In what will come as a huge blow for IPL 2021, New Zealand players are probably to miss the league if it gets rescheduled for September. The news comes in the following days ECB Director of Cricket Ashley Giles confirmed that English players are unlikely to be possible if IPL 2021 takes place end of the year. The BCCI is considering a September window to play the remaining IPL 2021 games. There are few spare weeks between the India vs England Test series and the beginning of the T20 World Cup. Despite the venue is yet to be finalized, many…
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Jaydev Unadkat is more ‘motivated’ than ever to earn a Test call-up after being snubbed from India’s team for their 3-month long journey to England. India’s extended 24-man team for the World Test Championship (WTC) final and 5-Test series against England includes 6-frontline pacers and 3-replacements – Avesh Khan, Prasidh Krishna, and Arzan Nagwaswalla. The likes of Krishna and Nagwaswalla received their maiden nod following awesome performances in domestic cricket. Nevertheless, Jaydev Unadkat, who marshaled Saurashtra to the Ranji Trophy title with a note tally of 67 wickets in the 2019-20 season, found himself out of the national tally one…
Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) has offered to host the remaining 31 games of IPL 2021. Prof. Arjuna de Silva, the chief of the SLC managing committee, regard the BCCI should not be ignored Sri Lanka as a host for the remainder of the season. According to some reports, the United Arab Emirates could host the 2nd phase of IPL 2021 in September. The Gulf nation hosted the all season last year, which is why the BCCI could prefer them to host the IPL one more time. Although, Arjuna de Silva noted that Sri Lanka will host the Lanka Premier League…
Chris Morris recently talked about the situation in the Rajasthan Royals camp during the anxious moments before and after the sudden suspension of IPL 2021 this week. The South African showed how the franchise’s director of cricket, Kumar Sangakkara ‘drew a finger across his throat, indicating that the tournament had been cancel. He also told how the team members, especially the English players, alarmed, thus creating a chaotic atmosphere. “I was chatting to our team doctor, whose room was across the hallway from my mine in the hotel and Kumar (Sangakarra) came around the corner and drew his finger across…
Young Rajasthan Royals (RR) batsman Riyan Parag has commended the franchise’ Director of Cricket Kumar Sangakkara, declaring he had a lot of fun with the legend and learned so much. IPL 2021 came to an unexpected halt on Tuesday following multiple players testing positive for the COVID-19 virus in the tournament’s bio-bubble. RR was fifth in the points table when the event was postponed uncertainly, with 3 wins and 4 losses from seven matches. Taking to his official Twitter account on Wednesday, Riyan Parag shared a photo with Sangakkara and had messages of praise for the Sri Lankan legend. He…
A BCCI has officially announced that except for the encounter between Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) and Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB), no other IPL 2021 match is faced rescheduling. The 14th season of the IPL fell into crisis after KKR’s Varun Chakravarthy and Sandeep Warrier tested positive for Covid-19 on stating of the week. The franchise’s match scheduled for 7:30 pm IST on Monday (May 3) had to be postponed after players RCB expressed their anticipations. Chakravarthy and Warrier were without delay isolated and the rest of the KKR team also tested negative consequently. Although, before the news settled, 3 members…
In a serious blow to the Punjab Kings, captain KL Rahul has been hospitalized ahead of Sunday’s fight against the Delhi Capitals. A statement by the franchise said the wicket-keeper batsman suffering ‘severe abdomen pain’ on Saturday which was later confirm to be a case of intense burst appendix. KL Rahul will now sustain surgery and will definitely miss out on the next few matches for the franchise. “KL Rahul complained of a severe abdomen pain last night and after not responding to medication, he was taken to the emergency room for further tests which revealed that he was diagnosed…
Delhi Capitals batsman Ajinkya Rahane has contributed 30 oxygen concentrators to fight against COVID-19 in the Maharashtra state. The Indian Test team vice-captain’s donats towards Mission Vayu was recognized by MCCIA Pune. They extended their thanks to Ajinkya Rahane for his kindness. MCCIA also mentioned that the 30 oxygen concentrators would be sent to the most impacted districts of Maharashtra. “Thank you so much Ajinkya Rahane @ajinkyarahane88 for your additional contribution of 30 Oxygen Concentrators to #MissionVayu. We will send these to the most affected districts of Maharashtra,” MCCIA say thanks by tweet on Saturday morning. https://twitter.com/MCCIA_Pune/status/1388342925172502538?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1388342925172502538%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sportskeeda.com%2Fcricket%2Fnews-ipl-2021-dc-s-ajinkya-rahane-contributes-30-oxygen-concentrators-mission-vayu Ajinkya Rahane has…
The Punjab Kings have left Mayank Agarwal, Moises Henriques and Arshdeep Singh out of the team for their IPL 2021 match against the Royal Challengers Bangalore. Captain KL Rahul declared at the toss that Prabhsimran Singh, Harpreet Brar and Riley Meredith would replace the trio versus RCB. Although the Punjab Kings dropped Arshdeep and Henriques, KL Rahul displayed that Mayank Agarwal was not fit, which was reason why the Punjab Kings team management decision to replace him with Prabhsimran Singh. “Three changes for us – Moises Henriques and Arshdeep Singh miss out while Mayank Agarwal got hit last game. Prabhsimran…
MS Dhoni didn’t start the Sunrisers Hyderabad game in the best of ways, dropping a routine catch off Jonny Bairstow from behind the stumps. It was a rare lapse in concentration by MS Dhoni, as the veteran cricketer is usually a safe pair of hands. Fans couldn’t believe their eyes after they saw MS Dhoni drop a catch early on. You can watch the clip below: https://twitter.com/SujalBhandari01/status/1387408482370932740?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1387408482370932740%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sportskeeda.com%2Fcricket%2Fnews-ipl-2021-watch-in-rarity-ms-dhoni-drops-sitter-behind-stumps Also read:- AB de Villiers became the sixth player to score 5,000 runs in the tournament Dhoni dropped a order catch on just the second ball of the beginning of the over, with…
Royal Challengers Bangalore’s (RCB) AB de Villiers became the 6th player to achive the 5000-run score in the Indian Premier League (IPL) on Tuesday. The 37-year-old reached this important milestone in the match against the Delhi Capitals (DC). Before the beginning of the match, AB de Villiers had scored 4,978 runs in 160 innings. He required additional 22 runs to reach the 5000-run mark. AB de Villiers came out into the middle in the 9th over after RCB were demanded to bat first. He started on a attentive note but started hitting the big shots once he got looking in.…
On the time of his 48th birthday on Saturday, Master Blaster Sachin Tendulkar has made a request to COVID-19 survivors to donate plasma and do his part in fighting with covid-19. Sachin Tendulkar, itself, had tested COVID-19 positive the previous month and had to be admitted to a hospital in Mumbai. In a video message posted on his official Instagram accounts, Sachin Tendulkar told that he would be donating plasma when it is allowable. The former player said in this context: “Big thank you all of you. Last year I had inaugurated a plasma donation center, and their message was…
Rohit Sharma wasn’t quite impressed after the umpire wrongly gave him out in the first over of the Mumbai Indians vs Punjab Kings clash. The captain had some words to say as he angrily took the review to repeal the decision. Various fans reacted to Rohit Sharma’s explosion on Twitter, with a few uploading a clip of the movement. The incident occurred on the 5th ball of the starting over, with Moises Henriques bowling to Rohit Sharma. The Punjab Kings bowler angled one in reach the batsman, which the MI captain tried to flip towards the leg-side. Also read:- RCB…
In an amusing moment ahead of Thursday’s IPL 2021 conflict, Royal Challengers Bangalore captain Virat Kohli walked away after flipping the coin in the middle of the toss. However, it was ruled in his favor. Rajasthan Royals skipper Sanju Samson called ‘Tails,’ but the coin fall on the opposite face. Although, Virat Kohli, ignorant that he had won it, stepped back and let Samson move ahead. It was beyond host Ian Bishop called Virat Kohli that he noticed his mistake. The RCB captain fashioned a sheepish smile and quipped: “Did I win the toss? Sorry. I am not used to…
Amit Mishra starred for the Delhi Capitals (DC) with the ball as the expert leg-spinner finished with figures of 4-24, which are the best of all from his side against the defending champions Mumbai Indians (MI). MI team were building the right platform for their big-hitters to come in later and blow up in the end. Although, Amit Mishra and other DC bowlers assured that the defending champions didn’t get to the total that they would have desired to. Although the likes of Ishan Kishan and Jayant Yadav trying to bring the MI innings back on track, 137-9 was all…
During the game between the Chennai Super Kings (CSK) and Punjab Kings (PBKS), all-rounder DJ Bravo was looking to enjoy a wicket with the common hook step of the song ‘Vaathi coming.’ The incident took place in the 17th over of the first innings bowled by DJ Bravo. On the 5th ball of the over, the Caribbean cricketer bowled a well-hidden slower delivery which Murugan Ashwin missed to pick. The batter’s effort to loft it over the mid-off fielder wasn’t successful, and he ended up fade the ball up in the air. Faf du Plessis allowance an easy catch as…
Ashish Nehra believes Rishabh Pant is a better captain than Sanju Samson after their various captaincy debuts in the IPL 2021. Rishabh Pant’s captaincy journey started with a flyer as he marshalled Delhi Capitals to a comfortable win against three-time champions Chennai Super Kings. At the same time, Sanju Samson led from the front against Punjab Kings with an impressive hundred. But he fell inches short of success in the last ball mystery. Talking to Cricbuzz, Ashish Nehra confession that it’s still too early to judge the young wicketkeeper-batsman for their captaincy certification. Though, he chose Rishabh Pant to be…