Tag: IPL 2025

Rishabh Pant to Join CSK in IPL 2025?

Big news is emerging ahead of the IPL 2025 mega auction. According to reports, India’s young wicketkeeper-batsman Rishabh Pant may part ways with Delhi Capitals. The question now arises: if he is leaving Delhi, which team might he join in the upcoming season?

Reports suggest that he could be seen playing for Chennai Super Kings next season. It is believed that after IPL 2025, Dhoni will retire from the prestigious league. Therefore, the franchise needs a dynamic and explosive wicketkeeper-batsman like Dhoni who can change the course of the match coming in the lower order.

Talking about Rishabh Pant’s IPL career, his performance has been outstanding so far. After returning from injury in the last season, he performed exceptionally well. In IPL 2024, he played a total of 13 matches for DC, scoring 446 runs in 13 innings with an average of 40.54 and a strike rate of 155.40.

So far, Rishabh Pant has played a total of 111 matches in the IPL, scoring 3284 runs in 110 innings with an average of 35.31. Pant has 1 century and 18 half-centuries in the IPL, with his highest individual score being 128 runs.

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It is worth mentioning that Pant has always admired Dhoni. He considers the former Indian captain as his idol. Therefore, speculations are rife that Pant might be considering a move to CSK following Dhoni’s suggestion.

July 18, 2024
LSG to Remove KL Rahul as Captain before IPL 2025; Amit Sharma Drops Major Hint

KL Rahul has led the Lucknow Super Giants for three consecutive years in the IPL. However, veteran India cricketer Amit Mishra suggests that Rahul might not continue in this role for the upcoming season. Mishra believes LSG may look for a new captain, emphasizing the importance of having the right mindset for T20 cricket.

“It does not matter if he is in the Indian team or not. But a person who has the right mentality for T20s should be the captain. Someone who plays for the team should be captain. I am sure LSG will look for a better captain,” Mishra said during a conversation with YouTuber Shubhankar Mishra.

Also read: New Zealand Cricket Board Announces Home Schedule for 2024-25, Series vs Pakistan to Clash With IPL 2025

Mishra also shared insights into a conversation between LSG owner Sanjiv Goenka and Rahul after their 10-wicket loss against Sunrisers Hyderabad. “He (Goenka) was disappointed. We lost two back-to-back matches very badly. Against KKR, we lost by some 90-100 runs and against SRH, the match was finished within 10 overs. It felt like we were bowling to them during a net practice session. If I am so angry about it, will someone who has actually invested in the team not feel angry? It was not a huge deal. But I later came to know that he said the bowling was very bad and the team should have shown some fight. It looked like you had completely surrendered. But I feel people and media hyped it up a bit,” Mishra explained.

July 17, 2024

New Zealand Cricket Board Announces Home Schedule for 2024-25, Series vs Pakistan to Clash With IPL 2025

New Zealand Cricket (NZC) has confirmed the itinerary for the 2024-25 home season, featuring tours by England, Sri Lanka, and Pakistan. Announced on Wednesday (July 17), the schedule outlines a busy period for the New Zealand men’s team with three Tests, six ODIs, and eight T20Is. The women’s team will play six ODIs and six T20Is.

The highlight of the men’s season is a three-Test series against England, the only Tests on New Zealand soil this summer. This series concludes a stretch of nine Tests for New Zealand, following away fixtures against Afghanistan (one Test), Sri Lanka (two Tests), and India (three Tests).

After the England series, New Zealand will host Sri Lanka for T20Is and ODIs from late December to mid-January. The team will then travel to Pakistan for an ODI tri-series as preparation for the Champions Trophy, starting February 19. Later, New Zealand will host Pakistan for five T20Is and three ODIs in late March and early April, which may overlap with the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025.

The New Zealand women’s team will also have a busy home season, starting with a three-ODI series against Australia at the Basin Reserve just before Christmas. Australia will return for three T20Is in late March. Following Australia’s visit, Sri Lanka’s women’s team will tour New Zealand for a six-match series in March. Five women’s T20Is, including the last two against Sri Lanka and the three against Australia, will be played as double-headers with the men’s T20I series against Pakistan.

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New Zealand Home Schedule 2024-25

Team	Date	Match	Venue
England Men	November 28-December 2	1st Test	Christchurch
	December 6-December 10	2nd Test	Wellington
	December 14-December 18	3rd Test	Hamilton
Australia Women	December 19	1st ODI	Wellington (Basin Reserve)
	December 21	2nd ODI	Wellington (Basin Reserve)
	December 23	3rd ODI	Wellington (Basin Reserve)
	March 21	1st T20I	Auckland
	March 23	2nd T20I	Tauranga
	March 26	3rd T20I	Wellington (Sky Stadium)
Sri Lanka Men	December 28	1st T20I	Tauranga
	December 30	2nd T20I	Tauranga
	January 2	3rd T20I	Nelson
	January 5	1st ODI	Wellington (Basin Reserve)
	January 8	2nd ODI	Hamilton
	January 11	3rd ODI	Auckland
Sri Lanka Women	March 4	1st ODI	Napier
	March 7	2nd ODI	Nelson
	March 9	3rd ODI	Nelson
	March 14	1st T20I	Christchurch
	March 16	2nd T20I	Christchurch
	March 18	3rd T20I	Dunedin
Pakistan Men	March 16	1st T20I	Christchurch
	March 18	2nd T20I	Dunedin
	March 21	3rd T20I	Auckland
	March 23	4th T20I	Tauranga
	March 26	5th T20I	Wellington (Sky Stadium)
	March 29	1st ODI	Napier
	April 2	2nd ODI	Hamilton
	April 5	3rd ODI	Tauranga

July 17, 2024

Delhi Capitals Rejects Sourav Ganguly’s Claim for Head Coach, the Franchise wants Someone like ‘Gautam Gambhir’

Delhi Capitals have ended their partnership with Ricky Ponting. In such a situation, Delhi Capitals is looking for a new head coach for the IPL 2025 season. Sourav Ganguly is also present with the team, but the Delhi Capitals franchise is not going to hand over the responsibility of head coach to him. Even Sourav Ganguly himself is keen to become the head coach of the team, but the owners of Delhi Capitals are looking for someone like Gautam Gambhir.

Sourav Ganguly has not yet appeared in the role of head coach. After leaving cricket, he has been in administration most of the time, while in IPL he has been in mentor and other roles. He is even the Global Cricket Director of the Delhi Capitals franchise. In an interview to Bengali newspaper Aajkal, he has expressed his desire that he is ready to become the head coach, but Delhi Capitals is looking for some other veteran.

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According to the reports, DC does not want to see Ganguly in dual role i.e. as Director of Cricket and Head Coach. He is currently the director of cricket for Delhi Capitals, DC’s sister franchise Dubai Capitals in the ILT20 and Pretoria Capitals in the SA20 league. “Ganguly already has a lot of work on his plate – as director of cricket it is his job to plan a lot of things for the franchise,” a source said.

DC wants someone with Gautam Gambhir’s temperament to come in as head coach. “The team needs a coach who is very proactive and keeps an eye on the circuit very aggressively, like Gautam Gambhir does. It is no surprise that he has been very much successful as a mentor. He keeps an eye on the players – both international and domestic,” the source said. Delhi Capitals, RCB and Punjab Kings are the only three teams that are yet to win a title.

July 17, 2024
Not Rahul Dravid! But KKR can name this veteran South African player as a replacement for Gautam Gambhir

After Gautam Gambhir became the head coach of Team India, there is an atmosphere of concern in the KKR camp. In fact, the mentor under whom the team won the IPL 2024 title has now become a part of the national team. At the same time, there is also news that KKR assistant coach Abhishek Nayar can also join Gambhir’s coaching staff in the national team.

As of now, KKR needs new supporting staff before the upcoming IPL 2025 mega auction. Many reports had come out which said that KKR could choose Rahul Dravid as its new mentor, but now a new name has entered this story. It is being told that KKR is considering the name of South African legend Jacques Kallis.

Kallis has been a part of KKR before as well. As a player, he won the IPL title in 2012 and 2014 under Gambhir’s captaincy. At the same time, Kallis has also been the batting consultant of KKR in 2015. Apart from this, he was appointed head coach after Trevor Bayliss resigned to take over as England’s head coach.

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Kallis was the head coach of KKR for four Indian Premier League (IPL) seasons till 2019. He resigned from this post before joining the South Africa cricket team as a batting consultant. According to reports, Kallis may return to KKR’s coaching setup, his name is also in the news.

The report said, “The franchise is looking for a replacement for Gambhir, who was instrumental in their third IPL title this year. The name of South African veteran all-rounder Jacques Kallis, who coached KKR in 2019, is also in the news.”

July 12, 2024
IPL 2025: Not crores but billions of rupees will be spent, important update on mega auction; All 10 teams have placed this demand in front of BCCI

IPL 2025 is still many months away, but preparations for it have started from now. The next season of the Indian Premier League will be special because before that there is a mega auction to be held, in which players from all over the world will be auctioned. There is speculation that the mega auction can be held in December this year, for which the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has contacted all 10 franchises regarding some decisions.

It is being told that BCCI has contacted all the franchises and raised some issues, including the rule of retaining players. But the biggest issue raised is what will be the salary cap of the teams. Salary cap means how much money will be in the purse of each franchise, using which it can buy players in the auction. The salary cap of 2024 was INR 100 crore, that is, each franchise had a maximum of INR 100 crore to prepare its squad. But now there is a demand to increase the salary cap by 20 percent.

According to reports, all the franchise owners have demanded a 20 percent increase in the salary cap in front of BCCI. Let us tell you that the salary cap was increased by 5 percent when it came from 2023 to 2024. That is, it was brought from INR 95 crore to INR 100 crore. It is being told that before the mega auction of IPL 2025, there can be an increase of at least 10 percent in the salary cap, but a 20 percent increase is also completely possible. That is, if we look at the salary cap of 10 teams, then it goes above INR 10 billion together.

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The more money the franchise has, the more money it will want to spend on its favorite players. Talking about the IPL 2024 auction, Mitchell Starc and Pat Cummins were 2 such players on whom bids of more than INR crores were placed. Starc became the most expensive player in the history of IPL as KKR bought him for INR 24.75 crore. Now if teams have more money in their purse, then the salary of the players will definitely increase in the coming years.

July 10, 2024
IPL 2025: Will Rahul Dravid replace Gautam Gambhir in KKR? Former Indian Head Coach can Make Huge Money from IPL 2025 After Retirement!

The tenure of Team India’s head coach Rahul Dravid is over. He had jokingly said after the T20 World Cup 2024 that he will now be unemployed. But this does not seem to be happening. According to a report, Kolkata Knight Riders have contacted Dravid. KKR wants to give Dravid the post of mentor. There is a discussion about Gautam Gambhir that he is going to become the head coach of Team India. So his place is going to be vacant.

According to reports, KKR has approached Dravid. The team wants to make Dravid a mentor. Actually, there is news of Gautam Gambhir becoming the head coach of Team India. If Gambhir becomes the head coach of Team India, then his place in KKR will be vacant. Therefore, KKR would like to include a veteran in their dough out in place of the former KKR skipper and mentor Gautam Gambhir. Therefore, KKR can make Dravid a mentor.

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Dravid’s coaching career has been strong

Team India won the T20 World Cup 2024 title under the coaching of Rahul Dravid. The Indian team had earlier reached the final of the ODI World Cup 2023. Here it had to face defeat against Australia. However, it had won all its matches before that. Dravid has a lot of coaching experience. If he joins KKR, the players can get a lot of benefit from it.

Dravid can replace Gambhir

After Gambhir’s return, KKR’s performance improved a lot. The team won the IPL 2024 title. Kolkata defeated Hyderabad in the final. Captained by Shreyas Iyer, this team topped the points table. After playing 14 league matches, KKR won 9 matches and lost just 3. Now Gambhir is about to retire from KKR. If Dravid joins KKR, he might get a huge salary.

July 10, 2024
IPL 2025: Rohit Sharma can Captain these 3 Teams Next Season, After Parting Ways from Mumbai Indians!
Hardik Pandya can be seen handling the captaincy of Mumbai Indians in IPL 2025. Obviously, if the franchise has removed Rohit Sharma and handed over the command to him, then it would like to stick to its decision. In such a situation, it is believed that Rohit can leave Mumbai Indians next season. Yes, reports claimed that Rohit can leave MI before the mega auction of IPL 2025. If this happens, then there are definitely some teams who would like to hand over the captaincy to him by joining him immediately. In this article, we will take a look at the 3 teams, which would like to make Rohit Sharma their captain next season.

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3 Franchises Targeting Rohit Sharma as their Future Captain for IPL 2025
1) Kolkata Knight Riders
2) Delhi Capitals
3) Chennai Super Kings
3 Franchises Targeting Rohit Sharma as their Future Captain for IPL 2025

1) Kolkata Knight Riders

Kolkata Knight Riders won the trophy in IPL 2024. Even though the captain of the team is Shreyas Iyer, all the credit for the victory went to mentor Gautam Gambhir. It would not be wrong to say that Iyer was a field captain under Gambhir. Now if Rohit Sharma leaves Mumbai, then KKR will not want to miss this opportunity and in any case, they would like to hand over the command of the team to Hitman. Hitman and Gambhir share a very good on-field relationship.

2) Delhi Capitals

Rishabh Pant was given the captaincy of Delhi Capitals in IPL 2020. But, there was no significant difference in Delhi’s performance and the team has not been able to open the account of title win. Therefore, as soon as the option of captain Rohit, who has won the trophy for Mumbai 5 times, opens up, DC would like to hand over the command of the team to him by joining him.

3) Chennai Super Kings

Chennai Super Kings is at the forefront in adding senior players to their team. Therefore, if Rohit Sharma leaves Mumbai, then CSK will definitely think about adding Hitman to their team. Last season, Dhoni handed over the captaincy of the team to Rituraj Gaikwad. But, if Rohit comes to CSK, then once again Gaikwad can learn a lot from Hitman by playing as a player. In such a situation, after Dhoni, he can emerge as a better captain by playing under Rohit.
June 21, 2024