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MUMBAI THE HINDU 18 SPORT FRIDAY, JANUARY 17, 2020 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE has its back to the wall again No central contract for Dhoni Special Correspondent Loss in Mumbai may force a rethink in Kohli’s 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 fix it. ing a hit in his His exclusion from the list The idiom fits India cap­ much­anticipated ODI de­ of cricketers with an annual tain 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 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 backfired 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 fire 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, , bination for the sake of it. — , Ambati , Shikhar Dha- ting on a below­par total. played competitive cricket wan, , Ishant With and Da­ The teams (from): since India’s World Cup sem­ Rayudu and have also been excluded. Sharma, , Rish- vid Warner helping Australia India: Virat Kohli (Capt.), Rohit ifinal exit. The new entrants in the abh Pant and K.L. Rahul. cruise to a 10­ win, In­ Sharma, , 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, , Hardik many months finds itself ish Pandey, , Shi- selection committee has de­ deep Saini, , Pandya, and needing to bounce back in a vam Dube, , cided to “look beyond” Dho­ , Shreyas . three­match ODI series. If Yuzvendra Chahal, Kuldeep Ya- ni, head coach Iyer and Washington Grade­C (₹1 crore): Kedar Jad- Kohli’s cavaliers have to dav, , Jasprit has maintained Dhoni may Sundar. hav, , 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.), , 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. , Smriti scomb, , 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 . 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 , 15, has be­ Kohli — who has scored 36 of think it’s quite gone our way helmet. As a result, Rahul — High on confidence Smith, Mitchell Starc, Ashton spicuous silence. Last Raj, , Jhulan Goswa- his 43 ODI hundreds at No. 3 whenever I’ve batted No. 4 who donned the gloves dur­ Australia, meanwhile, will Turner, , Adam month, at a promotional come the youngest to be mi, , 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, , retainer. and . Wankhede that India had to rethink about that one.” to continue behind the wick­ dence. Century makers War­ On­field 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 outfit on In and out Kohli, and Jasprit hati Reddy, Rajeshwari past. Because of the way K.L. considering ’s Pant’s injury also means yet another belter at the Sau­ Match referee: Ranjan Besides Dhoni, who was Bumrah. Gayakwad, , (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, , Priya Punia, Pu- have tried to fit 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 finds 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 pa than his six­wicket haul in wrist­spinner in one­day has the . 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. flected 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 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 , 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 finds 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 find that Virat Gameplan the series, Kohli had praised “We need to back and be­ tour of New Zealand due to finds 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 five­match se­ our teammates that in a to be honest. He’s such a him. So we figured 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. We didn’t do has left for New Zealand to tever it was; how much ener­ him. It might be different is “not the most skillful leg­ well that well in all three de­ join the India A team after gy he brought to the crease, next game. As it’s been men­ spinner in the world, that’s partments. We need to work completing his rehabilita­ his running between the tioned, I’ve got him out four for sure”. “One of the most on a lot of areas.” tion for a shoulder injury. Bennett recalled W.V. Raman’s The Winning Sixer launched 224/4 Press Trust of India Runaway favourite India Wellington Experience punishes you first and teaches you later, says former India opener ENGLAND IN SA New Zealand on Thursday eyes fifth title recalled medium­pacer Shreedutta Chidananda ties as a leader were tested to Hamish Bennett into the Bengaluru the limit. “You need a core Agence France Presse national team after more It should come as no sur­ group of players to support Port Elizabeth UNDER-19 WC than two­and­half years as prise that W.V. Raman has you. I was lucky that I had Ben Stokes survived three injury ruled out Trent authored a book. The former Rahul, Sourav, Sachin, and reviews by South Africa as Press Trust of India Boult and Lockie Ferguson India opener has always Laxman,” he said. “The he and Ollie Pope regained CAPE TOWN from the upcoming Twen­ been one of the shrewdest game is bigger than any indi­ the initiative for England A few precocious talents, ty20 series against India. voices on cricket, forthright vidual. If you think that is the on the first day of the third hardworking teenagers and a The squad : and informed in his opinion final outcome you want to cricket Test on Thursday. chunky lot which might fall (Capt.), Hamish Bennett, Tom and never shy of expressing get to, then things fall in England was 224 for four by the wayside in times to Bruce, Colin de Grandhomme, it. In The Winning Sixer, re­ place. When those issues at the end of an attritional come will form a 16­team , Scott Kugge- leased formally by Anil Kum­ happened... as a captain you day. mix in the melting pot called India skipper Priyam Garg. leijn, Daryl Mitchell, Colin ble here on Thursday, Ra­ are never trained to deal ICC Under­19 Cricket World England was 148 for four * Munro, , Blair Tickn- FILE PHOTO: K MURALI KUMAR man has drawn on his own with off­field issues. The sup­ Cup starting on Friday. er, , Tim Seif- Personal account: Anil Kumble releases the book The Winning when Stokes and Pope ert, Ish Sodhi, . experiences, and those of Sixer along with author W.V. Raman, and port I had from the players came together, in danger of Defending champion In­ with names like Tushar Cha­ other athletes, to derive lea­ P. Madhavan, Executive VP, TVS Tyres. * V. SREENIVASA MURTHY then was immense.” failing to capitalise on bat­ dia will be the overwhelming turvedi, Yugandhar Rethare­ dership lessons from sport. ting first on a placid pitch. favourite to win the junior kar, Ishan Fartyal and Debas­ Ireland stuns WI Raman, the current head Common purpose But the pair added 76 global meet for the fifth time ish Sahoo helping out the St. George’s (Grenada): Ire­ coach of the national wo­ As a captain, what did he without being parted and with at least six players, in­ likes of Kazumasha Taka­ land rode a career­best 95 men’s team; Kumble, a form­ Fans want five­day Tests, want in a team, Kumble was were able to lift a slow scor­ cluding skipper Priyam Garg hashi, Masato Morita and from Paul Stirling to pull er India captain; and P. Mad­ asked. “It was all about hav­ ing rate after England having played senior cricket Shu Noguchi. off a four­run win over havan, Executive says Kumble ing a core set of players who scored only 117 for two in — First Class, List­A or T20. West Indies in the first of a Vice­President, TVS Tyres, would contribute to the 58 overs before tea. Four players — Garg, Yashas­ Local flavour three­match T20 series on engaged in a lively conversa­ Special Correspondent Raman’s book The Winning common purpose,” he said. Stokes was unbeaten on vi Jaiswal, , Kar­ Nigeria, which is clubbed Wednesday. tion on the subject of leader­ Bengaluru Sixer. “As a team, how well can you 38 at the close while Pope tik Tyagi — have already land­ with Australia, West Indies The scores: Ireland 208/7 in ship, holding in rapt atten­ Anil Kumble has stated that The former India leg­ disguise your shortcomings? was 39 . ed fat contracts in the IPL. and England, has more local 20 overs (P. Stirling 95, K. tion an audience that it is “very obvious” that spinner did not take sides, That is the critical aspect. No flavour in the presence of O’Brien 48) bt West Indies included G.R. Viswanath, modern­day cricket but pointed out that public team can be complete. It’s SCOREBOARD Team to beat Sylvester Okpe, Oche Boni­ 204/7 (E. Lewis 53, K. Pollard Roger Binny, Rahul Dravid, supporters prefer five­day opinion on the matter had very difficult to get a com­ India has been the team to face, Ifeanyichukwu Uboh 31; Josh Little 3/29). AFP England — first innings: Z. Ajinkya Rahane, Narendra Test matches to a four­day been clear. “There’s a plete team. If you have it, Crawley c van der Dussen b beat on the junior circuit and Olayinka Olaleye. Hirwani and Mithali Raj. version. Kumble, who is debate on [whether the that’s great, but it’s very un­ Nortje 44, D. Sibley c Elgar b since Virat Kohli’s men dom­ The tournament starts Ashwin for “I don’t think anyone is a chairman of the ICC duration of a Test should likely you are going to get Rabada 36, J. Denly lbw b inated the proceedings in the with South Africa taking on born leader,” said Kumble. Cricket Committee — which be] four days or five days,” that. How well can you make Maharaj 25, J. Root b Rabada 2008 edition. Afghanistan in Kimberley on Yorkshire “You just throw them in the in March is set to discuss he said. “The current sure that you throw your 27, B. Stokes (batting) 38, O. While there will be future Friday, followed by Austra­ Press Trust of India deep end and see how they the proposal to shorten generation certainly wants punches at the right time? Pope (batting) 39, Extras stars in Pakistan, Australia, lia’s game against West In­ London swim. As far as Indian crick­ Tests — was speaking at an five days. That's something That’s what matters.” (lb-8, nb-3, w-4): 15; Total England and New Zealand, dies on Saturday. R. Ashwin will play for et goes, you just learn on the event to launch W. V. that is very obvious.” Getting all players to pull (for four wkts. in 90 overs): the presence of Japan and Ni­ Australia has number of Yorkshire during this year’s job. I don’t think there is any in the same direction was 224. geria will certainly have its players who have already CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC Fall of wickets: 1-70, 2-103, English County Champion­ rule that so and so will be a key, Kumble pointed out. “It own curiosity value. played senior level cricket 3-134, 4-148. ship, the club said on perfect leader. You need to Raman agreed. “Expe­ you are trying to achieve and all boils down to communi­ South Africa : Phil- Japan is clubbed with In­ with one prominent name Thursday. Ashwin, who will be able to step back from rience is a tough teacher,” he then follow that path.” cation and respect. If you ander 11-5-15-0, Paterson 15- dia, New Zealand and Sri being Ian Harvey’s nephew play for in your personal goal and look said. “It punishes you first Kumble recalled the tur­ have those two things, it’s 1-46-0, Rabada 17-3-48-2, Lanka in Group D. McKenzhie Harvey, who has the IPL, will be Yorkshire’s at the team in a larger and teaches you later. You bulent Australia tour of not hard to align people with Nortje 15-4-52-1, Maharaj The Japanese team has played two List­A and 13 T20 main overseas spinner. context.” need to know the end result 2007­08, when his capabili­ the common goal.” 32-11-55-1. mostly South Asian expats games. CM A BM-BME YK