Cricket Is Love

  Two best batsmen of the highest quality, two dominating characters, both in their own ways, two individuals who always want to win; a lot of similarities between the two modern greats. But there is one thing which separates them, there IPL's captaincy records. Rohit Sharma has won 4 IPL titles as a skipper for his team whereas Virat Kohli has only been able to take his team to the finals once. What separates Rohit Sharma as a captain from Virat Kohli in the IPL? The thing which separates both of them as a skipper is the quality of players in their team. When Rohit Sharma started captaining Mumbai Indians, he got a lot of quality and experienced players in the form of Sachin Tendulkar, Harbhajan Singh, Lasith Malinga, Mitchell Johnson and all of them were in their supreme form too, who knew how to handle pressure and how to perform in different situations. Year after year Rohit Sharma got new stars in the form of Jasprit Bumrah, Krunal Pandya, Hardik Pandya, Mitchell McClenaghan a

It's official now that the IPL 2020 will start from 19th September 2020 and  the final will be played on 10th November 2020. There are a lot of stars players who will be back in action after a long period of time. There will be a lot of focus on star players like Mahendra Singh Dhoni, AB de Villiers, Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma, Jasprit Bumrah and a lot more players but there are a lot of youngsters too who can play a vital role in their team's successful journey. In this blog, I have picked 2 such youngsters from each IPL team who can do wonders for their team in this season. Kings XI Punjab   Nicholas Pooran Ravi Bishnoi Kolkata Knight Riders Prasidh Krishna Shubhman Gill Mumbai Indians Ishan Kishan Rahul Chahar Chennai Super Kings Deepak Chahar Lungi Ngidi Delhi Capitals Prithvi Shaw Rishabh Pant Royal Challengers Bangalore Navdeep Saini Isuru Udana Rajasthan Royals Mayank Markande Yashasvi Jaiswal Sunrisers Hyderabad Vijay Shankar Abhishek Sharma

Is test match cricket dying? Is popularity of test cricket declining? The answer is yes . Yes, the viewership of test cricket has gone down significantly. People now-a-days prefer to watch ODI Cricket or T20 cricket more than the test cricket. After all no one will keep everything aside and watch 6-7 hours of cricket daily for 5 days. Why is Test Cricket facing a decline? The biggest reason is that the white ball cricket has become a lot popular. The shorter formats contain a lot of entertainment, excitement, drama & even money when compared to test cricket. The pitches in test matches are either a lot bowling friendly or very flat which either results in a 3-4 day game or results in a draw which excludes excitement and thriller from the equation. Another such reason is the lack of contest between the players. The fiercer the battle between the players,  the more interesting the match turns out to watch. One more reason is that, a lot of players opt to play shorter formats as the

The ICC Cricket World Cup Super League is an ODI league which will be played among the 13 teams i.e. 12 full members of the ICC and the Netherlands, who won the 2015-17 ICC World Cricket league championship to qualify for this competition. This League is a part of 2023 World Cup qualification process and will take place from July 2020 to March 2022. Each team will play an ODI series of three matches against 8 of the 12 opponents, 4 series at home and 4 away. Points will be awarded as follows: Win - 10 points Tie, No Result, Match Abandoned - 5 points Loss - 0 points The top 7 teams and the hosts (India) will qualify automatically for the 2023 World Cup. The remaining 5 teams will play in a qualifying event with 5 associate teams from which the 2 teams will eventually play the final tournament. The ICC 2023 Cricket World Cup will be a round robin tournament and will be played among the 10 teams which will qualify as mentioned above.

Gautam Gambhir in a recent interview said, "Unlike Sourav Ganguly, MS Dhoni did not give enough quality players to India". He further added, "Barring Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma and Jasprit Bumrah, there aren't a lot of 'world-beaters' who evolved during MSD'S captaincy". I personally believe it is quite unfair to compare two of the best captains of India. One who started winning overseas when it was almost impossible for a team to even think about that whereas one has every trophy in his trophy cabinet. If we talk about the match winners given by both the captains, the list is very long. Sourav gave Virender Sehwag, Yuvraj Singh, Harbhajan Singh, Zaheer Khan, Ashish Nehra, Mohammad Kaif, Gautam Gambhir and MS Dhoni himself too to the Indian Cricket Team. But MSD almost gave the same number of match winners to Indian team as well. Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Shikhar Dhawan, Suresh Raina, Jasprit Bumrah, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Ravichandran Ashwin, Ra

If you have a batting average of 45+ in all the 3 formats and the current ICC ranking of no. 5 in Tests, no. 3 in ODIs and no. 1 in T-20Is, then you are definitely a great player. After all not everyone is so consistent in all the 3 formats and not everyone has these kind of numbers either! But should we compare him to the modern great? A young career of 26 tests, 74 ODIs and 38 T-20Is is still too small to be compared with a guy who has played 86 tests, 248 ODIs and 81 T-20Is with the better consistency. Virat has almost scored 4 times more runs and centuries than Babar Azam in tests and ODIs. Apart from these numbers, there are a lot of things that should be compared too. The number of games Virat has won for India are a lot more than Babar has won for Pakistan. The intensity, the dominance, the contribution in victories, the performances under pressure, the performances across the world & the performances in a run chase are a few more things where Virat is a lot ah