After IPL 2024 – every other score less than 200 appears to be not so par total and today with Sanju Samson making 50 too and some lusty blows in the end by Shivam Dube and one by Rinku Singh, one thought that a score of 167 may not be good enough. Of late India has been unearthing one star after the other – and today Mukesh Kumar sniffed out 4 wickets with part time bowlers Shivam Dube and Abhishek Sharma too chiping in – sealing a 42-run win to complete a splendid series turnaround in Harare after losing the opening fixture of the series. Today’s s victory is India's fourth win in a row, all completed in comfortable fashion.
Read with some concern about the bespectacled gusty opener Anshuman Gaekwad battling illness at a medical facility in London. It is reported that BCCI has decided to release INR 1 crore for the treatment after Kapil Dev and Sandeep Patil urged the board to help Gaekwad. "Mr Jay Shah has instructed the BCCI to release INR 1 crore with immediate effect to provide financial assistance to India's veteran cricketer Mr Anshuman Gaekwad ," the BCCI apex council said in a statement. The board stands by Gaekwad's family in this hour of crisis and will do whatever is essential for Mr Gaekwad's quick recovery. Gaekwad, 71, played 40 Tests and 15 ODIs for India between 1975 and 1987. Later, he became a selector and then the coach of the national team.
Remember his making debut at Eden Gardens against Clive Lloyds
team and making a good 80 in that sensational win at Chepauk in Pongal Test of
1975.
Today’s match at Harare was over shortly and a reading of the score card took me to the Umpires : Forster Mutizwa and Iknow Chabi. Back in Jan 2012, at Napier, Zimbabwe fans woke up the stark reality as the team collapsed badly in that only test and suffered a worst 301 run and an innings defeat. Forster Mutizwa debuted and played his only Test !
Now a Umpire, Forster Mutizwa was a wicketkeeper-batsman who, given Zimbabwe's paucity of players, can consider himself unlucky in having to wait so long for his international call-up. Good form in 2006-07 and 2007-08, including Logan Cup hundreds in both, finally attracted the attention of the selectors and he was included in the squad to tour Bangladesh. Mutizwa could not find his way into a starting XI on that tour, and eventually made his Zimbabwe debut against Kenya in January 2009.
He
made his international debut in a One Day International (ODI) against Kenya on in
Jan 2009, played 17 ODIs and played a lone test.
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