Author: Divyansh Mishra

Star Indian pacer Jasprit Bumrah, 31, will not feature in the Champions Trophy 2025. Due to a lower back injury sustained while playing in the fifth Test match of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy against Australia at Sydney Cricket Ground from January 3-5, 2025, Bumrah was ruled out of the eight-team ICC event on February 11. While fumraah was named in the provisional squad announced by the selectors on January 18 in Mumbai, Bumrah was withdrawn from the squad on the last day making any such changes, and Harshit Rana was named as his replacement. Bumrah’s absence is a huge setback for…

Mohammad Rizwan-led Pakistan began the ICC Champions Trophy 2025 campaign with a match against New Zealand at the National Stadium in Karachi. Star batter and former captain Babar Azam scored 64 runs off 90 balls. On Wednesday, 19 February, he became only the second Pakistani batsman to score a century of fifties in his career. Since his debut on the international scene for Pakistan with a one-day match against Zimbabwe on May 31, 2015, at Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore, he has scored 29 half-centuries in 59 Test matches, 35 half-centuries in 127 ODIs, and played 128 T20 internationals for Pakistan.…

Pakistan was defeated by New Zealand by 60 runs in an embarrassing defeat in match one of the Champions Trophy 2025. In their first match of the tournament played at the National Stadium in Karachi on Wednesday, February 19, Pakistan’s captain Mohamed Rizwan won the toss and invited New Zealand to bat. Will Young (107) and Tom Latham (118*) gave the Kiwis a 320-run victory for the loss of 5 wickets in 50 overs. The target of 321 had proved far too much for defending champions who, despite good knocks from Babar Azam (64 off 90 balls) and Khushdil Shah…

Pakistan captain Mohammad Rizwan reflected on the loss after the humiliating defeat on home ground in the first match of the Champions Trophy 2025 exhibition tournament, suggesting that his team could not foresee such all-round performance from New Zealand in Karachi on Wednesday. The Men in Green were edged out by 60 runs in the opening match of the ICC Champions Trophy 2025 against New Zealand at the National Bank Stadium, Karachi. Pakistan, despite the home advantage combined and winning the toss, made the wrong decision to bowl first as the wicket turned more difficult to bat on with the…

India will not tour Pakistan due to the extremely fragile political relations that have persisted between the two countries for over a decade. Hence, all of India’s matches are scheduled at Dubai International Cricket Stadium. With such a sad backdrop to this match, the Indian tricolor was spotted at the National Stadium in Karachi on February 18, on the eve of the opening game of the competition. Several viral videos captured the Indian flag at the National Stadium that was scheduled to host the Champions Trophy opener between Pakistan-the host-and New Zealand, beginning Wednesday, February 19. This has made headlines…

This July, Gautam Gambhir was appointed for the job of head coach of the Indian men’s cricket team just after guiding Kolkata Knight Riders to their title victory in IPL 2024. Gambhir, who has also bagged two IPL titles as captain of KKR in 2012 and 2014, had coached none in the IPL or domestic cricket previously. However, given Gambhir’s clout in the two franchises he played for, KKR and the Lucknow SuperGiants, he was considered good enough to land the top job. There were high hopes from the two-time world cup winner, but in the last eight months, results…

On the 20th of February, India will lock horns with Bangladesh to start their ICC Champions Trophy 2025 expedition at the Dubai International Stadium, as the men in blue will hunt for their third CT title. But ahead of the tournament’s opening game, it seems there is some tension as Times Now reported that an active Indian wicketkeeper-batter is unhappy with coach Gautam Gambhir. The report also states that this player believes he has been left out of the set-up because of external factors unrelated to his skills on the field. The report, however, did not mention if that particular…

Babar asserts that no pressure exists, and he and his fellow Pakistan players are determined in ensuring that they educate themselves from the past faults in the 2023 Champions Trophy. As defending champions, the course of the team in ICC competitions has not been that smooth. Pakistan finished 5th in the ODI World Cup 2023 Points table and were knocked out of the T20 World Cup 2024 during the group stages. Babar told the ICC, before their opening game against New Zealand on February 19, that the past is away from their control. Pakistan has discussed the mistakes, analyzed them…

From the start of the 2025 season, Shardul Thakur will play seven matches for County team Essex in Division One. 33 years old, Thakur has played 11 Tests, 47 ODIs, and 25 T20Is over eight years. This will be his first time playing on the English country circuit. He scored 51 and 119 for his second first-class century last month against Jammu and Kashmir and followed that up with a brisk 84 against Meghalaya in the Ranji Trophy. In an effort to show his form and fitness for a national team comeback-His last appearance was at the ICC Cricket World…

The captain of the Indian men’s cricket team, Rohit Sharma, was in abysmal form during the three-Test series at home against New Zealand and the away series of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy in Australia, raising serious questions about his international cricketing future. Nevertheless, Rohit, 37, was surprisingly retained by the selectors for the ODI series against England at home in February 2025, and he performed brilliantly in the second ODI at the Barabati Stadium in Cuttack, scoring a century. On February 9, Rohit led the batting in the 305-run chase, smashing 119 runs in 90 balls, hitting 12 fours and 7…