Who do you think should feature in India's playing XI for the first Test against New Zealand starting in Wellington from Friday?
'Kobe is easily among the five greatest basketball players of all time. This is such a tragic loss.'
'If you are reducing Tests to four days, you are tampering with the time, you are tampering with the skill, you are tampering with the patience, tampering with the technical part.'
The Indian cricket team went from strength to strength in 2019, especially in Test cricket where they are rightly perched at the top. They went unbeaten in Test cricket in 2019 which included winning their first-ever series in Australia, after which they registered three successive whitewashes against West Indies, South Africa and Bangladesh.
Was it badminton sensation PV Sindhu, who became the first Indian to win the World Championships gold medal? Or is it the young shooting progidy Saurabh Chaudhary? Or his India colleague Elavenil Valarivan, who recently took over as World No 1? What about India's heroes on the cricketing field -- Virat Kohli? Rohit Sharma?
'I look forward to meeting David Warner and talking to him about batting.' 'Our mindset is the same. We both look to dominate the bowlers,' says Abdul Samad, the exciting 18-year-old batsman from the Kashmiri valley.
Australian fast bowler Pat Cummins shattered the record for the most expensive foreign buy ever in the IPL auction as Kolkata Knight Riders bought him for a massive Rs 15.50 crore.
'You should do a detailed study on what exactly you want for the team looking at the season ahead.' 'If you are not clear with your plans, you will get carried away at the auction table,' says Pravin Amre, former talent scout chief at the Delhi Capitals.
'Everyone's there just to criticise the young man and there is so much pressure on the poor guy.'
'My bench mate at school was Shashi Kapoor and we were together from KG right up to the 10th standard.'
'In the future, you will get pacers who will bowl even faster than the current lot because these guys are currently setting new standards.'
Former India captain and Committee of Administrators member Diana Edulji took on Farokh Engineer for his 'snide remarks' made earlier this year targetting her and the COA.
'I have two more years in track and field and after that I will pursue my career in franchise cricket.'
Yohan Blake believes if not for Usain Bolt, he would have been the fastest man in the world.
'We need to respect our players. Our players are as good as anybody.'
Prasad's departure means the Ganguly-led BCCI has gone by the old constitution that has a provision of a maximum of four-year term for the selection committee. The amended constitution had a maximum five-year term.
The Sourav Ganguly-led BCCI has proposed six major amendments to the existing constitution which was adopted last year keeping in tune with the reforms suggested by the Justice Lodha committee.
'There are a lot of uncertainties when it comes to cricket.'
'The way they are playing, the bowlers we have, this is the best team in the world and I see them winning the World Test Championship.'
'If we keep bowling like this, we will win as many as Tests as possible.'
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