Kamran Akmal Fumbles Behind Stumps 'Like Old Times', Video Goes Viral
In the sixth over of England's chase of 161, with Shoaib Malik bowling to former England wicketkeeper Phil Mustard, the latter stepped out of his crease in search of a big hit.
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Ricky Ponting's Big Verdict On 'Out Of Character' Shubman Gill's Captaincy: "Like Virat Kohli..."
Batting legend Ricky Ponting said India skipper Shubman Gill's aggressive posturing during the Lord's Test against England was "a little out of character" but at the same time viewed it as a "captain standing up for his team". The closely-fought game saw plenty of drama on the field, including an animated flare-up between Gill and the England openers towards the end of the third day of the Test. India had managed to equal England's first innings total of 387, and wanted to squeeze in two overs in the remaining six minutes of play. However, that wasn't possible as the English openers took their time to get ready, and Gill exchanged words with Zak Crawley and then Ben Duckett. Former Australia captain Ponting understood why Gill's aggressive action at Lord's was met with surprise. "That was a little out of character from what I've known from Shubman in the past. I am sure everyone that was there watching it and I know you would know him quite well, that's not what he's generally like," Ponting told 'The ICC Review'. But Ponting also sympathised with Gill, saying it was a case of a young captain taking a stand for his team under the circumstances. "That's the captain standing up for his team, that's a captain really wanting to show that it's his team now and this is the way that we're going to play the game, and also, I guess, wanting to give a little bit back." India lost the Test by 22 runs to trail the series 1-2. The fifth and final Test begins here on Wednesday. Ponting felt that Gill acted in a manner similar to former captain Virat Kohli. "I think that's him starting to put his stamp on his team. And a lot like Virat (Kohli) did, similar ways like that. Rohit (Sharma) probably was never as outwardly aggressive, I guess, especially to opposition players. "I know he (Rohit) would quite often get aggressive with his teammates and try to bring the best out of them that way. But I love watching Shubman stand up for what he thought was right in the game last week." Ponting has played Tests in England across four separate tours, and twice as captain (2005 and 2009). He said that the pressures of such a high-profile tour could get to a skipper. "The UK can be a hard place to play. The crowds, as much as they love their game, can be as hostile a place to play as anywhere in the world. "The media there, when you're in a big series, when it's an Ashes series or when it's England and India, the media always feel like they're right on top of your back as well." (Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)
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England Captain Ben Stokes Goes On Stunning Rant After Slow Over-Rate Penalty: "ICC Needs To..."
England captain Ben Stokes is not signing on the over rate related paperwork after his team was docked two World Test Championship (WTC) points for slow over rate during the Lord's Test against India. England won the match but slow over rate cost them two crucial WTC points, reducing their tally to 22. Stokes said the International Cricket Council (ICC) needs to review the existing rules for over rate considering different conditions around the world. 'I'm not signing the form, no. Over rate isn't something that I worry about, but that's not saying that I purposely slow things down. I do understand the frustration around it, but I honestly think there needs to be a real hard look at how it's structured,' Stokes said in the pre-match press conference here on Tuesday. 'You can't have the same rules in Asia where spin is bowling 70 percent of the overs to have the same laws in New Zealand, Australia, England, where it's going to be 70, 80 percent of seam bowled, because the spinner's over takes less time than the seamer's over. Common sense would think that you should look at changing how the over-rates are timed in different continents,' Stokes reasoned. Stokes feels, at times, there is a need to slow the game down and that also impacts the over rate. 'I think also the over rates obviously have gone down over the course of quite a few years now. I wonder if scoring rates have got anything to do with that as well. The ball's getting hit to the boundary more often. It's obviously going to take a lot longer. 'I can understand it from an external point of view around the overs. I really do. But it's a very tough thing to do when I feel there's more to it than just getting round, getting told, 'Oh, just quicken up. Get through your overs.' 'There's a lot that actually goes on out on the field. You've got fast bowlers bending their back consistently. Throughout the course of a game, the time of overs is going to come down. You've just got tired bodies. We played for five days. That was our 15th day of cricket.' Stokes a mid-game injury to a slower bowler also could jeopardise the over rate scenario. 'We, obviously, had an injury to Bash (Shoaib Bashir), a spinner, so we couldn't turn to our spinner as much as we would've liked to on day five, so we had to throw seam at them for pretty much the whole day. That's obviously going to slow things down. There are periods in the game where you do try and just slow everything down, more tactically if anything, like that,' said the England captain. Stokes highlighted the issue of over rate is extremely simplified at times. 'I think there's just so much that influences how your over rates can be affected, that it can't just be as simple as this is the time, this is what you need to do, because you want to keep the quality of cricket as high as you possibly can. 'And there are times in games where there isn't a game on the line where you will just throw the ball to spinner to get your overs round, but then that's just... you're playing in an international game where you're just trying to get your over rate back. I don't think people want to come and watch that,' he said. England hire rugby world winning mental skills coach from NZ Ahead of the fourth Test, England are using the services of mental skills coach Gilbert Enoka, who guided New Zealand to back to back rugby world cup titles in 2011 and 2015. Enoka is a close friend of England head coach Brendon McCullum, who also hails from New Zealand. Stokes spoke about the value he brings to the team. 'Obviously, in all the time off we had between the New Zealand series and Zimbabwe this summer, me and Baz (McCullum), we spoke a lot about what we want to do and how we want to take the team forward. We can say as much as we want, but we don't have the knowledge or the experience in pushing teams onto the next level of where we want to go to. 'If you've got the opportunity to have someone come into your group and help you put into words what you want to try and do and want to try and achieve as a team, that's what we needed to do. And luckily Baz has known Gilbert for a long, long time.' Stokes was delighted to get associated with a someone as experienced as Enoka. 'I'm sure you've all looked up Gilbert's CV. Pretty good. So yeah, he's come in, we spent some time around the team. I think he's been able to put into words what we want to do a lot better than what me and Baz would ever be able to do,' added the skipper.
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Harmanpreet Kaur Breaks Record As India Captain Slams 84-Ball Ton vs England
A splendid 84-ball 102 from skipper Harmanpreet Kaur and a brisk fifty from Jemimah Rodrigues fired India Women to 318 for five in the third and final ODI against England on Tuesday. India and England are tied 1-1 having won a game each in the series so far. This is the second fastest ton by an Indian woman in ODIs after Smriti Mandhana 's 70-ball ton against Ireland earlier this year. Harmanpreet was at her fluent best as she forged robust partnerships on the way to her seventh ODI century overall and third against England, hammering 14 fours during her stay in the middle. Harmanpreet's knock gave India their second highest ODI score against England, but at no stage their highest score of 333/5 against this opponent, recorded in September 2022 in Canterbury, was under threat. The India skipper played spectacular stokes particularly on the off-side which she peppered with most of her 14 boundaries. A few of them came down the ground and one was hit behind the wicket. Harmanpreet also stitched vital stands along the way, putting on 81 runs for the third wicket with Harleen Deol (45) to set the platform while her 110-run stand off only 77 balls with Rodrigues gave India the push for a total in excess of 300. Richa Ghosh then provided the finishing touches with a brisk 38 off 18 balls with three fours and two sixes, marking an all-round show for the visitors who had earlier clinched the five-match T20I series. The platform, however, was set by a strong opening stand of 64 runs between Smriti Mandhana and Pratika Rawal. While both the batters were able to play their roles to near-perfection — Mandhana being the aggressor and Rawal being the second fiddle — they could not get to their personal milestones. Mandhana took the initiative to attack early on and looked in ominous touch until a false shot led to her exit. The India vice-captain had done well to crack five fours until she reached out to a short and wide ball from Sophie Ecclestone in the 18th over, which she pulled with considerable effort, but straight to Sophia Dunkley at midwicket. Mandhana made 45 off 54 balls with five fours. Before that, Rawal's resistance had ended in the 13th over when a faint edge was collected by 'keeper Amy Jones off Charlie Dean, which wasn't heard by the on-field umpire, but was discovered on a review taken by England. Rawal made 26 off 33 balls with two fours. Rodrigues looked to be in her rhythm when she cracked three consecutive fours off Dean in the 41st over of the innings and smacked two in a row again in the spinner's next over. However, she could not push on beyond a 45-ball 50 which included seven fours. On her part, Deol was also set for a big knock before she was bounced out by seamer Lauren Bell, dismissed for 45 off 65 balls with four boundaries
