Author: Sandip Pawar

Aussies women’s cricket team will host the Lionesses in the first T20I of the multi-format Women’s Ashes series at Adelaide Oval on January 20. After the men’s Ashes ended in a rather one-sided affair, the Women’s Ashes is here with a better promise. The multi-format series will comprise three T20Is, one Test and three ODIs. The Australia and England women will kickstart the Ashes with the first T20 international taking place at Adelaide Oval on Thursday. Led by Meg Lanning, Australia are unarguably the best all-format team in women’s cricket. They recently defeated India in a multi-format series by a points margin…

The Pakistan Cricket Board high-performance director said that the age fraud to participate in U13, U16 tournaments has plagued the national cricket circuit. On Monday, Pakistan cricket’s governing body took a decision to suspend the Under-13 and Under-16 national tournaments due to the menacing age fraud. The board will be carrying out fresh bone tests for age verification. These tournaments act as pathways for the players in the Pakistan cricket system. The board has decided to take the third round of bone tests, after which the teams could be revised and then both the tournaments will start again next week…

The Proteas will host the Men in Blue in the first of the three-match ODI series at Boland Park in Paarl on Wednesday, January 19. After an action-packed, highly intense Test series that ended with South Africa emerging victorious by 2-1, the caravan now moves to Paarl for the three-match ODI series. India will take on the hosts at Boland Park in the first One-Day International on Wednesday. South Africa haven’t won an ODI series in their last three bilateral assignments. In April 2021, they lost to Pakistan by 1-2 at home. After that they toured Ireland, where they managed a 1-1 draw after…

The officials had a word with the Indian team but no ICC code of conduct charges were filed for their conduct after DRS reprieved Dean Elgar at Newlands. The Indian team escaped sanctions after the DRS drama at Newlands, where Virat Kohli and co. could be heard making all kinds of allegations through stump mic. It is understood that ICC match official Andy Pycroft cautioned the Indian team about their conduct but no official charges were filed against any player. The incident took place in the final session of third day at Newlands, when the Proteas skipper Dean Elgar was given out leg before off Ravichandran Ashwin’s bowling.…

Hobart will host the 5th Test of the Ashes 2021-22, where England and Australia will compete in the second pink-ball day-night Test of the series from January 14-18. The much high profile but barely competitive Ashes 2021-22 will conclude with the fifth Test taking place at Bellerive Oval in Hobart from Friday, January 14. Australia have already claimed the Urn by winning the first three matches while England managed to avoid the whitewash with a valiant draw at Sydney. Australia batted first at the SCG and piled up third 400+ total in the series, with the returning Usman Khawaja leading the charge with a magnificent 137.…

The three-match Test series between India and South Africa is poised well with both the teams claiming one win each. The two teams will clash in the all-important series decider at Cape Town from January 11-15.  After trailing by 0-1 and with the series on the line, South Africa bounced back strongly in the second Test at Johannesburg to defeat the visitors by seven wickets. The Men in Blue won the toss for the second time and chose to bat first, but South African bowlers did well to restrict India to 202 in the first innings. In response, the hosts managed a…

Sam Billings, who was just 90 minutes away from flying back home, received a call-up in England’s Ashes squad for the fifth Test. The 30-year-old was all set to catch a flight back home to the United Kingdom after finishing his stint in the Big Bash League with Sydney Thunder. But in a dramatic turn of events, with both Jos Buttler and Jonny Bairstow suffering hand injuries, he was called up as a wicketkeeping cover. The England and Wales Cricket Board had earlier asked the players who are part of the upcoming T20 series against West Indies to leave the BBL early to prepare for the tour of the…

The multi-format Women’s Ashes series is preponed by a week, now slated to begin with three T20Is from January 20. The Women’s Ashes, which was scheduled to kick off from January 27, will now start a week earlier in order to allow the players more time to complete their mandatory quarantine period for the ODI World Cup in March. The multi-format series will kick off with three T20 internationals ahead of the one-off Test on January 20, 22 and 23. North Sydney Oval was set to host two of the three matches but now the entire T20 leg has been moved to Adelaide. Credit: South Australian Cricket Association…

Yastika Bhatia, Meghna Singh and Renuka Singh pipped Jemimah Rodrigues and Shikha Pandey in India’s 18-member squad for the Women’s ODI World Cup. The Board of Control for Cricket in India on Thursday announced the squad for the upcoming Women’s ODI World Cup slated to take place in New Zealand in March-April. Experienced pacer Shikha Pandey and promising young batter Jemimah Rodrigues were the two major omissions from the squad. The 32-year-old Pandey last played an ODI for India against England in July and was a part of the Australia tour but didn’t get a game in the format. Meghna, who was impressive on that tour and uncapped Renuka’s emergence, seemed…

The Indian Premier League 2022 season is approaching fast, and the two new teams are busy trying to build their coaching staff ahead of the mega auction. In the latest development, India’s former fast bowler Ashish Nehra has been trusted with the head coach position by the Ahmedabad franchise for the upcoming edition. The CVC Capital-owned Ahmedabad franchise has also roped in the former England batter Vikram Solanki as the director of cricket and will also act as the batting coach. Credit: Getty Images The former South African cricketer and a World Cup-winning coach Gary Kirsten is expected to join the team as a…