EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE DELHI THE HINDU 18 SPORT TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2019 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE India launches World T20 preparations Kohli gets official warning, South Africans confident of challenging the hosts despite missing three top stars one demerit point DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD SA WOMEN IN INDIA DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD For an inappropriate shoulder contact with pacer Beuran H2H Amol Karhadkar SURAT B Played 6 The men may have moved B India won 4, South Africa on from the India blues into won 1 white flannels, but India’s B No Result 1 women cricketers will com­ DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD mence their final phase of the World T20 preparation her bunch can stretch India on Tuesday in a five­match over the next two weeks. T20I series against South While the teams will have Africa at the Lalbhai Con­ one eye on the World T20, tractor Stadium here. the Surat District Cricket As­ Considering the World sociation officials and volun­ T20 will start in Australia on teers will be hoping that the February 21, 2020, captain weather remains clear. Harmanpreet Kaur under­ After all, they are hoping stands that the five T20Is un­ for a capacity crowd for what der lights — India Women’s would be the maiden inter­ first floodlit outing in a bilat­ national cricket match to be eral series at home — will off­ staged in the Diamond City. Virat Kohli. * AFP er her and coach W.V. Raman The teams (from): India: Har­ an opportunity to test the manpreet Kaur (Capt.), Smriti Code of Conduct in the Match Referee or any other Mandhana (Vice­Capt.), Jemi­ SA IN INDIA young talent. match which South Africa person (including a specta­ mah Rodrigues, Deepti Sharma, Press Trust of India Taniya Bhatia (wk), Poonam Ya­ won by nine wickets on tor) during an International Experimenting dav, Shikha Pandey, Arundhati BENGALURU Sunday. Match’,” the ICC said in a “As you know, the World Cup All set: South Africa captain Sune Luus addresses the media along with her India counterpart Reddy, Pooja Vastrakar, Radha India captain Virat Kohli has The incident took place in statement. is coming, that’s why we are Harmanpreet Kaur in Surat on Monday. * SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT Yadav, Veda Krishnamurthy, received an official warning the fifth over of the Indian In addition to this, one de­ playing more T20s ahead of Harleen Deol, Anuja Patil, Sha­ and one demerit point for innings when Kohli made merit point has been added the tournament. We have 10­ the 15­year­old Shafali Verma ty and senior pros like Smriti trakar, who has been re­ fali Verma and Mansi Joshi. violating the ICC Code of contact with Hendricks to the disciplinary record of 15 games to experiment and stealing the limelight — coin­ Mandhana and Harmanpreet called, can impress. South Africa: Sune Luus Conduct when he made an while taking a run. Kohli. give chances to youngsters cides with the onset of the can shoulder the additional Just like the host, the visit­ (Capt.), Anneke Bosch, Tasmin inappropriate shoulder con­ “Kohli was found to have Kohli now has three de­ and see how they fit into the post­Mithali Raj era in T20Is. burden. ing outfit has also rested Brits, Nadine de Klerk, Shabnim tact with pacer Beuran Hen­ breached Article 2.12 of the merit points after having got Ismail, Sinalo Jafta (wk), Aya­ side,” said Harmanpreet said The legendary Mithali re­ Raman also conceded that three of its key players — vet­ dricks during the third T20I ICC Code of Conduct for one each during the Pretoria bonga Khaka, Lara Goodall, Li­ on Monday, before slogging cently announced her retire­ the inclusion of four pacers eran batter Mignon du Preez, zelle Lee, Nonkululeko Mlaba, against South Africa here. Players and Player Support Test against South Africa on it out in the nets with her ment from the shortest for­ in the squad was done along with star all­rounders Tumi Sekhukhune, Nondumiso Personnel, which relates to January 15, 2018 and against teammates. mat. It will be interesting to “keeping the World T20 in Marizanne Kapp and Chloe Shangase, Mignon du Preez and Guilty ‘Inappropriate physical con­ Afghanistan in the ICC Men’s The fact that the team has see whether the younger bat­ mind”. It remains to be seen Tryon. But captain Sune Lu­ Lara Wolvaardt. Kohli was found guilty of a tact with a Player, Player Cricket World Cup 2019 on several young faces — with ters can grab the opportuni­ if a youngster like Pooja Vas­ us exuded confidence that Match starts at 7 p.m. Level 1 breach of the ICC Support Personnel, Umpire, June 22. Madhav Apte passes away T10 is ideal for Olympics TNCA misinterpreting SC G. Viswanath He was a true order: CoA files petition Mumbai <> aficionado of our and CWG, says Morgan Press Trust of India DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD Former India cricketer Mad­ beloved game and DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD G. Viswanath NEW DELHI hav Apte breathed his last at Touching upon the evolu­ B just couldn't have Mumbai The CoA in its submission the Breach Candy Hospital enough of it. The tion of the game from Test to The Committee of Adminis­ states that SC’s order is here on Monday morning. Eoin Morgan, England’s 50­over, T20 and now T10, trators (CoA) has filed a 20­ cricketing get­ being “erroneously He was 86 and had been ail­ World Cup­winning captain, Morgan believes that the page petition in the Su­ construed in such a manner ing for a few months. He is togethers at his said the T10 format of crick­ game is in a healthy state. preme Court seeking clarifi­ so as to override principal survived by wife Sheela, son house were et is ideally suited for the “Speaking on behalf of En­ cation as it feels that the judgement dated July 18, Vaman and two daughters, memorable Olympic and Common­ glish cricket, it’s in a healthy apex court’s September 20 2016 and August 9, 2018.” Radhika and Janhavi. evenings. I will miss wealth Games. place. We had the summer order is being “mischievous­ DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD Apte was admitted to hos­ those evenings, While promoting the first of a lifetime, winning the ly” misinterpreted. pital last Saturday. “He lived listening to him Abu Dhabi T10 featuring 10 World Cup, seeing the popu­ On September 20, the Su­ council could be a full life,” said Vaman, an along with some of teams that will be broadcast larity of the game rise a lot, preme Court had passed an disqualified. accomplished squash player. the greatest names by Sony Pictures Network ticket sales go through the interim order allowing The CoA has apprehen­ Apte’s younger brother, Ar­ in Indian cricket from November 14 to 24, the roof and more integration TNCA to conduct elections. sion that this misinterpreta­ vind, who played one Test 33­year­old Dublin­born at­ Eoin Morgan. * VIVEK BENDRE with grass roots. The order also stated that tion could lead to the follow­ Sunil Gavaskar against England at Headin­ Madhav Apte. * FILE PHOTO tacking left­hander said that “The Ashes is popular disqualification from con­ ing situation: gley in 1959, passed away just as Twenty20 made an that this is our sport and this anyway, the level of specula­ testing State body elections 1. A non­Indian citizen five years ago. handed opener never played Apte was chairman of the impact in international is what it looks like. It’s a tion and talk was extraordin­ on completion of nine years could come into the manag­ India’s cricketing fraterni­ for India again. He must Mumbai Cricket Associa­ cricket, T10 will also enter­ great little advert for the ary. I have not seen anything would only be confined to ing committee or governing ty has always wondered why have heard at least a thou­ tion’s Cricket Improvement tain and popularise the game; one can host a tourna­ like this since 2005. T20 office­bearers. council. This apprehension Madhav Apte had not worn sand times the question why Committee. He was also pre­ game. ment in such a short span of compacted the most impact­ The CoA, in its submis­ has been specifically raised the India cap more than se­ he was not chosen after that sident of the Cricket Club of Morgan, who played his time, say 10 teams in 12 days. ful overs of the game. The sion (a copy of which is with as a former office­bearer ven times. tour of the West Indies. India in the early 1990s and last Test in 2012 and began PowerPlay and last overs PTI), has stated that SC’s or­ who is now disqualified is He made a decent Test de­ According to those who president of the Legends the journey of white­ball Selling point have become important. In der is being “erroneously controlling a State unit from but against the Abdul Hafeez have watched him play, Apte Club. cricket, felt that a 60­ball “And that makes it such a T10, every over and every construed in such a manner abroad; 2. Persons above 70 Kardar­led Pakistan at the was a solid and stylish open­ Chandu Patankar, Vasu game will cause as much selling point for the Olympic ball is important. The mo­ so as to override principal years of age (not allowed in Brabourne Stadium in 1952 er. He scored 542 runs at Paranjape, Sunil Gavaskar, buzz as the Twenty20 (120­ and Commonwealth Games. mentum changes in about judgement dated July 18, BCCI) will be entering va­ — 30 and 10 not out. He then 49.27 and most of his runs Jatin Paranjpe and many ball game) did.