Author: Divyansh Mishra

Afghanistan vs South Africa – Match Details Afghanistan will take on South Africa in the third match of the ICC Champions Trophy 2025 on Thursday, February 21. The match is set to take place at the National Bank Stadium in Karachi. This will be the first Group B match during the tournament. The South African team has become quite successful in ICC events recently. Starting from making it into the 2023 ODI World Cup semi-final and after that into the T20 World Cup final last year, South Africa is seeking redemption for both occasions she tasted ultimate defeat. There was…

An intense opening clash between India and Bangladesh created a flutter on day one of the Champions Trophy 2025. There were records galore: Mohammed Shami became the fastest Indian to get to 200 wickets, Rohit Sharma inserted himself into the record books as the second-fastest to reach 11,000 runs, and he registered his 100th win as captain of India. And more besides. There were, however, numerous misses on this day that will haunt Rohit Arms and Axar Patel for a while to come. Bangladesh were put in by Rohit, but Shami and Axar worked in tandem to cause something of…

‘Shami suffered a long lay-off after his spectacular bowling performance during the 2023 ODI World Cup that contributed to India’s unbeaten run to the final. The ankle injury meant he required a subsequent operation and had to sit out for almost a year, which also made him miss India’s title success at the T20 World Cup 2024.’ He returned to domestic cricket in November and made a comeback to the Indian team in January this year. After he proved his fitness, the veteran paceman was included in the ongoing ICC Champions Trophy. And on Thursday, Shami showed exactly why the…

Glenn Phillips of New Zealand talked about his performances in ODI cricket. The all-rounder has been in formidable form with 215 runs in just four matches since arriving in Pakistan, including a free-flowing fifty against the hosts in Kiwis’ first match of the ICC Champions Trophy 2025. His explosive innings tremendously strengthened New Zealand’s first success in the group stage with a convincing 60-run victory over Pakistan in Karachi. After the victory, the all-rounder spoke about what had been working well for him in ODI cricket. “I’m just really clear at the moment, I’m seeing the ball well and I…

In the 2008 Commonwealth Bank Series, Rohit Sharma struck a blazing 70 off 64 balls batting at no.4 for India against Sri Lanka in Canberra. It was only the eighth ODI innings of Rohit, then just 20 years old and whose international career had just taken off. Young and uninhibitedly bulldozing bowlers in attendance, Sunil Gavaskar, Ravi Shastri, and Wasim Akram were dwarfed, and they came up with a unanimous verdict: ‘This player is destined for greatness!’ Fast forward to 2025; sequences of events show Rohit completing 11,029 runs at an average rate of 49.01 over 269 ODIs. He has…

New Zealand started out their ICC Champions Trophy 2025 campaign, defeating Pakistan by 60 runs on Wednesday. Not only did the result increase New Zealand’s superiority over Pakistan in terms of ICC Champions Trophy competition, with a head-to-head standing of 4-0, it also left the host facing an uphill battle in a tough Group A, where only two teams will make it to the semifinals. Despite their success, Shikhar Dhawan is not ready to consider New Zealand as the favorites to win the Champions Trophy. In a video posted on Instagram, when Ross Taylor asked Dhawan whether he thought New…

Former Indian all-rounder Yuvraj Singh had a great deal to praise Virat Kohli, addng that the 36-year-old right-handed batter from Delhi is the finest batter within our generation. After making his international debut during an ODI match played against Sri Lanka on August 18, 2008, Kohli scored 27,381 runs in the first 545 matches he participated in. From the beginning till now, he has scored a total of 13,963 runs at 297 ODIs, and Thursday, when he competes for India during the first Champions Trophy 2025 match, would be his chance to surpass Sachin Tendulkar by entering the column of…

In a major blow to the Pakistan national cricket team, Fakhar Zaman has been ruled out of the current Champions Trophy 2025 due to an injury sustained on Wednesday while fielding in the Group A match against New Zealand in Karachi. Fakhar Zaman had fallen awkwardly in the field during the first over of the match against New Zealand. He was forced to leave the field and tried to return to the match but could not manage. “They are assessing him and examining for a muscular sprain, and further updates will be issued in due time,” the PCB said much…

Brendon McCullum ended his international career in style. In his 101st and final Test match, the former-New Zealand cricketer produced an epic knock against the Australian bowlers and hit the fastest-ever century in Test cricket. McCullum’s innings will be etched in memory for this day of 20 February in the second Test against Australia at Hagley Oval in Christchurch. McCullum reached the landmark by breaching the three-digit mark in 54 balls, thus making him a record holder. He made history by breaking the record jointly held by Viv Richards and Misbah-ul-Haq. Richards scored a 56-ball century against England in Antigua…

The Indian men’s cricket team will open its campaign in the Champions Trophy 2025 on Thursday, February 20, against Bangladesh in Dubai. The match between the two Asian teams is scheduled to take place at Dubai International Cricket Stadium and will start at 2:30 PM IST. During the match against Bangladesh, Indian captain Rohit Sharma will have a chance to break multiple records. Rohit, who made his ODI debut for India on June 23, 2007, against Ireland in Belfast, has 10,988 runs to his name in 268 matches played so far. If he manages to score at least 12 runs…