Read this interesting piece of statistics – Indian openers have made a solitary 100 opening stand while on tours of England, South Africa, Australia &New Zealand (between 2009 – 2018) [England 28 innings – high 63; SA 16 innings – high 137; Australia 16 – 56 highest; New Zealand 10 – 73) – and we say – players succeed in teams, in tandem with partners.Long ago, there was the openers – Sunil Manohar Gavaskar and Chetan Chauhan ! The focus shifts to Saurashtra, a region located on the Arabian Sea coast of Gujarat state. It consists of 7 districts of Gujarat, including Rajkot District. It is a peninsula also called Kathiawar after the Kathi Darbar who ruled part of the region once.The place where the match is tobe played in a new ground isfamous for its jewelry market, silk embroidery and watch parts. The city hosts several small scale manufacturing industries.The city is also home to one of the largest CNC machine manufacturer in the country, Jyoti CNC Automation Pvt. Ltd. That is Rajkot, the third largest city in the state of Gujarat, after Ahmedabad and Surat. Rajkot was the capital of the Saurashtra State from 15 April 1948 to 31 October 1956, before its merger to Bombay State on 1 November 1956. Rajkot was reincorporated into Gujarat State from May 1, 1960.It is here the first test against the West Indies is to be played tomorrow and TOI has this photo ! (at Chepauk, spectators would be treated like animals!)
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