There is some bad news for the ICC. They were ecstatic, after Disney Star won the bidding rights for the 2024-27 media rights cycle for a massive amount of $3.04 billion. Now all of this is in doubt, because of two developements. First of all, Zee has informed Disney that they won't honor their agreement with them:

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/industry/media/entertainment/media/zee-pulls-plug-on-1-5-billion-icc-tv-rights-deal-with-disney/articleshow/107158239.cms?from=mdr

And then, Disney themselves reported massive losses amounting to $315 million from the 2023 ODI World Cup.

https://www.businesstoday.in/latest/corporate/story/icc-cricket-world-cup-brings-disney-star-315-million-loss-416678-2024-02-08

Babar Azam was again appointed the captain of the Pakistan team of white-ball cricket but when he met with the chairman of PCB then he told to them that I wanted the captaincy of the red ball also but at this time, it was not announced.

Babar Azam became the first Pakistani player who led Pakistan to three times of T20 World Cups as captain. I think that he will do the captaincy of Test cricket, and again become a Pakistani player who is the captain of all formats. Another time, Babar Azam is loading in a green jersey as captain. He will lead Pakistan at the World Cup of 2024.



https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/babar-azam-back-as-pakistan-s-white-ball-captain-1427149

Really didn't know this news before. I got to know through your post. It's great to hear that our Bangladeshi umpire has been added to ICC's Elite Panel list. I feel proud as a Bangladeshi. Congratulations to Sharfuddoula for achieving this success and of course his  Wish him more success in future.

Pakistan Vs NewZealand

Pakistan has won the 2nd T20 while in the first T20, the play was not possible due to rain. However, there is a lot of controversy in this series that NZ is playing with its B team because the main players do not want to play for the nation but for the leagues like IPL.

Now, I think that in the next match, Babar Azam changed the playing 11 and for sure he did because, in the press conference before the first match of this series, he said that in this series, you would see many combinations in different matches.

In yesterday's match, we saw the old players form, now Babar Azam gave a chance to play to new players as Zaman Khan, Imad Wasim, Abbas Afridi, Fakhar Zaman, Usman Khan and the last Azam Khan. By the way, I have seen in social media that Azam Khan got a injury and he was out from this series. Even then Pakistan team should try out thier younger players to test their talent too before the world cup but they should not lose a match in this process.  

It's good to see that Pakistan is performing well. And my eyes were really feeling like they have healed from an operation just by watching Mohammed Amir bowl for Pakistan again. That guy is definitely the best find for Pakistan after Shoaib Akhtar. If he did not have such controversies in his carrier, I believe his carrier could have been up there with one of the best bowlers in the whole world ever. It feels like Pakistan is healing from its problems right now. And in the upcoming World Cup, his swing is also going to be very useful for Pakistan.

Pakistan has been able to win the second match pretty easily. The first match was not played. The third match is going to be played tonight. I hope to see another great performance from Pakistan.

A target of 178 runs given by Pakistan is not a small target in a T20 match. Meanwhile, Pakistan's opponents New Zealand have scored 102 runs in 12 overs and they have lost only two wickets so far. So they still have 8 wickets and 8 overs to collect 78 runs. I think New Zealand will be able to do it.  Because New Zealand has a history of playing good cricket.  Although Pakistan is not a bad team and still Pakistan have enough chances to prevent New Zealand from winning the match by bowling well. So let's see which team can win the match from these two good teams in the end

Yes brother you are right defeating target of Pakistan sqaud in third T20 clash against New Zealand squad was not low quality and also not a simple task to achieve this target easily. I have noticed that a lot of new members have been added in new Zealand squad because of playing other competitions. In this match, Pakistan bowlers did not display good bowling innings and did not stop batter of New Zealand squad for completing their defeating target. Shaheen Shah Afridi did not pick any wicket in this match as compare to previous match he collected total 3 wickets and display incredible performance same as other bowler like Muhammad Amir, Naseem Shah etc and played very bad. Mark Chapman batting inning performance was unbelievable and unbeatable because he collected 87 scores off 42 deliveries with not out. After this victory of New Zealand squad, now this competition have tied with equal wins. Two more fights behind for play among both these sqaud and let's watch out which sqaud will beat other other sqaud and win this competition

Does anyone know why did Mohammed Amir not play this match?
If Mohammed Amir was there for Pakistan, I think it was actually going to be easy for them.

But anyway I think Mohammed Amir is pretty old at this point and does deserve some rest to be honest. It is also probably not a good idea to play every match with him, especially before the World Cup. And yes I also remember Babar Azam saying that as well.

So yes I think they are trying out different combinations to see which is going to work the best for them.
But isn’t this a wrong time to do that?
It would have been great if they had done this before. I hope this works for them.

As I received information, I like to share it with you and for sure it is true because I received it from ESPNcricinfo where I saw that Rohit Sharma appealed for Pakistan vs India test match and when it was out then Australia, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, New Zealand, England are coming in the row and appeal for hosting this match because as you all know, the hype of this match is not normal.

I also think that it must happen because test cricket also exists and we are not able to see the Pakistan vs India matches in test cricket for years now. The last bilateral series between these two teams was many years back in 2012/13. Also, we are seeing Pakistan vs India ODI matches only just at World Cups or Asia Cups.

https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/rohit-sharma-on-india-vs-pakistan-test-series-overseas-that-will-be-awesome-1429743