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Former Pakistani pacer Shoaib Akhtar has fired a fresh salvo at Babar Azam and has explained why he has failed to become the biggest brand in Pakistan. Shoaib Akhtar feels that public speaking in English has become a daunting task for the Pakistani cricket team and has urged Babar and Co. to improve their oratory skills. Also read: IND vs AUS: Huge blow for Australia as half of the Australian team returned home ahead of the 3rd Test “Abhi aap dekh le, koi character nahi team mein. Naa koi baat karne ka tarika. (You can see there’s no character in…

Australia faced embarrassing defeats in the first two matches of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy series. They lost the first match by an innings and 123 runs in Nagpur and the second by 6 wickets in New Delhi. Both these Test matches ended well inside three days. Following these defeats, former Indian spinner Harbhajan Singh brutally roasted the Pat Cummins-led side calling it a “duplicate” Australian team.  Also read: IND vs AUS: Huge blow for Australia as half of the Australian team returned home ahead of the 3rd Test “Australia practiced against Ravichandran Ashwin’s duplicate, but I feel the Australian team itself…

KL Rahul is going through the worst phase of his international career. Dinesh Karthik, who has played a lot of cricket with Rahul, said he felt bad for the opener and also revealed that he has gone through similar phases in his career where he went to the washroom and shed a tear or two. Karthik said if Rahul loses his place for the Indore Test starting March 1, it won’t be because of that one unlucky dismissal, it will be because of his poor form since the South Africa series last year. “He also knows for a fact that…

The 16th edition of IPL is set to start on March 31 with an opening match between Gujarat Titans and Chennai Super Kings in Ahmedabad. The season will see a total of 70 league-stage matches that will be played across 12 venues for over 52 days. The new “Impact Player Rule” will be implemented in the upcoming IPL season. The rule was approved for implementation in the IPL after initially being tested in the Syed Mushtaq Ali competition. RCB, being one of the most popular and strongest teams in the IPL,  will need to find and enlist a few impact…

Adidas is very close to getting apparel sponsorship rights for the Indian cricket team. The deal is expected to begin from June this year and will last till March 2028. The rights currently are with Kewal Kiran Clothing Limited (KKCL), the parent brand of the company of Killer Jeans. The previous sponsor, Mobile Premier League (MPL), signed a three-year agreement from November 2020 to December 2023 but didn’t complete the tenure. Prior to MPL coming on board, Nike had a five-year deal with BCCI from 2016 to 2020.  Also read: IND vs AUS: Huge blow for Australia as half of…

The 16th edition of IPL is set to start on March 31 with an opening match between Gujarat Titans and Chennai Super Kings in Ahmedabad. The season will see a total of 70 league-stage matches that will be played across 12 venues for over 52 days. The IPL has a special award every year for an individual for their excellence throughout the season. The award we are talking about is the Most Valuable Player (MVP) award. Surprisingly, no CSK player has ever won the MVP award. So here are 3 CSK players who can win the IPL 2023 MVP Award.…

Australian legend Allan Border brutally criticized the Pat Cummins-led side after they surrendered against India on Day 3 of the 2nd Test in Delhi. Where did it all go wrong for Australia in the second Test? The most common answer has been Australia’s strategy to use the sweep shot against India’s spinners. Talking on this matter, Border said, “They have got to turn off their radios and stop reading newspapers for the next couple of days, that’s for sure because they’re going to call peeps but yeah they’ve got to sit down and talk about the methodology of playing quality…

Almost half of the Australian Test Team returned home after losing the Border Gavaskar Trophy in 6 days. Matt Renshaw is the latest to return home along with Lance Morris. Pat Cummins, Josh Hazlewood, Ashton Agar and David Warner are the others to return home already. These players are returning home: As many as 19 players have been part of the Australia squad so far. Australia squad: Pat Cummins (c), Ashton Agar, Scott Boland, Alex Carey, Cameron Green, Peter Handscomb, Josh Hazlewood, Travis Head, Usman Khawaja, Matt Kuhnemann, Marnus Labuschagne, Nathan Lyon, Lance Morris, Todd Murphy, Matthew Renshaw, Steve Smith…

Babar Azam was recently adjudged as the winner of the prestigious Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy for ICC Cricketer of the Year for the first time and ODI Cricketer of the Year for the second straight year. Speaking to the ICC after Babar won both the awards, Ponting said that Babar “hasn’t reached his peaks” and that there is still room for improvement in him. “He’s probably not (at his peak). Most batters come into their prime in the start of their early thirties,” Ponting said. “You look at where Steve Smith and (David) Warner and those guys have been. Steve…

Australia have been thrashed in the first two Tests of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy series, with both matches ending well inside three days. However, legendary Australian pacer Brett Lee sees a glimmer of hope as he sends out a big warning to Team India asking them to stay wary of a potential threat. Lee, speaking on his YouTube channel, was all praise for the debutant of the 1st Test, Todd Murphy. Brett Lee hailed Murphy as the true successor to Nathan Lyon. “Who after Nathan Lyon? Well, it looks like they found their answer in the young 22-year-old superstar off-spinner Todd…