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 The Indian cricket team’s preparations have been boosted by the addition of four net bowlers to the squad for the upcoming Test series against Australia. Unsurprisingly, all four are spin bowlers. Saurabh Kumar (29), a left-arm spinner from Uttar Pradesh, Rahul Chahar (23), a leg-spinner from Rajasthan, and R Sai Kishore (26), a left-arm spinner representing Tamil Nadu in domestic cricket and Gujarat Titans in the IPL, have been selected to join the squad. Washington Sundar, a regular in India’s white-ball teams and who last played a Test match against England in March 2021, has also been included in…

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 Indian cricketer Joginder Sharma, who was part of the team that defeated Pakistan by five runs to win the first T20 World Cup in South Africa in 2007, announced his retirement from all forms of cricket on Friday. In the final match in Johannesburg, Sharma was entrusted with the responsibility of defending a target of 13 runs in the last over, with Pakistan’s final pair of Misbah-ul-Haq and Mohammad Asif on the field. Despite the pressure, Sharma managed to hold his nerve as Misbah attempted a scoop shot, only to mis time it and have S. Sreesanth make a…

— Souvik Naha Atul Mukherji, the editor of the Khelar Asar, was a first division cricketer when West Indies came to play a Test series in 1948–49. Equipped with 20 rupees given by his maternal aunt, he went to CAB Secretary Amarendranath Ghosh’s (A. N. Ghosh) house at Mango Lane in central Calcutta where Ghosh personally sold tickets. The ticket covered both the Test and the match against the Governor’s XI. Mukherji bought one. He was told before leaving, ‘come back should you need more tickets’.58 Twenty years later, during the India–Australia Test match in 1969, around 20,000 people queued…

 Abid Mushtaq, left-arm spinning sensation from Jammu & Kashmir has been called as a net bowler for the Australian Team for Test Series against India. RevSportz consultant Mohsin Kamal has more details in this video.

–Vidushpat Singhania & Kartikeya Prasad New age technological inventions like virtual reality, Facebook’s Metaverse, blockchain, Non-Fungible Tokens and online games are now widely consumed and are known in common parlance. Game developers are using these technologies to give gamers a more enhanced playing experience. The gaming industry of India has experienced an exponential growth and is expected to reach a gross turnover of $8.6 billion by the year 2027. The rise of the gaming industry comes with its regulatory challenges, with privacy being a key issue. Personal data like a user’s name, email address, debit/credit card details, phone numbers, etc.…

 Former Australian great Jeff Thomson feel Pat Cummins and co need to be patient bowling at Virat Kohli ahead of the much-anticipated test series between India and Australia starting at Nagpur from February 9. The legendary pacer in an exclusive interaction with Boria Majumdar on Backstage with Boria Season 4 speaks about Virat Kohli, Jasprit Bumrah and Indian bowlers, his rivalry with Sir Viv Richards, why Sunil Gavaskar was a difficult batsman to bowl and more. #JeffThomson #ViratKohli #BackstagewithBoria

 The Indian team has reached Nagpur for the Border-Gavaskar Trophy against Australia, to begin from February 9. Team India has arrived in Nagpur but the likes of Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli will join the squad later.

— Boria Majumdar India Australia is round the corner and the focus will yet again be on Virat Kohli and Steve Smith. How do you bowl to batters of this calibre? How do you keep them quiet? Why is it that India continues to miss Jasprit Bumrah? Why is he getting injured far too often? Jeff Thomson, one of the best ever, answers these questions in this episode of Backstage With Boria.   Boria Majumdar: If Jeff Thomson was asked to bowl to Virat Kohli today, how do you get him out as he has got back to form and…