DTVHINDIExclusive: “I have never seen him drop a catch…”, Mohammad Kaif calls Rishabh Pant the best fielder
Mohammad Kaif praised Team India’s fielding coach T. Dilip and stressed that the level of fielding has increased because of him. Mohammad Kaif (Photo Source: Instagram) Former Indian player Mohammad Kaif is playing for Gujarat Giants in Legends League Cricket 2024. Gujarat won their first match against Urbanisers Hyderabad by 8 wickets. After the match, Mohammad Kaif talked about many things in an exclusive interview with CricTracker. Mohammad Kaif praised Team India’s fielding coach T. Dilip and stressed that because of him the level of fielding in the team has increased. He also described Ravindra Jadeja and Rishabh Pant as the best fielders of the Indian team. Exclusive interview of Mohammad Kaif with CricTracker- First question: How was the match? Answer: I think the way Morne van Wyk played was amazing to watch. It was a tough pitch, day match. He kept wicket for the first 20 overs, then opened the innings and finished the match. So, so far in this LLC I have not seen such a great innings. Second question: What changes have you seen in the fielding of the team after T. Dilip came to India? Answer: They are doing a very good job. They have a big role. Suryakumar Yadav took a catch in the T20 World Cup, which was the turning point. So they have done a very good job and the level of fielding has gone up. The Indian team has performed well. Third question: According to you, who are the top-2 fielders of India? Answer: India is the world champion, Ravindra Jadeja is among the top-2 fielders of India. Jadeja has become an even better fielder with age. People say that with age you become slow, but Jadeja is a perfect example that if you focus on fitness, your performance improves, his fielding has improved. The second name I will take is Rishabh Pant, as a wicketkeeper, I have never seen Rishabh Pant drop a catch.
Viv Richards reached Team India’s dressing room after victory against Bangladesh, gave the best fielder medal to SKY
Suryakumar Yadav did excellent fielding in the match against Bangladesh. Best fielder Award (Photo Source: BCCI) The Indian team has almost confirmed its place in the semi-finals by defeating Bangladesh on Saturday. India defeated Bangladesh by 50 runs in the Super-8 stage of the T20 World Cup 2024. In this match, the Indian team performed well in all three departments. The Indian team has not lost a single match in this World Cup so far and has also won two consecutive matches in the Super-8 stage. India’s final match in the Super 8 stage will be against Australia on June 24. Meanwhile, as usual, BCCI on Sunday shared a video of the Indian dressing room on social media, in which West Indies legend Sir Vivian Richards is seen. This time he was a part of the Best Fielder Award Ceremony held in India’s dressing room. Sir Viv Richards presented the fielding medal to Surya Kumar Yadav Let us tell you that Team India’s fielding coach T Dilip called Vivian Richards to the Indian dressing room. The entire team stood up and welcomed Vivian Richards in the dressing room with thunderous applause. As soon as Vivian Richards arrived, he first hugged Virat Kohli and shook hands with Team India’s head coach Rahul Dravid. This great West Indies player praised the Indian team for its performance so far in the tournament. Richards also said that if West Indies is unable to make it to the tournament, he will support the Indian team. 📽️ 𝗗𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗥𝗼𝗼𝗺 𝗕𝗧𝗦 | 𝗜𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗮 𝘃𝘀 𝗕𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗹𝗮𝗱𝗲𝘀𝗵 At the Sir Vivian Richards Stadium, it is the legend himself who presented the fielder of the match medal! WATCH 🎥🔽 – By @RajalArora , #T20WorldCup , #TeamIndia , #INDvBAN , @ivivianrichards — BCCI (@BCCI) June 23, 2024 It is worth noting that after every match, the team’s fielding coach T Dilip nominates players for the Best Fielder Medal and this trend continues in the ongoing tournament as well. Apart from Sir Vivian Richards, Ravi Shastri, Yuvraj Singh and Rahul Dravid have given this award to different players. After the match against Bangladesh, the team’s fielding coach T Dilip nominated Suryakumar Yadav, Rohit Sharma, Akshar Patel for the Best Fielder Award. After this, Vivian Richards presented the medal to the world’s number one batsman Suryakumar Yadav. He was the winner of the Best Fielding Award this time. Surya took the catch of Liton Das in this match, which was a very brilliant catch.
This experienced player not only won the T20 series against Afghanistan but also won the Fielder of the Series award.
In the third and final T20 match played at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium on 17 January, India defeated Afghanistan and won the three-match T20 series 3-0. Virat Kohli (Pic Source-Instagram) In the third and final T20 match played at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium on 17 January, India defeated Afghanistan and won the three-match T20 series 3-0. The players of the Indian team performed very well in this entire series and played an important role in the victory of their team. However, after the end of the third T20, Indian team’s fielding coach T. Dilip announced the name of the Player of the Series award for this entire series. This award was received by none other than Virat Kohli. Even though Virat Kohli did not take part in the first match of this important series, he fielded brilliantly in the second and third T20. Even in the third T20, he fielded very well and stopped many important runs for his team. This is the reason why Virat Kohli was given the Fielder of the Series award for his excellent fielding. The Indian cricket team has shared a video on its official Instagram account in which T Dilip is talking in front of all the players in the dressing room about the team’s performance in this series. He first praised the team’s fielding and then also named the Fielder of the Series award winner. As soon as he took the name of Virat Kohli, all the players clapped. Apart from the experienced batsman, Rinku Singh was also included in this list but Virat Kohli won the award. India won the T20 series: Talking about the third T20, in this match the Indian team, batting first, scored 212 runs after losing four wickets in 20 overs. On behalf of the team, captain Rohit Sharma played a record-breaking century of 121 runs in 69 balls with the help of 11 fours and eight sixes. Not only this, Rinku Singh also made a valuable contribution of 69* runs in this match. However, Gulbadin Naib, batting aggressively from Afghanistan’s side, played a stormy innings of 55 runs in 23 balls with the help of four fours and four sixes. Because of his innings, Afghanistan scored 212 runs losing six wickets in 20 overs. After this, in the first super over, Mukesh Kumar bowled for the Indian team and Afghanistan scored 16 runs. However, due to the aggressive batting of Rohit Sharma, the first super over also ended in a tie. In the second super over, the Indian team batted first and could score only 11 runs. The most surprising thing was that Ravi Bishnoi had come to bowl the second super over for the Indian team. Many people were quite surprised to see this thing. However, Ravi Bishnoi did not disappoint all the Indian fans and Rohit Sharma’s decision and he took two wickets for one run in three balls and played an important role in the victory of the Indian team. Top 4 partnerships of T20I cricket from India 5 Australian players who scored…
