The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has announced the Indian squads for the Australia tour, comprising fours Tests, three One-day Internationals and as many Twenty20 Internationals. Two prominent names are missing. One is Rohit Sharma, India’s limited-overs vice-captain, who is currently battling a hamstring injury. BCCI says theirRead More →
The ICC Women’s T20 World Cup held in February-March this year has been recognised at the 2020 Australian Event Awards, including winning top honour ‘Australian Event of the Year’, as well as the country’s ‘Best Sporting Event’. The ground-breaking tournament attracted an overall attendance of more than 136,000 people toRead More →
Former Australian cricketer Dean Jones, or Deano as he was fondly know has died of suspected heart attack in a Mumbai hotel. Deano was in India doing the IPL 2020 season – hosting ‘Dugout’ for the Indian TV channel Star Sports. He was also lovingly called Professor Deano. Deano’s DugoutRead More →
The outspoken former India batsman, captain and chairman of selectors Dilip Vengsarkar has come out against IPL franchises taking the option of selecting coaches for their teams from outside India. Vengsarkar is advocating the idea that more IPL franchises should go for Indian coaches rather than opting for foreign stars.Read More →
India confers top National Sports Awards 2020 On Saturday, 29 August India’s top national Sports Awards ceremony was organized – virtually of course in this new normal and the outstanding and deserving sports persons were conferred with Khel Ratna and other sports awards. The award winners were connected virtually toRead More →
IPL 2020 start as announced may be in peril. The current COVID-19 pandemic is grabbing all it can to disrupt lives wherever it can, leaving nothing to chance. With India now recording more than 75000 fresh cases of the virus in a day, the decision to host IPL 2020 inRead More →
Monty Panesar, the English spinner who tormented many a batsmen when he played for England has revealed how he tricked the Indian captain MS Dhoni – many times by pretending to not understand Hindi, while he speaks and understands Hindi and Punjabi quite well. Although not playing now for EnglandRead More →
The Indian born former Australian Women’s Cricket captain Lisa Sthalekar, has become the 27th Australian to be inducted into the International Cricket Council’s (ICC’s) Hall of Fame. She is 1 of the 3 inductees alongside Zaheer Abbas and Jacques Kallis for the year 2020. That Lisa Sthalekar would follow theRead More →
IPL 2020 is on and all plans are in place and it is happening in the UAE. The Board of Cricket Control of India or the BCCI is just looking for the title sponsor after it had to cancel the deal with the Chinese phone company VIVO. The BCCI hasRead More →
In this COVID-19 world, when life is in lockdown, news of any sport happening is good. And when it is India Test series against Australia, it brings smiles on faces of millions of fans both of India and Australia. Yes, earlier Cricket Australia announced the 4 Test match series withRead More →