News South Africa’s Test captain says focus on the head coach’s disciplinary hearing is taking the spotlight away from the team’s recent on-field successes Constant conversations around Mark Boucher‘s upcoming disciplinary hearing are taking the spotlight away from South Africa’s recent successes, according to Test captain Dean Elgar. Speaking at the squad’s departure press conference
Month: February 2022
News Pooran, Moeen and Livingston are other notable movers in the latest ICC rankings Akeal Hosein and Jason Holder have achieved career-best positions in the latest ICC T20I rankings for bowlers, after guiding West Indies to victory in the fifth match against England in Bridgetown. Left-arm spinner Hosein has jumped 15 places to the 18th
News Says he could have “more things to contribute to the team” as a batter Virat Kohli has said that he doesn’t need to be captain of the team to be a leader for India, suggesting that he could contribute more as the side’s batting mainstay. Kohli had stepped down from the Test captaincy earlier
News Disciplinary chair agrees to Boucher’s request for May dates that will allow him to call players without disrupting season Boucher was formally charged in January 17 but the hearing can only begin at the conclusion of the South African home summer due to player availability. At a meeting last Wednesday with disciplinary chair Terry
Preview There’s no lack of context in what is a World Cup year, but Lanning and Knight aren’t looking too far ahead as they face off in the ODI leg of the women’s Ashes The rest of this Ashes series will do well to match the drama of the Test that played out at Manuka
Tom Prest, England’s Under-19 captain, praised the character of his team-mates after they collectively held their nerve in an extraordinary World Cup semi-final against Afghanistan in Antigua, to book their place in the final for the first time in 24 years. England’s eventual 15-run victory spanned the full gamut of emotions, not least for the
News Ponting reveals conversation he had with Kohli in IPL 2021 when the former India captain wanted to continue leading in Tests Virat Kohli‘s decision to relinquish Test captaincy took nearly everyone in the cricket world by surprise, with Ricky Ponting being more surprised than most because of a conversation the two had during the
Australia U19 captain Cooper Connolly Cooper Connolly is backing Australia’s new batting prodigy Teague Wyllie to help fire his team into the ICC Under-19 Men’s Cricket World Cup final 2022. A talented India team stands between Australia and Saturday’s showpiece match at the Sir Vivian Richards Stadium. However, Aussie captain Connolly believes his team has
Big Picture The first semi-final of the 2022 Under-19 World Cup will feature two teams, who in many ways, play just like their senior sides do. England are the side that bat aggressively, while Afghanistan have tied a web around other teams with their spinners. However, both teams have had largely different paths to the
Report Shadab’s 91 in vain as Islamabad United fall short of 218 target by 20 runs Multan Sultans 217 for 5 (David 71, Rossouw 67*, Wasim 1-39) beat Islamabad United 197 (Shadab 91, Khushdil 4-35, Willey 3-38) by 20 runs Shadab Khan‘s fighting 91 off 42 balls went in vain for Islamabad United, as Multan
“You don’t have to be a captain to lead.” That’s the view of Hardik Pandya, who will lead the Ahmedabad franchise at IPL 2022. Pandya has captained only once at the senior level – in a tour game against Australia in 2017 – but he isn’t bothered about the lack of experience as he has
News Jofra Archer has been listed in the auction but he is unlikely to feature in the 2022 season R Ashwin, Trent Boult, Pat Cummins, Quinton de Kock, Shikhar Dhawan, Faf du Plessis, Shreyas Iyer, Kagiso Rabada, Mohammed Shami and David Warner. These 10 players will be part of the marquee set that will ring
News “It’s a great place to come and play cricket, I absolutely feel safe,” says the PSL veteran England’s decision to cancel their white-ball tour of Pakistan last October made “zero sense”, according to Alex Hales. “That decision to cancel that tour made absolutely no sense,” Hales told Geo TV. “Especially after Pakistan came to
News “This shouldn’t have become such a big incident. We will do a hearing shortly and ask both parties to attend it,” says chairman Sheikh Sohel, the chairman of the BPL governing council, has said that they will investigate the captaincy row between Mehidy Hasan Miraz and the Chattogram Challengers’ officials. Miraz nearly left the
News The allrounder played a key role in denying England what appeared a certain victory Annabel Sutherland wasn’t sure she would get another over after being taken for two sixes as England put themselves in a position to win the Ashes Test in Canberra, but repaid the faith shown by captain Meg Lanning to help
Deandra Dottin batting in the Super Over vs South Africa The rain-affected second ODI between West Indies women and South Africa women was largely dominated by the bowlers barring the one-over eliminator. The match in Johannesburg went into a Super Over after both West Indies and South Africa were bowled out for 160 in 41-over-a-side
News West Indies ride on Bishop, Wickham hundreds to beat Zimbabwe; bowlers help UAE pip Ireland Pakistan 176 for 4 (Haseebullah 79, Shehzad 36, Rakibul 2-28) beat Bangladesh 175 (Ariful 100, Mumtaz 3-16, Awais 3-52) by six wickets Three wickets apiece for Mehran Mumtaz and Awais Ali helped Pakistan get the better of Bangladesh and
News Teams to be spread across nine venues: Chennai, Ahmedabad, Thiruvananthapuram, Bengaluru, Rajkot, Cuttack, Guwahati, Kolkata, Hyderabad. The league phase of the 2021-22 Ranji Trophy is likely to be played between February 16 and March 5. As per the plan devised by BCCI, the 38 teams that take part in the Ranji Trophy are likely
News The push has strengthened for more games in the format but the future is unclear Australia’s women could have to wait up to four years to play another home Test with the thrilling Ashes finish no silver bullet for more certainty on red-ball cricket. Sunday’s final hour in Canberra capped arguably the best women’s