News Australia’s Test captain is keen to play as much cricket as he can for Tasmania in the latter part of the season It’s unlikely that Tim Paine will be seen with ball in hand over the next few days, but Australia’s Test captain is eager to get back out into the middle for Tasmania
Month: February 2021
News “This was among my top career achievements. I enjoyed every moment just being around this team” West Indies captain Kraigg Brathwaite has said that sweeping Bangladesh at their own turf is an “amazing” achievement, especially having been on the receiving end of such a defeat, back in 2018 when Jason Holder had pulled out
News Captain takes break after gruelling run of biosecure campaigns in UAE, South Africa and Pakistan Quinton de Kock will sit out of South Africa’s domestic T20 competition, which starts on Friday, on medical advice. De Kock has been given a mental health break and will aim to be ready for the Pakistan white-ball series
News The wicketkeeper-batsman played one Test, one ODI and two T20Is in a long career Naman Ojha, the wicketkeeper-batsman from Madhya Pradesh who played four matches for India across the three formats between 2010 and 2015, has quit the game at the age of 37, bringing the curtain down on a first-class career that started
News Australia are not scheduled to play another Test match for 10 months but there are opportunities to impress in Shield with the Ashes on the horizon The Sheffield Shield resumes on Wednesday with the Australia Test squad available to play the remainder of the season, barring any injury issues, after the Test tour to
News Fixtures against Netherlands and Zimbabwe also confirmed for 2021 summer South Africa will travel to Ireland for three ODIs and three T20Is in July, as Cricket South Africa look to fill the men’s team’s winter with fixtures following the postponement of a three-Test home series against Australia. This tour is part of the 2018-2023
News “You want people to know that they have to perform because others are waiting to come in if they don’t,” says coach The heightened competition for places in the West Indies team has the potential to make them a stronger unit, says coach Phil Simmons. West Indies completed a remarkable 2-0 series sweep against
News There has long been a view that SLC’s existing constitution is unfit for purpose Former players Muttiah Muralitharan and Sidath Wettimuny are among a group of 12 who have submitted a petition in the courts seeking an overhaul of Sri Lanka Cricket’s “flawed” constitution. There has long been a view that SLC’s existing constitution,
News Second extension granted as CSA continue to navigate choppy administrative waters Cricket South Africa’s (CSA) interim board has been granted a two-month extension by the country’s sports minister, Nathi Mthethwa, in order to conclude its work. The board, chaired by Dr Stavros Nicolaou, will be in place until April 15 after initially being appointed
News Mohammad Rizwan, the leading run-scorer, jumped 116 places to 42nd in the batting list South Africa’s left-arm wristspinner Tabraiz Shamsi has risen to a career-best second position in the ICC T20I rankings for bowlers, following his four-wicket haul against Pakistan in Lahore. Shamsi was the joint leading wicket-taker in the three-match series, picking up
News “When we go abroad and get a seaming track, we don’t talk about excessive grass on the pitch” Debutant left-arm spinner Axar Patel has asked the critics of the Chennai pitch to change their mindset towards spinning pitches, pointing out that India never complain about seaming tracks when they travel. The Chennai pitch has
Welcome to day three of our live report of the second India-England Test from Chennai. Join us for updates, analysis and colour. You can find our traditional ball-by-ball commentary here *Most recent entry will appear at the top, please refresh your page for the latest updates. All times are local 5.00pm: Stumps England 134 and
Shakib Al Hasan has said that the Bangladesh team has the ability to bounce from adversity, after their first series whitewash at home in nine years. The home side lost the Dhaka Test by 17 runs against West Indies, after already losing the game in Chattogram by three wickets. It led to stinging criticism led
News “It hasn’t been positive on trying to find a window but we are working hard,” says CSA’s director of cricket Relations between Cricket South Africa (CSA) and Cricket Australia (CA) remain “strained,” as South Africa seek to move on from the indefinite postponement of a three-Test series that was due to take place on
England spin bowling consultant Jeetan Patel on Monday said that he is disappointed to see Moeen Ali miss a five-wicket haul against India in the ongoing second Test at the MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai. Ravichandran Ashwin’s scintillating century and early wickets helped India dominate Day 3 of the second Test against England. Ashwin scored
Chris Lynn and Marnus Labuschagne fired as Brisbane Heat thrust themselves into finals reckoning with a 26-run win over Melbourne Renegades
Find out more at ecb.co.uk It was, quite simply, the most enthralling Test match in living memory. Chasing 282 in the final innings at Edgbaston, Australia slipped to 220-9, and it looked for all the world like England would level the series. However an extraordinary and typically gutsy Australian rearguard from Brett Lee and Michael
News Rizwan was recently named Player of the Series in the T20Is against South Africa Multan Sultans have named wicketkeeper Mohammad Rizwan as their captain for the upcoming Pakistan Super League season. He will replace Shan Masood, who led the franchise to the playoffs last year. Rizwan was previously part of Karachi Kings, PSL 2020
News Martin Snedden replaces Greg Barclay on the board of the women’s ODI World Cup 2022 Former batsman Roger Twose has been appointed as the director of New Zealand Cricket to replace Greg Barclay, who was required to step aside after being named ICC chairman. Steve Tew, who earlier served as CEO of New Zealand
Report Join us for updates, analysis and colour from the first day of the second Test Welcome to day three of our live report of the second India-England Test from Chennai. Join us for updates, analysis and colour. You can find our traditional ball-by-ball commentary here *Most recent entry will appear at the top, please
News Australia are scheduled to play eight Tests in the subcontinent, including four in India, next year Glenn Maxwell believes that spinning conditions in Asia, a stratosphere away from anything in Australia, will give him a chance to return to the Test team even if schedule clashes and Covid-19 complexities conspire against his ambitions to
There was an air of apology to the naming of South Africa’s T20I squad last month, with head coach Mark Boucher almost forced to justify the inexperience of the men named. He explained that the visitors were prioritising the upcoming visit of Australia to their shores, and were keen to provide their senior players as
Welcome to day two of our live report of the second India-England Test from Chennai. Join us for updates, analysis and colour. You can find our traditional ball-by-ball commentary here *Most recent entry will appear at the top, please refresh your page for the latest updates. All times are local 4.30pm: Stumps India 329 and
Shaheen Shah Afridi is pumped up after dismissing Janneman Malan © Associated Press Pakistan won the toss and chose to bowl vs South Africa In a series where the chasing team has had the advantage against a wet ball, Pakistan opted to field first in the finale. South Africa had won the previous two tosses
Martin Guptill made just 46 in three T20Is against Pakistan in December © AFP via Getty Images New Zealand opener Martin Guptill will have to prove his fitness in order to be part of the T20I series against Australia, which begins on February 22 in Christchurch. The 34-year-old Guptill, who had missed the final two
News “Obviously the ball turning away from the left-hander is one very big advantage when it comes to offspinners” Having played 76 largely successful Tests, R Ashwin is now at a stage of his career where every achievement takes him to a milestone. During the second day’s play in Chennai, he took his 29th five-for,
Ben Foakes said that conditions in Chennai were “obviously extremely tough, and probably not going to get any easier” after keeping wicket for 113.5 overs and batting for nearly two hours across the first two days of England’s second Test against India. With Jos Buttler at home in the UK as part of the ECB’s
Mominul Haque knows that winning and losing a game for Bangladesh produces two very different types of reactions. It was all very calm when Bangladesh beat Zimbabwe last year, but after West Indies blanked them 2-0 in their backyard, he knew “a lot of things won’t be in your favour and a lot of things
It is an incredibly challenging surface, said England assistant coach Graham Thorpe, as India took the upper hand after dismissing England for 134 in their first innings on Sunday. Former cricketers Shane Warne and Michael Vaughan countered each other while debating on the quality of the pitch, but Thorpe played safe when asked about the
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