BCCI President Sourav Ganguly tests positive for Covid-19

The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) President Sourav Ganguly has tested positive for Covid-19. Ganguly, 49, has had two surgeries on his heart this year after complaining about chest pains. On Monday night, 27 December, Ganguly was admitted to Woodlands nursing home after returning positive for his RT-PCR test. The BCCI president is double vaccinated and has been travelling extensively to participate in promotional activities. 

Ganguly was in Gurgaon last week attending in a promotional event right after his vs Virat Kohli's saga blew up in the media.


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The Ashes | England suffer innings defeat to submit the Urn at the MCG

England have submitted the ‘Urn’ losing their third straight Test match of The Ashes Down Under at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on Tuesday, 28 December. Losing the Boxing Day Test match by a massive margin of an innings and 14 runs, England now have not been able to get their hands on the Urn for three series in a row. Already in a precarious position after losing four wickets on Day 2, England batting order once again succumbed to the relentless attack of the Aussie pace attack and folded within one and a half hours of play on the moving day of the Test match. They managed to put up just 68 runs in the second innings in reply to Australia’s 267. On debut, local lad Scott Boland picked up six wickets for just seven runs from his four overs to seal the massive win for the home side. The first indigenous cricketer to wear the Baggy Green since Jason Gillespie was rewarded with the man of the match award for his incredible work on Day 3. Boland picked seven wickets in total in this Test match. England found it incredibly difficult on the day as the Aussies consistently hit the top of off stump forcing the touring side into mistakes in the morning session. Joe Root, Ben Stokes, Jonny Bairstow, all of England’s batters were found out against similar line of attack, failing to put up much resistance against the likes of Mitchell Starc, Pat Cummins, Scott Boland and Cameron Green. In the process, England scored their 54th duck in the 2021 Test calendar, their highest since 1998. Asked about the team’s performance in the post match interaction, England’s captain Joe Root called it disappointing considering how well the bowlers had performed in the Test match. He stated that he was proud of the way England were able to focus on the game despite the off field issues of Covid-19 that almost put the Test match in jeopardy. Australia captain, Pat Cummins, who has now won his debut Ashes as the skipper of the side ushered that this could start the new era for Australian cricket and he was really proud of how relentless the Aussie bowling attack was on this Test match.