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- July 28, 2020

WORLD SUPER LEAGUE · ICC has announced world super league for odi cricket…. A fter the World Test Championship, ICC has announced World Super League for ODI to make it more interesting as was the case with Test Cricket. On Monday ICC announced the Super League which would kick start in the upcoming England v/s Ireland ODI series. Originally it was supposed to start from May 2020 but due the corona virus pandemic it was delayed and now it would be underway. W orld Super League will be the main criteria for the qualification for 2023 Cricket World Cup which would be played in India. The total of 13 teams to compete in the League i.e. 12 full member nations with Netherland . The top 7 teams along with India [being the host nation] would attain direct qualification to the main round of 2023 Cricket World Cup, while the bottom five teams would have to compete in Cricket World Cup Qualifiers just before the main round along with associate teams for the

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- July 27, 2020

IPL ON ITS WAY…. · IPL to take place in uae which is going to kick start on 19 th September… A fter ICC decided to postpone the T 20 world cup which was supposed to take place down under later this year in October-November, League [IPL]. The emerging host to conduct this mega event is considered to be UAE. T here were sources of reports even before the the ICC’s announcement that conducting a mega event such as world cup with 16 teams was next to impossible in current crisis. With all the pieces falling into place there are no hindrance to conduct the IPL this year as the window opens up with no international assignments for the teams. L ast week, BCCI chairman Brijesh Patel confirmed that IPL Governing Council will meet in coming 7-10 days to discuss the road map to conduct IPL. He also confirmed that they have zeroed down UAE as the likely host to conduct IPL. BCCI has also written to Indian Government seeking permission to host the event in

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- June 14, 2020

BCCI LOOKING AT EVERY ASPECT TO MAKE IPL 2020 HAPPEN · BCCi president ganguly positive about ipl2020 I PL 2020 which was postponed indefinitely for the time being due Covid-19 pandemic, is suddenly making noises that’s due world’s richest cricketing board President Sourav Ganguly is positive about IPL 2020. He said that he is working on each and every scenario make this happen. T he reason why BCCI is not backing out of IPL 2020 because it involves a truck load of money involved in it i.e. 4000cr which BCCI can’t afford to lose, which in turn would be used to develop the facilities in Indian Cricket. I CC world T20 is scheduled to be held down under later this year, which is unlikely to go ahead as planned but it’s not official by ICC, they are working on plans to conduct the tournament as planned. BCCI is planning to use that window of ICC world T20 if its deferred for this year. BCCI cannot plan this for now as ICC is yet to decide fate of ICC world T20.

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- May 28, 2020

CRICKET AUSTRALIA ANNOUNCED THE DATES FOR INDIA TOUR · India to tour down under for a full-fledged tour C ricket Australia on Thursday [May 28 th 2020] announced the dates for the six-month home cricket summer. Cricket has been on standstill due Covid-19 pandemic but various cricket boards are putting their everything to get the players back on field, Cricket Australia has done the same as the Covid-19 has been successfully contained in Australia. The six-month home summer includes the most anticipated series of India. E arlier, their was doubts on the conduction of the India series, various scenarios were discussed to somehow conduct the series during the pandemic as it was to bring almost 300 million Australian dollars. A s, the Covid-19 spread has brought down wonderfully by Australia by imposing lockdown and then travel restrictions. This has made it possible to resume cricket in near future. India series is the talk of the town and official confirmation abo

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- May 26, 2020

CRICKET WON’T BE SAME POST COVID-19 · ICC has laid down some new rules to resume cricket N o Cricket has been played for more than 4 months due global pandemic Covid-19.Well, Cricket has to resume at some point of time, Bundesliga Football tournament has also been resumed during the period with special care and precautions, So, ICC has brought up some new rules to resume cricket. I nternational Cricket Committee held a meeting which was led by former Indian veteran spinner, Anil Kumble and the committee has decided that in order to resume cricket there has to be some new rules implemented for the safety concerns of the players. T he new rules are listed below: 1. Ban on using SALIVA to shine the ball, instead 2. SWEAT can be used to shine the ball 3. No HAND-SHAKES before and after the match 4. Umpires to wear HAND GLOVES 5. LOCAL umpires can be used due travel restrictions 6. Each team will be given an EXTRA DRS per inning of

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- May 21, 2020

BCCI willing to send the team to Sri Lanka · BCCI Treasurer Arun dhumal has the answer O n 17 th May Indian Government has extended the lockdown for the fourth time in a row, calling it Lockdown 4.0, whereas India’s Prime Minister has said the Lockdown 4.0 will be totally new meaning a lot of relaxations to be given. W hereas on Monday 18 th May there were guidelines issued by the government of India and in context of cricket the local stadiums to be opened for the contracted players to resume training, providing that player is in Green zone. The players in red zone still can’t resume their training like in Mumbai, which is the hotspot for Covid-19. The Mumbai Cricket Association in its press release stated their will be no training arranged for players in Mumbai as the city is facing most devastating times ever. A ccording to MCA’s press release players like Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli and Ajinkya Rahane will not be able to resume their training and without an