Ex-Pakistan speedster Shoaib Akhtar said India will be a rejuvenated team that will be approaching their T20 World Cup 2022 clash against the Men in Green like wounded tigers after going down heavily at the showpiece event in the United Arab Emirates last November. Akhtar looked ahead to inarguably the most sought after game of the calendar. He said while Pakistan would take immense confidence from their victory over India in Dubai during the Super 12 stage of last year’s T20 World Cup, the Indians wouldn’t be pushovers as they strive to avenge their loss Down Under. For Akhtar, India seemed to…
Author: Kashish Chadha
Kashish Chadha
Kashish Chadha is a cricket analyst and writer by heart and profession. You can find his works featured on such websites as CricXtasy, Circle of Cricket, and Cricfit.
Spread over two months, the Indian Premier League 2022 has given fans great entertainment and plenty of talking points on and off the field. The tournament, which saw the league’s re-expansion to 10 teams after a decade, has been the longest in recent history. But also one with multiple moments of excitement, mishappenings on the ground and controversies off it. As the season comes to its close, we focus on ten of these moments, which have grabbed the fans’ attention and limelight over the last 60 odd days. R Ashwin involved in IPL’s first-ever tactical retire out A flagbearer of…
While the IPL 2022 produced some blockbuster performances from seasoned campaigners as well as the young guns, quite a few of them failed to live up to the reputation. Here’s a look at the six biggest flops of the just-concluded season. Notably, each of the six candidates was retained by the respective franchises ahead of the auctions, three of them being first-choice picks. Virat Kohli (Royal Challengers Bangalore) 341 runs at 22.73, SR: 116, 50s: 2, HS: 73 Kohli’s aggregate in IPL 2022 was his lowest since 2010, with the highest run-scorer in the competition’s history registering six single-digit scores,…
Nicholas Pooran is excited to be the protagonist of the start of a new era in West Indies cricket, as he overtakes the white-ball captaincy officially on May 31 with the first of the three ICC Super League ODIs against the Netherlands in Amsterdam. Pooran succeeds veteran allrounder Kieron Pollard at the helm after the latter’s decision to retire from international cricket earlier in May. The left-hand batter was a deputy to Pollard and stood up in his absence for two ODIs and eight T20Is. Apart from that, his only source of captaincy experience has been a stint as leader for the Guyana…
Proteas white-ball captain Temba Bavuma says he is ready with his troops to put all the off-field controversies behind them and display a greater sense of “inclusiveness” as they take on the world in the critical next 18 months for the national side. South Africa managed to stand their own in a difficult Super 12 group at the T20 World Cup last winter with four wins from five games before putting a strong guard on the final frontier when India came visiting, with Test and ODI series victories. Even though those wins helped revitalise the mood in the camp and reflected a healthy cricketing system, the…
New Zealand fast-bowler Trent Boult and middle-order mainstay Henry Nicholls are “unlikely” to feature in the Test series opener in England at Lord’s, starting June 2. While Boult is unavailable because of the super quick turnaround from IPL 2022, Nicholls could be ruled out due to a calf injury that he is still recovering from. Nicholls had picked up the calf injury during a pre-tour preparation camp in NZ earlier in May and subsequently missed both of the tourists’ warm-up matches against Sussex and a County Select XI. The left-hander has been integral to the Test set-up for a while now, playing his part…
While they lost the race to bag the coveted IPL 2022 trophy on the final hurdle, Rajasthan Royals had a reason to smile as two of their regular members clinched major awards for the season. Opening batter Jos Buttler received the ‘Orange Cap’ for topping the runs chart, whereas wristspinner Yuzvendra Chahal owned the ‘Purple Cap’ for standing on the top of the wickets tally. The Englishman was tremendous with the bat for Royals, scoring a whopping 863 runs from 17 innings at an average of 57.73 with a strike-rate of 149.05. The rampaging right-hander struck as many as four hundreds, which now stands as a record…
More than winning the trophy on their first go on May 29, skipper Hardik Pandya feels proud of his Gujarat Titans side for “creating a legacy” and leading as a “right example” for teams setting up a goal and working together to achieve it. Titans, one of the two new franchises along with Lucknow Super Giants, defeated the Rajasthan Royals on Sunday to bag their first-ever Indian Premier League title in front of a capacity crowd at the iconic new Ahmedabad stadium. It was a culmination of over two months of hard work on the field, as the Titans stamped their authority in the first season and…
As the 15th edition of the Indian Premier League nears its conclusion, we look at five of the tournament’s most eye-catching revelations, the young uncapped Indian stars who took the competition by a storm and made a name for themselves. Unknown entities at the start of the season, these players are now famous amongst the fans, with an influential role played in their teams’ respective Premier League campaigns. Historically, IPL teams have had their talent depth calculated on the basis of their high-prized bids and well-established names from the cricketing world. But it’s these young Indian hopefuls who make any…
Kumar Sangakkara says he has not seen anyone playing better in Indian Premier League history than Jos Buttler has in the tournament’s 15th edition for the Rajasthan Royals this season. Sangakkara, a bonafide batting great himself, looked enamoured by the talent, the skill and the game awareness on display from Buttler as he produced his fourth century of the campaign for RR in the Qualifier 2 against Royal Challengers Bangalore. https://twitter.com/IPL/status/1530398459966070787 With Royals needing 158 runs to make the final on May 29 versus Gujarat Titans, the Englishman saved them the potential hiccups and almost singlehandedly guided the team through with an unbeaten 106 off just 60 deliveries,…