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Top 6 South African Born Players Playing For Other Nations

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In 1970, the ICC voted to suspend South Africa from international cricket indefinitely because of its government's policy of apartheid, an overtly racist policy, which led them to play only against the white nations(England, Australia, New Zealand), and field only white players. The ban was lifted in 1991 and after that Proteas never looked back and produce many great players like Jacques Kallis, Graeme Smith, AB DE Villiers and many more. But it is also a sad fact that only 11 players can represent the nation at one time and with plenty of talent it is not possible that every player gets a chance to play international cricket. So some talented players who didn't get a chance to represent their country migrate and explore their opportunities in other countries. Same is the case with SA, many great players in cricket history were born in SA but served other countries.  Let's look at such few greats of game. Top 6 South African Born Players Playing For Other Nations 1. Kevin ...

Top 5 Cricket Matches Of India Effected By Rain

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ICC Tournaments are surely a treat to watch for all cricket fans as in them all cricket playing nations fight for a single trophy. But sometimes due to bad weather conditions and especially rain knockout games of big ICC tournaments get spoiled. Today we will see 5 instances when rain spoiled India's knockout games in ICC tournaments Top 5 Cricket Matches Of India Effected By Rain Let's get started  1. India Vs New Zealand - Southampton(2021) - World Test Championship Final Well ICC should look into the fact that inaugural edition of WTC is in danger of not getting a single champion because of the excess of rain and bad light in match. First Day of play was called of due to rain, second day's last session was not fully played due to bad light and same with 3rd day. 4th day of play also washed out due to rain. Now it will be a miracle if WTC will get a inaugural champion because looking at the current situation of match the trophy will be shared between Virat Kohli and Kane ...

TOP 5 INDIAN BATTING PERFOMANCES IN WTC

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  As the day of WTC final is coming closer we all are excited to see who will be the champion of inaugural edition of World Test Championship. Team India's journey to the finals is nothing less than a roller coaster ride as it saw many ups an downs from 36 all out to breach of fortress of Gaba.  So now let's take a look at top 5 batting performances delivered by Indian players in WTC that led India to finals. 1. Rohit Sharma: 161(231) vs ENG - Chennai - February 2021                                                                 This innings surely deserves a place at top because it ensured the place of India in WTC finals. After loosing first test match of series against England at Chennai it was necessary for India to win at least 2 matches and to draw 1 match to reach finals a...