Tamim, who retired hurt on 133 on the third day following cramps on his back and wrist, is currently at 4981 runs. In 2015, Tamim had overtaken Habibul Bashar’s tally of 3026 to become Bangladesh’s leading run-getter in Test cricket. Since then, the record has changed hands a couple of times between Tamim and Mushfiqur.
Pakistan have named two uncapped players – wicketkeeper-batter Gull Feroza and legspinner Tuba Hassan – in their T20I squad for the upcoming home series against Sri Lanka. Feroza is also part of the squad for the ODI series, which also includes uncapped batter Sadaf Shamas. Left-arm spinner Sadia Iqbal, meanwhile, has been recalled to both
Rob Key, England’s new managing director of men’s cricket who was involved in the selection process, said the squad represented “the start of a new era” but there was more continuity than change, with eight of the side that lost by ten wickets in Grenada in England’s most recent Test selected and the three absentees
Umran Malik needs to be given a central contract “straightaway” by the BCCI, in the opinion of Ravi Shastri, who also believes Malik will be “a handful” in first-class cricket and has the potential to even be part of the Indian Test set-up subject to him being put on the development pathway by Indian cricket
It was a case of mindset over matter as England unveiled their first squad selection of the Brendon McCullum era. Many of the same notes, in a slightly different order, like the set-up for a Morecombe and Wise sketch, but hopefully without quite the same element of farce in the final analysis. McCullum, currently at
Lunch Bangladesh 385 for 3 (Litton 88*, Mushfiqur 85*, Rajitha 2-31) trail Sri Lanka 397 (Mathews 199, Chandimal 66, Nayeem 6-105) by 12 runs Mushfiqur Rahim became the first Bangladesh cricketer to reach 5000 runs in Test cricket as the hosts continued to surge ahead on the fourth day of the first Test in Chattogram.
Does anyone remember Chris Dehring? Those of a certain age might raise an eyebrow of recognition at a name that, in the years leading up to the 2007 World Cup, was the ubiquitous, plausible face of West Indies cricket – first as the man who spearheaded the WICB’s successful bid, then as the Managing Director
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Despite Bangladesh’s strong showing with the bat on the third day of the Chattogram Test, Sri Lanka coach Chris Silverwood feels that the Chattogram Test is finely poised, but a result will depend on whether the home side “try to push things on” on the fourth morning. “I think it is a very well-balanced game,”
Tristan Stubbs, the second-highest run-scorer in South Africa’s domestic T20 challenge, has received his maiden call-up to the national side after being included in the squad to play five T20Is in India in June. Stubbs joins a full-strength South African outfit that includes all the players who missed the Bangladesh Test after opting to go
Leaving aside the odd season of injury comebacks, it’s been 15 extraordinary years since James Anderson last went into a home summer as anything other than England’s attack leader. You have to go way back to the India series in 2007, when his second Test five-for at Lord’s hinted at the bowler he was about
Shumba had Jan Nicol Loftie-Eaton stumped four overs later, the delivery after la Cock had brought up an aggressive half-century, off 36 balls, and then claimed the key wicket of la Cock, in the 17th over. With 35 runs required off 21 balls, la Cock dragged a wide delivery from outside off stump to deep
Bangladesh will play a T20I tri-series in New Zealand, likely in September-October, as part of their build-up to this year’s T20 World Cup, BCB’s cricket operations chairman Jalal Yunus has confirmed, adding that Pakistan are likely to be the third team, and the series is going to be held in Christchurch. Before reaching New Zealand,
Zubayr Hamza has been banned from “all cricket-related activities” for nine months by the ICC after admitting to an anti-doping rule violation. The South Africa batter provided an out-of-competition sample on January 17 in Paarl which was found to contain Furosemide, a substance specified in Section S5 of the 2022 WADA Prohibited List. Hamza accepted
Tom Harrison is set to step down as chief executive of the ECB after seven-and-a-half years in post. Harrison was appointed in October 2014, starting full-time the following January, and has been a controversial figure throughout his tenure. He oversaw the introduction of the Hundred, which belatedly launched last summer, and while the £1.1 billion
Lunch Bangladesh 157 for 0 (Tamim 89*, Mahmudul 58*) trail Sri Lanka 397 (Mathews 199, Chandimal 66, Nayeem 6-105, Shakib 3-60) by 240 runs Bangladesh hadn’t crafted an opening partnership in excess of 100 for over five years in Test cricket before this innings. Tamim Iqbal and Mahmudul Hasan Joy made sure to correct that
Tributes continued to flow for Andrew Symonds, with a ‘Fishing Rods for Roy’ campaign launched to honour the former Australia star. Cricket fans have been encouraged to leave fishing rods and cricket balls outside the front of their house as part of a nation-wide tribute for the 46-year-old. His love of fishing was the stuff
Spinners Axar Patel and Kuldeep Yadav were inspirational in the middle overs even as Shardul Thakur complemented the duo with a career-best IPL figures as Delhi Capitals inched closer towards play-off qualifications beating Punjab Kings by 17 runs in an IPL match on Monday. Invited to bat, DC posted 159 for 7 courtesy Mitchell Marsh‘s
Angelo Mathews at least had the sense of humour to deal with the heartache of getting out on 199 on the second day in Chattogram. He was in good spirits at the end-of-day press conference, speaking candidly about his misjudgment at that tantalising score, and shared a couple of laughs too. Taking it lightly and
The Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB) also named fast bowler Mohammed Shami in the squad although his participation will depend on clearance from the BCCI and head coach Rahul Dravid taking his workload management into account. However, it was 37-year-old Saha whose comeback headlined the Bengal squad after he had skipped the league stage citing
Saqib Mahmood, the England fast bowler, has been ruled out for the season after being diagnosed with a lumbar stress fracture. Mahmood, who made his Test debut in the Caribbean in March, missed Lancashire’s most-recent Championship fixture with lower back pain and subsequent scans revealed the full extent of the problem. His absence will further
Shimron Hetmyer, who recently became a parent, has rejoined Rajasthan Royals and will be available for selection for their final league match, on May 20 against Chennai Super Kings. Hours after scoring a high-impact 16-ball 31 in the victory against Punjab Kings on May 8, Hetmyer rushed back home to Guyana to be by the
Matthew Mott, the Australia women’s head coach, has emerged as the frontrunner in the race to become England men’s white-ball coach, and is likely to be appointed later this week. ESPNcricinfo understands that Mott has been preferred by the interview panel over former England allrounder Paul Collingwood, who was the primary contender having stood in
Lunch Sri Lanka 327 for 6 (Mathews 147*, Chandimal 66, Nayeem 4-87) vs Bangladesh Angelo Mathews kept Sri Lanka on track for most of the second day’s morning session in Chattogram. Bangladesh got back into the game only in the last 18 minutes when Nayeem Hasan removed half-centurion Dinesh Chandimal and Niroshan Dickwella in the
As Kent and Surrey players lined up on the boundary in front of the Beckenham pavilion to observe a minute’s silence to honour Andrew Symonds, they represented two clubs which had been touched by his “magic” more than most. It was on this suburban out-ground in South London that Matt Walker, the Kent head coach,
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Just a few months into his first-class career, Andrew Symonds gave notice of his talent as he flayed the England attack around Heritage Oval in Toowoomba with 108 off 127 balls in an unbroken 205-run stand with Jimmy Maher. “He reached his century with a pulled boundary from Angus Fraser, a back-foot punch behind point
Shami now has the joint-most wickets in the powerplay in IPL 2022, and he even bowled a boundary-less 20th over in which he got the wicket of MS Dhoni. Shami is joint-fourth on the wicket-takers’ list, with 11 of his 18 wickets having come inside the powerplay. However, it is his maturity at the death
Andrew Symonds‘ former captain, Ricky Ponting, the man who put faith in him ahead of what became a defining 2003 World Cup, has called the allrounder an “extraordinary player” following his death in a car crash at the age of 46. Symonds was a controversial selection for the tournament in South Africa as he averaged
Toss Sri Lanka chose to bat vs Bangladesh Sri Lanka captain Dimuth Karunaratne decided to bat first after winning the toss against Bangladesh in the first Test in Chattogram. He said that he took the decision based on the typically good batting conditions of the Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium, and wanting to make best use
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