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Sports Top 10: While the Indian team has to play 10 Test matches in the next 5 months, Team India has to tour England next year. The entire schedule of this tour has been officially announced by the England Cricket Board and the Board of Control for Cricket in India. Team India will start the fourth edition of the World Test Championship with a 5-match Test series against England, in which the first match will be played in Leeds from June 20. At the same time, the last match of this Test series will be played at Kia Oval ground in London from July 31. The Indian women’s team will also tour England next year, for which their schedule has also been released. At the same time, star Indian javelin throw athlete Neeraj Chopra finished second in the Lausanne Diamond League with his best throw of the season.
Indian team will tour England in the year 2025
In the year 2025, the Indian team will start the fourth edition of the World Test Championship with a tour of England where Team India will play a 5-match Test series. While the first match of this tour will be played at Headingley’s Leeds ground from 20 to 24 June, the second match will be held in Birmingham from 2 July to 6 July. The third Test match of the series between India and England will be played at Lord’s ground from 10 to 14 July, while the last 2 matches will be played at Manchester and London’s Kia Oval ground.
Neeraj Chopra threw the best throw of the season
India’s star athlete Neeraj Chopra continued his excellent performance of Paris Olympics and finished second in Lausanne Diamond League 2024. Neeraj threw the last throw of 89.49 meters which was his season best performance. Peters Anderson of Grenada finished first on the basis of a throw of more than 90 meters. In Paris, Neeraj won the silver medal with a throw of 89.45 meters.
Indian women’s team will play a test match at Lord’s ground in the year 2026
The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) has made a big announcement in which a Test match will be played between the women’s cricket team of India and England at the historic Lord’s ground in 2026. This will be the first Test match to be played between these two teams on this ground. A three-match ODI series will be played between India and England in July 2025. After this series, the Indian women’s cricket team will tour England again for a one-off Test in 2026.
Mohammad Rizwan became the first wicketkeeper batsman to do so after 2009
On the second day of the Test match being played against Bangladesh at Rawalpindi ground, Pakistan team’s wicketkeeper batsman Mohammad Rizwan played a brilliant unbeaten innings of 171 runs. With this, Mohammad Rizwan became the first Pakistani wicketkeeper batsman to play an innings of more than 150 runs in Test cricket after 2009. Earlier, Kamran Akmal had played an unbeaten innings of 158 runs against Sri Lanka in February 2009.
Cheteshwar Pujara’s contract with Sussex County team ends
India’s Test specialist Cheteshwar Pujara will not return to Sussex for next year’s County Championship as the English club has terminated its contract with Pujara to retain the services of Australia’s Daniel Hughes. Cheteshwar Pujara played for Sussex for the third consecutive time in 2024. He played the first seven championship matches before Hughes’ return. Sussex head coach Paul Farbrace said in a statement released on the official website that ending the contract with Cheteshwar was not an easy task but Daniel fits in the team according to our need and we are happy that he will be available for the entire next season.
Indian women’s team restricted Australia to 212 runs in the first innings
The Indian Women’s A team is currently on a tour of Australia where it is playing a four-day unofficial Test match against the host team. At the end of the first day’s play, Team India had strengthened its hold. After winning the toss, Australia A team decided to bat first but Indian captain Minu Mani and Priya Mishra showed their magic with the ball and played a key role in restricting Australia’s first innings to a score of 212 runs. At the end of the day’s play, the Indian team had scored 100 runs at the loss of 2 wickets in their first innings.
Saud Shakeel joins Don Bradman’s special club
Pakistani team player Saud Shakeel played a brilliant innings of 141 runs in the test match against Bangladesh. With this, Shakeel has now become a part of a special club along with the great Don Bradman. Shakeel has now joined the club of players with the highest batting average in test cricket. Saud Shakeel is at the third position in terms of the highest average in test cricket. India’s young opening batsman Yashasvi Jaiswal is at the second position. Don Bradman is at the first position.
Rishabh Pant will prove to be an important player for India on Australia tour
Former great player Matthew Hayden said in a statement that Rishabh Pant can play an important role for the Indian team on the Australian tour later this year. Hayden praised Pant and said that Rishabh Pant has a hunger for victory and his ‘muscle memory’ is excellent. The last time he played here, he was an important player and Australian fans also liked his game a lot.
Mohammad Rizwan left Rishabh Pant behind
Mohammad Rizwan scored 171 runs against Bangladesh. By scoring a century against Bangladesh, Mohammad Rizwan has become the highest run-scorer wicketkeeper in the history of the World Test Championship. He has scored 1658 runs in the WTC so far. Earlier, the record for scoring the most runs as a wicketkeeper in the World Test Championship was held by Rishabh Pant. He had scored 1575 runs.
England took the lead in Manchester Test match against Sri Lanka
At the end of the second day of the first test match between England and Sri Lanka being played at Manchester ground, the host England had scored 259 runs at the loss of 6 wickets in their first innings. With this, they now have a lead of 23 runs over the first innings score of Sri Lanka of 236 runs. Harry Brook scored 56 runs from the bat for England, while Jamie Smith was playing unbeaten at 72 runs at the end of the day’s play.
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