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  Dashing strikers Suryakumar Yadav and Sanju Samson return to the India eleven in place of Shreyas Iyer and Rishabh Pant from Sunday in the T20I series with two games against Ireland. While head coach Rahul Dravid is in Leicester with the Test squad, National Cricket Academy (NCA) boss VVS Laxman, who is in charge of the T20I team for this particular series, is expected to follow suit, as defined by The Wall. With Iyer and Pant in the Test squad, Surya, who is coming back from a wrist injury, and Samson, who is looking to seize what may be his last chance to prove his worth, will be safe starters. Surya has been a regular on the Indian side of the T20I for a year and is only just finding his place again. But when it comes to Samson, his alternate could be Deepak Hooda, who can also throw some handy off-spin overs in addition to having the ability to hit the ball hard. However, if you look at Coach Dravid's philosophy, he doesn't believe in stretching the net too wide and explo

 Real Madrid president Florentino Perez has claimed Kylian Mbappe decided to stay at Paris Saint-Germain because he was "confused" after coming under heavy "political and economic pressure". But when asked about the possibility of Mbappe joining Real Madrid in the future, Perez kept the door open for the 23-year-old. "This Mbappe is not my Mbappe," said Perez. "But if it changes, who knows? Life has a thousand twists and turns. Mbappe stunned Real Madrid last month when they turned down a move to the Santiago Bernabeu in favor of signing a new three-year deal at PSG with a reported salary of between €40m and €50m ($41.6m vs. $52m). "They practically offered him a chance to become the leader, not just of a football team but also of management," Perez told the Spanish TV show El Chiringuito on Wednesday. "We saw it wasn't the Mbappe we wanted to bring - but because of the pressure he was under, he changed his dreams. "Of course,