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Pragyan Ojha, who played for Mumbai Indians and Deccan Chargers in his nine years IPL career, has become the recent player to express his interest in playing foreign T20 leagues. Recently, batsmen like Robin Uthappa and Suresh Raina also had thought of being granted permission from the BCCI to...

Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) decided to suspend the fast bowler Shehan Madushanka from all forms of cricket. SLC forced to take this decision after the pacer arrested for suspected custody of illegal drugs. The suspension decision was taken after the police arrested the cricketer and sent on remand custody....

Mitchell Starc revealed the real cause behind avoiding franchise cricket. Starc said that when he is not on national duty, he wants to be at home with his wife Allysa Healy, who is also a famous women cricket player in Australia. In an interview, Starc quoted “It is very...

David Warner is an excellent white-ball opener, but when it comes to select his desired form of cricket, he said it is Test cricket. On Wednesday, he posted a video standing in front of a mirror and swiping past his imagery version wearing Australia’s T20 jersey and then ODI...

Is the Indian Premier League ( IPL) organizable in 2020? Can the richest cricket league replace the T20 World Cup, set to take place later in Australia? Those are just some of the questions that go through the minds of every cricketer, fan, official and other stakeholders in India...

Former Pakistan opener Taufeeq Umar, who is also a junior selection committee member, has tested COVID-19 positively but his symptoms are not significant. The 38-year-old is Pakistan's first international cricketer to get infected with the coronavirus, though the country lost to the disease on April 13 to former first-class...

Dean Elgar is eager to become the next South African Test Captain as next Test Captain as a question of who would gain traction to succeed Faf du Plessis. Elgar, who turns 33 next month, put his hand up in a Monday-released interview with Cricket South Africa (CSA) and...

Shakib Al Hasan believes the ICC recommendations on how to restart cricket leave a lot of unanswered questions and there are things that need clarification before the sport returns from the coronavirus-forced hiatus. The initiatives include the installation of chief medical officers, a 14-day training camp for pre-match preparation,...

Kyle Coetzer expressed concern that the sport might well "continue to be overlooked in certain respects" without cricketing in Scotland until at least August, and cricketers who don't get a chance to do what they do best could just walk away from the game. The coronavirus pandemic has brought...

Mohammad Shami said players would have no trouble following all the instructions, including not using saliva on the bats, to combat the coronavirus pandemic threat when cricket action resumes worldwide. Shami, however, added that it is possible to conduct compulsory COVID-19 tests ahead of the series, so players will...

Captain Joe Root of England feels the ban on using saliva to shine the ball to combat the threat of Coronavirus could improve the skills of the bowlers who will have to work harder to get some purchase out of the pitch. Root said it could "work for and...

For the first time since the Coronavirus outbreak, England pacer Chris Woakes is practicing at the ECB center. He has shared realistic information, from beginning to end. England cricketers became the first to resume cricketing activities since the Coronavirus pandemic as the ECB nodded on restarting team training, though...

Former India opener Robin Uthappa feels his undoing has been his tinkering with his batting technique at the age of 25 to realize the ambitions of playing Test cricket. "My biggest dream was to play for Test cricket for India. Had I pursued this, at the age of 20...

Babar Azam lashed out at former Pakistan cricketer Tanvir Ahmed, who advised him to improve his English speaking skills among other things to become a complete captain. Responding to Tanvir's comments, Babar Azam, who became Pakistan's ODI captain last week, said: "I play cricket. I am not a gora,...

"You'll have to remember that you can't use those things to shine the ball. Don't get me wrong, you can still shine the ball without saliva and sweat, it just doesn't have the same effect," Woakes said to a leading Sports website. The International Cricket Council on Friday issued...

Jofra Archer, the England cricketer feels that playing cricket without spectators will be tough for the cricketers when finally cricket returns to the field after the COVID-19 pandemic. Cricket authorities are trying their best for the continuation of cricket and finding options to play behind the closed doors. The...

The world's top-ranked Test bowler, Pat Cummins believes that the Test Cricket will suffer a lot, if the usage of saliva and sweat to shine the ball get banned in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. According to him, from many years cricketers used sweat & saliva to shine...

After a grand welcome to Cricket Connected, Star Sports initiates a new show ‘Cricket Connected: Chats that will help people to engage with their favorite stars. It will begin with Rohit Sharma’s interview on 13th May. In the interview, he said that since he injured his finger, he unable...

The wicket-keeper batsman of Afghanistan cricket, Shafiqullah Shafaq handed a six-year ban after he accepted his involvement in the four charges of contravening the anti-corruption code. The illegal charges are about to offense at the time of the first league of Afghanistan Premier League T20 in 2018 when Shafaq...

Dimuth Karunaratne, Sri Lanka captain made clear about the strategies of the team when cricket will begin again. He said that the goal of the side would be to win maximum matches and get progressed in the ODIs and Test cricket rankings.He noted that Sri Lanka is not in...

Ben Stokes: “I Am Preparing To Play In The Indian Premier League (IPL-2020)” Benjamin Andrew Stokes, English international all-rounder and current vice-captain of the England Test team, says that still, he is preparing himself to play in the Indian Premier League (IPL), despite knowing that the game is unlikely to...

Pathan Brothers: “It’s A Small Start” Former all-rounder Irfan Pathan and his cricketer-brother Yusuf Pathan have distributed 4,000 masks to the needy people, during the on-going health crisis caused by coronavirus. The younger of the two brothers Irfan Pathan tweeted, “Doing our bit for the society. Whatever u guys can do...

O'Brien is worried about his wife's health: Former New Zealand bowler Iain O’Brien said that he is extremely worried about his wife’s health as her lung condition is not good and she has a higher probability of getting infected from highly-spreading Coronavirus pandemic. The Wellington resident now lives in the UK...

On 2nd March, Mahendra Singh Dhoni will start his training to perform in the Indian Premier League 13th edition. There has been never-ending discussion on his career since last year’s ODI World Cup. Dhoni has led India to two world titles. Now he will start his training at the MA...

A Tribute To Sachin's Achievements: Sachin Tendulkar, who retired from international cricket in 2013, continues to be one of the most beloved and admired batsmen in the world. Former Pakistan captain Inzamam-ul-Haq posted a video on YouTube when India celebrated the anniversary of Sachin's splendid knock which made him the...

A Small Tribute To Don Bradman Don Bradman was an international cricket player of the Australian team and he is widely acknowledged as the greatest batsman of all the time. He was born in Cootamundra town of New South Wales, Australia. It's been exactly 19 years, that cricket world has lost...