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 Pakistan Announced T20 world Cup Squad For 2022. Pakistan cricket selectors unveiled their squad for the Men's T20 World Cup in Australia, which will be held from 16 October to 13 November. Pakistan has won the title in 2009, reached the final in 2007 and featured in the 2010, 2012 and 2021 semifinals. Shan Masood First Call in T20 World Cup: Shan Masood , a top-order batter, is one of the players of the 15-player World Cup squad. He will be playing for the first time in a shorter format. He also plays along with fast bowlers Mohammad Wasim Junior and Shaheen Shah Afridi. Wasim Junior, who has recovered from the injury he suffered in the T20 Asia Cup, will be joining the team for the World T20. Shaheen, who is currently recuperating from a knee injury and is scheduled to resume bowling in October, will join the squad in Brisbane on 15 October. Pakistani Chief Selector Mohammad Wasim Said: We have developed a team who will perform well at the upcoming ICC Men's T20 World Cup ...

  Aaron Finch, Poor Performance Reason To Retired In ODI Cricket , In his last ten ODI innings, he has only managed to score one half-century. This has led to many cricketing fans  alike to question whether or not he should be retired from the ODI team. Who is Aaron Finch? Aaron Finch is an Australian cricketer who has represented his country in every Format Test Matches One Day Internationals (ODI) and Twenty20 Internationals (T20I). He is currently the captain of the Australian T20I team. However, his recent form in ODIs has been poor, and many are now calling for him to be retired from the format. Finch made his ODI debut back in 2013, and was immediately seen as a key player for Australia. He has scored over 5,000 runs in the format, at an average of  40. However, his form has dipped sharply in the last year or so. In 2019, he averaged good  51.9 with the bat, and this year he has only managed to score 1 half-century in 11 innings. This poor form has led to cal...

  Virat kholi Will Be Able To Maintain His Asia Cup Form Virat kholi Will Be Able To Maintain His Asia Cup Form into Australia and South Africa Series. Australia Tour of India starts in a week time and Virat Kohli will be the key for the team's success. The right-handed batsman is in excellent form, having just good performance given in Asia Cup. Virat Kholi performance in Asia cup: Virat Kohli's performance in the Asia Cup was phenomenal, and it's safe to say that he'll be able to maintain that form going into the Australia and South Africa series. He was the 2nd highest run-scorer in the tournament, scoring 276 runs in just Five matches. His batting average was astonishing, sitting at 92.00. Not only did he score runs, but he scored them quickly, with a strike rate of almost 147.59. He also hit one century and Two half-centuries in Asia Cup. Kohli's performance in the Asia Cup was a joy to watch, and it's great to see him carrying that form into the Austral...

Team India's star batter Virat Kohli ended the wait for an international century, reaching the three-figure mark against Afghanistan in the Asia Cup Super 4 match in Dubai.  Kohli reached his hundred in 53 balls, continuing on his impressive run of form since his return to Team India in the continental tournament. Before the century knock, Kohli had scored two fifties in the Asia Cup. Kohli's last century in international cricket came in November 2019 against Bangladesh; last month, the batter had endured a thousand days without a ton.  The century against Afghanistan was Kohli's 71st international hundred, as he equalled Australia's batting great Ricky Ponting. Only Sachin Tendulkar (100 international centuries) stays ahead of the former India captain now. In the game against Afghanistan , Kohli opened the innings alongside stand-in skipper KL Rahul as Rohit Sharma was given rest in the game.  This was the first time Kohli came as an opener in T20Is since March 2021...

 Pakistan survived a scare and held their nerves to beat Afghanistan by one wicket in a thrilling Super Four match to reach the final of the Asia Cup 2022 and knock India out of the tournament at the Sharjah Cricket Stadium, here on Wednesday. The pressure was on the 19-year old Naseem Shah as the teenager needed at least two boundaries to help Pakistan win the game.  He took on the challenge and whacked the first delivery of the over which was a full toss outside the off stump over the long on boundary for a six to bring back joy and optimism on the Pakistan dugout. With the shot, he reduced the equation to five runs off the last five deliveries. This victory for Pakistan has closed the doors for both Afghanistan and India to qualify for the final. Having won two games in the Super 4s stage by defeating India and Afghanistan. Pakistan have advanced to the final and will face Sri Lanka in the final. However before the summit clash, both the teams will meet for the final m...

For the first time in 17 years, England are set to visit Pakistan to play a bumper seven-match T20I series in September-October 2022. Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) announced the fixture list for the series 2 August. The series begins on 20 September in Karachi, where the two sides will play the first four games before the action heads to Lahore for the last three T20Is.  The England cricket team are scheduled to tour Pakistan from September to December 2022 to play three Test matches and seven Twenty20 International (T20I) matches. The Test matches will form part of the 2021–2023 ICC World Test Championship. In November 2021, Tom Harrison, the Chief Executive of the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB), flew to Pakistan to repair the relationship between the ECB and the PCB after England's planned tour to Pakistan in October 2021 was cancelled. After positive talks, the original tour itinerary of five T20I matches was increased to seven.  The T20Is are scheduled to be play...

  The Australia tour of India 2022 will begin just after India gets done with its Asia Cup campaign. Australia is one of the most difficult teams to beat in world cricket. Even if the Australian team is weak at times on paper, the “Kangaroos” show immense character and passion on the field. They have a never say die attitude. Australia has announced its squad for this series. India is yet to announce the same.  The Indian team will be coming from a very long Asia Cup campaign. If we consider that India plays the final in Asia Cup 2022, then it becomes more difficult for them to recover and rejuvenate in time. The bowlers will be high on confidence if Harshal Patel or Jasprit Bumrah joins the squad back. The batting department needs to get KL Rahul back in form as he is a key cog in India’s success at the ICC T20 World Cup. The Australian Squad is as follows:  Aaron Finch (C) Pat Cummins (VC),  Ashton Agar, Tim David, Josh Hazlewood, Josh Inglis, Mitchell Marsh, Glen...

 On Tuesday, Cricket South Africa named their squad for the upcoming ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2022 that is going to take place in Australia. Rassie van der Dussen is still struggling with his finger injury and keeping in mind, South Africa management has not included him in the T20 World Cup squad. On the other end, Temba Bavuma has recuperated completely from the elbow injury and is ready to lead the Proteas in a second World Cup in a row. CSA Convenor of Selectors Victor Mpitsang said, “This has been a really tough squad to select, simply because we had so many players in excellent form over the past few months and performing at a level that made the selectors sit up and notice them. As for the squad for three-match ODI series against India, the only addition is Janneman Malan . The series against India will start on September 28 with T20Is. All 15 players are capped, with 22-year-old Tristan Stubbs receiving his maiden World Cup call up following an impressive outing in the re...

Alex Hales has made a dramatic return to the England fold having been selected for the T20 World Cup as a replacement for the injured Jonny Bairstow.  The 33-year-old has not featured for his country since a failed recreational drugs test in the summer of the 2019 World Cup led to his banishment from the squad. During his subsequent exile, a “breakdown in trust” was often cited by the captain, Eoin Morgan. But events have now conspired to bring a fresh opening, through Morgan’s retirement in April and the passing the leadership baton to Jos Buttler, Jason Roy’s slump of form and the freak broken leg suffered by Bairstow playing golf last week. Hales has remained among the premium batters on the global T20 circuit and with Rob Key stressing he had “served his time” upon being appointed director of England cricket in April, and a place at the T20 World Cup in Australia this October is now his. Though Key put Hales’ initial omission solely down to cricketing reasons – Bairstow was ...

Roelof van der Merwe and Colin Ackermann were notable additions to the Netherlands squad that took on New Zealand at home in the recent T20I series. Scott Edwards will lead the side that has a strong pace attack with Brandon Glover, Timm van der Gugten, Logan van Beek and Paul van Meekeren. Ackermann is also a capable all-rounder who can bowl medium pace. “We have assembled a well balanced squad with an exciting blend of youth and experience for the upcoming T20 World Cup," head coach Ryan Cook said. The experience playing in the Super League will stand the team in good stead and good confidence can be taken from these performances. "We will look to continue the progression that was evident through the summer into the tournament and have some quality preparation planned prior to the event which will help the readiness for the group in both skills and cohesion.” Netherlands had made it to the T20 World Cup in Australia through the T20 World Cup Qualifier in Bulawayo. While the...

  Successive defeats by Pakistan and Sri Lanka have left India on the brink of exiting the Asia Cup but captain Rohit Sharma is not concerned about their form ahead of next month's T20 World Cup. Sri Lanka defeated defending champions India by six wickets with a ball to spare in a Super Four match on Tuesday at the continental T20 tournament, which is being held in the United Arab Emirates. Rohit's team also lost to arch-rivals Pakistan in their first Super Four match,, and India's hopes of making Sunday's final depend on other results going in their favour. Since winning the 50-overs World Cup at home in 2011 and the ICC Champions Trophy two years later, India have failed to win a global event.