Author: Sandip Pawar

The MCC has barred the fans from carrying alcohol inside the Lord’s Cricket Ground for The Hundred games owing to a chaos caused by fans last week. The England and Wales Cricket Board introduced The Hundred as a means to attract new audiences to the sport. The league has taken off well and has done better than expected. The new 100-ball tournament has successfully garnered the attention of the cricket world, but with positives, there are negatives too. In recent events, the fans have been prohibited from carrying alcohol into the Lord’s for The Hundred fixtures. During a fixture between London…

The participation of the South Africa players could be in doubt for the second leg of IPL 2021 due to their Sri Lanka tour in September. The second leg of the Indian Premier League 2021 will take place in the UAE from mid-September. After the tournament was postponed due to the Covid-19 situation in India, the second leg was shifted to the UAE. However, with international commitments and other various reasons, it is believed that many overseas players could miss the UAE leg of IPL 2021. In the latest developments, it is learnt that the IPL teams are concerned about…

In the last year, Rishabh Pant has seen a tremendous rise in international cricket. From a struggling talented youngster to a superstar, his journey has been mind-blowing. The exceptionally talented wicket-keeper batter admitted that the ups and downs he has seen have helped him evolve as a player. Rishabh was part of the World Test Championship final against New Zealand. He recently recovered from Covid-19 and is fighting against time to be match-fit for India’s first Test of the series in England at Trent Bridge. Incidentally, Trent Bridge is the same venue Pant had announced himself in Test cricket in 2018. Pant,…

England will host India in the first game of the five-match Test series at Trent Bridge in Nottingham from Wednesday, August 4. India’s much-awaited tour of England is all set to get underway this Wednesday as both the teams clash at Trent Bridge in the first Test. The five-match series will have enormous importance for both the sides, which also marks the beginning of the next World Test Championship cycle. England would want to give it back to India for their 1-3 loss in India earlier this year while winning this series could cement the current Indian team’s legacy as…

The South Africa team is set to tour Sri Lanka for a limited overs series comprising three ODIs and as many T20Is in September ahead of the T20 World Cup. Cricket South Africa announced that the team will tour Sri Lanka between September 2 and September 14 for six limited overs matches to be played at R. Premadasa Stadium in Colombo. The series will conclude five days before the resumption of the second phase of IPL 2021 and a month before the T20 World Cup, which is scheduled to begin on October 17 in UAE. As it stands, this is…

The former India captain and current head of the National Cricket Academy, who handled the coaching responsibility for India’s tour of Sri Lanka, has expressed that he has not given a thought for a full-time job yet. I have enjoyed this experience, I have not thought anything too far ahead. I am happy with what I am doing. I have not given anything any thought apart from this tour. There are a lot of challenges with doing a full-time role so I really do not know.said Dravid during the virtual post-math press conference. Dravid has previously coached the India U-19…

Navdeep Saini suffered a shoulder injury in the second T20I between India and Sri Lanka and might have to undergo scans to determine the severity of the injury. Indian cricket team on the Sri Lanka tour was hit by one blow after another. After eight players were ruled out of the second and third matches of the T20I series, India’s pacer Navdeep Saini suffered a shoulder injury during the second encounter.  Saini wasn’t given even a single over in a low scoring contest at Colombo. The pacer was fielding at extra cover, where he fell awkwardly on the ground trying…

Wanindu Hasaranga, who starred for Sri Lanka in the T20I series, is highly in demand as a replacement player for the UAE leg of the IPL 2021. Reports suggest as many as four franchises are interested in him. The easiest way to catch the attention of the IPL decision makers is to perform against India and Hasaranga delivered an outstanding performance in the just concluded limited overs series. He picked 7 wickets in three T20I matches at an extraordinary average of 9.57 and was rightly named the ‘Player of the Series’ in Sri Lanka’s triumph.  Hasaranga has been one of…

BCB is leaving no stone unturned to organise the five-match T20I series against Australia without any Covid-19 incidents. The series, starting from August 3, will have a strict bio-secure bubble. After the Bangladesh government announced a countrywide lockdown till August 5 due to a surge in COVID-19 cases in the country, the Bangladesh Cricket Board has laid out some strict bio-bubble rules as they gear up to host Australia for a five match T20I series starting next week.  Back in April 2020, Cricket Australia had decided to postpone the Bangladesh tour because of the pandemic. This time around, as things…

After a washout in the first match, West Indies will host Pakistan in the second T20I of four-match series at the Providence Stadium in Guyana on Saturday, July 31. The T20I series between West Indies and Pakistan seems to be getting shorter and shorter. After one fixture getting cancelled due to Covid-19, the match of the series at Barbados was washed out too. The two teams will now head to Guyana for the second encounter.  The first match saw a delayed start due to heavy rain. The match was reduced to 9 overs per side but only one innings could…