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Need better national selectors: Yuvraj Singh

Former India batsman Yuvraj Singh on Monday slammed the MSK Prasad-led national selection panel, saying there is a definite need for having better selectors as the current committee’s “thinking in terms of modern-day cricket” is not up to the mark. “We do need better selectors, for sure. Selectors’ job is not easy. Whenever they select […]

March 29, 2022

India players avoid breaks due to the fear of being thrown out: Yuvraj Singh

Former India batsman Yuvraj Singh on Monday claimed that the country’s cricketers feel compelled to play even when they are not in a condition to for the fear of losing their place, a situation he hopes will change with Sourav Ganguly as BCCI President. The swashbuckling left-hander, who has retired from international cricket to play […]

March 29, 2022

Final call for implementation of players’ substitution in IPL rests with Ganguly

The concept of players’ substitutions during an IPL match could be floated during Wednesday’s governing council meeting in Mumbai but the final call rests with BCCI president Sourav Ganguly. It has been learnt that a senior executive of the IPL operations team prepared a note few months ago with an intention to do away with […]

March 29, 2022

Virat Kohli took just three seconds to give nod for Day/Night Tests: Sourav Ganguly

“Just three seconds” is all what it took Sourav Ganguly to convince India captain Virat Kohli into playing a Day/Night Test match against Bangladesh, the BCCI president revealed on Sunday. Less than a week after he took reins of BCCI, Ganguly, who had introduced pink ball at domestic level as the technical committee chairman three […]

March 29, 2022

What to expect from India’s squads for the New Zealand tour?

India are currently playing a three-match T20I series against Sri Lanka and have a three-match ODI series to follow against the Aussies. However, the hype is a lot more about the upcoming tour of New Zealand. India are scheduled to play five T20Is, three ODIs and two Test matches which are a part of the […]

March 29, 2022

Crooked finger, wicked prances, controversies – Deciphering the inimitable Billy Bowden

Circumstances around you sometimes try to make you believe you need validation and acceptance from your surroundings for every step you take. Once the drug of impressing everyone takes control of your mind, it’s difficult to get rid of it. Early on in his career as an umpire, Billy Bowden was not easily accepted. He […]

March 29, 2022

Ben Stokes’ honest admission on mental health a tribute to ECB’s player-friendly approach to pandemic

It was not the first time that Ben Stokes had embodied England’s heart and soul on a cricket field, their willingness to keep the fight going with the defeat looming. He had done so most famously in Headingley, but a lesser-known example of the man’s fire and desire came earlier this year in Ahmedabad. Having […]

March 29, 2022

Blitz in Colombo offers a glimpse into Prithvi Shaw’s future in the ODI side

There was something poetic about Shikhar Dhawan and Prithvi Shaw opening the batting in the first ODI in Colombo against Sri Lanka. The two Delhi Capitals (DC) stars have developed into a pivotal opening pair for their IPL team, but it was the first time they were beginning an Indian innings in ODIs together. Poetic […]

March 29, 2022

ENG vs IND: India need this to not be a false dawn with KL Rahul

The only downside to the ever-classy KL Rahul finding his mojo and playing well is that you’ll have opinions full of recency bias around his performance in Nottingham. That India were unfair in dropping him and why he is so much better than those in the team who aren’t scoring runs right now. We see […]

March 29, 2022

Tymal Mills should lead England’s bowling attack in the T20 World Cup

Tymal Mills has been out of England’s white-ball squad for more than five years now. Reappearing back problems have hindered his progress at the international stage and despite being just 29 years old, his international career seemed to be over. However, things have changed in the last couple of months. The ICC T20 World Cup […]

March 29, 2022

Chance for Rohit Sharma to earn the respect his Test career deserves

The idea of Rohit Sharma opening the batting in Tests may have garnered a lot more support over time, but we all know how it was received at the beginning. Before Rohit made an excellent start against the visiting South Africans back in October 2019 and ended as India’s best averaging player in the first […]

March 29, 2022

Amidst big names, Tabraiz Shamsi proves his worth for South Africa

Even when the whole boom of wrist-spin in limited-overs cricket reached its peak before the 2019 World Cup, the name of Tabraiz Shamsi didn’t reverberate around as loudly as some of the other practitioners of the beautiful art. The likes of Kuldeep Yadav, Adil Rashid and Yuzvendra Chahal weren’t just more active in the wickets […]

March 29, 2022

Pujara and Rahane, two wounded fighters steer India to the path of glory

Heading into Day 4 at Lord’s, there was an unavoidable sense of doom and gloom about the places of Cheteshwar Pujara and Ajinkya Rahane. Another set of failures in a potential Indian defeat and the axe could be falling on their endangered spots is what you feared from the outside. With time, you get a […]

March 29, 2022

Opportunity for Krunal Pandya to earn some breathing space

Let’s accept it. Not much of what happens over the next two weeks in Sri Lanka is going to have a long-term influence on India’s white-ball fortunes. They are playing one of the weakest teams in contemporary cricket, in conditions very much familiar to theirs, with a decently-built squad of their own despite multiple first-choice […]

March 29, 2022

IND vs BAN, 3rd T20I Live: Fifties from Rahul, Iyer push India to 174/5 at Nagpur

Shreyas Iyer and K L Rahul smashed sublime half-centuries to propel India to 174 for five in the series-deciding third and final T20 International against Bangladesh here on Sunday. It was a maiden T20 half-century for Iyer (62 off 33) and the sixth one for Rahul (52 off 35). Iyer’s entertaining knock came after he […]

March 29, 2022

KPL match fixing scandal: International bookie held

An alleged international bookie was arrested on Sunday in connection with the Karnataka Premier League match fixing case, police said. A resident of Haryana, Sayyam had fled to West Indies following which a look out circular was issued, they said. As soon as Sayyam arrived in India on Saturday the Central Crime Branch sleuths nabbed […]

March 29, 2022

Belagavi Panthers suspended for KPL match-fixing scandal

As match-fixing rocked Karnataka Premier League, the state cricket association on Thursday announced the suspension of Belagavi Panthers franchise, whose owner Ali Ashfaq Thara is among the six people arrested so far in connection with the scandal. The announcement came on a day when C M Gautam, a first- class player who turned up for […]

March 29, 2022

Goa Cricket Association terminates Gautam’s contract after being arrested for fixing

The Goa Cricket Association (GCA) on Thursday terminated C M Gautam’s contract and named Darshan Misal as the new captain for the Syed Mushtaq Ali T20 tournament which begins on Friday, after the wicket-keeper batsman was arrested for spot-fixing in a domestic league. Gautam, a former Karnataka wicketkeeper-batsman, was earlier on Thursday arrested by the […]

March 29, 2022

More than 40 per cent of the season tickets of India-Bangladesh Test sold

Over 40 per cent of the total season tickets of the India-Bangladesh cricket test match beginning November 14 have been sold out so far in the last four days, Madhya Pradesh Cricket Association (MPCA) president Abhilash Khandekar said on Wednesday. He said 7,000 season tickets have been bought by spectators so far and remaining 9,000 […]

March 29, 2022

Ravichandran Ashwin and KXIP decided to part ways amicably: Ness Wadia

Kings XI Punjab co-owner Ness Wadia on Wednesday said the franchise and former skipper Ravichandran Ashwin have amicably decided to part ways even though Delhi Capitals is still not a done deal. Stylish opener KL Rahul is expected to lead the side after Ashwin’s departure. KXIP has been negotiating with Delhi Capitals for the past […]

March 29, 2022

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