News The pair exchanged heated words during the second over of the day’s play Taskin Ahmed has said he decided against ceding any ground to Blessing Muzarabani during the duo’s heated mid-pitch face-off on day two in Harare, as a protest against what he saw as sledging from Zimbabwe’s players. The incident took place in
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News It is not clear what impact this will have on SL’s ODI series against India starting Tuesday Sri Lanka batting coach Grant Flower tested positive for Covid-19 on Thursday, three days after the squad returned from their tour of England. For now, it is not clear what impact this news will have on the
News He hopes for an improvement in South Africa’s late-overs hitting, an area where he felt they “came up short” in the West Indies Rassie van der Dussen is expecting easier conditions for batters during South Africa’s three-match ODI series against Ireland compared to what the side experienced in the West Indies. After finding the
News He will return to Lahore to undergo a four-week rehabilitation programme at the high performance centre Haris Sohail has been ruled out of the England tour with a grade 3 hamstring injury and will return to Lahore by the first available flight to undergo a four-week rehabilitation programme at the high performance centre. He
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India skipper Harmanpreet Singh on Thursday attributed her prolonged lean patch with the bat to lack of preparation following her recovery from a COVID-19 infection and groin injury earlier this year. However, the senior batter is confident of finding her her mojo back in the three-match T20 series against England, beginning here on Friday. Having
News Downplaying the idea that his form has dipped, the India legspinner says the team had communicated their confidence in him ahead of the SL tour India legspinner Yuzvendra Chahal has said we will “see a more confident Yuzi” during India’s limited-overs tour of Sri Lanka starting on July 13 in Colombo. Chahal, alongside Kuldeep
Report Mahmdullah and Taskin added 110 for no loss in day two’s first session Lunch Bangladesh 404 for 8 (Mahmdullah 112*, Taskin 52*, Muzarabani 3-72) vs Zimbabwe Mahmudullah and Taskin Ahmed turned Bangladesh’s innings around on the second morning of the one-off Test against Zimbabwe. On the back of their 134-run unbeaten stand for the
News The panel includes Justice Nimal Dissanayaka, a retired judge of the Sri Lankan Supreme Court SLC has formed a five-member panel to probe the incident in which three Sri Lanka players – Niroshan Dickwella, Danushka Gunathilaka and Kusal Mendis – breached the team’s biosecure bubble in Durham on June 27. The trio, who flew
Report Crawley, Salt, Carse, Gregory and Simpson win caps as Stokes captains for first time England have named five new caps in their side for the first ODI of the series against Pakistan in Cardiff. Brydon Carse (Durham’s fast bowler), Zak Crawley (Kent’s top-order batter), Lewis Gregory (Somerset’s seam-bowling allrounder), Phil Salt (Sussex’s top-order batter)
News Australia’s top-order batters have all made some runs across the two intra-squad matches Australia II 166 for 2 (Philippe 67, Henriques 51) beat Australia I 165 for 6 (Wade 52, Starc 3-30) by eight wickets Josh Philippe cut loose in Australia’s second intra-squad warm-up match in St Lucia while Matthew Wade and Moises Henriques
Report She scored her first ODI century in nearly eight years and also picked up three wickets West Indies Women 209 for 5 (Taylor 105*, Iqbal 2-47) beat Pakistan Women 205 for 9 (Dar 55, Zafar 46, Taylor 3-29) by five wickets Captain Stafanie Taylor‘s all-round brilliance led West Indies Women to a five-wicket win
News Captain says PCB and ECB have assured the team of safety following a Covid-19 breakout in England team Pakistan’s players were not worried about continuing their white-ball tour of England after an outbreak of Covid-19 cases in the England camp and despite a rising wave of infections through the country. England’s entire first team
News Captain puts focus on enjoyment amid extraordinary circumstances of early England recall You didn’t think Ben Stokes would turn England down in their hour of need, did you? He is not, by any means, at full fitness. And he does not, by any means, have a full strength squad at his disposal. But when
News Liton had spoken to Bangladesh’s new batting coach about wanting to curb his tendency to throw away his wicket when set Liton Das may have ended up five runs short of a maiden Test century, but he overcame one mental barrier during his day-one innings in the one-off Test against Zimbabwe, according to Bangladesh’s
Marnus Labuschagne will return to Australia in a couple of weeks © PA Images via Getty Images Marnus Labuschagne emerged from isolation and cracked a massive double century with a record score for Glamorgan’s 2nd XI ahead of his final few weeks in county cricket. Labuschagne and his Queensland team-mate Michael Neser had been forced
News Kyle Mayers and Kevin Sinclair have missed out on selection Shimron Hetmyer, Sheldon Cottrell and Roston Chase are set to make ODI comebacks during West Indies’ upcoming three-match series against Australia, which is set to begin on July 20 in Barbados. The trio had missed out on selection for the team’s last 50-overs assignment,
News Several senior players who are not part of the white-ball set-up are now without deals after SLC withdrew offer of annual contracts Sri Lanka’s men’s limited-overs cricketers have signed tour contracts that cover the forthcoming series against India. But Sri Lanka Cricket’s decision to withdraw its offer of annual contracts had caused substantial dismay
News “I learnt a lot during this time and due to that mistake Pakistan cricket’s reputation suffered badly” Pakistan batter Umar Akmal has apologised for not reporting corrupt approaches last year, which led to him being banned for 12 months. Akmal, 30, was last year suspended by the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) for not reporting
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The BCCI as of now is not sending either Prithvi Shaw or Devdutt Padikkal to England as a replacement for injured Shubman Gill, who is out of the tour with shin splints. The Indian team management on June 28 through its administrative manager Girish Dongre had requisitioned for two openers as replacement. However, chairman of
News Ankola got the big job last season, before Mumbai won the Vijay Hazare Trophy Former India quick Salil Ankola has been retained as Mumbai’s chief selector by the state association’s cricket improvement committee, secretary Sanjay Naik confirmed to PTI. Ankola said his only focus was on the “betterment of Mumbai cricket”. “It is good
News Warwickshire spinner could play first match for England since 2014 after Covid reshuffle Danny Briggs is promising not to put too much pressure on himself as he makes a return to the England set-up that he admits he thought would never happen. It’s seven-and-a-half years since Briggs last played a T20I for England and
Bangladesh captain Mominul Haque and Zimbabwe stand-in captain Brendan Taylor with the series trophy © Raton Gomes/BCB Bangladesh chose to bat vs Zimbabwe Bangladesh captain Mominul Haque chose to bat against Zimbabwe in the one-off Test at the Harare Sports Club ground. The home side are without regular captain Sean Williams and Craig Ervine after
Sydney Thunder are the defending champions © Getty Images The final of next season’s WBBL will be played following the opening day of the Australia-Afghanistan Test on November 27. The tournament, which will start on October 14 following Australia’s multi-format series against India, is also set to return to a country-wide fixture list with at
News West Indies allrounder added to boost push towards knockout phase Kyle Mayers, the West Indies batting all-rounder, will play for Birmingham Bears in the last three games of the Vitality Blast group stage. Mayers, who scored an unbeaten double-century on Test debut in February, played his first T20I in New Zealand last year after
News He is believed to be unhappy over treatment meted out by SLC during the contracts standoff Angelo Mathews has informed Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) he is considering retirement, after turning down the tour contract for the forthcoming series against India. Mathews, 34, in understood to be disillusioned at the treatment he and fellow senior
News David Willey and Tom Curran also move up after impressive returns against Sri Lanka Chris Woakes has achieved a career-high third spot among ODI bowlers after picking up six wickets in two games against Sri Lanka last week. Woakes, who won the match award for his 4 for 18 in the opening game, jumped
Preview All-new line-up presents opportunities for host players but question marks for visitors Big Picture Well, that escalated quickly. It’s only been a matter of days since the soggy denouement to England’s third and final ODI against Sri Lanka – a match that had begun amid rumours of a few fresh faces in the ranks,
All the domestic squads in New Zealand have now been confirmed with the final contract spots handed out among the six teams who will compete for the Plunket Shield, Ford Trophy and Super Smash. Canterbury dominated the 2020-21 season by winning the Plunket Shield and Ford Trophy while Wellington, with Finn Allen and Devon Conway