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Paddler Soumyajit axed from UTT player draft
Mumbai, March 26 (IANS) The Ultimate Table Tennis (UTT) league on Monday axed rape-accused paddler Soumyajit Ghosh from the upcoming player draft for the second season of the Ultimate Table Tennis league.
Raj Mondal has been roped in as replacement for Ghosh.
The organisers made the announcement a couple of days after the Table Tennis Federation of India (TTFI) provisionally suspended the Olympian paddler.
His investigations are pending for rape charges levelled by a teenager in Kolkata.
Mondal is ranked sixth in the country and has won two mixed doubles titles in the Senior National Championships and finished third in the singles of the last National Games.
He has been playing in the Spanish League this season and has won all the 12 matches he has played so far.
Soumyajit, 24, is an Arjuna awardee, who was training in Germany for the April 4 to 15 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, and has denied the allegations.
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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.
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