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Interesting facts about cricketers will enlighten the reader about their favourite cricket icons, about their journey or how they reached the top level. 
For example, we did not know that Mohammad Siraj started playing cricket at the age of 21. Usually people have an established cricketer by that age. But he stared very late and covered that time gap quite fast. 
Similarly we have stated more facts about cricketers from different parts of the world. 

IPL 2025 will be even more exciting as the retention rules have changes. The auction for the next edition of IPL will be held in November and that is when we’ll see major shuffling happening. New players will be emerging, old players will be bought by different franchises etc. 

The retention rules have changes drastically. Following are the change in rules:

• Retention of maximum of six players(RTM card) 
• Auction purse for each team increased to ₹120 crore from ₹100 crore
• A maximum of 5 capped players (Indian or overseas) can be retained 
• Maximum of 2 uncapped players can be retained 
• Indian players who have not played for the country for the past 5 years are consider uncapped. 
• Salary slab for retained uncapped player is ₹4 crore and this shall be deducted from total purse value

IPL 2023 brought in a major twist as the impact player rule was introduced. The rule originated from Big Bash League 2021 and now it is common norm in IPL too. 
Under this rule, a team can play with 12 players instead of 11 and hence it provides a cushion of extra bowler/ batsman. 
this rule has changed the dynamics of the game vastly but has few repercussions too. 
few players are in favour of the rule and few are not. 
players like Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma etc feel that this is disturbing the true essence of the game. While, players like Saurav Ganguly feel that is evolving the game. Due to such mixed opinions, the board is yet to take a call regarding the continuity of the rule. 

Trent Boult started playing cricket at a young age, he used to practice with his brother. Both of them used to play for the same team in domestic cricket. At junior level, he has played Under 19 World Cup as well. 
In 2011 he made his way in International cricket and since then he has been one of the key players in New Zealand’s squad. 
He has played all the three formats for his country and has been one the most successful players produced by the country. Moreover, he is a regular member in IPL as well. He has been with a number of a franchises here. 

Irani Cup is one the most important matches in domestic circuit of India. The team which wins Ranji trophy in a season plays as one of the teams in Irani Cup. Other team is picked by national selectors. 
It is a red ball cricket match and hence the game lasts for five days, 

the most successful team has been Rest of India. 
In 2024 edition of Irani Cup, the match was played between Mumbai and Rest of India, Mumbai clinched the title. Key performances were by Sarfaraz Khan, Ajinkya Rahane and Tanush Kotian, they all played for Mumbai.

However from ROI team, Mukesh Kumar did well as he took a five wicket haul in first innings. Later, Saransh Jain took six wickets in second innings. 

India played a two match test series against Bangladesh with recently concluded. We saw some quality cricket as both the teams looked solid. 
It was a memorable outing for men in blue as they conveniently won both the matches. The best takeaway from both the matches was that every player in Indian contingent was contributing, either with bat or with ball, and sometimes even in all the three departments. 
Now, the next assignment for Indian team is home test series against New Zealand. They will be playing three match at different venues and these points will be very crucial for Indian team as they are looking to lock their spot in the Final of World Test Champions.

Team India is making a fresh solid team in T20I. Now that, the three big names- Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma and Ravindra Jadeja have retired, it’s time for the next generation players to step up and lead the team to greater heights. 
Recently the selectors have announced the team for upcoming series against Bangladesh and the team is as follows: 

India: Suryakumar Yadav(c), Abhishek Sharma, Sanju Samson(wk), Rinku Singh, Hardik Pandya, Riyan Parag, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Shivam Dube, Washington Sundar, Ravi Bishnoi, Varun Chakaravarthy, Jitesh Sharma(wk), Arshdeep Singh, Harshit Rana, Mayank Yadav 
It will be very interesting to see who steps up on the occasion and who sinks to the pressure. 

Border Gavaskar trophy is test match series between India and Australia. It is a highly competitive series as both the teams fight hard to win the matches. 
The first edition was held in 1996-97 and since then it is held regularly. The next edition is from 22 November, 2025 as team India will tour to Australia. 
India are the current champions and they are the more successful as they have managed to win on 10 occasions.