Author: Divyansh Mishra

March 3, 2009: It has been almost 16 years since an attack came upon the Sri Lankan tour bus in Lahore, Pakistan, by terrorists. The terror attack went on this day in 2009. It happened on the third day of the Test match. At around 9 am local time, 12 gunmen did an attack on the team bus just outside Gaddafi Stadium. The gunmen opened fire on the bus as it passed the Liberty Statue, also firing at the vehicle transporting match officials. In this dastardly act of terror, six policemen and two civilians were killed. This also led to…

New Zealand pacer Matt Henry said the condition suitability of India helped them to develop a great bowling unit with their quartet of spin bowlers keeping his side under constant pressure throughout the match in Dubai for the Champions Trophy. India, who are already playing all their matches in Dubai, put Chakravarthy, Kuldeep Yadav, Ravindra Jadeja and Axar Patel into the field against the Kiwis here on Sunday, for a convincing victory by 44 runs in their last match in Group A. “Obviously, having four frontline spinners was really effective in the way they played. I think there was luxury in knowing…

Allrounder Axar Patel has so far batted with the tailenders for the most of his India ODI career, therefore pointing to the team’s use of him as a specialist spinner despite his more than capable hitting ability. No. 303) he hit in the upper-half. 5) during an ODI against New Zealand in Ranchi in 2016, first time ever, he put up a fair 40-ball 38. Still, before his batting position permanently changed, he was once more ask to the lower half. Axar has always batted further up in the batting order, even ahead of KL Rahul (in the ongoing Champions…

Before the 2025 Indian Premier League (IPL) season, Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) introduced a fresh ‘three-star’ jersey. Their three IPL championship wins are honored by the three stars. Seen using the new kit were KKR stars Rinku Singh, Venkatesh Iyer, Ramandeep Singh, Manish Pandey, Vaibhav Arora, Anukul Roy, Mayank Markande, and Luvnith Sisodia. In the Official Jersey Launch Video from KKR, fans of the team can be observed enthralled with ‘Number 3’. Depicting the three championships in KKR’s Trophy closet, the video ends with ‘Three Stars’ being woven into the fabric of the new jersey. Aside from the recently added…

South Africa’s Heinrich Klaasen is on top of his game at the moment, scoring fifties in the last five games. Yet, the wicketkeeper-batter has set his eyes on a larger goal during this Champions Trophy-to become the world’s best. Stanley, the fourth in the ICC world rankings for batsmen in the ODIs, scored 64 runs off 56 balls, helping South Africa qualify for the semi-finals with a seven-wicket victory over England. “I gave myself a challenge with (South Africa head coach) Rob Walter this trip. To be the best in the world,” said Klaasen in an interview with Sky Sports…

As did the 2023 ODI World Cup, the Champions Trophy 2025 has the same four semifinalists: India, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. Former competition winners, all four teams will be anxious to include another ICC title on their trophy cabinet. India will meet Australia first in Tuesday’s semifinal and South Africa will face New Zealand a day later in the second. South Africa batting superb AB de Villiers believes the two teams advancing to the title match will be the same as the T20 World Cup last year. India won a volatile 2024 T20 World Cup last over South…

While six ODIs may have seen India unbeaten in the last six, here is one area where they have had little luck of late. Since the 2023 ODI World Cup final, the Indian team has lost every coin toss in an ODI. After the Champions Trophy Group A match against New Zealand, the unlucky coin tosses were at 13 on Sunday in Dubai. Out of these 13 tosses, Rohit Sharma-while being the regular captain-has lost 10, and KL Rahul couldn’t do any better in the other three times (ODI series in South Africa). As New Zealand ODI skipper Mitchell Santner…

Congress spokesperson Dr Shama Mohamed labelled the Indian captain “overweight and the most unimpressive captain India has ever had.” When Rohit Sharma, captain of India, was dismissed for 15 runs off 17 balls in the Champions Trophy against New Zealand, which India won by 44 runs, there was an outrage on Twitter with many-a-BJP spokesperson, including Shehzad Poonawalla, claiming that the ones who once opposed the country now seemed to be targeting the Indian cricket team. He further stated that “the Congress, who calls itself the shop of love, is nothing but messengers of hate.” #BreakingNews | Congress Leader Shama…

Sir Vivian Richards, considered one of the greatest batsmen of all time, picked his former Indian counterpart Sunil Gavaskar as his favourite Indian batsman of all times. In a virtual interaction on Sunday (March 2), when CricketNext asked the former West Indies captain to name his favourite batsman from among Gavaskar, Sachin Tendulkar, and Virat Kohli, Richards, who went on to win two World Cup titles as captain for the West Indies in 1975 and 1979, said that Gavaskar got 14 Test centuries against the West Indies team, which had the fiercest bowling attack at that time, thus becoming the…

Australia have taken a setback since their heavyweight opener Matthew Short has injured and been eliminated from the Champions Trophy semifinal battle against India in Dubai. Short sustained a quad injury during last week’s ultimate Group B match against Afghanistan in Australia and will not be able to be fit for the critical game. Traveling reserve Cooper Connolly has been marketed as Short’s replacement by the world champions. Given India’s left-arm spinners’ performance in Dubai, Australia could be tempted to field their past Under-19 World Cup captain in the first semifinal of the tournament set to take place on March…