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The Rohit Sharma-led Team India will kick off their 2022 T20 World Cup campaign in Australia with two practice matches Down Under, starting from October 16. Notably, India is scheduled to play the hosts in the first practice match on October 17 and New Zealand on October 19. The Indian team will get into action in the Super 12 stage, encountering arch-rivals Pakistan on October 23.

With the inaugural edition of the Women’s Indian Premier League (IPL), the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) is considering having five teams as well as permitting five overseas players in a playing XI. A Cricbuzz source confirmed, apart from these two, the tentative window for Women’s IPL is March 2023, scheduled after the Women’s T20 World Cup 2023 in South Africa, which is from February 10-26.

Mohammed Shami, Mohammed Siraj and Shardul Thakur is all set to fly to Australia and join the Indian squad for the ICC T20 World Cup, starting on October 16. Notably, Shardul Thakur, Shami and Siraj have been named after Jasprit Bumrah and Deepak Chahar were ruled out amid injuries. On October 12, the BCCI named Shardul Thakur to be part of the Rohit Sharma-led Indian Cricket Squad.

Amid the exit of Sourav Ganguly as the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) President started blame game between the BJP and the TMC. While the ruling TMC has linked Ganguly’s exit from the BCCI amid “refusal” to join the BJP, the saffron party leader Locket Chatterjee hit back saying, there is no truth in such allegations and confirmed Ganguly's exit has nothing to do with BJP.

The Indian Deaf Cricket Team won the tournament with 141 runs and maintained an excellent record after defeating the South African team, by 39 runs. In the final match, the Indian Cricket Team won the match and secured the DICC T20 Trophy, at Malek Stadium at Ajman, the United Arab Emirates. Moreover, this was a special match, as it was first time Indian Deaf Cricket played International after the pandemic.