Author: Divyansh Mishra

These days cricketers find themselves in quite a predicament – whether or not to participate in international cricket. In most cases, except for a few selected international teams, players don’t receive the luxury of the central contract. Consequently, they follow the path of T20 league deals. Not just one deal, but numerous deals. Some players have switched to being complete freelancers, moving from one T20 league to the next. For this, they have opted out of their central contracts with their national boards. Moreover, some have even taken early retirements from the international scene to extend their T20 careers! Consider…

Over the years, batsmen have invented several different cricket shots, which have transformed into fours and sixes for them. Bowlers, though, in return, have now come to rely on each other, using their skills and different kinds of deliveries, hoping to baffle the batters. Fast bowlers’ among the variations that they have, the knuckleball is which has been more or less accepted by the contemporary bowlers. So, what about the knuckleball? Let’s try to unravel the mystery of the knuckleball in cricket. Knuckleball Variation You must have been watching the bowlers who were applying the slowest and quickest deliveries to…

Rain interruptions continue to be a major hurdle in the not-so-easy and tricky world of cricket. As a result, two very prominent methods called Duckworth-Lewis-Stern (DLS) and V. Jayadevan (VJD) have come to the forefronts of discussions. The DLS technique is the one that the ICC mostly resorts to in its tournaments and matches; dousing the chasing team with a new target that, among others, embraces the number of overs, wickets left and the rate at which the first team was scoring before the rain came down. The VJD, meanwhile, which is used in BCCI working matches, has a different…

It is very hard to find a team that has experienced more anguish than South Africa in ICC events. They had numerous moments of “so close but so far.” To illustrate this, consider the 1999 World Cup semi-final. The exceptional form of the Proteas had raised hopes going into the semi-final. However, they were literally a run short of making it to the finale. That’s how unlucky they have been in the case of ICC events. So, was South Africa able to win any ICC tournaments? The answer would be yes! And here we present the list of the ICC…

No doubt, Women’s T20I cricket has undergone a phenomenal transformation over the past few years. The emergence of teams from the Associate nations to confront the long-established full-time members of the cricket world is a very big change but one that has been accompanied by the rise of daring and talented batters from the newer countries, which has altered not only the competitive environment but also set new limits for international cricket. One of the magnificent achievements has been the record-breaking half-centuries witnessed from these Associate players against full-member teams, who turned the tables in their favor on the win/loss…

The Delhi High Court has turned down a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) that contested the employment of the name “Team India” by the cricket team governed by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI). The PIL posited that since BCCI is a private entity, it has no authority to name its team “Indian National Cricket Team” and employ national insignia like the flag. Court Rejects PIL Seeking to Remove BCCI’s Team India The plea, put forward by the advocate Reepak Kansal, asserted that when the public broadcasters like Doordarshan and All India Radio depict the BCCI team as…

Kwena Maphaka, the fast bowler from South Africa who is just 19 years of age, is no longer able to participate in the Pakistan tour nor the single T20I match against Namibia. The athlete got a hamstring injury while doing a four-day domestic game for DP World Lions against Western Province. The Names of the Two Players to Replace Kwena Maphaka are Ottneil Baartman and Lizaad Williams The cricketer, who had been part of South Africa’s squad in the T20 World Cup 2024, has been added to the T20I squad for the series in Pakistan and Namibia. Lizaad Williams, on…

In a very important turn of events, Rinku Singh is said to have been the target of the underworld gang associated with Dawood Ibrahim. As per a release from Mumbai police’s crime branch, Rinku Singh’s promotional team has been contacted with a ransom request of ₹5 crores three times, in total, between Feb and Apr of 2025. The threats are said to be from the gang of Dawood Ibrahim but this should be put aside as a mere rumor. Meanwhile, the police have arrested two men – Mohammed Dilshad and Mohammed Naveed – as suspects in the case. They were…

In the sports of cricket, spinners have a variety of ways to deliver the ball, but the two most popular and classic ones are the googly and the doosra. With spinning, to some extent, one can talk of a tricky, very talented, and surprise play. What, then, is the main difference between googly and doosra in cricket? The difference between a googly and a doosra is that the former is delivered by a leg spinner and the ball rotates from the right to the left. On the other hand, an off-spinner causes the ball to rotate from the left to…

India and Australia are all set to meet on the cricket field in a three-match ODI series beginning on 19th October. The series will witness a large number of high-quality players, but two of the major attractions will undoubtedly be Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli. Rohit has lost the ODI captaincy, and the question is if the two greats are going to play long enough to make it to the 2027 World Cup. Therefore, their performances will most likely be under scrutiny, and if they fail, it may mean the end of their careers. It would be then worth to…