Author: Divyansh Mishra

This most recent giant-slaying spectacle from Afghanistan further bolstered their stock as arguably one of the most potent forces on an international cricket stage. This time, they astonished England in a Champions Trophy match on Wednesday by eliminating it from the contest. Accepting another giant challenge from Australia, Afghanistan sent a stern reminder to the cricketing world to stop considering them as the ahistorical jogger of international cricket. The greatest cricketers of all time crossed over to Afghanistan’s soul and conveyed a path into their great and tough loyal cricket fans-now a becoming an impenetrable wall for the others. Indian…

Today, PCB has announced the schedule for the upcoming season of the Pakistan Super League, even as the national squad was eliminated from home ICC Champions Trophy during the group stage without winning a single match. This year’s tournament will enjoy a fierce direct competition with IPL, running from April 11 to May 18, while IPL will run from March 22 to May 25. Islamabad United, the champions of the last season, will kick off PSL 2025 with an encounter against two-time victors Lahore Qalandars on April 11 at Rawalpindi. 34 matches will be organized in four stadiums – Rawalpindi,…

England have gone out of another ICC tournament with the early exit and deservedly drawn flak from captain and players. Skipper Jos Buttler has dismissed the suggestion for knee-jerk reactions even as calls for him to quit as captain continued. Afghanistan put England’s hopes of making it to the semifinals of the Champions Trophy up in smoke on Wednesday night, defeating them by eight runs in an incredibly close contest in Lahore. Afghanistan set England a target of 326 and England were bowled out for 317 in 49.5 overs. Rashid was the last wicket to fall after he was caught…

On Friday, Australia will compete against Afghanistan in their last group match of the ongoing ICC Champions Trophy 2025 competition. For the Afghans, this is a knockout match, virtually so, having staged a shocking upset against England in their last match. Brought here by Steve Smith, Australia punished England on its first outing, while the next match against South Africa was a washout. Meanwhile, what a comeback Afghanistan made-it totally buried its previous outing with South Africa and strung together a terrific performance to set up a well-deserved victory over the English. The ground even has boosters preparing for the…

Pakistan had very high hopes concerning their Champions Trophy destiny. Hosting the ICC tournament for the first time and not only in their history, they were also defending champions with the tournament returning after almost eight years. However, very quickly, within a span of five days, their campaign came to a disappointing and early end, with the Mohammad Rizwan-led side losing their opening two matches in Group A and crash out of the semifinals race. Then the rains put paid to their chances of a consolation victory as their final group match, against Bangladesh in Rawalpindi on Thursday, was a…

The former Pakistan cricketer, Wasim Akram, said that he was unable to recognize Abhishek Sharma during the February 23 match between India and Pakistan, but later realized that it was the same player who had blasted the Englishmen in a recent T20I match. What followed was a much-shared video showing Akram talking with Abhishek, complimenting him on his brilliant hundred against England at the Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai earlier this month. After watching the Afghanistan-England game, where the former knocked 2019 ODI World Cup winners out of the Champions Trophy, Akram explained that he didn’t initially recognize Abhishek. “I met him…

Delhi Capitals Women will play against Mumbai Indians Women in the 13th match of Women’s Premier League (WPL) 2025. The match is scheduled for Friday, 28th February at 7:30 PM IST at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru. They have played a very good Women’s Premier League (WPL) 2025, winning three games and losing two. The last one they won was, Gujarat Giants Women by 6 wickets; Shefali Verma scored 52 runs, while Jess Jonassen was top with 61 off 32 balls in that match. Mumbai Indians Women won three successive matches, the last one, against UP Warriorz Women, where…

For his remarks about ‘smog’ during their last white-ball series against India, Sunil Gavaskar once again didn’t miss an opportunity to slam England youth Harry Brook. Gavaskar cynically questioned whether the lighting at the Gaddafi Stadium were ‘ok or not’ following the confirmation of the Englishmen’s departure from the 2025 Champions Trophy thanks to their back-to-back group stage losses to Australia and Afghanistan in Lahore. In their initial season of the Champions Trophy, Afghanistan stole a magnificent, tight eight-run victory over Jos Buttler’s team. Having hit a record 177, Ibrahim Zadran established a 325/7 goal. Joe Root got England close…

A lower back injury Bumrah sustained in Sydney while playing for India in the fifth Test of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2024-25 against Australia ruled him out of the 2025 Champions Trophy. world no. 1 Test bowler’s not showing was a great setback for Team India before the competition started. India had a red-hot form for last year. In twenty-fourteen, 13 tests and eight T20IS he accounted for 71 batsmen’ removal and 15 batsmen.’ Returned to bowling in the nets, Bumrah is a crucial Indian team element in all three formats of the game. Bumrah’s IPL team Mumbai Indians posted a…

Mark Butcher, an England former international, believes that the men’s Jos Buttler-styled side is arrogant and thus everyone just loves seeing them lose. People can’t stand this England team because they just have no regard for the time and flow of 50-over cricket yet head into the ICC tournaments feeling entitled to win them. England was eliminated from the tournament after only two group-stage matches against Australia and Afghanistan. Since the 2023 World Cup, they had played only 14 ODIs, recording only four wins, few in a bid to prepare for this tournament after failing to make it out of…