Author: Divyansh Mishra

Test cricket is a seesaw and Edgbaston is still alive after Day 3. Despite the lead, England’s history of scoring 500+ in the first innings means an upset is still possible especially against India’s weakened attack. Test cricket is like chess, where every move matters. Edgbaston is a battle between captains Ben Stokes and Shubman Gill. Stokes has a good record and looks determined. Gill is a new captain and wants to make his own mark. Stokes likes aggressive batting and gives Gill a chance to show his leadership and surprise England. Gill should have a plan and share it…

Yashasvi Jaiswal, the young and fiery player, has joined the elite list of Rahul Dravid and Virender Sehwag as the quickest Indian to score 2,000 Test runs. He achieved this feat in the last session of the third day of the second Test against England at Edgbaston on Friday. He played aggressively and scored quickly to increase India’s lead. He reached 2000 Test runs when an outside edge went past gully for four. Jaiswal reached the milestone in his 40th innings, equalling Dravid and Sehwag. He beat the records of Indian greats like Vijay Hazare, Gautam Gambhir, Sachin Tendulkar and…

Jamie Smith, the 24-year-old English wicketkeeper-batter, hit a hundred off 80 balls against India at Edgbaston today. That’s the fastest hundred by an Englishman against India in Test cricket, beating Ben Duckett’s previous record of 88 balls. In general it’s the third fastest hundred by an Englishman in Test cricket and Smith’s second in this format. He counter attacked and England scored 172 in the session, Smith and Harry Brook put on a great partnership. Here are the fastest Test hundreds for England: And the fastest hundreds for England against India: David Warner, the former Australian opener, holds the record…

Reports on July 4th said that India’s short tour to Bangladesh in August might not happen. India was supposed to play 3 T20Is and 3 ODIs but the series was still on hold as the relations between the two countries have gone sour. After the Pahalgam incident and Bangladesh’s support to Pakistan, the diplomatic ties have become tense. So the cricket boards were waiting for the Indian government’s nod to go ahead with the series. Now it seems the series is cancelled. An Indian broadcaster told Cricbuzz, They told us the India series isn’t happening. After announcing the tender they…

Nasser Hussain praised Ben Stokes for the clever way he got Rishabh Pant out in the Birmingham Test. Hussain thinks Stokes is the best captain England has had with spinners. He pointed out how Stokes got Pant to go for a risky shot off Shoaib Bashir and Pant was caught at long-on for 25. I think Ben Stokes is the best captain of spin this country has seen, Hussain wrote in his Daily Mail column. The way he subtly changes the field, especially the long on and long off positions, is brilliant and it got rid of the danger man…

Yuvraj will once again captain India Champions in the second World Championship of Legends (WCL). The tournament starts on July 18 and will be played at 4 venues in England – Edgbaston (Birmingham), County Ground (Northampton), Grace Road (Leicester) and Headingley (Leeds). Shikhar Dhawan, Robin Uthappa, Ambati Rayudu, Yusuf Pathan and Gurkeerat Mann will be the top 5 batsmen. Irfan Pathan and Stuart Binny will be the allrounders. Harbhajan Singh, Vinay Kumar, Siddharth Kaul, Varun Aaron, Abhimanyu Mithun, Piyush Chawla and Pawan Negi will be the bowlers. First WCL was a huge success and expectations are high for the second.…

Navjot Sidhu says Shubham Gill has started a new era. Sidhu tweeted that it’s not just the runs but the impact he had on the game, his 203 with the no 7 batsman and 103 with Washington Sundar. Gill has created a new milestone in Indian cricket. He is the 6th Indian to score 250+ in a Test, after Virender Sehwag, VVS Laxman, Rahul Dravid, Karun Nair and Virat Kohli. His score is the highest by an Indian outside the subcontinent, beating Sachin Tendulkar’s 241* against Australia in Sydney 2004. He is the 3rd Indian to score a double century…

At the end of Day 2 of the 2nd Test at Edgbaston, Birmingham, India is in a good position against England. England is 510 runs behind with 7 wickets remaining. Yashasvi Jaiswal started well with 87, but Shubman Gill was the star with 269, breaking records in the process. Ravindra Jadeja added 89 off 137 balls to take India to 587. India got early wickets with the ball. Akash Deep got rid of Ben Duckett and Ollie Pope for 0 and Mohammed Siraj got Zak Crawley. Joe Root and Harry Brook added 52 runs but England is still in a…

Former England captain Michael Vaughan thinks Shubman Gill, Yashasvi Jaiswal and Rishabh Pant will have to step up to lead the Indian Test team now that Virat Kohli, who carried the team on his back, is gone. Vaughan told PTI in an interview that the Indian batting looks fine without Kohli and Rohit Sharma, based on the Test series against England so far. But he also said that a good start doesn’t mean mission accomplished. He said Gill, Jaiswal and Pant now have to push the Indian Test team forward the way Kohli did. He sees a bunch of them…

DDCA has released the rules and structure for Men’s and Women’s Player Auctions for Season 2 of the Delhi Premier League (DPL T20) which will be live on Fancode. The auctions will take place in New Delhi on July 6 (Men’s) and July 7 (Women’s). They will decide which players go to which teams for what should be a bigger and more competitive league. To get more talent, DDCA has said that there is no age limit for participating in the auctions. Players of any age, as young as U-16 cricketers, can be picked by teams. The hope is to…