Indian National Cricket Team players share a good bond among themselves. From sharing the same dressing room to performing together on the field their bond keeps on increasing. Here are the nicknames of some famous Indian Cricketers and the reasons behind their nicknames.

Current Indian Cricket Team Captain Virat Kohli who is called Cheeku by MS Dhoni many times from behind the stumps. But it was not Dhoni who gave him this nickname. The story goes back to the past when he was a youngster. The young Virat was worried about the hair fall and get his hair cut short.

When next day he came on the field, his state coach Ajit Chaudhary called him Cheeku because of the long ears. Cheeku is the character who resembles the rabbit from comic Champak.

Former Indian Captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni is known as Captain Cool, Mahi, Thala, MSD, MS Dhoni, and MS. He is also nicknamed as “The Finisher” because of his explosive style of finished matches. Mahendra Singh Dhoni nicknamed as Mahe as a short of Mahendra but then as he gained fame, his fans started calling him Mahi.

MS Dhoni is also called as Captain Cool as he is the most successful captain in Indian Cricket history who remains cool on the field and takes decisions with a cool, calm and composed mind while on the field or away from the field.

Dhoni is known as Thala because once he posted a picture of him in a yellow jersey where Thala was written on it. MS Dhoni who lead Chennai Super Kings in IPL is Chennai crowd favorite and they call him Thala which means leader in Tamil.

Indian Opener Rohit Sharma is popularly known as Hitman. He is also known as Shaana and Ro. It was Yuvraj Singh who gave Rohit his nickname Shaana. Yuvraj thinks that Rohit is the ‘wise guy’ of the team.

Rohit Sharma’s fans call him Hitman due to his excellent batting ability and his wife gave him the nickname Ro which many of his teammates also use.

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The IPL franchises are getting prepared for the upcoming IPL auction. The Eight franchises have started working for IPL Auction 2019 by deciding whom to take into the team and whom not.

A total of 1003 players have registered their names for the upcoming Indian Premier League Auction for the 12th season. The eight teams of IPL have released certain players and retained some before the IPL auction 2019.

For the first time in the 12 years, auctioneer Richard Madley will be absent from the auction for IPL 2019. Hugh Edmeades will take place of Madley. Hugh Edmeades is a charity and classic cars auctioneer who has more than thirty years of experience.

IPL Auctioneer Richard Madley on twitter wrote with his official Twitter handle, “Sorry not to be conducting #IPL2019 auction. It’s been an honour and a privilege to have been part of #IPL from the start. Will miss my many friends and followers in #India and beyond. Thank you for the welcome you have always shown. The Hammerman”.

One of the replies to his tweet by a CSK fan account read as ”For me nothing could match the opening auction in 2008 when I dropped my hammer selling MS Dhoni for $1.5 million”

Still gives us Goosebumps. Thanks for all the #Yellove memories! #WhistlePodu”.

The fan account of the IPL franchise Chennai Super Kings reminded Richard Madley of his famous statement after selling MS Dhoni in the IPL 2008 Auction.

In reply to CSK fan, Madley wrote, “Greetings to all my CSK friends who I have got to know so well. Selling @msdhoni in IPL 1 is still a career highlight. #WhistlePodu”.

For Madley, MS Dhoni’s sale is one of the biggest highlights of his auctioneering career. Madley who has the unique way of conducting the auctions will be missed by his fans.

IPL Auction 2019 will be held on December 18 in Jaipur. For more cricket news and updates, visit https://www.cricadium.com/.

Cricket is a very popular sport in India and many fantasy sports platform like Dream11 adds on to the viewer’s interest in the game. Being a Cricket fan and watching a match is not sufficient for a cricket lover but getting involved in the game is something want very cricket fan wants.

Earning money on Dream11 depends on someone’s match prediction skills. If a person creating a team in Dream11 predicts the match accurately then he or she can make a lot of money through this fantasy sports platform.

Many websites offer the answer to the question ‘Who will win today cricket match’that is very helpful in creating a Dream11 team but only if they are predicted accurately. It all depends on the prediction skills and is all about the game of skill.

If a user correctly predicts the winning team and the player performance in the actual match then the user can generate a lot of cash from a Dream11 platform.

One can visit websites like India Fantasy, Gambling India or other to get today match prediction but there are other websites too who provide the most accurate match prediction just for entertainment purpose.

These websites predict the probability of a team to win the upcoming match and also player performance. Here one can also get the latest updates about the teams and its players that will help in predicting a Dream11 team.

Cricadium is one of the websites that provide the most accurate cricket match prediction that provides match predictions just for entertainment purpose. It provides the latest cricket news and cricket related updates. It also provides live cricket score of the ongoing cricket match along with match analysis and match reports.

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India’s Tour of Australia will now see a clash between India and Australia on December 6. India vs Australia will have a four-match test series which will then be followed by three-match ODI series.

Indian skipper Virat Kohli feels that Team Australia is vulnerable after the ball-tampering scandal involving Aussies key players Steve Smith, David Warner, and Cameron Bancroft. Also, it has been said that Australia this time is a depleted side without its main players.

On the other hand, Team India has not won any test series in Australia and the upcoming tests will be a golden opportunity for Virat Kohli and his team to win their first Test series Down under.

Both the teams have announced their 12-man Squad for the first test and Virat Kohli stunned viewers with viral footage of a pre-Test batting exhibition in the nets and said that he was taking nothing for granted.

Virat Kohli in a pre-match press conference said, “I personally don’t think any Australian side is vulnerable at home,”. He said, “You cannot take any side for granted. Whatever happened, the skill level is still there. However much you talk or behave, it’s your skill that counts. They still have the skill to dominate at home. We’re not taking anything for granted.”

After the Opener Prithvi Shaw was ruled out of the first test due to his ankle injury in the 4-day practice match against Cricket Australia XI, Murali Vijay regained his place. He was dropped following a pair in the second Test against England this year.

Virat Kohli said, “The bowlers feel that they are at the peak of their skill levels at the moment and they are looking forward to this challenge. He said the bowlers are of the mindset that whatever the conditions or however hard it might be, they are just looking forward to performing.”

The match between India and Australia is going to be a thrilling game and many websites will provide the live cricket score and live updates of the match as no cricket lover wants to miss this clash.

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A fantasy sports platform in India is Dream11. Its app allows you to play fantasy sports like cricket, football, kabaddi, and basketball.

In 2012, Dream11 was founded by Harsh Jain and Bhavit Sheth. Cricket in India is not just a sport and cricketers are not just the players. Cricket is like a religion in India and cricket serves as the best medium for entertainment.

Cricket serves as the passion for many and earning money from it is a fun. It is freemium fantasy sports in India for cricket fans. In 2014, there were 1 million registered users in Dream11. Then it grew to 2 million in 2016 to 30 million in 2018.

Dream11 is a legal member of the Fantasy Sports Trade Association (FSTA). Dream11 is a legal company as per law and its brand ambassador in 2017 was Harsha Bhogle. Later the company signed the most popular cricketer MS Dhoni as their new brand ambassador.

They also launched a media campaign called “Dimaag se Dhoni” during IPL 2018. Dream11 requires sports knowledge and skill. Here one has to pick their own team of players for any sport, Cricket, Football, Kabaddi or NBA. The team has to be created with the maximum budget of 100 credits.

The team created earns points based on the selected player performance in a selected match. Cricket fans earn by utilizing their skills and many uses match prediction as the method to create their Dream11.

The user apart from the skills and knowledge that he has, also search for ‘Who will win today cricket match prediction’ to build Dream11 of a particular match. There are many websites that offer cricket match prediction for free.

Cricadium is one among such websites that provide the answer to ‘Who will win today cricket match’. Apart from Cricadium, there are many websites that provide today match prediction like Cricfrog, Cricdiction, Criclines and many other.

A dream11 user can get some idea from reading today match predictions provided by these cricket websites. It will help them to predict more accurately their Dream11 team.

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Toss prediction plays an important role in a cricket match. While predicting the outcome of a given match toss plays an important role. Toss prediction one of the element of the match prediction.

Team bats or bowls first, depends on the outcome of the toss. If a team wins the toss then it will provide a small but a meaningful improvement to a team’s chances of winning. Ideally, it does not make any difference but practically it makes a lot of difference.

Toss is a deciding factor in a match as it would give the team the option of picking “what they want to do at first”. Many teams prefer chasing for the given target. Toss in a cricket match is as important as many websites offer today toss prediction.

Many websites along with match prediction also provide an answer to the query ‘who will win the toss today match’. Factors like playing conditions, toss, dew factor, the composition of the team, etc are important in making the prediction of a cricket match.

Some situation where the playing conditions matter in the outcome of a match includes Green top wicket on the first morning of a test, Subcontinental dusty wickets with cracks and Day night ODI matches with dew in the outfield.

Green top wicket on the first morning of a test happens in England and Australia. Here the team who bowls first has the advantage and the team who is batting first has to be very careful for the first hour otherwise they would lose a lot of wickets.

Subcontinental dusty wickets with cracks where batting on the day 4 and 5 becomes extremely difficult if the opposition has some good spinners and if there is an uneven bounce then even the seamers will be difficult to face. Here the good thing to do is to avoid the fourth inning and to select to bat first if a toss is won.

Day night ODI matches with dew in the outfield is difficult to grip white ball if it is wet. Spinners will find it difficult to get a grip over the ball. In such conditions, not only spinner but pacers will also find difficulty to bowl. The team winning toss will choose to bowl first in the sunlight and bat second when there is dew in the field.

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The legendary Test batting line-up of Team India in the 2000s is popularly known as ‘Fab Five’. The five include Virender Sehwag, Rahul Dravid, Sachin Tendulkar, Sourav Ganguly, and VVS Laxman.

The best batsman in the world and the Indian Team Captain Virat Kohli is all set to join the eminent club comprising Rahul Dravid, VVS Laxman, and Master Blaster Sachin Tendulkar.

Run Machine Virat Kohli needs to score 8 more to reach 1,000 Test runs in Australia. The milestone till now has been reached by only by Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid, and VVS Laxman.

The Indian captain who is looking to win a test series in Australia is just eight runs away from reaching 1,000 test runs in Australian soil. He presently has 992 test runs from the 8 Test matches played in Australia.

The current four-match test series will be played at Adelaide, Perth, Melbourne, and Sydney, respectively. Virat Kohli has the highest score of 169 runs at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.

He has five Test centuries and two half-centuries to his name and averages 62.

The legends like Sachin Tendulkar accumulated 1809 runs, VVS Laxman gathered 1236 runs and Rahul Dravid scored 1143 runs in Australia.

This is the best chance for the Virat Kohli and his men to win a test series in Australia. If India wins a test series in Australia then it will be their first ever test series win down under. This time Australia is a depleted team with the absence of its key players- Steve Smith and David Warner.

Many cricketing experts have an opinion that Team India is a strong side and has got everything that is needed to win a series in Australia.

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India vs Australia has always been one of the interesting and violent competitions in the cricketing world. India and Australia are ready to face each other in the upcoming test series.

There have been many memorable clashes between the two.

Recently as the Indian National Cricket Team reached Adelaide for the opening Test of the four-match series, an Australian tabloid has given Team India a disrespectful welcome by putting up a report with the headline ‘The Scaredy Bats.’

The publication has decided to insult Virat Kohli and his men by calling them ‘The Scaredy Bats’. In the report, it was mentioned that the Indian cricketers were “scared of the bounce” in Brisbane, “scared of the unknown” in Perth and “scared of the dark” in Adelaide.

Earlier, the Australian media lashed out at India’s decision of refusing to play a day-night Test match at the Adelaide Oval and now the the media called Team India ‘The Scaredy Bats’.

Cricket fans and many cricketing experts criticized the headline and its coverage and called it childish. The Australian public and media persons took the publication for its rude behavior.

Australia’s Richard Hinds tweeted, “Anyone else tired of the childish and predictable mocking of visiting teams by Australian media? It’s become a boorish tradition that reflects poorly on our country. #AUSvIND”

Replying to Richard Hinds tweet many Australian’s called its media rude and said: “Respect the opposition is the first thing taught in Australian junior sport.” Other said that there is a pattern in Australia when the media have got nothing else to offer, they start sledging their visitors and calling them by names ust like the Australian players.

Brydon Coverdale replied, “Well last time in Australia, Kohli made 4 hundred and averaged 86.50, Vijay averaged 60.25, Rahane averaged 57 and Rahul in just his second Test made 110 at the SCG, so umm yeah I think they’ll be fine.”

Michael replied to the tweet and said, “Rule number1 – don’t stir up Kohli. Rule number 2 – See Rule number 1.”

There were many other tweets against Australia’s media behavior. India till date has not won any single Test series in Australia. So far 12 series have been played and Australia National Cricket Team have won 9 while 3 ended in a draw.

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