Chennai as super king, glittering glittering, Kohli surpassing Sachin, finally Indian tears in the World Cup – Asianet News

Thiruvananthapuram: It has been an eventful cricketing year. The year Chennai Super Kings joined Mumbai Indians in the number of IPL trophies by winning the IPL final with a nail-biting finish. The year Virat Kohli broke Sachin Tendulkar’s record of 49 ODI centuries. A year where India missed out on two finals, the Test Championship and the ODI World Cup. The year when the first Malayalam to become the cricket captain of the national team shone brightly. The year India officially won the Asia Cup by defeating Pakistan and Sri Lanka… 2023 is a year with many stories to tell from the cricket field.

Chennai Super Kings

2023 was the season that saw the infallibility of Gujarat Titans in the league stage for the second year in a row. Gujarat won 10 out of 14 games and reached the final by beating Mumbai Indians one-sidedly. Chennai, who were second in the points table, defeated Lucknow Super Giants in the qualifier. Ravindra Jadeja hit a six and a four in the last two balls in the final which lasted till the 20th over. Chennai defeated Gujarat by 5 wickets and joined Mumbai with their fifth title. Devon Conway was man of the match in the final while young sensation Shubman Gill was the star of the tournament. 2023 was also the season in which Chennai and Mumbai came back from last year’s collapse. Sunrisers Hyderabad and Delhi Capitals, who came out without captain Rishabh Pant, became five failures in the IPL.

World Test Championship Final

Most of the fans expected that Australia with 11 wins, three losses and five draws from 19 matches and India with 10 wins, five losses and three draws from 18 matches will face each other in the final of the World Test Championship. But what happened was a completely one-sided final. Australia defeated India by 209 runs in the final at the Oval. India could not even cross 300 in both innings against Australia, who scored 469 and 270 for eight wickets. The elite of Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma and Cheteshwar Pujara struggled to find batting form. Only Ajinkya Rahane, who scored 89 in the first innings and 46 in the second innings, shone in the batting. With the absence of Jasprit Bumrah in bowling, India surrendered to Australia without even stopping to fight.

minnumani

It can be said that 2023 was almost a year of lightning in Kerala cricket. Minnumani became the first woman player from Kerala to make it to the Indian senior team. Minnumani is also the first player from Kerala to play women’s IPL. Minnumani also made headlines as the captain of the Indian women’s team for the Twenty20 series against England A. This is the first time that a Kerala woman player is leading the national cricket team. Minnumani is a native of Mananthavadi, Wayanad. Off spin bowling is the main. Left-handed batting will also yield to Minnumani. Minnumani has been active in Kerala cricket since the age of sixteen. He has been playing for Kerala in various teams for the past ten years.

Virat Kohli @50

Virat Kohli has achieved more centuries than Sachin Tendulkar in ODIs – a record that no one dared to think about at one time. That too by playing more than 150 innings less than Sachin Tendulkar. Virat Kohli scored his 50th century against New Zealand at Wankhede in Mumbai, where all the pride of Indian cricket is known. Virat also holds the record of being the first player to score fifty ODI centuries in the 52-year history of ODI cricket. Kohli scored 765 runs in the 2023 World Cup.

Defeated in the World Cup final

World Cup coming to Indian soil after 12 years. Probably the last ODI World Cup where Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma will bat together. Many fans thought that India would not repeat the knockout failures of 2015 and 2019 this time. The first ten matches lived up to the expectations of the fans. Ten wins out of ten. India won authentically against all the teams that came forward like Australia, Pakistan, New Zealand, England and South Africa. India implemented the formula prepared by Rohit Sharma and Rahul Dravid ahead of the World Cup with all the authenticity on the ground. Rohit, Kohli, Rahul, Gill, Iyer, Shami, Bumrah and Jade each played their part beautifully.

In every game, India had their share of trouble. India’s unbeaten run and Afghanistan’s unexpected performances helped to keep the excitement of the World Cup intact, with England and Pakistan returning earlier. Rachin Ravindra, Daryl Mitchell and Glenn Maxwell made the scene thick. Even so, India missed a single day of playing the final. Australia won their sixth World Cup by defeating India by six wickets at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad.

IPL Star Auction 2024

Hardik Pandya has grabbed the headlines this time around the comparatively uneventful IPL trade window. Hardik captained Gujarat Titans in his debut season and took them to the finals in his second season as well. In a highly dramatic move, Hardik left Gujarat and joined Mumbai Indians after the deadline to retain players ahead of the star auction was over. Soon after, Cameron Green moved from Mumbai to Bangalore. This is the biggest transfer in the history of IPL.

173 players have been retained in all 10 teams. The franchises are in the final stages of calculating which players should be sent to the camp before the star auction for the next season is scheduled to take place on December 19. World Cup luminaries such as Travis Head, Rachin Ravindra, Mitchell Starc, Pat Cummins, Vanindu Hazaranga, Shardul Thakur, Josh Hazelwood and Harry Brook, who have left their current teams, will also be auctioned.

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Last Updated Dec 7, 2023, 1:52 PM IST