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Kolkata (West Bengal) [<keyword id="3658" type="General" weightage="80" keywordseo="india" source="Orion">India</keyword>], November 4 (ANI): India's campaign at the ongoing Cricket <keyword id="22177" type="General" weightage="80" keywordseo="world-cup" source="Orion">World Cup</keyword> suffered a body blow after star all-rounder <keyword id="6354903" type="General" weightage="100" keywordseo="hardik-pandya" source="Orion">Hardik Pandya</keyword> was ruled out of further participation in the tournament. The star all-rounder had hurt his left ankle while bowling during India's World Cup match against Bangladesh in Pune. The 30-year-old will now miss the rest of India's campaign at the World Cup after he failed to recover in time, according to a press release from ICC. His place in India's squad will be taken by <keyword id="3068560" type="General" weightage="80" keywordseo="prasidh-krishna" source="Orion">Prasidh Krishna</keyword>, the fast bowler was added to the playing group after being approved by the tournament's Event Technical Committee on Saturday. Krishna has just 19 white-ball appearances to his name for India and was last seen at the international level when he picked up the prized wicket of David Warner in taking 1/45 from nine overs against Australia just prior to the World Cup. While Krishna has shown signs of promise in the past with 33 international wickets, the right-arm quick is going to be competing with the likes of Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Shami and Mohammed Siraj for a place in India's pace attack. With the Event Technical Committee approving India's replacement player on Saturday, it means Krishna is available for selection for Sunday's crucial World Cup clash against fellow tournament pacesetter South Africa. India and South Africa currently occupy the top two places on the World Cup standings and the winner of Sunday's match in Kolkata will be in the box seat to finish the group stage of the tournament in first spot. India's Updated Squad for the ICC Cricket World Cup 2023: Rohit Sharma (C), Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, KL Rahul, Ravindra Jadeja, Shardul Thakur, Prasidh Krishna, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Siraj, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohammed Shami, Ravichandran Ashwin, Ishan Kishan, <keyword id="496245" type="General" weightage="50" keywordseo="suryakumar-yadav" source="Orion">Suryakumar Yadav</keyword>. SEE ALSO:<a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/gadgets/news/hp-omen-16-gaming-laptop-review/articleshow/104945732.cms" target="_blank"></a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/gadgets/news/hp-omen-16-gaming-laptop-review/articleshow/104945732.cms" target="_blank">HP Omen 16 laptop review – A powerful laptop with a fine display</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/mobile/news/india-q3-smartphone-shipments-apple-gains-34-pc-market-share-in-india/articleshow/104907807.cms">Smartphone shipments: Apple gains 34% market share in India as Samsung, Xiaomi decline</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/apps/news/how-to-use-two-whatsapp-accounts-on-one-phone/articleshow/104641592.cms">How to use two WhatsApp accounts on one phone? A step by step guide</a>

Hardik Pandya out of World Cup, Prasidh Krishna comes in as replacement

Indore (Madhya Pradesh) [<keyword id="3658" type="General" weightage="100" keywordseo="india" source="Orion">India</keyword>], September 25 (ANI): Courtesy of their resounding win over Australia in the second ODI at Indore, India will go into the ICC Men's Cricket World Cup 2023 with momentum on their side. India's win in Indore has ensured that they go into the Cricket World Cup as the No. 1 side in the ICC Men's ODI Team Rankings. Before the start of the series, The Men in Blue needed at least two wins to go into the marquee event at home at the top. India reached the ODI Rankings summit after winning the first ODI against Australia at Mohali. They will now continue to reign supreme across all formats as the number one team, having already occupied the top spot in Tests and T20Is. India is placed at the top spot with 117 rating points, while Pakistan sit at second with 115 rating points. Australia, on the other hand, slipped further and is third with 110 points. This is only the second time in men's cricketing history that a side has achieved the No.1 ranking across the formats. Prior to this, only South Africa had achieved the feat back in August 2012. India needed to win the second ODI to ensure their reign at the top of the rankings continues and they did it in some style with a thorough all-round performance. Coming to the match, India was put to bat first by Australia. A 200-run partnership for second wicket between Shubman Gill (104 in 97 balls, six fours and four sixes) and <keyword id="982208" type="General" weightage="80" keywordseo="shreyas-iyer" source="Orion">Shreyas Iyer</keyword> (105 in 90 balls, 11 fours and three sixes) laid the foundation for something big. Later, half-centuries from skipper KL Rahul (52 in 38 balls, with three fours and three sixes) and <keyword id="496245" type="General" weightage="50" keywordseo="suryakumar-yadav" source="Orion">Suryakumar Yadav</keyword> (72* in 37 balls with six fours and six sixes) and a cameo from Ishan Kishan (31 in 18 balls with two fours and two sixes) pushed India to 399/5 in 50 overs. Cameron Green took two wickets for Australia but gave away 103 runs. Josh Hazlewood, Sean Abbott and Adam Zampa took a wicket each. In the chase of 400, Australia was reduced to 9/2 and rain interrupted the action. Following resumption of action, the target was 317 in 33 overs. An 80-run stand between David Warner (53 in 39 balls, seven fours and a six) and Marnus Labuschagne (27) stabilised the innings a bit. But after this, wickets kept falling and the Aussies sunk to 140/8. A 77-run explosive partnership between Abbott (54 in 36 balls with four boundaries and five sixes) and Josh Hazlewood (23) entertained the audience, but the Aussies were bundled out for 217 in 28.2 overs, losing by 99 runs. <keyword id="200030" type="General" weightage="50" keywordseo="ravichandran-ashwin" source="Orion">Ravichandran Ashwin</keyword> was the pick of the bowlers for India with 3/41, with his spin partner <keyword id="6359948" type="General" weightage="50" keywordseo="ravindra-jadeja" source="Orion">Ravindra Jadeja</keyword> getting 3/42. Prasidh Krishna got two wickets while Mohammed Shami got one. India has won the series 2-0 with one match to go. Shreyas Iyer was awarded the 'Player of the Match' award for his century. SEE ALSO: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/gadgets/news/amazfit-cheetah-series-smartwatches-with-ai-powered-running-coach-launched-in-india/articleshow/103836676.cms">A smartwatch in India now offers an AI-powered running coach</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/mobile/news/motorola-edge-40-neo-launched-in-india-specs-features-and-price/articleshow/103832280.cms">Motorola Edge 40 Neo with with vegan leather back hits the Indian market</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/business/telecom/news/jioairfiber-launched-in-metros-plans-and-benefits-versus-the-airtel-xstream-airfiber/articleshow/103804858.cms">JioAirFiber launched – plans and benefits versus the Airtel Xstream AirFiber</a>

India heads to ICC Cricket World Cup as No. 1 ODI side in ranking

The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) on Monday announced a strong 17-member squad for the upcoming <keyword id="10955288" type="General" weightage="80" keywordseo="Asia-Cup-2023" source="Orion">Asia Cup 2023</keyword> which will begin on August 30 with <keyword id="1627109" type="General" weightage="80" keywordseo="jasprit-bumrah" source="Orion">Jasprit Bumrah</keyword>, <keyword id="982208" type="General" weightage="80" keywordseo="shreyas-iyer" source="Orion">Shreyas Iyer</keyword>, <keyword id="6355454" type="General" weightage="80" keywordseo="kl-rahul" source="Orion">KL Rahul</keyword> returning to the squad and Tilak Verma also getting a place in the team The 2023 <keyword id="22687" type="General" weightage="80" keywordseo="asia-cup" source="Orion">Asia Cup</keyword> will be co-hosted by Pakistan and Sri Lanka with the tournament running from August 30 to September 17. Asia Cup will serve as an important benchmark for India's preparations for the World Cup starting in October and will also help selectors make choices for the marquee event. India will open their Asia Cup campaign with an iconic clash against Pakistan on September 2 in Kandy, Sri Lanka. Star all-rounder Hardik Pandya has been appointed Rohit Sharma's deputy in Asia Cup 2023. The squad also marks the return of Jasprit Bumrah to ODI cricket after a gap of more than one year. After proving his fitness in the ongoing T20I series against Ireland, Bumrah is set to test himself in the 50-over format heading into the World Cup. India's pace attack will be boosted by the return of Mohammed Siraj, who was not the in the team for some time due to a sore ankle. <keyword id="8327524" type="General" weightage="80" keywordseo="tilak-varma" source="Orion">Tilak Varma</keyword> made it to India's Asia Cup squad on the back of his strong performance against West Indies during the tour that ended this month. A big question ahead of Team India's selection meeting for the Asia Cup 2023 was the fitness of KL Rahul and Shreyas Iyer. Both have made it to the squad. Bowling all-rounders Kuldeep Yadav and Axar Patel are also in the squad to give the captain more diversity in choices. Apart from Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja is also in the team as an all-rounder. The tournament will kick off with a clash between Pakistan and Nepal in Multan, Pakistan. Pakistan, India and Nepal are in Group A while Bangladesh, Afghanistan and Sri Lanka are in Group B. The tournament will follow a hybrid model with Pakistan hosting four matches across two venues and Sri Lanka hosting the remaining games. The six group-stage matches will be followed by the Super fours, beginning September 6. The final will be played by the top two teams at the end of the Super fours on September 17 in Colombo. Squad: Rohit Sharma (captain), Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, KL Rahul, Suryakumar Yadav, Tilak Varma, Ishan Kishan, Hardik Pandya (vice-captain), Ravindra Jadeja, Axar Patel, Shardul Thakur, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammad Shami, Mohammed Siraj, Kuldeep Yadav, Prasidh Krishna.

India announces Asia Cup squad — Jasprit Bumrah, Shreyas Iyer, KL Rahul return

<ul><li>The last few years, with the additional changes the pandemic brought, have seen a tectonic shift in retail and the way brands are reaching their consumers. </li><li><keyword id="186599" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="krishna-iyer" source="Orion">Krishna Iyer</keyword>, Head of Agency, Twitter - India writes how the status quo is being questioned and past growth no longer guarantees future success. </li><li>He discusses how new and upcoming brands across categories have digitally acquired an audience through innovative digital communication and have carved a space for themselves in the market.</li></ul>25+ TV brands. 100+ headphone brands. 250+ mobile phone brands. Let this sink in for a minute. These are the number of brands that India has for the respective categories mentioned and this number is growing with each passing year. Henry Ford definitely didn’t see this happening 110 years after he said ‘any customer can have a car painted any colour that he wants, so long as it is black’. As a consumer we probably remember 2-5 brands in each category. Yet, this doesn’t seem to dissuade new entrants from finding ways to disrupt the category, shift share of voice and throw their hat in the ring. Technology, access to capital, a growing consumer base with high disposable incomes and larger than life ambitions have fuelled entrepreneurship and birthed these new brands. The status quo is being questioned and past growth no longer guarantees future success. Disruptors are changing the game and going beyond competitive prices and swanky showrooms. Their strategies are based on a deep understanding of what the consumer of tomorrow is going to look like and what the product needs to evolve into. Lessons from Direct-to-Consumer (D2C) The last few years, with the additional changes the pandemic brought, have seen a tectonic shift in retail and the way brands are reaching their consumers. Direct-to-Consumer (D2C), which started at a slow pace years ago, is poised to be a $100b market by 2025 [Source: <a href="https://www.kalaari.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/uniquely-india.pdf">Uniquely India: Digital Opportunity</a>, Kalaari Capital]. Over 600 D2C brands operate in India across industries like F&amp;B, beauty, apparel, lifestyle, electronics and more, serving consumers directly without any middlemen. A lot of these brands are riding the way of quirkiness, personalisation and rarity. The fact that these brands are not available at every store nor are abundantly visible, gives them a halo of exclusivity and drives conversation. There is effective use of content, social advertising through stand-out creatives, influencer collaborations, alignment with events or social communities where the quality and relevance of the audience is more important than the quantity. The ability to talk directly to their consumers is a win-win on both sides of the balance. Successful and growing D2C brands like <keyword id="4548811" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="mamaearth" source="Orion">Mamaearth</keyword> (<a href="https://twitter.com/mamaearthindia?lang=en">@mamaearthindia</a>), boAt (<a href="https://twitter.com/RockWithboAt">@RockWithboAt</a>), Bewakoof (<a href="https://twitter.com/bewakoof">@bewakoof</a>), <keyword id="7433188" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="sugar-cosmetics" source="Orion">Sugar Cosmetics</keyword> (<a href="https://twitter.com/trySUGAR">@trySUGAR</a>) have proven that the right cocktail of product, digital penetration and consumer engagement can create potential industry disruptors fairly quickly, and give established brands a run for their money. Building a stand-out brand A disruptor brand analyses the what, how and why of any communication it puts out to ensure that the brand's voice does not drown in the deluge of marketing messages a consumer gets every day. Whether it is an OTT like <a href="https://twitter.com/ahavideoIN/status/1438460476480909312">Aha Media</a> using local language and regional targeting to ensure relevancy, or a consumer electronics brand <a href="https://twitter.com/RockWithboAt/status/1412706381682012163">boAt</a> aligning itself with a ‘disruptor’ of India’s most loved sport, or an investment advisory like <a href="https://twitter.com/TejiMandiApp/status/1412755731170791424">Teji Mandi</a> keeping it simple but effective and focussing on the finance &amp; business audiences. The results of such brands focussing on being quick, content-first and deliberate is evident. <a href="https://twitter.com/RockWithboAt">boAt</a> recorded a 550% YoY growth and was the #1 brand in the truly wireless hearables market for Q1’21; <a href="https://twitter.com/trySUGAR">Sugar Cosmetics</a> crossed INR 100 crores of turnover and grew 80% YoY between 2019 &amp; 2020 whilst also having over 10,000 retail points with a focus on omnichannel; and <a href="https://twitter.com/bewakoof">Bewakoof</a> has catered to over 40 lakh customers till date. Choices legacy brands must make to stay relevant Legacy brands cannot be written off especially if they are nimble, forward thinking and relatable. They have the advantage of a vast repository of experience, people, partnerships and resources to mine, which if used effectively can enable legacy brands to be as ‘connected’ as any new successful disruptor brand. A legacy brand too when it launched, rose due to the uniqueness that it established back in time. To succeed, it will have to find that new ‘disruption’ within its large multi-dimensional machinery to ensure freshness and carve out the next phase of growth with a new set of consumers. The road ahead is nothing short of a turf war in a classic western movie. Disruptor brands will fight to exist and legacy brands will fight to dominate. Legacy has no meaning if there is no past, present and future. The disruptors are here to challenge that.

The rise of disruptors: how new age brands are challenging the status-quo

Shreyas Iyer, KS Bharat and Prasidh Krishna will debut in India’s Test series against New Zealand ⁠

<ul><li><keyword id="1165815" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Kartik-Iyer">Kartik Iyer</keyword> has been appointed as <keyword id="8348457" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="publicis-commerce">Publicis Commerce</keyword> Lead and <keyword id="3820828" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Krishna-Mothey">Krishna Mothey</keyword> has been roped in as Head Of Media for the Practice</li><li>The Publicis Commerce Practice offers comprehensive capabilities in the Online Commerce &amp; Retail space and partners with clients on their journey to establish a robust online business.</li><li>The offering includes holistic end-to-end capabilities across Commerce Strategy &amp; Planning, Consumer and Category Insights, Content and eMerchandising, Technology, CRM, Analytics and Data Science, Trade and Shopper Marketing and eCommerce Media. </li><li>The Practice also draws on <keyword id="3315404" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Publicis-Media">Publicis Media</keyword>’s standing and strength as the agency with the largest number of Amazon and Google certified professionals – more than 380 – on commerce media platforms in India.</li></ul> Publicis Commerce has expanded to India and appointed Kartik Iyer as Publicis Commerce Lead and Krishna Mothey as Head Of Media for the Practice. The Publicis Commerce Practice offers comprehensive capabilities in the Online Commerce &amp; Retail space and partners with clients on their journey to establish a robust online business. The offering includes holistic end-to-end capabilities across Commerce Strategy &amp; Planning, Consumer and Category Insights, Content and eMerchandising, Technology, CRM, Analytics and Data Science, Trade and Shopper Marketing and eCommerce Media. The Practice also draws on Publicis Media’s standing and strength as the agency with the largest number of Amazon and Google certified professionals – more than 380 – on commerce media platforms in India. In addition to India, both Iyer and Mothey will also oversee the Commerce capability within Publicis Media’s Global Distributed Delivery (GDD) offering – a centre of expertise based out of India that delivers robust capability to clients around the globe. Iyer has over 17 years of experience across digital go-to-market strategy, brand e-commerce and category management. An Executive MBA from ISB Hyderabad, Iyer’s experience spans companies such as Ingram Micro, Flipkart, Samsung, Apple, Blackberry, Nokia , ITC and Nestle where he has had the opportunity to lead several go-to-market initiatives across multiple routes to market. In his most recent stint as Head of Digital Commerce at Ingram Micro, Iyer was involved in the development and launch of a technology marketplace and direct to customer platforms with accountability for business P&amp;L, partnerships and alliances, program management, e-commerce operations, technology integrations, digital marketing and customer experience. Mothey comes with 12 years of digital media &amp; entrepreneurial experience, across firms such as iProspect and GroupM besides his own entrepreneurial venture. He has worked with clients across multiple verticals and has successfully developed &amp; managed large scale marketing campaigns across FMCG, Travel, BFSI, Healthcare, Real Estate, Auto, Telecom, Hospitality, CPG and B2B sectors. His last stint was with GroupM where where he was instrumental in setting up and managing the central eCommerce media function. <keyword id="937472" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Anupriya-Acharya">Anupriya Acharya</keyword>, CEO of Publicis Media India says, “As Commerce becomes mainstream for clients in India, it is the right time for us to further advance our global commerce offering here. We find there is a great demand for these services in the market both within our client sets and outside. Our strength in digital &amp; performance marketing gives us a natural edge in scaling the global Commerce Practice. Both Kartik &amp; Krishna come with immense brand experience and category expertise and are a tremendous boost to our capabilities.” Publicis Media handles Commerce for clients such as Nestle, Mars Petcare, AO Smith in India along with several global brands through its GDD centre in India.

Publicis Commerce expands to India, appoints two new leaders for the market

New Delhi, <keyword id="13937" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="rohit-sharma" source="Orion">Rohit Sharma</keyword>'s request to the BCCI for a break from white-ball cricket in South Africa despite being offered T20 captaincy has been accepted, while Jasprit Bumrah has been named his deputy for the two Tests starting December 26. <keyword id="6354486" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Virat-Kohli" source="Orion">Virat Kohli</keyword>'s request for a break from limited-overs games too has been accepted as <keyword id="496245" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="suryakumar-yadav" source="Orion">Suryakumar Yadav</keyword> and <keyword id="6355454" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="kl-rahul" source="Orion">KL Rahul</keyword> will lead the national team in T20Is and ODIs respectively. However, it is understood that Hardik Pandya is no longer an automatic choice for T20 captaincy in the T20 World Cup next year if Rohit decides to play the <keyword id="2293366" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Shortest-Format" source="Orion">shortest format</keyword>. "Rohit has been offered T20 captaincy but he is in UK on a holiday and wants an extended break after four months of gruelling season till end of the World Cup. But as captain, he has the highest respect for the dressing room and if he agrees to lead India in T20 World Cup, he will lead," a BCCI source told PTI on condition of anonymity. After the T20 World Cup in 2022, Rohit had actually been reluctant to play the shortest format as he focused on 50-over cricket. Interestingly, most of the players selected for ODIs don't feature either in Tests or T20Is. Only three players have been selected in all three squads -- Shreyas Iyer, Mukesh Kumar and Ruturaj Gaikwad. Axar Patel has been dropped from the T20 squad and Ravindra Jadeja is the new T20 vice-captain for the series. KL Rahul set to keep wickets =================== The national selection committee, on expected lines, has not included Kona Bharat in the Test squad as KL Rahul will now don the big gloves in the Test matches. Rahul as keeper also opens two middle-order slots -- for Shreyas Iyer and reserve batter Gaikwad -- in the Test lineup. It is understood that Mohammed Shami has a chance to get fit before the Test series starts late in December. "Shami's injury isn't very serious at the moment and hence he has been kept in the squad. Prasidh Krishna has been kept as his cover just in case. End of road for Rahane, Pujara, Umesh ========================= Ajinkya Rahane, who scored 89 in the World Test Championship final, has probably played his last Test along with Chesteshwar Pujara. "The two slots that Rahane and Pujara had now belong to Rahul and Iyer. Also, Gill will bat in the middle order and Yashashvi will get a long rope," the source added. Pacer Umesh Yadav has also played his last Test. New-look ODI squad =============== ODI is the least important format right now but looking at the 2025 Champions Trophy, a new-look squad under Rahul will play the 50-over games. Rajat Patidar, B Sai Sudharshan and Rinku Singh, all with fantastic List A records, are in the ODI squad and will form the nucleus of the next 50-over team. Kuldeep Yadav, who couldn't be accommodated in the Test squad, is there in both the white-ball squads. Yuzvendra Chahal, who missed the World Cup, is now back in the 50-over format while Ravi Bishnoi is in the T20 squad. Squads: Tests: Rohit Sharma (c), Shubman Gill, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Ishan Kishan (wk), KL Rahul (wk), Ravichandran Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Shardul Thakur, Mohammed Siraj, Mukesh Kumar, Mohammed Shami, Jasprit Bumrah (vc), Prasidh Krishna. T20Is: Yashasvi Jaiswal, Shubman Gill, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Tilak Varma, Suryakumar Yadav (c), Rinku Singh, Shreyas Iyer, Ishan Kishan (wk), Jitesh Sharma (wk), Ravindra Jadeja (vc), Washington Sundar, Ravi Bishnoi, Kuldeep Yadav, Arshdeep Singh, Mohd. Siraj, Mukesh Kumar, Deepak Chahar. ODIs: Ruturaj Gaikwad, Sai Sudharsan, Tilak Varma, Rajat Patidar, Rinku Singh, Shreyas Iyer, KL Rahul (c, wk), Sanju Samson (wk), Axar Patel, Washington Sundar, Kuldeep Yadav, Yuzvendra Chahal, Mukesh Kumar, Avesh Khan, Arshdeep Singh, Deepak Chahar.

India Squad announced for South Africa Tour - Rohit Sharma in Tests, SuryaKumar Yadav in T20s and KL Rahul in ODIs will lead

He endured the heartbreak of a lifetime 36 evenings back but <keyword id="13937" type="General" weightage="60" keywordseo="rohit-sharma" source="Orion">Rohit Sharma</keyword> will give his all to erase the memories of a World Cup final defeat as he trains his eyes on ending India's 31-year wait for a Test series win on South African soil. The two-match Test rubber, starting here on the Boxing Day, will be India's ninth away series in the Rainbow Nation since 1992, and captain Rohit will have an onerous task of traversing a difficult terrain in order to conquer what has always been dubbed the team's 'final frontier'. However, for the action to start at Supersport Park, the heavy rains predicted on the first two days need to subside. The Centurion track offers variable bounce and is one of the fastest in the region. And that makes up for a compelling contest between bat and ball in relatively cooler and windy conditions in an open ground where it can jag around a bit. In the last 50 over World Cup, skipper Rohit, at best would have emulated Kapil Dev and Mahendra Singh Dhoni, but if he and his men manage to pull off a coup in this country, he would stand first among the equals. Mohammed Azharuddin (1992) failed, so did Sachin Tendulkar (1996) and Sourav Ganguly (2001). Rahul Dravid (2006-07), Dhoni (2010-11 and 2013-14) won Test matches, and so did Virat Kohli (2018-19 and 2021-22) but none of them could win the elusive series in South Africa. So Rohit will have a job at hand and a win might just be the much-needed soothing balm required to heal the World Cup wounds even though the scars will remain. For the golden generation of Indian cricketers, this is also their last African Safari and a chance to conquest what no other team could on eight previous tours. In Temba Bavuma's South Africa, they have a team that has a crack fast bowling attack, which could make some of the young Indian batters look like cats on hot tin roof. For Yashasvi Jaiswal, it will be the first big test against a quality attack comprising Kagiso Rabada, Lungi Ngidi, Marco Jansen and Gerald Coetzee. There will be way more bounce than what he got in the Caribbean, and the variable nature of it will ask him probing questions. Similarly, Shubman Gill and Shreyas Iyer, who have proven their mettle on sub-continental pitches, need to up their game in more challenging batting conditions. Iyer, especially, with his well-documented weakness against the short ball, will have to churn out something really special. Coach Rahul Dravid doesn't want Jaiswal and Gill to change their style but wants them to develop game awareness and play as per the need of the hour. "We encourage the players to play (in a manner) they feel most comfortable. In the end they are judged by the results they produce. They know that," Dravid said. But that freedom comes with a rider. "We want to encourage them in the way they play but also keeping the conditions in mind and certain, sort of tactical thing they have to adopt when they play in South Africa. "The nature of ball, how it behaves over 80 overs, shots that they play early and later on. I think it's about finding balance between having <keyword id="1521" type="General" weightage="50" keywordseo="cricket" source="Orion">cricket</keyword> smarts to read the game and understand the situation, and of course allowing to express yourself. "Hopefully, they make smart decisions," the coach had said on Christmas eve. But all said and done, India's performance will depend on three factors: how well the skipper executes his hook and pull shots, for how much time Virat Kohli decides to leave balls outside the off-stump, and how well the team covers up Mohmmed Shami's absence. The skiddy Mukesh Kumar looked better at the nets but the extra bounce available makes a case for Prasidh Krishna. Bavuma, the retiring Dean Elgar, the stylish Aiden Markram, the exciting Tony de Zorzi, and the dogged Keegan Petersen constitute a good batting unit that can make Indian bowlers toil hard. KL Rahul donning the big gloves is another aspect of this game. The team management handing over keeping responsibilities to Rahul can be viewed from two different prisms. The positive one would be the faith in his ability as a glovesman in 50-over cricket and hoping that he can do it for 90 overs in a day. The not-so-positive aspect will be the sheer desperation not to lose that extra batter in Iyer and also not looking at the bigger picture that Rahul could find it extremely difficult to stand up to Ravichandran Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja in a month's time against England at home, provided Ishan Kishan isn't back from his mental health break. It will be another away Test match which Ashwin might have to miss because of conditions and combinations. At Supersport Park, it normally takes three and half to four days to achieve results and if the toss happens on the second day, after a washout on opening day, batting first will surely be a very difficult proposition. Teams: India: Rohit Sharma (captain), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, KL Rahul (wk), Shreyas Iyer, Ravindra Jadeja, Shardul Thakur, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Siraj, Mukesh Kumar, Prasidh Krishna, KS Bharat (wk), Abhimanyu Easwaran (2nd Test). South Africa: Temba Bavuma (captain), Aiden Markram, Tony de Zorzi, Dean Elgar, Keegan Petersen, Kyle Verreynne (wk), Tristan Stubbs (wk), Nandre Burger, Marco Jansen, Wiaan Mulder, Gerald Coetzee, Keshav Maharaj, Kagiso Rabada, Lungi Ngidi, David Bedingham. Match Starts: 1:30 pm IST.

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Her paternal grandmother, Kokilaben, stood by husband Dhirubhai but never joined him as he redefined the boundaries of Indian entrepreneurship. Her father’s sisters, or her aunts, were married early into business houses, with little discussion about joining the business: Dipti into the Salgaocar family and Nina into the Kothari family. Her mother, Nita, broke the mould somewhat and has done a fair bit on the business end of the group. But Isha Ambani, 22, is poised to redraw the family-business construct for Reliance women scions. 
 
Last week, ET reported the only daughter of Reliance Industries owner Mukesh Ambani had joined global consultancy McKinsey in the US. Isha, a Yale graduate in psychology and South Asian studies, had joined her father at the Reliance annual general meeting in Mumbai last year. While the company declined comment, corporate observers say the McKinsey stint is probably a stepping stone to larger things in the family business empire. 
 Across India Inc, more and more women scions can be seen at the frontline of their family business. There are some who have made a mark: like Nisa <keyword id="6369697" type="COMPANY" weightage="40" keywordseo="Godrej">Godrej</keyword> and Tanya Dubash at the Godrej Group. There are some who are asserting themselves: like Radhika Piramal, the 34-year-old, Harvard-educated managing director of VIP Industries. 
 
And there’s a new lot stepping in: like 30-year-old Gursimran Mann, managing director of Simbhaoli Sugars, and the first woman in four generations of the family to play a hands-on role in its business. According to business historian Gita Piramal, who is also the mother of Radhika Piramal, 20 years ago, she predicted it would take two generations before Indian women in the family business became the done thing. “I find it has taken one generation to do so,” she says. 
 
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“It is a belated effect of what is happening in society,” says Ashvini Chopra, MD &amp; CEO of Universal Trustees, a firm that helps business families in succession planning. When it comes to women in business, this change pivots around three aspects. 
 
The first is education. “Parents who would typically give professional education, including overseas exposure, only to their sons are now also encouraging daughters,” says Prabir Jha, chief HR officer, Reliance Group, speaking in general and not in reference to the Ambani family. “Their entry into business responsibilities is then a logical corollary.” 
 
Secondly, family size is shrinking. Joint families are becoming nuclear, resulting in a fall in the number of male heirs. “In many families it’s a father and son and daughter like situation. And daughters are the heir apparent,” says Kavil Ramachandran, Thomas Schmidheiny Chair professor of family business and wealth management at Indian School of Business. “Also many families are realising that girls are as good as, or better than, boys in performance.” 
 
For some like Sulajja Firodia Motwani, vice-chairperson of Kinetic Engineering, all this was a given. “A combination of a good atmosphere at home, freedom to do what we wanted and treating daughters like sons encouraged me to get into the family business,” she says. While she feels this is how it should be, Piramal says it’s still not the case in all families and inequalities manifest themselves in many forms. “We are only half way there,” she says. “There are several prominent business families where daughters are not at the forefront of handling businesses in terms of true equality.” 
 
That leads to the third pivot of change: an amendment in the Hindu Succession (Amendment) Act, in 2005, which removed gender discrimination in inheritance in Hindu joint families. Previously, only the male line, down to the great-grandson, had inheritance rights. The amendment gives women an equal share in the family business. “Even women married before 1994 can come back and claim equal rights into the family business as well as inherited assets,” says Sameer Tapia, senior partner at ALMT Legal. 
 

	But the exciting, radical change is happening in operations, and Tapia offers some sense of its magnitude. “We have at least 40 per cent family-business clients where women are playing an active role in the family business, and are part of crucial strategy or execution teams.” And many, like the four women profiled here, are leaving an imprint. 
	 

	 
	 
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Unlike many, if not most, women scions in India, Lakshmi Venu had a point of reference on the gender question. Her mother, Mallika Srinivasan, is the chairperson and chief executive of tractor company Tractors and Farm Equipment Limited. But Lakshmi, 31, gravitated towards the businesses managed by her father, Venu Srinivasan—auto-component company Sundaram-Clayton and two-wheeler firm TVS Motor. In 2010, Lakshmi was inducted as director-strategy and whole-time director of Sundaram-Clayton. In May 2011, she was also made vice-president in charge of global business strategy at Sundaram-Clayton. 
 
It capped close to a decade of her involvement with the family business. Back in 2003, Lakshmi joined as a management trainee in Sundaram Auto Components. She also did stints in business strategy, design, corporate affairs, and sales and marketing at TVS Motor. Lakshmi declined comment for this profile. 
 
But senior auto industry professional RL Ravichandran, who has worked in a senior position in TVS Motors, says Lakshmi was interested in the business from early on. Even with her impeccable academic qualifications, he adds, she earned her way through various roles. “(It’s why)…there was no resistance from employees when she was inducted on to the board.” 
 
Speaking on the condition of anonymity, a senior TVS manager who interacts with Lakshmi describes her as “level-headed” and “business-like”. She currently manages the entire component business, which includes die cast, rubber, plastics and seats. “She is handling the business well and it is showing results,” he adds. Unlike Lakshmi, brother Sudarshan Venu, 24, had an easier entry into Sundaram-Clayton, joining its board in 2011. 
 
According to VG Ramakrishnan, managing director of Frost &amp; Sullivan, a consultancy, it’s a good sign when scions spend time in the business rather than being parachuted into it. “Children are being groomed to take over executive roles and responsibilities right from the beginning as part of effective succession planning,” he says. “It shows the progressive nature of these companies.” 
 
 In 2011, Lakshmi married Rohan Murty, son of <keyword id="6354512" type="CITY" weightage="40" keywordseo="Infosys">Infosys</keyword> co-founder Narayana Murthy. Her lineage aside, she is seen as a leader in her own right. Anil Singhvi, founder and director of Institutional Investor Advisory Services, a proxy shareholder advisory firm, has been baying against the tendency of business families to induct women scions into the board simply to meet the new rule of minimum women representation. But for Lakshmi, he says: “She is competent to take the business forward.” 
	 

	 
	 
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When a 21-year-old Bhairavi Jani returned from the US in 2000, after a year of working as a supply-chain consultant in KPMG’s Washington DC office, she battled two stereotypes as she tried to make her mark in the male-dominated Indian logistics business industry: gender and age. “There were people who did not want to work with me, who thought I was probably amusing myself for a few years before being married off,” she says. “And then there were customers, even MNCs, who refused to give business to a young woman, who they were sure would fail miserably at logistics planning.” 
 
Her father had thrown her into the deep end, and told Jani to learn to swim. Instead of making her a part of Blue Dart, his flagship before he sold it to DHL in 2004, Tushar Jani stumped his elder daughter by asking her to set up her own venture. “His view was that people from family-owned businesses tend to take things for granted,” says Jani, now 34. “Going through the pain of setting up a venture would teach me two things: never be afraid to take risks and value what it takes to sustain a business.” 
 So, Jani set up i3pl, to provide end-to-end logistics services to corporate clients. After initially struggling for business, i3pl obtained its first client in M&amp;M, and subsequently signed up British Petroleum, Sara Lee and <keyword id="60299" type="CITY" weightage="40" keywordseo="Walt-Disney">Walt Disney</keyword>, among others. Jani roped in partners in 2003 and, in a planned exit, sold out to them in 2005. 
 
That same year, Jani assumed the role of group director for the SCA Group, which has four verticals: warehousing, supply chain technology, cargo handling and freight forwarding, and shipping, respectively. At present, she provides strategic and operational guidance, operating as a link between the board and professionals; she also directs new projects and is in charge of joint ventures and alliances. 
 
Jani set up the warehousing vertical, via a company called Transmart India, in 2007. Percy Dhunjisha, a former CFO of Blue Dart Express and a person who had worked closely with her father, was her mentor there. He describes her as a searching and questioning manager. “Bhairavi’s management style is, forethought is better than afterthought,” he says. “She does not accept things as they are presented, but will often probe enough with questions to determine whether there is an alternate way of doing things and whether the same has been considered before arriving at the solution presented.” 
 
At SCA, she has her father’s backing. “Daughters are as astute and sharp in financial management, balance sheet and P&amp;L [profit and loss] accounting, says Tushar Jani. “I have always believed in that. Therefore, Bhairavi has always been given full charge of our projects and companies, including P&amp;L responsibility. And like any CEO, she has been answerable to the board.” 
 

	Gender and age still come up in conversations, though. Even today, there are few women in the logistics industry, and Jani still has to face issues of equality with male colleagues and work-life balance. “But I am confident that women in leadership roles in business will pick up sharply,” she concludes. 
	 

	 
	 
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Set up in 1933, Simbhaoli Sugars has seen four generations of the Mann family nurture it. But in that journey, women from the family, though present as shareholders and promoter-directors, were conspicuously absent on the frontline. Gursimran Mann, belonging to the fourth generation, changed that. 
 In 2005, just 21 and out of college, she joined Simbhaoli— a business with inert appeal to the young and a workforce in which women made up less than 1%. In doing so, she was turning her back on options available to her like consulting and investment banking. She even considered joining a consumer products or an agri-trading company, having done internships with Nestle, <keyword id="76102" type="COMPANY" weightage="40" keywordseo="Cargill">Cargill</keyword> and ED&amp;F Man. 
 
“It was my decision,” says Mann. She grew up in the Simbhaoli factory compound, in rural Uttar Pradesh, listening to conversations about the business and watching sugar being made. “This background, combined with my training in economics, made me realise the opportunity that existed for me to help grow the business further.” The only child, she did not immediately start reporting to her father and chairman Gurmit Mann. Joining as a trainee, Mann worked in various departments—factory, farm operations and trading —reporting to different people. 
 
“My promotions were not on auto mode,” she says. After completing her MBA from London Business School, Mann became an executive director in 2012 and managing director in July 2013. At Simbhaoli, she counts among her achievements increasing asset utilisation, partnering with global sugar trading company ED&amp;F Man, setting up sugar refinery on the Gujarat coast to tap the import-export play, reducing the cyclical nature of the sugar business by pushing the power and the alcohol business, building a consulting vertical that advises other companies on all things sugar, and raising new capital from private equity. “She has taken the challenge to professionalise the business,” says Devin Narang, India MD of Singapore-based PE fund Sindicatum, which has invested in the company. 
 

	For Mann, it’s all in a day’s work. “There is an overall social and cultural change, leading to a change in mindset among business families regarding acceptance of daughters to take charge,” she says. 
	 

	 
	 
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The middle of three daughters, Arathi Krishna was the first women in her family to join the business, in 1989, when she was just 20. “I had an easy transition into the company,” says Krishna, now joint managing director of auto-component major Sundram Fasteners. “I was easily accepted by employees.” Acceptance from the industry has followed. The 45-year-old spearheads the Rs 2,651 crore company’s domestic business. 
 “This is a logical succession,” says Sonu Iyer, partner &amp; diversity and inclusiveness leader, <keyword id="151258" type="CITY" weightage="40" keywordseo="Ernst-Young-India">Ernst &amp; Young India</keyword>, a consultancy. “The daughters [younger sister Arundathi is in charge of overseas operations and business development] have grown up in an entrepreneurial set up, and it’s only natural for them to be entrepreneurs and also do it better.” 
 
According to Arathi, her parents gave her an environment to flourish and the freedom to choose. “There was no difference between a son or a daughter,” she says. “My parents are very progressive, willing to take risks and pushed us to pursue our interests. But they never pushed us into the business.” Arathi did an MBA from the US. She stayed on, first to work in automotive strategy with a consulting company and then with Sundram Fasteners for five years. “I knew I would, at some point, come back and join the business,” she says. 
 
“So, I took up jobs in the US that were related to the business. I wanted to make myself worthy when I came back to join the business.” Arathi returned to India in 2006, and became joint MD in 2011. Arathi counts among her achievements making the workforce at Sundram Fastners younger, and the work culture more performance-based and technology oriented. Around 2005, the average age of the Sundram workforce was 40 years; it’s now down to 35 years. 
 
In her earlier years, at industry meets, Arathi would feel out of sorts in what was essentially a man’s world. “But then, I felt it was tougher to work in a Japanese or a Korean company,” she says. At present, 10% of Sundram’s workforce is made of women. “We have always believed in equality at the workplace. We are promoting more women to join the manufacturing ranks in the company.”

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