In a series of recent auctions, the Indian Premier League (IPL) sold its media rights for more than $6 billion. The popular cricket league’s current media contract with Star India — a subsidiary of Disney — expires at the end of this year. Going forward, however, Disney will have to […]
Cricket lost one of their greatest spin bowlers when Australian superstar Shane Warne passed away in Thailand from an apparent heart attack at the age of 52. Warne is most known for his “Ball of the Century” for Australia against England in the 1993 Ashes. Warne was found dead in […]
The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) voted to postpone the Indian Premier League on Tuesday as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to rage throughout the country. India recently passed 20 million total coronavirus cases, with the country averaging more than 325,000 new cases per day over the last […]
The Indian Premier League held its annual player auction on Thursday, with two players setting new salary records for the professional Twenty20 cricket league. Chris Morris set the record for the highest salary in IPL history, while Krishnappa Gowtham became the highest-paid uncapped Indian player ever. Rajasthan Pays Big Money […]
Cricket and sports betting came up multiple times during Walt Disney’s earnings call on Thursday. It was a knuckleball for Disney analysts who normally focus on theme parks and movies. They failed to predict the impact of Disney’s newest revenue streams. Disney’s parks can’t operate at full capacity, due to […]
Major League Cricket has permission to redevelop a former independent league baseball stadium near Dallas, making way for the second cricket stadium in the US. Once converted, the former AirHogs Stadium will become the home of USA Cricket, the governing body of cricket in the United States. The renovated stadium […]
The end of the year offers us the ideal time for reflection. CBS News just released its Top Photos of 2019: The Year in Pictures. Of the 53 photos selected, nearly a dozen relate to sports. Accordingly, this seems like the perfect occasion to ponder and marvel at these 11 […]
England and New Zealand will each have a chance to win their first Cricket World Cup Title when they face each other in the tournament final on Sunday at Lord’s Cricket Ground. Both nations have made it as far as the final before, but neither has been able to bring […]
Eoin Morgan set a new record for the most sixes hit by a single player in a One Day International (ODI) cricket match with 17 as England beat Afghanistan by 150 runs at the Cricket World Cup on Tuesday. Morgan led England with 148 runs, as the tournament hosts moved […]
England will try to win its first ever title as the country co-hosts the 2019 Cricket World Cup with Wales beginning on Thursday. England has finished as the runner-up at the Cricket World Cup three times, but hasn’t moved past the quarterfinals since 1992. Six Weeks of Wickets and Overs […]
The Bangladesh national cricket team narrowly missed being on the site of the mass shooting at two mosques in Christchurch on Friday, prompting the cancellation of an international match between the squad and New Zealand. 49 people were killed in the terrorist attack, which was apparently carried out by an […]
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