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Mohsin Khan has slammed the fitness stands of the Babar Azam led Pakistani cricket team and said that the fielding standards of the team are quite bad. During an interview, Khan went on to say that eight players of eleven do not meet the required fielding standards. For a while, now any players including Shoaib Akhtar have raised questions on the fielding standards of the team and former Pakistani batsman Mohsin Khan also joined the bandwagon.
With the on-going menace of coronavirus, all the live-action for sports has been away from the radar. The IPL 2020 which was about to happen on March 29, 2020, had been postponed to April 15, 2020. With the 21-day lockdown in the country, the fate of IPL 13 hangs in as the final call would be taken post the lockdown. Now, during these times, we bring you the exciting games of the previous years and in this section of This Day, That Year we have a look at the match between Sunrisers Hyderabad and Mumbai Indians
With absolutely no sporting activities on the radar, the sports stars are catching up with their family members and are spending a lot of time with their pets. A few of them are even posting their dance videos and entertaining their fans. Dinesh Karthik also posted a video of himself and flaunted his version of the lockdown video which apparently scared his pet dog Coco Chanel.
While India is in a 21-day long lockdown, the cricketers along with the other Indians are at home staying indoors amid the coronavirus scare. The cricketers make sure to help their families with daily chores and even conduct a live chat session for the fans. India’s Hanuma Vihari organised a live Twitter chat for the fans on social media where he was asked to take his pick between the two openers Rohit Sharma and Australia’s David Warner.
April 6, 2019, was quite a special day for Robert Lewandowski as he scored his 200th Bundesliga goal during Bayern Munich vs Borussia Dortmund at the Allianz Arena. This was only his 284th appearance in the German league as he scored a couple of goals in the game against Dortmund. Bayern Munich won the match 5-0. With this, Robert Lewandowski got a brilliant record of scoring 200 goals in the German League and had set the internet on fire.
For a long time now, there have been rumours that Neymar Jr will be back to Barcelona. In fact, Lionel Messi has been rooting for the PSG striker has been known by all. Now, the rumour mills have started working once again when the Catalan Giants have tagged the former Barcelona striker in their Latest tweet. The fans have started guessing that he will soon be donning the colours of Barca.
Cristiano Ronaldo is currently spending his time in Madeira in Portugal with his kids and family members amid the lockdown due to coronavirus. Amid the lockdown, CR7 is making sure to keep himself in the best of shape and has also urging the people to be fit while they stay indoors. CR7 posted a video and introduced the Living Room Cup Challenge where the five-time Ballon d’Or Winner was seen faulting his core strength and urged the netizens to take up the same.
The coronavirus has marred the chances of IPL 2020 and thus the tournament which was supposed to begin from March 29, 2020, has not yet started. As of now, the given date by the IPL governing council is April 15, 2020. As India undergoes a 21-day lockdown the admins of the IPL teams are making sure to keep the fans hooked on their social pages.
Lionel Messi has had a tug of war with the Barcelona FC whether it is his spat with Eric Abidal or his recent controversy where he took a swipe at the management of the Catalan Giants. It was said that the players of Barcelona did not accept pay cuts which the club had offered. This had not gone down well with the six-time Ballon d’Or winner and he put up a post on Instagram clarifying the players’ stand on the pay-cut issue.
A few moments ago The Mirror reported that Lionel Messi’s private jet had taken an emergency landing this morning. The private jet was landed at Brussel's Zaventem airport on Friday morning after there were problems detected with the landing gear. It is still not clear if Messi was on the plane but it touched down en route to Tenerife at 9.10 am as reported by a Belgian media.
As the entire country is suffering from a lockdown due to the menace of coronavirus. The cricketers are also home and are making extensive use of this time by spending blissful moments with their families. However, once in a while they keep on conducting live chats for their fans. Recently Rohit Sharma went live with Jasprit Bumrah and the adorable Samaira was in the news again.
For a couple of days now, Indian cricketers Yuvraj Singh and Harbhajan Singh have been facing flak as they donated funds to Shahid Afridi Foundation in Pakistan. Now, Pakistani cricketer, Danish Karenia has urged Yuvraj and Harbhajan to help the minorities in Pakistan and has requested the duo to do their bit.
With the pandemic situation created due to the coronavirus, the IPL 2020 has been delayed and thus we do not have the live-action happening any sooner. Amid the crisis, we have only had to revisit the good old days in this section of ‘This Day, That Year’. Today we shall talk about the mouthwatering clashing between Mumbai Indians and Chennai Super Kings which happened on April 4, 2020, at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is having a video conference with top 40 sportsmen from various sports amid coronavirus crisis including Sourav Ganguly, Sachin Tendulkar, Virat Kohli and Virender Sehwag. It is the current BCCI President Sourav Ganguly who will host the meeting at his residence and it is said that Ganguly has brought up the topic of the IPL 2020 which has been postponed until April 15.
The coronavirus has left the fate of IPL 2020 handing and like the fans, even the players are keen on participating in the tournament. While there is a tinge of doubt about the players from overseas participating in Indian Premier League 13 Kolkata Knight Riders Pat Cummins has dropped a major hint about his presence in the upcoming edition. While speaking to one of the media outlets, he had confirmed his participation in the IPL 2020.
The menace of coronavirus has led to the pushing away of India’s T20 carnival the Indian Premier League. The IPL 2020 was about to begin on March 29, 2020, but it was due to the pandemic situation created due to coronavirus which ultimately stalled all the sporting events around the world and IPL 2020 was surely a part of it. As India undergoes a 21-day lockdown, the meeting between the BCCI and franchises will now happen only after April 14, 2020, after which the fate of IPL 2020 will be decided.
Ever since the two footballers, i.e Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi have started playing. Football pundits, journalists, fans and others have had this debate for donkey’s years now but none of them has come to a conclusion on who among the two is the ultimate GOAT. But the fans in Spain have made their choices and have voted the Juventus forward as the best player of all time.
Cristiano Ronaldo might have left Real Madrid in 2018 itself but his goals are still remembered by the Los Blancos. One of them is surely CR7’s crazy bicycle goal against Juventus that happened during Champions League 2017-18. The following season itself, Ronaldo broke his nine-year-long stint with Real Madrid and donned Juventus colours.
Paulo Dybala and Cristiano Ronaldo have been good team buddies even since the former Real Madrid player shifted to Juventus in 2018. Needless to say, the two even share a great rapport with each other and during an interview, the 26-year-old revealed how Ronaldo reacted when he was told that they hated him at Argentina. Paulo Dybala during an interview mentioned that it was during one of the conversations with CR7 he revealed about how he was hated in his country.
On the ninth anniversary of the 2011 World Cup, where the netizens were going gaga over MS Dhoni’s winning six, the others remember Gautam Gambhir contribution as well when he displayed nerves of steel after India lost the two openers quite early in the game. The match was held at the iconic Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai between India and Sri Lanka. However, in the first half of the day, MS Dhoni’s last six was highlighted by a majority of the media houses and this surely hasn’t gone down well with Gautam Gambhir who lashed out at the media for the act.
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