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Month: June 2021
News No official BCB word yet on reduction of his ban, but he played a Dhaka Premier Division match on Saturday Bangladesh fast bowler Shahadat Hossain, banned in November 2019 for five years for slapping a team-mate during a first-class match, played in a Dhaka Premier Division game on Saturday, despite there being no official
News Ismail Dawood equally unimpressed by ECB comments, but governing body rejects allegations of ‘institutional racism’ John Holder has dismissed ECB comments claiming he has withdrawn his claim of racial discrimination against them as “disingenuous” and vowed to never work for the organisation again. Holder and Ismail Dawood had launched a legal challenge against the
News The 17-man squad will be trimmed to 13 ahead of the series opener Trinidad & Tobago fast bowler Jayden Seales has bolted into West Indies’ provisional squad for the forthcoming two-match Test series against South Africa in St Lucia. The 19-year-old’s only first-class match so far was for West Indies A in New Zealand
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News Cruel blow for seamer who worked hard to return from stress fractures in his back Reece Topley could miss England’s entire white-ball summer after sustaining a side strain. Topley, the left-arm seamer, suffered the injury while playing for Surrey’s second XI against Essex on Wednesday. He later underwent a scan which suggested he will
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India spinner Ravichandran Ashwin has shared an adorable photograph with his two daughters from quarantine in England. Though they look cute in the image, Ashwin said their faces appeared “jet lagged”. The Instagram image, showing all the three looking into the camera, was clicked at a facility inside the Southampton Stadium, where members of the
News He will join former team-mates Dilshan and Tharanga at the Eastern Cricket Association competition A Melbourne club team will have the services of former Sri Lanka captain Sanath Jayasuriya as coach next season after he signed a one-year deal with Mulgrave in the city’s east. That will mark Jayasuriya’s return to the game after
News Haris Sohail is back in ODI squad while Imad Wasim has been included for T20Is against England and West Indies Mohammad Abbas and Naseem Shah have returned to Pakistan’s Test squad for the two-match series against West Indies. Yasir Shah‘s inclusion, however, remains subject to fitness, with the PCB saying that the legspinner is
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News Seamer ends NZ innings as leading wicket-taker after apologising for historic offensive tweets Graham Thorpe says Ollie Robinson showed “character” on the second day of the first Test against New Zealand at Lord’s. Robinson’s first day of Test cricket ended with him making an unreserved apology after tweets written by him between 2012 and
Sean Abbott works one to the off-side © Getty Images Sean Abbott‘s spell with Surrey in county cricket has ended after just one match with the allrounder suffering a hamstring injury against Gloucestershire. Abbott scored 40 and took 2 for 5 in his first match for the club but did not take the field on
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We have compiled some of the lighter moments from the Australian summer of cricket that gave us all a laugh or made us smile
The BCCI Ethics Officer Justice (Retd) DK Jain has found former Board president N Srinivasan‘s daughter and Tamil Nadu Cricket Association (TNCA) president Rupa Gurunath guilty of “Conflict of Interest” in an order passed on Thursday. Rupa, the first woman president of a BCCI affiliated unit, is a full-time Director of India Cements Limited (ICL).
News “But at the end of the day, I’m not being ungrateful, I’m grateful that we’re still playing, we’re still doing our job” Bubble life has “definitely taken a toll” on West Indies allrounder Andre Russell because of the restrictions, quarantine rules imposed on players as more and more international series and T20 tournaments are
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News Former Australia bowling coach says he ‘had no idea there was any sandpaper involved’ and that he said everything to officials David Saker has called for Cricket Australia (CA) to make the report into the Newlands ball-tampering scandal public to try and put the issue to bed after it recently resurfaced following Cameron Bancroft’s
Ollie Robinson has “unreservedly apologised” after admitting posting “racist and sexist” comments on Twitter while a teenager. The Tweets, sent between April 2012 and June 2013, included use of the N word, comments suggesting Muslim people were linked with terrorism, and derogatory comments about women and people of Asian heritage. Robinson was aged 18 and
News Having waited so long for Test debut, opener etches his name on away room board at first attempt Devon Conway has had to wait a long time for his chance in Test cricket. He moved from his native South Africa in his mid-20s to try to establish himself in a new country, then had
News Shastri and Kohli believe the upcoming one-off final final won’t change what India have done over the last few years India believe the World Test Championship should be decided in a best-of-three series, a fitting finale after two years of hard work around the world. The inaugural WTC final is a one-off Test between
Trevor Bayliss and David Saker are back in the BBL © Sydney Thunder and Getty Images Trevor Bayliss and David Saker have returned to the BBL in head coach roles for Sydney Thunder and Melbourne Renegades respectively. Bayliss, the former England coach who led them to the 2019 World Cup, has signed for three years
Report Updates, analysis and colour from the opening day of the English Test summer at Lord’s Welcome to day one of our live report of the first Test between England and New Zealand from Lord’s. Join us for updates, analysis and colour. You can find our traditional ball-by-ball commentary here *Most recent entry will appear
News “You’re literally going to the ground and coming back to the room, and you don’t have a space where you can just disconnect from the game” Virat Kohli believes that mental health management will become “a norm of the future” alongside the physical workload management that is already prevalent in cricket. The India captain
News Kusal Perera and Dhananjaya de Silva also move up after 97-run win in final ODI against Bangladesh Sri Lanka fast bowler Dushmantha Chameera has moved up by 27 places to get to a best-ever 33rd spot in the ODI bowlers’ rankings after his career-best 5 for 16 in the third ODI against Bangladesh in
Two India squads travelling to different places at the same time could become a norm in the mentally draining world of bio-bubbles that cricketers are forced to live in amid the COVID-19 pandemic, hinted India captain Virat Kohli on Wednesday. While the Kohli-led side leaves for the WTC final against New Zealand and a five-Test
#DushmanthaChameera grabs 3 wickets at the 5th ODI vs England
News SLC also confirmed that it is looking at arranging “one or two” tours for women in the next few months Former Sri Lanka captain and batter Hashan Tillakaratne has been appointed the new head coach of the Sri Lanka women’s team, SLC confirmed on Wednesday. He took up the role officially on June 1
News The left-armer is excited at the prospect of using the Duke ball against India Trent Boult is eyeing the chance to “create a bit of history” as he prepares to travel to England to join his team-mates ahead of the World Test Championship final against India later this month. Boult opted to return to