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IND vs NZ | 1st T20I: Mark Chapman leads Blackcaps' resurgence after Bhuvneshwar's swinging start

After the new captain, Rohit Sharma won the toss and elected to bowl first on a wet surface at Sawai Mansingh Stadium in Jaipur, India were off to a brilliant start with Bhuvneshwar Kumar finding prodigious swing to castle the man in form Daryl Mitchell.

However, their celebration was short-lived as the new addition to the New Zealand side, Mark Chapman hit a fighting and fluent fifty to put the Blackcaps in the game. After losing the wicket in the first over, Chapman and Martin Guptill stitched a controlled partnership of 95 runs.

He reached his fifty in T20 internationals in 45 balls and it was his first such milestone for New Zealand. He has one half-century in T20 cricket while playing for Singapore.

India are playing their first game under the new leadership group of Rohit Sharma, Rahul Dravid and KL Rahul while the Blackcaps are without their full-time captain Kane Williamson. They are also without Devon Conway.

India handed Venkatesh Iyer T20 international debut and he is likely to bat in the lower middle order and he was also expected to roll his arm overs for some overs with the ball. However, the skipper Rohit Sharma did not offer him that opportunity till the 12th over of the game.

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T10 League 2021-22: A look at the squads

The T10 league 2021-22 is slated to begin on Friday (November 19) with Northern Warriors taking on Delhi Bulls in the first match of the day in Abu Dhabi and this will be followed by the clash between Team Abu Dhabi and Bangla Tigers at the same venue. The tournament will also have some former India cricketers featuring in it. The likes of Yusuf Pathan, Munaf Patel, Abhimanyu Mithun will be a part of their respective sides. Here’s a look at the squads for the teams. Team Abu Dhabi: Colin Ingram, Ahmad Daniyal, Chris Benjamin, Phil Salt, Paul Stirling, Obed McCoy, Danny Briggs, Jamie Overton, Naveen Ul Haq, Liam Livingstone, Chris Gayle, Marchant De Lange, Fidel Edwards, Rohan Mustafa, Mohammad Faraazzudin Delhi Bulls: Ravi Rampaul, Adil Rashid, Sherfane Rutherford, Rilee Roscoe Rossouw, Dominic Drakes, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Jason Roy, Dwayne Bravo, Shiraz Ahmed, Hafeez-Ur-Rehman, Nyeem Young, Fazalhaq Farooqi, Akeal Hosein, Devon Thomas, Romario Shepherd, Sohaib Maqsood, Jaskaran Malhotra, Gulbadin Naib Chennai Braves: Dushmantha Chameera, Maheesh Theekshana, Dhananjaya Lakshan, Migael Pretorius, Mark Deyal, Nicholas Pooran, Yusuf Pathan, Darren Bravo, Munaf Patel, Muhammad Shahzad, Tion Webster, Dasun Shanaka, Bhanuka Rajapaksa, Laxman Majrekar, Khalid Shah, Angelo Perera, Samiullah Shinwari, Curtis Campher, Chamika Karunaratne, Roman Walker, Ravi Bopara, Toby Albert Deccan Gladiators: Tom Banton, Tom Kohler-Cadmore, Andre Russell, Evin Lewis, David Wiese, Najibullah Zadran, Odean Smith, Rumman Raees, Tymal Mills, Wanindu Hasaranga, Hamid Hassan, Tom Moore, Wahab Riaz, Asif Khan, Zahoor Khan, Sultan Ahmed Bangla Tigers: James Faulkner, Benny Howell, Faf du Plessis, Muhammad Amir, Johnson Charles, Andre Fletcher, Qais Ahmed, Hazratullah Zazai, Will Jacks, Hassan Khalid, William Smeed, Adam Lyth, Karim Janat, Luke Wood, Isuru Udana, Sabir Rao, Tom Hartley, Vishnu Sukumaran Northern Warriors: Rovman Powell, Chris Jordan, Moeen Ali, Rayad Emrit, Samit Patel, Imran Tahir, Upul Tharanga, Kaunain Abbas, Umair Ali Khan, Rameez Shahzad, Kennar Lewis, Abhimanyu Mithun, Josh Little, Ross Whiteley, Gareth Delaney, Yo Mahesh Vijayakumar

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Ireland coach Graham Ford steps down after poor World Cup outing

Ireland head coach Graham Ford has decided to tender his resignation from the position after spending four years in the role. It is being seen as one o the outcomes of a very poor World Cup campaign for the men in green. Cricket Ireland announced on Wednesday, November 17 that Ford’s three-year contract which was extended by a year will end hereafter. Ford on his part also released a statement in which he said, "The last four years have been very special for me. I have enjoyed many happy days with a cricket squad made up of very special people. I have also enjoyed watching club cricket and experiencing the passion and club loyalty of many fine cricketing people.” "When compared with the other ICC Full Member nations, Cricket Ireland has faced many handicaps and challenges. Despite this, on several occasions, the team has competed impressively with some of the top teams in world cricket and it has been a privilege for me to experience first-hand the character and togetherness of the Irish players,” added the well-travelled coach who has in past coached international sides like Sri Lanka and South Afric and successful clubs like Kent in County arena and Dolphins in South Africa back home. Reasoning that his decision came after much consideration the 61-year-old, who was appointed as head coach in 2017 thanked all those involved in building the Irish team which got its permanent member status under his tutelage. "I realise that this is the right time for me to step away from Cricket Ireland. I'd like to end by thanking all the players and the support staff for their impressive attitudes and loyal support during the four years and I look forward to watching them achieve big things in the future,” he said. Ireland had one of its World Cups this year as it was unable to qualify for the Super 12 and would now have to undergo a qualifying tournament to make it to the first round of the 2022 T20 World Cup.

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The Ashes | Pat Cummins certain of rotation, but won't seek rest unless 'something going wrong'

The rotation of fast bowlers is an old phenomenon in Australian cricket and they employed the move quite strategically in the past few years to keep their frontline pacers “fresh and ready to go” along with grooming other pacers on their radar. However, the move was ditched last season when Tim Paine and Justin Langer played the trio of Pat Cummins, Mitchell Starc and Josh Hazlewood all the four Tests against India. By the end of the third Test in Sydney and the final Test in Brisbane, the signs of the move backfiring were becoming evident and the debate about how much a pacer should play and bowl reignited in the Australian media by former players. Starc appeared to be the most tired bowler in the final Test and his lack of control allowed India to get away with some easy runs on the eventful final day at the Gabba. As another long series against England looms over the hosts in the form of an iconic Ashes series, the leader of the Australian pace attack Cummins has no doubts that the pacers will be rotated and not all will the entire five-match series. He said that Australia have a great bunch of pace bowlers and that it won’t be “huge issues” if one of the first-choice picks doesn’t recover from niggle. He added that the others can slot in right away into the playing XI and will put their hands up with the ball. However, he ruled himself out of resting for the sake of it and said that he won’t be seeking time off the field until he has to deal with “something going wrong”. Notably, Australia employed the rotation of pacers very successfully in the last Ashes series in England by using James Pattinson and Peter Siddle in odd matches but Pat Cummins was the only pacer who played all the five Tests of the series. "When someone's I guess rested it is normally more to it than just purely workload," Cummins said. "There's always niggles and small little injuries that we're dealing with, basically after every single Test match. The great thing is we've got a huge stable of fast bowlers. So yeah, I don't think it'll be a huge issue if someone's not able to get up for a Test or someone's just red-lining a little bit. Someone else can slot in." "I'd be surprised if the same four bowlers were used for all five Tests. That's pretty rare, especially the five-Test match summer. But I certainly won't be putting my hand up to be rested unless I've got something going wrong.” The first Ashes Test is scheduled to take place at Gabba from December 8.