Tilak Varma Shares Gambhir's Advice on India's T20 Team
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Tilak Varma plays cricket for India.
He is the vice-captain of the T20 team.
Gautam Gambhir is the coach of the Indian team.
Gambhir said something important about cricket.
He said the T20 team must play well.
If the T20 team plays well, it helps the ODI team too.
It also helps the Test team.
Tilak Varma shared these words with people.
Tilak Varma also talked about his own game.
He used to bat at number three.
Now he bats in the middle order.
He said this change has a secret reason.
Tilak Varma has done something special.
He has gone past MS Dhoni in a record.
Now he is close to Virat Kohli's spot.
Vocabulary10 words
- vice-captain
- the second leader of a sports team
- coach
- a person who trains a sports team
- number three
- the third batter to play in a cricket game
- middle order
- batters who play in the middle part of the game
- record
- the best result ever done
- T20
- a short, fast kind of cricket game
- ODI
- a one-day cricket game
- Test
- a long cricket game that can take five days
- batting order
- the order in which players bat
- secret
- something not everyone knows
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Answer key
1. Gautam Gambhir 2. The T20 team playing well 3. The middle order
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Tilak Varma plays cricket for _____.
He is the _____ of the T20 team.
Gautam Gambhir is the _____ of the Indian team.
He said the T20 team must play _____.
If the T20 team plays well, it helps the _____ team too.
Tilak Varma shared these words with _____.
He used to bat at number _____.
Now he bats in the _____ order.
He has gone past MS Dhoni in a _____.
Now he is close to Virat Kohli's _____.
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