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Has Mohammed Shami played his last game for Team India?

**Has Mohammed Shami Played His Last Game for Team India?**
*By Gaurav Tripathi | Oct 05, 2025, 10:14 AM*

Indian cricket legend Sunil Gavaskar has shared his thoughts on the future of fast bowler Mohammed Shami following the latter’s exclusion from India’s white-ball squads for the upcoming series against Australia.

### The Injury Struggle and Its Impact

Mohammed Shami, 35, has been battling injuries since the 2023 ODI World Cup. Despite overcoming a year-long fitness struggle, he has been unable to regain his peak form. Gavaskar noted that for a fast bowler like Shami, recovering from such injuries is especially challenging.

“In Mohammed Shami’s case, it’ll be a real uphill climb for him. It’s going to be very, very tough,” Gavaskar told *India Today*. He also acknowledged Shami’s valuable contribution to Indian cricket over the years.

Shami last represented India in the Champions Trophy earlier this year but has since found it hard to secure a spot in the national team.

### Declining Form and Limited Opportunities

The 2025 IPL season was disappointing for Shami as he struggled to make an impact with Sunrisers Hyderabad. Consequently, he was left out of key tours and tournaments, including the England tour, the T20 Asia Cup 2025, and the West Indies Test series.

His domestic performances have also been underwhelming, notably in the Duleep Trophy where he picked up only one wicket in 34 overs while representing East Zone.

### Selectors’ Long-Term Vision

In recent squad announcements, India’s selection committee has made significant changes ahead of the Australia tour. Shami, along with Ravindra Jadeja, has been omitted to make room for younger talents like Prasidh Krishna and Washington Sundar.

This move signals a clear long-term strategy focusing on building a core team for the 2027 World Cup. Shami’s exclusion appears to be part of this broader vision to develop fresh talent and invest in the future.

### A Look Back at Shami’s Career

Mohammed Shami made his international debut in 2013 and quickly established himself as a vital member of the Indian bowling attack across all formats.

– **ODIs:** 64 matches, 116 wickets at an average of 25.71
– **Tests:** 64 matches, 229 wickets at an average of 27.71, including six five-wicket hauls
– **T20Is:** 27 wickets at an average of 28

Shami’s experience and skill have been invaluable to Team India, but with continuing fitness concerns and emerging young talent, his international future remains uncertain.

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As India gears up for future challenges, the story of Mohammed Shami’s international career may be approaching its final chapter. Fans and experts alike await further developments as the team evolves towards the 2027 World Cup.
https://www.newsbytesapp.com/news/sports/has-mohammed-shami-s-india-career-ended/story

YOSHIKI Sparks Yoichi Wine Craze

At the center of this transformation is Mayor Saito’s wine-focused strategy, which shifted production toward premium grape varieties and leveraged top-level sales efforts to win global recognition.

YOSHIKI’s involvement in producing Yoichi wine has added star appeal, amplifying the town’s reach on the international stage.

The success has extended beyond bottles and festivals. Yoichi has attracted donations through the hometown tax scheme and drawn new investment. These proceeds are funding community programs such as childcare support and tourism development.

The result is a cycle of growth that is reshaping Yoichi’s identity and reputation far beyond its origins as a whisky town.
https://newsonjapan.com/article/147146.php

In Saudi Arabia, Dave Chappelle jokes that ‘I stand with Israel’ would be his code for censorship

In Saudi Arabia, comedian Dave Chappelle joked that saying “I stand with Israel” would be his code for censorship. The state-sponsored show, which took place on Saturday and featured a host of top international comedians, faced criticism from Human Rights Watch and several other comedians.

Dave Chappelle performed at Madison Square Garden in New York City in 2023.

As the writer argues, the more Hollywood elites speak out on behalf of the radicalized people of Gaza, the more my people are in danger— from New York to Jerusalem.

(Photo credit: Eduardo Munoz/Reuters)

By GRACE GILSON / JTA
https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-869358

Keeping time

Stunningly light, the sculptures of Madeline Gallucci and the paintings of Margaret Crowley bear witness while mourning the impossibility of full recognition.

In *Sympathy Ribbon*, currently on view at Grunts Rare Books, the pairing of Gallucci’s and Crowley’s work holds the perfect, painful tension between remembrance and transition.

Gallucci’s paintings manipulate surface and depth to make us acutely aware of the distance between the two. The top layer of her compositions features stark blue marks that imitate painter’s tape, painted in sharp contrast to the hazy contents below. Though the tape frames the paintings and guides our eyes toward semi-legible letters or shapes, we quickly seek to look beyond—and therein find resistance.

Past the tape exterior, textured gradients become the foggy window of a car or a glass door after a scalding shower. Innumerable coats of vivid color are pierced by instances of removal, as seen in *SPAT* (2025), where lightened swipes against a muddy green-grey background could be the fingertips of someone tracing in condensation—a record of some unknown previous presence.

We strain to look deeper and identify what’s beyond the veil, but instead get lost in eternal depths.

Crowley’s sculptures use form and material to hold longing. Most prominent is *50 Years of Service* (2022), glimmering on the gallery floor. A body-sized replica of a thin metal watch, the piece is modeled after a commemorative gift given to her grandfather by the International Union of Operating Engineers.

Curatorial text reveals the large watch is papier-mâché made from postmortem documents for her grandfather—a strong use of medium to register the artist’s grief. Even without context, the watch begs to be witnessed, with its face to the ground and links slumped awkwardly over.

It echoes the ache of Gallucci’s paintings, which yearn for someone to look through them and find recognition, but offer only a vague palimpsest of prior hands.

Both practices offer us the uneasy gift of attending to what remains when presence slips into memory.

**Sympathy Ribbon**
Through November 9
Saturday–Sunday, 1–4 PM
Grunts Rare Books
1500 S. Western #403
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https://chicagoreader.com/visual-arts/art-review/sympathy-ribbon-grunts-rare-books/