June 20, 2024



Hazlewood says IPL was “perfect” preparation for T20 World Cup

Australian pacer Josh Hazlewood says getting adequate game time in the just-closed IPL in the UAE was “awesome” groundwork for the T20 World Cup and could place him in an advantageous position in the show-stopper.

The 30-year-old got back to the IPL even as speed partners Pat Cummins, Mitchell Starc and Kane Richardson quit the second leg of the rewarding association and stayed at home.

“That was my speculation going in,” Hazlewood, who plays for Chennai Super Kings in the IPL, was cited as saying by Australian media.

“Conditions, the components here – it’s very hot – and simply getting a run of rounds of T20 cricket driving into the World Cup. It’s been great.”

Having been essential for CSK’s victorious mission, he has now connected up with the public crew in Abu Dhabi.Hazelwood, who has a reasonable information on the conditions and slow nature of the contributes the UAE, has played more T20 games in the beyond a half year than he had in the past six years, on account of associations like the IPL.

“I feel pretty certain about my job now,” he said.

“It’s really comparative job whether it’s intended for Chennai or Australia — several (overs) front and center and afterward a couple toward the end. So (I’m) feeling more certain with each circumstance I’m in.

“You can never overwhelm T20 cricket as a bowler, I don’t think. There’s simply such countless various components. However, I’m having a decent outlook on my game.”

He played nine games in the second 50% of the IPL and was one of CSK’s significant wicket-takers.

Having missed counterparts for Delhi Capitals in the IPL’s subsequent leg inferable from a calf injury, all-rounder Marcus Stoinis is back bowling in the nets and could include in the group’s World Cup opener against South Africa in Abu Dhabi on Saturday.Fencer Bhavani Devi, who left a mark on the world at the Tokyo Olympics by turning into the principal Indian to contend in the game at the Games, has won the Charlellville National Competition in France in the singular ladies’ saber occasion.

The 28-year-old fencer tweeted about something very similar.

“Won the Charlellville National Competition, France in the Women’s Saber person. Much obliged to mentor Christian Bauer, Arnaud Schneider, and all partners. Congrats to for an extraordinary beginning of the period,” she tweeted in the wake of winning the opposition.

At the Tokyo Olympics, she won her round of 64 match 15-3 against Tunisia’s Nadia Ben Azizi prior to going down to possible bronze-medallist, Manon Brunet of France in the round of 32.

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