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India's confidence will be sky high after series win in Australia: Broad

England fast bowler Stuart Broad is of the opinion that it is pretty tough to get India captain Virat Kohli out but the team needs focus on its strength. In his latest column on Daily Mail, that India will be riding on the confidence after beating Australia in their own backyard.

“This is not an easy place to tour, and India's confidence will be sky high from winning at the Gabba to complete a series victory in Australia earlier this month. I can tell you that they had supporters within this England team throughout that decisive match in Brisbane,” Broad wrote in his column.

Broad further lauded India’s intent and said that any team would be “proud” of how the injury-plagued Indian team performed in Australia.

“The togetherness, the character, spirit and willingness they showed was phenomenal. Any team in the world would have been proud of what India achieved despite being depleted by injuries. They are the World Test Championship leaders for good reason. But we have moved from being admirers to their enemy within a couple of weeks and what we cannot do is build India up in our minds. They are not impregnable,” he added.

“Virat Kohli is one of the best I've ever seen but if we go through all their positives we will be defeated before we've even begun. We need to build on our own strengths,” he further wrote.

The Test series between the two sides begins on February 5 in Chennai. England are touring India for four Tests, five T20Is and three ODIs.

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The Board of Control for Cricket in India is all ready to bring the Indian Premier League back to India after hosting the last edition in the United Arab Emirates. According to TOI report, the board is considering starting the tournament in mid of April (tentatively between April 11 and 14) across various venues in the Western part of India such as Wankhede, Brabourne, DY Patil Stadium, Reliance Cricket stadium and Maharashtra Cricket Association ground in Pune for the early part of the season. "India can't not host the IPL at home and say, it is ready to host the T20 World Cup later in the year. The BCCI conducted a very impressive IPL under a well-constructed bio-secure bubble when the pandemic was at its peak. There's no reason why the BCCI can't construct the same bubble here at home," TOI cited an unnamed BCCI official as saying. As the tournament will go towards its business end, the action might also be moved to newly-built Sardar Patel Stadium in Ahmedabad, TOI report said further. Notably, the board has scheduled the IPL auction for this year on February 18 after 18 in Chennai as franchises have already disclosed the list of players they have retained for the next edition.

Sourav Ganguly discharged from hospital

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IND vs ENG: Virat Kohli has opportunity to break MS Dhoni's record in Tests at home

Indian captain Virat Kohli is on the verge of some special milestones in the upcoming Test series against England. Kohli is coming back to the Indian team after his paternity leave and he will resume as the leader of the Indian team in the first Test of the series starting February 05. Kohli is just two Test wins behind his predecessor MS Dhoni who has 20 Test wins at home, and if India can win two Tests out of the four-match series, he will overtake Dhoni's record of most Test wins on home soil. Virat Kohli is also nearing a special feat in his batting career as his batting numbers have swelled since the time he assumed charge of the captaincy of the Indian team. He has scored 5,220 runs so far as the captain of the Indian Test team and stands just 14 runs away from surpassing former West Indies skipper Clive Lloyd who had amassed 5,234 runs in Test cricket. Once Kohli goes last Lloyd, only Graeme Smith with 6,659 Test runs, Allan Border with 6,523 runs, and Ricky Ponting who had amassed 6, 542 runs in the longest format. Kohli will be hungrier to dominate the English bowling attack after missing the large part of India’s historic series in Australia. He was looking in great touch in the only Test he played in the series at the Adelaide Oval, but he will be short of match practice and hence challenges will be huge to mount in the first Test at the M.A Chidambaram stadium.

Jay Shah becomes the youngest President of Asian Cricket Council

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