Author: Divyansh Mishra

On 22 May, the Lucknow Super Giants will take on the Gujarat Titans at the Narendra Modi Stadium, Ahmedabad, in the 64th match of IPL 2025. Gujarat, led by Shubman Gill, presently sits atop the table and has already entered the playoffs with an aim for a top-two finish. Oppositely, Lucknow, led by Rishabh Pant, are out of contention for this one; hence this match would not hold much significance for them. Now, on to some key player battles to keep an eye on. Rishabh Pant vs Prasidh Krishna: Pant has hardly enjoyed his season with only 135 runs in…

Jofra Archer has had a bit of a run with the injuries lately, and instead of just happening, he has now hit another setback just going into the ODI series against the West Indies. The injured right thumb has meant that Archer has had to miss out on the three-match series, with Luke Wood coming in as his replacement. The ECB will revisit the situation with Archer in the next couple of weeks, leaving his participation in the Test series against India in doubt.  In IPL 2025, Archer was in the Rajasthan Royals squad and got to play in all…

The 27-year-old pace sensation Sam Cook will join forces with Gus Atkinson, Josh Tongue, and spinner Shoaib Bashir to make a new bowling sprint. This match is Zimbabwe’s first Test in England since 2003 and will kick off a busy international cricket summer. Edgbaston will host the first white-ball international on Thursday, May 29. Cook is a classical seam bowler, and his selection follows a brilliant championship season, where he got 227 wickets in five years, more than any other seam bowler. The three-man pace attack of Cook, Tongue, and Atkinson all possess a paltry 13 Test caps between them,…

Chennai Super Kings have not been performing very well this time around. They lost the playoff race at an early stage after managing just 3 wins in 13 contests. One among the prominent players, Shivam Dube, had a quiet season, too. With MS Dhoni and the team looking to rise next year, Dube may just not find a place. Dube is a good middle-order batter who had a significant contribution to CSK’s IPL 2023 crown win with 418 runs at a striking rate of 158.33. But his form dipped in IPL 2024, scoring 396 runs at an average of 36.00,…

The Chennai Super Kings appear to be on their way to an IPL bottom finish in 2025, having lost against the Rajasthan Royals by six wickets in the national capital. They posted a decent score of 187 for 8, but the Royals made well-worked translations with three overs to spare. It was the last-place finish in the 10-team standings with three wins and ten losses from 13 matches under a poor net run rate of -1.030. According to former Indian opener Aakash Chopra, seven players should be dropped by CSK for the 2026 season in light of their lackluster displays.…

Young Indian players depart for England in the wake of the IPL for five Test matches. The Test series will officially start on June 20 with the first Test at Headingley, Leeds, between India and England. Rohit Sharma is retired, and India looks for a new Test captain. According to Sports Tak, the BCCI would be announcing the test captain and test squad in a press conference on May 24. The press conference will be held on Saturday at 12 noon IST and will be headed by BCCI selection committee chairman Ajit Agarkar.  It seems young batter Shubman Gill is…

England and Zimbabwe will play a Test match for four days starting on May 22 on the ground of Trent Bridge, Nottingham. This will mark the commencement of a busy summer for Ben Stokes and his boys and also a five-Test series with India. Having to play Zimbabwe first should give English players some preparation for the tougher challenges ahead. Ben Stokes is back on the playing field after recovering from an injury sustained in December 2024 that kept him from playing all this while. England has picked a strong lineup for this match, including bowlers such as Gus Atkinson,…

A few days after announcing his retirement from Test cricket, Virat Kohli was seen chilling out in Bengaluru with wife Anushka Sharma. A bunch of pictures showing them playing Pickleball with Virat’s Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) teammates went viral on social media. The candid pictures show the couple playing with Dinesh Karthik and Dipika Pallikal Karthik, all grinning with pleasure.  On May 12, Virat shocked fans by, as he declared, stepping away from Test cricket, putting an end to fourteen dominating years in the format. His announcement changed the dynamic of Indian cricket, especially since it came right before India’s…

England’s head coach, Brendon McCullum, has asked for some humility to come forth from his players as the buildup begins towards a riveting stretch. Starting from next Thursday, Trent Bridge would see Zimbabwe play a lone four-day Test before they would then host India in a thrilling five-match Test series and head to Australia for the carnival known as the Ashes. England had tough times against Pakistan and white-ball cricket following a winter series in New Zealand where they won 2-1, and some statements made by some of the players to the media also raised some eyebrows. Rob Key, the…

The Rajasthan Royals, having done themselves proud with a win late evening on Tuesday, capping it off against Chennai Super Kings, had by and large, a torrid year. Ninth on the points table, the board was his and their worst ever in the IPL. Now, they made 4 wins against 10 losses out of 14 games-the worst-ever season in IPL history.                                                    And the match at Arun Jaitley Stadium was some sort of duel between two floundering teams seeking to evade last place in the IPL! They have, on occasion, produced bad seasons in the past; however, this one scores in…