DTVHINDISA20 2024: Aakash Chopra makes big prediction as he reveals the reason behind SA20 success
Aakash Chopra said CSA preferred the SA20, which proved to be excellent. Aakash Chopra (Photo Source: Twitter) Former Indian cricketer and cricket expert Akash Chopra told that in 2023 SA20 Why the first edition was so successful and what fans can expect from SA20 2024. Aakash Chopra said on JioCinema’s daily sports show ‘#AAKASHVANI’: “I would like to go with AB de Villiers’ prediction that SA20 will soon become the second biggest league after IPL. I think SA20 has got the right direction and content right from the first season. For this you can give credit to Graeme Smith and the South African public. Fans had gathered even at neutral venues in SA20: Aakash Chopra Apart from these, the South Africa Cricket Board also deserves congratulations and credit for the importance given to SA20. It was very important to build a connection with the fans in the first season. You watch any match of the first season and stadiums everywhere were packed. Even at neutral venues, fans had gathered. SA20 has filled a gap that has been there in South African cricket for some time. Read here: “He was playing ODI cricket as if T-20 was going on” – Aakash Chopra said about Rohit Sharma The second thing that went right with SA20 is that CSA gave priority to this T20 league. Some people have complained that South Africa were not playing a full strength team in the Test series and they suffered defeat in the ODI series. But CSA realized that if they couldn’t provide something interesting, they wouldn’t be able to retain players for long. The SA20 is also known for local talent and the quality of their performances.” Left-handed players will be the main attraction this time: Aakash Chopra On expectations from the second edition of SA20, Aakash Chopra said: “The Indian connection, the SA20 teams are owned by IPL franchise owners. Due to this there is an overlap and a connection. The other thing about this league is that it was extremely successful last season, mainly due to the performance of its local players, be it Aiden Markram, Marco Johnson or Kagiso Rabada. I think this time left-arm spinners will play a major role. There is one left-arm spinner in every team. Keshav Maharaj is actually the captain of his team Durban Super Giants. Bjorn Fortuyn of Paarl Royals is also a good left-handed player. There is something about South African pitches where the fast bowlers perform well and the left-arm spinners too.” IND vs AFG: Captain Rohit Sharma will give chance to these 11 players, see playing XI Not only Hardik Pandya, Mumbai Indians have also traded these players 5 batsmen who have scored more than 3 thousand runs in T20 International matches Top 10 batsmen who hit most sixes in IPL history IPL 2024: Gujarat Titans’ playing XI will be like this under the captaincy of Shubman Gill. 5 players who have scored the most centuries while opening in all formats of cricket Those 5 memorable innings of David Warner in Test cricket…
“No one knows why he is not in the team, it is a different story”- Aakash Chopra said about Ishan Kishan
Ishan Kishan had withdrawn his name from the Test series against South Africa. Ishan Kishan Aakash Chopra (Photo Source: Twitter) Former Team India cricketer Aakash Chopra believes that Sanju Samson and Jitesh Sharma have been selected ahead of Ishan Kishan in the Indian team for the T20 series against Afghanistan because they can play wicketkeeper-batsman in the middle order. Can play in. Mohali will host the first match of the three-match T20 series between the Men in Blue and Afghanistan on Thursday (January 11), while the other matches will be played in Indore and Bengaluru. The selectors on Sunday named a 16-man squad for the series, with Samson and Jitesh selected as wicketkeeping options. No one knows why Ishaan Kishan is not there – Aakash Chopra In a video shared on his YouTube channel, Chopra said that there was no explanation for why Samson was selected in place of Kishan as the wicketkeeper-batsman option. He elaborated, “Jitesh Sharma and Sanju Samson are the two wicketkeepers, although Samson was not kept as the keeper in the last two series. Ishan Kishan was going as the keeper but now he is no more. No one knows why Ishan Kishan is not there. This is a different story.” The former India opener said that the lack of vacancies in the top order might have forced the selectors to pick Samson and Jitesh. He said, “You have suddenly filled the opening slot. Virat Kohli plays at number 3, he does not play at number 4. Therefore the keeper will have to bat lower in the order. You have only two keeping options who can bat lower down the order, one is Jitesh Sharma and the other is Sanju Samson.” It is noteworthy that Ishan Kishan was out of the recent Test series against South Africa due to personal reasons. There is no clarity whether he has been ignored for the Afghanistan T20I series or he is still not available for selection. Also read: What problem has BCCI faced with KL Rahul now?
When the pitch is bad, somehow the Indian team performs best there – Aakash Chopra
The Cape Town Test match was over in less than two days. Aakash Chopra (Photo Source: Twitter) Team India recently registered a historic win by defeating South Africa by 7 wickets in Cape Town. This was the shortest match in the history of Test cricket. (depending on the balls). After this match, there is discussion everywhere about the pitch of Cape Town. In this match played in Cape Town, the fast bowlers got a lot of help from the pitch and the batsmen had to struggle to a great extent to score runs. In this series, now former Team India cricketer Akash Chopra has given his opinion. He believes that whenever the pitch is bad, Team India performs its best in that difficult situation. While hosting JioCinema’s daily sports show ‘#AAKASHVANI’, Aakash Chopra gave his opinion about the Cape Town pitch. Indian team never complains about the pitch – Aakash Chopra Chopra said, “When a Test match lasts for one and a half days, some results also come. There are some talks regarding the pitch. Some questions have been asked. India have never complained about the quality of the pitches offered. Last time the Wanderers pitch was really bad. To be honest, some players could have got hurt due to this. This pitch of Cape Town was also bad. India still focused on the match and did not complain. I also remember that pitch in Perth (Australia). And it was really bad. You can’t justify a pitch where the ball comes off good length and goes over the keeper’s head. There also India did not say anything. He just competed and showed fighting spirit. In fact, when the pitch is bad, somehow the Indian team performs best there. I think neither such pitches nor dusty pitches are good for the game in India. This is simply not good for the game of cricket.” Also read: Brett Lee seen talking in Hindi in Big Bash League, watch video
“Test cricket is currently in ICU and has been put on ventilator”- Aakash Chopra said about the red ball format.
Many former and current cricketers have criticized Cricket South Africa for preferring SA20 over Test cricket. Regarding this, Chopra has said that the Test cricketer is now in ICU and has been kept on ventilator. He also criticized Pakistan for leaving out Shaheen Afridi from the third Test against Australia to manage his workload ahead of the Pakistan Super League (PSL) starting in early June and the T20 World Cup. Aakash Chopra gave a surprising statement regarding test format In a video on his YouTube channel, Aakash Chopra said, “Test cricket is currently in the ICU and has been put on a ventilator. First of all, there are a handful of teams playing Test cricket and even among them there are only three teams left that can afford to play Test cricket. South Africa announced its B team against New Zealand. The reason is that SA20 is about to start, it is their domestic T20 tournament.” Aakash Chopra further said, “Two Test matches of the WTC cycle have come this time. He said let’s leave the Test match and they will play in SA20, from (Aiden) Markram to (Kagiso) Rabada, everyone should be available there (SA20) and the rest of the kids can play Test cricket.” Aakash Chopra was surprised to see that Pakistan decided to give Shaheen Afridi a break after losing the first two matches of the series. The former Delhi batsman said that it had never happened that any Asian country had dropped its leading bowler from the team in Australia. I am seeing this for the first time. Also read: David Warner did something like this before batting in the last test
“If he gets out early”- Aakash Chopra told Team India’s plan to win the second test match.
In the first Test match played at Centurion, Elgar scored 185 runs and the African team defeated the visitors by an innings and 32 runs. Rohit Sharma and Co. will hope to better their performance in the second and final Test starting in Cape Town on Wednesday, January 3. In a video shared on his YouTube channel, Aakash Chopra said that if India get rid of Elgar early then they can take advantage of South Africa’s ‘weak’ batting. Aakash Chopra said that, “The news from South Africa is that Temba Bavuma is not there. This is Dean Elgar’s last test match and he is going to play as a captain. He also said that forget about runs, his eyes are on the trophy. So he will be very excited about it.” The former opening batsman further said, “I still feel that the South African batting is weak. If you remove Dean Elgar, it seems that batting is very normal, but it is very difficult to remove Dean Elgar, he does not get out that easily.” Aakash Chopra believes that if India has to win the second Test match, the batsmen will have to perform well here. He said, “I still think that if India has to do well, they need to bat well. He will have to play five seasons. The truth is that South Africa batted a little more in one innings, while India batted completely in two innings.”
Aakash Chopra chose his Test XI for 2023, gave place to 4 Indian players
Names of four Indian players are included in Aakash Chopra’s best Test XI. Aakash Chopra And Team India (Photo Source: Twitter) Former India batsman Aakash Chopra has selected his Test XI for 2023. Chopra has included four Indians, two Australians, three Englishmen and one player each from New Zealand and Bangladesh in the best Test team of the year 2023. Australia played 13 Tests in 2023, winning six and losing four. They also won the World Test Championship (WTC) final by defeating India by 209 runs at the Oval. Talking about India, they played eight matches, out of which they won three and lost three, while two matches ended in a draw. England won four and lost three of their eight Test matches in 2023, while one match ended in a draw. In a video on his YouTube channel, Chopra chose his Test team for the year 2023. He chose Australia’s Usman Khawaja and India’s Rohit Sharma as opening batsmen. Khawaja was the leading run-scorer in Tests in 2023, scoring 1210 runs in 13 matches at an average of 52.60 with three centuries and six fifties. Indian captain Rohit scored 545 runs in eight matches at an average of 41.92 with two centuries and two half-centuries. Chopra selected Joe Root, Virat Kohli and Harry Brook as middle-order batsmen while Bangladesh’s Mushfiqur Rahim got a place in the team as a keeper-batsman. Root scored 787 runs in eight matches at an average of 65.58 with two centuries and five half-centuries. Kohli scored a total of 671 runs in eight matches at an average of 55.91 with two centuries and as many fifties. Talking about Brook, he scored 701 runs in eight Test matches at an average of 53.92 with the help of one hundred and six half-centuries. Bangladesh’s veteran wicketkeeper-batsman Rahim played only four Tests in 2023 but scored 355 runs at an average of 50.71 with one hundred and two fifties. Jadeja and Ashwin get place in Aakash Chopra’s 2023 Test XI Chopra also picked Indian all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja as well as off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin in his Test XI for 2023. While Jadeja has taken 33 wickets in seven matches at an average of 19.3 with two five-wicket hauls, he has also scored 281 runs at an average of 35.1. Experienced spinner Ashwin was the leading wicket-taker for India in Tests in 2023. He took 41 wickets in seven matches at an average of 17.02 with four five-wicket hauls. Australia’s Mitchell Starc, New Zealand’s Tim Southee and England’s Stuart Broad are the three fast bowlers in Chopra’s 2023 Test XI. Starc played nine Test matches at an average of 29.63, taking one five-wicket haul and three four-wicket hauls. Took 38 wickets with. Southee ended 2023 with 24 wickets at an average of 27.4 in seven Test matches, while the retired Broad took 38 wickets at an average of 26.28 in eight Test matches. Aakash Chopra’s Test XI of 2023: Usman Khawaja, Rohit Sharma, Joe Root, Virat Kohli, Harry Brook, Mushfiqur Rahim, Ravindra Jadeja, Ravichandran Ashwin, Mitchell Starc, Tim Southee…
IPL 2024: “On paper they look very strong”- Aakash Chopra said about SRH
The former India opener is hopeful that the IPL 2016 champions will try to win the title in the upcoming edition of the prestigious league. They said that, “When the team was good last year, did not release too many players, and have strengthened the team further, they should finish in the top four. “I wouldn’t be surprised at all if they look close to winning the title.” Apart from Cummins and Head, SRH bought Wanindu Hasaranga, Jaydev Unadkat, Akash Singh and J Subramanian in the auction. They also bought Shahbaz Ahmed from Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) before the auction and gave Mayank Dagar to RCB in return. Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) full squad for IPL 2024: retained players– Abdul Samad, Rahul Tripathi, Glenn Phillips, Heinrich Klaasen, Mayank Agarwal, Anmolpreet Singh, Upendra Yadav, Shahbaz Ahmed (trade), Abhishek Sharma, Marco Jansen, Washington Sundar, Sanveer Singh, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, T Natarajan, Mayank Markande, Umran Malik, Fazalhaq Farooqui. bought new players– Travis Head, Wanindu Hasaranga, Pat Cummins, Jaydev Unadkat, Akash Singh, Jhathaveda Subramanian. Also read: Read all the latest cricket news till today evening from the cricket world.
