Indian Test team vice-captain Rishabh Pant apologized for the players’ poor performance against South Africa and promised that the team will regroup, focus and readjust itself to make a stronger comeback.

India suffered a 0-2 defeat in the series that ended with the second Test in Guwahati on Tuesday. Pant led the Indian team in this match because regular captain Shubman Gill could not play in this match due to neck injury.

India lost this match by a record 408 runs, which dealt a huge blow to its chances of reaching the final of the World Test Championship. Pant had to face criticism for being careless in shot selection during this series.

Pant said in one of his posts on X, “It cannot be denied that we have not played good cricket in the last two weeks. As a team and as individual players, we always want to perform our best and bring smiles on the faces of crores of Indians.

He said, “I am sorry that we could not live up to the expectations this time, but sport teaches you as a team and player, it teaches you to adapt to situations and move forward. We know what this team is capable of doing. We will work hard, regroup, refocus and prepare again to come back stronger and better as a team and as players.

Pant said that representing India is the biggest honor in the life of the players. India does not have to play any test match till next year.

Cricketer Vipraj Nigam, who plays for Delhi Capitals in the Indian Premier League, has received death threats. He was receiving repeated calls from an unknown international number. It is being told that a woman is blackmailing Vipraj. According to a report in Dainik Bhaskar, this woman placed some demands in front of the Delhi Capitals cricketer, which if not fulfilled, she also threatened to leak a video online.

This incident happened on Sunday, November 9, when Vipraj Nigam started receiving calls from different numbers. First he blocked the numbers, but the blackmailer started calling him from other numbers. Frustrated, Vipraj lodged a complaint with the police. 21 year old Vipraj Nigam has lodged a complaint with the police. He has accused this unknown woman of publicly defaming him and mentally harassing him.

Police have started investigation. Efforts are on to ascertain call details, digital evidence and the place from where the call came. The family of the Indian cricketer is worried because the Parivaad family members do not want their son to get involved in any kind of controversy.

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Virap Nigam has been playing for Uttar Pradesh in domestic cricket since 2024. But he got the most popularity in the IPL 2025 season, in which he played for Delhi Capitals. He was bought by Delhi Capitals in the auction for Rs 50 lakh. Last season, while batting in 14 matches, he scored 142 runs and also took 11 wickets.

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A shocking news has come out from Papua New Guinea, a small island in the north of Australia. Papua New Guinea’s cricketer Kipling Doriga has been found guilty in the case of robbery. The incident took place on Monday, August 25 in St. Heliers area. These days, the Cricket World Cup Challenge League is being played in Papua New Guinea, whose second round matches Doriga got a place in the Papua New Guinea team.

Kipling Doriga was produced in the magistrate court on Wednesday morning, where he was convicted. The magistrate considered the matter very serious for the private court, due to which he has sent the case to the Royal Court. Doriga is to be produced on November 28 in the Royal Court. Kipling’s petition has been dismissed, at present, he will have to be in the custody of Papua New Guinea Police.

Kipping Doriga has played two World Cups

Kipling Doriga has played 2021 and 2024 T20 World Cup for Papua New Guinea. He has played 97 international matches for his country’s national team. He has scored 730 runs in 39 ODIs and has 359 runs in 43 T20 matches. As a wicketkeeper, he has also stumped 11 stumps with 49 catches in his international career. Talking about the Cricket World Cup Challenge League, Papua New Guinea had to face defeat against Jersey on 28 August.

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If a person is watching a cricket match for the first time, then it can be a very complex task to understand this game for him. Different rules have been made from batting to bowling. Nowadays batting is also starting to be amazing, where batsmen keep playing in a loud shots. But many times in cricket, the word ‘Khabbu batsman’ is used, after all why and for whom is this ‘Khabu batsman’?

Who is called Khabu batsman?

In cricket, the ‘Khabbu batsman’ is said to be a left -handed player. Actually the word ‘Khabbu’ means the left hand, the word ‘Khabbu’ has been used for the person working with the left hand. The player playing with the left hand has been given different names in different sports. For example, in fighting sports, such athletes are called ‘Southpow’, but in cricket it is common to call the left -handed batsman a ‘Khabbu batsman’.

5 greatest Khabbu batsman in cricket

Talking about the greatest batsmen in cricket history, these include the names of great players like Brian Lata, Kumar Sangakkara, Saeed Anwar, Sourav Ganguly and Adam Gilchrist. Lara, whose personal score of 400 runs in Tests has not been broken till date, while the swing of Sangakkara’s bat used to make the fans crazy.

Brian Lara- In his 430 matches international cricket career, Brian Lara scored 22,358 runs. He is the only West Indies player who has scored more than 10,000 runs in both Test and ODI format.

Kumar Sangakkara- Sangakkara received the Man of the Match award for a brilliant innings of 85 runs in the second match of his ODI career. He has 28.016 runs in international cricket and his number comes after Sachin Tendulkar in terms of scoring the most runs in cricket.

Adam Gilchrist- Adam Gilchrist made a great recognition for his aggressive style batting. Gilchrist, who scored a total of 33 centuries in all three formats, scored a total of 15,461 runs in international career. Gilchrist got the status of being a great batsman as well as a great wicketkeeper.

Sourav Ganguly- Sourav Ganguly, one of the most successful captains of India, is also a ‘batsman’. Ganguly scored 18,575 runs in his 424 international matches career. He also played 38 centuries in his historical career.

Saeed Anwar- Saeed Anwar of Pakistan, especially one of the best opening batsmen of ODI cricket. He scored 8,824 runs in his 247 matches ODI career. The record for making the biggest personal score in ODI cricket remained his name for many years. He scored 194 runs against India in 1997.

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There has been a big change in the England cricket team in the last ten years. During this, England also won the ODI and T20 World Cup. Batting was the reason for this change. Earlier, England, known as a Test team, came to an army of explosive batsmen in the last 10 years, which completely changed their cricket. One of these batsmen is also of Jason Roy.

Jason Roy is an explosive opener and has proved his ability internationally. However, this player, who made her debut under the captaincy of Eoin Morgan, did not get a chance according to his ability. Jason was sometimes out due to injury and sometimes he was dropped due to another player. Roy again defined stormy batting on some occasions in his career. It used to take a time that he is a long race horse. However, lack of continuity in the form and not getting frequent opportunities was a setback for his career.

Roy continued to get in and out of the English team at a time when the British batsman was playing white ball cricket to change the game forever. In this period, England came to one by one fantastic batsman. Roy also had amazing hitting ability. The average of around 40 and the strike rate above 100 shows that Roy was not inferior to the top ODI batsman in any sense. Constant performances and opportunities could make him stand in the list of England’s most prolific ODI batsmen.

Despite this, Roy, who played his last international match about two and a half years ago, is the third successful batsman for England in terms of scoring a century in ODIs and Morgan. Root has scored 18, Morgan has scored 13 and Roy has scored 12 centuries. At the same time, Roy is at number 10 in terms of most ODI runs.

Jason Roy has scored 1 half -century in 5 Tests, scoring 187, 12 centuries in 116 ODIs and 21 half -centuries, scoring 4,271 and 8 half -centuries in 64 T20s.

Roy, running out of England team, has a big demand in the T20 league. He plays in the world’s T20 league as an opener. In the IPL too, he has scored 614 runs in 21 matches.

At the same time, he is at number 17, among those who score the most runs, including league cricket and international T20. Between 2008 and 2025, he has scored 10, 348 runs in 403 matches scoring 6 centuries and 68 half -centuries.

Born on 1990, Roy has turned 35 years old on 21 July. Whether or not will be seen in the future in England’s jersey, it will tell whether his batting in league cricket will be seen for a long time.

Indian all-rounder Nitish Kumar Reddy may be out of the remaining two Test matches of Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy due to knee injury. Nitish did not participate in the alternative training session with the team on Sunday.

According to the report of ESPN Cricinfo, Reddy suffered injuries during training in the gym on Sunday. Injary has been detected in the ligament in the scan report.

Reddy’s injury may return to Shardul Thakur’s playing XI. Reddy was included in the team as a depth in India’s batting and the fourth fast bowling option. Reddy, who was out of the first Test, played the second and third Tests.

Reddy had a disappointing performance in the last two Tests. He could score only 45 runs in four innings. His best score was 30 runs in the first innings at Lord’s. He also took 2 wickets in two Tests.

Reddy’s injury is going to increase India’s trouble. The Indian team is already in trouble due to the injury of Akash Deep, Arshdeep Singh and Rishabh Pant. Left -arm fast bowler Arshdeep Singh suffered a deep injury to his hand during a training session.

Arshdeep Singh has been out of the fourth Test. In his place, BCCI has included Anshul Kamboj in the team. 24 -year -old Kamboj has taken 79 wickets in 24 first -class matches for Haryana. He was part of the India ‘A’ team, which went on a tour of England in the last month. His performance in two four -day matches was good. In the current series, England have taken a 2–1 lead over India. The fourth Test starting on July 23 in Manchester is very important for India to stay in this series.

Records have been made on records in this stormy batting era in cricket. Talk about ODI matches here, it is very difficult for a team to score 400 runs. If we say that the same player has scored 400 runs in the ODI match, will you be able to believe? Yes, the record of playing an unbeaten 404 runs in the same innings of the ODI match is in the name of Mustakim Houladar. This feat took place in Bangladesh, where a student of ninth grade in school level cricket scored an innings of more than 400 runs.

This historical record has not been much time. It was March this year when two school teams were fighting at the district level in Bangladesh. For the Cambrian school, Mudakim Houladar started the innings and no one was able to dismiss him throughout the 50 overs.

Keep batting for 260 minutes

Mustakim Houladar spent 4 hours 20 minutes at the area at the crease as an opener. He played a historic innings of 404 runs, facing 170 balls. His strike rate was 237.64 and in this innings he hit 50 fours and 22 sixes. Haluladar had scored 332 runs with fours and sixes.

His innings also became memorable for another reason, as he had partnered 699 runs with captain Saud Pervez. Parvez himself remained unbeaten in an innings of 256 runs in 124 balls. Parvez hit 32 fours and 13 sixes in his innings. Think of how many runs this team must have scored due to such giant innings. The innings of Cambrian School ended at 770 runs on the basis of historical innings of Haladar and Parvez.

Even more amazing is that the team of St. Grigory School was playing in front. This team, who came to chase the target of 771 runs, was all out for just 32 runs. In this way, Cambrian School had won 738 runs.

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Minimum age limit for international cricket debut: Usually, when a cricketer crosses the age of 35, the pressure to retire on him also increases. At the same time, by the age of 40, most of the cricketers have retired. Although there is no age to take retirement, can a player retire whenever he wants, but is there an age limit to debut in international cricket? Can’t play international cricket matches under 18? Know the answer here.

The youngest player who made his international cricket debut is Meet Bhavsar, who played his first international cricket match for Kuwait at just 14 years 211 days. His name is also recorded in the Guinness Book of World Records. Apart from him, Hasan Raza of Pakistan has also made his debut at the age of 15 years.

ICC changed 2020 rules

Before the year 2020, a cricketer could step into international cricket at any age. In the year 2020, the ICC changed the rules and said that the age of the player who debuted international cricket should be at least 15 years. However, it was also told that under special circumstances a board can appeal to the ICC to allow a player below 15 to play international cricket. Before allowing that player’s mental development and cricket experience will be considered.

Sachin Tendulkar was the youngest player to make international cricket debut for India. He made his debut in the Test match against Pakistan in 1989 at the age of 16 years 205 days. After him, Piyush Chawla is named second in the list of Indians, who played the first cricket match for India at the age of 17 years 75 days.

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Nicholas kirton arrested for drugs: From time to time, new controversies have been arising in the cricket world. Sometimes match fixing, sometimes there have been cases of abuses. Now the captain of a country’s national cricket team has been caught with drugs. The name of this player is Nicolas Kirton, who captains the National Cricket Team of Canada. A noted media channel in the country reported that Nicholas was arrested last Sunday. Now the Canadian Cricket Board has released the official statement in this matter.

The Canadian Cricket Board issued a statement saying, “Canada Cricket Board has received information about the allegations on Nicolas Kiratan and the arrest of Nicholas Kirton. We are very serious about this matter and continuously keep an eye on further action.”

Nicholas Kirton arrested in drugs case

According to some media reports, Nicolas Kirton has been caught with 9 kg Canabis. Canabis, also known as Ganja and Marizuana. According to the law there is no crime to travel with cannabis and a person can keep about 57 grams of hemp with him. But no person can travel and consume it with drugs in public places. But Nicholas Kirton has been caught with 160 times more drugs than the fixed limit.

Danger of being out of Canadian team

The Canadian team is currently preparing for the North American Cup, which is to be started from 18 April. But after the allegations on Nicolas Kirton, questions are being raised on the availability for his North American Cup. USA, Bermuda, Bahamas and hosts are going to participate in this tournament.

Talking about Nicholas Kirton, he was born in Barbados and has been one of the most important players of the Canadian team in the last few years. Before entering the Canadian team, he has also represented the Barbados team and the under-19 team of West Indies at the domestic level. Let us tell you that according to media reports, a cricketer in Canada is not able to earn Rs 50 lakh annually.

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