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England tour of Netherlands has been postponed !

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  It would have been a great experience for Netherlands cricket team, which both the cricketing board were in excitement to get staged, is now cancelled. Yes, it is the tour of English Cricket Team to Holland for a 3 match One Day Series, which would be a part of ICC ODI Super League. It is reported to be the first fixture in the ODI Super League for Netherlands'. What had happened and why this had occurred ? For answers let us see in this blog. The Royal Dutch Cricket Association ( KNCB ) have announced that they are postponing this series from May 2021 to further a year, at the end of May 2022. This decision has been taken, in the verge of ongoing  COVID-19 Pandemic. Already the scheduled tour between Netherlands and Pakistan in 2020, have already got cancelled due to severe COVID situation and now this tour is postponed to 2022. This is also to said to a tour after 2004, where a full member nation comes to play cricket in Netherlands. In 2004, it was Videocon Series, where ...

2020/21 BBL's new Innovative Rules !

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As we knew that the 10th season of Big Bash league, which will be commencing from 10th of December month, Cricket Australia has added some new rules. These rules seems to be little different, and are those which we have used during our childhood days, especially in street cricket. Some might feel strange, while some might be happy with these newly proposed rules. But, before moving into the rules section, here I am gonna declare that, this year's Big Bash League will be reported in this blog along with New Zealand tours.  Cricket Australia, have today proposed three new rules. They are Power Surge, Bash Boost and X Factor Player. Let us first get into the first one, Power Surge What is Power play ? A power play in T20 cricket is known as the initial 6 overs, where only two fielders are kept outside the inner ring, whereas all other fielders will stay inside the inner ring. Now, Power Surge is a factor, where the initial power play has been reduced to four overs while the remaining ...

Australian cricket team named 18 member squad for Limited Overs Series against India

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With Indian Cricket team, announcing the list of cricketers who are going to be a part of this great International Series against Australia in Australia, few days ago, just now Australian cricket team have named their 18 member squad for limited overs cricket. So, the test cricket squad is yet to be announced, but in this squad there are quite few surprises for Cricket Fans, and also some analysis needed to be done. For the case of analysis, this blog is being written below. Australia's 18-member squad for Limited Overs Series against India - Aaron Finch , Sean Abbott, Ashton Agar , Cameron Green, Moises Henriques, Steve Smith , Marnus Labuschagne , Glenn Maxwell , David Warner , Pat Cummins , Mitchell Starc , Josh Hazlewood , Daniel Sams , Kane Richardson, Marcus Stoinis , Alex Carey , Mathew Wade and Adam Zampa . We have already seen in the tour of England, during which Maxwell, Adam Zampa, Mitchell Marsh, Mitchell Starc, shine as a glowing star, whereas most cricketers were on ...

England tour of South Africa - 2020/21 News

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There were lot of speculations that after the ongoing Indian Premier League, England cricket team will head towards South Africa for a limited overs series, with which many ruled out the possibility of staging this series as there were news that ICC is going to ban Cricket South Africa Team for South Africa's Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee ( SASCOC ) has looked into the internal affairs of South Africa's cricket board, which as per the rules of ICC, it is a violation . Besides that, right now, South African cricket board has officially confirmed the staging of this series, during Late November to Early December.  The schedule dates have been announced with England's touring party members were expected to be named in the upcoming days. All the matches are expected to be held at Cape Town and Paarl respectively. The timeline schedule is arranged below : 16th November, 2020 - English team departs from London to Cape Town 21st November, 2020 - 50 over intra squad pr...