Author: Virat Verma

India Women will go one-on-one against the table-toppers Australia Women in Match 18th at Eden Park, Auckland in ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup 2022. Recent Form: Australia is riding high on confidence after thrashing West Indies Women in their previous outing by 7 wickets. Australian Women dominate the points table with four wins in fours matches and a robust net run rate of +1.744. On the other hand, the campaign of Women in Blues has been rickety so far in the tournament. India decimated Pakistan in their opening match of the tournament, then got defeated by New Zealand to rise…

Mithali Raj has been synonymous with Women’s Cricket in India for over two decades. Often dubbed as the ‘Lady Tendulkar of Indian Women’s Cricket Team, ‘ the Women’s Cricket frontrunner has accomplished many records and accolades in her spectacular international cricketing journey. A movie called ‘Sabaash Mithu’ depicting her tremendous avenue as a cricketer will soon be released in the theatres as announced by Taapsee Pannu on her Instagram handle, who will be portraying the role of Mithali Raj.  Career Statistics: Mithali Raj has played 12 Test matches in which she has scored 699 runs at an average of 43.7.…

South Africa Women defeated New Zealand Women in a nail-biting thriller at ICC Women’s World Cup 2022 in New Zealand. The Proteas required 14 runs in the last 2 overs with only 3 wickets to spare. Marizanne Kapp, the South African all-rounder, guided her team to the victory in a close contest. With 14 required off 12 and the Proteas being 7 wickets down, the match could have gone either way. Devine clean-bowled Ismail on the 2nd ball of the 49th over to push South Africa on the brink of a loss. However, Kapp kept her nerves calm and collected…

Joe Root and Dan Lawrence combined to construct a 164 runs stand for the third wicket to guide England to 244-3 at stumps on day 1 of the 2nd Test match. Root was given two reprieves in his unbeaten knock of 119* off 242, consisting of 12 fours. West Indies did not review when Root was caught behind off the bowling of Jason Holder on 23. Later he was dropped by Joshua de Silva on 32 off Kemar Roach. Dan Lawrence, too, was given a life when Alzarri Joseph dropped him on 71 off the bowling of Jayden Seales. West…

Recently, RCB unveiled Faf du Plessis as their captain for the upcoming session of the Indian Premier League at the RCB Unbox Event on 12th March in Bengaluru. Fans and IPL franchises poured their wishes and congratulations on social media for the beloved South African player. The official Twitter handle of Gujarat Titans tried to be cheeky while congratulating Faf du Plessis on becoming the skipper of RCB. The admin on Twitter for the newly formed franchise attempted to add some Gujarati flavour to the wish by modifying Faf’s name with the popular Gujarati dish Fafda. Here’s what Gujarat Titans…

The Pakistani Captain, Babar Azam, scored the highest fourth-innings score ever by a skipper in the Test Match history when he notched up 196 runs, including 21 fours and a towering six against the Australian Cricket Team on the gruelling fifth day. Mohammad Rizwan scored an unbeaten century to ensure that Pakistan stayed in the hunt for the record run chase even after Babar’s dismissal. Babar Azam has once again proved his mettle as one of the best batters in modern-day cricket. He kept Australia on their toes for most of the last day by gunning towards the highest ever…

Australian Cricket Team has attained almost everything imaginable in the cricketing world. Australia has registered the most win and highest number of ICC trophies for any team in International Cricket. The Australian Cricket history is filled with countless mind-boggling records and stats. Here are the top ten moments in Australian Cricket history: First Win on England Soil Perhaps the first instance of greatness in the history of Australian Cricket. This is where the foundation of the Ashes Series was laid by the Australian cricketers. The Kangaroos defeated England for the first time in their home country in 1882 in a…

England Women has thoroughly outplayed India in all the departments to ensure an uplifting victory by 4 wickets in Match 15th of the Women’s Cricket World Cup 2022. England comfortably chased down 135 runs in 31.2 overs to stay alive in the tournament after conceding three consecutive defeats in their first three matches. India still failed to avenge the humiliating loss suffered in the finals of the Women’s World Cup 2017. Here’s how the match panned out: England Women won the toss and opted to ball first. The decision made by captain Heather Knights proved to be extremely fortunate for…

Each year BCCI central contracts are announced for both the Indian Women and Indian Men Cricketers. While there are four categories, namely, Grade A+, Grade A, Grade B and Grade C, for male Indian cricketers, there are only three categories, namely, Grade A, Grade B and Grade C, for female players of India’s national team. A comparative look at the salaries of annually contracted men and women cricketers: There is a vast pay gap between the remuneration of men and women players. Recently the BCCI announced the list of contracted players for the Indian men’s team in which Grade A+…

Pak vs Aus, the 4th day of the 2nd test, witnessed the modern-day genius Babar Azam’s brilliance while chasing a mammoth 506 runs in the fourth innings of the test match. Babar Azam is currently playing on 102* as Pakistan scored 192-2 at stumps on the fourth day. Pakistan is still trailing by 314, and the Pakistani skipper will look to emulate his fourth-day heroics against the formidable Australian bowling line-up on the fifth day to register a historic win. PAK VS AUS, Day 4: As it happened Australia declared their innings after Labuschagne fell on 44 against Shaheen Afridi…