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India’s home season announced, Men in Blue to play South Africa, New Zealand, West Indies and Sri Lanka

The Indian Men’s cricket team would be welcoming New Zealand, West Indies, South Africa and Sri Lanka in what is going to be a heavy home season of 2021-22. 

The Board of control for Cricket India took the decision in the Apex Council meet on Monday, September 20 and announced the home season would begin with a tour of New Zealand to India where they will be playing three T20Is and two Tests starting November 17. 

The T20Is will be played in Jaipur, Ranchi and Kolkata respectively, Kanpur and Mumbai would host India’s Tests against New Zealand. 

Right after the concussion of the New Zealand series, men in maroon from the West Indies will travel to India and play three ODIs and three T20Is in February, starting from 06th Feb. Ahmedabad, Jaipur and Kolkata have been chosen for the three ODIs respectively while Cuttack, Vizag and Trivandrum will host the three T20Is respectively. 

Soon after the island neighbours from down South will be touring the country and they will be playing two Tests and three T20Is from February 25th to March 22 before the Proteas come over. While Bengaluru host the first Test, Mohali would host the second Test as well as the first T20I against Sri Lanka with the rest of the two T20Is going to Dharmashala and Lucknow. 

The South African team will play five T20Is, starting with the first one on June 9 at the MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai. The rest of the four games will be played in Bengaluru, Nagpur, Rajkot and Delhi.

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BCCI increases match fees for domestic cricketers, announces compensation for Covid marred 2020-21 season

Jay Shah, Honorary Secretary of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has announced an increase in the match fees of the domestic cricketers starting from the season of 2021-22. He also went on to announce the compensation for the Covid-19 marred 2020-21 domestic season which was long overdue and a long term demand of state boards and players for their financial assistance. According to a Twitter post by Shah, the players who participated in the 2019-20 domestic season will get a 50 per cent additional match fee as compensation for season 2020-21 lost due to the Covid-19 situation. The decision was taken in the BCCI Apex council meet held on Monday, September 20. According to the increase in the match fees, the domestic senior players, who have played more than 40 matches will be getting Rupees 60,000 per day for a First-Class game, which would mean that they in total would earn Rupees 1.8 lakhs per completed First-Class match. This increase in match fees is a huge increment considering that their previous pay was Rupees 35,000 per day for a First-Class game. Although it hasn’t yet been clarified as to what will the players, who have played less than 40 First Class games would be getting. As for the Under-23 players, they will be getting Rupees 25,000 per day for a First-Class game and the Under-19 players will be getting Rs 20,000 per day. The domestic season of India kicks off in full swing with the Senior Indian Women’s ODI league from September 21. A photo shared by the Times of India on Twitter claims that the match fees of domestic women players have also been increased by BCCI. The Senior women players, from receiving 12,500 per match (there is no case of per day, as women cricketers don't have a permanent first-class set up), would now be receiving Rupees 20,000 per match. As far as the U-23 and U-19 women players are concerned, their match fees has been increased to Rupees 10,000 per day from Rupees 5500.

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IPL 2021 | Coach Fleming points brilliant end of IPL 2020 behind Gaikwad's success this season

The Chennai Super Kings found themselves in big trouble in the opening game of the second part of the Indian Premier League, but the opener Ruturaj Gaikwad held the innings together with Ravindra Jadeja. Later on, he accelerated with incredible shots off Jasprit Bumrah and Trent Boult to take the Super Kings to a defendable total. The head coach of the Super Kings, Stephen Fleming has commended Gaikwad for his match-winning innings against the Mumbai Indians. He outlined his brilliant finish to the last season in UAE where the Super Kings had struggled as a team behind his rapid rise to success. He said that Gaikwad got into the groove only in the ending phase of the tournament last year when all was over the side in IPL 2020 and also admitted mistake on the part of the team management for “rushing him after recovery from Covid-19”. "We had big tabs on him since last season and I think we rushed him a bit too early after recovering from COVID. I think the way he finished in Dubai last year in the IPL set him up for the start of this season. In a big match, it’s quite special for him to play such a big innings," Fleming said in a virtual press conference. He also addressed the injury concerns to Ambati Rayudu, who was hit on the hand by express delivery from Adam Millen early on in the innings and Deepak Chahar, who was struggling to bowl his final over of the game. Rayudu could not bat after taking that blow and was retired hurt. Fleming confirmed that the right-hander did not suffer a fracture and instead started recovery from a “bad bruise”. On Chahar, Fleming said that the pacer went through cramps and not any serious injury concerns. "It’s a bad bruise and he lost a little bit of power on the grip. Thankfully, nothing's broken. With Chahar he had cramps, but we will check that out tomorrow," he said. The Super Kings restarted their IPL 2021 campaign with a big win over the Mumbai Indians and went past the Delhi Capitals to the top of the points table with six wins out of the eight games played this season.