To say the least, a relatively inexperienced batting line up led by Shubman Gill would be relieved to see the name of James Anderson
K L Rahul drove his way to a sublime 47 after England negated India's advantage by totalling 465 in their first innings as the visitors had another ordinary day in the field on Day 3 of the first Test in Leeds on Sunday.
"Obviously the moment I scored was pure ecstasy for me. I'd heard only seven Australians had scored at the World Cup and I told Arnie (coach Graham Arnold) I'd be the eighth or ninth."
Mohammed Shami's possible omission from the Indian Test squad for the England tour was doing the rounds for past one week but the eternal optimist would have loved to believe that those artistic wrists would be at work in the Old Blighty.
Britain's Prince Edward and former prime minister Rishi Sunak were also at the game.
The Indian squad, which is expected to comprise 16 members, will be one of the trickiest ones in recent times as there is a debate around who the new captain should be.
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368 of James Anderson's 575 Test wickets have come on home soil, where the Dukes ball has been the default during his long career.
Conway, who is among the three uncapped players in the 20-man squad, feels the camp back home in Lincoln ahead of the tour was ideal. New Zealand play with the Kookaburra at home.
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'Here, in England, you have to get more in line and judge the off stump more because of the movement of the ball.'
The ball moved enough in last week's Southampton Test between England and West Indies to erase any lingering doubt about swing bowling under cricket's COVID-19 protocols, manufacturer of the Dukes ball said.
Dukes Lemonade, Mumbai's favourite lemon drink, on Tuesday launched a series of consumer initiatives in the city to make it a summer of 'Takatak Taajgi.'\n\n\n\n
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'A Dukes ball is still good quality, Kookaburra is still good quality. Whatever limitations a Kookaburra might have (seam goes flat), the quality is never compromised'
The Board of Control for Cricket in India is in talks with British manufacturer 'Dukes' for supply of pink balls which can be tested before zeroing in on a particular brand for the proposed day-night Test matches later this year.
The Duke 390's pricing is introductory and KTM is likely to hike it in the next couple of months.
Cricket Australia has confirmed it will use Dukes balls, which are used in England, instead of the locally produced Kookaburra brand for the second half of the domestic Sheffield Shield in a bid to better prepare for the away Ashes series next year. The balls behave differently through the air and off the pitch, with Australia's inability to play the moving ball seen as one of the reasons why they have failed to win an Ashes series in England since 2001.
After 15 years of failing to win an Ashes Test series in England, Cricket Australia have decided to give players more experience with the Dukes cricket ball by using it in their domestic first class competition from next year.
The KTM Duke 390, with the performance it offers at this price, is simply unmatchable writes Faisal Ali Khan of MotorBeam.com
Check out the bigger cousin of the KTM-Bajaj Duke 200 that is all set to change the rules of the game.
President-elect Donald Trump announced a slate of key Cabinet nominations, including tapping former Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as his Secretary of Health and Human Services and former Congressman Doug Collins of Georgia as Secretary for Veterans Affairs. Trump also named Jay Clayton as US Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Todd Blanche as Deputy Attorney General, and Dean John Sauer as Solicitor General of the United States.
BCCI Secretary Jay Amit Shah met with National Football League Commissioner Roger Goodell in New York. This meeting marks the first interaction between the heads of the world's two most popular sporting leagues: The IPL and the American football league, the NFL.
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Here's what you can expect from the new KTM Duke 200 that will launch early next year.
The Duke prayer room--shared by Buddhists and Hindus--should inspire other universities to offer similar facilities to students who aren't Christian or Jewish, many Duke students said. Most of the students who initiated the process are second generation, said engineering Kishor Trivedi, faculty adviser of the Hindu Students Association and Hudson professor of electrical and computer engineering. He had started the association, which led the prayer-room project.
The country's second largest two- wheeler maker Bajaj Auto on Tuesday launched a sports bike 'Duke 200' from its Austrian associate firm KTM's portfolio at an introductory price of Rs 1.18 lakh (ex-showroom Delhi).
Another trend: A preference for coloured diamonds among brides, who are pairing them with their groom's birthstone. So, along with yellow or white diamonds, they are choosing pink, green, blue sapphires, emeralds or red rubies.
KTM will launch its second product in India, the 390 Duke in June 2013. The Duke 390 is the elder sibling of the Duke 200 and both have lots of parts in common.
Bajaj Auto will unveil the KTM Duke 390 in mid-November at ECIMA Motorcycle Show. Powered by a 390cc engine the bike will hit Indian roads in March 2013 for a princely sum of Rs 2 lakh.
The type of cricket balls used in England will give the Pakistan bowlers a huge advantage over the home side in the four-Test series starting this week, former Pakistan players said on Monday.
The Indian Institute of Mangement-Ahmedabad will collaborate with Duke Corporate Education to develop and deliver custom corporate education programmes in India and West Asia.
'How about a Duke ball, a ball with a more pronounced seam, that allows more lateral movement and ensures batters can't just hit through the line at will?'
The Benelli TNT 25 is a single-cylinder quarter-litre offering positioned below the TNT 300 that will take on the KTM Duke 200, Mahindra Mojo and Honda CBR250R in the segment, says Indian automobile website MotorBeam.
We are used to the Dukes ball having practised with it during IPL, says Axar ahead of WTC final
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