Author: Virat Verma

India vs West Indies 2nd T20I of the five-match series will be played two hours later than the originally scheduled time. The match which was going to happen at 8 PM will now start at 10 PM as per the recent announcement made by CWI. The 2nd T20I between India and West Indies will be played at Warner Park, Basseterre, St Kitts. According to the CWI, the luggage of the players arrived late from Trinidad to St Kitts, which made the board take the decision to postpone the match by 2 hours. “Cricket West Indies (CWI) confirmed there will be…

Women’s Cricket has been included for the first time in Commonwealth Games. A tournament in which 8 teams will participate will feature 9 matches to crown the first Commonwealth Champion. The Indian Women’s Cricket Team recently reached Birmingham where the action for CWG 2022 will take place. The Sports Authority of India posted a tweet for the same and asked the Indian fans to keep cheering for the team led by Harmanpreet Singh. Glimpses from Indian women’s cricket 🏏 team’s arrival in Birmingham for #CWG2022 Keep your #Cheer4India 🇮🇳 messages coming in 😁💯@PMOIndia @ianuragthakur@NisithPramanik @IndiaSports @BCCIWomen @CGI_Bghm @ImHarmanpreet pic.twitter.com/T3wOdOZ327 —…

The Indian middle-order batter Cheteshwar Pujara decided to stay back after India vs England 5th Test concluded to play for his county cricket team Sussex in the ongoing County Cricket Championship. Cheteshwar Pujara found his rhythm back before the Test against England by scoring two big doubled hundreds for Sussex in the County Championship Division Two. On 20th July 2022, Pujara added another double hundred to his name in County Cricket as he scored 231 runs off 403 balls against Middlesex. His rich form continues to impress the fans and cricketers alike. Recently he was also seen rolling his hand…

The England all-rounder often touted as the best multi-faceted player of this generation has announced that he will retire from the OneDay Internationals on Tuesday. Ben Stokes revealed in his retirement post on Instagram that he will don the blue jersey for England in the 50-over cricket for the last time against South Africa on 19th July 2022.  Ben Stokes was recently appointed the skipper of the English white-ball side, and his camaraderie with coach Brendon McCullum has transformed England’s team in Test cricket. The 2019 World Cup hero has shockingly decided to quit ODIs at the peak of his…

Rishabh Pant scored his maiden ODI hundred in the decider match against England. Pant remained unbeaten on 125* off 133 to help India chase 260 comfortably with more than 7 overs left. Pant and Pandya were the heroes for India as they saved the team from a collapse and then built a partnership that took the game away from England.  India had won the toss and opted to field first. Mohammed Sirji dealt the early blows to the English line-up. He sent back Johnny Bairstow and Joe Root for a duck in the match. Jason Roy finally looked in touch…

Reece Topley registered his best figures in OneDay International to make England win by a massive margin of 100 runs in the second ODI. With this win, the series is levelled at 1-1, and the third and final ODI of the series will serve as the tie-breaker. India had won the toss and opted to field first. The Indian bowlers were fabulous again as they bundled out the English batting line-up for just a measly total of 246 runs. Yuzvendra Chahal was the pick of the bowlers for India. He picked four wickets and gave away only 47 runs in…

IND vs WI Squad News: BCCI has announced an 18-member squad for the T20i series that India is going to play against West Indies starting from 29th July 2022. Rohit Sharma will lead the 18-member squad, and Rishabh Pant is expected to fulfil the role of vice-captain for the team. BCCI also stated that Virat Kohli and Jasprit Bumrah had been rested. Kohli is rested due to a mild groin injury he picked up in the last T20i against England, while Bumrah has been granted rest due to the constant cricketing action he has been part of in the last…

Following Suryakumar Yadav’s exploit in the 3rd T20i against England, the ICC T20i ranking for batters has changed drastically. He has risen 44 places to acquire the 5th position in the ranking for T20 batters. Meanwhile, Virat Kohli’s ranking is continuing to tumble down due to his worsening form. On the other hand, Jasprit Bumrah destroyed the English batters in the 1st ODI against England and made a jump in ICC ODI bowler ranking. List of all Indian players in the top ten of ICC ranking: 1- Rohit Sharma The Indian skipper features in the top 10 in both Test…

Cheteshwar Pujara scored a vital half-century for India in the 5th Test against England, but it was not enough for the Indians to come out victorious. However, one thing which could have been useful for India, which was not tried, was using Pujara as the spinner. Shocked? So were we when we first saw him swing his hand for bowling instead of batting. We all know how Pujara was sidelined from the Indian Test set-up alongside Ajinkya Rahane after his runs dried up in the last couple of years. Pujara went back to the basics to make his comeback to…

Team India destroyed the English batting line-up with the help of the bowling duo of Jasprit Bumrah and Mohammed Shami. Bumrah was lethal with his deliveries and picked up 6 wickets for just 19 runs in 7.2 overs. He bowled three maiden overs while Shami dismissed 3 batters for 31 runs in 7 overs. Prasidh Krishna also took one wicket in the match that was over in just four hours. Rohit Sharma won the toss and opted to field. He announced that Virat Kohli had missed out on the game due to a groin injury, and Shreyas Iyer was going…