Dhruv Jurel And Islamabad United
Islamabad United team has won the title of Pakistan Super League 2024 by defeating Multan Sultans. Islamabad team has won the PSL title for the third time. It has become the team that has won the title the most number of times in PSL. Multan Sultans bowlers and batsmen could not perform well in the final. For this reason the team had to face defeat.
Islamabad United won the PSL title
In the final match of Pakistan Super League (PSL) 2024 season, Islamabad United team won the title with a thrilling win by 2 wickets against Multan Sultans. Batting first, Multan Sultans team scored 159 runs, in response to which Islamabad United easily achieved the target. Imad Wasim performed all-round in the match. He scored 19 runs in the match and also took 5 wickets.
Rizwan becomes the first captain to lose 3 consecutive PSL finals
Multan Sultans team has made it to the final of Pakistan Super League for the fourth consecutive time. But out of these the team has had to face defeat thrice. Multan Sultans have lost to Lahore Qalandars in the finals of PSL 2022 and 2023 and to Islamabad United in the final of PSL 2024. Rizwan has been the captain of Multan Sultans all these three times. In the history of Pakistan Super League, Rizwan has become the first captain under whose captaincy the team has lost three consecutive final matches.
Sarfaraz Khan and Dhruv Jurel join Central Contact
India’s new batting star Sarfaraz Khan and wicketkeeper Dhruv Jurel have been included in the central contract list after fulfilling the criteria of playing three Tests in the current season. Both these players have been placed in Group C. Their names were approved in the BCCI Apex Council meeting held on Monday. These two players will now be given Rs 1 crore annually by BCCI.
Wanindu Hasaranga took back retirement
Sri Lankan cricket team all-rounder Wanindu Hasaranga retired from the Test format on August 15 last year. But he has now returned from retirement. Wanindu Hasaranga has been included in Sri Lanka’s squad for the two-match Test series against Bangladesh starting on March 22. Earlier, he had decided to say goodbye to the Test format to prolong his international career in white ball.
Luke Wood joins Mumbai Indians team
Mumbai Indians fast bowler Jason Behrendorff has been ruled out of the Indian Premier League 2024. According to the press release issued by IPL, Jason Behrendorff is injured, due to which he will not take part in the upcoming season of IPL. Mumbai Indians have included England’s Luke Wood in their team as a replacement for Jason Behrendorff. This will be Luke Wood’s first IPL season. He will join MI for Rs 50 lakh.
KL Rahul got approval from NCA
Lucknow Super Giants captain KL Rahul has received approval from the National Cricket Academy (NCA) to play in the IPL. But he has been advised not to take on too much workload in the beginning. The National Cricket Academy has advised him not to do wicketkeeping in the initial matches of the league. In such a situation, he can be seen playing as a batsman in the initial matches of this season.
Mushfiqur Rahim copied Angelo Mathews
During the 2023 World Cup, Bangladesh team had given time out to Angelo Mathews. Since then, a different war is being seen on the field between the two teams. Bangladesh has now taken revenge of Sri Lanka’s time out celebration with ‘Broken Helmet’ celebration. Actually, in the 2023 World Cup, Angelo Mathews was timed out due to his helmet breaking. In such a situation, now Bangladesh player Mushfiqur Rahim has celebrated the victory by imitating him.
Imad Wasim seen smoking during PSL final
During the final match of PSL, when Multan Sultans team had lost 9 wickets till the score of 127 in 17 overs, Imad was sitting in the dressing room. Meanwhile, when the camera moved towards him, he was clearly seen smoking. Imad Wasis performed well in this match. He took 5 wickets in the match and also scored 19 runs.
Doubt over Suryakumar playing in the first match
Mumbai Indians head coach Mark says that an update is awaited from BCCI on Suryakumar. In such a situation, it is believed that he may miss playing in the first match. Mark Boucher said that we are waiting for an update on Suryakumar from BCCI. We have always been surrounded by fitness issues. But we have a world class medical team that handles all this. We have confidence in our medical team that they are doing the right thing.
Indian hockey team announced
The Indian hockey team will leave for Australia on April 1. On this tour, a five-match hockey test series will be played between the two teams. The Indian team has been announced for this tour. Harmanpreet Singh will lead the 27-member strong Indian team in the five-match hockey Test series against Australia.
Indian team for Australia tour:
Goalkeepers: Krishna Bahadur Pathak, P R Sreejesh
Defenders: Harmanpreet Singh, Jarmanpreet Singh, Amit Rohidas, Jugraj Singh, Sanjay, Sumit and Aamir Ali.
Midfielders: Manpreet Singh, Hardik Singh, Vivek Sagar Prasad, Shamsher Singh, Neelakanta Sharma, Rajkumar Pal and Vishnukant Singh.
Forward: Akashdeep Singh, Mandeep Singh, Lalit Kumar Upadhyay, Abhishek, Dilpreet Singh, Sukhjit Singh, Gurjant Singh, Mohammad Raheel Mousin, Bobby Singh Dhami and Arijit Singh Hundal.
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