Author: Divyansh Mishra

With international cricket on pause for the Indian team after the ICC Champions Trophy, players are heading back to their Indian Premier League teams for the next 2 months. But head coach Gautam Gambhir wants to get started sooner. He’s planning to join the India ‘A’ team before the senior team’s England tour in June. Word is, Gambhir will be the first Team India head coach to travel with the A team for an overseas trip. In recent years, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has been using National Cricket Academy coaches for the India A and…

Aakash Chopra, the ex-India player, thinks the Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) have a super strong middle order, which will be a big plus for them in IPL 2025. He mentioned that Rinku Singh, Andre Russell, and Ramandeep Singh could be the best players batting at numbers 5 to 7 in the upcoming Indian Premier League. KKR kept Rinku (₹13 crore), Russell (₹12 crore), and Ramandeep (₹4 crore), along with Sunil Narine (₹12 crore), Varun Chakaravarthy (₹12 crore), and Harshit Rana (₹4 crore), before the IPL 2025 auction. Chopra said in a video on his YouTube channel that KKR did a…

After a back injury in Sydney’s New Year’s Test during the Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2024-25, India’s top pacer Jasprit Bumrah had to skip the Champions Trophy also. There is still no word on whether Jasprit Bumrah is set to start with Mumbai Indians in the first week or postpone. India’s star pacer at present is rehabilitating at the BCCI’s Bengaluru-based Center of Excellence. There is no definite date for his return, but uncertainty surrounds his involvement in IPL 2025 with Mumbai Indians. Bumrah has had a surgery before now, thus there is no guarantee if he will play for Mumbai Indians…

Former New Zealand fast bowler Shane Bond, who was bowling coach with the Mumbai-based squad in the cash-rich Indian Premier League, worked closely with Jasprit Bumrah and now wishes the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) to cleverly handle Bumrah’s workload. Bond, whose own career was also slowed by several back injuries, says a back injury for Bumrah in the same area as the 2023 surgery “could be a career-ender. ” Since then bumrah has been sidelined after suffering an injury setback during the second day of the fifth India-Australia Test in Sydney earlier this year. Originally named…

India’s ex wicketkeeper-batter, Parthiv Patel, has brushed aside Sunil Narine, Dwayne Bravo, Hardik Pandya, and Andre Russell to choose a former West Indies star as the greatest all-rounder in the history of the Indian Premier League. Kieron Pollard is the top all-round IPL player says Parthiv, who featured in twelve IPL seasons for six teams—Chennai Super Kings, Mumbai Indians, Kochi Tuskers Kerala, Royal Challengers Bengaluru, Deccan Chargers, and Sunrisers Hyderabad. Asked during a Cricbuzz event to choose the top IPL all-rounder, the Gujarat-born former Indian cricketer now serving as an expert and commentator proceeded with his former MI teammate. From…

Nat Sciver-Brunt, the star England all-rounder playing for Mumbai Indians in the current 2025 Women’s Premier League edition entered her name in the history books on Tuesday (March 11) when she became the first player to score 400 runs in one edition of the WPL. The momentous accomplishment came during the WPL 2025 game held on Tuesday at Brabourne Stadium between MI and Royal Challengers Bengaluru. Then came Sciver-Brunt. At WPL 2025’s last league match, she scored 69 runs from 35 deliveries for the Mumbai Indians. When Sciver-Brunt crossed the 53-run mark, she scored 400 runs in the WPL 2025…

Great Pakistani Shahid Afridi does not like leg-spinner Shadab Khan’s choice for the next visit of New Zealand. Afridi thinks there is no basis other than perhaps domestic displays for his return to be justified, so he says it’s decisions like this that have put Pakistan cricket in the “ICU.” Shadab Khan last appeared for Pakistan at the 2024 T20 World Cup in Barbados and the United States, where the team had one of their worst ICC events exit. He was, however, summoned back to the T20I team soon after the 2025 Champions Trophy at home and promoted vice-captain. Even…

After India won the Champions Trophy 2025 title by four wickets against New Zealand, legendary opening batsman Virender Sehwag had great words for Rohit Sharma’s captaincy. In the summit match played at Dubai International Cricket Stadium, Rohit Sharma’s team first limited New Zealand to 251/7 after Mitchell Santner chose to bat first and then chased down the 252-run goal in 49 overs for a six-wicket win. Rohit, the fifth captain in the world to win many ICC trophies and the second Indian after MS Dhoni, rose thanks to India’s final victory on Sunday. Sehwag, speaking on the Cricbuzz show, said…

Managing director of the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) Rob Key has suggested Ben Stokes, star all-rounder and captain of England’s Test team, would like to lead the white-ball teams of England. After winning the 2019 ODI World Cup, Eoin Morgan was succeeded in 2022 by Jos Buttler, who resigned from his post on February 28; the ECB is seeking for his replacement before the 2025-26 season starts. Stokes, who played a crucial part in England’s 2022 T20 World Cup and 2019 ODI World Cup success, is reported last week to be competing for leadership of England white-ball captaincy…

Former West Indies international Andy Roberts criticized the International Cricket Board (ICC) for meeting every demand set out by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) for the just concluded ICC Champions Trophy 2025. With Dubai hosting all of India’s games, the tournament was run in a hybrid format with Pakistan as the official hosts. The ICC board meeting decided this; throughout the 2024-2027 cycle, all games scheduled for India hosted in Pakistan would be played at a neutral site. Speaking with Mid-Day, the West Indies pace great criticized the ICC for providing India an edge in the…