Cricket

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Mithali Raj - Celebrating the queen of Indian cricket (Sportstar)

As India's women's cricket grows onwards and upwards, Mithali Raj's contribution will always remain significant.

“I played with her in the Indian team and at Air India and she had a lot of talent. After the lockdown in 2020, Mithali was in Bengaluru for training and Vanitha once again had the opportunity of observing her closely. And that defined her character — she was extremely serious about her work, but at the same time, knew how to enjoy quality time. “During a Challenger tournament, I remember one of our coaches told us on the eve of the final that Mithali’s team is the favourite and that she will score a century. In that tournament, the openers Mithali and Reshma Gandhi got us good starts and then we had people like Anjum Chopra, me, so we knew that we were building a team for the future,” Chanderkanta adds. To my surprise, Mithali sprinted faster in the next match against New Zealand. I had never seen her doing something like that and that shows how much she valued every feedback. She was very quiet and when she would bat, it looked as if she was very calm, but inside there she had a fire. “When she made her debut, I already had a lot of experience, but she was the youngest on our team. She finished the interview, walked out of the room to meet her colleagues and only then did she realise that all this while, she was being pranked by her dear friend ‘Mithu’ — Mithali Raj! Having watched her right from her international debut in 1999, Sudha admits that Mithali, over the years, emerged as an icon because she had the ability to identify talent and also build a team. “It was banter and the team was like one happy unit, so such pranks were taken in the right spirit. It was the evening of December 7, 2005 and for her, it was certainly a happy moment.

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True allrounder was well suited to cricket (Stuff.co.nz)

Donald Owen Neely, cricketer, coach, selector, administrator, businessman and author: b December 21, 1935; d June 16, 2022. Don Neely, or “D O” as he was ...

He left an enormous legacy in a lifetime of serving the game, even to being seen as a key figure in its evolution in New Zealand. A privately financed permanent reminder to Neely at the Basin, an electronic scoreboard, was erected in 2008, and named after him. Neely started as an administrator at his beloved Kilbirnie club, and served on the Wellington Cricket Association’s management committee, where he would become a life member. His funeral was held on Friday at the Basin. It could hardly have been anywhere else. It was a friendship that would last a lifetime, and include them playing for Wellington, and Sinclair going on to play 21 tests for New Zealand, three of them as captain. The couple started out as teachers, meeting at Masterton Intermediate in 1960. For 14 years, seven of them as convener of the panel, the choices he helped make achieved remarkable results. They learned the game on their own as best they could, yet they practised and trained with an intensity and application well ahead of its time. It was over in two days, the home team bowled out for 42 and 54. He led them to a Plunket Shield title, and made one century, 132 not out, against Otago. Don Neely, or “D O” as he was popularly known, fell under cricket’s spell at the Basin Reserve, in Wellington, in March 1946. Despite that, Paddianne said the occasion had “stirred Don’s interest” in cricket.

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After 1996 World Cup boycott, Murali chucking row, finally Aussie ... (The Indian Express)

Sri Lanka is in the midst of its worst financial crisis since independence in 1948, forcing the island nation's population to endure power cuts, ...

When Sri Lanka are up and about, that’s as loud as anywhere you’ll visit in the world.” Aaron Finch has paid tribute to Sri Lankan cricket fans after they turned Colombo’s largest stadium yellow on Friday night to thank Australia for touring the country despite the economic crisis. Later that year, Australia refused to play a two-match Test cricket series in Sri Lanka in August. “It was outstanding, the Sri Lankan people are wonderful people,” Finch added. “The support that they provide is second to none. As Ranatunga argued with umpires, Muralitharan’s team-mates threw their arms around him, consoling the dejected player.

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Winning World Cup in 83 was like independence day for cricket ... (Business Standard)

India cricketer Kris Srikkanth has said that winning the World Cup in 1983 felt like "independence day for cricket in India", adding that the achievement ...

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