Former BCCI boss Sourav Ganguly and current director of cricket for the Delhi Capitals, believes Mumbai opener Prithvi Shaw is ready to play for the Indian team once again. Ganguly’s remarks come as the 16th edition of the Indian Premier League is set to begin on March 3, and the ODI World Cup, which India will host, is only six months away. Shaw’s performance for the Delhi Capitals in the IPL appears to have a high weightage in his selection for the remaining ODIs ahead of the 50-over World Cup. Credit: Instagram / Sourav Ganguly In an interview with The Times of…
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Gujarat Giants’ Ashleigh Gardner shed light on her feelings after putting an outstanding all-round show in Gujarat Giants win over Delhi Capitals in the ongoing Women’s Premier League. The star all-rounder scored a match-winning half century with the bat and took two wickets with the ball, helping Gujarat to beat the Capitals by 11 runs. The Australian has not been as consistent as per her standard. After the injury of Beth Mooney, she had a huge role to play in Gujarat’s batting. However, she wasn’t at her best with the bat until the game against DC where she scored her first…
Indian wicket-keeper batter Dinesh Karthik opened up on Umesh Yadav’s career being hard done as a part of the star-studded Indian pace bowling generation. Umesh, who first played for India back in 2010, has always faced heavy competition to be in the Indian Test XI, even after doing more than enough whenever he plays. Despite making his ODI debut in back 2010 and being a part of the Indian Test squad regularly, the Vidarbha pacer’s only hope to make it to the Test playing XI comes up when one of in the Test line-up comprising the likes of Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Shami and…
Former Pakistan pacer Shoaib Akhtar shed light on his views regarding the comparison between Sachin Tendulkar and Virat Kohli as a better player. Sachin and Virat, two of arguably India’s greatest batters ever, often comes in the minds of people as a question of who is the best amongst the two. The former is way ahead in terms of records even now, but Kohli is still an active player and has been breaking every possible record of Tendulkar for the last decade or so. https://twitter.com/Cricketracker/status/1630621353287073817 There has been constant chaos about who has been better amongst the two giants. Speaking…
Inaugural edition of the Women’s Premier League is set to start on, Saturday, marking a new era of women’s game in India. Looking at the success of the men’s edition of the tournament, it was a long wait to see a similar franchise league for female cricketers in India. Australia and England already have their own franchise league in Women’s Big Bash League and The Hundred, which is doing a lot of good for them. Australia has almost been an invincible side of the modern era. They recently won their sixth T20 World Cup title, third in the last three…
New Zealand fast bowler Blair Tickner opened up on the emotions he went through while making his Test debut as he took the field to play the Test match against England, while his hometown, Hawke’s Bay, was hit by a devastating cyclone, Cyclone Gabrielle. “My father’s house has been fully destroyed. It was good to get back, help them out.It’s just hard times for the whole region, so help out neighbors and whoever we could.” The local public has described this tragedy as the worst storm ever in the country. A total of 40,000 households in Hawke’s Bay have been…
Mohammed Shami is currently arguably one of the best pacers in the world across conditions. The Indian star has been an integral part of the team’s success in Test, especially under the leadership of Virat Kohli. The Indian pace attack rise has been a legendary one in the last five years, comprising the likes of Jasprit Bumrah, Ishant Sharma, Umesh Yadav and lately Mohammed Siraj. Переглянути цей допис в Instagram Допис, поширений Ishant Sharma (@ishant.sharma29) Ishant Sharma, recently shed light on watching Shami for the first time in team India nets. A decade ago, a bowler from West Bengal impressed…
In a unique move, Royal Challengers Bangalore have brought in Indian tennis legend Sania Mirza as their team mentor for the inaugural edition of the Women’s Premier League. Usually, cricket teams don’t charter the territory of other sports to fill in support staff personnel, especially a team mentor detached from the nitty-gritties of their sport, and vice versa. https://twitter.com/RCBTweets/status/1625706227832623104 The franchise found Mirza, the winner of 6 Grand Slams, as a “perfect fit” into their “play bold philosophy”. Mirza, the recipient of the prestigious Padma Bhushan, Arjuna Award and Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna, is one of the earliest women’s…
Delay in closing on the renovation work at the scenic Dharamshala ground could see Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association lose out on the third Test of the marquee Border-Gavaskar Trophy. Situated amidst the beautiful Dhauladhar Hills in the lap of the great Himalayas, the ground is due to host the penultimate game of the four-Test series from March 1. However, failure of the HPCA staff to get the ground and its playing square ready on time could lead to a situation where the BCCI shift venues and allocate the third Test to an alternate ground in the country, reported ESPNcricinfo. “A…
Former Indian seam bowler Venkatesh Prasad took a toll on the national selectors for not naming Sarfaraz Khan in the Test team for the Test series against Australia scheduled to begin on February 9. The 25-year-old has been a run-machine for Mumbai in domestic cricket for some time now. He has 556 runs in eight innings this season in Ranji Trophy at an average of 111.20, including three centuries. Moreover, he was also the highest run-scorer in Ranji Trophy last season with 982 runs at a staggering average of 122.75, including four centuries and a top score of 275 against Saurashtra. In…