As #BoycottPakistan trends on social media in India, can and should the cricketing team follow suit? Patriot takes a look With Team India scheduled to take on Pakistan in the T20 World Cup in Dubai this coming Sunday (October 24), the debate #Boycott Pakistan has started trending on social media to settle the scores outside […]

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Facing a slump, Kohli’s decision of relinquishing the captaincy of the Indian T20 team and RCB were big steps. But were these steps in the right direction, Patriot takes a look  On Monday, the stylish cricketer played his last match for the Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) as a captain. The Red Devils lost a close […]

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With Kohli’s exit as the T20 captain after the World Cup, who will lead both on and off the field is a pertinent question, one without a simple answer   Split captaincy after Virat Kohli’s last assignment as T20 leader would indeed not be new to India. Kohli and his predecessor Mahendra Singh Dhoni shared […]

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With Virat Kohli announcing that he will be giving up his captaincy of the T20 team after the World Cup, the Patriot takes a look at why he chose to do so and his possible replacements The odds are piling up against Team India captain Virat Kohli. The man known for breaching the three-figure mark […]

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With the final Test match in Manchester being cancelled,  question arise around the true motives for the cancellations and the role of Ravi Shastri and Kohli   The Covid-19 related cancellation of sporting events in 2020 has created havoc in the minds of almost every country and every sports federation around the world. The loss of […]

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After the team’s poor performance at Headingley, questions are being raised about Kohli’s slump and Vikram Rathour’s ability to pull him through it, Patriot  takes a closer look    Two things are being talked about in public posts regarding the recent innings and India’s 76-run loss to England in the third Test at Headingley on the […]

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With the Taliban controlling Kabul once again, clouds of uncertainty shroud the future of Afghanistan’s cricket team  After the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan, there have been serious doubts regarding the future of the Afghanistan cricket team, or for that matter all sporting activities there. Though the Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB) has made it clear that […]

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India’s defeat at the WTC is a sign of problems in the team, most important of which is the team’s dependency on a few players  Going into the sixth and final day of the World Test Championship final, the New Zealand team was staring at a possible defeat at the hands of Team India. With […]

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