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I am most comfortable opening the : KL Rahul Anderson becomes first fast ndia wicketkeeper- team," said Rahul. batsman KL Rahul Rahul also pointed out bowler to take 600 Test Isays he is the "most that having a legend like Anil SOUTHAMPTON, AU- retired spinners Muttiah noon and Anderson took comfortable" playing as an Kumble as the head coach at GUST 25: Jimmy Ander- Muralitharan (800), Shane the of Azhar off his opener in the T20 format as Kings XI has made his life son has entered the exclu- Warne (708) and Anil 14th . it gives him the chance to "very easy" as a . sive “600 Club”. The Kumble (619) are above The enduring Anderson make the 'best impact'. He also revealed that the England paceman became him. shows no sign of slowing "Opening the batting is two Karnataka players share only the fourth bowler — “Massive effort from a down, especially when he something that I have done a great rapport. and the first seamer — to great fast bowler,” Kumble, bowls on home soil where all my life and that is some- Kumble also served as In- take 600 wickets in test the former legspin- he is so adept at taking ad- thing I feel most comfort- dia's head coach in 2016-17 cricket on Tuesday by dis- ner, wrote on Twitter. “Wel- vantage of English condi- able doing. It gives me the and during his tenure, India missing Azhar Ali in the come to the club.” Ander- tions. He is still widely re- third test against Pakistan. son is the second quickest to garded as the best bowler in chance to play full 20 overs recorded 12 victories in 17 After England captain get to 600 wickets, taking the world when the ball is and I make the best impact Tests and reached the final Joe Root took the high six balls more than Mu- swinging. when I play full 20 overs," of the ICC Champions Tro- catch at first slip off the Pak- ralitharan, but it could have On Sunday, he took his Rahul said in a video re- phy. istan captain to give Ander- come much sooner. 29th five-wicket haul of a leased by the Indian Premier "Somebody like Anil bhai son his prized wicket, the He was dropped four test career that began in League on their website on helps me immensely be- 38-year-old fast bowler was times in 37 balls either side 2003. His average is 26.82. Tuesday. cause I share a very good re- mobbed by his teammates. of Pakistan’s overnight Not playing white-ball Rahul, who will lead Kings lationship off the field as we Then Anderson took the change of innings between cricket since 2015 has al- XI Punjab in the IPL, had a are from the same state and ball in his right hand and — Days 3 and 4 of the final test lowed him to focus his en- als too, Rahul has achieved 47.65. was in cracking form as the with a cheeky smile — of the series. ergy and fitness toward the smashing season with the a lot of success while open- Similarly in T20Is, Rahul opener, hitting 659 runs for has made life as captain very saluted all sides of the Rose He took his 599th wicket test format. The extended bat last year. The Karnataka ing the batting, scoring 808 has scored 1022 of his 1461 Kings XI Punjab at an aver- easy," Rahul added. Bowl, which is without — that of Abid Ali — near break to the cricket season batsman scored 593 runs in runs in 18 games at an aver- runs while opening the bat- age of 54.91 "I know he () spectators because of coron- the end of Monday’s play, because of the pandemic 14 matches at a strike rate of age of 50.5 with three cen- ting at an average of 46, with "It's been fun so far, I had will do most of the planning avirus restrictions. England before bad light stopped gave Anderson more time 135, with one century and turies and five fifties while an impressive strike rate of two good seasons with Kings and I just have to go out in coach Chris Silverwood ap- play. to rest his aging body after six fifties. opening, as compared to his 144. XI Punjab and will try to win the middle and carry it out," plauded on the boundary The first two sessions of an injury-plagued period In One-Day Internation- overall batting average of In the 2018 IPL, Rahul a lot more games for my he added. edge. Tuesday were washed out, that restricted him to just 74 Anderson, who is playing raising doubts about overs of from the in his 156th test, is fourth on whether Anderson would opening Ashes test in Au- the list of all-time leading miss his chance. However, gust last year until this sum- Harris replaces Hopes IPL quarantine: Players use wicket-takers in tests. Only play started late in the after- mer. balconies to interact, workout Australia confident of cricket's as NEW DELHI:Restricted to their hotel rooms, players are smashing return bowling coach spending time talking to NEW DELHI:Channel each other from the balcony Seven boss James Warbur- besides following a fitness ton fired a broadside at plan handed out by team Cricket Australia (CA) on trainers. Tuesday, saying uncertainty As per the BCCI SOP, RT- over the summer schedule PCR tests will be conducted was proving 'frustrating' for on everyone on Days 1, 3 and the broadcaster. 6 of the quarantine, after CA has pencilled in a four- which all players who return Test series with India start- negative for all the three tests ing in December as well as can enter the tournament dates for the men's and bio-bubble. women's domestic Since no one is allowed to speak to each other, carefully a video and the caption read, Twenty20 tournaments but step out of the room in the following all social distanc- 'Not a bad quarantine spot, has yet to finalise the sched- six-day isolation period, ing guidelines. where you can meet your ule amid travel curbs and start to look at what really is mer. players have made full use of 's friends over training on the border controls due to the season we are going to The southern state of Vic- their dedicated balconies to Shreevats Goswami shared balcony.' COVID-19. deliver," Warburton said. toria remains in strict lock- NEW DELHI:Delhi impressive bowling line up, Warburton told an in- "We have paid a huge down following a second Capitals on Tuesday an- and I can’t wait to start vestor call on Tuesday that price for the rights and we wave of COVID-19 infec- nounced former Australian working with them all." CA needed to follow the lead need to understand very tions and authorities have fast bowler as A late entrant in interna- Former French Open of Australia's major football quickly what the season is. shut state borders to halt the their new bowling coach for tional cricket, Harris has leagues, which moved It’s been a point of frustra- spread of the novel coron- the upcoming 13th edition 113 Test wickets, 44 ODI quickly to rejig their sched- tion with Cricket Australia, avirus. of IPL, starting next month. wickets, and 4 T20I wickets champion opts out of US Open ules and restart competition that’s for sure." CA interim chief execu- The 40-year-old will join to his name. In 2009, he NEW DELHI:Former months after the pandemic Channel Seven is in the tive Nick Hockley said the the Delhi Capitals side in was part of the Deccan French Open champion Je- shut down all sport in second year of a record five- board would announce revi- the UAE for the Indian Pre- Chargers team which won lena Ostapenko is the latest March. year rights deal for Aus- sions to the schedule once it mier League, starting on the second edition of IPL. player to withdraw from the "Ultimately, when you tralian cricket with pay TV had "all necessary govern- September 19. However, injuries forced US Open, organisers of the look at the season, like the provider Foxtel. ment exemptions and biose- He replaces James him to announce his retire- tennis Grand Slam con- AFL and to an extent the CA confirmed last week curity measures" in place. Hopes, who was Delhi's ment in 2015. Since then, firmed on Monday. NRL, (CA) need to look at that Australia's delayed "We are confident we will bowling coach in 2018 and Harris has undertaken The 23-year-old, who won what is possible to deliver, white-ball tour of England provide (Channel Seven) 2019. Hope pulled out of coaching assignments with her only major in 2017 at stop talking about interna- would go ahead from Sept. with fantastic content this the IPL this year, stating the Australian team, Big Roland Garros but has tional borders being closed, 4 but doubts remain over summer," Hockley said in a that will be unable to travel Bash League side Brisbane slipped to No. 42 in the or borders being closed, and the shape of the home sum- statement. with the team owing to per- Heat, and even Kings XI world rankings, last played sonal reasons. Punjab in the IPL. on the WTA Tour in Febru- "I am delighted to be back He joins the Delhi Capi- ary at the Qatar Open where in the IPL," Harris said, on tals coaching staff featuring she reached the last 16. Check out NADA's dope his newest challenge. "This head coach , Six of the world's top 10 is a huge opportunity for me assistant coach Moham- women have already with- spread of the novel coron- Bianca Andreescu, Elina to contribute to the fran- mad Kaif, drawn from the US Open, avirus. Svitolina, Kiki Bertens and chise's ambitions of lifting coach and which begins next week and Top-ranked Ash Barty, Belinda Bencic have all de- testing plans for IPL the coveted IPL trophy. The had talent scout Vijay will be played in a 'bio-se- world number two Simona cided to skip the event in Delhi Capitals side has an Dahiya. cure bubble' to combat the NEW DELHI:'NADA Halep, defending champion New York. will have nine people in UAE and they will also take help of the UAE's National Anti Doping Organization if they What did Ashwin and Ponting discuss about 'Mankading'? require further manpower, in NEW DELHI:Delhi Ponting had said he will this case chaperones who Capitals off-spinner have a "hard conversation" help in sample collection.' says with Ashwin and won't allow Three high-ranking Na- he has spoken to his IPL him to repeat the act at Delhi tional Anti-Doping Agency coach Ricky Ponting on the Capitals since it was "not (NADA) officials, along with contentious issue of within the spirit of the six empanelled Dope Control 'Mankading' when the game". Officers (DCOs), will be trav- bowler runs out batsmen On Monday, Ashwin on elling to the UAE for sample who back up too far at the Monday suggested the in- collection during this year's non-striker's end, but will troduction of a "free ball" for Indian Premier League, NADA will have three to prepare five separate Dope reveal the contents of the bowlers if non-strikers back which starts on September teams with one official and Control Stations (DCS) in the telephonic conversation up too far, sticking to his 19. two DCOs at each of the three UAE -- three at the match only next week. stand that there was nothing According to sources in the venues along with local venues in Abu Dhabi, Shar- The issue became a talk- wrong with running such NADA, the agency is target- NADO staff in each of the jah and Dubai along with two ing point when Ponting, batsmen out. ing collection of at least 50 units. at the practice facilities in head coach of Ashwin's team "Make it a free ball for the samples during In-Competi- He, however, didn't di- Dubai and Abu Dhabi. Delhi Capitals, said he bowler. If the batsmen gets tion (IC) and Out-of-Compe- vulge whether the entire cost While the sample numbers would have a discussion out of that ball, the batting tition (OOC) testing during will be borne by NADA or may be limited but it is ex- with Ashwin on the contro- 'spirit of the game.' with him. He said he wants lation. team will be docked 5 runs. the 60-match event which BCCI will share bill as it is be- pected that the BCCI might versial manner of getting a While Ashwin has to have a conversation. We "What happens some- Free hit adds to the drama will run till November 10. ing held outside India. collect a few blood samples batsman out ahead of the reached Dubai, Ponting is have already talked over the times is Australians' mes- for a batter, let's give a "NADA will have nine peo- In India, it's the NADA too as transportation from IPL starting September 19 in set to arrive next week and phone. It was a very interest- sages in English get lost in chance to the bowlers too," ple in UAE and they will also which bears the cost of collec- Dubai to the WADA-accred- the UAE. the two will talk in person ing chat," Ashwin said on his translation and reach us Ashwin had tweeted. take help of the UAE's Na- tion, transportation and test- ited lab in Doha will be eas- Ashwin ran out England before the Indian reveals YouTube channel. with a different meaning. When a twitter user as- tional Anti Doping Organiza- ing. ier. batsman at the what transpired between Ashwin said it's better to Even some of their jokes be- serted that the game is pri- tion if they require further "The NADA officers will be Logistics will be a lesser non-striker's end last season them. have a face-to-face conver- come news. That's what it is marily for batsmen, Ashwin manpower, in this case chap- asked to stay in the BCCI cre- hassle in the UAE compared when he backed up too far, "Ricky Ponting hasn't yet sation since the message of and next week I will reveal a retorted, "Then take the run erones who help in sample ated bio bubble," a source in- to India where rising cases of drawing criticism for his act reached (Dubai). After he the heavily-accented Aus- bit more about my conver- out on your chin and stay collection," a senior BCCI of- formed. COVID-19 have caused oper- as many called it against the comes, we will sit for a chat tralians can get lost in trans- sation with Ricky." in!!!!". ficial said. The NADA has asked BCCI ational difficulties for NADA.