Gantavya Adukia

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featurecricket18 hours ago

IPL 2023 | Kolkata Knight Riders – A hollow sinking ship rotting from inside

Kolkata Knight Riders went from being the most astute side at auctions to struggling with their purse and making random big-budget buys in 2022. Now, with skipper Shreyas Iyer also unavailable, the franchise requires some unsung heroes to emerge to secure their sinking ship in the upcoming season.
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featurecricket1 month ago

Women’s Premier League Auction: The imperfect execution of a perfect opportunity

By investing their time and money in it, the WPL was a definite step taken by the BCCI in their promise to live up to the ICC's expectations of furthering women's cricket across the globe. However, while the auction delivered financially, the core cricketing aspect lacked to a large degree.
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featurecricket3 months ago

All those performances and hard work won’t go unrecognized, my time will come, vows Ankit Bawne

‘As a cricketer, you only play for the one dream,’ the Maharashtra veteran revealed while reflecting on a gruesome journey. Most settle for much lower ambitions, but as Ankit Bawne made clear in an exclusive interview, the batter simply loves challenges and he would not have it any other way.
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featurecricket4 months ago

Grading India’s Performances in knockout games at ICC tournaments since 2013

Now that India's focus shifts to the 2023 World Cup at home, it becomes imperative to look back at India's constant failures over the past decades in ICC tournaments and notice the significant downtick in their performance in every major knockout game.
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featurecricket4 months ago

The story of how the Invincibles became the Invisibles in T20 cricket 

I think it is difficult to play [T20 cricket] seriously - Ricky Ponting, 2005.
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featurecricket5 months ago

Kane Williamson: The anchor that is sinking the Kiwi ship

Reputation and resume can only compensate for ruts till a time before they are doomed to bring you to ruin. Kane Williamson is finding it harder and harder to justify his presence in the Kiwi T20I side and the time may have finally come to bring the relationship to an amicable close.
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featurecricket5 months ago

ICC World T20 | Who will qualify from Group 2 ft. India, South Africa, Pakistan

Australia has proven to be a brilliant host so far, apart from all the rain, with its pitches providing an equal contest between bat and ball. The underdogs have capitalized on this to provide a host of memorable upsets making the ongoing group stages one of the most thrilling in World T20 history.
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featurecricket5 months ago

Schrodinger’s Mohammed Shami: An amalgamation of contradictions

Little has been said about Mohammed Shami's inclusion in the World T20 squad as Jasprit Bumrah's replacement, despite the former's erroneous statistics in T20Is. What is it then, that is keeping his hopes on the international stage alive despite his T20I career seemingly being in the jaws of death?
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featurecricket5 months ago

Can India still rely on Jasprit Bumrah to be their spearhead?

Yes, we are going there, so buckle up.
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featurecricket6 months ago

Sri Lanka: Simply red-hot or genuine contenders for the World T20?

The Sri Lanka cricket team was cold for a long, long time, but all of a sudden they have awakened the beast within and put up perhaps the most spectacular hot streak of the summer, only behind England's Bazball shenanigans. There just seems to be one question now: do they dare to dream?
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