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Yuvraj Singh named skipper of India A against West Indies A

September 11, 2013

Yuvraj_SinghVisakhapatnam, Sep 11: The national selectors, who were in full attendance at the Dr YS Rajasekhara Reddy ACA-VDCA Stadium on Tuesday, handed a lifeline of sorts to out-of-favour stars Virender Sehwag, Yuvraj Singh, Gautam Gambhir and Zaheer Khan.

Yuvraj, who has not been a part of the Indian team since the ODIs against England earlier this year, was named the skipper of the India 'A' side for the unofficial three one-dayers and a Twenty20 game against the visiting West Indies 'A' to be played in Bangalore from September 15. Yuvraj had a mediocre IPL and was not part of the team for Champions Trophy and the subsequent one-day series in West Indies and Zimbabwe,

This clearly means that the southpaw continues to remain on the selectors' radar for the 2015 World Cup. The one-dayers will be played on September 15, 17 and 19, while the T20 will be played on September 21.

Yuvraj and Zaheer had employed trainer Tim Exeter and went through a gruelling six-week-long training stint in France to attain peak levels of fitness.

India 'A' squads: For 3 one-dayers and one-off Twenty20: Yuvraj Singh (capt), Unmukt Chand, Robin Uthappa, Baba Aparajith, Kedhar Jadhav, Naman Ojha (wk), Yusuf Pathan, Irfan Pathan, Jaydev Unadkat, Praveen Kumar, Sumit Narwal, Shahbaz Nadeem, Mandeep Singh, Rahul Sharma.

For first four-day game : Cheteshwar Pujara (capt), Jiwanjot Singh, KL Rahul, Manprit Juneja, Parveez Rasool, Bhargav Bhatt, Ishwar Pandey, Mohammad Shami, Ashok Dinda, Dhawal Kulkarni, Paras Dogra, Rohit Motwani (wk), Rajat Paliwal, Harshad Khadiwale.

For second and third four-day game: Cheteshwar Pujara (capt), Gautam Gambhir, Virender Sehwag, Sheldon Jackson, Abhishek Nayar, Paras Dogra, Uday Kaul (wk), Mohammad Kaif, Parvez Rasool, Bhargav Bhatt, Dhawal Kulkarni, Zaheer Khan, Ishwar Pandey, Mohammad Shami.

Squads for Challenger Series for NKP Salve Trophy:

India Red : Irfan Pathan (capt), Robin Uthappa, Abhinav Mukund, Saurabh Tiwary, Gurkeerat Mann, Kedar Jadhav, Smit Patel (wk), Yusuf Pathan, Shahbaz Nadeem, Abhimanyu Mithun, Umesh Yadav, Suraj Yadav.

India Blue : Yuvraj Singh (capt), Akshath Reddy, Naman Ojha (wk), Mandeep Singh, Ankit Bawne, Abhishek Nayar, Manish Pandey, Piyush Chawla, Ankit Rajpoot, R Vinay Kumar, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Iresh Saxena.

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August 2,2020

New Delhi, Aug 2: BCCI president Sourav Ganguly on Sunday said the Women's IPL or the Challenger series, as it is better known, is "very much on", ending speculation about the parent body not having a plan for Harmanpreet Kaur and her team.

The men's IPL will be held between September 19 and November 8 or 10 (final date yet to be locked in) in the UAE due to the surge in Covid-19 cases in India. The women's IPL will also be fit in to the schedule, according to the BCCI chief.

"I can confirm to you that the women's IPL is very much on and we do have a plan in place for the national team also," Ganguly told PTI ahead of the IPL Governing Council meeting later on Sunday.

The BCCI president, who is awaiting a Supreme Court verdict on waiver of the cooling-off period to continue in the position, did not divulge details but another senior official privy to the development said that women's Challenger will be held during the last phase of IPL like last year.

"The women's Challenger series is likely to be held between November 1-10 and there could be a camp before that," the source said.

The former India captain also said that the centrally contracted women players will have a camp which has been delayed due to the prevailing situation in the country.

"We couldn't have exposed any of our cricketers -- be it male or female to health risk. It would have been dangerous," Ganguly said.

"The NCA also remained shut because of Covid-19. But we have a plan in place and we will have a camp for women, I can tell you that," he added.

The BCCI's cricket operations team is chalking up a schedule where Indian women are likely to have two full-fledged white-ball series against South Africa and the West Indies before playing the ODI World Cup in New Zealand. 

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News Network
January 29,2020

Hamilton, Jan 29: India defeated New Zealand in the third T20 International via Super Over to take an unassailable 3-0 lead in the five-match series here on Wednesday.

India posted a competitive 179 for five at Seddon Park after being sent into bat. Opener Rohit Sharma top scored for India with a 65-run knock while skipper Virat Kohli contributed 38 runs in team's total.

Later, skipper Kane Williamson smashed a 48-ball 95 but New Zealand faltered in the final over to take the match into the Super Over.

Needing nine runs of the last over, New Zealand lost Williamson and Ross Taylor to finish at 179 for six and tie the match.

In the Super Over, New Zealand scored 17, a target which India overwhelmed in the final ball with Rohit smashing Tim Southee for two consecutive sixes.

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April 5,2020

New Delhi, April 5: England batsman James Vince lashed out at people for not taking proper measures to contain the spread of the coronavirus pandemic and said people are going out as if "everything is normal".

"Just seen the pictures of people out and about today as if everything is normal. What selfish people, surely by now they've realised this is serious. Well done to everyone who's doing their bit and staying in," Vince tweeted.

On March 13, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said that Europe was now the 'epicentre' of the disease.

The death toll due to the novel coronavirus in the UK has exceeded 4,313 with at least 708 new deaths in the last 24 hours, the largest one-day rise since the start of the outbreak as confirmed by the Department of Health and Social Care.

The total number of cases in the UK as on Saturday is 41,903, a rise of 3,735 cases in the last 24 hours.

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