Following the current T20 World Cup final, the New Zealand women’s team will go to India for a three-match ODI series in Ahmedabad. The three matches are a part of the ICC Women’s ODI Championship 2022–25 and are scheduled for October 24, 27, and 29 respectively. New Zealand was scheduled to visit for this series last year, but it had to be postponed because of the Indian team’s busy winter of 2023, which included a few one-off Test matches against Australia and England after the ninth WBBL finished. New Zealand has won just 8 out of their 18 ODIs in…
Author: Devansh Poddar
Following their low score of 138 in the Caribbean Premier League 2024 championship game, the Guyana Amazon Warriors produced a valiant display with the ball at Providence Stadium in Guyana. Despite this, Saint Lucia Kings prevailed and won the CPL championship for the first time credit to the outstanding performances of Aaron Jones and Roston Chase. Batting wasn’t easy on the slow and sluggish pitch in Guyana, and the Kings were having trouble halfway through the second innings. Before turning things around and sprinting to a 22-ball 39 not out, Chase was on 14 off 15 without hitting a single boundary. Jones started…
Varun Chakravarthy featured in an international game 3 long years after the T20 World Cup in the UAE. He saw a “rebirth” after contributing significantly to India’s decisive seven-wicket victory in Sunday’s first T20 International against Bangladesh in Gwalior. “After three long years and… it was definitely emotional for me, and it feels nice to be back in the Blues, it feels like a rebirth,” he told Murali Kartik on the official broadcast after the game. “There have been many [challenges]. Once you are not in the Indian side, people tend to write you off very easily. You need to stay at…
The Sri Lankan Cricket Board has named Sanath Jayasuriya as the head coach of Sri Lanka men’s national side, a position that will remain until the end of the 2026 T20 World Cup. Although he had been serving as their interim coach since early July, he was still their coach. However, after making an impression in the position, Sri Lanka Cricket gave him a full-time position. Over the past few months, Sri Lanka has defeated England away in a Test match for the first time in ten years, won their first bilateral ODI series against India in 27 years, and most…
Tanzim Sakib, an all-round pace bowler for Bangladesh, is undoubtedly very different from other young people his age when it comes to their free time. The 21-year-old reads a lot of books, so it’s obvious that he gets excited when he talks about his passion. “I don’t read fictional books much, I try to read self-improvement books. Now I am reading a book called Mind Set. There is Mind Set, and another book is called Home of Matches that’s a favorite book, and have almost finished it,” he said after completing a practice session at the BCB academy premises to…
The Asia Cup media rights have a starting price of USD 170 million set by the Asian Cricket Council (ACC). For tournaments like the Men’s, Women’s, Men’s Under-19, Men’s Emerging Teams, Women’s Under-19, and Women’s Emerging Teams Asia Cups, the Asia-Pacific Cable Association ACC is providing worldwide television, digital, and radio rights. The date of the auction is November 1. The Men’s Asia Cup, which spans four continental championship editions over an eight-year rights period from 2024 to 2031, is the centerpiece event in the rights package. India will host the Asia Cup in 2025 (in T20 format), Bangladesh in 2027…
The IPL mega auction is likely to take place in a Saudi city, according to the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI). The BCCI executives have not decided on a precise location yet, but Riyadh or Jeddah are certainly on their list. Although it’s not the top option right now, Dubai in the United Arab Emirates is another alternative. It is anticipated that the auction will happen around the final week of November. It is acknowledged that the BCCI has had difficulty thus far in locating a hotel or an appropriate location. Finding a venue in Saudi Arabia has…
Ben Stokes, England’s usual captain, will not be available for the first Test match against Pakistan in Multan as he recovers from a hamstring injury he suffered during a match in The Hundred more than two months ago. In Stokes’s absence, Ollie Pope will continue to captain England in what will be his first away Test as captain and his fourth straight overall. Last month, he guided England to a 2-1 series victory against Sri Lanka at home. Brydon Carse, a fast bowler with 127 first-class wickets at 33.78 in 48 matches, will make his Test debut. In the fast…
Fast bowler Tinotenda Maposa and all-rounder Tashinga Musekiwa have been named in Zimbabwe’s squad, for this month’s T20 World Cup regional qualifiers in Kenya. Trevor Gwandu, a fast bowler, was also called up by the selectors for the 15-man squad that would include 11 players from the July series against India. With an average age of 26, Zimbabwe’s six-team T20 World Cup Africa Sub-Regional Qualifier B roster is youthful under new head coach Justin Sammons, according to a Zimbabwe Cricket announcement. The crew will be led by the seasoned Sikandar Raza. Gambia, Kenya, Mozambique, Rwanda, and the Seychelles are also…
Due to “a lumbar stress reaction”, Nandre Burger will miss all of the remaining ODI matches against Ireland in Abu Dhabi as well as the next Test series in Bangladesh. Burger “experienced discomfort in his lower back and subsequent scans revealed the injury,” CSA said in a statement on Friday, just before the start of the second ODI, adding that Burger “will return home and undergo further assessments”. South Africa leads the series 1-0 after winning the first game by 139 runs. There was no news on a replacement for the third One-Day International (ODI), but CSA stated that one would be…