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Month: April 2021
News Pakistan centurion says the slowness of the pitch and the old ball forced the batters to score slowly most of the day Pakistan have a lead of 198 runs with four wickets in hand in the first-innings exchange with Zimbabwe in Harare, but the scoring rate has hovered between 2.7 and 2.8. Fawad Alam,
News As many as ten members of the family had tested positive for the virus Prithi Narayanan, R Ashwin‘s wife, has shared details of a “nightmare of a week” in which as many as ten members of the family tested positive for Covid-19. The update came less than a week after Ashwin left the IPL
Report Oshada Fernando remained unbeaten on 65 as Sri Lanka lost three wickets in the first session Lunch Sri Lanka 334-4 (Fernando 65*, Nissanka 0*, Taskin 2-86) vs Bangladesh Bangladesh clawed back into contention with three wickets in a tight morning session on the second day. The visitors conceded only 43 runs in 26 overs,
Report Only 59 runs were scored across the 32 overs, with Abid Ali the man to be dismissed Lunch Pakistan 162 for 1 (Butt 71*) trail Zimbabwe 176 by 14 runs Not much happened during the first session, but it still took all of two hours for it to happen anyway. Pakistan retained a vice-like
As India battles a raging Covid-19 pandemic, the BCCI is preparing for the “worst case scenario” of moving the 2021 men’s T20 World Cup to the UAE. The marquee event, comprising 16 countries, is scheduled to take place in India between October and November this year, with the final on November 14. “I hope so.
News No. 3 “disappointed” not to get to three figures as Bangladesh fight back in Pallekele Losing the middle order cheaply, before bad light and rain took 24 overs out of the day, set Sri Lanka back in the match. This was according to No. 3 batsman Oshada Fernando, who hit 81 in the first
DC vs KKR: Shikhar Dhawan fell to his knees during an exchange with Dinesh Karthik.© Instagram With Shikhar Dhawan around, entertainment is never far away. And so it proved to be during Delhi Capitals’ Indian Premier League (IPL) 2021 match against Kolkata Knight Riders on Thursday. Delhi Capitals chased 155 in 16.3 overs to win
Brendan Taylor wanted to take advantage of batting friendly conditions in Harare © AFP Zimbabwe chose to bat vs Pakistan Zimbabwe will bat first after winning the toss in Harare in the first of two Test matches. In sunny conditions at the Harare Sports Club, Brendan Taylor, deputising for an injured Sean Williams, said his
News ESPNcricinfo understands Menon left for Indore earlier this week after his parents tested positive for Covid-19 Senior Indian umpire Nitin Menon has quit the IPL bubble for personal reasons. ESPNcricinfo understands Menon left for his home town of Indore earlier this week after his parents tested positive for Covid-19. Menon, the only Indian umpire
News Former Zimbabwe captain and coach may face a separate investigation by his country’s prosecuting authority Heath Streak, the former Zimbabwe captain and coach who received an eight-year ban from the ICC for breaching the anti-corruption code, has “apologised” and taken “full responsibility” for his actions but asserts he was not involved in any attempts
News Umpire has previously stood in final of Women’s World T20 in Antigua Langton Rusere, the Zimbabwean umpire, made history in Harare on Thursday, after becoming the first Black African to stand in a Test match. Rusere, 35, stood alongside South Africa’s Marais Erasmus, as one of the on-field umpires for the first Test between
AB de Villiers was in red-hot form against the Delhi Capitals © BCCI Big picture KL Rahul was at a loss for words as he tried to find reasons for a profoundly tame performance by his team in their last game. How does a T20 line-up with so many hitters – Chris Gayle, Nicholas Pooran,
News Scheme run by Lord’s Taverners will make Super 1s and table cricket available in every county The ECB has committed £2 million to ensure disability cricket is accessible in every county in England and Wales. The scheme, which will be run by the Lord’s Taverners, is believed to be the biggest investment ever made
Andre Russell will replace Tom Banton in the Quetta Gladiators roster © BCCI/IPL The Lahore Qalandars have picked up allrounder Shakib Al Hasan as their replacement for Rashid Khan for the remainder of PSL 2021. The Karachi Kings snapped up Martin Guptill to fill in for Colin Ingram, while the Quetta Gladiators picked Andre Russell
Report Both teams are different, focusing on their own strengths, but they still seemed rather skeptical of the pitch Sri Lanka chose to bat vs Bangladesh Sri Lanka captain Dimuth Karunaratne chose to bat against Bangladesh in the second Test in Pallekele. The pitch had a greenish look, but the home side has chosen two
News There were concerns the pair could be stranded after the government’s suspension of flights from India Adam Zampa and Kane Richardson have managed to leave India after pulling out of the IPL. Zampa and Richardson, team-mates for Royal Challengers Bangalore, were expected home in Australia later on Thursday, a spokesman for the Australian Cricketers’
After a seven-wicket defeat against Chennai Super Kings, SunRisers Hyderabad skipper David Warner took responsibility for his slow knock of 57 off 55 balls which reduced the team’s total, limiting them to a below-par total in the first innings. A late onslaught from Kane Williamson (26* off 10) and fifties from Manish Pandey (61) and
Colin Ackermann takes an incredible 7/18 for Leicestershire against the Birmingham Bears – the best ever bowling figures in T20 cricket! Find out more at ecb.co.uk This is the official channel of the ECB. Watch all the latest videos from the England Cricket Team and England and Wales Cricket Board. Including highlights, interviews, features getting
News His ban has been backdated to November 31, 2018, when he was provisionally suspended Former Sri Lanka fast bowler Nuwan Zoysa has been banned for six years from all cricket for breaching three offences in the ICC anti-corruption code. In November last year, Zoysa was found guilty of offences related to: Article 2.1.1 “for
Big Picture For the first time since 2017, Zimbabwe have the chance to play Test cricket against a side other than Afghanistan or Bangladesh. While that might be welcome in itself, the home side showed enough against Pakistan in the shorter formats to aspire to more than just a participation trophy in the upcoming two-match
News Visitors will be boosted at Hove this week by return of Liam Livingstone from IPL James Anderson will miss Lancashire’s County Championship fixture against Sussex this week as he continues to manage a minor calf injury. England have been managing the workloads of their centrally contracted players carefully – and their bowlers in particular
Russell Domingo talks to Mominul Haque and Tamim Iqbal © AFP via Getty Images Bangladesh need a change in mindset to push towards winning Test matches rather than be satisfied with draws, their head coach Russell Domingo has said. The result of the first Test in Pallekele – the first draw in 29 Tests played
Big picture After 28 consecutive result Tests in Sri Lanka – a glorious run stretching back to 2014 and a world record (by a distance) for any Test-hosting country – the first Test between Bangladesh and Sri Lanka was essentially trash from start to finish. The surface was slow from the outset, there was little
Sports minister Nathi Mthethwa had threatened to strip CSA of its status as the game’s national governing body © Gallo Images/Getty Images CSA’s Members’ Council has unanimously agreed to amend the organisation’s Memorandum of Incorporation (MOI) to develop a framework for a majority independent board, which should avoid the game being derecognised and defunded by
News Sri Lanka’s Dimuth Karunaratne and Dhananjaya de Silva move up in Test batting rankings Mohammad Rizwan continued his rapid rise as a T20I batter by entering the top 10 in the ICC rankings on the back of his player-of-the-series performance in Zimbabwe. Rizwan hit 82* and 91* in the two matches Pakistan won, and
Preview Rajasthan Royals, too, will be hoping for a change of fortunes having struggled with the ball at the death Big picture 7.45. That’s the Mumbai Indians’ scoring rate in the death overs this season. No team has done as badly in that phase so far this season. Mumbai have never performed as badly in
English cricket has joined football in the fight against online abuse © ESPNcricinfo Ltd English cricket has announced that it will take part in a social media boycott this weekend in a “show of solidarity against online abuse”. Leading English football clubs and organisations released a statement on Saturday to announce that they would boycott
News “It’s possible that if we try to reduce his rate of scoring, the chances of him making a mistake are higher” Try to get him lbw early. Try to get him out with offspin. And if none of that works, dry up the runs. This, according to captain Dimuth Karunaratne, is Sri Lanka’s plan
News It is understood BCCI officials have internally acknowledged the several logistical challenges during the second wave of Covid-19 The BCCI is likely to postpone the fourth edition of the Women’s T20 Challenge owing to the potential unavailability of overseas players in the wake of restrictions imposed by several countries on travel to and from
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