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Jasprit Bumrah becomes fastest Indian pacer to take 100 Test wickets

Jasprit Bumrah has become the fastest Indian pace bowler to get 100 wickets in Test cricket on the fifth and final day of the fourth Test against England at the Oval. He reached the landmark in his 24th game by breaching the defence of England’s number five Ollie Pope in the afternoon session.

Till Pope’s wicket, he has taken his wickets at an outrageously economical average of 22.95 and strike rate of 51.53 balls per wicket. 

He went on to pick another wicket of Jonny Bairstow in the same spell with an absolute beauty that hit the base of his stumps.

Bumrah has been India’s talisman with the ball since the time he made his debut in the longest format in 2011718 against South Africa. He has leapt his way up in the pecking order for the Virat Kohli-led side over the past three years.

 

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AUS-AFG Test in Hobart under threat as Tasmania Premier seeks Hazara verdict on its hosting

Premier or functional Head of State of Tasmania, Peter Gutwein has threatened that he might request Cricket Australia to shift the Australia -Afghanistan Test from Hobart. The Test was scheduled to start the Australian Summer on November 27. However, with the Taliban take over of Afghanistan, a large Hazara community living in Hobart might hold a grip over whether the Test is played at skipper Tim Paine’s home ground or not. The Tasmanian Premier, apart from worrying about the Hazara outrage, was also conscious of Afghanistan Government’s commitment towards women sports in the country "I have very real concerns as to whether or not the state should hold that match without some very clear commitments being made around it, in terms of the future of women's sport," Gutwein was quoted as saying by AAP news agency. On his plans of seeking the view of the Hazaras in Hobart, the Premier said, "What I intend to do, in terms of that match going ahead, is reach out to the Hazara community later this week and have a chat with the local communities here to get a sense as to their view.” "We'll be seeking to engage with the Australian Cricket Board (Cricket Australia) and I want to get the feedback from our local community as well,” Gutwein, who assumed office in January 2020 added. Hazaras were the most persecuted by the Taliban during their 1996-2001 rule and many of them fled to Australia. Now, with a large minority population, they do hold sway over matters concerning them and their nation of birth. Keeping all this in mind, Gutwein said, "If our local community felt that it would be sensible and perhaps confidence building to allow that match to go ahead then obviously that's a different matter. But I think we need to get some advice." The Afghanistan Cricket Board and Cricket Australia committed to playing the Test in 2020 itself but it was delayed due to a global pandemic.

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Bangladesh to go with Nurul Hasan as primary wicket-keeping option in T20 World Cup

Bangladesh head coach Russell Domingo confirmed that the team would be going into the ICC T20 World Cup 2021 with Nurul Hasan Sohan as the primary wicket-keeping option as a senior wicket-keeper batsman and former captain Mushfiqur Rahim has decided not to keep wickets in the shortest format. "There has been a change. Initially, after speaking to Mushy [Mushfiqur Rahim], he was going to keep after the second game. But he told me he probably doesn't want to keep wickets in T20s anymore, so we have to move on," Domingo was quoted as saying by Cricbuzz. "I don't think Mushfiqur's desire to keep in this format is great anymore. We have to focus on Sohan (Nurul) and possibly let him do those duties going into the competition,” the coach added. At the start of the series, it was decided that Sohan would keep in the first two games while in the next three games, Rahim was to keep wickets. The arrangement was made in such a manner so that the management could decide whom to go to within the upcoming World Cup. The Bangladesh time was thrashed by New Zealand in the third T20I by 52 runs as they folded for 76, their second-lowest T20I total. The South African coach of the Bangladesh team was however not really bothered by the single loss and said that his team was simply outplayed in all sections of a game. "We were obviously outplayed by New Zealand today. I am disappointed but that's the nature of this format and full credit to New Zealand for being much smarter and better skilled than us today," Domingo said. Domingo further suggested that there was no problem with the team’s approach of going for runs early on instead of playing the waiting game. "I don't think there was a problem in approach in batting. We want to try to stay ahead of the run rate. Once you are behind, it gets difficult to catch up. We want to start positively. Unfortunately, we lost a few early wickets, and then we lost wickets in clusters,” he said. The two teams will now face each other in the fourth T20I at the Sher-E-Bangla Stadium in Dhaka.