DTVHINDIIn international women’s cricket, 400 matches will be played between 11 teams in the 2025-29 FTP cycle, ICC made a big announcement.
The International Cricket Council has announced the Women’s Future Tour Program (FTP) from 2025 to 2029. Team India Womens (Photo Source: The International Cricket Council has announced the Women’s Future Tour Program (FTP) from 2025 to 2029. On this basis, the fourth season of the ICC Women’s Championship will also be played. Not only this, some main ICC tournaments and some triangular series will also be included in it. The second Women’s FTP will run from May 2025 to April 2029, which is a collective effort of the ICC support members and its aim is to play as many matches as possible in all three international formats. About 400 matches have been confirmed in all three formats. All formats have seen a significant increase compared to the previous year (2022-2025) and according to this FTP the ICC tournament will be played in a six-team tournament each year with the Champions Trophy for the first six teams in 2027. Many people have been eagerly waiting for this important tournament for a long time. Apart from this, other ICC programs are also included like ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup in India in 2025, ICC Women’s T20 World Cup in 2026 and also the 2028 edition of the same tournament. The number of teams participating in the Women’s Championship has increased to 11, which was earlier played between only 10 teams. In the Women’s Championship, all the teams will play 8 series against other teams. This series will be played the same way as it is being played this season, four series at home and four away. A total of 132 ODI matches will be played in 44 series which will include all three matches. This will also ease the way for qualification for the ICC Women’s World Cup and all the teams will get a chance to perform brilliantly. ICC’s General Director of Cricket presented its stand ICC General Manager of Cricket Wasim Khan said, ‘We are all very excited. This new women’s FTP is going to be awesome. All the teams will be seen performing tremendously in this. Zimbabwe has been included as the 11th team. FTP will prove to be very helpful for teams and fans as well. All members are very happy with the upcoming FTP and we are also planning a triangular series in ICC events. All the fans will have a lot of fun in this round and I have full hope that all the teams will also be fully prepared to perform well. We would like to thank all the board members for approving the FTP. The Indian captain who lost the most test matches at home- List of teams that have won the most matches away from home in WTC- Players who have won “Player of the Tournament” in every edition of the Women’s T20 World Cup- List of batsmen who have hit most sixes in Test cricket- Players who have been out for a duck most times in international cricket (active) Take a look at India’s lowest total in Test cricket- Players who…
ICC Test Batting Rankings: Rohit Sharma’s worst ranking since December 2018
Rohit was in the top-10 between February 27, 2021 and February 21, 2023. Rohit Sharma (Source X) ICC has recently released new batting rankings, in which many changes have been seen. There has been a tremendous decline in the ranking of Indian captain Rohit Sharma. Before the New Zealand series, the T20 World Cup-winning captain was ranked 15th in the ICC Men’s Test batting rankings. But after a very poor performance in three out of four innings of the ongoing Test series, he dropped nine places to 24th. This is the lowest ranking of Rohit Sharma in the last 6 years. After Rohit’s innings of 63* and 5 runs against Australia at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in December 2018, he had reached 44th position. And after scoring a few centuries against South Africa in October 2019, he made a tremendous improvement in his ranking, reaching 17th position. Not only this, Rohit was in the top-10 between February 27, 2021 and February 21, 2023. He achieved an all-time high rating of 813, which came in September 2021. This was a time when he was the fifth best Test batsman in the world. In the ongoing Test batting rankings, his teammates Virat Kohli and Rishabh Pant have also dropped six and five places to reach 14th and 11th position respectively. Kagiso Rabada overtook Jasprit Bumrah On the other hand, if we talk about bowling rankings, South African pacer Kagiso Rabada has snatched the first place from India’s star fast bowler Jasprit Bumrah. He has now reached the top in the men’s test bowling rankings. Rabada is performing brilliantly against Bangladesh. He recently took nine wickets in the first Test of the series. Pakistan’s Noman Ali has also shown his talent in the Test bowling rankings. After his brilliant performance in two test matches against England, he has reached the top-10.
ICC appoints Sumati Dharmavardhan as new chairperson of Anti-Corruption Unit
Sumati Dharamvardhan will take charge from November 1 ICC Logo (Photo Source: The International Cricket Council (ICC) has appointed Sumati Dharmavardhan as the new chairman of the Anti-Corruption Unit. Sumati Dharmavardhan will replace Sir Ronnie Flanagan, who is retiring after 14 years in the post. Sumati Dharamvardhan will take charge from November 1 While releasing the official statement ICC wrote, The Chairman of the ICC’s Anti-Corruption Unit is entrusted with the responsibility of overseeing and leading the ACU, which is managed at the executive level by the General Manager-Integrity. Shri Dharam Vardhan will take charge of this post from November 1, 2024.” Talking about the previous role of Sumathi Dharmawardhana, she has worked as Additional Solicitor General in the Attorney General Department of Sri Lanka. As a part of this, he has represented the government and its sports ministry in several legal issues. Dharmavardhan has also worked with Interpol and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. As a component of this, he has been part of the investigation panel related to corruption in sports and has also overseen the prosecution under the Prevention of Offenses in Sports Act. The tenure of ACU head Alex Marshall is also ending in November. ACU chief Alex Marshall is also due to end his seven-year term at the end of November. His role was primarily to monitor initiatives to reduce the presence of corruption in cricket. This included investigating suspicious activities, enforcing anti-corruption regulations, as well as educating players and officials regarding the topic of integrity in cricket. Marshall has previously been a senior police officer in the United Kingdom. His main purpose in joining the ICC’s ACU was to use his background in law enforcement, and it has been quite successful in protecting the interests of cricket on the global stage.
ICC Test Rankings: Kagiso Rabada became number-1 Test bowler by defeating Bumrah, Ashwin-Jadeja also suffered loss
Kagiso Rabada topped the Test bowling rankings with 860 rating points. Kagiso Rabada & Jasprit Bumrah (Photo Source: ICC Test Rankings: Kagiso Rabada has become the number-1 bowler in the ICC Men’s Test bowling rankings, overtaking Indian fast bowler Jasprit Bumrah. Rabada had shown a brilliant performance in the first match of the ongoing Test series against Bangladesh, for which he has been rewarded. Rabada took three wickets in the first innings and 6 wickets in the second innings. Kagiso Rabada also took his 300th Test wicket during the first Test against Bangladesh. He is the third fastest South African bowler (11817 balls) to achieve this feat. Kagiso Rabada reached first place with 860 rating points. Kagiso Rabada reached the first position in the ICC Test bowlers’ rankings for the first time in 2018. He remained at number-1 position till February 2019. The thing to note is that Rabada has been continuously in the top-10 in the rankings recently. After taking 9 wickets against Bangladesh, he left behind Jasprit Bumrah, Josh Hazlewood and Ashwin and secured the first position with 860 rating points. Josh Hazlewood (847) is at second place, Bumrah (846) is at third place and Ashwin (831) is at fourth place. Pakistani spinner Noman Ali reached 9th place On the other hand, Pakistan’s spin bowlers Noman Ali and Sajid Khan have also benefited, who recently performed brilliantly in the Test series against England. Noman Ali took 11 and 9 wickets in two matches, Sajid took 9 and 10 wickets in two matches. Noman Ali achieved a career-high ranking of 9th. While Sajid has jumped 12 places to reach 38th position. ICC Men’s Latest Test Bowling Rankings Kagiso Rabada (South Africa) – 860 rating Josh Hazlewood (Australia) – 847 rating Jasprit Bumrah (India) – 846 rating R Ashwin (India) – 831 rating Pat Cummins (Australia) – 820 rating Nathan Lyon (Australia) – 801 rating Prabhat Jayasuriya (Sri Lanka) – 801 rating Ravindra Jadeja (India) – 776 rating Noman Ali (Pakistan) – 759 rating Matt Henry (New Zealand)- 743 rating Rachin Ravindra and Saud Shakeel took a long jump England’s legendary batsman Joe Root is still at first place in the ICC Men’s Test Batting Rankings. Kiwi batsman Rachin Ravindra played brilliantly in the first two test matches against India. He has jumped 8 places to 10th position. At the same time, Saud Shakeel of Pakistan made a huge jump of 20 places and has reached 7th position. ICC Men’s Test Batting Rankings Joe Root (England) – 903 rating Kane Williamson (New Zealand) – 813 rating Yashasvi Jaiswal (India) – 790 rating Harry Brook (England) – 778 ratings Steve Smith (Australia)- 757 rating Usman Khawaja (Australia) – 728 rating Saud Shakeel (Pakistan) – 724 rating Marnus LaBution (Australia) – 720 rating Kamindu Mendis (Sri Lanka) – 716 rating Rachin Ravindra (New Zealand)- 711 rating
ICC Women’s Ranking: Deepti Sharma and Sophie Devine reach career best rankings
Deepti Sharma and Sophie Devine Indian women’s team’s star all-rounder Deepti Sharma and New Zealand captain Sophie Devine have achieved career best ranks in the ICC Women’s ODI Rankings. Both the players have performed brilliantly in the ongoing ICC Women’s Championship series, which has benefited them in the ODI rankings. Deepti Sharma took three wickets in the first two matches, which has lifted her to second place in the bowling rankings. On the other hand, Sophie Devine played a tremendous inning of 79 runs in the second match, due to which she has reached the best batting ranking of 8th position in her career. Deepti’s dominance continues in the ranking of all-rounders also. He scored 41 runs and one wicket in the first match and played an important role in India’s victory. She has now moved up one place to fourth place. Whereas Devine has moved from 9th to 7th in the rankings of all-rounders after taking three wickets in the second match. Devine has gained 9 places in the bowling rankings and is now at 30th position. Amelia Kar, who was out of the series, improved her ranking. New Zealand all-rounder Amelia Kerr is ranked 11th and 13th in the batting and bowling rankings respectively. He scored unbeaten 25 runs in the first match against India, apart from this he also took four wickets. After this she was out of the entire series due to injury. Along with this, due to good performance in the series, there has been improvement in the batting ranking of many batsmen. This includes New Zealand’s Suzie Bates (up two places to 15th), Maddy Green (up seven places to 18th) and Brooke Halliday (up three places to 36th), while Jemimah Rodrigues (up three places to 30th) and Shafali Verma (up two places) Has reached 54th position. Lee Tuhuhu has moved up three places to 12th in the bowling rankings. The players who performed well in the five-match series between Zimbabwe and the United States in Harare have gained in the rankings. The home team won the series 3-2. Zimbabwe batsman Chipo Mugeri-Tiripano has achieved a career-best 21st position after scoring 28, 33 and 60 in the last three matches of the series. Modest Mupachikwa (up nine places to 46th) and Ashley Ndiraya (up 28 places to 47th) are the other Zimbabweans to gain in the batting rankings, while Josephine Nkomo (up 13 places to 32nd) has moved up the bowling rankings. For the USA, Disha Dhingra (up 22 places to 55th) and Sindhu Sriharsh (up 42 places to 57th) have moved up in the batting rankings and Aditya Chudasama (up 12 places to 58th) has moved up in the bowling rankings.
ICC Test Rankings: Rishabh Pant made a big jump in the rankings, left Kohli behind, Hitman-Gill suffered loss
Rishabh Pant has moved to sixth position in the rankings, leaving behind Virat Kohli. Rishabh Pant (Photo Source: Getty Images) Under the ICC World Test Championship 2023-25 cycle, Test series are currently being played between India and New Zealand, South Africa and Bangladesh, Pakistan and England. India had to face defeat by 8 wickets against New Zealand in the first test match of the series. On the other hand, Pakistan defeated England by 152 runs in the second test, after which the series is tied at 1-1. Meanwhile, ICC has released the latest Test rankings. Indian young batsman Rishabh Pant has seen a big rise in his Test batting ranking. He has left Virat Kohli behind and has come to sixth position. At the same time, Rohit Sharma and Shubman Gill have suffered huge losses. Rishabh Pant reached sixth position with 745 rating. England player Joe Root is at first place in the ICC Test batting rankings with 917 rating points. New Zealand player Kane Williamson is not part of the series against India due to injury. He is at second position with 821 rating points. England player Harry Brook is in third place with 803 rating points. Whereas, Yashasvi Jaiswal (780) is at fourth place and Steve Smith (757) is at fifth place. Rishabh Pant played a brilliant inning of 99 runs in the second innings of the first Test against New Zealand. After this inning, he has jumped three places from 9th to 6th in the rankings with a rating of 745. At the same time, Virat Kohli has slipped one place to 8th position with 720 rating points. Salman Ali Aga also benefited England player Ben Duckett also got an increase in the ranking. He has jumped three places to reach 11th position with 706 rating points. Whereas Salman Ali Aga has jumped 8 places and is at 14th position with 684 rating points. Rohit and Gill suffered loss Rohit Sharma scored 2 and 52 runs in the first test against New Zealand. He has slipped two places to joint 15th position with 683 rating points. At the same time, Shubman Gill who could not play the first test due to injury. He has lost four places and is joint 19th with 677 rating points. Rachin Ravindra jumped 36 places Rachin Ravindra scored 134 and 39 runs in the first test against India. He has made a huge jump of 36 places and reached 18th position with 681 rating points. This is also his best ranking till date. ICC latest test batting ranking- 1. Joe Root (England) – 917 rating points 2. Kane Williamson (New Zealand) – 821 rating points 3. Harry Brook (England) – 803 rating points 4. Yashasvi Jaiswal (India) – 780 rating points 5. Steve Smith (Australia) – 757 rating points 6. Rishabh Pant (India) – 745 rating points 7. Usman Khawaja (Australia) – 728 rating points 8. Virat Kohli (India) – 720 rating points 9. Marnus Labuschagne (Australia) – 720 rating points 10. Kamindu Mendis (Sri Lanka) – 716 rating points
BCCI’s shock in ICC, this big rule changed as soon as Jai Shah became the chairman
Jay Shah is going to take charge from December 1 Jay Shah (Image Credit- Twitter X) Recently, Jay Shah, Secretary of the Board of Control for Cricket in India, was elected as the new Chairman without any opposition in the Apex Council meeting held in Dubai last month. So now Jay Shah, who has been holding the responsibility in BCCI for five years, is going to take over the post of ICC Chairman from December 1. However, now news is coming that the International Cricket Council (ICC) has decided to extend the current tenure of its new chairman. Earlier the tenure of the Chairman was of two years, which has now been reduced to three years. Earlier any chairman could complete three terms of two years each. But now that the tenure period has increased, any chairman can be elected only for two consecutive terms. But Shah will now remain on this post for two consecutive terms, whose duration will be 3 years each. After this major change in the rules, Jay Shah is going to be seen working on the post of ICC Chairman for six consecutive years. Also, according to the new rules, elected presidents cannot be re-elected in future. Jay Shah will replace the current chairman Greg Barclay in ICC. It is noteworthy that Barkley was selected for the first time in 2020. Since then he has completed 2 terms. There was also a change in the rules of women’s ranking In addition to the change in the tenure of the chairman’s post, the ICC Chief Executives Committee (CEC) has announced changes to the women’s ranking rules. After the new rule, any team will have to play at least 8 matches in ODI and T20 formats every year to get into the ICC rankings. Earlier there was a rule to play 6 matches. The annual update of the ranking will now be done on May 1 instead of October 1.
Champions Trophy 2025: ICC satisfied with the arrangements made by PCB for the tournament – reports
The tournament is to be played in February next year PCB (Image Credit- Twitter) According to the latest media reports, the International Cricket Council (ICC) is completely satisfied with the arrangements made by the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) for the Champions Trophy. It is noteworthy that the 9th season of Champions Trophy will be played in the hosting of Pakistan. So recently, PCB shared the list of arrangements made for the tournament with ICC. During this, PCB chief Mohsin Naqvi was also present. If Geo News is to be believed regarding the organization of Champions Trophy in the country, then the top officials of PCB assured the ICC member board that the three stadiums (Lahore, Karachi and Rawalpindi) which are undergoing renovation work, will be ready before the start of the tournament in February. Will get ready first. Besides, PCB has also invited delegations from member countries to come to Pakistan and assess the preparations made for the tournament. Also, let us tell you that the situation is not yet clear whether India will go to Pakistan to participate in this multinational tournament or not? The situation regarding this has not been clarified yet. So some time ago, BCCI Secretary Jai Shah had said that the team will go to Pakistan only if the Board gets permission from the Government of India. ICC may consider hybrid model On the other hand, India can consider holding the ICC Champions Trophy 2025 on a hybrid model like the Asia Cup 2023, if India does not tour Pakistan. If this happens then the Indian cricket team can play its Champions Trophy in UAE. Apart from UAE, names of Sri Lanka and South Africa can also be seen. So if we talk about the tournament, its 9th season is ready to be played. It was last organized by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) in 2017. During that time, Pakistan won the title for the first time by defeating India.
Big changes are going to happen in Test and ODI formats, ICC may take decision soon
ICC WTC Logo (Photo Source: To promote the Test and ODI formats, the International Cricket Council (ICC) is considering making some changes. Under this change, there will be a minimum of three Tests in each World Test Championship (WTC) series and in ODIs, two balls will be used for the first 25 overs and then the remaining 25 overs will be bowled with a single ball. The ICC board meeting was held in Dubai, in which women’s cricket was also discussed. If TOI report is to be believed, ICC’s Cricket Committee has received many suggestions in the board meeting. For this reason, the Cricket Committee has recommended that in order to promote Test cricket, as many Day-Night Tests i.e. Pink Ball Test matches should be organized in the next WTC cycle and the Test series should also be of at least 3 matches under the WTC. . ICC is considering conducting a three-match test series An ICC source said, “Some countries like South Africa, New Zealand and Sri Lanka play only two-Test series on most occasions. Only India, England and Australia play long Test series. This does not help in promoting Test cricket and makes the distribution of points very unfair. The recommendations are aimed at eradicating such disparities.” Day-Night Test is currently organized only in Cricket Australia, but BCCI has not played a single Test match with pink ball on its soil for two years. Team India will play the Pink Ball Test in Australia in the coming December. The source said, “The ICC committee believes that more people come to the stadium because of the Test matches played with the pink ball. Recently the viewership in Pakistan has been very low. More tickets than usual were sold in the 3 pink ball test matches played in India. Test playing countries should be encouraged to play more pink ball Test matches.”
ICC Womens T20 World cup 2024: South African women’s team broken after defeat in the final, players cried bitterly
South Africa women’s team reached the final of the T-20 World Cup twice, but lost both times. South Africa Women vs New Zealand Women, Final (Image Credit- Twitter South Africa Womens lost in the T20 World cup 2024 Final: In the final of the Women’s T20 World Cup 2024, New Zealand defeated South Africa by 32 runs and captured the title. The South African team, which performed brilliantly throughout the tournament, collapsed like a pack of cards in the final. In this way his dream of becoming world champion once again remained a dream. After this title defeat, the players of South Africa Women’s team looked very disappointed. There were tears in his eyes, which were not stopping. At the same time, Africa fans were also left bearing the sorrow of winning the trophy. However, he cheered for his team. Meanwhile, ICC has shared a video of the reaction of South African players after the defeat on its official social media handle, in which they are seen crying and sympathizing with each other. At the same time, fans are also consoling the African women’s team on this video. On the other hand, some fans have called the South African cricket team unlucky. Let us tell you that the women’s team has reached the finals of the T-20 World Cup twice, but has lost both times. Earlier, in the last World Cup against Australia, South Africa had lost the final by 19 runs. Watch Video here If we talk about the condition of the final match, New Zealand, batting first at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium, scored 158 runs at the loss of five wickets in the stipulated 20 overs. On behalf of the team, opener Suzie Bates scored 32 runs, Amelia Karr scored 43 runs and Brook Halliday scored 38 runs. In response to this, South Africa made a great start. Laura Wolvaardt (33) and Tajmin Britts (17) made a partnership of 51 runs. But as soon as these two batsmen were out, the entire team collapsed like a house of cards. For New Zealand, Rosemary Mair and Amelia Kar took maximum 3-3 wickets. Apart from this, Aidan Carson, Fran Jonas and Brook Halliday got 1-1 wicket.
