Other Cricket
ECB, English and Wales Cricket Board, has adopted a rotation policy to safeguard players from burnout, especially in times of pandemic, with the players spending a substantial amount of time in the bubble. They started it when the English team returned to professional sport once cricket recommenced, starting with their tour of West Indies and […]
The England selectors allotted Moeen Ali a rest window on their tour of Sri Lanka and India, just as they did for other squad members playing in more than one format. Moeen is set to miss the remaining two Test matches in India. Root Causes Controversy Skipper Joe Root caused a controversy when he told […]
With seven spots remaining to be filled by overseas players in the upcoming draft for the men’s Hundred on 22 February, as many as 252 players from around the world have registered for selection, including David Warner, Shakib al Hasan, Nicholas Pooran, Kieron Pollard, Quinton de Kock and Kagiso Rabada. The Hundred set to Begin […]
As per their original plan, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chose four venues to host the PSL, including Multan and Rawalpindi. However, after a surge of Covid-19 cases in the winter, the PCB decided to restrict the competition to two venues, Lahore’s Gaddafi Stadium and Karachi’s National Stadium. Apart from helping to manage pandemic restrictions […]
The Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy held a few weeks back ended up being a grand success. It was the first major cricket event held in the country following the Covid-19 pandemic and it kicked off the domestic cricket season in India. The BCCI is now focusing on the Vijay Hazare Trophy, whose schedule has been […]
Ashton Agar could only watch from the sidelines as injury issues forced him out of the majority of the home season. He will be hopeful about making up for all the lost time during the T20I series against New Zealand away from home. During the ODI series against India, Ashton ended up injuring his finger […]
When he got rid of England batsman Daniel Lawrence who had scored 18 runs off 47 balls in the first Test match of the ongoing series at Chennai’s MA Chidambaram Stadium on Monday, Ishant Sharma became the sixth Indian bowler to reach 300 Test wickets. Five Other Indians Who Achieved the Feat While there are […]
Rishabh Pant was named Player of the Month, making him the winner of ICC’s inaugural award after his brilliant showing in the two Tests on the Australia tour in January. He followed up on a 97 in Sydney with a match-winning 89 not out in Brisbane that led to India’s second successive series win Down […]
Australia’s Steve Smith has added one more test record to a growing list of accomplishments in the longest form of the game. On day 4 on the fourth test match against India at the Gabba in Brisbane, the Australian batting superstar reached 7500 test runs. He got to the figure during his second innings knock […]
On 28 December 2020, the International Cricket Council announced the individual ICC awards and named the ICC World XI Teams. In a one-off edition of the annual awards programme of the ICC, the ICC Awards of the Decade celebrated the outstanding performance and cricketing moments in international cricket in the past decade. Kohli, Perry Named […]
Colin McDonald, 92, who opened the batting for Australia and scored 3107 runs at an average of 39.32 in 47 Test matches between 1951-52 and 1961 died in Melbourne on 11 January 2021. Executive Director of Tennis Australia McDonald, who built a reputation for being a reliable and fearless Australian top-order player in the 1950s, […]
The third Test match between Australia and India at the Sydney Cricket Ground was briefly halted on day four (Sunday) after some spectators subjected Indian bowler Mohd Siraj to racist abuse. Play Halted During the 87th over of Australia’s second innings, the play stopped for about 10 minutes after the bowler called the umpires’ attention […]
New Zealand captain Kane Williamson has leapfrogged India’s Virat Kohli and Australia’s Steve Smith to top the ICC rankings for Test batsmen. The final update of the rankings showed Williamson at the number one position after his showing in the Boxing Day Test against the visiting Pakistan team. Kohli, Smith Decline in Rankings In the […]
With harsher bio-security protocols to fulfil in Brisbane, Team India expressed reluctance to travel to the venue of the fourth and final match of their ongoing Test series in Australia. But the clouds of uncertainty that were hanging over the holding of the match at the Gabba for the last two weeks have cleared, as […]
Cricket Australia no longer views Steve Smith as the only captaincy candidate in the wake of Tim Paine’s brilliant performance in the first test versus India at Adelaide. Stop Gap Captain Paine became a stopgap captain when Smith had to serve a ban following the infamous sandpapergate scandal. After Smith’s return to international cricket in […]