Indian premier league is just around the corner as it will start on Sunday, 10th April 2016 and will be played through 29th May 2016 in what will be the 9th edition of highly successful indian domestic T20 competition. Two new teams have been added after both Chennai and Rajasthan Royals were suspended for next […]
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IPL 2016 season is about to get underway on 10th April 2016 and it will be the ninth edition of the most lucrative domestic T20 competition in the world. 2 new teams will join in 2016 season with Rajasthan Royals and Chennai suspended for atleast two years. Both new teams drafted in 5 players each […]
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ICC Champions Trophy is the second tier international cricket competition behind the 50-over World Cup and Twenty20 World Cup. Started back in 1998 so far 7 champions trophy editions has been taken place. From 1998 to 2006 it used to take place every 2 years but ICC decided to make the period between Champions Trophy […]
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Thicker bats, flatter tracks and plummeting quality of bowlers means a tilt of weight in the favor of batsmen. With every IPL match that I watch, my mental image of Cricket as a batsman’s game becomes ever clearer. No score is unattainable anymore and no target is big enough to intimidate modern teams. Players these […]
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A captain is only as good as the team. A well decorated rhetorical statement often comes out of the microphones of commentators. But the fact of the matter is that cricket is the only game where captain plays a pivotal role both in terms of technique and temperament in deciding his team’s fortune. Unlike Soccer […]
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Batting is all about having a still head, decent foot work, keeping eye on the ball, getting on top of the bounce, execution of stroke and proper follow through. Doesn’t matter which era you are talking about, the basics of the batting always remain the same but there have been quite a few players who […]
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Indian Premier League proved to be instrumental in shaping Cricket in the entertaining form that is in at present. Short boundaries, fearless batsmen and colors in the stadium. All of this owes its inception to IPL. The league became some kind of a transformative dose for the batsmen who stripped loose of the fear of […]
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Since the arrival of T20 cricket, the traditional fervor of test cricket had starting diminishing and this lost its impact to the point that watching test cricket has become irksome task. The longest format’s roots can be traced back to the nineteenth century. Test cricket has retained its traditional spice in England and Australia but […]
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Pakistan will be touring England & Ireland for a full fledged series including matches in all formats. Pakistan and England will play four test matches, five one day internationals and one twenty20 match in a two month long tour. Pakistan is also schedule to play two one day internationals against Ireland between the tour. Last […]
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Pakistan will be traveling to United Kingdom for a full fledged bilateral series including matches in all three formats this summer. Tour is scheduled to start in first week of July with couple of 3-day tour games against county teams while the first of four test matches will start on 14th July at Lord’s cricket […]
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“Indian Premier League” mostly known as IPL is the premier domestic T20 cricket competition in India and it takes place every year in April-may. Started back in 2008 so far 8 IPL season has take place. Usually there are 8 teams participating in the competition but since IPL’s inception few teams has either been either […]
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We all know that a cricketer is judged on various set of parameters like talent, technique, skill and temperament. It’s always an interesting element of the game to talk about a cricketer’s strengths and abilities. But somewhere down the line you need to have to quantify the above mentioned attributes for a cricketer or otherwise […]
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Cricket is a gentlemen’s game in every proportion. This game is known to have a reputation of decency and sportsman spirit. This spirit of the game does not mean to just respect your opponent or abiding by the laws of the game. This spirit has a much broader spectrum and it might appear a paradox […]
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England is traveling to India in November 2016 for the 5 test match, 3 ODI and 2 Twenty20 as part of the bilateral series set to be played from 09 November to February 2017. Its 3 month long tour and one of the most anticipated in recent history between the two sides. Tour Dates: The tour […]
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Talk about numbers and records, the world is no short of it. It’s an every journalist’s delight to discuss about the players records and more importantly it’s the players who are involved in this eternal race of being the best in the world. And the records and numbers are the most appropriate means of calibrating […]
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Cricket unlike football is not the game where you see the upsets happening frequently. But when they do, they surely turn out to be worthy of appraisal. There are always talks of one team being stronger than the other on paper. And most of the times, the team which is stronger on the paper eventually […]
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Wicket Keeper is the most familiar terminology in cricketing books. By all means this is the most critical fielding position on the cricket ground. The level of concentration that this position demands is relentless and uncompromising. But even after all the arduous work that wicket keepers put in, still they get criticized for the occasional […]
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Batting is not just about going out in the middle and murdering the cricket ball with full might. Plenty of times, situation demands applications of batsman’s brain and to show good defensive temperament. It’s an ultimate test of a batsman when he is asked to save the game from the jaws of the defeat. The […]
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England and Wales cricket board has introduced overhauled 2016-17 central contract system for players in the national team setup. ECB has introduced two categories in the central system 1). Test Contracts 2). White-Ball Contracts which will ensure players in one day and T20 squads getting improved contracts unlike the previous system. Update: England cricket board […]
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Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) has announced new central contract for the 2016-17 season and they have included as many as 30 national cricketers in the new central contracts. The base salary offered on the current deal will be less than the previous system but Sri Lanka cricket board has promised more lucrative rewards which will […]
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