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Qualifiers for Neymar Jr’s Five to kick off from Saturday
New Delhi, Jan 8 (IANS) Neymar Junior’s Five, a global five-a-side football tournament organised by Red Bull will kick off the city qualifiers across 14 cities in the country from Saturday.
The qualifiers will be held in Mumbai, Pune, Ahmedabad, Goa, Delhi, Aizawl, Chandigarh, Guwahati, Kolkata, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Chennai, Kochi and Shillong.
The team qualifying will get a chance to compete at the Neymar Jr’s Five national finals in March 2018 with a chance to make it to the World Finals in Brazil slated to take place in July.
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Sunil Gavaskar gives his opinion of GT allrounder Rahul Tewatia
The left-handed batsman from Haryana is garnering praise from all quarters for the way he’s finishing games regularly in the most exciting IPL season.
Gavaskar reckons Tewatia’s whirlwind knock in Sharjah (in IPL 2020) where he smashed West Indies pacer Sheldon Cottrell for five sixes in an over, gave him the confidence that he belongs to the big stage.
Speaking on Cricket Live on Star Sports, Gavaskar said, “That assault on Sheldon Cottrell in Sharjah gave him the belief to do the impossible and the confidence that he belongs here. We saw the impossible (he did with the bat) the other day as well. There’s no twitching or touching the pads (which shows a batter’s nervousness) when he bats in the death overs. He just waits for the ball to be delivered and plays his shots. He’s got all the shots in the book, but most importantly his temperament to stay cool in a crisis is brilliant.”
Gavaskar has also nicknamed the 28-year-old cricketer the ‘ice-man’ and lauded Tewatia’s ability to remain unruffled during the tense moments.