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EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE THE HINDU DELHI TUESDAY, JULY 2, 2019 SPORT 17 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE India needs a win to seal semifinal spot Vijay Shankar has to return home Injures toe in the nets; ICC okays team management’s Bangladesh yearns for a victory to keep its almost improbable last­four hopes alive plea for Mayank as replacement K.C. Vijaya Kumar or during an Asia Cup en­ Birmingham counter at Dhaka in 2012. K.C. Vijaya Kumar Virat Kohli’s men had a The last­referred clash fea­ Birmingham smooth World Cup cam­ tured Sachin Tendulkar’s India’s list of the walking paign until they found their 100th international ton but wounded got one more addi­ first hurdle in England. In a Mushfiqur Rahim and com­ tion as allrounder Vijay game that the host dominat­ pany ruined the maestro’s Shankar was ruled out of the ed at Edgbaston here on Sun­ party. World Cup, following a toe day, India stumbled. But it is injury he suffered in the time to move on as Tuesday’s Shakib, the pivot lead­up to the England game match against Bangladesh Bangladesh has shown that it at Edgbaston on Sunday. awaits the Men in Blue. can punch above its weight On Monday morning, In­ The neighbours will clash and it did that against South dian team media manager on the same pitch that yield­ Africa and the West Indies. Moulin Parikh texted a mes­ ed a weekend run­fest of Shakib Al Hasan has been the sage to cricket correspon­ 643, a number further em­ pivot, crafting stupendous dents, which stated the na­ bellished by centuries from efforts, be it in batting or ture of the wound and Jonny Bairstow and Rohit while wheeling his left­arm added that the ICC’s permis­ Sharma. The venue with its spin. The all­rounder has ag­ sion was sought to seek short square boundaries can gregated 476 runs and 10 Mayank Agarwal as replace­ Vijay Shankar. * AFP Mayank Agarwal. * FILE PHOTO wickets so far in this World ment. Later in the after­ Cup. noon, cricket’s governing <> What you see him new ball and that's the rea­ With other seniors around body approved India's bowling in the son for his consistency. In him like Tamim Iqbal, Mush­ request. match, he bowls those 15 minutes you have to fiqur and Mortaza, Shakib exactly like that to make sure that you are on has lent hope to the denizens Fracture us in the nets. He top of your game otherwise back home. Perhaps he mir­ Parikh wrote: “Vijay Shan­ doesn’t care who is there can be trouble.” Back then, the spearhead rors the following line from kar sustained a non dis­ standing in front of Monica Ali’s book Brick Lane placed fracture of the left big too was asked about his him. that chronicled the Bangla­ toe, which will require a mi­ methods at training and deshi disapora’s angst in nimum of three weeks to — Kohli on Bumrah Bumrah replied: “We don't London: “If you are strong, heal. The injury rules him turing Pakistan, Afghanistan obviously want to injure the punish bowlers when they you withstand the storm.” out of the ongoing World and the West Indies, and batsman. But when we play err in their radars and the India needs a triumph to Cup. The Indian team man­ against whom he scored 15 in the nets, nobody tells the rival attacks will be wary of seal its semifinal berth while agement has requested the n.o., 29 and 14 respectively. batsman not to hit. He hits muscular batting like the Bangladesh yearns for a win ICC to consider Mayank He also got a crucial two for you as well. It's unfortunate kind England displayed. to keep its almost improba­ Agarwal as his 22 in the face­off involving that he got hit, but he is Despite an acutely slow ble last­four hopes alive. replacement.” Pakistan at Manchester’s Old okay.” start and a relative crawl in Time to say ‘game on’ and There was much specula­ Trafford. the slog against Eoin Mor­ this is far superior to the de­ tion at the toss on Sunday Shankar had stepped into Not so lucky gan’s men, India has a strong bates about which hilsa fish when Virat Kohli revealed the playing eleven after a Looks like, the second time set of willow­wielders. Rohit is tastier, the one you savour that Rishabh Pant would left­thumb fracture sidelined around, Shankar wasn’t so and Kohli are in sublime in Kolkata or the other you play and mentioned about Shikhar Dhawan. Subse­ lucky. He will get on the re­ form while K.L. Rahul suf­ relish at Dhaka! Shankar having a toe niggle. quently the opener was turn flight to Chennai while fered his lone failure during The teams (from): There was more clarity after ruled out and Pant was Karnataka player Agarwal Sunday’s joust. The middle­ India: Virat Kohli (Capt.), Rohit the match concluded with flown in. Now it is Shankar’s could become a back­up order of Rishabh Pant, Har­ Sharma, M.S. Dhoni, K.L. Rahul, England’s triumph as Rohit turn to be present in the or­ opener or whatever slot the dik Pandya, M.S. Dhoni and Hardik Pandya, Jasprit Bumrah, Sharma mentioned that the thopaedician’s consulting team­management pencils Kedar Jadhav needs to maxi­ Ravindra Jadeja, Kedar Jadhav, Tamil Nadu player was room. him in. mise the fine work from the Dinesh Karthik, Bhuvneshwar High hopes: Hardik Pandya has the ability to swing games with his explosive batting.* AP Kumar, Mohammed Shami, Yuz­ struck on his toes by Jasprit Bumrah is known to test For now K.L. Rahul will men atop the batting tree. Bumrah at practice. batsmen at the nets and Koh­ partner Rohit atop the bat­ from the turf. The left­han­ The Indian attack had a lu­ hint of trouble. Batting coach vendra Chahal, Kuldeep Yadav and Rishabh Pant. Incidentally, Shankar had li had said: “What you see ting tree and Pant is bound Early days for Pant der showed he can hold his kewarm show in the skir­ Sanjay Bangar conceded that Bangladesh: Mashrafe Mortaza sustained a similar injury him bowling in the match, to get more fixtures at num­ The quartet have had their own on the global stage. His mish involving England the bottom­half’s fragility (Capt.), Tamim Iqbal, Shakib Al earlier in the tournament he bowls exactly like that to ber four. But there is a per­ stints in the middle but in all ability was never in doubt though Mohammed Shami has constricted the way the Hasan, Mushfiqur Rahim, Abu but without the fracture, us in the nets. He doesn’t plexing issue as Ambati Ray­ the runs they collectively but Pant needs to reiterate scalped five and Jasprit Bum­ central­core performs. Jayed, Liton Das, Mahmudul­ and the perpetrator was care who is standing in front udu, who was in the original made ranging from veteran Still, for all these minor lah, Mehidy Hasan, Mohammad Bumrah. However, the nig­ of him. He will bounce, he list of standbys, continues to Dhoni to rookie Pant, who quibbles, India will step in as Mithun, Mohammad Saifuddin, gle did not affect Shankar, will try to get people bow­ be overlooked by the think­ just played a lone contest, it the favourite against Mash­ Mosaddek Hossain, Mustafizur who played the contests fea­ led, he will york with the tank. Rahman, Rubel Hossain, Sabbir is obvious that the trait of ex­ rafe Mortaza’s men, who in a Rahman and Soumya Sarkar. plosive batting largely vests classic case of sibling rivalry, with Pandya. May be Pant Umpires: Ruchira Palliyaguruge would love to stun their big and Marais Erasmus; Third um­ could move into that zone brother. They have done that pire: Aleem Dar; Match referee: Dhoni is being wasted at No. 5 but these are still early days in the past, be it the 2007 Ranjan Madugalle. for him in cricket’s show­ World Cup in the West Indies Match starts at 3 p.m. IST. ohammed Shami picked bide time before upping the piece event. Mhis first five­wicket haul ante. The youngster was a bun­ in ODIs in the match against dle of nerves in his initial England, but he conceded Rahul has to step up stint against England, sprint­ quite a few runs at the death. Mayank Agarwal will replace ing for non­existent runs, that he has the temperament rah had a splendid economy He has been exceptional with Vijay Shankar who has been diving to save himself and to prosper when the fires rate of 4.40. However, spin­ the new ball and has got the ruled out with a toe injury, then emerging dishevelled rage around him. ners Yuzvendra Chahal and old one to reverse. but I don’t see him playing Kuldeep Yadav went for 160 But I would like to see him against Bangladesh. India runs in their combined 20 use more variations while op­ will stick to the same line­up. overs. Kohli might be tempt­ erating in the end overs. He's I would like K.L. Rahul to ed to drop one among them bowling fast and that’s the take some initiative initially, and either field Bhuvnesh­ addition India would love. An M.S. Dhoni is being wasted at just to take the pressure off war Kumar or Ravindra Jade­ excellent seam position No. 5.

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