Cricket

  • Overview: Cricket is a team sport where two teams play each other.
    Field: The game unfolds on a rectangular field with a 22-yard (20-meter) pitch at its center. At both ends of the pitch stand wickets comprising three stumps and two bails.
  • Players: Two players from the batting team striker and one non-striker-stand in front of the wickets, wielding bats. Meanwhile, a bowler from the fielding team delivers the ball from the opposite end.
  • Objective: The batting team aims to score runs by hitting the ball and running between the wickets.
  • Variants: There are different types of matches in cricket like T10 matches, T20 matches, and One Day Cricket (ODI) Test matches.

Injured Samit Dravid ‘unlikely’ to recover in time for four-dayers against Australia Under-19s

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Allrounder Samit Dravid, who had been sidelined from the three-match one-day series against Australia Under-19s in Puducherry, hasn’t recovered from a knee injury and will likely miss the upcoming four-dayers in Chennai as well, according to India Under-19s’ coach Hrishikesh Kanitkar. “As of now he’s at the NCA, recovering from his knee injury,” Kanitkar said … Read more

BCCI inaugurates state-of-the-art Centre of Excellence in Bengaluru

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Sixteen years after acquiring land from the Karnataka government to expand their cricketing infrastructure, the BCCI on Friday inaugurated its new state-of-the-art National Cricket Academy, which will be known as the ‘Centre of Excellence’, on the outskirts of Bengaluru. BCCI president Roger Binny and secretary Jay Shah unveiled the facility to the officer bearers, which … Read more

Ind vs Ban, 2nd Test: Rohit Sharma says India were ready to get bundled for low total in bid to force result

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Rohit Sharma has said that India were willing to risk getting bowled out for a low score in the first innings in a bid to get a result from a pitch that “didn’t have much for the bowlers”. The second and the third days of the Kanpur Test did not see any action because of … Read more

Samit Dravid picked in India Under-19 squad for Australia series

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Allrounder Samit Dravid has been selected in India’s Under-19 squad for the first time, for the multi-format home series against Australia Under-19 in September and October. Mohamed Amaan, a middle-order batter from Uttar Pradesh, has been named captain of the 50-over squad, while Madhya Pradesh’s Soham Patwardhan will lead the team for the four-day matches. … Read more

IND vs BAN – BCCI vice-president Rajiv Shukla defends Kanpur as Test venue

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IND vs BAN - BCCI vice-president Rajiv Shukla defends Kanpur as Test venue

IND vs BAN – BCCI vice-president Rajiv Shukla defends Kanpur as Test venue vice-president Rajiv Shukla has defended the facilities at the Green Park Stadium in Kanpur, which have come under fire after two days of play in the second India-Bangladesh Test were abandoned, one of them despite no rain during the scheduled hours of … Read more

IND vs BDESH 2024/25, IND vs BAN 2nd Test Match Report, September 27 – October 01, 2024

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Bangladesh 26 for 2 (Zakir 10, Shadman 7*, Ashwin 2-14) and 233 (Mominul 107*, Bumrah 3-50, Akash Deep 2-43) trail India 285 for 9 dec (Jaiswal 72, Rahul 68, Mehidy 4-41, Shakib 4-78) by 26 runs After two rainy, non-cricket days at Green Park, Kanpur sprung to life on sunny Monday with a speedy India … Read more

IND vs BDESH 2024/25, IND vs BAN 2nd Test Match Report, September 27 – October 01, 2024

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Lunch Bangladesh 233 and 146 (Shadman 50, Bumrah 3-17, Jadeja 3-34, Ashwin 3-50) set India 285 for 9 decl 95 runs to win Barely 24 hours after taking his 300th Test wicket and only two sessions after India’s batters started a near-unthinkable push for victory, Ravindra Jadeja’s triple-strike started a slide for Bangladesh that wiped … Read more