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Josh Hazlewood has been ruled out of the World Test Championship final against India starting on Wednesday, confirmed by Cricket Australia on Monday. The CA has included Michael Neser as a replacement for the right-arm quick, who missed the major part of IPL 2023 for RCB due to injury concerns.

Few sports have formats as diverse as cricket, giving rise to the concept of specialists for each of the three setups. However, while there generally exist white-ball specialists equally capable in both ODIs and T20Is, Suryakumar Yadav has shockingly emerged highly incapable in the longer format.

Mark Waugh praised Rohit Sharma on Thursday for his superb knock in the Nagpur Test of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy, saying the batter can take the game away from the opposition very quickly. He further added that Rohit attacked the spinners very well and it has been a classy innings from him.

Australian cricketing great Shane Warne passed away earlier this month due to a suspected heart attack and several players have paid tribute to legend of the game. His former team-mate Andrew Symonds shared a memory of the leg-spinner when he found a bag full of $100 notes in Warne’s cricket socks.