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The year 2023 has been quite special for the Indian women cricketers and their fans as the Board of Control for Cricket in India conducted the inaugural edition of the Women’s Premier League which has brought a revolution in the women’s cricket world and it will surely play an important role in the growth of the Indian women cricket. The Indian women cricketers are already quite popular among the cricket fans all over the world and they know how to deal with the pressure in different situations but still there are times when they also need to be counseled and motivated. For this purpose, the team management usually appoints professional motivators/coaches or former cricketers but there have been couple of instances when the team management has appointed non-cricketers as mentors for guiding the teams and one such instance took place in the recently concluded WPL. Let us tell you about two such instances when non-cricketers have been appointed for the role of mentors in the IPL and th...

The IPL 2023 is all set to start from today (31 March 2023) with the defending champions Gujarat Titans and four times champions Chennai Super Kings clashing against each other in the tournament opener. The match will be played at Narendra Modi Stadium, Ahmedabad; while Hardik Pandya-led GT won the trophy last time which was their debut season, MS Dhoni-led CSK had a poor season last time and both the teams will definitely like to start their season on a winning note. There are 10 teams in the IPL but only four teams haven’t won the IPL title even once – Delhi Capitals (earlier Delhi Daredevils), Lucknow Super Giants, Punjab Kings (earlier Kings XI Punjab) and Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB). While LSG has debuted last year and has played only one season of the IPL, the other three teams have been associated with the tournament since the inaugural edition of 2008 and haven’t been able to lift the trophy even once. The chances of RCB attaining victory in the IPL 2023 look a littl...

A cricketer has a limited time period to play the game and he has to make the most out of it, once a cricketer crosses the age of 32-35 years, selectors stop considering him for selection in the team. While some cricketers keep on trying their luck by playing domestic cricket, there are few who choose to shift their focus on other jobs but all of them have to officially declare their retirement. Only 3 months have passed in 2023 and 6 cricketers have already taken retirement, here is the list of those 6 cricketers: 1. Joginder Sharma (Indian): Joginder Sharma represented the country for a brief period of time but he will always be remembered by the Indian cricket fans because it was on his bowling that Misbah-ul-Haq played a reverse scoop shot which was caught by S Sreesanth and India won the inaugural ICC T20 World Cup 2007. In addition, he played the IPL for Chennai Super Kings from the year 2008 till 2012 and he was also a part of two IPL titles winning CSK squad. Joginder Sharm...

The skipper of the Indian cricket team, Rohit Sharma is one of the most popular and loved cricketers of the present time and a lot is expected from him as he is going to lead the team in the WTC finals and the ICC ODI World Cup this year. Rohit Sharma will also be leading his IPL team Mumbai Indians in the IPL 2023 which is starting from 31 st March 2023 but some reports suggest that he won’t be playing each match in order to manage his workload as well as to safeguard himself from injuries. Rohit shares a good bond with the former Indian cricketer Pragyan Ojha and in a show, the latter talked about his experience with the former and also revealed some interesting and unknown facts about Hitman. Pragyan and Rohit also played together for the IPL team Deccan Chargers (now defunct) in the year 2008. Pragyan stated that he met Rohit for the first time in 2015 and everyone was calling Rohit a special player. As per Pragyan, Rohit was like a typical Mumbai guy who spoke less but was agg...

Rashid Khan, the Afghanistan cricketer is one of the best spinners of the world at present and recently he achieved a milestone which has made him stand apart from the other bowlers of the current times. Rashid Khan become the first captain of Afghanistan under whose leadership Afghanistan defeated Pakistan in a 3-match T20I series by 2-1 and in the third and the final match of the series, Rashid Khan bowled his 100 th consecutive delivery without being hit for a four in the T20 format. This is certainly a huge achievement considering the fact that in T20I cricket, the batters play very aggressively and they try to score as much as possible in fewer balls. As of now, Rashid Khan has bowled 106 deliveries without getting hit for a four and till date, no other bowler has been able to achieve this feat in international cricket. As of now, Rashid Khan has taken 129 wickets in 80 T20I matches which makes him the third highest wicket-taker and it also includes two fifers. Here is a vide...

Priyanka Chopra Jonas is still one of the most loved celebrities in India despite the fact that she has shifted her base to Hollywood and we haven’t seen her in any masala Hindi movie of-late. Recently, the Desi Girl of Bollywood gave an interview in which she talked about the reason because of which she left Bollywood. In American actor Dax Randall Shepard’s podcast “Armchair Expert”, she revealed as to why she started looking for work in Hollywood and stopped working in Bollywood. Priyanka Chopra stated that she was pushed into a corner in Bollywood, she was not getting casted, she was dissatisfied as she was not at all good in playing games. PeeCee further said that she got so tired of the politics that she decided to take a break. Priyanka Chopra Jonas first tried to make her career in music in USA and she did work with some big names such as Pitbull, will.i.am, Pharell Williams, etc. but her music career didn’t go as per the plans and she once again started acting. The state...

When it comes to making weird statements in the cricket community, the former Pakistani cricketers are way ahead than the cricketers of any other country and now another former Pakistani cricketer Hasan Raza has made one such statement which has left many in splits. Hasan Raza made his international debut in the year 1996 when he was just 14 years old which made him the youngest Pakistani cricketer to play for the country and the Pakistan Cricket Board selected him because of his superb performances in the under-19 cricket matches. Recently, Hasan Raza who is the owner of few cricket academies in Islamabad gave an interview in which he talked about the match-fixing scandal in which he was also named. He said that he was in a meeting where some people were talking about match-fixing and as he realized that something wrong was going on, he refused to take part in the tournament. He added that after six months when he was in Pakistan, the videos of him in the meeting got leaked. Hasan ...