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Sports Top 10: A three-match Test series will be played between India and New Zealand from October 16, for which the team has been announced by New Zealand Cricket. While Tom Latham will take over the responsibility of captaining this team, Kane Williamson will not take part in the first match of the series to be played in Bengaluru. Mark Chapman has become a part of the New Zealand Test team for the first time. On the second day of the ongoing Test match against Pakistan in Multan, England’s legendary player Joe Root managed to do a great feat in which he became the first player to complete the figure of 5000 runs in the history of the World Test Championship.
New Zealand announced its test team for India tour
The first match of the three-match Test series between India and New Zealand will be played at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru from October 16. The Kiwi team has been announced for the tour of India, in which Tom Latham will captain the New Zealand Test team after Tim Southee stepped down from the captaincy. Apart from this, Mark Chapman has been included in the team, who has become a part of the Test team squad for the first time, while Michael Bracewell will be available for selection only in the first match and leg spinner Ish Sodhi will be in the team for the second and third Test matches. Will be a part. While the Kiwi team will play the first match of this series in Bengaluru, the second and third matches will be played in Pune and Mumbai.
Tom Latham (captain), Tom Blundell (wicketkeeper), Michael Bracewell (1st Test), Mark Chapman, Devon Conway, Matt Henry, Darrell Mitchell, Will O’Rourke, Ajaz Patel, Glenn Phillips, Rachin Ravindra, Michael Santner, Ben Sears, Ish Sodhi (2nd and 3rd Test), Tim Southee, Kane Williamson, Will Young.
Kane Williamson will be out of the first test match
Before coming to India tour, New Zealand team has suffered a big blow in the form of Kane Williamson, who will be out of the first Test match to be played in Bengaluru due to groin injury. Announcing the team for this tour, New Zealand selector Sam Wells said that according to the advice we have received, the most important thing for Kane right now is rest so that his injury can heal completely. We cannot take any risk with them. If everything goes well then Kane may be available for selection in the remaining matches of this tour.
Joe Root completed his 5000 runs in the World Test Championship
Since the World Test Championship started in 2019, Joe Root has scored the maximum runs till now. He has gone far ahead of the other batsmen. Now he has also completed the figure of 5000 runs in WTC. Joe Root has so far scored 5000 plus runs in 107 innings of 59 matches in the World Test Championship. Here his average is 51.46 and he is scoring runs at a strike rate of 59.11. So far, he has managed to score 16 centuries and 20 half-centuries in the World Test Championship.
Salman Ali Aga equals Imran Khan and Wasim Akram
In the Multan Test match against England, Pakistani team’s all-rounder Salman Ali Aga did wonders with the bat and scored an unbeaten century. Salman returned unbeaten after scoring 104 runs. Facing 119 balls, he played this century with the help of 10 fours and 3 sixes and has joined the club of greats. In fact, with the completion of the century, Salman Ali Aga equaled the great captains of Pakistan Imran Khan and Wasim Akram. Salman scored the third century of his Test career while batting at number 7 or below. In this way he reached at par with Imran Khan and Wasim Akram.
Joe Root completed 1000 runs in test in the year 2024
Joe Root has scored more than 1000 runs in Test cricket in the year 2024. This is not the first time that Root has done this. Before this they have managed to do this four more times. Now he has been included in the list of players who have scored more than 1000 Test runs in a year five times. However, India’s Sachin Tendulkar is the only batsman who has scored more than a thousand runs in Test cricket 6 times in a year. Apart from Joe Root, the batsmen who have scored more than a thousand runs in Tests five times in a year include Brian Lara, Matthew Hayden, Jacques Kallis, Ricky Ponting, Kumar Sangakkara and Alastair Cook.
Indian team will play two intra squad matches before Border-Gavaskar Trophy
The Indian cricket team will tour Australia at the end of the year where a 5-Test series will be played under the Border-Gavaskar Series. Meanwhile, big news has come out from Team India regarding this important tour. The Border-Gavaskar series between India and Australia will start from November 22 in Perth. Considering the preparation for this series, Team India will leave for Australia at least two weeks in advance. Not only this, Team India will also play one or two intra squad practice matches against the players of its ‘A’ team.
Mahmudullah announced retirement from T20 International
Big news is coming out between the 3-match T20I series between India and Bangladesh. The second match of this series will now be played on October 9 at the Arun Jaitley Stadium in Delhi. Before this match, Mahmudullah, an experienced player of Bangladesh team, has surprised everyone by announcing his retirement. 38-year-old Mahmudullah made his debut in T20I cricket in 2007 against Kenya. He has been playing 20 over cricket for Bangladesh for the last 17 years. Mahmudullah said that yes he is retiring from T20 after the last match of the series. This was already decided. He said that he feels that this is the right time to bid farewell to this format and focus on ODI cricket.
Megan Schutt broke the world record
Australian women’s team’s fast bowler Megan Schutt broke a big world record by taking three wickets in the group match against New Zealand in the Women’s T20 World Cup being played in UAE. Shute has now become the highest wicket taker in the history of Women’s T20 World Cup. He destroyed the record of 43 wickets of South African veteran bowler Shabnam Ismail. Shute has so far taken 44 wickets in the history of the Women’s T20 World Cup.
Smriti Mandhana gave a big update regarding Harmanpreet Kaur
Indian women’s team captain Harmanpreet Kaur has become fully fit before the upcoming match against Sri Lanka in the T20 World Cup being played in UAE. This information was given by Indian vice-captain Smriti Mandhana in which she said that Harmanpreet Kaur is completely fine and will play tomorrow’s match. At the same time, no information has been revealed yet regarding the fitness of all-rounder player Pooja Vastrakar who did not play against Pakistan.
Second T20 match will be played between India and Bangladesh in Delhi today
The Indian team, under the captaincy of Suryakumar Yadav, started the three-match T20 series against Bangladesh in a very good manner and won the first match played at Gwalior by one-sided 7 wickets. Now the second match of the series between the two teams will be played on October 9 at the Arun Jaitley Stadium in Delhi, in which Team India will try to take an unassailable lead in the series by winning the match, while Bangladesh will want to level the series by winning. So far, 3 T20 International matches have been played in this stadium, out of which only 4 times the team batting first has managed to win, while 9 times the team batting later has won.
