India top-order batter will be available from late July until end of season India’s top-order batter Ruturaj Gaikwad is set to join Yorkshire for the remainder of the English domestic season, participating in both the County Championship and the Metro Bank One-Day Cup. The 28-year-old, who captains Chennai Super Kings, is expected to be available from late July until the season’s end. Gaikwad, currently part of the India A squad touring England, has a strong first-class record with an average of 41.77 and seven centuries. His List A record is even more impressive, averaging 56.15 with 16 hundreds. He has…
Author: Raghav Mutdeyja
The teams have been involved in some of the fiercest battles over 30 years, and now clash for the big title at Lord’s As the World Test Championship (WTC) final gets underway at Lord’s, South Africa faces the dual challenge of historical perceptions and an in-form Australian side that has a track record of performing on the big stage. This clash marks the first WTC final at the “home of cricket,” but it’s not the first time these two nations have met in a Test there; Australia famously defeated South Africa by 10 wickets at Lord’s 113 years ago in…
Pat Cummins, Australia’s captain, has thrown his support behind the team’s reshuffled top order for the World Test Championship (WTC) final, despite South Africa’s captain Temba Bavuma sensing a potential vulnerability. For the first time in Test cricket, Marnus Labuschagne will open the batting, accommodating the return of Cameron Green at No. 3. Josh Hazlewood also returns to the pace attack after injury. The selection debates for the WTC final largely went as anticipated, with Labuschagne being retained over Sam Konstas and moving up to allow Green’s inclusion. The decision to elevate Labuschagne to open alongside Usman Khawaja generated considerable…
South Africa has confirmed Lungi Ngidi will play his first Test in ten months and only his third under coach Shukri Conrad in the World Test Championship (WTC) final at Lord’s. This decision sees Ngidi preferred over Dane Paterson, primarily for his extra pace and bounce, complementing an attack featuring Kagiso Rabada, Marco Jansen, Wiaan Mulder, and Keshav Maharaj. Captain Temba Bavuma described the selection as one of the toughest decisions, acknowledging Paterson’s strong performance last season. However, he emphasized Ngidi’s additional pace, height (1.93m), and prior experience at Lord’s as key tactical advantages. On the Lord’s slope, bowler height…
Pakistan’s new white-ball coach, Mike Hesson, believes the traditional concept of specialist T20 batters is “outdated” and plans to foster a team of multi-skilled players with flexible roles, sharp fielding, and a team-first mindset. He indicated that the recent 3-0 T20I series win against Bangladesh reflects the aggressive brand of cricket he intends to implement. “You have to be multi-skilled,” Hesson stated in an interview with the PCB. He emphasized the need for captains to have numerous bowling options based on matchups, allowing flexibility to pick the best bowlers on any given day. This approach aims for the team to…
This was in relation to the stampede at RCB’s victory celebrations that caused the death of 11 people and injuries to several others Bengaluru police have arrested Nikhil Sosale, a senior official with Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB), in connection with the stampede that led to 11 deaths and numerous injuries during the team’s IPL 2025 victory celebrations on Wednesday. The arrest follows the Karnataka state government’s decision on Thursday to suspend several top police officials and appoint a new commissioner, Seemanth Kumar Singh. In their First Information Report (FIR) filed on Thursday, Bengaluru police stated that they had denied RCB…
“Our Careers Are Over”: Oman Players Denied T20 World Cup Prize Money Nearly a year after participating in the Men’s T20 World Cup in the Caribbean, almost the entire Oman squad from that tournament has been forced out of the national setup, with many players having left the country, due to an unresolved pay dispute with Oman Cricket. The players are owed US$ 225,000 in prize money from the ICC, which their board has allegedly failed to distribute. Kashyap Prajapati, a top-order batter who played against teams like Australia and England in that tournament, is now in the US attempting…
The two-time World Cup winner played three Tests, 25 ODIs and seven T20Is for India, and picked 192 wickets in the IPL Two-time World Cup winner Piyush Chawla, the veteran Indian leg-spinner, has announced his retirement from all forms of professional cricket at the age of 36. His career spanned over two decades, culminating in his last appearance for India at the 2012 T20 World Cup in Sri Lanka. Chawla’s final competitive outing was in the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy in 2024-25, a tournament he played with the hope of featuring in IPL 2025. However, he went unsold at the…
India’s captain Shubman Gill and coach Gautam Gambhir have stated that no definitive decision has been made regarding which three Tests Jasprit Bumrah will play in the upcoming five-match series against England. However, both expressed confidence in the squad’s fast-bowling depth to compensate for his likely absence in some matches. “We haven’t taken that call, which three games is he going to play,” Gambhir confirmed during India’s pre-departure press conference in Mumbai. “We are going to have a discussion with him and depending on the series as well. A lot will depend on the results of the series, where the…
Richard Gould says revival of CLT20-style event is ‘next logical step’ for sport’s evolution The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) is considering the revival of a global T20 club tournament, similar to the defunct Champions League T20 (CLT20), according to ECB chief executive Richard Gould. He views a “World Club Championship” as the “next logical step” in cricket’s evolution, particularly with the recent growth of T20 leagues worldwide. The original CLT20, which ran from 2009 to 2014, was jointly run by the BCCI, Cricket Australia, and Cricket South Africa. It was eventually discontinued due to “limited public following” and…