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I had won my fans back: Pandya

India’s premier all-rounder Hardik Pandya believes he has regained his fan base through his performances, pointing at the key role he played in India’s T20 World Cup triumph in the Americas last year.

Bahutule named Royals’ spin bowling coach

Former India cricketer Sairaj Bahutule has been appointed spin bowling coach of the Rajasthan Royals, the Inaugural Indian Premier League (IPL) champions. He worked in the same capacity with RR from 2018 to 2021.

Flight path

It had to be said, sometime ago that Sourav Ganguly hadn’t really shot up like a rocket blasting off into space when they showed him the door as India's cricket board president and he, playing to the Bengal gallery, seemed to harrumph before promising a bigger jump in life, which left his targeted audience tickled pink.

Paradise lost

Given the intellectual vacuity Twenty20 tournaments exist in, you would not really be surprised if anyone inside the bubble said Margaret Thatcher was “the other woman” in King Alfred’s life. But the assumption that cricket before it was slow as a snail probably calls for contradiction.

Pot of gold

Those who should have had something to say if he was less than honest or accurate have been seemingly impassively silent. Among other things, Kumar wrote that the BCCI gave huge amounts of money to state associations, mostly raked in through the Indian Premier League.