Wednesday, April 1, 2020

Will Cricket Players Not Get Salary For IPL



IPL was around the corner, but Corona virus Covid-19 has changed the scenarios. Entire India is on 21-day lockdown till 14th April. Entire world is disturbed with this Novel disease. Active cases in India has increased to 1466 out of which 133 are cured. There have been 38 deaths so far from this disease and 1 person has migrated.

Everything is shutdown except the essentials services (grocery, bank and medical services). Covid-19 has impacted the cricket industry. Matches are postponed or cancelled to stop spread of disease. IPL was also postponed but seeing the current situation which is showing increase in new cases day by day there are chances that IPL might be cancelled if things are not in control in some days.

Players might have to lose huge salaries if IPL gets cancelled. As per one of the senior officials of an IPL franchise, the system of IPL payment is players are payed 15% of the amount at the start of the tournament. 65% of the amount is paid during the tournament and rest 20 % is paid within the demanded time or when the tournament ends.

“The BCCI has specific guidelines. Obviously, no player will be paid as of now,” he added.
The Indian Cricketers’ Association – President Ashok Malhotra said that even domestic players may have to accept the pay cuts if there is huge lose of thousands of crores for association because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Currently BCCI might be looking at alternate window, but they have not come out with anything for now. As per another franchise official players are not insured for the salary for such pandemic cause. This might be another problem for players.

BCCI earns its money from the cricket itself and as the cricket is on halt for now then where will the money come from. As per Arun Dhumal, BCCI treasurer – There is not any discussion about pay cuts going now. IPL is BBCI’s biggest tournament but at this point it is very difficult for them to do any calculations around the losses now.

Situation is not right, hoping for the best but if the problem persists for long then both international and domestic players will be affected by this novel COVID-19 disease.
Right now, not only cricket industry but many other industries like Travel Tourism and Hospitality are affected majorly and Asia is majorly impacted.

Wednesday, February 19, 2020

India Will Play Day-Night Test During Anticipated Australia Tour


India will be playing Day-Night test in Australia for which formal announcement will be made soon. This happened when one month before Virat Kohli spoked about it that he and his team is ready to play day-night test matches anytime in Australia.

"We are absolutely up for the challenge and whether its Gabba, Perth doesn't matter to us. We do have the skillsets now to compete against anyone in the world anywhere in any format of the game," Kohli added.

As per Sourav Ganguly BCCI president also, team will play a day-night test in Australia. They will also play one day-night test against England at home next February and day-night test will be regular feature from now onwards.

Venue of the match is not yet been finalized. It is likely to be held in Perth or Adelaide of Australia. Indian team had played day-night test against Bangladesh last November. Team has won the match with plenty of spare time.

Team India has declined Australia’s offer to play day-night test in Adelaide 2018-19 because of lack of experience.

Now team is ready to play test match against Australia anywhere. As per Virat Australian team has is more stronger now and Indian team is ready to accept the challenge.
Official announcement is yet to be made but if agreed it will be fun to see both the teams playing day-night test matches.

Monday, January 27, 2020

Why Fantasy Cricket is Most Trending Sports in India

Cricket Is One Of The Most Loved Sports In India

India is full of cricket fans. Whenever there is cricket match you will see people watching cricket with their friends and family. People celebrate cricket in India. Also, you will see group of youth practicing and playing cricket at every nook and corner. Indian cricketers are there inspiration they want to be like them.
Not only this, people love having discussions around cricket and cricket players. They also love to discuss their instincts about any particular match on how which player will perform that day.


Fantasy Cricket Allows You to Showcase Your Talent Towards Cricket

Fantasy cricket gives you a platform where you can showcase your cricket knowledge and skills in forming a good virtual cricket team online. In fantasy cricket you are the manager of your team. You have to participate in any running contest and choose right players to form a good team. You get scores based on your players performance. If your team performs well, you stand out among all other teams.

You have to use your cricket knowledge and skills here. Before forming the team, you have to take care of few things mentioned below – 

  •  Understand player performance
  • Understand the pitch
  • Make sure your players are playing on that day
  • Select top order batsmen
  • Choosing the captain and vice-captain
  • Read match predictions before forming the team


You Can Win Real Cash from Fantasy Cricket

People play fantasy cricket for real cash also. If you form a good team of real cricket players and your team scores high you win real cash prizes or rewards. This makes the game more thrilling and exciting.

Tuesday, January 21, 2020

India Tour of New Zealand - Things To Know

New Zealand will host India for 5 T20I matches, 3 ODI matches and 2 test matches. India tour of New Zealand will start from 24th Jan 2020 and end on 4th March 2020.

New Zealand is ready to welcome Indian team. As per them, Indian team is top cricket team, but conditions are different, and they are ready for the match. This match will be very important for Indian team for ICC World Championship.

Pitch & Whether - Cricket expert Sachin Tendulkar have given tips to Indian cricket team. He has told pitches of New Zealand has change with time. When he played for the first time on New Zealand pitch that time pitch was such where fast balls would help. Last time when he played on the pitch, it has changed and it was easier for players to take runs. As per him Indian cricket team is capable of dealing with the pitch.

Whether conditions is expected to be the same and there are no chances of rain. New pitch will slight moist but overall manageable.

Players Injuries - Sikhar Dhawan injured his left shoulder on Sunday (19 Jan) while fielding during 3rd ODI match against Australia in Bengaluru. Ishant Sharma has undergone ankle injury while he was bowling against Vidarbha on Monday (20 Jan) during Ranji series match. As per MRI reports he is facing 3-degree ankle injury and advised rest of six weeks by doctor.

Before the news of Sikhar Dhawan and Ishant Sharma’s injuries, Indian team was already concerned for absence of Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Hardik Pandya and Prithvi Shaw.

The All-India Senior Selection Committee on Tuesday announced Indian ODI squad for upcoming New India Tour of New Zealand matches. Shikhar Dhawan due to his injury has been ruled out of the limited-overs series against New Zealand. Prithvi Shaw will replace Dhawan for ODI series and Sanju Samson has been named for T20I squad.


Squads Details

India T20I Squad – 

Batsmen - Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma, Shreyas Iyer, Manish Pandey

All Rounder – Washington Sundar, Shivam Dube, Ravindra Jadeja

Wicket Keeper – Lokesh Rahul, Rishabh Pant, Sanju Samson

Bowler – Kuldeep Yadav, Yuzvendra Chahal, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Shami, Navdeep Saini, Shardul Thakur

India ODI Squad –

Batsmen - Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma, Shreyas Iyer, Manish Pandey, Prithvi Shaw

All Rounder – Shivam Dube, Ravindra Jadeja, Kedar Jadhav

Wicket Keeper – Lokesh Rahul, Rishabh Pant

Bowler – Kuldeep Yadav, Yuzvendra Chahal, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Shami, Navdeep Saini, Shardul Thakur

New Zealand T20I Squad –

Batsmen – Kane Williamson, Martin Guptil, Ross Taylor

All Rounder – Scott Kuggeleijn, Colin Munro, Colin de Grandhomme, Tom Bruce, Daryl Mitchell, Mitchell Santner

Wicket Keeper – Tim Seifert

Bowler – Hamish Bennett, Ish Sodhi, Tim Southee, Blair Tickner

Thursday, December 12, 2019

All You Need To Know About Ranji Trophy Series


Introduction

Ranji Trophy is domestic cricket tournament played in India between multiple teams both regional and state wise. Series is known after cricket Ranjitsinhji who was the first Indian cricketer who played international cricket.

First match competition was held in 1934 between Madras and Mysore in Madras. Currently 38 teams are participating both state wise and region wise. There are more 14 teams which was part of ranji trophy but no longer exists now.

Ranji Trophy Teams

Teams are divided into four groups, Elite Group A, Elite Group B, Elite Group C and Plate Group. So, group A and B are top tier groups with 9 teams and then comes group c with 10 teams and finally plate group is low tier group with again 10 teams.

Format of Ranji Trophy

Ranji trophy follows Round-robin and Knockout format. Round-robin format is where players have rounds of matches to play against each other. Knockout format is where the winners of 2 teams paly against each other to enter the semifinals. Round-robin format matches are for 4 days and Knockout format matches are for 5 days.

Winners

Mumbai team has won most of the matches (41 times) back to back matches from year 1958-59 to 1972-73. Apart from Mumbai team Karnataka/ Mysore team have also won for 8 times. Delhi team won for 7 times. Baroda team won for 5 times and Madhya Pradesh/ Holkar team won for 4 times. Rest of the teams have won for twice, once or none.

Ranji Series Date

There will be 9 rounds of matches and then quarter finals, semi finals and finals.

Ranji Trophy Series 2019-20 has just started from 9 Dec 2019 and will be held till 13 March 2020.

Round 1 of match will be held from 9 Dec 2019 to 12 Dec 2019.
Round 2 of match will be held from 17 Dec 2019 to 20 Dec 2019.
Round 3 of match will be held from 25 Dec 2019 to 28 Dec 2019.
Round 4 of match will be held from 3 Jan 2020 to 6 Jan 2020.
Round 5 of match will be held from 11 Jan 2020 to 14 Jan 2020.
Round 6 of match will be held from 19 Jan 2020 to 22 Jan 2020.
Round 7 of match will be held from 27 Jan 2020 to 30 Jan 2020.
Round 8 of match will be held from 4 Feb 2020 to 7 Feb 2020.
Round 9 of match will be held from 12 Feb 2020 to 15 Feb 2020.

Quarter Finals from 20 Feb 2020 to 24 Feb 2020.

Semi Finals from 29 Feb 2020 to 4 March 2020.

Finals from 9 March 2020 to 13 March 2020.

For more details about the schedule and squads here –

Tuesday, March 26, 2019

Ashwin’s Controversy For Mankading Buttler


IPL fever is on. We are done with the three matches so far. Chennai Super King (CSK) vs Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) was the first match where CSK won against RCB by seven wickets. In second match Kolkata Knight Riders won the match against Sunrisers Hyderabad by 6 wickets. Match was interesting, Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) was moving towards the win but Andre Russell and Nitish Rana of (KKR) turned the game on their side and Kolkata Knight Riders won the match by 6 wickets. Third match was between Kings XI Punjab (KXIP) and Rajasthan Royals (RR). In yesterday’s match (25th March 2019), Kings XI Punjab (KXIP) was the winner against Rajasthan Royals (RR) by 14 runs but the match was in controversy for the captain R Ashwin mankading Jos Buttler.

R Ashwin has been facing criticism for mankading Buttler, without giving him a warning. Let see what happens in mankading. In mankading the batsman at non striker’s end is run out when he leaves the crease before the ball is released from the bowler’s hand.

Many cricketers have shared their views for Ashwin’s this act. According to some cricketers Ashwin should have warned Buttler before mankading. While some other cricketers were supporting Ashwin as it was within the law of cricket. Jos Buttler was going strong at 69 off 43 balls and this happen. Ashwin has defended himself saying what he did was within the cricket laws. It was not planned. He said he didn’t load, he was not even at the crease and buttler left the crease. Buttler was not even looking at him.

As per one of the senior BCCI official, what Ashwin did was not wrong and is permissible within the rules of the game. As far as Shane Warne is concerned, he is brand ambassador of Rajasthan Royals (RR) and not a neutral observer.

Monday, March 18, 2019

Upcoming Cricket Matches of India 2019 IPL / ICC World Cup Schedule


Test cricket was played since 1877. It is traditional form of cricket played for 5 days with 2 innings each. Test matches are best format of cricket as it shows the capability of team and players based on their performance of playing for longer period.

ODIs (One Day Internationals) started in 1971 and became popular from 1980’s onwards. This format has 1 inning matches of 50 overs on each side.

Twenty20 are the shortest and fastest format of cricket with 20 overs per side. This format is played with huge hitting, good bowling skills and good fielding. Matches of this format usually takes 3 hours to get completed hence it is shortest format of cricket.

Upcoming Cricket Matches of India:

IPL Twenty20 (T20) –
It will start from 23rd March 2019 with Chennai Super King vs Royal Challengers Bangalore. First day match will start from 8 pm onwards. Details for matches from 23rd March to 5th April are revealed for now but the complete schedule for all the IPL matches is yet to be released by BCCI. There is a delay due to general elections which might clash with the cricket tournament. Entire tournament schedule is expected to be announced by EOD today (18 March).

Below are the details for IPL matches from 23rd March 2019 to 5th April 2019:

Date – 23rd March 2019
Match Chennai Super King vs Royal Challengers Bangalore
Starting Time – 8 pm

Date – 24th March 2019
Match – Kolkata Knight Riders vs Sunrisers
Starting Time – 4 pm
Match – Mumbai Indians vs Delhi Capitals
Starting Time – 8 pm

Date – 25th March 2019
Match – Rajasthan Royals vs Kings XI Punjab
Starting Time – 8 pm

Date – 25th March 2019
Match – Rajasthan Royals vs Kings XI Punjab
Starting Time – 8 pm

Date – 26th March 2019
Match – Delhi Capitals vs Chennai Super Kings
Starting Time – 8 pm

Date – 27th March 2019
Match – Kolkata Knight Riders vs Kings XI
Starting Time – 8 pm

Date – 28th March 2019
Match – Royal Challengers vs Mumbai Indians
Starting Time – 8 pm

Date – 29th March 2019
Match – Sunrisers vs Rajasthan Royals
Starting Time – 8 pm

Date – 30th March 2019
Match – Kings XI vs Mumbai Indians
Starting Time – 4 pm
Match – Delhi Capitals vs Kolkata Knight Riders
Starting Time – 8 pm

Date – 31st March 2019
Match – Sunrisers Hyderabad vs Royal Challengers
Starting Time – 4 pm
Match – Super Kings vs Rajasthan Royals
Starting Time – 8 pm

Date – 1st April 2019
Match – Kings XI vs Delhi Capitals
Starting Time – 8 pm

Date – 2nd April 2019
Match – Rajasthan Royals vs Royal Challengers
Starting Time – 8 pm

Date – 3rd April 2019
Match – Mumbai Indians vs Chennai Super Kings
Starting Time – 8 pm

Date – 4th April 2019
Match – Delhi Capitals vs Sunrisers Hyderabad
Starting Time – 8 pm

Date – 5th April 2019
Match – Royal Challengers vs Kolkata Knight Riders
Starting Time – 8 pm

ICC Cricket World Cup 2019 (ODI Matches) - It will start from 30th May to 14th Jul 2019 with 48 ODIs. Below is the schedule for matches of India. Match Timings 3 pm (09:30 AM GMT / 10:30 AM LOCAL)

Date – 5th Jun 2019
Match - South Africa vs India

Date – 9th Jun 2019
Match – India vs Australia

Date – 13th Jun 2019
Match – India vs New Zealand

Date – 16th Jun 2019
Match – India vs Pakistan

Date – 22nd Jun 2019
Match – India vs Afghanistan

Date – 27th Jun 2019
Match – West Indies vs India

Date – 30th Jun 2019
Match – England vs India

Date – 2nd Jul 2019
Match – Bangladesh vs India

Date – 6th Jul 2019
Match – Sri Lanka vs India