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Former Pakistan leg-spinner Danish Kaneria has hit out at the recently-sacked Chetan Sharma-led Indian selection committee for ruining Virat Kohli’s successive run as the Indian captain across formats. Kaneria feels the selection committee didn’t handle Kohli’s tenure as a captain well and that making him play selective matches while he was struggling to score runs, further added salt to injury.

While talking on his YouTube channel, Danish said, "The selection committee tried to ruin Virat Kohli's career. They didn't select him consistently when he was struggling with form, making him play selective cricket. He was unceremoniously removed as the captain."

India captain Rohit Sharma and head coach Rahul Dravid have been slammed since the side’s stunning 10-wicket defeat to England in the T20 World Cup semifinals last week. The criticism has continued to mount in recent days with several former cricketers and pundits blasting them right, left, and center. After receiving flak from the likes of Sunil Gavaskar, Michael Vaughan, and Harbhajan Singh, the latest to join the bandwagon is former India batter, Mohammed Kaif. The common theme behind Rohit Sharma and Rahul Dravid’s criticism has been the selection blunders the duo committed during India’s failed T20 World Cup campaign in Australia. Among the poor calls was not allowing leg-spinner Yuzvendra Chahal to feature in the playing XI in the entire tournament, something that has perplexed many ex-India cricketers, especially tweakers.

Before the IPL 2023 mini-auction, the Chennai Super Kings (CSK) decided to keep star Indian all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja, putting an end to any rumours of a disagreement between the two parties.

In response to this, Ravichandran Ashwin revealed the only reason why CSK may have thought about selling off Jadeja and why he is glad the franchise decided against it. Ashwin said that although CSK would have saved 16 crore by releasing Jadeja, he claimed that given his all-around skills, it would have been impossible to find a replacement.

The seasoned spinner added that giving Jadeja to a different squad would have made that group much stronger heading into the auction. These comments were made by Ashwin during a YouTube video.

The Indian Premier League (IPL) teams unveiled their rosters post the retention day deadline on Tuesday ahead of the IPL 2023 season due to be held next year. The 10 teams will now head to the IPL 2023 auction which will be held in Kochi on December 23.

163 players including 50 overseas stars were retained between the 10 franchises. This leaves with a total of 87 slots available at the next month’s auction. The total auction pool remaining for the franchises is INR 206.5 crore. Sunrisers Hyderabad will walk into the auction with the largest auction purse of INR 42.25 crore while Kolkata Knight Riders has the smallest with INR 7.05 crore remaining.

CSK retained squad ahead of IPL 2023 auction: MS Dhoni (capt), Devon Conway, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Ambati Rayudu, Subhranshu Senapati, Moeen Ali, Shivam Dube, Rajvardhan Hangargekar, Dwaine Pretorius, Mitchell Santner, Ravindra Jadeja, Tushar Deshpande, Mukesh Chowdhary, Matheesha Pathirana, Simarjeet Singh, Deepak Chahar, Prashant Solanki, Maheesh Theekshana

Catcher Willson Contreras will reject the Cubs’ qualifying offer and instead test the open market this winter, ESPN’s Jesse Rogers tweets. The Cubs, who surprisingly did not trade Contreras at the deadline — a deal sending him to Houston was reportedly nixed by Astros ownership — made the easy call to instead make the one-year, $19.65M qualifying offer to their longtime catcher. Contreras always appeared overwhelmingly likely to decline the offer. He’ll now seek a multi-year deal in free agency.