Women’s T20 World Cup 2024: Very tough group, but we hope we can reach the semi-finals: Laura Wolvaardt
Apart from South Africa, Group B has teams like Bangladesh, England, West Indies and Scotland. Laura Wolvaardt. (Photo Source: ICC) Women’s T20 World Cup 2024: The 9th season of ICC Women’s T20 has started in UAE from 3rd October. So today, on October 4, last season’s finalist South Africa is going to face the West Indies cricket team. Let us tell you that this match between the two teams will be played at Dubai International Cricket Stadium. So, before the start of this match, a big statement has come out from South Africa’s captain and veteran wicketkeeper batsman Laura Wolvaardt. Laura says that she is hopeful that despite being in a difficult group, her team can reach the semi-finals. Laura Wolvaardt gave a big statement Let us tell you that before South Africa’s match against West Indies, Laura Bulfart said in the ICC quote – I think T20 cricket is a game of unstable format. I think obviously last year, the last time, was pretty good, but we’re just taking it one game at a time. Obviously our group is a very difficult group, but hopefully we can get to the semi-finals and then anything beyond that can happen. It is noteworthy that the last time the T20 World Cup was hosted by South Africa, South Africa had made it to the finals. This was the first time that South Africa had reached the final of a Women’s World Cup, but had to face defeat at the hands of Australia. However, now when South Africa will play its first match of T20 World Cup against West Indies on October 4, it will be worth seeing how it is going to perform? But if we look at the stats, West Indies is ahead of South Africa by 14-7 in T20 format. But more than T20 cricket stats, the match is decided by how the teams play on that day.
IPL: Gujarat Titans franchise may be sold soon, apart from Adani Group, this company is in the race
In the year 2021, the franchise was bought by CVC Capitals Partner Group for Rs 5625 crore for four years. Gujarat Titans (Image Credit- Twitter X) A big news is coming out from the IPL world. Let us tell you that CVC Capital Partners, which owns the Gujarat Titans franchise, has expressed its desire to sell most of the stake in the team. It is worth noting that in the year 2021, CVC bought the franchise for four years by paying a huge amount of Rs 5625 crore. At the same time, as per the rules framed by BCCI for IPL, any company which buys the ownership of IPL franchise cannot transfer its stake to any other company before the prescribed lock-in period. Whereas this lock-in period of CVC Capital Partners is ending in February 2025. Also, if the media reports of Economic Times are to be believed, Adani Group and Torrent Group have shown interest in buying the ownership of Gujarat Titans franchise. CVC Group now wants to exit the ownership of the company, while Adani Group has made a bid of Rs 5100 crore and Torrent Group has made a bid of Rs 4653 crore to acquire new ownership. Well, now it will be interesting to see which group is going to take the ownership of Gujarat Titans team? Gujarat Titans will have their eyes set on IPL 2025 On the other hand, if we talk about the performance of Gujarat Titans team in IPL, the team has played a total of 3 seasons so far, in which it has performed brilliantly. In 2022, the team won the IPL title in its debut season itself, while it was the runner-up of IPL 2023. However, the team’s performance in IPL 2024 was not very good. The one-time champion team was able to win only five out of the 14 matches played. So now its eyes will be on improving its performance in the upcoming season of IPL.