At pain and angst for their loss in the opening one-dayer, SA gave a ruthless performance in their victory in the second ODI of the three-match series against Bangladesh on March 20. The Proteas came out triumphant by seven wickets in a one-sided contest to level the rubber 1-1, with a decider left. The lethal pace and hostility of Kagiso Rabada proved too good for Bangladesh at the Wanderers as he bagged astonishing figures of five for 39 off his 10 overs and allowed his team to restrict the tourists for only 194/9 in their allotted 50 overs. The wrath unleashed by South Africa’s spearhead was too hot to handle for the Asian Tigers,…
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The BCCI looks set to impose a stricter set of sanctions on those who breach the board’s wholeheartedly applied SOPs and mandatory protocols for the 2022 edition of the Indian Premier League amid the downsizing wave of the coronavirus pandemic. The tournament starts on March 26 and runs till May 29, and for this two-month long window, the BCCI doesn’t want any mishap that may lead to a coronavirus breach inside the tournament bubble and lead to a possibility of suspension. Still angst at the halt and rescheduling of the 2021 campaign because of multiple positive cases in May 2021, the board is…
New to leadership duties, premier Indian allrounder Hardik Pandya opened up on his approach to captaincy, stating that he wants to be someone who is always available for his players and give them a sense of “freedom and security”. Having seen the likes of MS Dhoni, Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma work from close quarters through his time in the Indian team and in the Premier League, Hardik had previously mentioned he will pick up things from them and come up with his own style of captaincy. https://twitter.com/IPL/status/1505049510254297093 The 28-year-old added that the idea of providing players security is to be around them when they need…
CSK all-rounder Moeen Ali is yet to join the camp as he is awaiting visa clearance by the Indian High Commission in the United Kingdom. If the delay continues, the 34-year-old could miss the 2022 Indian Prermier League opener against Kolkata Knight Riders on March 26. Moeen had applied for the Visa on February 28 but still hasn’t received the clearance documents. The Super Kings have been having a training camp in Surat for the last month and will kick off their campaign at Wankhede in a week’s time. “He had applied for his visa on February 28. It has been more…
The Asian Cricket Council on March 19 confirmed the window, format and host country for the forthcoming edition of the Asia Cup. The tournament will be held between August 27 to September 11 in Sri Lanka in the T20I version. Six teams will take part in the premier regional tournament, with Test-playing countries India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Afghanistan being given a direct bye to the competition where they will be joined by a qualifying side. The qualifying side will be determined through a pre-tournament qualifying competition, starting August 20. UAE, Kuwait, Singapore and Hong Kong will be contesting for one slot in the main event that begins only a week later.…
The Bangla Tigers posted an impressive 314/7 and achieved a win by a handsome margin of 38 runs to also bag a 1-0 lead in the three-match series and 10 crucial points in the ICC Super League. Bangladesh may have their persistent issues in Tests and T20Is but seems to be a team on the rise in ODIs, something they made clear through performance in command on foreign soil. Having gone through a long, painstaking losing streak in South African conditions, they finally tilt one their way. Put into bat first after losing the toss, the visitors posted a score…
Major League Cricket, which has been established as USA’s officially sanctioned franchise-based T20 league, will have a projected amount of 110 million dollars spent on stadiums and facilities ahead of the league’s much-anticipated launch in 2023. The tournament organisers confirmed the development on March 18, stating that they will build or renovate at least eight grounds in the United States before the first ball is bowled in the competition. As per ESPNcricinfo, the MLC organisers have entered negotiations to buy land and build new ground facilities “at Marymoor Park in the eastern Seattle suburb of Redmond, Washington; as well as two…
Indian opener Prithvi Shaw has reportedly failed to record the minimum score in the necessary yo-yo test at the National Cricket Academy in Bangalore, stated PTI. The 22-year-old scored less than 15 when the BCCI’s mandatory requirement for each of the male cricketers is to reach the 16.5 mark. The young right-hand batter was at the NCA as part of a pre-season camp along with several other Indian cricketers but couldn’t achieve the desired mark on the mandatory yo-yo test scheduled at the end of the camp. “These are just fitness updates. Obviously, it doesn’t stop Prithvi from playing for…
The International Cricket Council on March 16 made the latest update to its Test rankings for men’s, enabling significant jumps in bowling and batting categories for Jasprit Bumrah and Dimuth Karunaratne, respectively. The duo jumped up the world cricket ladder after their eye-catching performances in the second and final India-Sri Lanka Test in Bangalore. Bumrah, India’s ace quick, made a leap of six spots to become the No.4 Test bowler in world cricket after his match haul of eight wickets in the pink-ball D/N fixture, including his magnificent five-fer (5/24) in the first-innings of the Test. The 28-year-old made excellent use of…
The Australian skipper couldn’t help but highlight some of his team’s missed chances, including multiple drops, as they failed to close out the Karachi Test against Pakistan. The hosts batted out over 171 overs to play out a draw, denying Australia what seemed like a straightforward victory at the halfway mark. On a slow but largely benign surface at the National Stadium, Pakistan went as deep as 443/7 into their run-chase of the impregnable target of 506, with their skipper Babar Azam (196) and wicketkeeper-batter Mohammad Rizwan (104*) making hundreds. The Australians declared early with an eye to give themselves enough time to take 10 wickets. In the end, their largely…