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ECB name CSK as the strongest team after IPL 2022 mega auction

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The IPL 2022 mega auction finally came to a close on Sunday, with some of the biggest names in cricket being sold for eye-popping sums. . All participating franchises have finally rebuilt their team for the next edition of the Marquee Tournament, scheduled for March 27th. current champion Chennai Super Kings also bought not only many old players in his team but also some new players.

Chennai Super Kings have won the IPL title four times. In all the seasons they has played, 2020 ,the only time it has happened is that they has not been able to reach the playoffs. This shows the strength and consistency of this team. This time too the team will be among the contenders for the title. 

Meanwhile, since the end of the mega auction, experts from all around the world have been hard at work dissecting each team and deciding who has assembled the best squad.  However a cricket fan asked the England and Wales Cricket Board a question on social media as to which is the strongest team in Bangalore after the two-day auction process. England Cricket replied by saying that it has to be CSK without any hesitation.

Chennai Super Kings bought 21 players during IPL 2022 auction. Dwayne Bravo, Ambati Rayudu, Robin Uthappa, Deepak Chahar, Mitchell Santner, and Shivam Dube were some of the popular players bought by CSK during the auction. CSK’s highest deal was Deepak Chahar for Rs. 14 crores.

James Anderson, Stuart Broad dropped from England Test squad for West Indies

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England & Wales Cricket Board announced the squad for the tour of West Indies. The humiliating 4-0 loss against Australia in the recently concluded Ashed  has already seen the likes of Ashley Giles, Chris Silverwood, and Graham Thorpe losing their jobs and now England’s two leading wicket-takers in Test cricket have been forced to follow the same route. The selection panel has dropped eight players who featured in the recent Ashes series.

England’s all-time leading test wicket-takers James Anderson and Stuart Broad have been dropped for the three-test tour against West Indies. Fast bowlers Anderson and Broad have taken a combined 1,177 wickets in Test cricket but were left out of the 16-man squad by a selection panel. Apart from them Dom Bess, Sam Billings, Rory Burns, Jos Buttler, Haseeb Hameed and Dawid Malan also miss out.

In a statement released by the ECB, Strauss, said: “In respect of James Anderson and Stuart Broad, I want to emphasise this does not mean the end for them as England players. We feel that it is important to look at some exciting new bowling potential and give some added responsibility to other players who have featured previously. No one doubts the quality and experience that James and Stuart bring to the England set-up. It will be up to the new managing director and permanent head coach to decide on whether they will be involved this summer and beyond.”

England are scheduled to play a three-match Test series against the West Indies with the opening game set to be played on March 8. The three-match Test series forms part of the ICC World Test Championship.

England Squad: Joe Root (C), Jonny Bairstow, Zak Crawley, Matthew Fischer, Ben Foakes, Dan Lawrence, Jack Leach, Alex Lees, Saqib Mahmood, Craig Overton, Matthew Parkinson, Ollie Pope, Ollie Robinson, Ben Stokes, Chris Woakes, Mark Wood

Former Australia’s coach, Justin Langer to get an offer from ECB for the position of Head Coach

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England would be prepared to make Justin Langer the highest-paid head coach in their history following his bitter departure from the Australia job over the weekend.

The ECB board might shell out an eyebrow-raising sum of money to hire Justin Langer. Langer, who had taken over as Australia’s coach in 2018 after the Sandpaper-gate scandal in South Africa, on Saturday stepped down unhappy with CA’s decision to offer him just a six-month contract for guiding the team to its maiden ICC T20 World Cup trophy in the UAE and a 4-0 Ashes triumph at home.

The 51-year-old became a free agent on Saturday when he turned down a six-month extension to his current deal and quit with immediate effect. The ECB chief executive Tom Harrison recently has admitted the board will look for the best candidate while looking into the financial constraints “We have to make the right decisions around coaching budgets. Clearly, you are coaching England. We need the best coaches available to do that,” said Harrison.

Meanwhile, Former Australia opening batter Matthew Hayden has suggested that ECB must sign Langer, given his four-year tenure while Ponting said that this was a strange time for a coach to depart. “Sign him up. If he can turn Cricket Australia around in four years, imagine what he could do with England. God help us,” said Hayden.

Former England skipper Andrew Strauss, who took over as England’s managing director of cricket from Ashley Giles, was quoted as saying after Langer resigned from his post as Australia’s head coach that, “I know him (Langer) well and, on the surface, he’s done a very good job with that Australian cricket team so I wouldn’t rule him out (for the coaching job),” Strauss said.