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🚨 Cricket is now officially part of:

Olympics ✅
Asian Games ✅
African Games ✅
South Asian Games ✅
Commonwealth Games – ✅ likely to be
Pan American Games – ✅

Cricket keeps getting bigger and bigger becoming bigger than ever!

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🚨 For the first time, cricket has officially been included in the Pan American Games Lima, Peru 2027!

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📺💰 BCCI vs ECB broadcast revenue from the domestic market!!

ECB
Home Internationals ... : $870M (4yrs) → $217.5M/yr
The Hundred : $260M (4yrs) → $65M/yr

BCCI
Home Internationals .... : $720M (6yrs) → $120M/yr

ECB rights are fully bundled
BCCI sells IPL & WPL separately

50 Years of CWC

On this day in 1975, the first-ever Cricket World Cup match was played between England and India at Lord’s, in a 60-over format.

A total of 8 teams participated in the inaugural tournament-and the rest is history.

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Money is imp

Lots of challenges ahead. Cricket has become such a messy sport full of very incompetent soulless peps.

🚨 ECB is reportedly exploring the idea of reviving a global T20 club tournament similar to the old Champions League T20 (CLT20) where top franchise teams from all around the world can compete.

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🚨🇦🇺 ESPN has secured the broadcast rights for Australia's white-ball and Test tour of the West Indies, outbidding Channel Seven.

This tour includes 3 Tests (2 day Tests and 1 day night Test) and 5 T20Is matches.

Matches will now be on Foxtel, Disney+ and Kayo.

🚨🇦🇺 CA has sold over 311,600 tickets on the first day of Ashes pre-sale, nearly triple the previous single-day sales record of 111,741 tickets

Over 50k tickets have been bought from the UK.The next ticket release for registered fans is on June 6 & any remaining public tickets will go on sale June 13

🚨🇳🇿 New Zealand men's centrally contracted players, year 2025–2026:

M Abbas,A Ashok,T Blundell,M Bracewell,M Chapman,J Duffy,Z Foulkes, M Hay, M Henry,Kyle Jamieson, Tom Latham, Daryl Mitchell, H Nicholls,W O'Rourke,G Phillips, R Ravindra, M Santner, B Sears, N Smith,W Young.

ODI format is sooo cooked! @ICC

🚨 ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup 2025 will be played from September 30 to November 2 across 5 venues 4 in India and 1 in Sri Lanka.

Venues:
M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, ACA Stadium, Holkar Stadium, ACA-VDCA Stadium, R. Premadasa Stadium(🇱🇰)

Opening: M. Chinnaswamy Stadium
Final:

🚨🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 ECB is considering scheduling seven home Test matches in 2027, the most since 2022, to prepare for the Ashes series.

A two-match warm-up series against either West Indies or Sri Lanka, instead of the usual one-off Test before the Ashes.

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🚨🇿🇼 Zimbabwe wants to host England at Victoria Falls—where a new stadium is under construction for the 2027 World Cup, which Zimbabwe is co-hosting with SA & Namibia.

Talks are underway for a potential white-ball or one-off Test in the 2027–31 FTP, possibly during England’s South Africa tour.

🚨🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 ECB has signed a 4 year deal with Channel 5 to broadcast 4 live international T20 matches every year on FTA TV — 2 England Men’s and 2 England Women’s games.

Channel 5 will also stream highlights from county cricket’s Vitality Blast competition across the season.

Cricket is the one and only sport on the planet with world champions or finalists from every residential continent.

Europe: England
Asia: India, Pakistan,Sri Lanka
South America: Guyana
North America: West Indies
Oceania: Australia
Africa: South Africa (T20 WC) finalist

🚨🇿🇦 South Africa’s official shirt for the World Test Championship Final against Australia with the Castle Lager logo on the sleeve the official team sponsor of the Proteas Men for the duration of the WTC.

🚨🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 England’s full-strength squad for the one-off Test vs Zimbabwe:

Crawley, Duckett, Pope, Root, Brook, Stokes, Smith, Atkinson, Cook, Tongue, Bashir.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 England’s 2025 Test schedule (as per ICC FTP 2023–27):

vs 🇿🇼 Zimbabwe (Home) – 1 Test (May 2025)

vs 🇮🇳 India (Home) – 5 Tests (June – August 2025)

vs 🇦🇺 Australia (Away) – 5 Tests (Nov 2025 – Jan 2026)

🇮🇳 Indias 2025 Test schedule (as per ICC FTP 2023–27):

vs 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 England (Away) – 5 Tests (June – August 2025)
VS 🌴 West Indies (Home) - 2 Tests (October 2025)
Vs 🇮🇳 South Africa ( Home) – 2 Tests ( Nov - Dec 2025)

🚨 🇿🇦 South Africa 2025 Test schedule (as per ICC FTP 2023–27):

VS 🇦🇺 Australia (Away) 1 Test (June 2025) WTC final
vs 🇿🇼 Zimbabwe (Away) – 2 Tests (Jun - Jul 2025)
VS 🇵🇰 Pakistan (Away) – 2 Tests (Oct - Nov 2025)
Vs 🇮🇳 India ( Away) – 2 Tests ( Nov - Dec 2025)

🚨 🇦🇺 Australia's remaining 2025 Test schedule (as per ICC FTP 2023–27):

VS 🇿🇦 South Africa (Away) 1 Test (June 2025) WTC final
vs 🌴 West Indies (Away) – 3 Tests (Jun - Jul 2025)
vs 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 England (Home) – 5 Tests (Nov 2025 – Jan 2026)

🚨 🇿🇼 Zimbabwe’s remaining Test matches in 2025 ( as per FTP 2023-27):

vs 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 England (Away) – 1 Test (May 2025)
vs 🇿🇦 south Africa (Home) – 2 Tests (Jun - Jul 2025)
vs New Zealand (Home) – 2 Tests (Jul - Aug 2025)
vs 🇦🇫 Afghanistan (Home) – 2 Tests (Oct - Nov 2025)

🚨 33 year-old Barbadian cricketer Roston Chase is most likely to be appointed as the new West Indies Test captain.

- strengthen India’s influence in the ICC.

And btw, the broadcaster holding ICC rights for the Indian market from 2024 to 2027 is projected to lose around $1.5 million over four years almost half of what they paid for the rights.

🚨 Sanjog Gupta is most likely to become the new CEO of the ICC. If he gets the role, then two Indians will be in the biggest posts in world cricket.

Chairman: Indian
CEO: Indian

OFC final calls will be made collectively, but having two Indians in these roles will only -

🚨 ICC has confirmed that the winner of the ICC World Test Championship Final 2025 will receive $3.6 million — a 125% increase compared to the 2023 final. The runner-up will get $2.1 million, a 162% increase from last time.

🚨🇿🇦 It’s official! Here’s South Africa’s squad for the World Test Championship WTC Final against Australia

Temba Bavuma (C), de Zorzi, Markram, Mulder, Jansen, Rabada, Maharaj, Ngidi, Bosch, Verreynne, Bedingham, Stubbs, Rickelton, Muthusamy and Paterson.

🚨🇵🇰 Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has confirmed Mike Hesson as the new white-ball head coach of the Pakistan men’s cricket team.

He’s set to take charge of the white-ball team in two weeks when Pakistan hosts Bangladesh.

🚨🇦🇺 It’s official! Here’s Australia’s squad for the World Test Championship WTC Final against South Africa 🇿🇦