Author: Divyansh Mishra

The new season of the IPL brings with it a new set of rules. The Board of Control for Cricket in India has partially released its recently approved code of conduct for the Indian team to all ten IPL franchises before the commencement of IPL 2025, with certain aspects that may astonish some. The board came out with a string of rolling rules, after India had a dismal outing in under, where the Australians humiliated them in the Border-Gavaskar Series, trying to encourage a more serious and detached attitude towards the game: barring personal managers from traveling in the team…

Rohit Sharma, captain of the Indian men’s cricket team, entered the history books on March 4 as the first captain in world history to make the final of all four main ICC Events. Led to the final match of the World Test Championship in June 2023 (against Australia), ODI World Cup in November 2023 (against New Zealand), T20 World Cup in June 2024 (against England), and the Champions Trophy (against England) in March 2025, all by Rohit. He never got a chance to play in the World Test Championship final. In 2007 and 2014, MS Dhoni led India to the…

The BCCI expressed its condolences at Padmakar Shivalkar’s passing on Monday. He was a great left-arm spinner who was a stalwart of Indian domestic cricket, symbolizing a life dedicated to the game. An all-time great of the Ranji Trophy, Shivalkar played 124 first-class matches, taking a staggering 589 wickets at a wonderful average of 19.69. His flight, accuracy, and turn made him among the best spinners in Indian domestic cricket. In the history of the Ranji Trophy, he put in perhaps one of the finest performances in the 1972–73 final: 8 for 16 and 5 for 18, leading Bombay to…

Ricky Ponting said India under Rohit Sharma must not take a depleted Australia lightly in Tuesday’s Champions Trophy semi-final in Dubai International Cricket Stadium. His belief is that the Australians invariably save their ‘best cricket’ for big matches and cannot be dismissed. Both India and Australia progressed unbeaten from the group stage, with Australia having two of their matches washed out due to rain. Australia is also missing its regular captain, Pat Cummins, and two of the fastest bowlers, Josh Hazlewood and Mitchell Starc, for this match. “I think India will start favorites in this game,” Ponting told The ICC…

Shakib Al Hasan was signed on to play for the Bangladesh cricket team, yet he has not been paid for the four final months of 2024, even while Monday saw the BCB announce a pay rise and increase in match fees for its players. Bangladesh Cricket Board officials admitted that Shakib is yet to receive his outstanding salary but argued that his accounts had been frozen. “It’s true that he’s owed his salary for September, October, November, and December. But that’s mainly because his account got frozen,” Cricbuzz quoted an official as saying. The payment is in Bangladeshi currency and…

On this day in 2021: . Four years ago, Kieron Pollard became only the third cricketer in history to hit six sixes in an over. Said by many to be the hardest hitter of a cricket ball that the game has ever known, he exhibited powers next to none against Sri Lanka on March 4, 2021. The first T20I of the bilateral series saw Pollard announce his presence on the field by hitting six sixes in six balls against Sri Lanka’s Akila Dananjaya. The knock has put Pollard in the elite company of South Africa’s Herschelle Gibbs and India’s Yuvraj…

Following her comments on Rohit Sharma captain of the Indian men’s cricket team, Congress spokesperson Shama Mohamed has started a major uproar. Shama is under heavy criticism for fat-shaming Rohit and for doubting his qualifications as the Indian team’s captain. Many ex India cricketers have backed Rohit but criticized Shama for her remarks on social media platform X Read Also:- BJP and Congress Clash Over Rohit Sharma Controversy Former India cricketer Yograj Singh, famous for his outspokenness, thinks Shama should be embarrassed for her post deleted now in which she suggested Rohit to shed weight along with calling him “the…

The wait is over as India will go against Australia in mouth-watering Champions Trophy semi finals on Tuesday, March 04. Though Australia will have an edge on the psychological front, having recently beaten the Men in Blue at World Cup 2023 and BGT 2024-25, India under Rohit Sharma is quite buoyant. Wherein the Men in Blue won all three Group Stage matches and have ticked all the boxes going into the semi-finals, only one roadblock stands between them and the finals-Travis Head. Travis Head, the Australian opener, has an extraordinary record against India in all formats and has single-handedly guided…

The highest awaited first semifinal between India and Australia is to get underway on Tuesday in this ongoing ICC Champions Trophy at the Dubai International Stadium, UAE. India, with captain Rohit Sharma, continued their unbeaten run in the tournament by beating New Zealand. However, Australia comes into the semifinals as the second-best team from group B after two washouts, following their clinical win over arch-rivals England. As two very competitive teams prepare for the semifinal, it’s time to see how the pitch at Dubai International Cricket Stadium will behave throughout the match. Stats at the venue: CriterionDataMatches Played61Matches Won Batting…

The Congress spokesperson, Shama Mohamed, who previously ridiculed Virat Kohli for the statement that he “plays a British game,” continued to draw sharp reactions online after calling Indian captain Rohit Sharma “fat” and “unimpressive”. Mohamed in November 2018 blasted him over an instance when Kohli told a fan “if you like foreign batsmen, you don’t belong in India” while expressing that he prefers English and Australian batsmen. “Virat Kohli plays a British invented game, makes crores from endorsing from foreign brands, gets married in Italy, names Herschelle Gibbs his favorite cricketer and Angelique Kerber the best tennis player, but tells…