Cricket Australia chairman Earl Eddings reportedly shot a letter to ICC’s Financial and Commercial Affairs Committee last week requesting that it should be granted rights to host the Men’s T20 World Cup in 2021 instead of 2022 citing financial interests. As per The...
Backed by the passionate home crowd & led by their fascist dictator Benito Mussolini, Italy won their first-ever World Cup defeating Czechoslovakia in the final. With this, they made it two title wins for hosts in two world cups with Uruguay winning it four years...
Former Pakistan pacer Shoaib Akhtar has hit out at the Cricket’s world governing body for “successfully finishing cricket” in the last decade. He made these comments during a conversation with Sanjay Manjrekar for ESPNcricinfo’s podcast. Akhtar was sharp in his...
Seeking to restart its cricket season after weeks of inactivity owing to the COVID-19 pandemic, the ECB recently announced that it would have in place bio-secure venues to host Pakistan and the West Indies later this summer. But batting great Dravid is not convinced...
Vittorio Pozzo cemented his legend as one of the greatest national team managers by guiding the Azzurri to a win over Hungary in 1938 final in Paris as Italy became the first country to repeat as champions. Let us have a look at what happened. France 1938 was not just...
World Cup football resumed after a forced break of 12 years. The host was Brazil & many fancied them as favorites to keep the trophy. But Uruguay shocked a record crowd at the Maracana in the decisive match in which the Samba boys only needed a draw. Let us have a...
The place was Switzerland, the stage was set & favorites were Ferenz Puskas’s Hungary. However the tournament sprung an unlikely winner with West Germany in the final. It was called as the Miracle of Bern. A nation that was divided, lost & in search of...
Australian legend Steve Waugh has hit back at his former team mate for calling him a ‘selfish cricketer’ recently. Earlier, one of the video compilers had made a video based on statistics published by ESPN of Waugh being involved in 104 run-out dismissals. Out of...
India’s cricket board (BCCI) will wait for more transparency on international travel constraints before initiating a call on the limited-overs tour of Sri Lanka in July, a top board official. Virat Kohli’s team are scheduled to play three one-dayers and...
Andy Murray has been tipped by Boris Becker to close the gap on tennis’ big three thanks to the coronavirus lockdown. Murray has not played since picking up an injury on Davis Cup duty for Britain towards the end of last year. But Becker argued tennis’ the enforced...
