DRS, Sept 2: Tendulkar over Kohli for ABD, RCB try to get IPL home back & RR kicked Dravid out?

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Did Rajasthan Royals (RR) kick Rahul Dravid out? Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) are trying to get their Indian Premier League (IPL) back. The ICC has increased the prize money for the Women’s ODI World Cup. Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli deserved a farewell in Test cricket, as per their teammate. And discourse around Rishabh Pant in T20Is has been questioned.

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Was Dravid kicked out?

Former South Africa captain AB de Villiers thinks that RR kicked Rahul Dravid out after he rejected their offer of assuming a bigger role instead of head coach. Considering how far back RR and Dravid go, the situation isn’t ideal. We probably won’t ever know what truly happened and who left whom.

RCB to work with BCCI

As part of their new initiative, RCB CARES, the IPL 2025 champions will work alongside the BCCI and KSCA to ensure that M Chinnaswamy Stadium is in compliance with all of the government’s guidelines. The ground’s design and structure have been labelled as unsuitable and unsafe for mass gatherings.

Rohit-Kohli unfairly treated

Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli’s India teammate Ravi Bishnoi believes that the modern-day greats deserved a proper farewell for Test cricket instead of retiring months after playing their last match. Bishnoi was shocked that they hung up their boots off the field instead of on it.

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ICC goes big for Women’s World Cup

In a monumental change, the ICC has increased the prize money for the Women’s ODI World Cup from INR 30.80 crore in 2022 to INR 122 crore in 2025. The winners alone will get INR 39 crore. In comparison, the total prize money for the Men’s ODI World Cup in 2023 was INR 88 crore.

Pant underappreciated in T20s?

Former India opener Aakash Chopra is perplexed as to why Rishabh Pant doesn’t get talked about much when it comes to being selected for T20Is. He pointed out that Pant was India’s third-highest run-getter in the 2024 T20 World Cup and has an exceptional record at multiple positions. However, just because of his poor IPL 2025 season, people have started to underestimate him.

No Kohli in ABD’s list

AB de Villiers hasn’t named his good friend Virat Kohli among the five best players he played with or against in Test cricket. ABD picked Sachin Tendulkar as the lone batter, Jacques Kallis and Andrew Flintoff as the all-rounders, and the two bowlers were Shane Warne and Mohammad Asif.

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