Isa Guha, a former cricket star, now is a commentator for BBC TMS, has recently recalled the bad memory of celebrating the 2005 Ashes championship with England.
Isa Guha, who is now 34 years old, is the first Asian female player to play for England cricket. She has just recounted the incident on The Howie Games and said this was actually a bad memory. This is such a secret that hardly anyone knows about it. The tournament happened in such an unbelievably difficult situation.
Meanwhile, in the same year, both the men’s and women’s cricket teams won the prestigious Ashes after their victory to the Australian team. A historic trophy for England’s cricket, both teams were honored by a parade, standing on an open bus.
In addition, both teams were also warmly welcomed by the Prime Minister at home at 10 Downing Street to celebrate.
Isa Guha recalls: “The celebration took place with tens of thousands of enthusiastic spectators welcoming in two sides of the road. It was like a rock concert, the streets of London were crowded with people and buses were running slowly. Meanwhile, with our athletes, everyone frantically celebrated on the bus and drank champagne continuously.
Then, the parade lasted more than an hour but still could not reach the destination. Some people, including me, have begun to show signs of wanting to go to the toilet.
Daniel James almost became cricket player before becoming football player
Daniel James is the first rookie of Man Utd this Summer. However, before taking part in the football world, James used to be a cricket player.
Recently, Man Utd completed their recruitment with the midfielder Daniel James from Swansea City which worths up to £ 18 million.
However, few people know, as a teenager, the midfielder once pursued the career of a cricket player. He played it during the age from 12 to 16. Only when James moved to Swansea did his cricket career come to a halt.
Matt Simpson, James’ teacher when he was 13, described him as a hard-working bee. His speed and skills has always been superior to his peers.
Kevan’s father just passed away last month at the age of 60 therefore his transfer to Old Trafford has been delayed. This has been bad news for the family of James, because his sister Hannah just got married this summer
Coming to Swansea was a major turning point in James’s career.
Last season, James scored 5 goals and contributed 10 assists for Swansea City in 38 matches.
At the age of 21, James has gained the opportunity to play for the first football team of Wales in the last EURO qualifier. Wearing Wales football uniform to a Yorkshire player like James is such a great pride. Playing for Man Utd, James receives an impressive salary of up to £ 67,000 / week. Currently, it is unlikely that James will continue his career at Old Trafford. As Solsa asserts: “This is the perfect environment for Daniel James to continue developing himself” and he needs to prove himself in the future.
Cricket in India are on its way of boycotting China after their border clashes
China’s funding for India’s biggest sporting event was threatened on June 19 after a border clash between the two countries.
The famous Indian cricket (IPL) organizators revealed that their leaders will arrange a meeting next week to look at sponsorship deals. For a long period, Chinese mobile phone maker Vivo has been the main sponsor of IPL when spending $ 330 million for their contract during the period between 2018 and 2022. However, recently in India, different protests has taken place to boycott Chinese companies after a clash between Indian and Chinese on the border on the Himalayas on June 15, according to AFP. The clash killed 20 Indian soldiers, and the Chinese army also suffered from casualties.
“After the border battlefield which resulted in the sacrifice of our brave soldiers, the IPL Board convened a meeting next week to look over various IPL funding deals,” IPL’s official Twitter account wrote.
IPL is the most popular tournament in India, which was not allowed to take part in this year because of the Covid-19 pandemic, but cricket leaders and players still hope to resume the tournament soon. According to AFP, anti-China spirit is risen quickly in India.
In the name of the China boycott, the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) also said they were ready to reconsider an agreement with Chinese sports equipment producing firm Li Ning.
Barbados is the top 01 cricket team which lays the foundation for the West Indies cricket
Despite the fact that this year, the West Indies regional four-day tournament has been suffer from being cut short, remains 2 rounds to be held due to the widespread of COVID-19 , Barbados, who were ranked top 1 after winning five out of the total seven games, have recently been announced to be the 2019/20 winners. It was their first time to gain the most prestigious tile of four-day tournament in six seasons. Guyana was the one and only team to win 5 previous titles. Henderson Broomes who is the chairman of selectors, expressed his opinion: “But we have a saying here in Barbados. We don’t rate our success by regional victory. We rate our success on how our international players go on the international stage.”
This statement seems to be total understandable to most cricket fans as when we take into consideration the fact that Barbados have been an indispensable part recently in numerous West Indies regional competitions, and they successfully made the victory come true on 23 succesive occasions. So which is the 2nd most successful team? It is the Jamaica which won 12 victories during the same period. This island really knows how to produce the best cricket players of all time who made the most impressive performances during different plays. There are some impressive worth mentioning are Sir Everton Weekes, Sir Clyde Walcott and Sir Frank Worrell, to Wes Hall and Sir Garry Sobers to Gordon Greenidge, Desmond Haynes, Malcolm Marshall and Joel Garner. An all-time Barbados XI would suffer from failure.
However, the traditional strength of Bajan cricket soon disappeared just after a short period. They won the one and only regional title in thirteen years after becoming the winner as nowadays.
Jermaine Blackwood – deserved to be the new legend of the cricket world?
Coming from Jamaica, Blackwood is now a 28-year-old middle-order batsman. Blackwood is a talent-endowed stroke maker who has played more than 100 first-class games throughout his career.
He was the top of players who scored most goals during the 2013-14 domestic first-class season in West Indies. In addition, Blackwood succeeded in gaining 63 scores for his Test debut taking place in June 2014, during the home Test series in competition with New Zealand team.
During the regular tour of playing for Zimbabwe in October 2017, he scored nine fifties and a hundred (against England, in 2015) but not long time after fell off the radar. He quickly scored 15 runs for his last five innings in the play and then was dropped by the side.
Impressive and outstanding performances in the domestic first-class system helped Blackwood to stand the chance of staying within close distance with the West Indies first XI. However, he still caused a shock to the whole cricket community as a concussion substitute against India in 2019, he did not succeed in making the team until the first Test against England in Southampton.
How did Blackwood make the cut for the first Test?
Before the whole 2020 first-class season was heavily affected by the outbreak and widespread of the pandemic, during its eight matches being held under normal condition, right-handed batsman Blackwood was the most successful scorer when he succeeded in pummelling 768 runs in 15 innings for Jamaica, which included a double hundred against Leeward Islands in the tournament’s last match.
Roger Harper who is the chairman of selectors in West India, expressed his opinion ahead of the tour that Blackwood marked a return to the side “on the sheer weight” of his first-class performances. Harper had also praised Blackwood for his great patience and consistency in 2020. But Blackwood might not make his appearance throughout the whole series at all, if it had not been for the decision made by Shimron Hetmyer and Darren Bravo to not tour England.
Bairstow did not stand the chance of being highly rewarded, however, ‘doors not closed’
Jonny Bairstow did not make it happen to become part of England’s 13-man squad, however, all chances did not close on him to take part in the Test cricket. Chief selector Ed Smith confirmed that it is the most suitable choice for the 30-year-old to make his presence in the white-ball bio-bubble during this cricket season unlike any other cricket players.
Smith admitted that it was quite rare and not normal for any squads to pick their players during the outbreak of this pandemic. This is also the reason why a lot of first-class cricket players were absent from the list as they had to bear a lot of other things apart from just simply competing in their minds. “That also meant that there would be a greater reward for players who performed well in England’s 3-1 series victory in South Africa. Jos Buttler, who is the “man in possession” of the ‘keeping gloves and to whom England extend “full support, is also one of them.”
“No one doubts he’s a very good cricketer across formats for England. No doors are closed for Jonny,” Smith shared his viewpoint. He said that the organizers all know the ability as well as what they can do in Test cricket, as well as considered how talented he is in all forms of the game. It’s also the case that we are where we were. As the Covid-19 has been getting worse and caused a lot of cancellation for cricket world, Jos Buttler would the man in possession – still is the man in possession. They will continue giving their full support as England’s ‘keeper-batsman. Ben Foakes is now the deputy on the Sri Lanka tour.
Bairstow, who is a player of a 30-man cricket training group in Southampton, revealed to have his reb-ball stocks on display recently.
Pakistan cricket team prepare to fly to England without the presence of 10 Covid-positive players
It came as the worsrt news when there are 10 Pakistan cricket players were tested positive for Covid-19. They will not be on the list of players who will make flight to compete on Manchester on this Sunday. The other 18 players who were tested negative for the pandemic with the staff and assisstants team who were all tested carefully will be allowed on the flight and board the charter plane set up by the ECB. All of them were tested second times and all the results have been published by the PCB on Saturday.
The news was confirmed after the recent annoucement of ECB in a press, stated that members of the Pakistan travelling party being tested positive would “not be allowed to be on board with the advance group”. Though the annoucement did not clearly give detailed information, however, the word “advance group” were utilized, implied certain changes on the formation in comparison to the initiative one being unfolded on the 28th of June. May be these players will need to return 2 negative tests to be qualified enough for the flight.
This appears to be not suitable for the whole PCB if they decided to give permision to all 28 players in the squad to be on the same flight, after they were known to be considering dropping the requirement of two negative tests before the permission to depart for England was granted.
That would still be dangerous when there are 10 Pakistan players and one member of the support staff returning being infected to Covid-19 earlier this week, all of them did not have any clear systoms of the pandemic before hand. They were tested for a second time on Friday, and if the results turn out to be negative, they would have the chance to travel with the other 18 players iof the squad again. However, if the results remain unchanged, the PCB will back to the original schedule, which means those ten players will be tested for the third time on June 29, and make a commercial flight to England later on once they have provided two negative tests.
ROSTON CHASE: ”ALWAYS WANTED TO SCORE A CENTURY IN ENGLAND”
Still suffering from injury, however, Roston Chase will soon compete with Jofra Archer for the on-the-way 3 Test series between England and West Indies. It will not, by the way, be the first time that these 2 cricketers appeared to be the competitors of each other in England.
Five years ago, Chase and Archer both took part in a club cricket within the Sussex Premier League. Chase, at that time was playing for Cuckfield, had already succeeded in playing for the first-class cricket of Barbados and also a couple of months earlier had just earned two half-centuries for the West Indies Board President’s XI, defeated Michael Clarke’s Australia in a tour match in Antigua.
Archer, who is 3 years younger than Chase, at that time was playing for Middleton-on-Sea, still on it’s way to make his first-class debut for Sussex when they met for a one-day game in July 2015 at Middleton’s Sea Lane ground. “I do remember the game we played against Jofra,” Chase said. “He got five wickets, he got me out.”
Taking the new ball, Archer reduced Cuckfield, who had won the toss and decided to bat, to five for eight, an opening burst which included pinning Chase LBW first ball. After six overs, however, Archer pulled up injured. “Things became so much easier for us,” Chase said. “We ended up getting a big total and we ended up winning the game quite easily.
“I knew Jofra [already]. I did play against him in the league in Barbados. He was quite young though, playing for the Barbados youth combined schools team. He was always a good talent but he was not always that fast. He had some pace but he wasn’t as rapid as he is now.”
Chase scored four half-centuries in 14 matches for Cuckfield but only averaged in the mid-20s with the bat. Nevertheless, he credits his spell in Sussex with toughening him up.
THE DEVELOPMENT OF FEMALE CRICKET IN INDIA
- The first female cricket team made its first debut in an international tournament in 1975.
- In World Cup 2017 competing with England, they losted because of a trivial fault, however, it was still a remarkable achievement.
- The cricket council can pay higher salary for women. They will not have to face any disadvantages as long as cricket becomes the spotlight and centre of million people.
The worldwide recognition of cricket as an official sports has been something misterious. Cricket is a “fight” among tears, blood and sweats. Throughout some recent years, this sports has undergone a rapid development. 1970 is known as the year in which female cricket players firstly took part in. The event took place in India.
The detailed process of the development of cricket among women
It is a common knowledge that until now, in India, cricket is still a traditional sports in which males dominate. It is hardly for a female cricket team to be seen to win any important titles or gain achievement as they deserve. To inspire women to step out of their comfort zone, in 1973, The female cricket Council of India signed a contract and the cricket federal national championship has been held since then.
This is also the turning point in which women are entitled to play any types of sports as they like, cricket in particular. Taking the way that society is treating towards cricket for women during a recent few years, everything seems to be quite conservative. This has been the period when women are not expected to step out of their role model of a family, especially when playing such a sport like Cricket.
CRICKET: ICC UTILIZES NEW TECHNOLOGY FOR THE FEMALE WC CRICKET T20 TOURNAMENT
The “front foot no-ball” technology will be utilized for the very first time in an international cricket tournament in ICC Women’s T20 World Cup taking place in Australia at the end of this month, the International Cricket Council revealed that in the recent Tuesday. The decision to utilize this high technology was brought out after being taken into different trials successfully recently in both India and South India.
“The third referee will keep track of the before and after landing position of the ball and contact with the main referee” ICC shared their points in an announcement.”
“Other referees on the pitch have been constructed not to call any balls before the appearance of the third ball, even though they will take responsibility for all other types of balls on the pitch.” This technology has been experienced recently on at least 12 games, including 4717 balls being hit and other 13 balls not being (0,28%) hit but called. All the ball serves have been under thoughtful consideration, ICC claimed.
Geoff Allardice, the General Director of Cricket ICC revealed that: “Cricket has a really awesome track record in regarding of technology introduction to support all the decisions being made during all of our plays in the most accurate way and we believe that this technology will decrease the number of failures being made in the ICC World T20 World Cup. “There will be no goals which are considered to be difficult to us, and even though the rate of the ball serves without balls will be really low. Because we have taken this tech under many trials, especially during the ODI series between England and Pakistan in 2016, this tech has been under a lot of improvement and upgrading, allow us to publish and apply it at very economical cost.