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THE HIMALAYAN MAIL JAMMU Q SATURDAY Q MARCH 20, 2021 11 Krishna, Pandya,Yadav in Bayern to face PSG, Real Madrid v ODI squad for England series Liverpool in Champions League last 8 MADRID, MARCH 19: NEW DELHI, der, leaving no place for Holders Bayern Munich MARCH 19: Karnataka Kishan in playing XI. will face the team they beat pacer Prasidh Krishna, all- The players who have in last year’s Champions rounder Krunal Pandya and missed out from the previ- League final in this season’s Suryakumar Yadav earned ous series in Australia are quarterfinals after being their maiden ODI call-up Mayank Agarwal, Navdeep paired with Paris St Ger- on Friday as selectors Saini and Manish Pandey. main in Friday’s draw. named them in India's 18- Pressure will be on In the other standout tie member squad for the Shikhar Dhawan to per- of the last eight, 13-time three-match series against form from game one con- champions Real Madrid England. sidering India are spoilt for face six-time winners Liver- Krishna and Krunal have choice in the opening de- pool in a repeat of the 2018 been rewarded for their partment that also has KL final won by the Spanish good performances in the Rahul and Shubman Gill. club. recently held Vijay Hazare Following his impressive Runaway Premier League Trophy while Suryakumar's run in Tests, Mohammed leaders Manchester City, selection was not a surprise Siraj has also been picked seeking their first Champi- given his stupendous T20 for the games to be played ons League title, will play debut in the fourth T20 in front of empty stands. Borussia Dortmund with against England. Though Ravindra Jadeja Mauricio Pochettino who Juergen Klopp’s side are thriller and the Portuguese the winners to face Bayern Krishna, who has been on has resumed training, he is took Tottenham Hotspur to languishing in sixth place in side will take that belief into or PSG in the semi-finals. the radar for a while and has yet to regain full fitness and the 2019 Champions the Premier League, 25 their clash with the London also earned Virat Kohli's There is also the prospect hence has not been in- League final where they lost points behind Manchester club. praise, took 14 wickets in Bhuvneshwar, who has that India continue to work of an all English semi-final cluded. to Liverpool. City, and with no guarantee Should Chelsea and Liv- the domestic 50-over com- done well in the ongoing on their preparation for the after Chelsea were drawn to India's ODI squad: Virat Pochettino now faces a of a top-four finish they erpool both progress it petition while Krunal, who T20 series, is set to play his T20 World Cup. play Porto with the prize for Kohli (captain), Rohit daunting task if he is to de- might need to win a seventh would be the fourth time has played 18 T20s, earned first ODI since August 2019. Ishan Kishan has not the winners a clash with Sharma (vice-captain), liver the prize the Parisian European crown just to get they have met in the Cham- his maiden ODI call-up by In the absence of the been picked despite his im- Real Madrid or Liverpool. Shikhar Dhawan, Shubman club desire so badly. back in the competition. pions League semis. scoring two hundreds and rested Jasprit Bumrah, who pressive show in the T20s The Qatari owners of PSG Gill, Shreyas Iyer, Suryaku- Bundesliga leaders Bay- Chelsea, unbeaten in 13 Manchester City’s Abu as many fifties in five games recently got married, and probably because the team have invested fortunes into mar Yadav, Hardik Pandya, ern reached the quarter-fi- games since Tuchel re- Dhabi owners have made for Baroda. injured Mohammad Shami, already has two wicket- trying to conquer the Rishabh Pant (wicket- nal for a record 19th time by placed Frank Lampard, winning the Champions All three ODIs will be the UP pacer will lead the keepers in KL Rahul and Champions League and keeper), KL Rahul (wicket- cruising past Lazio 6-2 on may feel they have got the League the priority in their played in Pune, starting pace attack. Pant. came tantalisingly close last keeper), Yuzvendra Chahal, aggregate and will provide easier option in Porto who masterplan and will feel this March 23. Left-arm pacer T Natara- Rahul opens batting in season when they reached Kuldeep Yadav, Krunal a formidable barrier. they have beaten in five of could be their year. Stupmer-batsman jan has regained fitness T20s but he would bat in the final only for Bayern’s Pandya, Washington Sun- Liverpool’s Premier their eight previous meet- After a sluggish start to Rishabh Pant and pacer and, therefore, finds a place the middle order in ODIs Kingsley Coman to break dar, T Natarajan, Bhu- League title defence crum- ings. the season Pep Guardiola’s Bhuvneshwar Kumar are in the squad following an with Shikhar Dhawan and their hearts with the only vneshwar Kumar, Mo- bled long ago but if any- Yet while Chelsea’s clini- side have dominated the back in the side and so is impressive outing in Aus- Rohit being team’s pre- goal in Lisbon. hammed Siraj, Prasidh thing can rouse the Anfield cal defeat of Atletico Madrid Premier League and with Washington Sundar, who tralia. ferred openers. Since then manager Krishna and Shardul club it is a clash with Real in the last 16 was impres- that title virtually in the bag played his only ODI in De- It seems the squad has Pant would keep wickets Thomas Tuchel has gone Thakur. Madrid in the Champions sive, so was the way Porto will be able to focus on Eu- cember 2017. been picked in such a way and also bat in middle or- and been replaced by League. knocked out Juventus in a rope. ISSF World Cup: Divyansh, Babuta Had idea on how Archer would bowl: qualify for men’s 10m air rifle final Yadav on hitting six off first delivery AHMEDABAD, came in and Bhuvneshwar NEW DELHI, The 22-year-old, who has MARCH 19: India’s Kumar bowled an over MARCH 19: Tokyo been doing quite well in the Suryakumar Yadav struck a which was very good, and Olympics quota holder Di- junior category in the past magnificent six off the first then I got a chance. When vyansh Singh Panwar and and is looking to establish delivery he faced in interna- we got those two wickets, Arjun Babuta qualified for himself in the senior, pro- tional cricket and said that we felt that we can seal the the men’s 10m air rifle final duced some excellent experience of playing game and we did. Two wick- on the opening day of the shooting in the qualification against Jofra Archer in the ets from two balls was very ISSF World Cup here on here and, barring in his Indian Premier League good for the team.” Friday. 20th shot, never went be- (IPL) helped him know the Shardul, who bowled the In the 60-shot qualifica- low 10 in the qualification. pacer’s gameplan. final over of the innings, tion, the 18-year-old Pan- World number two, Petar A blistering half-century also said Rohit Sharma war finished sixth with a to- Gorsa of Croatia, did not from Suryakumar (57), fol- wanted him to back his lowed by a brilliant perfor- plans and try to execute tal of 629.1, while 2016 ISSF start while Hungarian mance from the bowlers, them. junior world cup bronze shooting legend Peter Sidi tion with 632.1 while Is- rifle event at the National helped India win the fourth “The captain said that the medallist Babuta grabbed could not make the cut. rael’s Sergey Richter was shooting trials here earlier T20 of the ongoing five- video shared by the Board added. leg-side is bigger and if we the third place after firing A total of 294 athletes 631.8 at the Karni Singh second with 631.8. this year, is one of the In- match series against Eng- of Control for Cricket in In- In the match, Stokes are bowling from the pavil- from 53 countries, includ- Shooting Range. India’s Divyansh secured dia’s medal hopefuls in land here at the Narendra dia (BCCI) on its website. played a knock of 46 runs ion side then try to make ing a 57-member Indian The other Indian partici- the Olympic quota when he shooting at the Tokyo Modi Stadium on Thursday “I have seen him (Archer) from just 23 balls. When them play shots on the big- contingent, are competing pant in the fray, Deepak Ku- bagged a silver in the 10m Games. evening. in IPL and international Stokes was at the crease, it ger side (of the ground). Ro- in the first multi-nation mar, could not make the cut air rifle event at the Beijing The Jaipur-based Pan- With the eight-run win cricket that when a new looked like England will hit Sharma was the stand- as he ended up 12th with World Cup in April 2019. war, who took to shooting at Olympic sporting event of over England, India levelled batsman comes in, he tries chase down the target. in captain. 626.4. World No.1 Divyansh, the age of 12, had trained this scale anywhere in the the series 2-2 with the series to keep the batsman on the However, Shardul brought CLASSIFIEDS South Korea’s Taeyun who had stamped his au- under Deepak Kumar in world post the pandemic- decider to be played on Sat- backfoot.