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Batsmen let the team down: Dhoni No need to tinker but can allow two ABU DHABI, OCTO- slightly innovative in these bouncers per over in T20 : Gavaskar BER 8: Chennai Super scenarios. If someone is Kings skipper Mahendra just back of a NEW DELHI, OCTOBER 8: The and Australia in 1948. Singh Dhoni said the bats- length, you have to find a legendary Sunil Gavaskar believes that While Australian Sir Don- men let the team down after way to hit boundaries. We T20 cricket doesn't need much tinker- ald Bradman had declared that a spirited comeback by the did not adapt well,” Dhoni ing as it is in "pink of health" but custo- Mankad was perfectly right and acted bowlers in their Indian Pre- said. dians of the game can consider allow- within the rules, the media Down Un- mier League game against Having returned to win- ing two bouncers per over, moving der of that era referred to the dismissal here. ning ways, KKR skipper Di- ahead. as "Mankading". Chasing 168, veteran nesh Karthik was all praise The shortest format, over the years, The legend put things in perspective opener Shane Watson for his team, especially the has witnessed dominance of batsmen as to why it is so legitimately objec- struck his second successive duo of Sunil Narine (1/31 across the globe with bowlers having tionable to say 'Mankading'. fifty to give CSK a perfect from four overs) and Andre little to play for on flat decks with short the game thought about penalising the "I don't know about it being deliber- start on Wednesday but the Russell (1/18 from two boundaries. batsman, who is stealing three to five ately ingrained in us but out of all the team choked at the back Earlier, ‘Birthday Boy’ target but the batsmen let overs) for their tidy bowling Does he foresee see a rule change to yards by backing up too far at the non- so-called unsportsmanlike acts on the end of the innings and was Dwayne Bravo bowled a the bowlers down,” Dhoni at the death. ease the pressure off bowlers? "The striker's end? cricket field, this mode of dismissal is restricted to 157 for five to perfect final over to finish said. “There are some key play- T20 game is doing very well and "There is a penalty of being dis- the only one that has been given a suffer its fourth defeat in with figures of 3/37, while Dhoni promoted himself ers for every team. Narine is there's no need to tinker with it," missed if the bowler runs out the non- name. five matches. the trio of , to No. 4 but was cleaned up one for us. Least we can do is Gavaskar told PTI during an exclusive striker who is moving out of the crease "With all the talk about doing away “In the middle overs, Shradul Thakur and Karn by spinner Varun back him. Two-three poor interview from the UAE where he is before the ball is delivered," said with terms like 'Chinaman' and there was a phase when Sharma claimed two each Chakravarthy while Sam games don’t matter,” working as a broadcaster for the In- Gavaskar. 'French cut' because it's politically in- they bowled two-three good as CSK bowled KKR out for Curran became Andre Rus- Karthik said. dian Premier League. But he feels that if TV umpire finds correct, it's about time this disparag- overs. Then we lost two- 167. sell’s victim after a brisk 11- Asked about their But the iconic figure did put forth a that the non-striker is backing up too ing term is dumped in the bin too," he three in a row. If our “Initially we gave away a ball 17. changed order, few suggestions which could be seri- far, even if there is a boundary, it said. batting was different during few too many with the new “Rotation of strike is al- Karthik said: “Our batting ously considered by the lawmakers of should be ruled "one short" as a Gavaskar also lauded senior off- that period, the result ball. Karn (Sharma) did re- ways important. At times is very fluid. I started at the game. penalty. "Now that the TV umpire is spinner , who would have been different,” ally well. The bowlers did we have to judge the deliv- three, today I batted at "It is loaded heavily in favour of the also checking if the bowler has over- gave a warning to Aaron Finch for Dhoni said at the post- well to bring them down to eries. There were hardly any seven. The way those guys batsmen for sure. So, give a fast bowler stepped for no balls, he should be able backing up too far during an IPL game match presentation cere- 160-odd. As a team, we boundaries in the last three batted at the start, they bat- two bouncers per over and yes the to see if the non-striker has left the between and RCB but mony. should have achieved the overs. You have to be ted very well.” boundaries can be easily longer, if the crease before the ball is released and made it clear that he wouldn't spare ground authorities want it," he said. if he has, then if runs are taken, it can the batsman the next time. "Also look at giving an extra over to be called one short even if a boundary "Ashwin is one of the most astute of the bowler who takes a in his or four is hit. This should act as a deter- cricketers. By this gesture he has KL continues to hold Orange first three overs. But seriously there's rent," he said. shown respect and regard to his coach no need to bring any changes at all," Gavaskar has consistently objected , who has expressed his added the 71-year-old opening great. to the use of the term "Mankading" as displeasure at this sort of dismissal. Talking about rules, Gavaskar sug- he believes it is an insult to one of In- "However, he has also announced Cap, Purple stays with Rabada gested that the TV umpire should be publicly that this is the final warning dia's greatest cricketers late Vinoo ABU DHABI, OCTO- presented to the leading empowered to check whether a non- Mankad. and if from now on anybody strolls out BER 8: Kings XI Punjab run-scorer and wicket-taker striker is backing up too far even be- Mankad ran Bill Brown out at the of his crease then he should be pre- captain KL Rahul and Delhi and keep changing hands fore a bowler has delivered the ball. non-striker's end for backing up too pared to walk back to the dug-out," he Capitals fast bowler Kagiso throughout the duration of So, why haven't the custodians of far during a Test match between India concluded. Rabada continue to lead the the tournament. respective charts for leading In the points table, Mum- run-scorers and wicket-tak- bai Indians currently oc- ers in the ongoing Indian cupy the number one spot Jadhav was sent ahead of Jadeja and Premier League season fol- with eight points from six lowing the conclusion of the games. They are followed by 21st IPL 2020 match be- Delhi Capitals who also Bravo as he could play spin well: Fleming tween Kolkata Knight Rid- have eight points but a ABU DHABI, OCTO- “We’ve got so much bat- ers and Chennai Super is followed by Chennai Su- five games and holds the lower net run-rate com- BER 8: Chennai Super ting resources. Kedar is a Kings, which the Dinesh per Kings’ Faf du Plessis, Purple Cap. He is followed pared to the defending Kings head coach Stephen late middle to late batter for Karthik-led side won by 10 who has 299 runs to his by Jasprit Bumrah, who has champions. Fleming said Kedar Jadhav India. We could have gone runs. name from six games. Kings 11 wickets in six games. Kolkata Knight Riders was sent ahead of Ravindra a whole lot of different Rahul has scored 302 XI opener Mayank Agarwal Bumrah’s teammate Trent and Virat Kohli’s Royal Jadega and Dwayne Bravo ways. Today, Kedar had runs, including one hun- is third on the list with 272 Boult is third on the list with Challengers Bangalore are in a tense run chase against some balls but that didn’t dred and two half-cen- runs. 10 wickets from six next in line, having six Kolkata Knight Riders be- work out. You always put turies, in five matches so far In the bowlers’ list, matches. points each from five cause of his ability to play players in different areas and has the Orange Cap. He Rabada has 12 wickets from These running caps are games. spin well. and that’s just when you However, Jadhav have so much batting talent laboured to seven off 12 to choose from. It’s one of Back at ‘happy hunting’ Sharjah, Rajasthan balls as KKR won the game the things we look at, but it’s by 10 runs here on Wednes- all in hindsight,” Fleming day. said. Royals aiming to halt Delhi Capitals’ march “At the time, we thought and continued that partner- so the balance is very good CSK bowlers on the other ship for another maybe four with the six bowlers. I don’t SHARJAH, OCTOBER 8: Strug- matches. For Rajasthan, time is run- ball duck at the top, Rajpoot went for that Kedar could play the hand stood up to stage a re- or five overs, the game think an extra batsman is gling to figure out their best eleven, ning out as they still have not been 42 in his three overs but young Tyagi spinner well and dominate, markable comeback in the while Jadeja was there to might have been a lot differ- going to help,” he added. back to bowl out KKR for will need to come up able to find their best playing XI. showed promise with his one for 36. ent. Kolkata hung in there Dinesh Karthik’s ploy to with some quick-fix measures to snap While the return of will The good news for RR is the return to come and finish. But in the 167. end, there was too much long enough to put pressure hold his ace spinner Sunil In his first game of the their three-match losing streak when give them hope but the England all- form of opener , who on us and we just couldn't Narine for the back-end of they take on a formidable Delhi Capi- rounder is currently in quarantine and scored a fine 44-ball 70 in their last work to do and we fell season, legspinner Karn short,” Fleming said at the accelerate. We feel disap- the innings paid dividends Sharma, who replaced tals unit in an IPL match here on Fri- will be available only after October 11. game. In bowling, and press-match conference. pointed that we let it slip,” as he dismissed his ‘bunny’ in the XI, day. The Royals were off to a flying The sudden loss of form of skipper Tom Curran have been left to do the Jadhav was trolled heavily Fleming said. Watson for the ninth time was the most economical of start, winning both their games at and -- who heavy lifting, while spinner Rahul on social media following The absence of Suresh in T20s. the lot and got CSK back Sharjah but they have struggled to ad- did bulk of the scoring in the first two Tewatia has not been to produce the the defeat. Raina, who pulled out of “Ideally, you have one or into the game with his fig- just to the bigger grounds of Dubai matches, is as much a reason for their breakthroughs consistently. The New Zealander rued IPL for personal reasons, two players bat ures of 2/25 from his full and Abu Dhabi, slipping to three suc- failure as the lack of runs from the In- Delhi, on the other hand, have been a that their batsmen let it was once again felt sorely in through...Today with quota. cessive defeats. dian batsmen in the team. well-oiled machine, boosting of a solid “slip” despite having so the middle but Fleming said (Sunil) Narine holding “He’s been waiting for a Now back to the Sharjah Cricket RR did try to rejig their line-up bowling unit which is well supported much resources. The team they had a well-balanced overs back, it made it very while for an opportunity. In Stadium, Rajasthan will take inspira- against Indians by including by the batsmen. added just 14 runs from 11- side. difficult in the back-end,” the first over he was a bit tion from their two big wins here to young batsman and While skipper Iyer has been in good 14 overs, a period when they “But the performances the former Kiwi skipper unlucky but the next three turn things around against a domi- pacer and form, opener and lost both Shane Watson and like today, with the experi- said. Fleming further said overs he really worked hard nant Delhi. Led by , Delhi in the playing XI but it didn’t change have done their job well. an in-form Ambati Rayudu. ence we have got, we should they had plenty of batting and he got us back into the have looked solid in all three depart- their fortunes. Marcus Stonis too have produced two “If we could have got one have put it away. We have resources and on the day game. I think he can get ments, winning four out of their five While Jaiswal was out for a second- smashing fifties so far. of those players to 75-plus got a lot of batsmen anyway their ploy did not work out. some confidence from this. Djokovic deals with arm issue to get over Busta No. 17 seed Pablo Carreño Busta 4-6 6-2 6-3 6- other. "I'm chasing something spectacular," said whopping 16 unforced errors — accounting for 4 to move closer to a second championship at Nadal is seeking a 13th title in Paris and 20th the 22-year-old from Greece. nearly half of Carreño Busta's 33 points. Roland Garros and 18th Grand Slam trophy. major championship overall, which would The first obvious sign of trouble for Djokovic At the changeover before the second set, This was a rematch from the US Open last equal Roger Federer's record for men. came when the 33-year-old from Serbia Djokovic was attended to by a trainer, who re- month, when Djokovic was defaulted for inad- Schwartzman never has played in a major stepped out into Court Philippe Chatrier with a turned for another massage three games later. vertently hitting a line judge in the throat with a semifinal. rather large square of beige athletic tape on the Maybe that did the trick, because from then ball he smacked in anger. That went into the In the women's semifinals on Thursday, it'll back of his neck, a patch that began to curl at on, Djokovic was a different player. books as a loss and remains the only blemish be No. 4 Sofia Kenin vs. No. 7 Petra Kvitova, the top and peel away late in the first set. He His drop shots functioned properly. He was at on Djokovic's 36-1 record in 2020. and 54th-ranked Iga Swiatek vs. 131st-ranked later removed it entirely. his customary best during lengthy baseline ex- Djokovic certainly seems to have moved past Nadia Podoroska, the first female qualifier to The next indication came on the match's very changes. He had twice as many winners as un- that episode, winning all 10 matches he's get this far at the French Open. first point, when Djokovic let his ball toss drop forced errors in the second set. He took nine of played since. Tsitsipas reached his first French Open semi- and abandoned the serve mid-motion. 11 games to make it a set apiece and 3-0 in the He hadn't even ceded a set at Roland Garros final with a 7-5 6-2 6-3 victory over 13th-seeded Between points, he manipulated his left arm. third. While he gave back that break, another this year until Wednesday, when he was trou- Andrey Rublev, taking control after trailing in At changeovers, he rubbed it. He hit himself in three-game run gave him the set. bled physically at the outset. Djokovic showed the first set with a run of five consecutive the crook of that arm and the lower part of his In the fourth, with the stadium's new re- up for the match with a bandage on the back of games, and 11 of 13. biceps, pounding repeatedly with the heel of tractable roof open, and a drizzle falling, his neck, then made clear from the get-go there At the US Open, Tsitsipas failed to convert a his right hand. He leaned back against the cor- Djokovic broke to 4-3, and Carreño Busta cov- was something wrong with his left arm. half-dozen match points in a third-round loss. ner of his sideline seat to push his left triceps ered his head with a towel at the changeover. He is right-handed, but the left side is impor- Then, against Rublev in the final of the clay- into it. Still, the 29-year-old Spaniard didn't pack it PARIS, OCTOBER 8: Novak Djokovic tant, too. He uses it for his two-fisted backhand court Hamburg Open on September 27, which Demonstrative as ever, he smacked himself in, earning chances to break back in the next overcame a bothersome left arm and an early and to throw the ball in the air on serves. What- also was Day 1 of the French Open, Tsitsipas on his thighs with his racket or hung his head or game. Djokovic fended those off and was a deficit to reach the French Open semifinals for ever impediment there was to his play, what- served for the victory and again could not close leaned over with hands on knees after missed game away from winning. the 10th time. ever the pain level might have been, the issue it out, absorbing another disheartening defeat. shots — and there were plenty of misses. The Don't think Djokovic was entirely at ease, The top-seeded Djokovic kept flexing and was, at the very least, a distraction. Two days after that, in Paris, Tsitsipas lost drop shots so successful for Djokovic all tourna- though, even once he was in the lead. He sud- stretching that arm and got off to a slow start Djokovic will meet No. 5 seed Stefanos Tsitsi- the initial two sets of his first-round match ment were off-target. Getting serves in was dif- denly would turn toward his guest box and bel- on Wednesday night before he received mas- pas in one of Friday's semifinals. No. 2 Rafael against 109th-ranked Jaume Munar. But he ficult. He was hesitant with groundstrokes. low — sometimes after negative developments, sages from a trainer, righted himself and beat Nadal faces No. 12 Diego Schwartzman in the hasn't lost a set since. In the opening set, Djokovic accumulated a sometimes after positive ones.