It was a combination of rain along with a 213 run unbeaten&nbsp;stand between Ross Taylor and Kane Williamson that helped New Zealand save the 2nd Test in Hamilton. Both Taylor and Williamson cracked centuries that prevented the visitors to win the match and level the series. Courtesy the draw, New Zealand&nbsp;jumped to the 3rd spot in the World Test Championship with 60 points while England remains 5th with 56 points. The 1st Test of the series was won by New Zealand.&nbsp;

It was a combination of rain along with a 213 run unbeaten stand between Ross Taylor and Kane Williamson that helped New Zealand save the 2nd Test in Hamilton. Both Taylor and Williamson cracked centuries that prevented the visitors to win the match and level the series. Courtesy the draw, New Zealand jumped to the 3rd spot in the World Test Championship with 60 points while England remains 5th with 56 points. The 1st Test of the series was won by New Zealand.

Two apex council members, who are also the representative of the Indian Cricketers Association, have requested&nbsp;Mumbai Cricket Association president Vijay Patil&nbsp;to allow cricketers to jog in the MCA grounds, including the Wankhede Stadium. According to a report in&nbsp;The Indian Express, the MCA&nbsp;has sent another reminder to the Maharashtra government last week, seeking permission to start cricket training in the city.&nbsp;Ajinkya Rahane&nbsp;had earlier verbally asked for MCA&rsquo;s permission to use their facilities for training, but it was denied due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Apart from Rahane, many Mumbai cricketers including Rohit&nbsp;Sharma, Shreyas&nbsp;Iyer&nbsp;and Prithvi&nbsp;Shaw will travel to UAE&nbsp;for the upcoming IPL. Indian skipper Virat&nbsp;Kohlil&nbsp;who also stays in Mumbai&nbsp;has used&nbsp;MCA facilities in the past.

New Zealand&nbsp;Cricket on Tuesday confirmed that their upcoming home series against&nbsp;Pakistan, Australia, Bangladesh and the West Indies will go ahead despite the pandemic. Their board's&nbsp;chief executive David White in a statement said that the arrangements were likely to follow the bio-secure bubble model adopted in England and they are working through that with the government agencies at the moment.&nbsp;White though refused to release schedules of the tours until details had been worked out. All people coming into New Zealand are currently required to maintain at least 14 days of strictly supervised quarantine. This&nbsp;week, New Zealand marked 100 days since its last case of community transmission and&nbsp;spectators are being allowed at sports and cultural events.

Indian cricketer Ravindra&nbsp;Jadeja landed himself in trouble when he had a run-in with a lady constable in Rajkot&nbsp;who stopped him for allegedly not wearing a mask.&nbsp;Head constable Sonal Gosai of&nbsp;Mahila police Station&nbsp;stopped Jadeja&nbsp;at around 9pm who was with his&nbsp;wife Rivaba&nbsp;in their car. They had an argument when Gosai&nbsp;asked them to pay penalty for not wearing masks and even asked for Jadeja's&nbsp;license. According to sources, Jadeja&nbsp;informed police that the cop had behaved rudely with them. The lady constable was later admitted to hospital complaining of stress. L

After parting ways with Chinese smartphone&nbsp;manufacturer Vivo&nbsp;for the title sponsorship&nbsp;of the IPL, the Governing Council has now invited tenders for finding a new sponsor for the season. The rights available are for the current season only and will expire on 31st December 2020. The deadline to submit a bid for the title&nbsp;sponsorship ends on 14th August at 5 pm. It is understood that BCCI&nbsp;will be making a heavy loss in this deal as earlier&nbsp;Vivo&nbsp;ended up paying more than ₹400 crore&nbsp;per season &amp; the new sponsors could lock a deal in approximately half that amount.&nbsp;&nbsp;

IPL Chairman Brijesh Patel confirmed on Monday that the&nbsp;BCCI has received all the formal approval from the central government to conduct IPL in UAE from September 19th to November 10th. The Indian board had already claimed an 'in principle' clearance from the government but awaited a formal revert. While BCCI's&nbsp;main agenda as of now is to fetch a new title sponsor, franchises have already started to quarantine their players as teams are set to leave for UAE&nbsp;after August 20.

The leading Test wicket taker among pacers, James Anderson&nbsp;hasn't had the best of starts ever since Test cricket resumed after the Covid-19 forced break. Despite&nbsp;England winning the 1st Test vs Pakistan, Anderson looked out of rhythm and whispers of his retirement started to do the rounds. Addressing which the 38-year-old said that&nbsp;he has no intention of retiring anytime soon. He added that&nbsp;It has been a frustrating week for him as he hasn't&nbsp;bowled very well but he wants to work hard and play the Southampton Test and prove people that he has still got what it takes to play Test cricket. Earlier this week, Anderson had also said that he wants to play as long he possibly can as he is still hungry.&nbsp;

One cricket team of the 2000s which was known for sledging their opponents were the&nbsp;mighty Aussies. Member of that team Matthew Hayden recalled an incident where he sledged Shoaib&nbsp;Akhtar&nbsp;to put him off. During a podcast, the former opener said that he used to call Akhtar&nbsp;a 'B-grade actor' which used to get under his skin. Hayden recalled an incident from the 2002 Sharjah Test which was played in 58 degrees and when the teams were walking out, Akhtar&nbsp;told Hayden&nbsp;that he was going to kill him. To which the southpaw replied by saying that he had just 18 balls to do that as Akhtar&nbsp;won't last the heat after 3 overs. Hayden added that Akhtar&nbsp;got through his 18 balls and collapsed at the end of it. He then went up to him and said that it&rsquo;s hot and you&rsquo;re busted. Just go off and I won&rsquo;t think any worse of you. Shoaib&nbsp;went off and din't take any further part in that Test.

The mega IPL&nbsp;auction ahead of the 2021 edition of the Indian Premier League which would have seen all franchises rebuild&nbsp;their teams from the scratch may not happen now. According to a report in the Times of India, BCCI&nbsp;is likely to do away with the auction and the franchises will stick to the existing&nbsp;set of players. The 13th edition of the IPL&nbsp;concludes on November 10 and the BCCI&nbsp;will be left with just over 4 months until the next season starts. This leaves the Board and IPL&nbsp;with almost no time and space to rebuild. A source told TOI&nbsp;that&nbsp;IPL might as well go ahead and finish the 2021 edition and then see how it wants to go about it, as there's no point doing a mega auction now and&nbsp;not have enough time to plan it properly. IPL&nbsp;team owners are also believed to have a similar view.

After the exit of Vivo as the title sponsor for the Indian Premier League, it seems like Baba&nbsp;Ramdev's&nbsp;Patanjali&nbsp;group is interested in becoming the face of the league. A&nbsp;Patanjali spokesperson confirmed that the group&nbsp;is considering making a proposal to the Board of Control for Cricket in India. The consumer goods&nbsp;&amp; healthcare&nbsp;giant has a declared annual turnover of more than ₹10,000 crore. With an aim to give the brand a global marketing platform, Patanjali&nbsp;could join the likes of previous title sponsors like DLF, Pepsi &amp; Vivo. In order to qualify, the group has to now make a bid in an open tender process initiated&nbsp;by the BCCI.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Cricket can be played anywhere but no one expected a full-fledged 32-team tournament on a tiny strip of land in between the mountains. An organiser managed the unthinkable as he managed to complete a 32-team tournament in the mountains of Abbottabad in Pakistan as hundreds of villagers turned up to watch a thrilling finale. The tricky topography and the fear of getting injured was not a problem for the cricket-crazy fans&nbsp;as they celebrated their team's success after the final win.

The BCCI&nbsp;is eyeing to start the domestic season after the completion of the Indian&nbsp;Premier League in November. A senior BCCI&nbsp;official told PTI&nbsp;that BCCI&nbsp;will start the season with Syed&nbsp;Mushtaq&nbsp;Ali T20 tournament and will also host Ranji&nbsp;Trophy. Due to lack of time, there will be no Vijay&nbsp;Hazare,&nbsp;Duleep&nbsp;&amp;&nbsp;Irani trophy this season. The date for the return of domestic cricket is set for 19th November and some of the IPL&nbsp;stars might miss out on the opening week of cricket as they will have to follow strict quarantine rules once they return from the UAE. The proposal to restart the domestic leagues after the Covid-19 induced break now waits for BCCI&nbsp;president Sourav&nbsp;Ganguly's approval.&nbsp;

Ahead of the 13th edition of the Indian Premier League, Captain Virat&nbsp;Kohli of the Royal Challengers Bangalore shared an emotional video about his journey with the team as completes 13 years with the franchise.&nbsp;

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.

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