Cricket World Cup 2019

Erasmus admits to making 'massive error' in 2019 ODI World Cup final

Recently retired elite panel umpire Marais Erasmus has admitted to making a 'massive' mistake in the 2019 ODI World Cup final that England won in a rather controversial fashion at the iconic Lord's. England won their maiden ODI World Cup title by edging New Zealand on the now-scrapped boundary countback rule after both teams were tied following a Super Over. However, the game could have ended in regulation time if on-field umpire Erasmus and Kumar Dharamsena did not award England six runs for an overthrow in the 50th over with the hosts needing nine runs from three balls. It was later realised that England should have been awarded only five runs as the batters had not crossed for the second run. The next morning (after the final) I opened my hotel room door on my way to breakfast and Kumar opened his door at the same time and he said, did you see we made a massive error?' That's when I got to know about it," Erasmus told 'The Telegraph'. "But in the moment on the field, we just sai

Not Bumrah or Jadeja: The highest Indian ODI wicket-taker since 2019 WC is?

In the ODIs, since the 2019 World Cup, India's highest wicket-taker is Shardul Thakur who has crossed the figure of 50 wickets

WTC Final: India fall in a knockout again; why does this keep happening?

With the loss in the World Test Championship 2023 Final, India have now lost eight straight knockout games (final and semi-final) in ICC events in the last 10 years. They last won in 2013

2012 U-19 World Cup winning captain Unmukt Chand announces retirement

Delhi batsman Unmukt Chand, who shot to prominence by being the 2012 U-19 World Cup winning captain, has announced his retirement from cricket in India

On this day in 2019: Rohit Sharma became first to score 5 tons in one WC

On July 6 last year, star Indian opener Rohit Sharma broke great Sri Lankan batsman Kumar Sangakkara's record of scoring highest number of centuries in a single edition of the 50-over World Cup

CWC is India's most searched topic on Google in 2019, shows trends

Overall, Chandrayaan 2 was the third most searched item, followed by Bollywood movie Kabir Singh

'I drink coffee': Anushka on selectors serving her tea during match report

The 31-year-old actor said that people spread lies repeatedly so that it looks like the truth and she was afraid of that

In pics: Sourav Ganguly's journey from cricketer to BCCI president

'Maharaj' as he was fondly called, became a cricket administrator in 2009 and is currently the President of the Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB)

ICC defends Dharmasena's overthrow call during Eng-NZ WC final

For the first time after the World Cup final, the International Cricket Council has come out with a public statement about the controversial incident

New Zealand didn't deserve to lose World Cup final: England's Jos Buttler

The World Cup final witnessed a first-ever super-over in which England came out triumphant as they had scored more boundaries in the match

SA's loss to Pak embarrassing, need to rebuild team like Eng did: Kallis

A 49-run defeat by Pakistan at Lord's on Sunday ensured that, with two games in the 10-team round-robin phase still to play, there is no way South Africa can qualify for the semi-finals