News “The way Fakhar performed stood out obviously, but I think we should pay credit to the bowlers, too” It might have hung in the balance for longer than was necessary, but that made Pakistan’s T20I series win in South Africa all the more pleasing for captain Babar Azam. When Mohammad Nawaz smacked a six
Month: April 2021
News Nortje had to spend an extended time in quarantine after a false positive test Fast bowler Anrich Nortje is out of quarantine after testing negative for Covid-19 and has been declared fit for selection for the Delhi Capitals’ next match, on April 18 against Punjab Kings. He will have his first nets on Friday
Report Visitors unchanged; hosts bring in Bjorn Fortuin and Wiaan Mulder for Beuran Hendricks and Pite van Biljon Toss Pakistan chose to bowl vs South Africa With Pakistan looking to add the T20I series trophy to the one they won for the ODIs on this tour of South Africa, Babar Azam won the toss asked
News Allrounder requires surgery on left index finger ruling him out for up to 12 weeks Ben Stokes looks set to miss England’s Test series against New Zealand in June after the ECB said that he would require surgery on his broken finger, putting him out for up to 12 weeks. The England allrounder underwent
News He played four Tests for Australia and was within 11 runs of a century on debut in 2014 Tasmania batter Alex Doolan, who played four Tests for Australia, has announced his retirement. He finishes with 6824 runs in first-class cricket, of which 5978 came in the Sheffield Shield putting him eighth on the list
IPL 2021: Jaydev Unadkat claimed three wickets against Delhi Capitals.© Twitter Rajasthan Royals (RR), after edging Delhi Capitals (DC) by three wickets in their second league match, registered their first two points of the campaign and climbed to the fifth spot on the IPL 2021 Points Table. Delhi Capitals, who began the match as a
Big picture The end of South Africa’s summer is approaching and they have everything to play for. Although victory in the fourth and final T20I against Pakistan won’t give them a second trophy this season, it will mean they will share the spoils in a series where they were without seven first-choice players, and could
News Shubman Gill, Axar Patel and Mohammed Siraj are new entrants, while Hardik Pandya and Shardul Thakur have earned promotions Wristspinners Kuldeep Yadav and Yuzvendra Chahal, who were a crucial part of India’s white-ball plans in the lead-up to the 50-over World Cup in 2019, have suffered demotions in the BCCI’s list of centrally contracted
The Aussie Cricket Team chat with CATV about cricketing legend Sachin Tendulkar.
News Batter should be fit in time for T20 Blast campaign as he works on rehab alongside Archer Phil Salt, the Sussex batsman, has been ruled out until the end of May due to a cycling injury. Sussex announced on Thursday that Salt had broken a bone in his right foot, which was confirmed after
News “What we’ve seen during Covid is the drop off in the amount of international cricket in the women’s game” Any push to increase the amount of Test cricket in the women’s game would need to be balanced against the wider development of the sport, according to Australia selector and female high-performance manager Shawn Flegler.
News Agarwal was also the corruptor who had contacted Shakib Al Hasan ‘Mr X’, who gave Heath Streak two bitcoins while also presenting the former Zimbabwe captain with an expensive phone for his wife, is understood to be Indian businessman Deepak Agarwal, who was banned last year until 2022 by the ICC for breaching various
News Allrounder Kimmince played 16 ODIs and 44 T20Is after making her Australia debut in 2008 Fast bowler Darcie Brown has been handed her first Cricket Australia contract in the one change from last year’s list replacing Delissa Kimmince who has announced her retirement. Brown, 18, made her Australia debut in T20Is and ODIs on
Former Zimbabwe cricket captain Heath Streak was on Wednesday banned for eight years on corruption charges, the International Cricket Council announced, after being implicated for his dealings with a shadowy Indian gambler identified only as “Mr X”. “Mr Streak chose to admit the charges and agreed the sanction with the ICC in lieu of an
Heath Streak and Deepak Agarwal started chatting on the pretext of organising a T20 league in Zimbabwe, in September 2017. Streak, the iconic former Zimbabwe captain, was the head coach of the national team at the time, and Agarwal, simply a Delhi-based businessman. Agarwal wasn’t yet banned (for two years) by the ICC’s anti-corruption unit
News In excellent conditions for batting, South Africa’s captain felt his team had finished “about 10 runs short” He may not have wanted it but Heinrich Klaasen can recognise he had a front-row seat to one of the smoothest T20I innings the game has seen, as Babar Azam notched up his first century in the
News Rizwan, meanwhile, said he felt “the same joy as if I’d done it myself” when Babar reached his hundred Babar Azam celebrated reaching the top of the ODI rankings with a performance for the ages in the shortest format, scoring his maiden T20I hundred, and the highest score by a Pakistani in T20I cricket.
Ben Stokes has been named as the leading cricketer in the world for a second consecutive year in the 2021 edition of Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack, which is published on April 15. Stokes amassed 641 Test runs at 58.27 for the calendar year, which was more than anyone else, while his 19 wickets cost just 18.73
Follow the 2019 Ashes at ecb.co.uk Watch match highlights from Day 2 at the Oval, as England take on Australia in the 2019 Ashes. 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,
Some Full Members want an expanded World Cup © Getty Images Chief executives of cricket boards will start hammering out on Thursday what cricket’s next eight-year calendar will look like. CEC (the ICC’s chief executives’ committee) meetings on the 2023-31 cycle have so far been exploratory in nature, in trying to suss out member views
News Streak is understood to have facilitated approaches by a corruptor to people within teams he was coach at Former Zimbabwe captain Heath Streak has been banned for eight years after being charged with – and admitting to – five breaches of the ICC’s anti-corruption code, including accepting a payment in bitcoins from a potential
Report The series is level at 1-1 after South Africa bounced back from a defeat in the first game Toss Pakistan chose to bowl vs South Africa Pakistan have opted to field first after winning the toss at SuperSport Park in the third T20I. The series is level at 1-1 after South Africa bounced back
News Becomes only fourth Pakistan player to attain top ranking, after Zaheer Abbas, Javed Miandad and Mohammad Yousuf Pakistan captain Babar Azam is now the No.1-ranked ODI batsman, ending India captain Virat Kohli‘s long reign at the top of the charts. Babar’s match-winning 82-ball 94 in the third ODI against South Africa helped him gain
Rohit Sharma played a crucial knock of 43 runs against Kolkata Knight Riders on Tuesday.© BCCI/IPL A pleased Mumbai Indians skipper Rohit Sharma lauded his team for an “excellent fightback” against Kolkata Knight Riders, saying that one doesn’t get to see these kind of tantalisingly close games. Mumbai Indians came back strongly in the last
Big picture Match one went down to the penultimate ball. Match two was as one-sided as they come. What are these two teams really about? South Africa have been rebuilding for much of the last six years and still don’t seem to have much beyond the outlines of a foundation. They know they have a
News Tour games between English first-class teams and New Zealand, Sri Lanka and Pakistan also scrapped India A’s tour of England this summer, which would’ve seen them play against both India and England Lions, has been postponed. Instead, the BCCI will send an inflated squad to “prepare for, and use during” India’s five-Test series against
News Lancashire consider options to sign another overseas player after Australia seamer is told to rest Jackson Bird has a bulging disk in his neck and has been ordered to rest for a month, ruling him out of his planned County Championship stint with Lancashire. Bird, the Australia seamer who has 414 wickets from 99
News Ongoing elbow problem will be assessed once fast bowler returns to nets, ECB says Jofra Archer has been cleared to resume training after undergoing surgery to remove a glass fragment from his hand. Archer, missing from Rajasthan Royals’ side for the start of the IPL because of the operation to fix an injury he
News The players have undergone another round of testing, the results of which will be available later on Tuesday Five members of the touring South Africa Emerging Women’s side have tested positive for Covid-19 in Sylhet late on Monday before they left for Dhaka. The players have undergone another round of testing, the results of
Among the many things Covid-19 did to Australian cricket was finally provide an answer to questions about how state teams might perform if asked to depart from the formulas they have honed over generations of playing games on extremely familiar home ground pitches. For some, it was not so well: deprived of Bellerive Oval’s seaming
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