The problem was highlighted in ODI World Cup when Hardik Pandya limped off with ankle injury in match against Bangladesh. This also hurts India most when team plays Test matches overseas.
Eight IPL franchises own at least one team in another league abroad. Mumbai Indians, Delhi Capitals have both acquired teams in new T20 tournaments in South Africa, UAE and US.
Of 449 shortlisted cricketers who went under the hammer, 87 — including 30 foreign players — were bought by Bangalore, Mumbai, Gujarat, UP & Delhi Women Premiere League franchises.
Having raced to 104-1 in 18 overs, helped by Finn Allen's breezy 57, New Zealand had looked on course for a 2-0 series victory until rain stopped play.
Last year's runner-up Rajasthan Royals retained Buttler ahead of the auction for next year's IPL. Sunrisers Hyderabad has released Williamson & Kolkata severed ties with Finch.
While it appears that Ashwin & Karthik have played their last games in the shortest format, the BCCI sources said it will leave it on Kohli & Rohit to decide on their T20I future.
Bangladeshi player Litton Das nearly single-handedly broke the back of India's defence of 184 in Adelaide Wednesday. But there's more to this opener than his latest innings.
India will be touring New Zealand for a white-ball series comprising three T20Is and as many ODIs after the World T20 in Australia between 18 to 30 November.
RJD, once a prominent representative of Mandal politics, now finds itself in a political era where welfare, good governance, and new aspirations are overshadowing old caste equations.
Without a Congress revival, there can be no challenge to the BJP pan-nationally. Modi’s party is growing, and almost entirely at the cost of the Congress.
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