India Tour New Zealand for First T20I; Bangladesh Reflects on Batting Woes
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India is playing cricket in New Zealand. The two teams played the first T20I match. Both teams picked their Playing XI for the game.
This match is part of India's cricket tour of New Zealand. A tour means a team travels to play many games.
In other cricket news, Bangladesh had a bad time with batting. Their team lost wickets quickly in a recent match. This is called a batting collapse.
Bangladesh bowler Taskin Ahmed talked about this problem. He called it a reality check. This means it showed the team a true, hard fact.
Batsman Tanzid Tamim also talked about the problem. He said it was not about skill. He said the problem was mindset. Mindset means how a person thinks.
Tamim believes the players can play well. He thinks they need to think in a better way during matches.
Vocabulary7 words
- T20I
- a short international cricket match
- Playing XI
- the 11 players chosen to play a match
- tour
- when a sports team travels to another country to play games
- batting collapse
- when a team loses many players very fast while batting
- reality check
- something that shows the true, hard facts
- skill
- being able to do something well
- mindset
- the way a person thinks
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1. A T20I match 2. A reality check 3. Mindset
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India is playing cricket in New _____. The two teams played the first _____ match.
Both teams picked their _____ for the game.
This match is part of India's cricket _____ of New Zealand.
Bangladesh had a bad time with _____. Their team lost wickets quickly.
This is called a batting _____.
Taskin Ahmed called it a reality _____.
Tanzid Tamim said the problem was not _____.
He said the problem was _____.
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