In the wake of ESPNcricinfo’s publication of details of the report into racism at Yorkshire County Cricket Club, the club has been plunged into crisis, with major sponsors pulling out, senior players implicated in racist behaviour, and the prospect of the club hierarchy appearing before a DCMS select committee on November 16, including chairman Roger
Month: November 2021
England batter Eoin Morgan was caught in the deep from the third ball he faced against Australia in the second ODI at the Gabba in 2014, but the left-hander was aware the hosts had too many fielders in the deep and therefore avoided being dismissed
News Mohammad Nabi disappointed but hopeful of the match being played in the future Cricket Australia has confirmed the postponement of the Test match against Afghanistan that was scheduled for Hobart in late November following their firm stance on women not being allowed to play sport under the Taliban but hopes to play the match
News Trio of Ravindra Jadeja, R Ashwin and Varun Chakravarthy help blow Scotland away Ravindra Jadeja, R Ashwin and Varun Chakravarthy are all featuring in an India XI for the first time ever. India need to win big against Scotland to survive at the T20 World Cup. The spin trio deliver that big win on
News White-ball coaches to link up post-World Cup, as Collingwood warns about bubble life Graham Thorpe, England men’s assistant coach, will head up the advance party’s preparations for the Ashes, when the Test specialists and Lions arrive in Australia this weekend. Thorpe will stand in for head coach Chris Silverwood while England’s white-ball squad complete
Preview West Indies are eliminated but could still cause problems for the contenders – South Africa will certainly hope they do Big picture Group 1 now looks significantly different than it did a couple of days ago. Australia hold the aces in terms of booking a semi-final position in what is a two-horse race with
T20 WC: Scotland captain Kyle Coetzer expects more from his side in big events.© Twitter Scotland captain Kyle Coetzer on Friday reckoned that his country cannot just be happy by merely competing in a few Super 12 games of an ICC event as the establishment needs to be brave and push themselves a bit further.
News Bavuma also cognisant of SA’s advantage of playing after Australia v West Indies South Africa will look to “add an extra five per cent” in all their departments, as they seek to beat England for the first time in six T20Is and topple one of the tournament favourites in a bid for a semi-final
News The state is not set to fully reopen borders until late January which will create logistical challenges Western Australia premier Mark McGowan says he’s “very confident” a deal can be worked out to play the fifth Ashes Test in Perth despite revealing the state won’t throw open its borders until late January or early
Report Win takes New Zealand to No. 2 on the Group 2 table, but they aren’t assured of a semi-final spot yet New Zealand 163 for 4 (Phillips 39*, Neesham 35*, Scholtz 1-15) beat Namibia 111 for 7 (van Lingen 25, Southee 2-15, Boult 2-20) by 52 runs The stranglehold was on. Namibia’s unheralded attack
News India have the advantage of playing the last Group 2 game, and will know the NRR calculations at play. But for that NZ need to first lose India’s thrashing of Scotland, with an unbelievable 81 balls to spare, means India are well and truly in the hunt for a top-two finish in the group.
Preview To put themselves in a comfortable position, they need a big win against red-hot England – so they have a better NRR than Australia Big picture There are no quarterfinals at this T20 World Cup but South Africa have found themselves in one anyway – in a win-or-go-home match against England. If the latter
Report Asalanka, Nissanka fifties trump Hetmyer’s unbeaten 81 in high-scoring clash Sri Lanka 189 for 3 (Asalanka 68, Nissanka 51) beat West Indies 169 for 8 (Hetmyer 81*, Pooran 46, Hararanga 2-19, Fernando 2-24) by 20 runs The kids are alright. Both Sri Lanka’s and West Indies’. In a game featuring some of T20s greatest
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News The legspinner could face close to a year on the sidelines after needing an ACL reconstruction Wareham, the legspinning allrounder, suffered an ACL injury early in the WBBL and will require her second knee reconstruction meaning she will miss the Ashes, ODI World and Commonwealth Games during 2022. She had become an integral part
News The match was originally set to be held in Johannesburg but was moved out due to strict biobubble rules in the city India’s first Test assignment of 2022 will be held in Cape Town against South Africa, after CSA confirmed that the upcoming New Year’s Test between the two teams will be moved away
News The team wants “matters of an extreme or serious nature” like racism in cricket “to be met head on”, England captain says Eoin Morgan has insisted that he does not mind England’s T20 World Cup campaign being overshadowed if that ensures Azeem Rafiq‘s allegations of institutional racism at Yorkshire are “met head on”, adding
News Allrounder says “the time has come” after defending champions miss out on semi-final spot Dwayne Bravo has confirmed that he will retire from international cricket after the conclusion of West Indies’ T20 World Cup campaign. Bravo, 38, came out of retirement in 2019 to aid West Indies’ defence of the T20 title they won
News Captain also points to success of Charith Asalanka and Pathum Nissanka with the bat Sri Lanka captain Dasun Shanaka has hailed Wanindu Hasaranga as a future superstar after the legspin-bowling allrounder took 2 for 19 to help knock West Indies out of the T20 World Cup. “He’s a gem and he’s a superstar in
Report Australia’s 82-ball win is the biggest T20I victory between two full-member teams in terms of balls remaining Australia 78 for 2 (Finch 40) beat Bangladesh 73 all out (Zampa 5-19, Hazlewood 2-8, Starc 2-21) by eight wickets It was deja vu all over again for Bangladesh. If it was South Africa in Abu Dhabi
News “Once we bowled them out for 73, we did have a conversation about getting the runs before the end of the eighth over.” Adam Zampa had taken neither a hat-trick nor a five-wicket haul in his first 117 caps for Australia but was a dropped catch away from achieving both in the same game
Big picture Royal Challengers Bangalore need to win their next two and hope Chennai Super Kings beat Kolkata Knight Riders by a certain margin, and then… Rings a bell? It should. For Virat Kohli at least. Used to dealing with a lot of those in the IPL, he and his Indian team have had to
News Former England Ashes-winning captain denies he abused Rafiq during county match Michael Vaughan, the captain of England’s 2005 Ashes-winning team, has admitted that he is the former player implicated in the investigation into Azeem Rafiq‘s allegations of institutional racism at Yorkshire. Vaughan, who represented the county from 1991 until his retirement in 2009, used
News Rahkeem Cornwall and Shannon Gabriel included, but Kieran Powell, Alzarri Joseph miss out West Indies have named uncapped opener Jeremy Solozano in a 15-man squad for their Test tour of Sri Lanka later this month. Allrounder Rahkeem Cornwall was also back in contention while veteran quick Shannon Gabriel was fit to return after a
News West Indies captain keen to continue despite struggling during failed title defence West Indies’ white-ball captain Kieron Pollard has insisted that he has no intentions of retiring from international cricket after his side were knocked out of contention for the semi-finals of the T20 World Cup. Pollard was among the West Indies seniors who
Yorkshire suspended from staging England cricket matches after racism row.© Instagram Yorkshire were suspended from staging international matches on Thursday after the England and Wales Cricket Board condemned their “wholly unacceptable” handling of a racism row involving former player Azeem Rafiq. The 30-year-old Rafiq accused Yorkshire of failing to deal adequately with his allegations of
News Bangaldesh skipper admits shortcomings, but has no plans to step down Mahmudullah insisted that he would neither retire nor step down as captain in the aftermath of a T20 World Cup in which his Bangladesh side squeezed through their first-round group – despite losing to Scotland – before losing all five of their Super
News South Africa play the second game on Saturday and will know what they need to qualify Australia’s stunning victory against Bangladesh, with 82 balls to spare, has completely turned around the net-run-rate story in Group 1. With West Indies knocked out, it is now a straight race between Australia and South Africa for the
Big picture The heat is on in the Group 2 permutations, and New Zealand – for all that their destiny remains firmly in their own hands – know that an apparently comfortable route to the semi-finals could yet get a touch dicey if they drop their guard against two opponents who have scotched preconceptions to
News The two had asked to be left out because of bubble fatigue; Williamson-led squad has five spin options Trent Boult and Colin de Grandhomme have opted out of New Zealand’s two-Test tour of India, while Mumbai-born Ajaz Patel is set to lead the spin attack with William Somerville and Mitchell Santner for company. The