Author: Divyansh Mishra

India’s fantastic performance in the current Champions Trophy 2025 has spurred suggestions that the Rohit Sharma-led team has an ‘advantage’ since they are playing at only one place and have a better understanding of the conditions than other teams. According to the Hybrid Model, India will be playing all their tournament matches in Dubai whereas the remainder of the games will be spread across three cities in Pakistan. In addition to not needing to travel, players like Pat Cummins, Rassie van der Dussen, Michael Atherton, and Nasser Hussain among others have stated that the Indian team benefits from all their…

In the opening semifinal of the Champions Trophy 2025 played at Dubai International Cricket Stadium on Tuesday, March 4, Indian men’s cricket team captain Rohit Sharma was all praises for his long-time India teammate Virat Kohli after hitting 84 runs out of 98 balls to secure India’s four-wicket victory over Australia. Having come out at his normal No. Kohli hit five fours and ran 56 singles to help Indians feist off the Australians’ assault from their 3rd. With KL Rahul (42*), he posted 91 runs for the third wicket with Shreyas Iyer (45), 44 runs for the 4th wicket alongside…

Played at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium on Tuesday (March 4), the first semifinal of the 2025 Champions Trophy the Australian men’s cricket team was unable to uphold the 264 runs against India. Riding Virat Kohli’s 84-run knock from 98 balls, the Indian team chased six wickets down to 265 runs in 48.1 over. Although Shubman Gill and Rohit Sharma were sent early in the chase, India’s innings left the Australian team—which played in the 2025 Champions Trophy without Mitchell Starc, Pat Cummins, Josh Hazlewood, and Mitchell Marsh—behind. Australian captain Steve Smith remarked his side fell short of what would…

The new season of the IPL brings with it a new set of rules. The Board of Control for Cricket in India has partially released its recently approved code of conduct for the Indian team to all ten IPL franchises before the commencement of IPL 2025, with certain aspects that may astonish some. The board came out with a string of rolling rules, after India had a dismal outing in under, where the Australians humiliated them in the Border-Gavaskar Series, trying to encourage a more serious and detached attitude towards the game: barring personal managers from traveling in the team…

Rohit Sharma, captain of the Indian men’s cricket team, entered the history books on March 4 as the first captain in world history to make the final of all four main ICC Events. Led to the final match of the World Test Championship in June 2023 (against Australia), ODI World Cup in November 2023 (against New Zealand), T20 World Cup in June 2024 (against England), and the Champions Trophy (against England) in March 2025, all by Rohit. He never got a chance to play in the World Test Championship final. In 2007 and 2014, MS Dhoni led India to the…

The BCCI expressed its condolences at Padmakar Shivalkar’s passing on Monday. He was a great left-arm spinner who was a stalwart of Indian domestic cricket, symbolizing a life dedicated to the game. An all-time great of the Ranji Trophy, Shivalkar played 124 first-class matches, taking a staggering 589 wickets at a wonderful average of 19.69. His flight, accuracy, and turn made him among the best spinners in Indian domestic cricket. In the history of the Ranji Trophy, he put in perhaps one of the finest performances in the 1972–73 final: 8 for 16 and 5 for 18, leading Bombay to…

Ricky Ponting said India under Rohit Sharma must not take a depleted Australia lightly in Tuesday’s Champions Trophy semi-final in Dubai International Cricket Stadium. His belief is that the Australians invariably save their ‘best cricket’ for big matches and cannot be dismissed. Both India and Australia progressed unbeaten from the group stage, with Australia having two of their matches washed out due to rain. Australia is also missing its regular captain, Pat Cummins, and two of the fastest bowlers, Josh Hazlewood and Mitchell Starc, for this match. “I think India will start favorites in this game,” Ponting told The ICC…

Shakib Al Hasan was signed on to play for the Bangladesh cricket team, yet he has not been paid for the four final months of 2024, even while Monday saw the BCB announce a pay rise and increase in match fees for its players. Bangladesh Cricket Board officials admitted that Shakib is yet to receive his outstanding salary but argued that his accounts had been frozen. “It’s true that he’s owed his salary for September, October, November, and December. But that’s mainly because his account got frozen,” Cricbuzz quoted an official as saying. The payment is in Bangladeshi currency and…

On this day in 2021: . Four years ago, Kieron Pollard became only the third cricketer in history to hit six sixes in an over. Said by many to be the hardest hitter of a cricket ball that the game has ever known, he exhibited powers next to none against Sri Lanka on March 4, 2021. The first T20I of the bilateral series saw Pollard announce his presence on the field by hitting six sixes in six balls against Sri Lanka’s Akila Dananjaya. The knock has put Pollard in the elite company of South Africa’s Herschelle Gibbs and India’s Yuvraj…

Following her comments on Rohit Sharma captain of the Indian men’s cricket team, Congress spokesperson Shama Mohamed has started a major uproar. Shama is under heavy criticism for fat-shaming Rohit and for doubting his qualifications as the Indian team’s captain. Many ex India cricketers have backed Rohit but criticized Shama for her remarks on social media platform X Read Also:- BJP and Congress Clash Over Rohit Sharma Controversy Former India cricketer Yograj Singh, famous for his outspokenness, thinks Shama should be embarrassed for her post deleted now in which she suggested Rohit to shed weight along with calling him “the…