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India Has Its Back to the Wall Again EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE MUMBAI THE HINDU 18 SPORT FRIDAY, JANUARY 17, 2020 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE India has its back to the wall again No central contract for Dhoni Special Correspondent Loss in Mumbai may force a rethink in Kohli’s batting spot; Rahul to continue to don ’keeper’s gloves RAJKOT Mahendra Singh Dhoni is AUS IN INDIA That the opening duo was the most prominent omis­ never separated at Wank­ sion from BCCI’s central Amol Karhadkar hede meant Marnus Labus­ contracts list for 2019­2020 RAJKOT chagne was deprived of hav­ released on Thursday. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. ing a hit in his His exclusion from the list The idiom fits India cap­ much­anticipated ODI de­ of cricketers with an annual tain Virat Kohli perfectly, but. The in­form batsman retainer is yet another indi­ switching his batting posi­ will be looking forward to cation that perhaps the tion from No. 3 to No. 4. In prove his mettle in the shor­ three­time ICC trophy­win­ order to accommodate all ter version on Friday. ning captain may not don three specialist openers in It remains to be seen if the India Blues again. the team, Kohli demoted Australia brings on Josh Ha­ The contracts for the Oc­ himself from his favourite — zlewood in place of Kane Ri­ tober­September cycle are and most successful — bat­ chardson as the third seam­ awarded by a three­member ting position. And the move er. Considering that committee consisting of the backfired in the series­open­ Richardson fared pretty well BCCI president, secretary Out of favour? As a portent of things to come, M.S. Dhoni has er in Mumbai on Tuesday as at Wankhede, it is unlikely and chief selector based on been excluded from the BCCI’s central contract list. * PTI not only did Kohli not fire that coach Justin Langer will the performance during the but India also ended up put­ tinker with the winning com­ last cycle. Dhoni hasn’t crore, three other cricketers Kumar, Cheteshwar Pujara, bination for the sake of it. — Dinesh Karthik, Ambati Ajinkya Rahane, Shikhar Dha- ting on a below­par total. played competitive cricket wan, Mohammed Shami, Ishant With Aaron Finch and Da­ The teams (from): since India’s World Cup sem­ Rayudu and Khaleel Ahmed have also been excluded. Sharma, Kuldeep Yadav, Rish- vid Warner helping Australia India: Virat Kohli (Capt.), Rohit ifinal exit. The new entrants in the abh Pant and K.L. Rahul. cruise to a 10­wicket win, In­ Sharma, Shikhar Dhawan, K.L. While chief selector Grade­B (₹3 crore): Umesh Ya- 27­player list include Nav­ dia for the second time in as Rahul (wk), Shreyas Iyer, Man- M.S.K. Prasad has said the dav, Yuzvendra Chahal, Hardik many months finds itself ish Pandey, Kedar Jadhav, Shi- selection committee has de­ deep Saini, Deepak Chahar, Pandya, Wriddhiman Saha and needing to bounce back in a vam Dube, Ravindra Jadeja, cided to “look beyond” Dho­ Shardul Thakur, Shreyas Mayank Agarwal. three­match ODI series. If Yuzvendra Chahal, Kuldeep Ya- ni, head coach Ravi Shastri Iyer and Washington Grade­C (₹1 crore): Kedar Jad- Kohli’s cavaliers have to dav, Navdeep Saini, Jasprit has maintained Dhoni may Sundar. hav, Manish Pandey, Hanuma Bumrah, Shardul Thakur, Mo- show the resilience they come back into the T20 Vihari, Navdeep Saini, Deepak hammed Shami. Chahar, Shardul Thakur, showed against West Indies World Cup contention based Mithali downgraded Australia: Aaron Finch (Capt.), Mithali Raj, who has an­ Shreyas Iyer and Washington last month, it’s time the cap­ Batting strategy: With Virat Kohli’s experiment of dropping down the order failing in Mumbai, on how he fares for Chennai Ashton Agar, Alex Carey (wk), nounced her retirement Sundar. tain regains his customary he might revert to his usual slot. * VIJAY SONEJI Super Kings in the Indian Pat Cummins, Peter Hand- from T20Is, has been moved Women: Grade­A (₹50 lakh): position. Premier League. Harmanpreet Kaur, Smriti scomb, Josh Hazlewood, Mar- from Grade­A to B in the wo­ batting line­up,” Kohli said . ruled out of the must­win dar Jadhav at the No. 6 slot. The man himself, howev­ Mandhana and Poonam Yadav. nus Labuschagne, Kane Ri- men’s contracts for 2019­20. Kohli’s admission “Having said that, I don’t game after being hit on the chardson, D’Arcy Short, Steve er, has maintained a con­ Grade­B (₹30 lakh): Mithali Shafali Verma, 15, has be­ Kohli — who has scored 36 of think it’s quite gone our way helmet. As a result, Rahul — High on confidence Smith, Mitchell Starc, Ashton spicuous silence. Last Raj, Ekta Bisht, Jhulan Goswa- his 43 ODI hundreds at No. 3 whenever I’ve batted No. 4 who donned the gloves dur­ Australia, meanwhile, will Turner, David Warner, Adam month, at a promotional come the youngest to be mi, Shikha Pandey, Deepti — admitted after the loss at so we’ll probably have to ing Australia’s chase — is set enter the game high on confi­ Zampa. event in Mumbai, Dhoni had awarded the annual Sharma, Jemimah Rodrigues, retainer. Taniya Bhatia and Radha Yadav. Wankhede that India had to rethink about that one.” to continue behind the wick­ dence. Century makers War­ On­field umpires: Richard Ket- said he would not say anyth­ Central contracts for Grade­C (₹10 lakh): D. Hema- “rethink” about the batting Come Friday and India’s et. It will thus be interesting ner and Finch will hope to tleborough, Virender Sharma; ing till January. 2019­2020: latha, Anuja Patil, Veda Krish- to see if Kohli and Rahul Third umpire: Michael Gough; order. “We’ve had this dis­ quandary over the batting give yet another cracking Men: Grade A+ (₹7 crore):Virat namurthy, Mansi Joshi, Arund- Fourth umpire: K. Srinivasan. cussion many times in the line­up will still continue, swap batting positions. start to the visiting outfit on In and out Kohli, Rohit Sharma and Jasprit hati Reddy, Rajeshwari past. Because of the way K.L. considering Rishabh Pant’s Pant’s injury also means yet another belter at the Sau­ Match referee: Ranjan Besides Dhoni, who was Bumrah. Gayakwad, Pooja Vastrakar, (Rahul) has been batting, we unavailability for the game. that it will be a toss­up bet­ rashtra Cricket Association Madugalle. placed in Grade­A last year Grade­A (₹5 crore): R. Ashwin, Harleen Deol, Priya Punia, Pu- have tried to fit him in the The wicketkeeper has been ween Manish Pandey and Ke­ stadium at Khanderi. Match starts at 1.30 p.m. with a contract worth ₹5 Ravindra Jadeja, Bhuvneshwar nam Raut and Shafali Verma. Bhuvneshwar Zampa spots Kohli’s Achilles heel undergoes Says the Indian skipper finds leggies hard to line up early on surgery Amol Karhadkar important things I have al­ RAJKOT ways tried to do is have a Press Trust of India There is more to Adam Zam­ strong character. To be a New Delhi pa than his six­wicket haul in wrist­spinner in one­day Bhuvneshwar Kumar has the Indian Premier League. cricket in the middle overs is undergone a sports hernia The Australia leg­break bow­ not easy at all.” surgery in London and will ler has been one of the most begin his rehabilitation at consistent wicket­taking Staging a comeback the NCA after returning to bowlers in white­ball cricket, India has its back to the wall the country, the BCCI said especially in ODIs. It is re­ but middle­order batsman on Thursday. flected in the fact that he dis­ Shreyas Iyer said the team The Board did not spec­ missed Virat Kohli for the believes in staging a come­ ify any timeline for his re­ fourth time in 11 innings on back, like it did against West covery but it is learnt that Tuesday, which was one of Indies. “We have seen that in he will return to action the turning points of the the past as well, we were 0­1 during the IPL, which is Having fun: Australian players train on Thursday. * VIJAY SONEJI series­opener. down against the West In­ scheduled to start on On the eve of the second wickets, some of the cover times in the last year or so. dies. Its not as if we have lost March 29. Bhuvneshwar ODI, Zampa admitted that drives he played off the It’s nice to have that confi­ the series. We can still come plays for Sunrisers Hydera­ Australia finds Kohli vulnera­ quicks,” Zampa said on dence to bowl to him at the back strong and that’s what bad in the T20 event. He ble against leggies at the Thursday. start of his innings.” we discussed in the dressing was not named in the T20 start of the innings. “We bas­ Even before the start of room,” Shreyas said. squad for the upcoming ically just find that Virat Gameplan the series, Kohli had praised “We need to back and be­ tour of New Zealand due to finds leg­spinners hard to “I think it’s important to try Zampa for his character dur­ lieve in ourselves and also in the injury. line up early in his innings, and have a gameplan for ing Australia’s five­match se­ our teammates that in a to be honest. He’s such a him. So we figured that for ries in India last year. pressure situation somebo­ Shaw completes rehab great starter, even the other the last game it would be Terming it as a “big com­ dy will stand up and see the The BCCI said Prithvi Shaw day he was 16 off 14 or wha­ good to start with leg­spin to pliment” Zampa stressed he team through.
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