers and Australia. On the most difficult day to bat in the Investec Ashes series so far, with Stuart Broad breathing fire in the sorts of spells he can occasionally conjure, Rogers scrapped, scraped, nudged and edged his way to a century few who witnessed it will forget.From a position early in the day where it looked as though a team total of around 100 was not out of the question, the tourists reached the close only 16 runs shy of England’s total with five wickets in hand. For that they had to thank Rogers and his erstwhile opening partner, Shane Watson.So long spurned as a Test batting option, Rogers has had to wait until the shadows of his 36th birthday for a genuine chance, and by playing so confidently in Manchester and now so doggedly in Durham he has taken it grandly. Only one Australian, Arthur Richardson, has been older at the time of his maiden century. Rogers himself seemed to age another few years as he spent 19 nervous balls on 96, but he summoned a sweep to go to 100. A few moments later the umpires ended play for bad light, leaving Australia to dream of building a significant advantage on Sunday.It was fitting too that the day’s key stand was notched by Rogers and Watson, a pair who have found themselves ideally suited to bat together, even though the latter’s starts in the series so far had flattered to deceive and pushed him down the batting order. Their union of 129 was by a distance the highest of the match, and neutralised much of the near unplayable stuff served up by Broad.A Rogers reprieve in complicated circumstances also proved critical to proceedings. Australia were 34 for 2 when he was given out caught behind by Tony Hill. On Rogers’ referral the ball was found to be missing the bat but clipping the top of the stumps on Hawk Eye’s projection. England’s players assumed Rogers would remain out, but had to be reminded of the regulations of the DRS by the umpires. As Rogers had not been given out lbw on the field, Hawk Eye needed to show three reds for the lbw decision.Jackson Bird had plucked James Anderson’s middle stump to end England’s innings without addition to their overnight total. When England took to the field, it was immediately apparent that the ball would continue to deviate. Anderson bent the ball back towards Rogers’ pads with some menace, but it was Broad who found the right combination of swing, seam and bounce to confound the top order. Returned to open, David Warner’s lack of certainty about the location of his off stump was exposed by late movement, and he was bowled offering a shot so late it was almost retrospective.Similarly, Usman Khawaja was unsure whether to play or leave, and was too late in withdrawing his bat from harm as a Broad delivery whizzed across him. It touched the toe of the bat, and Matt Prior held a catch more difficult than it appeared down low to his right.Michael Clarke and Rogers then showed a greater intent to score, though Broad continued to pose problems, even if he burned one decision referral with an lbw appeal against Rogers that pitched clearly outside leg stump.It was with another ball moving back towards Rogers that the morning’s most fevered moment arrived. The ball brushed the back pad on its way through to Prior, and England went up in appeal for a catch at the wicket. Hill raised his finger, and Rogers referred, shaking his head as he did so. It proved a successful referral.Clarke threw his hands unwisely at a ball moving away and bouncing, edging a sharp chance to Cook, who held it neatly above his head. If the shot was poor, it was still a just reward for Broad, who was then withdrawn from the attack after seven red-blooded overs that had reaped 3 for 23. Steve Smith fought gamely to the interval, but was defeated soon after it, prodding forward to Tim Bresnan and snicking behind.At 76 for 4, Watson walked to the middle in the role he had been given on his debut as far back as 2005. He has shuffled through plenty of commissions since, and after a poor start to this series might have been pondering whether this would be the last. He began solidly, keeping out the lbw seekers arrowed towards his pads by Bresnan, Anderson and Broad, while at the same time rotating the strike better than he has sometimes managed.He and Rogers both had reprieves, Bresnan dropping a difficult return catch from Watson and Graeme Swann turfing a one-handed chance at second slip from Rogers. But they steadily wrested back some of England’s earlier supremacy. Rogers was never wholly comfortable, living on his nerves and his top order technique, but doing enough to mount the tally.The stand went deep into the evening session, Watson opening up slightly with a pair of drives redolent of his Twenty20 destructor mode and Rogers inching ever closer to a century. It was ultimately the encroachment of that milestone that seemed to disrupt the rhythm of the pair. Becalmed against Swann, Rogers was unable to break up the strike, and a persevering Broad eventually had Watson falling across to the offside, but glancing a catch down leg side to Prior rather than falling lbw.Rogers’ battle to reach three figures was as compelling as the innings itself. Having punched his 12th boundary through the covers, he then agonised over more than three scoreless overs against Swann. One fell inches short of Broad at mid-on, another spun narrowly past the outside edge, and a third was centimetres from off stump as Rogers went back to cut. Cook had brought the field up to starve the single, but left gaps for a boundary.And so from his 20th ball on 96, Rogers went for the sweep, a stroke he seldom uses. It may have been a shot played as a last resort, but the timing was sweet, and the square leg rope was hit. Australia’s team balcony erupted in adulation and relief, but Rogers was understatement itself, removing his helmet, raising his bat and sharing the moment with Brad Haddin. It was a classical way to meet a century, and also an acknowledgement that more remains to be done. Based on the resolve he showed on the second evening, Rogers is far from satisfied.

A half-century from Michael Lumb helped Nottinghamshire romp to a 69-run victory over Leicestershire and secure a home FLt20 quarter-final

08-Jul-2012
ScorecardA blistering half-century from Michael Lumb helped Nottinghamshire romp to a 69-run victory over Leicestershire and secure a home quarter-final against Hampshire in the Friends Life t20.Lumb smashed six sixes and five fours as he raced to 62 from just 26 balls before he was caught, while James Taylor (45) and Riki Wessels also contributed as Nottinghamshire made 196 for 3, their highest score against Leicestershire in Twenty20 cricket. Tight bowling from Andy Carter and Graeme White put Leicestershire behind the run-rate and despite Abdul Razzaq’s 69 from 50 balls, last season’s champions finished bottom of the North Group.Lumb hit boundaries off the first deliveries he faced from Leicestershire’s opening four bowlers, including a six off Razzaq, whose first over went for 19. Wayne White finally ended the carnage in his first over, but only after conceding three sixes to Lumb over midwicket, while Taylor holed out to long-off two overs later, after hitting three sixes and a four in his 45.Wessels added four fours and another six before he gave James Sykes his second wicket, falling in similar fashion to Taylor, with Adam Voges and Chris Read putting on an unbeaten 35 in the final four overs.Harry Gurney then struck with the fourth ball of the Leicestershire chase as Josh Cobb could only pick out Graeme White at mid-off, although Razzaq hit five fours in the next two overs to keep the visitors in touch.The Pakistan allrounder was playing a lone hand, however, as he was the only batsman to score a boundary after Carter had demolished Greg Smith’s off-stump in the sixth over. Graeme White’s teasing left-arm spin conceded just one boundary from his four overs, as well as bowling Ramnaresh Sarwan and removing Razzaq, caught behind by Read off the second ball back following a 25-minute break for rain.That wicket virtually clinched the match, with Carter returning to bowl Robert Taylor and Wayne White, while Voges and Darren Pattinson were also in the wickets as the Outlaws claimed a home quarter-final after finishing as the best second-placed team from the three groups.

England’s bowling options for their five-match ODI series against Sri Lanka have been given a boost following Tim Bresnan’s recovery from a calf strain

ESPNcricinfo staff27-Jun-2011England’s bowling options for their five-match ODI series against Sri Lanka have been given a boost following Tim Bresnan’s recovery from a calf strain. He has been included in the squad after completing a successful rehabilitation, and will be available for selection for Tuesday’s first match at The Oval.Bresnan was a key member of the team that won the World Twenty20 in the Caribbean last May, but he really shot to prominence during England’s Ashes and World Cup winter in 2010-11. He played a pivotal role in the decisive Test win over Australia at Melbourne, and went on to claim five cheap wickets in the thrilling tie against India at Bangalore.However, Bresnan missed the ODI series in Australia due to his calf problem, and underwent a further scan prior to England’s ten-wicket defeat against Sri Lanka in the World Cup quarter-final in Colombo. Since returning to England, he has been dogged by the problem, and was ruled out of the Test series against Sri Lanka after suffering a tear while bowling for Yorkshire against Hampshire in mid-May.”We always had the intention of bringing him back when he was fit. We wanted him to play for Yorkshire so we didn’t take any risks,” Alastair Cook, England’s one-day captain, said. “I saw him a couple of days ago and he looks in good shape. To have a proven performer back in the side is great for us.”Bresnan’s nagging accuracy and deceptive pace, not to mention his confident lower-order batting, make him an invaluable member of England’s one-day set-up. After England’s toothless display in the one-off Twenty20 at Bristol on Saturday, there will be a strong temptation to pitch straight back into the starting line-up.

Devon Smith converted his hundred into a big one, and half-centuries from David Bernard and Gavin Tonge helped West Indies A take a first-innings lead against India A

Cricinfo staff20-Jun-2010
ScorecardDevon Smith converted his overnight hundred into a big one, and lower-order half-centuries from David Bernard and Gavin Tonge helped West Indies A take a first-innings lead against India A on the final day in Croydon. The game, however, ended in a high scoring draw with only 18 wickets falling in four days.West Indies began the final morning on 332 for 3 and continued their strong response to India’s 543. Smith and Kirk Edwards added 70 more for the fourth wicket before the innings suffered a hiccup – both batsmen were dismissed with the score on 402. They lost two more wickets cheaply to be reduced to 413 for 7 before Bernard and Tonge came together. They added 64 runs for the eighth wicket and more useful contributions from the tail steered West Indies past India’s total, securing a 20-run lead before the last wicket fell.

The team was invited to train in Lahore and Rawalpindi by the PCB because of the ongoing political unrest in Bangladesh

Mohammad Isam10-Aug-2024The Bangladesh senior men’s team is set to arrive in Lahore on August 13, four days before their scheduled arrival, for a two-Test series. The team will train for three days each at the Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore and at Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium before the first Test in Rawalpindi from August 21.The players’ preparations had been disrupted as a result of the ongoing political unrest in Bangladesh. The overseas coaching staff of the team also couldn’t join the players at the Shere Bangla National Stadium in Dhaka last week because of security concerns. BCB is currently following up with the coaches’ respective embassies for security clearances.The departure ahead of schedule came after an invitation from the PCB to the BCB to ensure the visiting players have “adequate and fair training opportunities” ahead of the Tests.Related

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“Sports is not only about winning and losing, it’s also about [camaraderie],” Salman Naseer, PCB chief operating officer, said in a statement. “I remain confident that the extra training sessions in Lahore will allow the players to showcase their best skills and talent on the global stage.”The Bangladesh players have been training individually at the Shere Bangla under coach Shohel Islam for the last three days.”We thank the PCB for giving the Bangladesh cricket team the opportunity to have additional training in Pakistan,” BCB chief executive Nizamuddin Chowdhury said in a statement. “This will certainly help the players to [acclimatise] to the conditions and prepare better for the ICC World Test Championship series.”Bangladesh’s Test cricketers had a training camp in Chattogram that was disrupted because of the anti-government protests across the country last month. There have been political rallies inside the Shere Bangla premises, too.The BCB ended up managing to send the high-performance team to Australia, and the Bangladesh A team to Pakistan. The latter’s departure was delayed by a few days, and the team reached Islamabad on Saturday. Bangladesh A will play two four-day matches and three one-day matches in Pakistan, which will run alongside the senior team’s Test matches in Rawalpindi and Karachi. The Bangladesh squad for the Tests is expected to be announced on Sunday.

Former England captain does what he’s been doing for two decades to counter Matthew Montgomery’s 177

Paul Edwards20-May-2023
Nottingham on the third Saturday morning in May. Green buses – 4, 6 and 9 – proud and prompt to the minute, rumble over the Trent Bridge, where the inn has been trading for hours. There is a quiet busyness about the streets, an air of incipience.So it seemed on this leisured day when the East Midlands began to take leave of spring. Canyoned clouds drifted against a silver-blue sky and the shorts worn on the middle terrace at the Radcliffe Road End suggested more than a mulish determination to spite the climate.Red shirts flecked the white-painted stands inside the cricket ground. We were near the very last hurrah of the football season – and therefore five minutes away from the very first hurrah of the next. Some folk were taking in a few hours’ cricket before going to the City Ground, where mighty Arsenal were the visitors. In the streets around Colwick Road the fast food joints were setting up for a lively afternoon and evening. Fat and fat profits.Related

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And amid this activity, this skelter to capture the moment, a tall, slim figure would also soon be going about his business, which was that of scoring runs and saving a game either for Essex or England. It is what Alastair Cook has been doing for two decades now and it still brings him satisfaction.His batting today was certainly not without fault; he was put down twice in the slips before he’d reached 30, though neither chance was easy, and he sometimes seemed in a tangle when Liam Patterson-White bowled into the footholes. But he is 87 not out and if the job of saving the game has not yet been done with ease, the loss of Nick Browne, leg before to Lyndon James, is the only damage suffered.And in a way, Cook’s achievement in the second innings was the more admirable because he was less fluent today than when he made 72 on Thursday. Only 12 of his first 37 runs came in boundaries and two of those cover-driven fours off Dane Paterson sandwiched a fiery chance to second slip where Calvin Harrison, both hands above his head, could not cling on. Otherwise, there were the jabs down that gave Cook singles to backward point and the little deflections to the on side that gave him a few more. His fifth four, a drive through cover-point, brought him to his 122nd first-class fifty, although only his third at Trent Bridge. The achievement drew applause but the stroke was played against the growing tumult on the Radcliffe Road, where another crowd grew and steamed and prepared for manic partisanship.Even though he knows to celebrate, Alastair Cook does not do manic. Excitable is a rarely allowed indulgence. He takes the tiny defeats that come along in most long innings and is thankful one of them has not sent him back to the pavilion. In company with his captain, Tom Westley, with whom he had put on an unbroken 137 by close of play, he wore Nottinghamshire’s bowlers down on the third evening of this game and thereby exposed the inadequacy of his own side’s 298 in the first innings.Steven Mullaney’s fields became funky and merely hopeful: two short-midwickets, one short-cover and no slip to Westley, who ended the day with a pleasant unbeaten 70 of his own. Stuart Broad and Ben Hutton, whom one might have thought two of their side’s biggest threats, bowled eight overs apiece. It will take a lot for either side to win this game tomorrow and there is no need for a contrived finish. There is though, the probability that Cook will make a century on this ground for the first time in his career. It will be another tick on a career record that is littered with them.Matthew Montgomery made his first hundred of the season•Getty Images

And maybe we had an inkling how things might go during a morning of brief appearances and carefree strokeplay, a curious counterpoint to all that Cook represents. None of the last six in Nottinghamshire’s order batted longer than Patterson-White, who stodged around for 51 minutes before a crabbed poke, neither Catholic nor Protestant, edged a catch to Simon Harmer at slip off Jamie Porter. By contrast, Jamie Harrison hit seven varied boundaries in his 36-ball 31 and everyone else showed willing, especially Stuart Broad, who wiped Harmer towards West Bridgford for a six and a four before Matt Critchley picked up the last of his three cheap wickets.At the other end, Matthew Montgomery batted with all the confidence of a chap who looks up at the scoreboard before play starts and sees three figures against his name. Montgomery stroked six more boundaries today before falling leg before when attempting to reverse-sweep a full-length ball from Critchley. He was one short of his career-best 178 but one doubts he’ll need counselling.

Use of saliva for ball-shining, and batters changing ends during dismissals also amended

ESPNcricinfo staff08-Mar-2022The new batter being on strike even if the players crossed while a catch is taken, a reframing of the law for running out non-strikers while backing up, and a permanent ban on using saliva to shine the ball are among the changes to MCC’s Laws that will come into effect later this year.An updated code of the Laws was approved by the MCC’s main committee this week. The changes will also allow greater leeway to the bowler in the judging of wides when a batter has moved across the crease, and see the introduction of penalty runs for the batting side should a fielder be deemed to have moved unfairly.The decision to change the Law for caught dismissals comes as a result of its trialling in the Hundred. Previously, if the two batters crossed before a catch was taken, the new batter would go to the non-striker’s end; now they will always be on strike – unless it is the end of the over – in a move that was proposed as a way of further rewarding the bowler for taking a wicket.The wording that covers a player being run out by the bowler while backing up – often referred to as Mankading – has been moved from Law 41 (Unfair play) to Law 38 (Run out), in a further attempt to remove some of the stigma around such dismissals.”The bowler is always painted as the villain but it is a legitimate way to dismiss someone and it is the non-striker who is stealing the ground,” Fraser Stewart, MCC Laws Manager, told the . “It is legitimate, it is a run-out and therefore it should live in the run-out section of the laws.”The prohibition of saliva as a means of shining the ball came about through changes to playing conditions during Covid, with MCC’s research suggesting it had had “little or no impact” on bowlers’ ability to generate swing. Making this the default position was felt to remove any ambiguity around the use of mints or sweets to change the condition of the ball – something that was already banned.The rewording of Law 22.1, meanwhile, means that wide calls will “apply to where the batter is standing, where the striker has stood at any point since the bowler began their run-up, and which would also have passed wide of the striker in a normal batting position”.Further changes have been agreed governing the use of replacements, the Laws governing dead balls, and the legality of trying to play the ball once it has gone off the cut strip.Updates to the Laws are usually incorporated throughout the game, from international down to club level, although governing bodies around the world have the ability to ignore certain changes by reference to competition-specific playing conditions.”Since the publication of the 2017 Code of the Laws of Cricket, the game has changed in numerous ways,” Stewart said in an MCC press release. “The 2nd edition of that Code, published in 2019, was mostly clarification and minor amendments, but the 2022 Code makes some rather bigger changes, from the way we talk about cricket to the way it’s played.”It is important that we announce these changes now as part of the club’s global commitment to the game, giving officials from all over the world the chance to learn under the new Code ahead of the Laws coming into force in October.”

Rohit Sharma, who is currently nursing a hamstring injury in the IPL, isn’t part of the limited-overs squads

Deivarayan Muthu26-Oct-20202:06

Tom Moody: Varun Chakravarthy rewarded for showing something special at the right time

Wicketkeeper-batsman Rishabh Pant has been omitted from India’s ODI and T20I squads for the upcoming tour of Australia. Rohit Sharma, India’s white-ball vice-captain, who is currently nursing a hamstring injury in the IPL, is also not part of any of the squads.Meanwhile, Tamil Nadu and Kolkata Knight Riders mystery spinner Varun Chakravarthy earned his maiden national call-up on the back of his stellar performances in the ongoing IPL. Varun is the only player with a five-wicket haul so far this season and is also the highest wicket-taker for the Knight Riders with 12 strikes at an economy rate of 7.05.ALSO READ: Rohit not in India squad but may play again in IPL – and on Australia tourIndia’s premier allrounder Hardik Pandya is set to play his first limited-overs international since September 2019. After undergoing a back surgery, Pandya returned to action in the IPL though he hasn’t bowled yet this season. According to Zaheer Khan, the Mumbai Indians director of cricket operations, Pandya was “very keen” to bowl, but the team management has adopted a cautious approach and is using him as a specialist batsman.ESPNcricinfo Ltd

In the absence of Sharma, KL Rahul, who is captaining the Kings XI Punjab, has been named Virat Kohli’s deputy in both the white-ball squads. Rahul is the only wicketkeeper in the ODI squad while India have another wicketkeeping option in Sanju Samson for the T20Is.Varun, 29, has played only 11 T20s before Monday. However, he is supposed to have seven variations in his repertoire, and his victims in this IPL include David Warner, MS Dhoni, Pant, and Shreyas Iyer. He was also the second-highest wicket-taker in the 2018-19 50-over Vijay Hazare Trophy, with 22 scalps in nine matches at an economy rate of 4.23.ESPNcricinfo Ltd

Left-arm wristspinner Kuldeep Yadav has made it to the Test and ODI squads, but isn’t part of the T20I group. Ravindra Jadeja, who has been the Chennai Super Kings’ finisher with the bat this season but has struggled with the ball, was picked in both the white-ball squads over Axar Patel. Patel’s economy rate of 5.78 is the third-best among bowlers who have bowled at least 25 overs this IPL. With this qualification, only Rashid Khan and Washington Sundar, who features in the T20I squad, have better economy rates.Jasprit Bumrah and Mohammed Shami will lead the seam attacks in both ODIs and T20Is. Fast bowler Navdeep Saini, who had suffered a split webbing in his bowling hand in the fixture against the Super Kings on Sunday, has been named in both squads as well. Deepak Chahar is the fourth seamer in the T20I squad, with Shardul Thakur taking that spot in the ODI squad.The BCCI release also said four additional bowlers – Kamlesh Nagarkoti, Kartik Tyagi, Ishan Porel and T Natarajan – will travel with the Indian contingent.ALSO READ: Rahul, Siraj picked for Australia TestsBhuvneshwar Kumar, who is currently nursing a thigh injury, will have to wait further for his international comeback. Kumar, who hasn’t played international cricket since December 2019, was set to make the comeback in the home ODI series against South Africa earlier this year before the coronavirus pandemic struck and forced that series to be called off.Mayank Agarwal, who found a place in both sides, could be the back-up opener behind Rahul and Shikhar Dhawan. Shubman Gill, who wasn’t selected in the T20I squad, could be another opening option for the ODIs.ODI squad: Virat Kohli (capt), Shikhar Dhawan, Shubman Gill, KL Rahul (vice-capt, wk), Shreyas Iyer, Manish Pandey, Hardik Pandya, Mayank Agarwal, Ravindra Jadeja, Yuzvendra Chahal, Kuldeep Yadav, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Shami, Navdeep Saini, Shardul ThakurT20I squad: Virat Kohli (capt), Shikhar Dhawan, Mayank Agarwal, KL Rahul (vice-capt, wk), Shreyas Iyer, Manish Pandey, Hardik Pandya, Sanju Samson (wk), Ravindra Jadeja, Washington Sundar, Yuzvendra Chahal, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Shami, Navdeep Saini, Deepak Chahar, Varun Chakravarthy