My body is ready to handle an increased bowling workload: Hardik Pandya

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Indian allPandya has the amount of load he can han amp up their prepa ICC Men’s Cricket er this year. Pandya his body is ready increased bowling he will still adopt a approach in the buildthe World Cup. India currently engaged a three-match ODI ries against the West Indies which is currently tied 1-1 and Hardik is yet to complete his bowling quota of 10 overs in either of the two matches so far, an ICC report on Monday said.

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Prithvi Shaw set for his county debut with Northamptonshire

Indian allrounder Hardik Pandya has spoken about the amount of bowling workload he can handle, as India amp up their preparations for the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup later this year.

Pandya has bowled 9.4 overs across the two games –three overs in the first match and 6.4 overs in the second where he was leading the side in Rohit Sharma’s absence. Despite bowling in a limited capacity, Hardik has reassured everyone that there is no reason to worry about any niggling injuries or about his fitness, stat- ing, “My body is fine. I have to bowl more overs and get my workload up for the World Cup.”“I’m a turtle right now, not the rabbit and hoping everything goes right as the World Cup comes on,” he said.After comprehensively winning the first ODI against West Indies in Barbados, the Indian team were handed a defeat in the second match at the same venue as the hosts valiantly fought back. India were bowled out for 181, with the West Indies chasing down the target in 36.4 overs with six wickets in hand.The deciding contest will be played in Trinidad on Tuesday and Pandya is relishing the challenge ahead. “To be honest, you want to be going 1-1 to the third game as it’ll be more challenging and exciting. They will be tested; we will be tested now that the series stands 1-1.

New Delhi: India opener Prithvi Shaw is all set to make his county debut with Northamptonshire County Cricket Club (NCCC) on Friday. According to a Cricbuzz report, the Mumbai opener was supposed to reach England a bit earlier but due to some logistical issues, his visit was delayed. But, he is now set to kick-start his county stint with a one-day cup game. "I am delighted to say Prithvi arrived in the UK today (Sunday) and will feature in our one-day cup starting Friday, August 4. Official announcement (will come) tomorrow (Monday)," Ray Payne, the Chief Executive of NCCC) was quoted as saying in the report.

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Individual Compound Gold Medal

India’s Aditi Gopichand

Swami clinched the gold medal in the women’s individual compound event at the World Archery Championships 2023 after defeating Andrea Becerra of Mexico 149-147 in the final, here on Saturday. With her gold, the 17-year-old Aditi, who was seeded sixth in the qualifying round, has become the youngest archer to top the podium in an individual category at the senior world championships.

Aditi, a U18 world champion and

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Swami clinches

world record holder, defeated fellow Indian Jyothi Surekha Vennam, seeded second, 149-145 in the semifinals to book her place in the final. Meanwhile, Jyothi Surekha Vennam beat Ipek Tomruk of Turkey 150-146 to win the bronze medal in the women’s individual compound event. Another Indian archer, Parneet Kaur, was knocked out in the quarterfinals after losing to Jyothi.

Earlier, Jyothi, Parneet Kaur and Aditi Gopichand Swami had

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teamed up to win the women’s compound team event and clinched India’s first-ever gold at the archery world championships. In the compound men’s and mixed team events, Indian archers failed to progress beyond the quarter-final stage. None of the Indian recurve archers made the medal rounds, thereby failing to win any Olympic quota places for the Paris Olympics on offer in Berlin. Only recurve archery competitions are held at the Olympics.