Top 10 Sports News: Like the Indian men’s cricket team, the women’s team is also ready to challenge on the tour of Australia. The women’s team will tour Australia for a 3-match ODI series, for which the squad has been announced. Shefali Verma has not been selected in the squad. Captain Harmanpreet is in charge of the Indian team. On the other hand, the Indian women’s hockey team defeated Japan 2-0 in the semi-final and entered the final of the Asian Champions Trophy.
Team India announced for Australia tour
The Indian cricket team is currently on a tour of Australia. The 5-match Test series between the two teams is going to start from November 22 in Perth. Fans are eagerly waiting for this match. Meanwhile, a big news has come out. Team India has been announced for the upcoming three-match ODI series against Australia. The BCCI Women’s Selection Committee has announced the 16-member Indian squad. The team will be captained by Harmanpreet Kaur while Smriti Mandhana will be seen in the role of vice-captain. Two wicketkeepers Yastika Bhatia and Richa Ghosh have been included in the team. The selectors once again did not give 20-year-old right-handed batsman Shefali Verma a chance. His recent ODI form has been disappointing.
Announcement of host team against Pakistan
Pakistan cricket recently toured Australia. On this tour, the Pakistan team created history by defeating the hosts Australia 2-1 in the ODI series. Pakistan managed to win a series on Australian soil for only the second time in its cricket history. However, apart from the ODI series, Pakistan suffered a clean sweep in the 3-match T20I series. Now the Pakistan team will travel to Zimbabwe where they will play a 3-match ODI series and the same T20I series. Hosts Zimbabwe have announced their squad for the series. The ODI series between Zimbabwe and Pakistan will start from November 24. Zimbabwe have announced their squad for the series. Zimbabwe have included 3 uncapped players in their squad for the first time – Trevor Gwandu, Tshinga Musekiwa and Tinotenda Maposa.
Rishabh Pant’s explanation has created a stir
The mega auction of IPL 2025 will be held this month i.e. on 24 and 25 November in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Many star players including Rishabh Pant will be watching in this mega auction. Recently, when all the teams announced their respective retention lists, Rishabh Pant’s name was not on the Delhi Capitals list. It became clear that Delhi had released Pant. Many people were surprised by this decision of Delhi Capitals. Delhi’s fans were also upset by this move and expressed their displeasure on social media. Now there has been a big revelation in this matter. Rishabh Pant said that he can definitely say that his maintenance is not about money.
Sri Lanka Team Announcement
The Sri Lankan team will tour South Africa for a 2-match Test series. Sri Lanka have announced their squad for this series. The first Test match between Sri Lanka and South Africa will be played in Durban from November 27. After this, the second Test match will start from December 5 at St. George’s Park. Left-arm spinner Lasith Ambuldeniya has been included in Sri Lanka’s squad for the two Test matches in South Africa. He last played a Test match two years ago. Off-spinner Nishan Peiris, who made his Test debut against New Zealand in September, has also been included.
The Champions Trophy will be decided soon
The Champions Trophy is scheduled to be held in Pakistan in February next year, but as of now, aside from the schedule, the venue of the tournament is also undecided. Although Pakistan has got the chance to host it, it is unlikely that the entire tournament will be held there. BCCI has refused to send its team to Pakistan due to security reasons. Now the PCB is badly stuck. It is believed that the Champions Trophy schedule can be announced on November 22, but the Pakistan Cricket Board has put a damper on this. Now it has been decided that the Indian team will not go to Pakistan, but the PCB is trying to somehow tell the ICC BCCI that the Indian team should come to Pakistan.
Shahid Aslam got a big responsibility
Jason Gillespie turned down an offer to coach Pakistan for all formats. The Pakistan Cricket Board then appointed national selector Aqib Javed as the interim limited-overs coach. Now the PCB has appointed Shahid Aslam as the batting coach of the national team after the Australia tour. Aslam has previously worked with the Pakistan team as an assistant coach, fielding coach and assistant manager for several years. He has been working as a coach at the High Performance Center in Lahore for the past two years. Before Shahid Aslam, former Test captain Mohammad Yousuf was working as the national team’s batting coach but was later made the national selector.
Indian hockey team’s entry into the finals
In the women’s Asian Champions Trophy, the Indian hockey team has entered the final after defeating Japan 2-0 in the semi-finals. Navneet Kaur and Lalremsiami scored goals for India and were instrumental in taking the team to the final. India will face China in the final. China beat Malaysia 3-1 in the semi-finals. In the match between India and Japan, no team could score a goal for the first three quarters.
8 players will play for the first time in Australia
Counting days are now left for the start of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy. The first match between the two teams will be played from November 22 at the Perth ground. But regular captain Rohit Sharma and young batsman Shubman Gill could not play in the first Test. Rohit has not been to Australia since the birth of his second child. While Gill is out of the first match due to injury. This adds to the crisis for Team India, as both these players have played in Australia before and were well aware of the conditions there. Another major concern of the team management is that the Indian Test team has 8 players who have never played a Test match against Australia before.
ICC reprimanded
The Indian team won the T20 series against South Africa 3-1 under the captaincy of Suryakumar Yadav. Sanju Samson, Tilak Verma and Varun Chakraborty have been brilliant for India in the T20 series. Team India was able to win the series only because of these players. Tilak scored a total of 280 runs in the series including two centuries and was awarded the player of the series. India won the fourth T20 match by 135 runs. In this match, South African fast bowler Gerald Coetzee protested the umpire’s decision. After which now ICC has taken action against him. Gerald Coetzee was reprimanded for protesting an umpire’s decision in a T20 international.
Virat Kohli will create history in Perth
Virat Kohli has scored 2042 runs in 44 innings of 24 matches against Australia at an average of 47.48. During this time he has scored 8 centuries and 5 half centuries. He is the 5th highest Test run scorer against Australia by an Indian batsman. If Virat Kohli succeeds in scoring a total of 102 runs in both innings during the first Test match played in Perth, he will break the record of two legendary Indian batsmen. With 33 runs in the first Test match, Kohli will overtake Cheteshwar Pujara for the highest Test runs against Australia. Pujara has 2074 runs in Tests against Australia. Not only that, after Pujara, Kohli will also have a big chance to surpass the legendary Rahul Dravid.
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