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Image Source: BCCI and ECB official websites. Test match is arguable the toughest format of the game and one of the most interesting formats too. A lot of thought is given to the selection of athlete(s) for the Playing XI for a given Test Series and each Test Match, to be precise. If it is a five-matches series in England, the stakes are significantly higher than usual. We all are enthusiasts and fanatics of sports (in this case Cricket), and we can feel the difference when it comes down to playing a sport for 5-days and when the game itself resembles our day-to-day lives. Doesn’t it? You start fresh every day, with new and more exciting challenges (such as weather), new opportunities, new setbacks, new record-breaking performances. Irrelevant of the Nation or the Team you represent. Harsha Bhogle kind of sums it up quite nicely for us, “I like many things about Test Match Cricket. We go through difficult phases in life. Maybe, financially we are not that well-off. The fact that you p...

  Image Source: https://www.cricket.com.au/series and https://www.24h-lemans.com/ If we are keen sports followers (in this case Cricket fanatics ), we are eligible to learn a thing or two from different discipline(s) in many ways, which we probably cannot justify all of it in a jiffy. But, we tend to realize these little nuances over time as we get better at understanding what does it take to get to be there and various aspects that tend to make or break the game. In this era, OTT-platforms have given us an interesting direction. We can now watch multiple sporting events such as the 24 Hours Le Mans, which are relatively lesser-known events in many countries. In India, we know Cricket is the dominant sport, specifically when it comes to Australia .vs. India #AUSvsIND the things start to become a bit more serious, because there is this preconceived notion of performing against the best in the world, dethrone them to become the best in the world. #TestOfChampions Image Source: Sony ...

When it comes down to ranking the best sport, we have different views & ranks for all the different flavors & the variety of sporting activities we can find in different corners of the world. Cricket seems to find a spot in Top-10 every year because of the ICC World Cups or the T20 extravaganza or maybe the moneyball that happens around via T20 leagues across Australia, India, South Africa, Pakistan, England & many more. If we compare the top-ranked sport in the world, it is necessary to catch-up with the recently hot-topics going around - the MS Dhoni saga & the wicket-keeping standards he has set for the players to fill for the vacant position.  To get to some answers, we will have to go through a story of which I’d like to call the wicket-keeping-batsman era of world cricket because it is not just MS Dhoni, there has been an equal contribution of Kumar Sangakkara and Adam Gilchrist who have changed the perception of being a solid pillar for the batting unit whil...

Image Reference: https://joelkimmel.com/tag/sports-fans/ “My favorite part of the game is the opportunity to play - Mike Singletary” . We all have had an equal number of opportunities in our lifetime. Some may appear when ‘we want them’, many of those would only appear to us ‘when deserve them’, but sooner or later we will get a chance to prove ourselves. Being an athlete this task is even harder, since you have a constant pressure of being watched, judged, and often criticized by many known personalities & mostly the people we don’t know, the fans aka well-wishers or commonly known as followers/supporters .  An athlete, always waits for the right moment with his full potential to grab that opportunity in-order to prove his/her worth to the people around & to the people who may or may not have heard the name or had a glance of their performances. Grabbing that opportunities will reveal its challenges where the responsibilities are relatively tough with an additional layer ...

Image Source: https://99designs.com/poster-design/contests/create-word-cloud-tree-house-578029 Since the ICC CWC 2019 and incidentally after MS Dhoni not appearing in the Indian Jersey for approximately 6-months (as of 31st Jan 2020) numerous articles, debates & opinions have been shared upon India’s next wicket-keeper. After the CWC 2019, Indian Team has played total of 35 matches with the following format break-up, 19-T20I Matches (vs SA, BAN, WI [Home & Away], SL & NZ [on-going series]). 9-ODI Matches (vs WI [Home & Away], AUS) 7-TEST Matches (vs WI [Away], SA & BAN) In these 35 matches, we have seen 4-wicket keepers in action namely Mr. Wridhiman Saha, Mr. Rishabh Pant, Mr. Sanju Samson & Mr. KL Rahul, with the following break-up (presence as a WK in the playing 11.), Source: ESPN Cricinfo (India Fixtures & Results since August 2019). Source: ESPN Cricinfo (India Fixtures & Results since August 2019). Having sa...