With cricket being one of the most popular sports out there, there’s a constant stream of new information to keep up with, which can be quite hard sometimes. So here’s a non-exhaustive list of everything that happened in the cricketing world in the past few days:
- New Zealand bowled out against England at 358 with a lead of 85 runs during the 1st innings.
- Kiwi cricketers Devon Conway and Will Young score half dentures on Friday at the beginning of test day three.
- The Indian women’s cricket team is set to reach Bristol two days ahead of their one-off test match against England. They’re currently located in Southampton, where the women’s test is going to start on the 18th of June.
- Shakib Al Hasan, the captain of the Mohammedan Sporting Club has been for four matches following his on-field disruptive disagreement with the referee, during which he kicked and threw his tumps down.
- Chris Woakes, the all-rounder from Warwickshire, returns to England’s twenty20 squad after six years while Ben Stokes and Jofra Archer remain off-field because of injuries.
- West Indies all-rounder Andre Russell taken to a hospital after sustaining an injury to the head: during a match against Islamabad United on Friday, the player took a hit to his head by a ball thrown by Musa khan, after which he went for his mandatory concussion check-up. Although he resumed playing, he was quickly dismissed soon after.
- Virender Sehwag, the former cricketer expressed his anticipation for a showdown between Trent Boult and Rohith Sharma at the WTC final.
- Aakash Chopra, the former cricketer expressed his displeasure at Rahul Tewata’s exclusion from the Indian cricket squad for the upcoming tour of Sri Lanka. He further stated that this was made worse by the fact that the Haryana all-rounder did not get to play during his previous game.
- Tamil Nadu’s cricketer R Sai Kishore has been selected as a net bowler for India’s upcoming tour of Sri Lanka along with Sandeep Warrier.
- Ruturaj Gaikwad, the first Pimpri-Chinchwad to be picked for the Indian cricket team, expresses gratitude to ms dhoni for being his guide: the cricketer stated that ms dhoni “helped him not just in cricket but also in life.” Furthermore, he narrated how MS Dhoni helped him calm his nerves at the start of IPL 2020.
- Rishabh Pant starts off the Uk tour by scoring 121 runs off of 94 balls in the intra-squad fixture.
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