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Another nation has brought into the T20 franchise cricket and that is South Africa. With 6 teams in the fray, lot of hopes are pinned on this league to bring in the much need revenue for Cricket South Africa. Cricket in South Africa is slowly losing steam. It can be gauged by an outsider from …
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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A strong South Africa is quite mandatory for world cricket. More so, for Test cricket. There are only a handful nations playing the game and even fewer who are actually competitive in the longest format. England are in the process of rejuvenating Test cricket whereas Pakistan and South Africa are declining quite rapidly. South Africa’s …
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 Ben Stokes has retired from one form of the game and Trent Boult has withdrawn himself …
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 …
Yes, sledging has indeed gone too far. Why am I raising this now? It is because of an interesting development in the Duleep Trophy finals in India. Ajinkya Rahane, the West Zone captain, directed his team member, Jaisval to leave the field because of constant sledge. Whether this will create a ripple effect, it is …
It was completely unexpected. I had predicted for England to win the series 3-0 because of past history between the teams that includes 2 series wins for England in South Africa. However, South Africa have left me with egg all over my face. Their performance was incredible. Worthy of them being the top ranked team …
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 …