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MS Dhoni parties with wife Sakshi at Robin Uthappa’s house

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Chennai Super Kings (CSK) captain MS Dhoni was recently seen partying with his wife Sakshi at former teammate Robin Uthappa’s house.

MS Dhoni’s entrepreneur friend Hitesh Sanghvi shared an Instagram story on Thursday, December 28, in which the couple posed with Robin Uthappa and his wife in their Dubai residence.

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Hitesh Sanghvi’s latest Instagram story

On the cricketing front, MS Dhoni will next be seen in action in the upcoming edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL 2024). Earlier this year, he led Chennai Super Kings (CSK) to their record-equalling fifth IPL title.

LLC 2023: Suresh Raina & Robin Uthappa Among Players To Be Part Of Legends League Cricket Players Draft

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Former India cricketers Suresh Raina and Robin Uthappa will be among the players to be part of the draft for the highly anticipated Legends League Cricket (LLC), which is scheduled to be played across five cities in India from November 18 to December 9.

The LLC Players Draft will feature over 200 players from across 12 countries and will take place at the Qutub Minar, with franchisee representatives along with marquee players and coaches attending the event virtually.

The Legends League Cricket Players Draft promises to be a grand affair which will be a unique fusion of culture and sports held at an iconic location, featuring a multitude of cricketing stars.

Players in the LLC 2023 Players Draft

Apart from Raina and Uthappa, some of the recently retired players such as New Zealand batter Martin Guptill, Aaron Finch and Shaun Marsh from Australia, will be a part of Legends League Cricket for the first time.

Cricketing legends from across the world – Ravi Bopara, Kevin Pietersen, Nuwan Kulasekara, Morne Morkel, Xavier Doherty, and Dirk Nannes will also be participating in the draft.

Finch, Raina, Uthappa, Hashim Amla, Praveen Kumar, Pragyan Ojha, Upul Tharanga, Abdur Razzak, and Lendl Simmons who have played LLC Masters Season 2 in Doha are all aligned to participate in the draft.

Legends such as Brett Lee, Ross Taylor, S. Sreesanth, Tillakaratne Dilshan, Daniel Vettori, Farveez Maharoof, William Porterfield, and Liam Plunkett, who were a part of the previous season will also be a part of the pool for the upcoming season.

Retained players list before LLC 2023 Players Draft

The defending champions, India Capitals, have retained their captain Gautam Gambhir and the highest wicket taker of last season Pravin Tambe along with Ashley Nurse to solidify their squad.

The Runners-up of the previous season, Bhilwara Kings, have retained their captain, Irfan Pathan along with their star players Yusuf Pathan and Shane Watson, while the Manipal Tigers have retained Harbhajan Singh, their captain along with Mohammad Kaif and Corey Anderson.

Gujarat Giants have announced their retentions – Universe Boss Chris Gayle, Parthiv Patel and Kevin O’Brien. With the league expanding and two new franchisees joining, they will announce their pre-signings prior to the draft.

Which are the venues for the upcoming LLC season?

A robust lineup of 19 thrilling matches will be played across Ranchi, Dehradun, Jammu, Vizag, and Surat. It will be a cricketing journey that promises to be unforgettable.

source: http://www.mykhel.com / My Khel / Home> Cricket / by Press Release / by MyKhel Staff / October 17th, 2023

Sportiqo ropes in cricketer Robin Uthappa as Brand Ambassador

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Sportiqo, a blockchain-based fantasy sports platform has announced ace Indian cricketer Robin Uthappa as their brand ambassador. Sportiqo marked the beginning of its operations in India in the month of February and so far, amassed 32,000 active users owing to its beta launch.
The stylish batter from Karnataka, Robin is a generational talent, wanted by every cricket league in the world. Uthappa was a part of the Indian squad which won the ICC World T20 in 2007. He is known for his masterful batting performances and his great impact on his team’s success.

Speaking on the association, Robin Uthappa said, “Sportiqo is the perfect platform where I am able to find a cohesive link between sports and technology. The stock market is something that is often portrayed as being meant for a particular segment of the audience but with Sportiqo sports fans across age groups would not only be able to learn how the stock markets work but at the same time be able to use their sporting knowledge and skills to do it in a fun and engaging manner.”

He further added, “Making the youth learn about investing and trading using cricket is a great idea. India needs creative options to improve the financial literacy of the masses and I am glad that Sportiqo is addressing that gap. I am proud to be associated with the platform.”

“We are delighted to welcome Robin Uthappa to the Sportiqo family as our new brand ambassador. He is one of the most exciting cricketers of his era. said Anindya Kar, Chief Product Officer and Co-Founder of Sportiqo. “With his disruptive and instinctively innovative approach to his sport, Robin Uthappa embodies the same pioneering spirit that will drive Sportiqo to keep pushing boundaries in the sector.”

Sportiqo will also launch a host of digital campaigns with Robin Uthappa in the near future.

Sportiqo has so far, raised $1.25 million (Rs. 10 crores) in the pre-seed round from angel investors with a focus on user acquisition in its first phase post-launch. The cricket stock market platform is already live for the ILT20 League, and Pakistan Super League (PSL) and additionally, in the coming time, Sportiqo will add a portfolio of other sports and leagues as well such as the English Premier League and the Indian Premier League among others.

source: http://www.adgully.com / AdGully / Home> Marketing / by Adgully Bureau / March 21st, 2023

ILT20 2022-23: Veteran Robin Uthappa joins Dubai Capitals ahead of inaugural season: Check Out

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ILT20 2022-23:  International League T20 (ILT20) franchise, Dubai Capitals (DC), have acquired the services of former India international Robin Uthappa for the…

ILT20 2022-23: 

International League T20 (ILT20) franchise, Dubai Capitals (DC), have acquired the services of former India international Robin Uthappa for the inaugural season. The 37-year-old Uthappa, who recently announced his retirement from the IPL, played the last two IPL seasons for CSK. The swashbuckling right-hander is set to join the Dubai-based ILT20 franchise and will look to replicate his success in the middle-east nation.

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“As classy as it gets at Dubai Capitals. Here’s welcoming 𝐑𝐨𝐛𝐛𝐢𝐞 to our family, now eager to see a few dancing down-the-track shots at the Dubai International,” the franchise shared the joining of Uthappa on their official Twitter handle.

ILT20 2022-23

Apart from Robin, several other big names will grace the tournament

In the IPL, Uthappa featured in 205 matches, scoring 4,952 runs with an average of 27.51. The Karnataka stalwart scored 27 half-centuries in his IPL career and registered his best score of 88 runs against RCB in April this year. Apart from Uthappa, star players like Kieron Pollard, Andre Russell, Eoin Morgan, Dasun Shanaka and Wanindu Hasaranga will take part in the maiden season of ILT20.

Dubai Capitals Team Squad 2023

The players who will be in the first UAE T20 League have been announced by Dubai Capitals, which is a branch of Delhi Capitals.

  • Rovman Powell (West Indies)
  • Robin Uthappa (India)
  • Hazratullah Zazai (Afghanistan)
  • Daniel Lawrence (England)
  • George Munsey (Scotland)
  • Bhanuka Rajapaksa (West Indies)
  • Rovman Powell (Sri Lanka)
  • Niroshan Dickwella (Sri Lanka)
  • Sikandar Raza (Zimbabwe)
  • Dasun Shanaka (Sri Lanka)
  • Fabian Allen (West Indies)
  • Isuru Udana (Sri Lanka)
  • Mujeeb Ur Rahman (Afghanistan)
  • Dushmantha Chameera (Sri Lanka)
  • Fred Klaassen (Netherlands)
  • Blessing Muzarabani (Zimbabwe)

source: http://www.insidesport.in / Inside Sport / Home> Cricket / by Pranchal Srivastava, Editor / December 15th, 2022

Robin Uthappa recalls what happened in the Indian dugout when Yuvraj Singh hit Stuart Broad for six maximums in an over

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With the T20 World Cup less than a week away, waiting to manifest itself in the grandest scheme of things, sweet reminiscences have already started doing the rounds. One of India’s best T20 World Cup memories has to be that of Yuvraj Singh’s six sixes in an over where Stuart Broad was left at the receiving end of some serious heat, after the Indian southpaw picked up an altercation with Flintoff.

To add context to why this innings was special for Yuvraj, he was smacked for five sixes in an over by Dimitri Mascarenhas just ahead of the showpiece event. Former Indian cricketer, Robin Uthappa narrated the entire story around this dynamic display from the former RCB cricketer and what were the minuscule events that pervaded through the dugout.

Talking on a video on Star Sports, Uthappa recalled, “I got out, went to the dressing room, took my pads off and came down. But by the time I reached, the altercation had already happened. But I knew from Yuvi’s body language, that he was pumped up.”

That is when the remainder of the story started with the actual narrative of the over coming forth. Uthappa added, “Pehla chhakka dekhke laga, paaji gusse me hai (When I saw the first six, I thought he is angry). When he hit the second one, we thought he might be onto something here. After the third six, everyone was like, ‘just sit wherever you are’. I think it was DK (Dinesh Karthik) or somebody else, he wanted to go to the loo. We just said, ‘nobody is moving. Just stay put until the over gets over.”

The former RCB batter concluded by saying about the final two deliveries of the over as he said, “I remember all of us were so elated. When he hit the fifth one, we knew the sixth was going to come. We just knew sitting down there. And that’s exactly what happened. We celebrated the six and we sat back down. We were really happy that he had given back to England what he received. It kind of deflated the wind out of England’s sails.”

source: http://www.royalchallengers.com / RoyalChallengers.com / Home> News / by The Editor / October 11th, 2022

Indian Cricket: Heaps of Money

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Cricket coin tossIndia’s cricketers have been deafened by howls of derision after their latest defeat by England in a four match Test series.

Sunil Gavaskar, a former Indian batsman, said his countrymen were playing like “schoolboys”. Geoffrey Boycott, a former English cricketer, called their performance more befitting Bangladesh than a team currently ranked No.1 in the Test tables.

Before we feel too sorry for India’s struggling cricket stars, we should remember that they are paid for success and vicissitude alike.

Research by the Times of India, a daily newspaper, shows that some of India’s top cricketers are paid as much as the world’s most richly rewarded footballers  while the annual, seven week Indian Premier League is in full flow.

By the newspaper’s calculations, during the IPL, Gautam Gambhir, an opening batsman who plays for the Kolkata Knight Riders earned more than Lionel Messi, the Argentinian striker who plays for Barcelona. Gambhir’s earnings during the tournament put him in pro-rata touching distance of Cristiano Ronaldo, the Portuguese and Real Madrid player.

Cricketers Yusuf Pathan and Robin Uthappa match the incomes of Fernando Torres and Yaya Toure.

India’s cricketers have been roundly criticised for prioritising the IPL over Test cricket, and losing Test match form by doing so.

Yet the financial incentive of high paying cricket is hard to resist. Their choice is to miss out on payday in front of adoring home crowds in preference for honour at Lords and Trent Bridge, famed cricket grounds in England.

The dazzling money made in Indian cricket is attracting attention, both on and off the field.

The Indian parliament’s Standing Committee on Finance has asked the Indian tax department and the Reserve Bank of India to investigate the finances of the Board for Cricket Control in India, the game’s governing body, and the IPL.

A report by the committee submitted to parliament this month complains that the game is “embroiled in transgressions off the field”.

It warns that the tax department has been too lenient to the Board of Control for Cricket in India, which benefitted from tax exemptions in spite of the growing commercial success of the game.

India’s cricket establishment faces a tough contest in England this summer at the hands of a formidable bowling attack; when it returns home it may find as greater encounter with the tax man.

source: http://www.blogs.ft.com / by James Lamont / Aug 05th, 2011

http://blogs.ft.com/beyond-brics/2011/08/05/indian-cricket-heaps-of-money-spins-heads/#ixzz1UH4s9Qnl

Biography of Robin Uthappa

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Read Biography of Robin UthappaRobin Venu Uthappa, born 11 November 1985 in Kodagu,Karnataka is an Indian cricketer. His father is Venu Uthappa, an international hockey referee and mother Roselyn is a home maker hails from Kozhikode. He made his One-Day International debut in the seventh and final match of the English tour of India in April 2006. He had a successful debut, making 86 as an opening batsman before being run out. It was the highest score for anyIndian debutant in a limited overs match.

Uthappa first came to the public’s attention when he made 66 for India B against India A in the Challenger Trophy in 2005. The following year, in the same tournament, Uthappa made matchwinning 93-ball 100 against the same team which propelled him in the big league. Previously, he had been a member of the India under-19 team that won the Asia Cup. Once a wicketkeeper-batsman, his List A batting average of near 40 with a strike rate of approximately 90 has made him regarded as something of a limited overs cricket specialist.

He was recalled to the ODI side in January 2007 for the series againstthe West Indies where he smashed a 70 from just 41 balls.

He was selected in the 15-member squad of the Indian Cricket team for the 2007 Cricket World Cup held in the West Indies in March-April 2007. He played in all 3 group games, but only scored 30 runs in total as India suffered a shock defeat to Bangladesh and a loss to Sri Lanka resulting in the team not qualifying for the Super 8 stage.

In the sixth ODI of the NatWest Series 2007-2008, he scored a sensational 47 of 33 balls to take India to a thrilling victory, keepingIndian hopes alive in the 7 match series that they were trailing 2-3 before the match. Used to batting as an opener, in this match he came in at the unfamiliar position of no 7. When he came at the crease India were 5 down for 234 after 40.2 overs, still needing 83 from less than 10 overs. After Dhoni got out in the 47th over with the Indian score at 294, Uthappa kept a cool head to take India to the target with two balls to spare in a remarkable victory.

Uthappa also scored a crucial 50 against Pakistan in the 20-20 World Cup in South Africa, when India were tottering at 36/4. India subsequently won the match in bowl out 3-0.

He is known for his trademark ‘walking slam-bang’ shot.

Uthappa played for Karnataka institute of cricket (KIOC) – under the guidance of Irfan Sait who runs the cricket camp.

source: http://www.yasni.com

 

K C CARIAPPA is the ‘Coorg Person of the Year’

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Air Marshal K C Cariappa (retd), an environmentalist who took on the powerful timber lobby in Kodagu district of Karnataka is the ‘Coorg Person of the Year, 2009’.
K C CariappaAir Marshal Cariappa, son of Field Marshal K M Cariappa, topped a poll conducted by www.coorgtourisminfo.com, the first news portal of Kodagu, to select the Coorg Person of the Year. The others who were in the reckoning for the title, include another hardcore environmentalist and President of the Coorg Wildlife Society, Col C P Muthanna (retd) and New York-based novelist Sarita Mandanna, who has been given the largest advance by Penguin India ever paid to a debut novelist for her novel ‘Tiger Hills,’ set in Kodagu. 

Taking a pro-active role, Air Marshal Cariappa went beyond the ‘call of duty’ and approached the Supreme Court of India to restrain the timber mafia, backed by the Kodagu district administration and sundry politicians to prevent the formation of a road across the Pushpagiri Wildlife Sanctuary in Kodagu in the ecologically sensitive Western Ghats.

Following a public interest litigation filed by Air Marshal Cariappa, the Apex Court directed the Central Empowered Committee (CEC) to make an on the spot study of the situation and file a report. In a blatant violation of the law, the Kodagu district administration, backed by the two Kodagu MLAs, and supported by local villagers attempted to lay a road through the Pushpagiri reserve forest, amid opposition from Karnataka forest officials.

The controversial road is a seven km stretch between Madikeri and Subramanya near Mangalore in Dakshina Kannada district. Over 400 villagers from Galibeedu near Madikeri, deployed earthmovers to make the road. Their contention was that the road would shorten the distance between Kodagu and Subramanya.

In a mockery of justice, the villagers were provided ‘police protection’ to form the road by the district administration, headed by the then Deputy Commissioner Baldev Krishna. The top district officials, including the Superintendent of Police, went to the extent of publicly humiliating forest official Anil Rathan who protested against the road being formed through the reserve forest.

Air Marshal Cariappa was commissioned into the Indian Air Force in 1957 and he was shot down in the 1965 India-Pakistan war while carrying out attacks on enemy positions and taken Prisoner of War (POW). When President Ayub Khan of Pakistan, an old buddy of Field Marshal Cariappa, offered to release his son forthwith, the later famous said: “They (other POWs) are all my sons, look after all of them.”

After retirement from the Air Force in 1996, Air Marshal Cariappa has been living at Madikeri in Kodagu. He has been taking a keen interest in environment and was the President of the Coorg Wildlife Society for four years. Two years ago, Air Marshal Cariappa wrote the biography of his father, which brought out his literary talent as a writer.

Dr Jagadeesh Subbaiah Moodera, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and winner of Oliver E. Buckley Prize, was the Coorg Person of the Year, 2008.
The past winners of Coorg Person of the Year include cricketer Robin Uthappa, researcher Dr Boverianda Nanjamma Chinnappa, and novelist Kaveri Poonacha Nambisan.

 

source: http://www.deccanherald.com / Madikeri / DHNS / Dec 31st