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Jasprit Bumrah celebrates with Yashasvi Jaiswal after taking a wicket. (Pic credit: BCCI) NEW DELHI: Ace Indian fast bowler Jasprit Bumrah etched his name into the record books on Thursday, becoming the fastest Indian bowler to claim 50 Test wickets at home in terms of balls bowled. Playing against the West Indies in the opening Test at Ahmedabad, Bumrah achieved the milestone in just 1,747 deliveries.Go Beyond The Boundary with our YouTube channel. SUBSCRIBE NOW!Bumrah returned impressive figures of 3 for 42 as India bowled out the visitors for 162 in their first innings. His scalps included the prized wicket of Justin Greaves, who top-scored with 32, while also dismissing opener John Campbell with the help of DRS after the on-field umpire had initially ruled in favour of the batter.In terms of innings taken by Indian pacers to reach 50 wickets on home soil, Bumrah equalled Javagal Srinathâ€s mark of 24 innings. Both now share the record, ahead of Kapil Dev who required 25 innings, while Ishant Sharma and Mohammed Shami reached the milestone in 27 innings each.Fastest Indian pacers to 50home wickets (by innings):

• Jasprit Bumrah – 24
• Javagal Srinath – 24
• Kapil Dev – 25
• Ishant Sharma – 27
• Mohammed Shami – 27

Meanwhile, Mohammed Siraj continued his red-hot form, leading the charge with 4 for 40 to extend his wicket tally in 2025 to 27. Siraj rattled the West Indies top order with a fiery opening burst, dismissing Tagenarine Chanderpaul for a duck and later cleaning up Brandon King.Kuldeep Yadav also chipped in with two wickets, including Shai Hope for 26, to break a steady fifth-wicket stand with skipper Roston Chase.West Indies, already weakened by injuries to Alzarri Joseph and Shamar Joseph, crumbled in just 44.1 overs. Their struggles reflect the decline of a team once feared worldwide, bowled out cheaply once again after their historic collapse for 27 against Australia earlier this year.With Bumrah creating history and Siraj continuing his purple patch, India look in commanding position to take the lead in the two-match series.

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Bell’s main strength when she first emerged in international cricket was her ability to swing the ball extravagantly into the right-handed batter, but she spent most of 2024 remodelling her action to add more strings to her bow.

Now swinging the ball both ways and with canny variations in pace, Bell is England’s strike powerplay bowler and her confidence when bowling in that phase – often seen as one of the most difficult – shows the belief and strength in her mental approach to the game.

“You’re obviously bowling at the best batters, but I look at it the other way in that I’m the new-ball bowler, I get to swing the ball, so you know it’s a huge chance for wickets,” said Bell.

“In my head, it’s the best time to bowl. My mindset is that this is an opportunity for me to set up a game.

“I love opening the bowling, I love that it presents me with an opportunity for wickets rather than fearing that they might see it as an easy time to score boundaries.”

Head coach Charlotte Edwards left experienced seamer Kate Cross out of England’s squad, meaning extra responsibility has shifted to Bell’s shoulders in the pace attack with Em Arlott and Lauren Filer as the other frontline seamers, and captain Nat Sciver-Brunt playing as an all-rounder.

The conditions in Guwahati, where England will play their opener against South Africa, have been extremely humid and will be challenging, as all teams experienced during last year’s T20 World Cup in the United Arab Emirates.

For Bell, who could be opening the bowling with spinners and therefore having little time for rest, this has been a consideration.

“We’ve done so much work on that behind the scenes that nobody would’ve seen,” she said.

“During The Hundred we did all these running sessions, top-up sessions after games and that’s the bit nobody will see.

“Especially for me as a seamer, I want to make sure that I’m bowling as fast as I can in the last over of the tournament as I am in the first.”

It may be Bell’s first World Cup, but she could be one of England’s most important players in it.

From the boredom in quarantine to the first ball in Guwahati, it has been a remarkable rise.

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Middlesex seam bowler Toby Roland-Jones has signed a one-year contract extension to 2026.

The club legend, 37, has played his entire career for the county since making his debut in 2010.

Roland-Jones claimed a hat-trick as Middlesex beat Yorkshire to seal their first Division One title for 2023 years in 2016.

In 157 first-class appearances for the club, he has taken 577 wickets at an average of 25.14.

“I’m delighted to sign an extension with the club, a place that has been home for 16 years and counting now,” Roland-Jones told the club’s website, external.

“I remain as motivated as ever to try and push the standards and restore the club back to its desired position, competing in Division One cricket whilst challenging for white-ball honours.

“It was a privilege to lead this great club, and I’m equally excited to slip back into the bowling ranks and assist the new leadership in any way possible.”

Roland-Jones was the second-highest wicket taker in County Championship Division Two last season with 45.

He took 4-57 in his side’s final match of the season against Gloucestershire as they finished fourth in the table.

Roland-Jones has five England caps, four in Test cricket plus a lone one-day international.

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Cross was part of the England squad which won the Women’s Ashes in Australia in 2013-14 but missed the most recent series in Australia, which saw England humbled 16-0 on points, because of a back injury.

She returned to fitness to play in one-day internationals against West Indies but was dropped after figures of 0-60 against India in the first ODI of a series which the tourists went on to win 2-1.

“As it so happened, our appraisals were about 10 days after that series,” Cross told former England team-mate Alex Hartley on their No Balls podcast.

“I went down to Loughborough and I think I was in there for about six minutes and I drove myself back home.

“We had the opportunity to take somebody from the PCA [Professional Cricketers’ Association] into our appraisal.

“Looking back I am so pleased I took him in. I chatted him through what I thought my scenario was about an hour or two before I went into the appraisal and I was inconsolable.

“I thought how am I going to get through the appraisal without crying and then I had cried it out and got in there and within 45 seconds, I found out I wasn’t getting my contract renewed so it all happened really quickly.

“I was weirdly more calm in my appraisal than chatting before it. I had gone in there armed with a lot of my stats and stuff to talk about and I didn’t open my book, I didn’t get a chance to. It was a pretty savage day.”

Since being told her contract will not be renewed, Cross has won The Hundred with Northern Superchargers and helped Lancashire to success in the One-Day Cup.

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Kranti Goud delivered a masterclass in India’s recently concluded series against Australia, claiming the wicket of the dangerous Alyssa Healy in all three ODIs.

Her three-wicket haul in the second ODI powered India to a 102-run victory, keeping the series alive. Even in a run-fest decider, the 22-year-old pacer asserted her dominance over the Australian captain completing a 3-for-3 against one of the world’s most feared batters.

It is the kind of performance which announces a star.

But to understand what makes Krantiâ€s rise special, you have to rewind far from New Chandigarh or Delhi.

Cricket began for Kranti at a bare village ground in Ghuwara, Bundelkhand. A 12-year-old girl, youngest among six siblings, ran in with the wind in her face and no cricket shoes on her feet.

Years later, the same run-up ended in a ball that crashed through Healyâ€s defence. A month before that, England had felt the sting too, when Kranti tore through their batting with six wickets in Chester-le-Street.

Krantiâ€s father lost his job when she was still in school; her mother parted with jewellery to fund her daughterâ€s cricketing dreams.

School itself ended after grade 8, as survival pressed harder than studies. Opportunity came by accident when a local match needed players. She filled in and the Player of the Match award found its way into her hands.

More than the prize, it caught the eye of coach Rajiv Bilthare, who took her into the SAI Academy and gave her what the family could not – just shoes and kit.

Coach Chandrakant Pandit, who led Madhya Pradesh and KKR in the IPL, first spotted Kranti at open trials in Indore when she was just 17. He was instantly drawn to her smooth action and fearless run-up.

Under Pandit’s guidance, Kranti not only sharpened her bowling but also rediscovered it after injuries, growing into a complete cricketer with fire.

After that, things moved with quiet velocity. A stint as a net bowler for the Mumbai Indians put her name on the radar. A Rs 10 lakh contract with UP Warriorz at the WPL showed the marketâ€s faith in her raw pace.

And then, the biggest leap – an India call-up in May. The wickets came almost immediately. She has taken 14 wickets in her first 7 ODIs, averaging 21.21 runs apiece, with a control and economy rare in someone her age.

What defines Kranti is not just the numbers but the manner. A smooth run-up, a ball that shapes both ways, and a bouncer that rises nastily enough to surprise even set batters.

She is not flash; she is precise, and willing to grind a batter down. And to the Indian team going into the ODI World Cup, she is the new-ball partner Renuka Singh had been waiting for, the one to make Indiaâ€s pace attack look genuinely dangerous again.

Yet, for all the headlines, she remains grounded by the same soil she grew up on. The hardships that shaped her are not far behind; they are stitched into her run-up.

As the World Cup draws closer, the story of Kranti Goud feels less like the rise of a newcomer and more like the arrival of a force.

She has come too far to be overwhelmed, too hardened to be easily broken. And if history has taught us anything, it is to beware the bowler who once learned to run in without shoes, because now she has found her stride.

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