ICC monitoring situation in Bangladesh ahead of Women’s T20 World Cup: Report
Amidst ongoing violence in Bangladesh, where people have been killed and protests happening on the streets
Amidst ongoing violence in Bangladesh, where people have been killed and protests happening on the streets
With the Women’s Twenty20 World Cup, still three months away, a member of the ICC board said that the global cricketing body is keeping a close eye on the developments in Bangladesh.
The World Cup in the USA, particularly in New York, was a major project of the ICC and the two officials were closely involved in it. This is likely in relation with the scrutiny of the matches hosted at the Nassau County International Cricket Stadium in New York.
The Indian team will not travel to Pakistan for the ICC Champions Trophy 2025 and will ask the International Cricket Council to hold its matches in Sri Lanka or Dubai, a BCCI source told ANI.
Team India's T20 World Cup-winning skipper Rohit Sharma celebrated his team's triumph by breaking into a dance after receiving a warm welcome from fans at Delhi airport on Wednesday.
The Rohit Sharma-led outfit handed a seven-run defeat to the Proteas to claim their second T20 World Cup title, and ended India’s 11-year title drought.
The recently concluded cricket World Cup, which India won, had so-called experts commenting on the indirect favouritism the ICC (International Cricket Council) had shown to India throughout the tournament. There were claims that scheduling was done to suit the Indian viewer, thereby enhancing revenue for the ICC.
A day after India and Ireland played their group game on an extremely difficult wicket, the ICC said, "the pitches used so far at the Nassau County International Cricket Stadium have not played as consistently as we would have all wanted.”
On paper, Sunday’s India-Pakistan clash doesn’t hold much importance considering the fact that the opponents in the next round are allocated on pre-tournament seeding and thus it is not that important to top this group. The losing team should win its other matches comfortably to advance to the next round.
Oman's fightback in the death overs went in vain as David Wiese's heroic efforts both with bat and ball in the Super Over helped Namibia start their T20 World Cup campaign with a win in low-scoring enthralling match here at the Kensington Oval on Sunday (local time).
