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India vs South Africa T20 Series Squad

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  The cricket action continues throughout the year in india. After the ongoing Indian Premier League, we have the South African Team visiting India for a 5 match t20 series as part of a previous commitment between the 2 boards. India visited South Africa recently back at the end of 2021 and was defeated badly so now Indians fans will be hoping for revenge in this upcoming series.  South Africa will be coming for a 5 match T20 series to India and now the BCCI in their latest meeting decided and announced the venues for this coming series. The Series will begin on the 9th of June and will be going till the 14th of June then the Indian team will be visiting England for their series.  BCCI announced venues for the upcoming SA series as Delhi Cuttack, Vizag, Rajkot and  Bangalore. The series will start at New Delhi Arun Jaitley Stadium on the 9th of June then the 12th-second match will be held in Cuttack the third match in Vizag on 14th then on the 17th of June in Rajkot ...

New Era In English Red Ball Cricket

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England Red ball cricket has been in decline. In last year, Three Lions only managed to Win 3-4 test matches in 17 test matches they played. After horrific show of England red ball team ,where they lost 4-0 in Ashes. The Entire structure including the head of cricket, the coach and captain Joe Root all under heavy criticism after a flop show by the team.  After Ashes it was announced selector Ashley Gills and coach Chris Silverwood were sacked and Andrew Strauss was made interim head of cricket and Paul Collingwood interim coach. However Joe Root remained as the Captain and the English team went to Caribbean for the Test series. The series was drawn and yet changes were needed in the team and the structure. Now one month after Former England Rob Key was appointed as new managing director of English cricket.  Another news breakout there the Red Ball captain Joe Root decided to quit as England captain and to continue just as a player in the team. Now after Root's resignation the...

Another Major Blow to CSK

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Chennai Super Kings has been an iconic franchise in the Indian premier league. CSK has been a consistent team in the ipl, it has reached finals 9 out of 12 editions they have been part of. Chennai Super kings has been led by Indian one of best cricketer MS Dhoni. But before the start of this season MSD announced that he will be stepping down from captaincy this year.  Ravindra Jadeja was announced as new CSK captain and under CSK has had a shaky start, they lost 6 matches out 8 which they played so far under him. After last night's loss to Punjab it's highly unlikely that they will be in the playoffs this year.  Another major concern for CSK this year has been injury to their key players. First their prime bowler and star Deepak Chahar sustained a hamstring injury and was ruled out for first few games but later the news came in that he suffered another injury this time back injury and now will be ruled out the entire IPL 2022. After the start of the season CSK suffered another...

Punjab Kings vs Chennai Super Kings : Preview

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Today in match 39 of the Indian Premier league  we will witness the clash between two teams who are struggling for form this season. Its 4 time champions Chennai Super Kings up against Punjab Kings. Punjab Kings have lost their previous few matches and are desperate for points. While CSK are coming off a win over their arch-rival Mumbai Indians in IPL El Clasico thanks to9 brilliant Vintage MS Dhoni heroics in the last over. Both teams will be wanting to win and grab those 2 important points for themselves. A win for Punjab means they leap frog that log jam of 6 points in the middle of table while for CSK 2 points means they are still alive in this competition. So in all, both teams would go all out and it would be interesting to see who comes out on top.  What to expect The Wankhede pitches are throwing up big totals regularly, and chase has become the favoured strategy at the venue. The last two games, however, were both won by teams who successfully defended their massive s...

India vs South Africa Series

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  The cricket action continues throughout the year in india. After the ongoing Indian Premier League, we have the South African Team visiting India for a 5 match t20 series as part of a previous commitment between the 2 boards. India visited South Africa recently back at the end of 2021 and were defeated badly so now Indians fans will be hoping for a revenge in this upcoming series.  South Africa will be coming for a 5 match T20 series  to India and now the BCCI in their latest meeting decided and announced the venues for this coming series. The Series will begin from 9th of June and will be going till 14th of June then Indian team will be visiting England for their series.  BCCI announced venues for the upcoming SA series as Delhi Cuttack ,Vizag, Rajkot and  Bangalore. The series will start at New Delhi Arun Jaitley Stadium on 9th of June then on 12th second match will be held in Cuttack the third match in Vizag on 14th then on 17th of June in Rajkot and finall...

Ricky Ponting To Miss A Game Against RR

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Delhi Capitals in this season has been pretty on and off. They were not performing up to the level as was expected of a Delhi team. Team was struggling in either department. But since their  full foreign contingent of players is back , they have started performing pretty well.  The return of David Warner was a boon for them. The Australian international signed from just 6 cr in the auction is turning out to be their player of the season. Warner has returned back to his old and scoring fifties for them and giving them solid starts at the top.  But unfortunately Delhi Camp is never out of limelight and again they came into limelight as there was bio bubble breach and 5-6 of their entire contingent csme covid positive. Acovi outbreak has hit the delhi camp and few of their players were covid positive along with support staff. All the concerned members were isolated and the matches which were scheduled to happen in Pune were shifted to Mumbai either to Wankhede or Brabourne s...

Match 31 of IPL 2022 : RCB vs LSG

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The IPL drama has been ongoing since the last week of march. We have seen many such moments throughout this journey. We have seen 2 iconic teams of this tournament MI and CSK struggle and are bottom of the table, while 2 new teams Lucknow and Gujarat are performing excellently in their first season itself and are in top half of the table. Other moments have been Jos Buttler blistering knocks and Kulcha (Kuldeep Yadav and Yuzvendra Chahal comeback ) this duo has been performing this year and in the race for Purple Cap this year.  Coming towards today's match we have newly in form team Lucknow SuperGiants taking on renewed Royal Challengers Bangalore. Lucknow performed above expectation this season but slipped up 2 games back but they bounced back after defeating 5 time IPL champions in their last match, while RCB are on winning run they are looking well balanced team with good leadership of their new captain Faf Du Plessis.  What to expect:  While teams have preferred to c...

Gujarat Titans vs Chennai Super Kings : Review

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The match 29 started with Gujarat Titans stand-in skipper Rashid Khan won the toss and opted to field. Firstly Gujarat regular Hardik Pandya was ruled out injured due to groin injury which he suffered in the last match. Thus due to Hardik injury Gujarat had make some changes, Matthew Wade and Hardik were replaced by Alzarri Joseph and Wriddhiman Saha. CSK were coming off their first win of their campaign thus they were unchanged.  Match started with an early wicket for CSK as Robin Uthappa was dismissed and their no.3 Moeen Ali was dismissed early. Then Out of form of Ruturaj Gaikwad and Rayudu came together to snath almost 95 run stands. Gaikwad got in form and scored fluently and Rayudu too scored some big shots. After these 2 being dismissed other CSK batsman struggled to time the ball and CSK eventually ended with score of 169.  Gujarat came to bat with a target of 170. Gujarat had a horror start, they lost quick wickets and were reduced 15/3 inside powerplay. Then Saha an...

Joe Root quits England Test Captaincy

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This morning shocking news came in. England Test Match Captain Joe Root announced that he will be resigning from England Red ball captaincy. Root has been England captain for five years and has presided over more games (64), victories (27) and defeats (26) than any previous captain. His team, on the other hand, has only won one of their last 17 Test matches, putting his job in jeopardy. Despite England's 1-0 loss to the West Indies in Grenada, Root stated that he was "extremely passionate about taking this moment forward" and that his players had made "huge progress" and played "great cricket" in the series. I've decided to step down as England's men's Test captain after returning from the Caribbean tour and having time to ponder "Root remarked. "It's been the most difficult decision I've had to make in my career, but after consulting with my family and those closest to me, I'm confident that the time is right. I am in...