Recently BCCI has changed a few things. They are willing to take more risks to get the maximum benefit out of everything. They know very well that it is going to be a big risk to arrange WIPL at this moment. But they have realized that if they don’t do something like this, Indian women’s cricket is probably not on track to improve as fast as they want. So they are willing to take the risk.

In addition, I believe that the Indian women cricketers will improve rapidly in the near future. Obviously, there will be more and more women cricketers coming forward from India. This will also help the whole region. The scene of women’s cricket in the whole region is going to improve.

I guess this happened so fast because of the recent incredible performance of Indian women team in CWG 2022. Otherwise they would have tried to delay the WIPL. Another factor would have been the increase in TV and online viewership of the games played by Indian team. In all it is a very good news for women cricket in india and especially the young girls who are struggling to get selected in the women A team.

He is one of the best product from Bangladesh in sports, but sadly he has never been ideal for youths or his other teammates due to behavior and on and off the field controversies with these all calling him "Role Model" is never been good because he needs to be more polite and responsible but never done anything good which give some positive view about him most of the time he wants to be on main media stream and for this doing things wrong or right no problem for him even just because of him BCB and teammates faces humiliations as well, but he never cares about this all.

His record as player and captain is not bad at all but still he doesn't deserve with this tag he is role model celebrity from Bangladesh.

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In general English pitch are more suitable for pacers. I doubt whether South African spinners will be that effective on those pitch. South African have a good batting depth but they lag it in bowling. On the other hand England has both as proven in previous test match played by them in their homeground earlier this year.

I am afraid that there will be an oversaturation of franchise cricket very soon. Duirng the early days, it was just the IPL, BBL, PSL, CPL, T20 Blast and the smaller BPL from Bangladesh. But now there are additional leagues from Sri Lanka, South Africa, UAE and a number of other countries. New leagues doesn't mean new viewers. The number of fans will remain the same. The new leagues may however poach viewers from other established leagues. And given the huge amount of money being splurged by new leagues such as ILT20 and CSA T20 League, it is very much possible. 

Irrespective of who started it, in the end it was Shakib and Bangladesh cricket who suffered. And I don't think that the director faced any fallout from all these confrontations. I have heard comments about Shakib's attitude. During the Dhaka T20 league, he had an altercation with the umpires. Before that, there were similar incidents during some of the domestic matches. But that doesn't provide excuse to BCB for mistreating such a good player. Because of their adamant nature, their own cricket team got impacted.

I am not sure why in the first instance Shakib went for such an advertisement campaign.

The ICC and the other boards don't really care about preserving the traditional formats. They care about money more than ever thanks to the economic turmoil around the world currently.

Many players are retiring early from tests and ODIs too in order to focus on the T-20 format which makes sense if you think about it.

Did anyone noticed that South Africa is currently at the top of the ICC World Test Championship 2021-2023 points table? That may change after the test series between England and South Africa, which is about to start next week. At least on paper, England is stronger. And given the poor form of South African pacers (Nortje, Rabada.etc), I don't think that they will be able to win any of the matches. Their batsmen are in good form though.

Players such as Mashrafe never faced this issue. What is the real reason for all this bad blood between the BCB and Shakib al Hasan? I still remember the BCB handing him a one year ban, just because there was a delay from his part in reporting the approach by a bookie during IPL (he was playing for Sunrisers Hyderabad at that time). He could have been let off with a warning, because he never indulged in any sort of match fixing. But the BCB handed him a one year ban, and he couldn't play international cricket during this period.

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Bangladesh is developing as a cricketing nation and money alone does not produce exceptional talents  . They have their Bangladesh Cricket League and hopefully they will be finding players of quality like Shakib Al Hasan, but it is a long process of grooming young talents.

IPL is different from ICC tournaments. In the ICC tournaments, there will be only a few matches involving India and therefore the overall TRP will be lower than that in the IPL. On top of that, there is always a chance of something like what happened in 2007 repeating. India and Pakistan got out in the preliminary phase and that resulted in huge losses to the broadcasters. And also, given the declining popularity of the ODI format, I am not sure whether the ODI World Cup will remain as one of the premier tournaments in the long term.

First and foremost, a first-class domestic system can never be effective if there are a total of 38 teams. 38 teams means around 500 first class players and the standard get automatically diluted as a result. Even in England, they have only 18 first class teams, although these county sides have been playing for hundreds of years. For me, my argument will be exactly the opposite. Rather then good players opting to play for smaller states, the system is encouraging below average players to leach off the BCCI funds. 

BTW any information on the ICC media rights auction? It was supposed to happen sometime soon. The last time I heard (in July), the broadcasters were unhappy over the lack of transparency in bidding:

https://www.insidesport.in/icc-media-rights-auction-icc-in-fix-as-top-broadcasters-upset-over-lack-of-transparency-in-tendering-process-follow-live-updates/

I am not surprised, given the level of corruption and nepotism that is prevalent among the ICC officials. Indian broadcasters have threatened to pull out from the auction unless their concerns are addressed. The bids need to be submitted by August 22nd BTW. Bids will be opened on 26th August, and after that the ICC officials will "negotiate" individually with each of the broadcasters. The main issue as far as I know, is the "sealed envelope bidding" process instead of e-auction (similar to what they had in IPL).

The new UAE T20 cricket league has contacted a few Pakistani cricketers to be part of the franchise. But, PCB is not willing to let their cricketers and those playing in PSL to be a part of this proffesional league. I found this article. I am not certain if this source is correct. As per my understanding PCB, what I think is giving excuses. Why PCB is not granting an NOC? This might create a situation similar to WICB faced in the past. Do you guys think so? I might be wrong! So excuse me, if I am wrong.

In last few years ICC completely fail to maintain good control on finances, and they are also failed to give proper funds to associate countries because even they have enough funds, and they can do some good for this game and development in these few associate countries specially which are doing with their native players because they deserve some better treatment from them for their infrastructure and other developments.

I am very much sure that ICC can manage this all with their sources they are not doing any good thing which is surely hurting as cricketing fan because this game surely deserve much better than which is currently happening around with just for better and secure future of these B-4 instead of all countries those are involved and can bring better quality and entertainment.

I am not comfortable with teams such as Puducherry and Chandigarh playing in the elite group, solely due to players sourced from other states. If any of the players feel that they are not getting enough opportunities, then let them play for lower ranking teams such as Goa or Tripura. What is the point in having separate teams for these small UTs? In that case, even Andaman, Ladakh and Lakshadweep needs to have its own team. In case of Delhi, I don't have a problem because it is always considered as a separate state. But Chandigarh for example, is definitely not a state.

That Indian cricket board knew that if they do not play with Pakistan and can show the problem of terrorism to be the main cause of it, the Pakistan cricket world is going to suffer a lot. And that did happen. The Pakistan cricket board and Pakistan cricket as a whole suffered a lot because the other cricket boards also began to be a lot concerned and did not want to play with Pakistan especially when Pakistan wanted to be the hosting team. But now Pakistan is trying to overcome that. And now they are trying to be independent which I think they are going to be successful in doing.

OK.. so the promotion/relegation system was not implemented for this season. Another thing the BCCI should take in to account is the trend where some of the smaller states and union territories (Puducherry, Chandigarh.etc) field teams where 90% of the players are mercenaries (i.e originally from other states). This has enabled them to progress to the Elite group, at the expense of the teams that field native players (such as Manipur and Mizoram). There should be a limit on the number of players from other states who can represent these teams. 

I thought that they already had a promotion-relegation system in Ranji Trophy. For the last season, there was a Plate Group which was consisted of 6 teams (Arunachal Pradesh, Bihar, Manipur, Mizoram, Nagaland and Sikkim). 4 teams that were earlier part of the Plate Group in previous season were placed in the main group for 2021 (Goa, Puducherry, Chandigarh and Meghalaya). Now I don't have any idea about how they are going to place the teams for this season. Nagaland finished on top of Plate Group last season, so most probably they will be placed in the main group this time.