Well, wouldn’t you like to be Eoin Morgan! A well-settled opening pair, a solid middle-order, an array of quality All Rounders, arguably the best ODI spinner in the world currently and more than handy crop of fast bowlers. The cherry on this cake – World Cup is in your backyard. The chocolate sauce on that cherry – the format calls for consistency, eliminates “flash-in-the-pan” advantage and allows for minor lapses.
The 12th ICC Cricket World Cup is here and it is the 5th time it is being held in England. Despite arguments that the new format is commercial in nature and doesn’t make the World Cup seem like a “Cup of World Teams”, I’d say that the single round-robin format promises to make the World Cup even more exciting.
The ‘World Cup of Champions’ is here, as the top 8 teams battle it out in England yet once again for what could be only be called another tournament. Apparently, the stakes are not as high as the ICC would like, but it is still a tournament. We bring you the complete round up of the 2017 edition.
One cannot put a price on these new batting maestros. A decade ago, it was Tendulkar, Dravid, Laxman and Ganguly who had become the talk of the town. Now, it is Smith, Kohli, Williamson and Root. Here is a deep statistical insight and what these players have already achieved so far in their relatively short career.
There is not bitter site than seeing a Fast Bowler go unappreciated for so long. Don’t get me wrong, he is regarded highly among English cricketing circles, but the world has failed to acknowledge his genius. Why?
What will be the eventual outcome of Day-Night Tests? Will it be a historic event in the timeline of cricket or will it forgotten in the sands of time? No one knows. No one can know. However, let’s see what makes it an interesting prospect nonetheless.
While the series hangs in balance, here is a humorous take on the current scenario in the series, the flops and the hits and whatnot!