'Superman' Kohli doesn't want the headlines..SA vs IND Cricket Match

Virat Kohli hammered his 35th ODI ton at Centurion , and the third of the series in the 6th game 

A web image had turned out to be very prominent via web-based networking media among South Africans in the beginning times of the ODI series. It associated Virat Kohli and the now recent South African president Jacob Zuma. There were distinctive variations regarding the designs utilized however they all finished with the same punchline: "South Africa can't reject either."

As it turned out, South Africa really had Zuma evacuated on February 14 and after two days, Kohli strolled off from SuperSport Park with an unbeaten century - his 35th in ODIs - with a 5-1 series win and a couple more trophies for his mantelpiece.

Kohli's 129 in the series finale gave him a hardly convincing series count of 558 keeps running at a modest normal of 186, the most elevated total in a respective series. Before the finish of the innings, in which he'd struck 19 fours and showboated two sixes toward the end, pockets had been turned out, drawers rifled through. Be that as it may, crisp superlatives to depict his ODI batting virtuoso stayed in serious short supply. Ravi Shastri said in the event that it were dependent upon him, he would visit a book shop and get the Oxford lexicon to cumbersome chuckling.

No endeavors at funniness, senseless or something else, will do equity to the level of batting Kohli scaled on this visit. Actually, since his twofold disappointment in the Cape Town Test vanquish toward the beginning of the visit, he hit an imperious 153 at this very setting and after that continued to play two diamonds worth 54 and 41 on an angry Wanderers track. At that point came the ODIs, the Indian captain moved toward his batting in a semi-reflective state, picking to hone in the nets just twice - before the primary ODI in Durban and afterward before Cape Town - at the main scene he flopped in the Tests. That regardless he trotted his way to a record count was a demonstration of his psychological quality and forces of perception as much as it was to his being in a profound shade of purple fix.

"I clearly didn't have much time to plan since I was accomplishing something critical, I was getting hitched. So three weeks I was absolutely far from the game, however at the back of my brain there was dependably this inspiration that I simply need to be in South Africa. It's grasping being in a troublesome circumstance and that is all we talk about in the change room too," Kohli said in a generally terse public interview after the series win.

"At the point when things are unfriendly and when thing are not going your direction, you need to go out there in the center as opposed to getting additional rest in the room. It is a little difference in thought however that has an enormous effect since when you go out there, you either need to respond to the call or you don't and that can just originate from here.

"The energy of the brain is substantially more prominent than rehearsing hours in the nets. You may rehearse for two months yet in the event that you are not game prepared before the game you will resemble a trick. I rather center here a ton since I comprehend that we play so much cricket that you don't really need to go into the nets for quite a long time and hours consistently however you would rather tune your head and things can occur on the field which even you don't expect in light of the fact that you simply need to be in the fight and convey for your group. No matter what, in any circumstance, you simply need to be out there and enable the group to win games. That is dependably been my outlook and that is in reality even my quality also," he included.

A more mind boggling aspect regarding Kohli batting in an ODI is the means by which once in a while he disillusions. Batting on 62 in Centurion, minutes subsequent to creaming a drive off Andile Phehlukwayo through additional cover, Kohli played a low-rate slice shot to a ball that ricocheted increasingly and wasn't exactly there for the cut. He was beaten. He gave a grin, strolled towards the square-leg umpire, mumbling ceaselessly to himself having played so freely. When he played Phehlukwayo in the following over, he exchanged the wild cut for timing and grabbed two more limits with negligible whine. It is the sheer idiocy of his ability that the easier ideals of routine and fundamentals aren't discussed.

In this series, the Indian captain has included a dash of red - a wrist band, an inward shirt - to his blue restricted overs gathering. That combined with every one of the runs he scored may have added to the 'Superman' examinations that a portion of the bulletins at SuperSport Park appeared to call him. Shastri was stubborn as can be that his captain was the best batsman on the planet. "I've seen him batting over all conditions, in all organizations. What's more, it's not simply midpoints, it's the way you get runs, when you get it, and the effect those runs have on what the group does. I would just say he's the best batsman on the planet now," Shastri proclaimed.

In any case, Kohli, who is more Clark Kent than Superman in public interviews, stayed unwilling to get tied up with labels. Strangely enough, in spite of a stellar show on an individual and an aggregate front, he appeared focused on returning to wounds from the Centurion past where India dropped the Test series a month back. At that point the thrashing had harmed and the reportage obviously enraged and today appeared a decent day to settle a few scores.

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Series win against South Africa doesn't happen every day - #RAVI_Shastri

India won the six-match series 5-1 

India head coach Ravi Shastri lauded his side's ability to bounce back from a bruising Test series loss to overwhelm their hosts South Africa 5-1 in the six-match ODI series. The tourists dropped their nine-series winning streak at Centurion in January but hit back immediately with a consolation Test victory in Johannesburg. That win then spurred the side to an unprecedented series victory in the rainbow nation, and in the process took India to the top of the 50-over ranking charts.

A 'proud' Shastri offered the full credit to Virat Kohli for the turnaorund. "You spoke of intensity, where does the intensity come from?," Shastri said, beginning his press conference with a mandatory rhetoric. "When you have a leader like that who leads by example, the other guys jolly well follow. Otherwise they know what to expect.

"That's the beauty about this team on this trip where I feel proud as a coach about my boys is the intensity they showed. Even after being two-zip down in the Test series, for them to show that kind of character to come back and win that Test match in Johannesburg on a spiteful pitch. And to then take that momentum into the one-day series and show the consistency they've shown over the last two weeks is fabulous. Entire credit should go to the leader. Because he's led from the front, first with his batting and then as I said with his intensity, which makes other people in the team also up the ante."

The cornerstone of India's maiden bilateral ODI series win was the smashing success of India's wrist spin twins, Kuldeep Yadav (17 wickets at 13.88) and Yuzvendra Chahal (16 wickets at 16.38), who between them took 33 South African wickets. This performance, to the team management, was the ultimate shot in the arm since they decided to put all their eggs in the wrist spin basket post Ashwin and Jadeja's relative ineffectiveness in the Champions Trophy 2017. The middle overs, where R Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja had struggled to provide breakthroughs, had been a topic of discussion in Shastri's previous term as team director.

"I think even in my last stint, Virat and me have always discussed that we need wickets in the middle overs," Shastri said. "You know we've got to somehow be able to attack and find ways of breaking partnerships and not allowing the game to drift. So that was the idea. And then identifying the right kind of people to do the job. Luckily for us, Kuldeep and Chahal have complemented each other beautifully. They bring great variety - it's great for the viewer, it's great for the spectator to see that kind of variety when they come to watch a cricket match. Not just batting or fielding, but some classic spin bowling."

Shastri resonated Kohli's stance that the depleted South Africa, who at one point had Faf du Plessis, AB de Villiers and Quinton de Kock missing simultaneously, would not in any way take the sheen of what has been a thumping victory. "We have learnt some good habits on this trip. Like I have said this is a young side, they have got a lot of tough tours coming up and I think they have conducted themselves and handled themselves extremely well on this tour," Shastri said.

"One thing history tells me, I have been coming here since 1992, there is not one South African side in the world that anyone can say is a weak side. You just look at their bilateral record and they are one of the great sides in bilateral cricket. I have followed this game for a long time. I have been a broadcaster as well and covered a lot of South Africa games and I know how they play. So I would like my boys to enjoy every bit of this series win. Whatever the scoreline is they must enjoy because it doesn't happen every day."

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Record-breaking Kohli stars in easy win........(Fact Cricket News)

Kohli scored his 35th ODI ton and recorded the most keeps running by a batsman in a reciprocal series

An objective of 205 against an in-shape Indian best request was never going to be sufficient. Particularly with the captain being in an intensely hot dream streak, it was an aggregate that was tipped to be a stroll in the recreation center in India's mission to secure the series 5-1. What's more, it worked out precisely the way it was anticipated to be. Virat Kohli was the central modeler again with another hundred landing in a fruitful run pursue. All the while, he approached breaking a couple of records too.

The pursuit started in style with Rohit Sharma splitting two or three delightful cuts off Morne Morkel. Yet, the additional skip created by Lungi Ngidi at the opposite end prompted his destruction as he gloved one to the guardian while endeavoring a draw. South Africa plainly had a ploy to bowl short to the Indian captain and they nearly pulled it off by utilizing a leg slip, who was near sending Kohli back to the changing area right off the bat in his innings. They tried too hard as Kohli turned out to be progressively serious on the draw getting limits voluntarily to race to 28 off 20 toward the finish of the powerplay.

He at that point went past Kevin Pietersen's count to score the most keeps running in a two-sided series in South Africa before breaking Rohit's count for most keeps running by a batsman in any two-sided ODI series. Sandwiched between the two was a manageable rejection for Shikhar Dhawan and a couple of more limits off Kohli's sharp edge. With a great deal of talk encompassing India's center request, Ajinkya Rahane exited to the center with a simple focus before him. With Kohli going all weapons blasting, Rahane's assignment wound up less complex. Kohli at that point played one of the lovely shots of the series through the spreads to go past 500 keeps running in the series. No man in the historical backdrop of the arrangement had done that before in a respective series.

With Imran Tahir likewise neglecting to make a leap forward, the outcome was an inescapable result by the midway stamp. The Indian captain at that point pounded the leggie down the ground to raise his 35th ODI ton was then in a temperament to complete things off rapidly. Tahir endured the worst part as the veteran got hammered for two or three sixes and afterward another straight past him that put South Africa out of their hopelessness.

Prior in the day, India had rolled out just a single improvement to their XI in the dead elastic, acquiring Shardul Thakur for Bhuvneshwar Kumar. Though South Africa on the opposite side, rolled out discount improvements as four players were supplanted from the past game including experienced center request batsmen JP Duminy and David Miller. Shardul had a moment effect in spite of getting hit for limits at an opportune time as the seamer disposed of both Hashim Amla and Aiden Markram. While Amla gloved a rising conveyance down the leg side to the wicketkeeper, Markram neglected to get the required rise as Shreyas Iyer at additional cover took an all around judged get.

Khaya Zondo, who had looked better than average against the wrist spinners prior in the series, by and by looked guaranteed against both Kuldeep Yadav and Yuzvendra Chahal. He drove South Africa's recovery close by AB de Villiers, who had come in at number three however exactly when the hosts had seemed to assemble some force, India connected the brakes. Chahal let one sneak past de Villiers' safeguard to palace him and any semblance of Heinrich Klaasen, Farhaan Behardien and Chris Morris stuck to this same pattern, leaving Zondo pursuing a solitary fight.

Zondo figured out how to grab his lady 50 years however exactly when South Africa required him to bat in the last ten overs, Chahal lured him into playing a false stroke. Andile Phehlukwayo and Morkel did some harm however even 100 more keeps running on this surface against a rampaging Kohli wouldn't have been sufficient.

Brief scores: South Africa 204 out of 46.5 overs (Khaya Zondo 54, Andile Phehlukwayo 34; Shardul Thakur 4-52, Jasprit Bumrah 2-24) lost to India 206/2 out of 32.1 overs (Virat Kohli 129*, Ajinkya Rahane 34*; Lungi Ngidi 2-54) by 8 wickets

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Gunaratne ruled out of Bangladesh T20Is..(Fact Cricket match between BD vs SL)

Asela Gunaratne managed damage to his correct arm 

Asela Gunaratne managed damage to his correct arm © Getty

Asela Gunaratne, the Sri Lanka every single rounder, ha been discounted of the two Twenty20 Internationals against Bangladesh because of damage to his correct arm. The 32-year-old managed the damage "while plunging amid one of the handling drills and getting his arm captured in an unbalanced position," expressed a SLC media discharge on Thursday (February 15), which added that Gunaratne will come back to Colombo where he will experience a X-ray examine before beginning his recovery.

Gunaratne's damage is the most recent blow for Sri Lanka who will likewise miss the administrations of Kusal Perera as the batsman endured a side strain amid the tri-country series. While the Sri Lanka selectors named Kusal Mendis as the substitution for Perera, they won't name any for Gunaratne. The vacationers are additionally without restricted overs captain Angelo Mathews who was compelled to return home right on time because of hamstring damage.

A year ago, Gunaratne had cracked his left thumb amid the Test series against India and needed to experience a reconstructive surgery which kept him out of activity for near five months.

The principal T20I amongst Bangladesh and Sri Lanka gets in progress at the Shere Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur, Dhaka on February 15. The second and last match of the series will be played at the Sylhet Worldwide Cricket Stadium on February 18.

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Record-breaking Kuldeep, Chahal conquer South Africa soil (info,cric)

30 wickets between the spinners is the most for India in a two-sided series. 

India finished yet another clinical execution by winning the fifth ODI in Port Elizabeth by 73 runs and in the process asserting their first reciprocal series win in South Africa, with one game still to go. The guests were put into bat by Aiden Markram and made a solid begin scoring 150 for the loss of one wicket at the halfway stamp. Rohit Sharma, who scored just 40 keeps running in the initial four ODIs, struck frame scoring his seventeenth ODI century (115) to place India in the driver's seat. India couldn't complete with a twist as they oversaw just 103 keeps running in the last 20 overs in the wake of being 171 for 2 after 30 overs. The South African pursue was a natural story as they fallen to wrist spinners once more, who took six for 100 in the 19.2 overs between them. Kuldeep Yadav (4/57) and Yuzvendra Chahal (2/43) got among the wickets once more.

Details features from the fifth ODI

1 This is the primary series win for India in South Africa in five reciprocal series they have played up until now. They already lost 2-5 of every 1992, 0-4 of every 2006, 2-3 of every 2011 and 0-2 out of 2013. This was South Africa's first misfortune at home in nine series since losing 1-2 to Pakistan in 2013 which unexpectedly was the first run through an Asian side won a series in South Africa.

9 Reciprocal series wins in succession for India, the arrangement beginning from June 2016 when they won 3-0 in Zimbabwe. Just a single group had more two-sided series wins in progression than the continuous keep running by India - 14 for Windies between November 1980 and Walk 1988.

India's keep running of continuous reciprocal series wins

Against Host ODIs Wins Losses NR Captain

Zim Zim 3 3 0 0 MS Dhoni

NZ Ind 5 3 2 0 MS Dhoni

Eng Ind 3 2 1 0 Virat Kohli

WI WI 5 3 1 1 Virat Kohli

SL SL 5 5 0 0 Virat Kohli

Aus Ind 5 4 1 0 Virat Kohli

NZ Ind 3 2 1 0 Virat Kohli

SL Ind 3 2 1 0 Rohit Sharma

SA SA 5* 4 1 0 Virat Kohli

16 wickets taken by Kuldeep is the most ever by a spinner in any series in South Africa outperforming 14 scalps by Muttiah Muralitharan in the tri-series including the home side and Pakistan in 1998. Chahal's series count additionally remains at 14 wickets with a match to go.

30 wickets taken by the couple of Kuldeep and Chahal is the most by India's spinners in a respective series. The past most was 27 in the six-match series against Britain at home in 2006. The main other time India's spinners took more wickets in an away apparatus was On the planet Measure of 2011 where they amassed 34 scalps. They had 30 wickets in the 2003 release in South Africa also.

Most wickets for India's spinners in a reciprocal series

Against Host Year ODIs Wkts Avg SR ER Most wkts

SA SA 2018 5* 30 14.63 17.8 4.92 Kuldeep (16)

Eng Ind 2006 6 27 23.66 33.9 4.18 Harbhajan (12)

NZ Ind 2016 5 26 18.53 25.3 4.38 Amit Mishra (15)

WI Ind 1987/88 7 24 35.75 48.0 4.46 Ravi Shastri (9)

SA Ind 2000 5 24 33.54 40.7 4.93 Sunil Joshi (8)

NZ Ind 2010 5 24 23.33 27.5 5.09 R Ashwin (11)

Zim Zim 2013 5 24 16.70 25.6 3.91 Amit Mishra (18)

115 by Rohit is his most noteworthy score in 13 ODIs in South Africa. In the 12 past ODIs there, he had totaled just 126 keeps running at 11.45 with a most astounding score of 23. It was likewise the most astounding individual score for India in six ODIs in Port Elizabeth going past Virat Kohli's unbeaten 87 out of 2011.

13 Hundred associations amongst Rohit and Kohli in 62 stands together - the joint-second most for an Indian match close by Sachin Tendulkar and Virender Sehwag in 114 stands. Just the combine of Tendulkar and Sourav Ganguly are in front of the match with 26 century associations in 176 stands, a world record by any combine in ODI cricket.

7 Cases of Rohit and Kohli getting engaged with a run out - the last getting expelled on five of those events including today. Just Tendulkar - Ganguly combine has been associated with more run-out expulsions - nine - while Ganguly and Rahul Dravid have likewise been engaged with seven.

48 Opening wicket associations amongst Rohit and Shikhar Dhawan - the most noteworthy for India in 19 ODIs in South Africa since their last 50 or more first-wicket remain there which came in the elimination rounds of the World Container in 2003 when Tendulkar and Sehwag set up together 74 against Kenya.

13 Innings since Hashim Amla last scored a fifty against India in ODIs before scoring 71 today. His last such score against India was 100 in Durban in 2013 after which his numbers against India read 619 keeps running in 11 innings with two hundreds and five fifties.

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Rohit Sharma scored his seventeenth ODI ton to save this match..

Rohit Sharma scored his seventeenth ODI ton to help India to a match-winning aggregate in the fifth ODI. 


India enrolled their lady respective series win in South Africa with a 73-run triumph in Port Elizabeth on Tuesday (February 13). Set up by Rohit Sharma's seventeenth ODI ton prior, India's bowlers figured out how to hold South Africa within proper limits with Kuldeep Yadav completing with a four-wicket pull.

Pursuing 274 on a pitch that was step by step backing off, South Africa were kept in the game to a great extent by Hashim Amla's 71 however none of the other batsmen figured out how to give him bolster for enough time to mount a battle in the match.

Hardik Pandya ended up being an impossible star with the ball for India, picking the wickets of JP Duminy and Abdominal muscle de Villiers one after another after Jasprit Bumrah got the opening achievement. From that point, it was just Amla who remained amongst India and triumph. The opener combat on, attempting to join together associations with David Mill operator (36) and Henrich Klaasen (39). In any case, his run out in the 35th over, by Pandya ended up being a blow that South Africa couldn't recoup from.

Also, in spite of, Klaasen's late attack, India figured out how to wrap the innings no sweat and enrolled their ninth back to back two-sided series win in ODIs.

Having a major impact in the win was Rohit Sharma who was the most recent in India's batting triumvirate at the best to be among the runs, as he forgot about an aloof keep running of scores in this ODI series to get 115. Be that as it may, Sharma's seventeenth ODI ton was sufficient just to get India towards a major aggregate. India's very well-known issue of wavering toward the complete sprung up yet again, with Lungi Ngidi getting three wickets in the last overs, including that of Rohit, to limit India to only 274 for 7.

On a pitch that was required to back off, India began off in a rush, apparently in an offer to take toll of the hard new ball. Put in to bat, it was Shikhar Dhawan who set the tone for India. His blustery 23-ball 34 facilitated a ton of weight on Rohit, who favored not to take first light up in this portable fire stick. Yet, as the last excessively got his eye in, he denoted his arrival to shape with a shocking six off Kagiso Rabada in the 6th over. Rabada had been Rohit's enemy in-boss all through this series, selecting three times from four, however with that little mental fight won, Rohit had returned to his usual range of familiarity. India's openers dashed towards a fifty-run stand however only two runs shy of the stamp, Dhawan tumbled to Rabada's short ball trap, pulling straight to profound in reverse square leg.

In any case, that wicket did little to dissuade Rohit, who was currently joined by the other man in frame - Virat Kohli. The team shared an enduring 105-run remain for the second wicket with no endeavors to be ostentatious. That association however could have finished somewhat before, had Kohli been decreed out befuddled on 29. In any case, a near disaster was chosen in the batsman's support by Aleem Dar, yet Kohli's fortunes ran out soon. The couple, who had batted so well until at that point, was engaged with their seventh occasion of a run out as a couple, with Kohli being gotten well short to end his stay on 36. Rohit went ahead to walk out on the following man in, Ajinkya Rahane, too who was run out for 8. What's more, it could have all turned far more terrible by then for India, had Tabraiz Shamsi clutched a possibility given by Rohit on 96.

Rohit went ahead to raise a ton that was covered with cuts and pulls that were simple on the eye, and figured out how to include 60 more with Shreyas Iyer for the fourth wicket.

With 236 on the board by the 43rd over, India were taking a gander at an aggregate near 300 however Lungi Ngidi set off a fall, having Rohit and Hardik Pandya gotten behind off progressive conveyances, previously getting a well set Iyer in his next finished. Ngidi went ahead to get MS Dhoni later in the innings too, to refute India's offered to quicken, holding them down to a chaseable 274.

Be that as it may, as it ended up being, it was 73 excessively numerous for South Africa.

Brief Scores: India 274/7 out of 50 overs (Rohit Sharma 115, Virat Kohli 36; Lungi Ngidi 4/51) beat South Africa 201 full scale in 42.2 overs (Hashim Amla 71; Kuldeep Yadav 4/57) by 73 runs.

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Snapshots: Saved by a frame, out by a mile

Virat Kohli survived a close stumping call, but was soon run out. 

Strike change, result same 

There was a change at the highest point of the request for India in Port Elizabeth. Offering to ensure Rohit Sharma, the in-shape Shikhar Dhawan walked past his partner to take first strike against Morne Morkel in the game. For all his ODI abuses, Rohit has discovered first overs hard to deal with. Against Sri Lanka in December, he played out first-finished maidens in each of the three games. At that point, in South Africa, he went 0 off 6 in Durban but India were missing the goal with a wide. In Cape Town, Kagiso Rabada rocked the bowling alley a wide as well as rejected Rohit at its finish. So given the inauspicious first-finished signs and Rohit's own particular pitiable frame, a kindhearted Dhawan offered to take strike. While it certainly helped Rohit get it together at the start, India still played out a maiden to start their innings. 

The respite before the tempest 

Morne Morkel took after his first-finished maiden with another one and was headed to start the game with three maidens in succession when off his eighteenth ball, Rohit chose to toss his hands at a wideish conveyance outside off. The uppish slice went close to JP Duminy at backward point but pretty much evaded the defender's outstretched arms. Morkel's fast start however was counterbalanced in the precise next finished as Shikhar Dhawan hit three boundaries off the initial four conveyances of the pacer's straightaway. Having given away no runs in his initial 17 balls, Morkel had yielded 16 from the following five. Talk about a change in fortunes. 

Saved by a frame, out by a mile 

Chris Morris talked about centimeters and millimeters while depicting how close South Africa had been to getting Virat Kohli out in Durban and Cape Town in the ODI arrangement. At St. George's Park they came closer on the metric framework to getting the Indian captain. In the 23rd over of the Indian innings, Tabraiz Shamsi spun one past Kohli's outside edge and Heinrich Klassen whipped the bails off almost immediately. Kohli hadn't left his crease but had jumped forward to cover turn and that had dragged him to the edge of the crease. Third Umpire Aleem Dar utilized all camera angles available to him, one of which appeared to recommend that Kohli had half a shoe spike inside the crease. 

The South African team, in a group waiting for the choice, celebrated on at least three tallies when they thought they'd seen an indisputable proof in their favor. Kohli stayed put and even directed his spike position toward people around him willing to tune in. Eventually the umpire agreed with the Indian captain and allowed him to proceed. (They would give a similar choice in the handling team's favor in the second innings) Given the batsmen's frame and the history in the arrangement, the signs were foreboding. Kohli was on 28 at that point. Thankfully for the hosts, this time the near miss didn't cost them much. Three overs later the Indian captain had another yes-no minute with Rohit and was run-out by a mile for 36. 

Rohit fails to cash in 

Rohit had already been engaged with two run-outs - that of Kohli and Rahane - by the 34th over of the Indian innings. So it had turned out to be imperative that he carried on his start and bat through the innings. His calling had turned out to be suspect after the twofold blow, with Shreyas Iyer waiting until the point when his partner totally dedicated to the run. At the point when on 96, Rohit got a short conveyance from Kagiso Rabada and chose to play the ramp short. The third man defender, Tabraiz Shamsi, was placed fine. He ran two or three paces to one side and grassed an absolute sitter. Rabada's face abandoned pleasure to despair while Rohit's moved the other way. Rohit, who'd shrugged his bad shape to enlist his seventeenth ton, didn't stay sufficiently long to make the relief check, falling to Lungi Ngidi soon after his 100 and setting off a center request collapse. 

The consoler needs supporting 

Aiden Markram lived on the edge amid his run-a-ball 32. When he was on 9 he played a full-blooded drive to a length conveyance from Jasprit Bumrah and discovered Shreyas Iyer at extra cover. Like at the Wanderers, Iyer got himself into an awkward catching position, this one with his hands before his face in a more self protection position and along these lines spilled a straight forward catch. Dhoni shook his head from behind the stumps, Kohli scoffed. At the finish of the over as Iyer put his head down to walk to his new handling position, Ajinkya Rahane ran up to him to offer a consolatory pat. As it so happened, in the 26th over, the ball was in Rahane's court to drop Amla off Hardik Pandya. And when nobody reached to him for help, Iyer was on hand to be empathetic to his Mumbai senior. 

Sneaking a catch 

India's generally average catching day could have finished on a rather comical note comfortable end when Hardik Pandya chose to chase a high ball from mid-off when Shikhar Dhawan from long-on looked ready to settle under it. But having seen Pandya approaching in the fringe, Dhawan hesitated. As did Pandya until the point when he belatedly chose to stick his correct arm out and cull the catch before Dhawan's face. It took after the most silly celebration that included a little dance from Kohli for India had moved to withing minutes of finishing their maiden bilateral ODI arrangement win in South Africa.

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About Sa vs ind Cricket Match in ST George's Park Cricket Ground At Port Elizabeth.

Rohit Sharma hit 11 fours and 4 sixes © AFP

Rohit Sharma was the latest in India's batting triumvirate at the top to be amongst the runs, as he brushed off an indifferent run of scores in this ODI series to get 115. But Sharma's 17th ODI ton was enough only to get India towards a big total. India's all-too-familiar problem of faltering at the finish cropped up once more, with Lungi Ngidi picking up three wickets in the final overs, including that of Rohit, to restrict India to just 274 for 7.

On a pitch that was expected to slow down, India started off in a hurry, seemingly in a bid to take toll of the hard new ball. Put in to bat, it was Shikhar Dhawan who set the tone for India. His breezy 23-ball 34 eased a lot of pressure on Rohit, who preferred not to take first strike in this match. But as the latter too got his eye in, he marked his return to form with a stunning six off Kagiso Rabada in the sixth over. Rabada had been Rohit's nemesis-in-chief all through this series, picking him three times out of four, but with that small mental battle won, Rohit was back to his comfort zone. India's openers raced towards a fifty-run stand but just two runs short of the mark, Dhawan fell to Rabada's short ball trap, pulling straight to deep backward square leg.

But that wicket did little to deter Rohit, who was now joined by the other man in form - Virat Kohli. The duo shared a steady 105-run stand for the second wicket without any attempts to be flashy. That partnership though could have ended a little earlier, had Kohli been adjudged out stumped on 29. But a close call was decided in the batsman's favour by Aleem Dar, but Kohli's luck ran out soon. The duo, who had batted so well until then, was involved in their seventh instance of a run out as a pair, with Kohli being caught well short to end his stay on 36. Rohit went on to turn his back on the next man in, Ajinkya Rahane, as well who was run out for 8. And it could have all turned even worse at that point for India, had Tabraiz Shamsi held on to a chance given by Rohit on 96.

Rohit went on to bring up a ton that was littered with cuts and pulls that were easy on the eye, and managed to add 60 more with Shreyas Iyer for the fourth wicket.

With 236 on the board by the 43rd over, India were looking at a total close to 300 but Lungi Ngidi triggered a collapse, having Rohit and Hardik Pandya caught behind off successive deliveries, before getting a well set Iyer in his next over. Ngidi went on to pick up MS Dhoni later in the innings as well, to negate India's bid to accelerate, keeping them down to a chaseable 274.

Brief Scores: India 274/7 (Rohit Sharma 115, Virat Kohli 36; Lungi Ngidi 4/51) vs South Africa

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The uncapped Sayers had recently publicly expressed his disappointment about being overlooked for the South African tour after continual stellar first-class performances.

Chadd Sayers, the indefatigable South Australian seamer, has been drafted into Australia's squad for the upcoming Test tour of South Africa as a replacement for injured quick Jackson Bird.

Bird has been ruled out of the tour after straining a hamstring during the last round of the Sheffield Shield. Prior to the setback, he had struggled in Tasmania's hefty loss to Queensland claiming just one wicket across two innings. Bird was wickletless during the Boxing Day Test - his only Test of the summer.

The uncapped Sayers had recently publicly expressed his disappointment about being overlooked for the South African tour after continual stellar first-class performances, highlighted by winning the Sheffield Shield's Player of the Year award last season.

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After winning the prestigious award, Sayers told Cricbuzz that he was determined to play for Australia. "I'm extremely driven and will put my best foot forward to keep improving and being in the mix to play for Australia," he said.

Steve Smith, the Australian captain, said he was disappointed for Bird but believed Sayers was an ideal replacement. "It's exciting for Chadd," he said in Melbourne on Tuesday (February 13). "It's kind of a like-for-like bowler. They both stand the seam up nicely and Chadd's been rewarded for what he's done in Shield cricket for the last couple of years.

"It's tough news for him (Bird). He's a terrific guy to have around the group, he works incredibly hard," he added. "He's just a great guy to have on tour with you - a terrific team man. I certainly feel for him that he unfortunately has this injury at this time."

Australia's squad - apart from stand-in T20 captain David Warner - will depart for South Africa this week ahead of the first Test starting on March 1.
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Khaled Mahmud was appointed as Bangladesh's team director late last year. © Getty

Bangladesh team director Khaled Mahmud said, on Monday (February 12), that he had lost interest to work with Bangladesh cricket team following the media reports targetted against him in recent times.

Mahmud had been on the receiving end since being appointed as team directorconsidering he is also involved in several other capacities in Bangladesh's cricket landscape.

Mahmud is currently the chairman of BCB game development committee while being involved in coaching capacities at different clubs and franchises. Prior to his appointment as team director, a section of media labeled it as a conflict of interest.

The exclusion of Mossadek Hossain in the second Test and he subsequently joining Abahani Limited to play in the Dhaka Premier League, country's leading club based 50-over tournament, came in for a lot of criticism given Mahmud's association with the club in the ongoing edition.

"I am not interested to continue with Bangladesh cricket team," Mahmud told reporters ahead of the series concluding two-match T20I series. "Recently it is turning out to be dirty and I am not interested to work in this atmosphere."

Mahmud also expressed his disappointment over losing the Test series as he felt the hosts had the ability to win against Sri Lanka. However, Mahmud didn't blame the wicket as a major reason for their debacle in the second Test.

"I am not ready to put any blame on the wicket. Both teams played on the same surface and there are several examples in the match that suggest it was nothing like totally unplayable.

"Basically it is like a viral disease... like if someone comes up with something like it was not the ideal wicket, suddenly he is joined by 10 other who seem to agree with that logic and sense applied for judging the surface, and whether it served the purpose or not."

Mahmud added that the team is desperate to make one last attempt to change their fortunes in the series after having been humbled in both Tests and ODIs. "I am confident to put up a good show as there are several newcomers who can come up with some surprising element to get over their opponent.

"Shakib [Al Hasan] might not be available but if [we] can put up a unified effort, anything is possible," concluded Mahmud.

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"I haven't picked up a bat and now I'm keen to get the bat back in my hands which probably means it's been good." © Getty

Steve Smith, the Australian captain, admits a draining Ashes campaign left him "absolutely ruined" but a much-needed break has the Allan Border Medallist feeling refreshed ahead of the Test tour of South Africa.

The 28-year-old led Australia's successful Ashes triumph with a spectacular Man of the Series performance but a notably tired Smith struggled in the subsequent One-Day international (ODI) series defeat to England.

In a welcome breather, Smith has been rested from the ongoing Twenty20 tri-series ahead of the crucial tour of South Africa with the bulk of Australia's squad leaving on Thursday (February 15). Smith has enjoyed two weeks off culminating in winning the prestigious Allan Border Medal on Monday for the second time.

"I needed it (a break). I was absolutely ruined after the one-dayers," Smith said in Melbourne on Tuesday (February 13). "It takes a lot out of you, an Ashes series. Particularly with every Test match going five days and the extra pressures and everything that comes with an Ashes series. I was certainly feeling it mentally. And the last 10 or 12 days that I've had off, it's been great.

"I haven't picked up a bat and now I'm keen to get the bat back in my hands which probably means it's been good and I'm ready to go for what's going to be an exciting tour of South Africa," he added.

After plundering 687 runs in a dominant Ashes, a flagging Smith averaged just 20 in Australia's 4-1 ODI series loss. "You could probably see it in the one-dayers that we played, the guys that had played Test cricket throughout the summer were probably just not quite at their best mentally - just a bit fatigued," Smith said. "We probably saw that in our T20 performances - the guys that came in fresh and had been playing a bit of white-ball cricket in the Big Bash, those were the guys that were playing some good cricket.

"It's been good that the Test guys have been able to have a little bit of a break and freshen up and really hit the ground running when we get to South Africa," he added.

Smith shared the spotlight on Australian cricket's awards night with Ellyse Perry, who won her second Belinda Clark Award. The star all-rounder beat out Beth Mooney and Megan Schutt for the top prize in Australian women's cricket.

"I'm really pleased," Perry said. "Every year there is new ground being broken in women's cricket and it is exciting to be part of."

Perry said she strived to keep improving her game and looked forward to next month's ODI tour of India. "I've got plenty of things to keep working on especially in trying to be more dominant with the bat," she said. "Playing India in their conditions makes it a tough challenge but we are really excited about it."

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Gesture from Maxwell shows the group is really close - Carey

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With Australia closing in on victory, Carey unselfishly gave the strike to his partner Maxwell, who then clubbed a six to reach a memorable century © Getty

Australia's new look T20 team has enjoyed a spectacular start to the Twenty20 tri-series and the goodwill is percolating amongst the emerging group.

Even though they are missing a host of stars, an unbeaten Australia have booked a place in the tournament's final after three convincing victories over higher ranked teams England and New Zealand.

The team has undoubtedly gelled well and a snapshot of their harmony was veteran allrounder Glenn Maxwell's heart-warming present to newcomer Alex Carey after his match-winning century in Hobart.

With Australia closing in on victory, Carey unselfishly gave the strike to his partner Maxwell, who then clubbed a six to reach a memorable century and seal a convincing five-wicket victory over England.

After his breathtaking knock, Maxwell wrote an inscription on the bat: 'To Alex. Thanks for getting that single! Great partnership again! Best wishes, Glenn Maxwell. 103*'.

"I thought the bat was pretty average but the writing on it was awesome," a grinning Carey told reporters in Melbourne on Tuesday (February 13). "It was obviously a nice gesture by Maxi and I think it just shows that the group is really close and we're having a lot of fun.

"For someone like Maxi to do that for me in such a short space of time shows that we've got some really good blokes in the side," he added.

Carey, the burgeoning wicketkeeper, has been part of a new group of players injecting energy and enthusiasm into Australia's T20 side. The inspired selections have reversed Australia's slumping limited-overs fortunes after a 4-1 hammering against England in the preceding One-Day International series.

Carey was a key part of Adelaide Strikers' Big Bash League triumph and memorably blasted a century as an opener during the tournament. However, he has been placed down the order for Australia and faced just five balls from two innings.

The 26-year-old, who was a professional Australian Rules football player earlier in the decade, believed he could perform if a greater opportunity presented. "I haven't really had the opportunity to go out and play a big role with the stick but I'm working hard in the background," he said. "I'm still learning at this level. But I'm thoroughly enjoying it and I'm sure if I get more of an opportunity I'll be ready to go."

Australia's next match in the tri-series is against New Zealand on February 16.

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After just one game in Bangladesh, Mathews was forced to return home as the old hamstring injury resurfaced © Getty

Sri Lanka's white-ball captain Angelo Mathews believes that a new rehabilitation process on the lower half of his body will help him to stay injury free in 2018. Throughout last year, Mathews was plagued by a series of hamstring, quadriceps and ankle injuries and missed out on a large portion of cricket. There was new hope when he accepted the team's white ball captaincy ahead of the tour of Bangladesh having stepped down from the role six months ago. However, after just one game in Bangladesh, he was forced to return home as the old hamstring injury resurfaced.

Mathews missed the tri-nation campaign in Bangladesh and the two Tests that followed. He was expected to travel to Bangladesh to take over the captaincy duties ahead of the T-20s having finished his rehabilitation work. But the medical experts who have been treating him have warned against returning to competitive cricketsoon after injury. Instead, he will make his return during the Nidahas Trophy, the tri-nation tournament that will be played to celebrate Sri Lanka's 70th year of independence.

"Everyone is looking forward to the event and I am very excited. It will be a great opportunity for all the players. India are tough opponents and Bangladesh have shown some tremendous improvements over the years. I believe it will be a competitive series," the 30-year-old told Cricbuzz.

"With my injuries, we have now changed the strategy. In the past, as soon as I had got fit, I had gone and played. The consultant in UK Dr. Thamindu Wedathilleke and the consultants here like Professor Arjuna de Silva and others have insisted on looking at the scans rather than looking at clinically. In the past, I have rushed back to playing before the scars are fully healed. I am able to run and train and do other activities at the moment. But the game intensity is quite different and our stance is different now. We will let it settle fully and unless that happens I am not going to start playing again. It is going to be difficult for me and the team as well when I am injured so often," Mathews noted.

"The training methods, gym work and quite bit about my preparation have changed. We are well equipped now to meet the demands I feel. Still, we can only minimize the injury and there's no guarantee as such that everything will be fine. However, I am trying my very best to stay injury free. I am learning about my body and getting to know my body."

Mathews has had little trouble when he plays as a specialist batsman, but the team management has constantly urged him to bowl as well in a bid to balance the side and that has got him into trouble. "It all depends on what the consultants say. First thing is that I need to get fully fit and there's no point of rushing things. I would like to bowl but in order to get there I need to get fully fit," he said, indicating that his return is likely to be as a specialist batsman.

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Morgan misses out on a second game in a row due to the groin injury he sustained during training. © Getty

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Two changes for both the teams. Plunkett and Wood are back for Curran and Dawson. For New Zealand, Seifert makes his international debut while former Hong Kong star Chapman makes his NZ debut. Blundell and Bruce are the ones missing out.

Teams:

England: Jason Roy, Alex Hales, Dawid Malan, James Vince, Jos Buttler(w/c), Sam Billings, David Willey, Adil Rashid, Liam Plunkett, Chris Jordan, Mark Wood

New Zealand: Martin Guptill, Colin Munro, Kane Williamson(c), Mark Chapman, Ross Taylor, Tim Seifert(w), Colin de Grandhomme, Mitchell Santner, Tim Southee, Ish Sodhi, Trent Boult

Toss: England have opted to bowl

Hello and a warm welcome to our live blog.The tri-series moves to New Zealand now, and both the teams will hope to reverse their recent plight at the hands of Australia. Both captains are under an injury scare, so let's see who makes it in, and who doesn't.

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A dropped catch of David Miller by Shreyas Iyer proved costly as South Africa pipped India in the fourth ODI. © AFP

"There is definitely more athleticism to be seen on the ground," was fielding coach R. Sridhar's assessment of India's limited-overs fielding. It is true that India have come a long way since their days of lethargic outfielders. Bhuvneshwar Kumar's catch of Hashim Amla at the Wanderers on the long-off fence was particularly noteworthy given that it was a fast bowler who had pulled off that piece of inspiration in the deep.

In comparison to their continuous slip cordon problems in Test cricket, the ODI side is a better fielding unit. But playing with a wet ball and in the face of a target defence, India were prone to costly lapses in the field in Johannesburg that allowed South Africa pick up their first win of the series. Shreyas Iyer, running in from deep square leg, spilled a catch of David Miller when the batsman was on 6. Kuldeep Yadav then failed to cover the conventional trajectory of a ball that had been swept and conceded a boundary. All of them contributed to a drastic switch in momentum, one that South Africa cashed in on to complete a five-wicket win.

"Yes we were a little below par on the field in the last game," Sridhar admitted. "One catch went down, Shreyas Iyer being the brilliant fielder that he is, he made a great attempt. It was not a Grade 1 catch, but it's easy to be harsh on ourselves sometimes, easy to be harsh on our players. It's the easiest thing to do. But if you see, that was a difficult catch.

"And in the ground in Johannesburg, the ball snakes a lot and that's what happened to Kuldeep. He was trying to attack and save two, but the ball just snaked away more than he expected. These things happen but we are practicing for them. We've got our players to pay attention to the detail of every minute aspect of every skill, not just fielding. We try and do that every game, and in this game we'll take into account the wind factor, the size of the ground and make sure we are aware of that when we enter the field."

Sridhar stated that the team enjoyed being in challenging situations on the field, like playing a rain-affected match and having to contend with a wet ball. This, he said, would enable them to prepare for extreme conditions should they manifest in a crucial World Cup match next year. "These are things we want should happen more in terms of our preparation. We love to embrace such situations so that even if we make a mistake now, we know how to respond to that same situation the next time around. So these things are good for us. Bowling with a wet ball, a wet outfield, in a reduced game - it's fantastic it happened because we'll learn from every game."

The quest to focus on the specific details earned Kuldeep a 1:1 session on the eve of the clash at St. George's Park. The fielding coach hit several high balls at Kuldeep with a view on getting one of the lesser-skilled fielders in the squad to adjust to the windy conditions of Port Elizabeth. Kuldeep also worked on his in-the-ring ground fielding as Sridhar pointed out techniques for a faster release of the ball on the run.

"Yes, PE is called the windy city isn't it? I read that on Wiki. So yes, definitely we'll take that into consideration. That is something that is important, especially for high balls. You have to keep that into account, it comes under your awareness. No matter where you are fielding on the boundary line, you need to be aware which way the wind is blowing. You also need to be aware of the batsmen's tendencies, the game situation, and accordingly you should be able to prepare in terms of wanting the ball to come to you," Sridhar said.

Given how a catch or a run saved can swing the flow of a limited-overs game, Sridhar added that the endeavour of the management was to consistently put out the best fielding side, whose difference between good and bad fielding days would be very small. "We're not flash one day and really bad on another day, like some of the other teams. We try and reduce the gap between our good days and bad days. There is a level at which we can be and we try to maintain that, be consistent on that," he said.

"Yes we work on the technical aspect of fielding as much as we can. But like Ravi Shastri and Virat [Kohli] want, we want the eleven best fielders to take the park everytime we get out there. That is the endeavour going into the next 15 months (till the World Cup). But definitely we are one of the better one-day fielding teams in the world, I can vouch for that."

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