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India Vs West Indies 1st T20Is 2018

At Kolkata, India played against West Indies for the 1st T20 Cricket. There were lot of expectation from Virat Kohli less Indian side against the two times World Champions West Indian side. West Indies side looked very powerful with names Pollard, Brathwaite, Hope, Hetmyer and others whereas Indian side was without Virat Kohli their best batsman and the man in form and with two debutants Krunal Pandya and Khaleel Ahmed. Rohit is in formidable touch with his batting in ODIs and also looked impressive whenever he lead the side. India won the toss and chose to field as they felt dew could play a part in the second half of the match. As soon as the match started, West Indies went in all attack mood but this approach doesn't seem to pay off as they started losing wickets in quick time. West Indies lost their first wicket Denesh Ramdin when he tried to poke a swinging delivery outside off from Umesh Yadav and edged it to Dinesh Karthik. Immediately in the next over, a mix up cost an
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Kohli - The Run Machine

Kohli, The King Kohli, The Run Machine and much more adjectives suite to the one only our own Kohli, the Indian captain, and the greatest batsman in the current era. Is Run making so easy nowadays? Not sure, but many teams are scoring 300+ totals in ODIs nowadays. Not sure, if the batsman have got better or the pitches have become batting friendly or the bowlers have become less skilled... We can ask numerous whys, but there is this one guy Kohli who stands before all opponents, all kinds of pitches, different conditions, and all kind of bowling attacks. Without making any excuses about the conditions or the pitches, he plays extra ordinary cricket day in and out. There was so much of buzz before the India - England Series in England that Kohli is not the greatest because he hasn't played well against England in the previous serious in 2014. But the way he played in England clearly shows that he had no doubt in his performance and played to his absolute best and became the m
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Why do I write this post??

Why do I write this blog? I just thought for a moment.I started to love Cricket once again because of sensational cricketing by India. Yes, it is true that the love for cricket has gone down for a very long time. I could recollect the days, when I run down from school to immediately switch on TV to see if Tendulkar is still playing. If not, I switch it off and do something else. Yes, it was that interesting when Sachin was playing and yes, that's the reason we love him so much and that's because of him we were glued to TV to watch India matches... As Sachin was about to retire, we had the likes of Dhoni, Yuvraj, Sehwag, Dravid, Gambhir, Zaheer, Bajji and many more in the Indian side who gave hope to billions of Indians. To be honest, the retirement of Sachin was worrying scene but definitely, people of India didn't lose hope. They continued watching Cricket and India did win some of the crucial matches all over world but India started losing many matches as they have los
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