In 2022, England dared to change the way Test matches are played. Success in red-ball and white-ball cricket made it a year to remember.
From England’s attacking brand of Test justice spanning new heights to India milling a reboot of its T20 mind set and Australia reaffirming its ascendance in women’s justice, 2022 brought joy, elatedness, hurt and conspiracy in equal measure.
It felt like a continuance of ‘ what ifs ’ and ‘if only’ for the Indian justice addict. The performance of the men’s platoon was dominated by a thrilling face- off witharch-rival Pakistan and an inventiveness of a kind from Suryakumar Yadav that earned him comparisons to AB de Villiers. It seems he can go toe- to- toe with the South African great not only on gift but also on outrageous shot- making capacities.
The platoon results, by discrepancy, were underwhelming. An early exit at the Asia Cup in the UAE was followed by a stunning 10- gate defeat to England in the semifinals of the T20 World Cup in Australia. The time had begun, too, with a sobering Test series loss in South Africa.
Meanwhile, the women finished fifth in the ODI World Cup and lost a home T20I series to Australia. The highlights were – a spirited run to the final of the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, a 3- 0 ODI series win in England, and a seventh Asia Cup title. Two of women’s justice’s most outstanding stars – Jhulan Goswami and Mithali Raj – retired in 2022.
Indian domestic cricketers had reasons to celebrate as Ranji jewel returned after a COVID- 19 convinced hiatus. The 2022 season was held over two phases. The first featured 38 brigades and 57 matches between February 10 and March 15. The knockouts were held in the alternate phase, after IPL 2022; it comprised seven matches between May 30 and June 26. Madhya Pradesh beat Mumbai to win the Ranji jewel last season. still, the 2022- 23 season will run for 10 weeks and has been resolve into two orders – plate and nobility.
That said, the caption act remained Virat Kohli’s mesmerising 53- ball 82 in a T20 World Cup win against Pakistan in front of,293 suckers at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. The performance couldn’t have been more impeccably executed nor further dramatically delivered.
The last time was also when England dared to change the way Test matches are played. It started with a calamitous 0- 4 Ashes series defeat which crowned in Chris Silverwood leaving as head trainer and Ashley Giles stepping down as director of justice. But when curtains were drawn on the time, England, on its first Test stint of Pakistan in 17 times, came the first visiting platoon to win three matches in a series. It limited off a inconceivable metamorphosis under new Test captain Ben Stokes and new head trainer Brendon McCullum who have introduced to England an aggressive brand of red- ball justice – in Rawalpindi, England came the first Test platoon ever to score 500 runs on the first day of a Test series.
And to eclipse it all, the Three Lions also came the first platoon to hold both white- ball world titles at the same time following its alternate T20 World Cup win Down Under.
Still, the women’s platoon was in the middle of a contestation when India’s Deepti Sharma stopped in her delivery stride to run out Charlie Dean at the non-striker’s end and thereby insure a 3- 0 series palm over England. Dean left the field in gashes and the redundancy, though divisive, was well within the laws of the game.
The time was a mixed bag for Australian men’s platoon. It claimed a 115- run palm in the third and final Test in Lahore to win its first series in Pakistan in nearly 25 times, but failed spectacularly to defend the T20 World Cup title at home. Pat Cummins and his men also earned cheer for completing the stint of Sri Lanka indeed as the country’s crippling profitable extremity hovered to throw a spanner in the workshop. The women added luster to the title press with its record seventh ODI World Cup palm and a Commonwealth Games gold order.
The Pakistan men’s platoon made it to the final of the T20 World Cup and the Asia Cup, but couldn’t win either title. Pakistan’s 0- 3 Test series defeat to England at home remains its smallest point.
The New Zealand men’s platoon had an average time. Its 89- run palm over Australia in the opening game of the Super 12s in the T20 World Cup was its lone highlight. It was its first palm against Australia in Australia since 2011. The women had a disappointing crusade at home in the ODI World Cup, but put on a stalwart show to beat England and win the citation order at the Commonwealth Games.
On the other hand, South Africa crashed out of the men’s T20 World Cup after losing its final group match to the Netherlands, performing in the end of Mark Boucher’s term as the head trainer. still, it wasn’t all doom and dusk for the Proteas, who had beaten India 2- 1 for a notorious Test series win at home.
Away, Bangladesh’s men’s platoon pulled off an eight- gate Test palm against New Zealand in New Zealand for the first time in its history, while West Indies, the two- time world champion, didn’t indeed qualify for the Super 12s of the T20 World Cup. West Indies limited- overs captain Kieron Pollard retired from transnational justice in April, accentuating a peering hole in the formerly- stressed Caribbean T20 setup.
It was a good time for Afghanistan, which trumped Sri Lanka – the eventual champion – and Bangladesh to eclipse Group B in the first round of the Asia Cup in the UAE. Zimbabwe won hearts at the T20 World Cup, where Sikandar Raza’s three lattices in five balls helped it decide a notorious palm over Pakistan. Zimbabwe also beat Bangladesh in an ODI series for the first time since 2013, and won an ODI in Australia for the first time.
For women’s justice. The first- everU-19 Women’s World Cup and the Women’s T20 World Cup will be held; these competitions will be followed by the initial editions of the Women’s IPL and the PSL.
The final of the ongoing ICC men’s World Test Championship will be held at The Oval in June 2023, with the Border- Gavaskar jewel between India and Australia probably to decide the two finalists.
It remains to be seen whether the 2023 Asia Cup will be held in Pakistan. Jay Shah, clerk of the BCCI and chairman of the Asia Cricket Council( ACC), said that the Asia Cup needs to be moved to a neutral venue. The Pakistan Cricket Board responded with “ surprise and disappointment, ” claiming Shah had acted “ unilaterally. ” The two sides don’t meet outside transnational events because of simulated political relations. Pakistan is due to host its first Asia Cup since 2008 before India hosts the men’s 50- over World Cup in October and November.
Dispensable to say, suckers can anticipate a steady diet of men’s and women’s justice with a plethora of flatware at stake. Know More News….
