Pakistan's head coach Misbah-ul-Haq expressed his concerns over the fairness of the ICC World Test Championship, suggested that the tournament should be extended to end the event in a balanced way. The 45 years old Pakistan's chief selector further said that the matches can be rescheduled and extended beyond 2021. Earlier in March due to the pandemic scare, Pakistan had to postpone a Test of the championship against Bangladesh. Although ICC has agreed to discuss the issue with board members as they also indicated towards awarding points for the cancelled matches as a feasible option.
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Pakistan's head coach Misbah-ul-Haq expressed his concerns over the fairness of the ICC World Test Championship, suggested that the tournament should be extended to end the event in a balanced way. The 45 years old Pakistan's chief selector further said that the matches can be rescheduled and extended beyond 2021. Earlier in March due to the pandemic scare, Pakistan had to postpone a Test of the championship against Bangladesh. Although ICC has agreed to discuss the issue with board members as they also indicated towards awarding points for the cancelled matches as a feasible option.

As the&nbsp;BCCI is trying their best to fit in the IPL&nbsp;in the October-November window if the World T20 is postponed due to the pandemic, star Australian batsman Steve Smith said that if that happens, he&nbsp;is willing to miss the early part of the Australian domestic season to take part in the cash-rich league. During a chat with ESPNcricinfo, the Rajasthan Royals' skipper said that World Cup is the pinnacle of ODI and T20 cricket and he would prefer playing that. But if it gets postponed,&nbsp;then so be it as&nbsp;IPL&nbsp;is also terrific as a domestic tournament. Smith added that it's out of everyone's control at the moment. Players are just doing what they are told and going where they need to go to play&nbsp;whatever is on at that stage.

'A giant in every sense played above and beyond the call of duty' said former Indian cricketer VVS&nbsp;Laxman&nbsp;as he heaped praises on former Test captain Anil Kumble. On Sunday, 45-year-old took to his social media to share an image of the 2002 India vs West Indies Test match where the Indian cricketers can be seen celebrating and among them is an injured Anil&nbsp;Kumble. While recalling the match which Kumble&nbsp;played with a broken jaw, VVS&nbsp;said the grit, drive and bravery displayed through this picture is quintessential. He further wrote never giving up no matter what was a trait that made Anil the cricketer he became.

Australia's top-notch batsman Steve Smith said that he is probably in the best shape he has ever been as&nbsp;he resumes training along with other star&nbsp;Australian cricketers&nbsp;on Monday at the Sydney Olympic Park. As the 30-year-old former captain returns to practice he said that he has not touched the bat in two months and was&nbsp;focusing&nbsp;on his mental and physical health.&nbsp;Mitchell Starc and David Warner also returned to the field after a break of over 2 months due to the Covid-19 pandemic. While Cricket Australia has announced the resumption of international cricket from August 9, cricketers have started training as the domestic pre-season has started behind closed&nbsp;doors.&nbsp;

Indian pace spearhead Jasprit&nbsp;Bumrah&nbsp;is eager to know about the new guidelines&nbsp;for the bowlers once cricket resumes. During a chat on ICC's video series Inside Out, he said that the only thing that interests him is the saliva bit and there should be an alternative to it. Bumrah added that if the ball is not well maintained, it's difficult for the bowlers.&nbsp;So they need some alternative for the bowlers to maintain the ball for it to maybe reverse in the end or swing conventionally. The 26-year-old also said that he enjoys bowling most with a Dukes ball used in UK as compared to&nbsp;India made SG Test or the Australian Kookaburra and Dukes ball makes the competition even due to its ability to swing more.&nbsp;

While legendary&nbsp;cricketers show concern for&nbsp;Jasprit&nbsp;Bumrah's&nbsp;impressive but unconventional style, Bumrah&nbsp;assures that he will still stick to it.&nbsp;A confident 26-year-old Bumrah&nbsp;said that he was never coached a lot and everything till date is self-taught. As he went on to clarify that there was no specific reason for the short run-up, Bumrah&nbsp;said that his run-up is short because his backyard had only that much space where he practised to develop his skill. Moreover,&nbsp;he said that he will prefer short run-up as he had already tried long run-ups and the speed was the same.&nbsp;

Indian all-rounder Hardik Pandya&nbsp;on Sunday took to his social media to announce that him&nbsp;and his fiance&nbsp;Natasa Stankovic are expecting their first child together. Hardik&nbsp;wrote that&nbsp;Natasa and I have had a great journey together and it is just about to get better. Together we are excited to welcome a new life into our lives very soon. Pandya&nbsp;added that he is thrilled for this new phase of their lives and also sought&nbsp;the blessings and wishes of his fans.&nbsp;Natasa and Hardik got engaged earlier this year and the couple is yet to tie the knot.

Cricket Australia has announced a detailed schedule of India's tour down under which starts with the 3-match T20 series from October 11, followed by the World T20. Team India is then scheduled to play 4 Tests and 3 ODIs&nbsp;there. According to a report in&nbsp;Mumbai Mirror, the 3 T20Is in October might not happen as the Indian team is not keen to travel to Australia twice in a span of 3 months. With the travel requirements requiring the players to go in quarantine for 14 days due to the pandemic, the T20I series looks uncertain. Moreover, if the World T20 is postponed, which is highly&nbsp;likely, BCCI&nbsp;may try to fit in the IPL&nbsp;in that October-November window.&nbsp;

With the future of the World T20 still not clear,&nbsp;Marylebone Cricket Club&nbsp;President Kumar Sangakkara feels that the event might even be cancelled this year. During a show on Star Sports, Sangakkara&nbsp;said that every day, there are new learnings about Covid-19, so we will have to wait and see, but the options may be to cancel the World T20 this year and postpone it to another year.&nbsp;He added that anticipatory procedures have to be put in place that takes into account the health and safety of both players and spectators.&nbsp;ICC&nbsp;is expected to soon decide the fate of the Marquee event which is currently scheduled in Australia from October.

Virat Kohli and MS Dhoni's style of captaining India may be completely different but Virat&nbsp;feels that his predecessor had a huge role in him getting to lead Team India. During an Instagram live chat with R Ashwin, the Indian skipper said that ever since he came into the team, he would always be in Dhoni's ears on the field. He used to give a lot of ideas to MS and the former India captain used to keep observing Kohli. Kohli&nbsp;also said that he kept learning from Dhoni and his inquisitiveness probably gave MS the belief&nbsp;that perhaps Virat was the next guy to lead the country. Kohli&nbsp;further added that he doesn't think that&nbsp;the selectors appointed him as India captain suddenly. They&nbsp;probably had Dhoni as a sounding board before giving him the reins.&nbsp;

While new measures take over cricket&nbsp;due to the Covid-19 scare, the English cricket board is now in talks with the International Cricket Council for allowing first-ever coronavirus&nbsp;substitutes in the upcoming games.&nbsp;ECB&nbsp;director of events, Steve Elworthy&nbsp;said that there are still some considerations from the ICC&nbsp;perspective about a Covid-19 replacement that still needs to be agreed upon. Elworthy&nbsp;hopes that it will be in place before the cricket starts. England is set to host West Indies and Pakistan for Test Series in July.

Former BCCI&nbsp;treasurer Anirudh&nbsp;Chaudhary&nbsp;feels that former Indian skipper MS Dhoni&nbsp;should continue playing for India. He said that Dhoni&nbsp;is fit and the best wicketkeeper in India. He went on to say that if he was the decision-maker, Dhoni&nbsp;would have been a part of the team&nbsp;as&nbsp;Dhoni&nbsp;is&nbsp;one of the finest minds in the game. Chaudhary&nbsp;also presented his views on the lucrative IPL. He&nbsp;said that efforts have to be made to try and have that situation where the show must go on.&nbsp;&nbsp;

The Board of Control for Cricket in India has nominated star batsman and vice-captain Rohit&nbsp;Sharma&nbsp;for the prestigious Rajiv&nbsp;Gandhi Khel&nbsp;Ratna&nbsp;award. Rohit&nbsp;has had a prolific 2019 and was the&nbsp;ICC ODI Cricketer of the Year. He also cracked five centuries at the 2019 World Cup and scored tonnes of runs in all formats. Apart from Rohit, opener Shikhar&nbsp;Dhawan, Ishant&nbsp;Sharma&nbsp;and Deepti&nbsp;Sharma&nbsp;have been nominated&nbsp;for Arjuna&nbsp;Awards.&nbsp;

While the pandemic havoc has not eased out yet, Cricket West Indies on Friday approved the Test series against England. The 3 match Test series&nbsp;was originally scheduled to take place in June but is now shifted to July due to the virus scare. While all the matches will go ahead in empty&nbsp;stadiums, West Indies has also given its consent&nbsp;to playing cricket in a bio-secure environment to ensure the safety of the teams. The board&nbsp;also&nbsp;affirmed medical security and further mentioned that it would seek permission from the government to facilitate the hassle-free movement of the players and staff.&nbsp;

On Friday Former Pakistan skipper, Waqar&nbsp;Younis&nbsp;took to his twitter account to announce that he had decided to distance himself from social media. The 48-year-old's video came&nbsp;after his name was trending on Twitter and his fans&nbsp;criticised him for liking an obscene video. In the video,&nbsp;he&nbsp;said that someone had hacked his Twitter account and liked the obscene video and went on to mention that he was deeply saddened by it as it was not the first time.&nbsp;Younis&nbsp;also&nbsp;apologised in his video to his fans and promised that he would not use social media again.&nbsp;

Once the spearhead of Indian pace attack, Bhuvneshwar&nbsp;Kumar has now been out of the Indian Test set up for quite a while now. In an interview to the Times of India, the swing king said that he definitely wants to play Test cricket but he also knows that it won't be easy to make a comeback as everyone is doing very well. Bhuvi&nbsp;added that no matter what, he will&nbsp;try his best and will do everything possible to make a comeback in Tests. the 30-year old feels that red ball cricket is the toughest format and it gives a lot of satisfaction to perform in Tests. Bhuvneshwar&nbsp;who was battling&nbsp;multiple injuries also confirmed that he is fully fit now and is raring to go.&nbsp;

Former Indian cricketer VVS&nbsp;Laxman&nbsp;feels that Indian vice-captain Rohit&nbsp;Sharma's ability to handle pressure makes him the most successful skipper in the Indian Premier League. While revealing the reason behind it,&nbsp;Laxman&nbsp;said that he has evolved and blossomed in tough situations.&nbsp;VVS&nbsp;Laxman&nbsp;also remembered&nbsp;his first IPL&nbsp;game in 2008 with the Deccan&nbsp;Chargers and went on to heap&nbsp;praises on the Mumbai&nbsp;Indians captain. He&nbsp;said that Rohit&nbsp;Sharma became a leader in the Deccan&nbsp;Chargers team and that Rohit&nbsp;was a standout performer. The 33-year-old is the most successful&nbsp;skipper in IPL&nbsp;history with 4 titles to his name.

Current Women's World T20 champions Australia is set to be back in action later this year as after the men's summer schedule, Cricket Australia has announced women's fixtures as well. They will take on New Zealand in a 3-match T20 series by the end of September, followed by those many ODIs.&nbsp;Australia will then host India in a 3-match&nbsp;ODI series in January. What will make the stakes even higher is the fact that this series will happen just days before the 2021 World Cup,&nbsp;scheduled to be held in New Zealand. India, New Zealand&nbsp;and the Aussies have already qualified for the mega event.

The England and Wales Cricket Board has decided to further delay the start of&nbsp;professional domestic cricket season by a month. It means that the cricketing activities which were earlier delayed&nbsp;till July due to the pandemic will now remain suspended till August 1. However, ECB&nbsp;is likely to still host West Indies in July as scheduled. The board in a statement said that&nbsp;safety and well-being of everyone is their key priority. ECB has learnt a lot and continue to learn about the safety protocols that would need to be in place to stage international cricket behind closed doors in this environment. Few of English National team players had resumed&nbsp;training in batches earlier this month.

The International Cricket Council on Thursday decided to defer the decision of hosting the World T20 till 10th June. The council lead by Chairman Shashank&nbsp;Manohar&nbsp;had a teleconference chat and decided to defer some important decisions including the World T20. The ICC also started an investigation lead by the Ethics Committee over information leaking from the meetings and the CEO of the board will present a report on 10th June. In addition to that, the ICC&nbsp;will continue to speak to the local boards along with medical authorities about the restart of cricket in the times of Covid-19. It was widely reported earlier that the World T20 scheduled in&nbsp;October in Australia&nbsp;will be cancelled and the BCCI will host the Indian Premier League in that window.&nbsp;

As #Dhoniretires&nbsp;trended on Twitter on&nbsp;Wednesday, MS Dhoni's wife Sakshi&nbsp;rubbished those rumours and reacted&nbsp;sharply. She tweeted to say that she understands that the lockdown has made people mentally unstable but news of MSD&nbsp;retiring is only a rumour. A furious Sakshi&nbsp;also asked people who spread fake news to get a life. She though deleted the tweet soon after.&nbsp;Dhoni&nbsp;has been quiet about his international future and with the IPL&nbsp;being postponed indefinitely, it's been almost a year that the former India captain has had a go in any form of competitive cricket.&nbsp;

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