Cricket means India-Pakistan: Born in Zimbabwe's Sikandar Sialkot, Africa's Keshav writes on every victory - Jai Shri Ram

Posted on 24th Aug 2022 by rohit kumar

There can be any international cricket match in any corner of the world and any team in the world can play the match. In that match, there is a war between the players of India and Pakistan. Two big matches in the last 48 hours have become proof of this.

 

In the third ODI between India and Zimbabwe, Pakistan-born Sikandar Raza spoiled the condition of the Indian bowlers. He scored a brilliant century in the match. It seemed that Team India would lose an ODI match against Zimbabwe after 12 years. Good luck to Shubman Gill who took his brilliant catch off Shardul Thakur and dismissed him.

 

Raza was born on 24 April 1986 in Sialkot, Pakistan. In 2002, he immigrated to Zimbabwe with his family. But it took him 9 years to get citizenship there. He got this right in 2011.

 

Just a day before this match, a match was played between Netherlands and Pakistan. Here two Indians had pricked Pakistan's nose. Vikramjit Singh and Aryan Dutt were playing for the Netherlands, ranked 14th in the ODI rankings. Aryan Dutt dismissed Babar Azam twice in the series. At the same time, in the third ODI, Vikramjit Singh almost gave the Netherlands victory in the match based on his batting.

 

Keshav Maharaj from Sultanpur writes after every victory- Jai Shri Ram

 

Keshal Maharaj, the vice-captain of the South Africa team, is of Indian origin. His ancestors belonged to Sultanpur in UP. In 1874, his ancestors moved to Durban, Africa in search of a good job. Whenever Keshav performs well with the ball and bat, he does not forget to write Jai Shri Ram with his picture.

 

Shamsi is also of Indian origin

 

At the same time, the parents of another player on the team, Tabrez Shamsi, are also of Indian origin. Both these players have won their team many times in the match against India and Pakistan with their superb bowling.

 

England's top spinner hails from Pakistan

 

World champions England's top spinners Adil Rashid and Moeen Ali are of Pakistan origin. Adil is the leading wicket-taker for England in ODIs and T20Is. At the same time, all-rounder Moeen has won England many times with both his bat and ball. Both of them were also part of the England team in the 2019 ODI World Cup. The families of these two players had settled in England before independence.

 

Usman Khawaja, who was born in Pakistan, played for Australia

Recently Australian team went to tour Pakistan. In this series, Australian opener Usman Khawaja scored 496 runs in 5 Test innings. During this, his average was 165.33. Khawaja had scored two brilliant centuries. He made a strong protest against the country in which Osman was born. Khawaja was born on 18 December 1986 in Islamabad, Pakistan. When he was 5 years old, his family settled in Australia.

 

Rachin Ravindra, Ish Sodhi, Ejaz Patel, and Jeet Rawal are also of Indian origin in the New Zealand team.

 

America's captain and coach Indian

 

The captain of America's cricket team is Indian-origin Monak Patel. He hails from Gujarat and has also played Under-19 cricket for Gujarat. Well-known Indian domestic players like Unmukt Chand, and Manan Sharma have also gone to America and played cricket there. At the same time, the coach of the team, J Arjun Kumar, is a resident of Bangalore.

 

1. Vritya Arvind

 

Of the top-10 players who have scored the most runs in One Day International cricket in 2022, 4 players are from India and Pakistan and all of them do not play for their country.

 

Vritya Arvind, who plays for UAE, hails from Chennai. This year he has played 18 ODIs and 736 runs have come off his bat. He is at number 2 among the highest run scorers in 2022.

 

2. Jatinder Singh

 

Jatinder Singh, who plays for Oman, has played 16 matches in ODI cricket this year and scored 653 runs. He is in sixth place among the highest run scorers. Jatinder was born in Ludhiana, Punjab. His father Gurmel Singh worked as a carpenter in the Royal Palace of Oman since 1975. Born in 1989, Jatinder immigrated to Oman with his father at the age of 14.

 

3. Sikandar Raza

 

Sikandar Raza is in eighth place in the top 10. This Zimbabwe player has scored 615 runs in 12 matches. In the series against Bangladesh, Raza scored two consecutive centuries. At the same time, after being a flop in two matches against India too, this player scored a century in the last match.

 

4. Chirag Suri

 

Chirag Suri of UAE has played 18 matches in 2022 and has scored 586 runs with his bat. He is ranked 9th among the highest run scorers this year. Chirag was born in Delhi and has been playing for UAE since 2014 and made his ODI debut in 2018.

 

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