Author: Divyansh Mishra

The first season of the International Masters League just wrapped up, and guess what? The Indian team, captained by the one and only Sachin Tendulkar, took home the trophy! They beat the West Indies Masters by six wickets in the final game in Raipur this past Sunday. The India Masters kept the West Indies Masters to 148/7 at the stadium. Then, the India Masters chased down the score in just over 17 overs. Opener Ambati Rayudu played great, scoring 74 off 50 balls. But the game wasn’t all sunshine and roses. Things got heated when Yuvraj Singh and Tino Best…

Umran Malik, the Indian fast bowler, is out of IPL 2025 because of an injury he sustained last Sunday (March 16). The Kolkata Knight Riders, who won last year, had signed the 25-year-old from Jammu for Rs 75 lakh at the big IPL 2025 auction. IPL put out that KKR has signed Chetan Sakariya, a pacer from Saurashtra, to take his place. The statement mentioned that KKR chose Chetan Sakariya to replace Umran Malik for the upcoming TATA Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025 since Umran Malik is injured and can’t play this season. Sakariya has played for India in one…

Ravichandran Ashwin, the ex-Indian spinner who retired from international cricket back on December 18, 2024, dropped a bomb on Sunday (March 16). He said he actually wanted to retire after the India-England Test series in March last year. Ashwin was at the Chennai Super Kings book launch, called ‘Leo—The Untold Story,’ when he said he’d asked MS Dhoni to give him the award for his 100th Test in Dharamsala (March 7-11, 2024). He wanted that game to be his last for India. Ashwin told Sportstar, I asked MS (Dhoni) to hand over the award at my 100th Test in Dharamshala…

After playing only four games for Mumbai Indians in the 2022 and 2023 IPL seasons, people weren’t really sure what Tristan Stubbs would bring to the Delhi Capitals (DC) after they picked him up in the 2024 auction. But Stubbs fit right in for DC. He became their go-to finisher and scored the second-most runs for them in IPL 2024, racking up 378 runs with a killer strike rate of 190.90 and an average of 54. Fans loved how good he was at scoring runs all over the field, smashing pull, sweep, slog, and reverse shots. Since then, things have…

When Ravindra Jadeja smacked 10 runs off the last two balls in the IPL 2023 final, Chennai Super Kings clinched their fifth title at Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad. The whole CSK camp went wild, but Mohit Sharma was crushed because he couldn’t get Gujarat Titans across the finish line. Before that final over, everything had been going great for Mohit. He’d had a comeback season, grabbing 27 wickets for GT, the team he’d joined as a net bowler in 2022. But in that last over, he only gave up three runs in the first four balls. Then his control…

The Lucknow Super Giants (LSG), led by Rishabh Pant, are already facing a setback before the IPL 2025 season even begins. Sanjiv Goenka’s RPSG group-owned team will kick off their IPL 2025 run against Delhi Capitals in Vishakhapatnam on March 24. However, LSG will only have limited access to their star Australian all-rounder, Mitchell Marsh, for the IPL 2025 season. Marsh, who was bought for Rs 3.3 crore at last year’s IPL 2025 mega auction. He was sidelined from Australia’s ODI tour of Sri Lanka and the ICC Champions Trophy 2025 on January 31 due to lower back pain and…

MS Dhoni showed up as a wicketkeeper who could really smack the ball around. His career took off fast, and just about three years after he started playing internationally, he became India’s captain. Right away, the team won the first-ever ICC World T20. He started as a top-order hitter who loved to tear into bowlers, but he settled into the middle order and became one of the best finishers ever. India grabbed two more ICC titles too, winning the 2011 ODI World Cup and the 2013 Champions Trophy. Plus, he was amazing behind the stumps, which always kept batters on…

Glenn McGrath, the Aussie cricket legend, thinks Jasprit Bumrah needs to focus more on his fitness when he’s not playing if he wants to have a long career. Bumrah, the Indian fast bowler, has had some injury problems lately. McGrath mentioned recently that Bumrah has figured out ways to handle the stress on his body, but because he bowls so fast, he needs to be careful. McGrath even brought up his own career, saying he could bowl for longer because he wasn’t as fast as Bumrah. He puts his body through a lot. He’s learned to deal with it, but…

Nitish Kumar Reddy, the Indian all-rounder, is ready to play for Sunrisers Hyderabad again. He passed a fitness test after being out for two months with a side strain since the T20I series against England. PTI reports that Reddy finished all the fitness tests, like the yo-yo test, at the BCCI’s Centre of Excellence in Bengaluru. The physios said he’s good to go. Reddy last played for India in the first T20I against England on January 22 at Eden Gardens, but he didn’t get to bat or bowl. He practiced before the second T20I in Chennai but had to miss…

IPL 2025 is kicking off on March 22nd, and the first game’s a big one: Kolkata Knight Riders (the champs) against Royal Challengers Bengaluru. Now, before the T20 madness begins, there’s been a buzz about a new rule change. Apparently, the BCCI (that’s the Board of Control for Cricket in India) has made it so teams can bring in temporary players under special circumstances. Cricbuzz says the BCCI already told all ten teams about this. The catch? Any replacement player has to come from a pool of registered, available players (RAPP). Word is, team managers are saying they’ve never actually…