Author: Divyansh Mishra

Shardul Thakur praised Rishabh Pant’s bravery and pain tolerance on Thursday. Pant batted with a broken foot on day two of the fourth Test against England. Speaking to the media, Shardul confirmed Pant suffered a fracture on day one. We wanted to get Pant back out there. The medical team worked a lot, so credit to them, Shardul said, adding Pant’s fifty helped India reach 358 in their first innings. They got Rishabh back on the field and he batted for a bit. What he did was important for the team and he scored big runs. Yes, he was in…

Due to the India-Pakistan geopolitics, the Asia Cup will likely be held at a neutral venue. UAE is the likely destination. India was supposed to host the tournament. Now it will be played at two venues in UAE and BCCI will be the host. After the Pahalgam terrorist attack and the India-Pakistan border clashes, media reports said India might pull out of the Asia Cup. BCCI denied it. PTI reports that in the Asian Cricket Council (ACC) meeting in Dhaka, it was decided to play the tournament in UAE. Rajeev Shukla, BCCI vice-president, attended the meeting virtually. The final decision…

Yash Dayal, a Royal Challengers Bengaluru fast bowler, has been slapped with another serious charge. A teenager has accused him of rape. She claims she was sexually assaulted over the past two years, including during the IPL 2025 season in Jaipur. This is the second case against Dayal. A woman from Ghaziabad had accused him of sexual assault earlier. The teenager has filed a complaint at the Sanganer police station in Jaipur. She says Dayal told her he would make her a professional cricketer. She claims he then emotionally blackmailed her into sexual activity for two years. According to Station…

Reports suggest that Narayan Jagadeesan is likely to replace Rishabh Pant for the fifth Test against England. Pant got hurt on Day 1 and after scans it was confirmed that he has a toe fracture. Pant will be out for six weeks and will miss the fifth Test starting July 31. There were talks of recalling Ishan Kishan for the last Test but Kishan is also recovering from a leg injury after a scooter fall. Cricbuzz says that Jagadeesan, 29, is all but confirmed for the fifth Test and will soon fly to England to join the team. Read Also:-…

Next year, the Indian men’s team will head to England for a series of matches. They will play 5 T20Is and 3 ODIs. The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) released the schedule on Thursday, July 24 and confirmed that the Men in Blue will play Harry Brook’s team starting July 1 in Chester-le-Street. The women’s team will also tour England. They have 3 T20Is and a Test match. According to the ECB, Ben Stokes’s England Test team will play New Zealand and Pakistan in 2 Test series. Harry Brook’s team will play India and Sri Lanka in ODIs and…

Rishabh Pant is continuing to do well in the ongoing Test series against England. He has achieved another record in Test cricket, becoming the first keeper-batter to reach a special milestone. In the first innings of the Manchester Test, Pant made history as the first visiting keeper to score 1,000 Test runs in England. He’s also the sixth Indian to get 1,000 Test runs in England, which he achieved with his 19th run of the day. No other visiting keeper has 800 runs in England, but Pant went past 1,000. The next best is MS Dhoni who had 778 runs…

In the 68th over, Pant tried a reverse sweep off Chris Woakes and hit the ball onto his right foot. England’s lbw review failed but it was clear Pant was in pain. The team’s physio Kamlesh Jain checked on him. The injury looked bad from the start. Pant’s foot swelled up quickly. He couldn’t put weight on it and had to leave the field in a buggy after scoring 37 runs. Scans later showed a fracture near the metatarsal bone which will take at least 6 weeks to heal. He will miss the rest of the Manchester Test and the…

So the ACC situation is sorted out. BCCI will attend the Dhaka meeting online. They had earlier said they might not attend the meeting led by PCB chairman Mohsin Naqvi. One of the things they will discuss is where to hold the Asia Cup T20 which BCCI is supposed to host. UAE with places like Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Sharjah could be a good option. Sri Lanka could also host since India won’t go to Bangladesh. An ACC source told PTI that Rajeev Shukla, BCCI vice-president and ACC board member, will represent BCCI online. Since they have to decide on…

SuperK, a budget retail chain, has raised Rs.100 crore (about $12 million) in a Series B round. The investment was led by 3STATE Ventures and CaratLane founder Mithun Sacheti. Indian cricket captain Shubman Gill and existing investors Blume Ventures and Xeed Ventures also participated. SuperK, which started in 2020 and is based in Andhra Pradesh, has 130 stores across more than 80 small towns run by franchisees. SuperK focuses on affordable groceries and household items, targeting India’s massive $600 billion grocery market. Organized retail is less than 5% of this market, mainly in Tier-II cities and beyond. Anil Thontepu and…

Rishabh Pant was hurt on the first day of the fourth Test against England at Old Trafford in Manchester. Pant was batting with Sai Sudharsan and had 37 when he tried to reverse sweep Chris Woakes. The ball hit the side of his boot. India’s physio helped Pant and he was taken off the field on a stretcher. Ravindra Jadeja came in to bat. Sanjiv Goenka, the owner of Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) in the IPL, tweeted to Pant before Day 2 of the Old Trafford Test. Goenka wished Pant a speedy recovery and called him a fighter. Goenka wrote,…