There is no denying the fact that the Australians will have the home advantage in the India-Australia series but the Indian cricket fans may have never expected that their star-studded Indian squad will get defeated so badly by the hosts in the first ODI of the 3-match series. The Aussies won the match by 66 runs and what hurt the Indians the most was that the Australian cricketers who played miserably in the IPL 2020 were back in form in the first ODI.
Now the Indian cricketers are already under the pressure of winning both the matches otherwise they will lose the series. What has made the matter worse is that the Indian team has been fined heavily for their slow over-rate. As per the rules, every team should bowl 300 legal deliveries (50 overs) in 210 minutes (3 hours and 30 minutes) but in the first ODI against Australia, the Indian team took total 246 minutes (4 hours and 6 minutes) for bowling 50 overs.
One point is also fined for each delayed over along with the fine but the good news is that it doesn’t affect the chances of India playing in the World Cup 2023. This is because the rules say that the host of the World Cup tournament will qualify automatically for the tournament and it is India which will be hosting the WC2023.
While this matter of India’s slow over-rate was taken up by a cricket lover on the micro-blogging site Twitter, the former Indian cricketer Wasim Jaffer responded with cool style.
Wasim posted a meme with a very famous dialogue and captioned the photo with, “Being hosts we’ve already qualified for 2023 WC so in short”.
Here is the tweet:
India has taken over 4 hours to bowl 50 overs. In WC Super League, you lose 1 point for one over short. #AusvInd
As far as the match is concerned, the hosts scored 374 runs in the stipulated 50 overs with the help of some brilliant knocks by David Warner (69), skipper Aaron Finch (114), Steve Smith (105) and Glenn Maxwell (45). Mohammed Shami was the pick of the bowlers for India as he took 3 wickets and gave away only 59 runs.
In reply to Aussies, the Indian team was able to manage only 308 runs on the board and the highest scorer for India was Hardik Pandya (90 runs). Shikhar Dhawan also tried his best but he got out at 74 runs. Steve Smith was adjudged as the player of the match for his smashing knock of 105 for which he played only 66 deliveries. The second match of the series is scheduled on Sunday (Nov 29) and the Indian cricket fans must be hoping to see their team win the match.
The Indian cricket team is on its first international tour after the coronavirus lockdown; presently it is in Australia for playing 3 ODIs, 3 T20Is and 4 test matches. The first ODI of the series has already been won by the hosts as they defeated India comfortably by 66 runs in Sydney. The Australian team batted first after winning the toss and gave a huge target of 375 runs. Australian skipper Aaron Finch along with Steve Smith scored centuries while Glenn Maxwell scored a quick 45 for which he played only 19 balls.
What surprised everyone, especially the Indian cricket fans, was the fact that all these three Aussie cricketers performed miserably in the recently concluded IPL 2020 but they performed in an impeccable manner against India. Soon the Indian Twitterati started posting memes and jokes and talked about how the Indian skipper Virat Kohli and Indian cricketer KL Rahul must have been feeling after seeing their IPL teammates smashing the Indian bowlers.
Aaron Finch is a member of the IPL team Royal Challengers Bangalore which is led by Virat Kohli and in the IPL 2020, Finch scored only 268 runs in the 12 matches that he played. On the other hand, Glenn Maxwell played for Kings XI Punjab led by KL Rahul and in the 13 matches that Maxwell played, he scored only 108 runs.
These memes were noticed by Jimmy Neesham, the New Zealand cricketer who is presently a part of the Kiwi squad which is playing T20I series against West Indies. He also played for KXIP and was also a huge disappointment for the franchise as he took 2 wickets and scored only 19 runs in the 5 matches that he played. However while playing against West Indies for his national team, Jimmy went on to score 48 runs for which he played only 24 balls and helped his team in chasing the target of 176 comfortably as 4.4 overs were remaining when New Zealand won the match.
Jimmy has a quite good sense of humour and he reacted to a meme in which KL Rahul’s face was morphed on the photo of a disappointed Pakistani fan. With the meme, the Twitter user wanted to show KL Rahul’s reaction after Neesham and Maxwell performed well for their respective home teams.
Jimmy retweeted the meme with the caption, “Hahaha that’s actually pretty good” with a laughing emoji and he also tagged the Australian cricketer Glenn Maxwell.
Glenn Maxwell also responded soon and informed that he apologized to his IPL skipper while he was batting in the match. Maxwell tweeted, “I apologised to him while I was batting”.
I apologised to him while I was batting #kxipfriends
The Indian cricket team is certainly missing its star batsman Rohit Sharma on the Australian tour, especially after getting crushed by the Australians in the first ODI by 66 runs. Recently, the Indian skipper Virat Kohli talked about the lack of clarity on the matter of Rohit Sharma’s fitness and after that, BCCI cleared the air by giving a statement.
Let us tell you about the whole issue in brief – Rohit Sharma suffered hamstring injury during one of the matches in the IPL, hence he was rested and not included in the squad for the remaining matches. In the meantime, BCCI released the list of players for the Australian tour and Rohit’s name was missing from it. The Indian cricket fans were quite angry with BCCI for being too harsh on Rohit, though the Indian board stated that they were monitoring the fitness of Rohit Sharma and the Indian pacer Ishant Sharma.
Nevertheless, everyone got confused when the official Twitter handle of Mumbai Indians which is led by Rohit Sharma posted his photos from the net sessions. People were surprised as to why Rohit was practicing in nets if he was not fine, some even questioned Rohit’s presence in UAE if he was unfit and also asked why he was not returning to India. However, things turned more confusing when Rohit Sharma played the finals of the IPL 2020 for his team and after that, he returned to India. During all this time, BCCI or Mumbai Indians said nothing about Rohit Sharma’s fitness.
Presently, Rohit Sharma is undergoing rehabilitation in National Cricket Academy, Bengaluru, and this was one of the points raised by Virat Kohli as he put up the question why Rohit Sharma can’t undergo rehabilitation in Australia just like Wriddhiman Saha.
After Virat’s statement, BCCI has decided to clear the air by issuing a statement in which Jay Shah, the BCCI secretary, states that Rohit Sharma returned to Mumbai after the IPL 2020 because his father was not doing fine but now he is in NCA as his father is recovering well. He further adds that Rohit Sharma’s fitness will be assessed on December 11 and after that only, it will be ascertained whether he will go to Australia for the test series or not. It has been said that if Rohit Sharma will leave for Australia, BCCI President Sourav Ganguly will make a request to his Australian counterpart Nick Hockley for allowing soft quarantine to Rohit Sharma so that Hitman can at least indulge in practice sessions during the 14 day quarantine.
As far as Ishant Sharma is concerned, he has recovered well from his side strain injury but is not completely fit for playing in the Border-Gavaskar trophy.
The confusion over Rohit Sharma’s fitness was a result of mismanagement by cricket operations team of BCCI but it is good that the confusion has been cleared now.
The Australians started the India-Australia 3-match ODI series with a bang by defeating the visitors by a huge difference of 66 runs. The match was played at the Sydney Cricket Ground and the hosts posted a mammoth total of 374 runs after winning the toss. The major contributions were made by the Australian skipper Aaron Finch who scored 114 and Steve Smith who played a smashing knock of 105 runs for which he played only 66 deliveries. David Warner also contributed well as he scored 69 runs whereas Glenn Maxwell produced a quick knock of 45 runs for which he faced only 19 balls.
In response, the Indian team was bundled out for 308 runs, the highest scorer for India was Hardik Pandya who made 90 runs and other than him, it was only Shikhar Dhawan who could show some resistance against Australian bowlers as Gabbar scored 74 runs. However, what was noticed by the Indian cricket lovers was the fact that all three Aussies who fired against India – Aaron Finch, Steve Smith and Glenn Maxwell failed miserably in the recently concluded Indian Premier League 2020.
Aaron Finch, the Aussie skipper who scored a ton in the first ODI played for Royal Challengers Bangalore in the IPL 2020 and performed below expectations with a total score of 268 runs in 12 matches. Glenn Maxwell’s IPL 2020 campaign was a huge disappointment for Kings XI Punjab IPL franchise as he scored only 108 runs in 13 matches and it must have been very hard for KL Rahul, the skipper of KXIP as he was keeping the wickets when Glenn was hammering the Indian bowlers in front of him.
Even KXIP’s official Twitter handle trolled Glenn Maxwell:
Steve Smith, another Aussie, was a big failure not just as a batsman but as a skipper for Rajasthan Royals as he scored only 311 runs and the Rajasthan franchise ended at the bottom of the points tally in the tournament. The official Twitter handle of Rajasthan Royals also took a jibe at Steve Smith with this meme:
Not just the Indian cricket fans but the former cricketers and commentators also took to Twitter to express their disbelief after seeing these Aussie cricketers performing great against India.
The Bollywood director Madhur Bhandarkar is not happy with the producer-director Karan Johar because the latter used a title for a web series which was originally registered by Madhur. Even though KJo has used the title by changing a little bit, it has not gone well with Madhur Bhandarkar and he made a complaint.
Now Karan has reacted to it and written an apology for Madhur Bhandarkar which has been accepted by the latter. The title in question is “The Fabulous Lives of Bollywood Wives” which is being used for a series that will stream on Netflix. In this series, the viewers will get a glimpse of the lifestyle of Bhavana Panday, Maheep Kapoor, Neelam Kothari and Seema Khan.
In his apology, Karan Johar talked about his old relations with Madhur and he had always loved his work. He said that he knew that Madhur is upset with him and he apologized for the grievance caused due to the title. Later on, he talked about how his company is promoting the series and hoped that it would pacify the “Fashion” director.
Soon Madhur Bhandarkar responds to KJo’s apology, he takes to the micro-blogging site Twitter and writes that though he is deeply upset with what KJo has done, he believes in moving on and accepts his apology. Madhur reminded Karan about the times when Karan asked Madhur to grant him the title “Gutka” in 2013 which was originally registered by Madhur.
Bollywood celebrities often get trolled in India for their statements, dressing sense or for any other reason and Kareena Kapoor Khan has a good experience of getting trolled. The Bollywood actress has garnered a huge fan following over the years because of her brilliant acting performances and beautiful looks.
Some time ago, Kareena received a lot of hatred online as she belongs to a family of actors and moviemakers and for the same, she was called a product of nepotism. Later on in a chat show, she asked the haters not to watch her movies as nobody forces people to watch the flicks of star kids.
Recently during an interview, Kareena talks about the present situation of the country and how she plans to deal with trollers. As per her, there is a lot of chaos in the lives and minds of people due to the coronavirus pandemic and lockdown and everyone has a good amount of free time.
She further says that a number of people have lost jobs and many are sitting at home, adding that whatever slamming is done online nowadays should not be seen as trolling because it’s just that people are very bored and they want to say something.
The “Bajrangi Bhaijaan” actress states that she will like to spread positivity and peace and make everyone happy without interfering in each other’s life. In fact, she is of the opinion that if trolling brings happiness to someone, let it be then.
Kareena Kapoor who was last seen in “Good Newwz” is presently pregnant with her second child. Her first child Taimur is already an Internet sensation and whatever he does becomes news. She will be seen next in “Laal Singh Chaddha” which also stars Aamir Khan and is inspired from the Hollywood movie “Forrest Gump”. The movie was scheduled to release on Christmas 2020 but due to the coronavirus pandemic, it will now release on Christmas 2021.
Some Indians are making the country proud even after getting settled in the foreign countries. One such Indian is Dr. Gaurav Sharma, the newly elected Member of Parliament of New Zealand. Gaurav’s family hails from the Indians state of Himachal Pradesh, there was a time when he and his family were homeless but with his hard work and dedication, he first got his medical degree and now he has become an MP.
The swearing-in ceremony took place recently and Dr. Gaurav Sharma decided to take his oath in Indian language Sanskrit along with Te Reo, New Zealand’s native language. He posted the video of his swearing-in ceremony on the social networking site Facebook and wrote that he learned Sanskrit language during his school days in India. He further adds that Sanskrit is an ancient Indian language which is almost 3500 years old and it has given birth to many Indian languages. Dr. Gaurav Sharma also writes that he has been informed about the fact that he has become the second person to swear-in in Sanskrit language outside India.
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Some netizens questioned him for not taking oath in Hindi and in response, he said that he did think about it but then some could have asked him about taking oath in his first language which is Pahari or in Punjabi. Then he thought that Sanskrit will be perfect as he will be able to pay tribute all the Indian languages, many of which he is not able to speak.
Here is what he tweeted, “To be honest I did think of that, but then there was the question of doing it in Pahari (my first language) or Punjabi. Hard to keep everyone happy. Sanskrit made sense as it pays homage to all the Indian languages (including the many I can’t speak)”.
To be honest I did think of that, but then there was the question of doing it in Pahari (my first language) or Punjabi. Hard to keep everyone happy. Sanskrit made sense as it pays homage to all the Indian languages (including the many I can’t speak) https://t.co/q1A3eb27z3
There is no denying the fact Dr. Gaurav Sharma has made Indians proud by taking oath in Sanskrit and we hope that he will continue doing so with his actions as an MP of New Zealand.
Just to inform you, Chandrikapersad “Chan” Santokhi is the first person who took oath in Sanskrit outside India when he became the President of Suriname in July this year.
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