What can be a major blow to Team India, an in form Ishant&nbsp;Sharma&nbsp;may miss the 2nd Test vs New Zealand. If reports are to be believed, the ankle injury which the fast bowler suffered during a Ranji&nbsp;Trophy game in January has flared up again. Even though Ishant's&nbsp;injury was expected to take a longer time to heal but he cleared a fitness test&nbsp;at the National Cricket Academy in Bengaluru&nbsp;and was included in the playing XI for the Wellington Test.&nbsp;Ishant&nbsp;justified his selection with a 5-wicket haul. If he is ruled out of the Christchurch Test, Umesh&nbsp;Yadav&nbsp;is expected to replace him in the Playing XI.

What can be a major blow to Team India, an in form Ishant Sharma may miss the 2nd Test vs New Zealand. If reports are to be believed, the ankle injury which the fast bowler suffered during a Ranji Trophy game in January has flared up again. Even though Ishant's injury was expected to take a longer time to heal but he cleared a fitness test at the National Cricket Academy in Bengaluru and was included in the playing XI for the Wellington Test. Ishant justified his selection with a 5-wicket haul. If he is ruled out of the Christchurch Test, Umesh Yadav is expected to replace him in the Playing XI.

With Vivo&nbsp;pulling out as the title sponsor of IPL&nbsp;2020,&nbsp;BCCI&nbsp;may have found themselves in troubled waters but its president Sourav&nbsp;Ganguly&nbsp;isn't too worried. During a&nbsp;webinar on Saturday, Dada said that it's just a little bit of a blip and he wouldn't&nbsp;call it a financial crisis.&nbsp;BCCI&nbsp;has&nbsp;a very strong foundation as the players and the administrators in the past have made this game so strong that BCCI can handle all these blips. Ganguly&nbsp;added that just like any&nbsp;other sensible brand,&nbsp;the Indian board too&nbsp;has a plan B. After Vivo's&nbsp;exit, BCCI&nbsp;has been looking for a new title sponsor for this year's IPL&nbsp;but have failed to found one so far.

England will miss the services of their star all-rounder Ben Stokes for the remaining 2 Tests vs Pakistan as he has been rued out from the series due to family reasons.&nbsp;Stokes who will leave the UK later this week and will travel to his hometown in New Zealand, has requested all the media to respect his privacy&nbsp;at this time. Stokes stood out with his all-round show in the preceding&nbsp;Test series vs the Windies&nbsp;but failed to make an impact in the first Test vs Pakistan. The 2nd Test is scheduled to start from August 13 in Southampton.

Chennai Super Kings' pre-IPL&nbsp;camp in March may have ended mid-way due to Covid-19 but the franchise has managed to get permission from the Tamil Nadu state government to have a camp in the City from August 15. Few CSK&nbsp;players including skipper MS Dhoni, Suresh Raina, Harbhajan Singh, Ambati Rayudu&nbsp;and Piyush&nbsp;Chawla&nbsp;will fly to Chennai via chartered flights on August 14 and will resume practice&nbsp;at the&nbsp;MA Chidambaram Stadium the next day. Sources close to development told the Times of India that the players&nbsp;will not have to undergo a two-week quarantine period once they&nbsp;are in Chennai. They will be tested two days prior to entering the City&nbsp;and provided they are Covid-negative, they will be flown in. The source added that during their stay in the city, the players will be tested twice and will be flown to the UAE&nbsp;on August 21 only if they are found Covid-19 negative.

Had the Vivo-BCCI&nbsp;partnership been put on hold for any other season of the IPL, many brands would have started to que up at board's doorstep to fetch the title sponsorship rights, but it isn't the case this time around. BCCI&nbsp;had reportedly&nbsp;approached India&rsquo;s biggest telecom player Reliance Jio to bail them out during a pandemic situation but according to reports, that company is not interested in the IPL&nbsp;title partnership and is not in talks with BCCI for the same. The Indian board has also reached out to its existing partners PayTM, Byju&rsquo;s&nbsp;and some of the IPL associate partners,&nbsp;Tata Motors and Dream11 but reportedly none of them are too keen to make an offer. Vivo&nbsp;had signed a Rs. 440 crore&nbsp;per season deal with the BCCI&nbsp;and looks highly unlikely for anyone to match it this time around.

Pakistan may have&nbsp;dominated the Manchester Test from day 1, but one partnership was all that took England to take the game away from the visitors.In one of the most sensational comeback tales, the 3 Lions beat Pakistan by 3 wickets in the 1st Test to go 1-0 up in the 3-match series. Chasing 277 to win, the hosts lost half their side with just 117 runs on the board. Against the run of play,&nbsp;Jos&nbsp;Buttler redeemed&nbsp;himself with the bat and took the attack to the opposition with a gritty 75. But the star of the show was Chris Woakes&nbsp;whose unbeaten 84 took England over the finish line. Their 139-run 6th wicket stand helped England register their&nbsp;10th-highest successful run chase in Test history. It was also the first successful run chase at the Old Trafford since 2008.

BCCI&nbsp;has received an "in principle" government approval to take the IPL&nbsp;to the UAE&nbsp;and the franchises have started to quarantine their players. All the 8 teams will soon initiate Covid-19&nbsp;testing protocols for their players and support staff. While the Mumbai Indians has quarantined the Indian players at its base, some franchises&nbsp;are arranging Covid-19 tests for the players in their respective cities before heading for departure bases at Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and&nbsp;Bengaluru&nbsp;to fly to the&nbsp;UAE.&nbsp;A BCCI official told PTI that while two tests are mandatory, most franchises will have at least four tests done before leaving India. As instructed by the BCCI, all the franchises will be leaving India in chartered flights after August 20th.&nbsp;

West Indies all-rounder Fabian Allen has been ruled out of the upcoming edition of the Caribbean Premier League after missing his flight from Jamaica to Barbados. All the other players were flown to&nbsp;Trinidad via a charter flight and Allen was due to reach Barbados on an internal flight on August 3, which he missed after reaching the airport late.&nbsp;Allen's agent told&nbsp;ESPNcricinfo&nbsp;that they&nbsp;explored all possibilities but due to the pandemic and travel restrictions in Trinidad, the charter flight on Monday was the only way he could have entered the country. The incident proves how strict are the administrators during the pandemic times that if a player breaches the bio-secure environment, he will be left out of the tournament.&nbsp;

The International Cricket Council met via video conference on Friday and in a major announcement have decided to postpone the next Women's 50-over World Cup from February 2021 to 2022. The members also&nbsp;decided that the 2021 World T20 will happen in India, whereas the postponed 2020 edition will be hosted by Australia itself but in 2022. The World T20 was scheduled to take place Down Under from October but ICC decided to delay it due to Covid-19. Cricket's governing body also decided that India will remain the hosts of the 50-over World Cup in 2023.

The BCCI and the England and Wales Cricket Board on Friday decided to postpone England's limited-overs tour to India until&nbsp;early 2021. It was scheduled to be played from Late September to early October but due to the present Covid-19 situation in India, the 2 boards were left&nbsp;with no option but to cancel the tour. The BCCI&nbsp;and ECB are now in talks to arrange an all-format tour in January-March next year. BCCI&nbsp;secretary Jay Shah in a statement said that he was pleased with the way the two boards managed the situation.

Just a day after Suresh&nbsp;Raina&nbsp;said that MS Dhoni&nbsp;is pumped up to play the IPL&nbsp;in UAE, MSD&nbsp;has hit the ground running in order to prepare for the cash-rich league. The Chennai Super Kings skipper had net session at&nbsp;the&nbsp;Jharkhand State Cricket Association&nbsp;indoor facility. Since there aren't many bowlers available in Ranchi&nbsp;at the moment due to the pandemic,&nbsp;Dhoni&nbsp;is practicing with bowling machines for the time being.&nbsp;A JSCA&nbsp;office-bearer told the New Indian Express that Dhoni&nbsp;did batting practice for two days over the weekend, but has not returned since then. With CSK&nbsp;players expected to gather in Chennai on August 20, before flying to the UAE, Dhoni&nbsp;has a couple of weeks to get in shape as much as possible.&nbsp;

All 162 members of the&nbsp;Caribbean Premier League including players, officials and administrators have tested negative for Covid-19. They have arrived in Trinidad and Tobago and will now be kept in quarantine for 14 days&nbsp;in the official hotel. Accordance to the current protocols in Trinidad &amp; Tobago, if any member of the party is found to have contracted the virus they will be removed from the hotel and placed in further isolation. CPL starts from August 18 with 33 games to be played at 2 venues in Trinidad.&nbsp;

The iconic Melbourne Cricket Ground&nbsp;may have been host to the Boxing Day Test every year but it may not be the case this time around. Cricket Australia is considering to shift the iconic Test due to the rising number of Covid-19 cases in Melbourne.&nbsp;According to a report in the Sydney Morning Herald, Adelaide has emerged as a front runner to host this year's Boxing&nbsp;Day Test vs India scheduled to be played from December 26. The Aussie cricket board is expected to make a staggering 300 million Australian dollars from the Test series against India and&nbsp;their chairman Earl Eddings has called for an urgent meeting of the national cricket cabinet next week to discuss ways for smooth conduct of the series.&nbsp;

As the IPL&nbsp;teams prepare to go to the Middle East to play in the 13th edition of the tournament, Chennai Super Kings management has decided that their stars will travel without the families. According to a report in the Times of India, MS Dhoni's team will travel to set up a camp in Dubai without the families in the initial part of the tournament. The team will assemble in Chennai by 19th August and will depart for Dubai the next day on a chartered flight. In Dubai, the team plans to stay in a 5star hotel next to the iconic Burj&nbsp;Khalifa&nbsp;and has rented out a couple of floors with separate air condition ducts. BCCI's&nbsp;strict SOPs&nbsp;prevent the players from interacting with outsiders as they aim to hold a 3-week preparatory camp ahead of the start and not allowing family members was a conscious decision by the management.&nbsp;

A career-best innings from Shan&nbsp;Masood and a late surge by the bowlers put Pakistan in total control over England in the 1st Test in Manchester. Despite wickets falling around him,&nbsp;Shan&nbsp;Masood&nbsp;cracked his 3rd consecutive Test hundred and scored 156 in the 1st innings which helped Pakistan recover from a middle-order collapse to finish at a challenging 326. Stuart Broad and Jofra&nbsp;Archer picked up 3 wickets each for hosts England.&nbsp;In reply, Shaheen&nbsp;Afridi and Mohammad Abbas&nbsp;rattled the English top-order with some precision bowling as the hosts huffed and puffed to 92/4 at stumps on Day 2. England still trail by 234 runs with Ollie Pope going steady at 46 not out.&nbsp;

Just 2 days after Vivo&nbsp;decided to pull out as the head sponsor of&nbsp;IPL&nbsp;2020, BCCI&nbsp;has officially suspended its partnership with the Chinese mobile&nbsp;phone&nbsp;giant. Key BCCI office bearers including president Sourav Ganguly and secretary Jay Shah had a conference call with Vivo representatives along with IPL chairman Brijesh Patel and both parties decided to terminate the agreement.&nbsp;Vivo though will be back in 2021 and will continue till 2023 as they had paid Rs. 2199 crore for a 5-year contract in 2018. BCCI&nbsp;will now invite a new title sponsor for the the postponed 13th edition of the&nbsp;IPL&nbsp;which is due to start from September 19 in the UAE.

Though the BCCI&nbsp;has laid down strict measures for players, ground&nbsp;officials and staff members for a coronavirus-proof IPL&nbsp;in the UAE&nbsp;but Kings XI Punjab co-owner Ness&nbsp;Wadia&nbsp;feels that even a single case of Covid-19 could doom the IPL. He told PTI&nbsp;that the only thing they are concerned about is the safety of the players and all others involved. He once again reiterated his belief that the 13th edition of the cash-rich league will be the most-watched IPL ever and he would change his name if it's not. BCCI&nbsp;has already sent out the Standard Operating&nbsp;Procedures for the franchises to follow, which&nbsp;requires everyone involved in the league to be part of a bio-secure environment until the tournament concludes.

As Indian cricket fans eagerly wait to see MS Dhoni&nbsp;back in action once the IPL&nbsp;starts September&nbsp;19, Suresh Raina&nbsp;has doubled up the excitement. In an interview with the Hindustan Times,&nbsp;MSD's&nbsp;Chennai Super Kings teammate&nbsp;said that&nbsp;Dhoni&nbsp;is all pumped up and looking forward to going to UAE&nbsp;to entertain his fans. Raina&nbsp;added that&nbsp;MSD was practising really hard before the pandemic and hopefully, we will see his helicopter shot soon. Dhoni&nbsp;was training at the CSK&nbsp;camp for the 13th edition of the IPL&nbsp;but players had to go home as the camp had to be called-off due to the coronavirus&nbsp;pandemic.

Rain may have stopped cricket on the opening day of England's 1st Test vs Pakistan but it couldn't keep the players away from football. England cricketers made full use of the forced break and tried their hand, heads rather, at the header bin challenge. English cricketers though are banned from playing football but since this challenge required no tackles, it was given a green light.&nbsp;

Pakistan were believed to put up a lot tougher challenge for England as compared to the Windies&nbsp;and they proved it on the opening day of the 1st Test in Manchester. Opting to bat first, the visitors had a watchful start but were reduced to 43/2, which saw their skipper Azhar&nbsp;Ali being dismissed for a duck. The tide turned against England when Babar&nbsp;Azam&nbsp;walked in. Pakistan's most dependable batsman dropped anchor and remained unbeaten on 69. Opener&nbsp;Shan Masood&nbsp;may have had a strike rate of just over 30&nbsp;but he made sure to hold one end with 46 not out. The pair put together a 96-run stand before rain washed out the remaining day, with&nbsp;Pakistan ending it at 139/2.

The BCCI&nbsp;has released a strict set of rules and guidelines for the players and officials for the upcoming Indian Premier League which will be played in the UAE&nbsp;starting 19th September. Teams have been advised to stay in separate hotels, strict social distancing in dressing rooms and sharing the electronic team sheets have been some of the few directives issued by the BCCI. Once the players land in UAE, they won't be allowed to meet their teammates&nbsp;till they run 3 negative Covid-19 tests. All teams have been asked to appoint a doctor who will ensure the&nbsp;biosecure bubble is maintained which is advised for the stay, transport and match venues. Moreover, the players have been advised to keep interaction to bare minimum and wear the masks all the time till the point to enter the field to either practice or participate in the game. The cricketers have also been advised to not share playing equipment and even the water bottles in the drinks break during a match will have name tags to prevent accidental sharing. If anyone tests positive, the concerned individual will have to stay for 1d days in isolation and run multiple tests before reuniting with the team. Interestingly, families of players and officials have been permitted to stay and travel with the team as they have to follow the same strict guidelines.&nbsp;

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