It must be said that Mumbai Indians have bet on Hardik Pandya with such a huge amount of money. Hardik Pandya is still struggling with injuries and is expected to be fit before the IPL but if for some reason he gets injured again and cannot fully recover from the injury then Mumbai Indians will face a big problem. Hardik Pandya has been returned to the team considering the regular XI, so Hardik Pandya must be 100% fit in Mumbai Indians' plans. Usually the thing with injured players is that they can recover themselves during that time but after recovering from the injury when they go back into the match and if again they have a minor injury then they are likely to get injured again.  Hardik Pandya is a young cricketer and Mumbai Indians have bet big money on him considering that he will be a complete hit ahead of IPL.

The writing was clearly on the wall ever since Mumbai Indians spent big money to acquire him from Gujarat Titans. Rohit hasn't been performing well in the T-20 format for sometime now and his age is another issue.

On the other hand, Hardik could be the next long-term white ball captain which is why this decision makes perfect sense. Just sad that Rohit won't be able to compete with MSD(Most titles) anymore.

I don't think MI will drop Tilak Varma for any reason because he had been their savior in 2023 edition and MI back hard the Indian talents more than others so even though they acquired Romario Shepherd from trade it doesn't mean he will be their first preference for the all round position and I see him as a backup in case if someone is injured and forced to replace.

In Asian Cricket Council Under 19s competition, today two matches were finished and both these matches were semi final matches. One semi final match was played Pakistan U19 squad against UAE U19 squad and other match was played India U19 squad against Bangladesh U19 sqaud. Sadly, squads that were expected to win Pakistan U19 sqaud and India U19 squad both these squads were lost today in semi final match very badly and both squads were knocked out from this competition. Firstly, I want to congrats winning squads that have qualified in final match of this competition Bangladesh U19 squad and UAE U19 sqaud. Final match between UAE U19 sqaud and Bangladesh U19 squad will be held after two days on 17th December and let's see who will emerge victory in final match and won this competition Asia Cricket Council Under 19s.

England VS West Indies

Today will be the third match of England vs West Indies T20 series. There have been two matches in this series and West Indies have won both matches and are leading by 2-0. The T20 series will be played in five matches. Today's match is very important for England. If England loses today, the series will be lost. If England wants to win the series, they have to win all three matches. It is not possible for England to win three matches in a row according to the current performance. England team is currently not performing well despite being a strong team. Lost the ODI series against the West Indies and is on course to lose the T20I series as well. According to the current performance, West Indies have more chances to win this match today. Also West Indies will get more support at home. The West Indies players will look to do better today. Let's see if England can survive to win the series today. Do you think which team can win today?

Am just happy that he continued playing primarily for his fans for so freaking long despite clearly showing age related issues on several occasions. Hope he goes out in style just like he did in other formats of Cricket.

Really? This is fantastic news. Personally, I am a fan of Pant and it's actually a miracle seeing him play again after that horrific accident.

After winning the first two T20Is against England, the host West Indies will play the third T20I against England today. The performance of West Indies in T20 seems to be more aggressive than the performance of West Indies against England in ODIs. England are doing well but they cannot cope with a team like West Indies.

Today this match is very important for England because there is no option to win this match today to keep the dream of winning the series alive. On the other hand, West Indies will want to win the series against England with the last two matches in hand. Even after West Indies won the first two matches, they are very much ahead in terms of confidence, so I won't be surprised if West Indies win the third match.

If West Indies is able to win this match against England, they will be winning the series with two matches in hand. I hope England will be able to win this match and keep them alive in this series. England will have to obviously win three matches back to back to win the series. And I definitely do not think that is actually going to happen. At least looking at the recent form of England, I don't think that is a big possibility, to be honest. But I do expect England to win at least one match. Probably they will be able to win this match. Probably not something England will be able to do.

No doubt about England's decline in performance against West Indies but here we need to understand in this format West Indies having the best players as well which are doing good job for them and now in last official matches against England they already won 4 with now today we are going to have third T20i between these two teams West Indies is already on driving seat after winning two first games, and now we have talk can England avoid possible whitewash or no.
England's batting and bowling both are having no depth with their quality is also going down which is also problem for them new generation players are lacking quality with their domestic setup completely failure to produce quality players for this format as well which is really concern for them.