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England and New Zealand will begin a series on the 16th of February. It is an extremely short series. It is so short that if you blink you will miss it. Just 2 Tests without any ODI or T20. England have travelled thousands of kilometres to play in just a couple of Tests. Talk of …
Cricket is one of the most popular sports in the world, well, atleast in the cricketing world. It has gone through many changes and evolutions since its inception. Technology has been at the forefront of these changes, bringing new innovations to the sport and changing the way it is played, watched, and managed. The impact …
Both the nations had a forgettable year. South Africa went from the sublime to the ridiculous. Whereas New Zealand were not even close to their performance leading upto the 1st WTC finals. Of the two, it will be South Africa who will be much more sad because here is a team, who was once a …
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Ian Chappell in his weekly column on www.espncricinfo.com has called for the number of nations playing Test cricket to be reduced to 8. He raises certain pertinent points to justify his argument. He says that only the countries that has got the infrastructure or that can build the infrastructure for Test cricket must be allowed …
The mindless schedule is taking a heavy toll on a lot of players. Add the various franchise cricket, it is incredible how busy most of the players are. The strain of such non-stop cricket has already began to tell. Ben Stokes has retired from one form of the game and Trent Boult has withdrawn himself …
India against New Zealand. England against Australia. A couple of series right after the end of the T20 World Cup. What was the need of pointless series? The growing chorus to limit the number of games that does not have any meaning seems to have fallen on deaf ears. For New Zealand cricket, this series …
The league phase is done and dusted in the ongoing T20 World Cup. There has been surprising results and some expected ones. Outrageous batting and excellent bowling. Excellent Perth pitch and quite a few close games. This World Cup has so far lived upto the expectations. It again goes onto show that good pitches will …
What is happening around the cricketing world? Ofcourse, the World T20 is going on which has thrown up quite a few surprises. Something happened with one of the IPL franchise as well. Cricketing news around the world. Dhawan replaces Mayank as the captain First up is the news that Shikhar Dhawan has been named as …
777 games. It simply is mindboggling. This is the total number of games that the ICC expects all the nations to play between 2023 – 2027. It is about 1 game every third day. At a time when players are close to revolting because of the sheer volume of games, the ICC has gone ahead …
It came like a Boult from the blue. Trent Boult, the prime New Zealand seamer has decided to relinquish his New Zealand contract so that he can be available for the various T20 leagues around the world. It essentially means that he will probably not be available to play for New Zealand if he is …