When Anisa Mohammed took the ball to deliver the 48th over in England’s chase in their World Cup game against West Indies, she knew her team was going to win. West Indies had just eight runs to defend, and England’s ninth-wicket pair had already plundered 61 runs, but Mohammed, West Indies most expensive frontline bowler
Month: March 2022
News West Indies spinner will head to Kia Oval after completion of 2022 IPL Sunil Narine will make his first appearance in the Vitality T20 Blast after signing for Surrey. Narine, who will head to London after the completion of his stint at the IPL, played for the Oval-based Invincibles during last year’s Hundred. Narine,
News Anrich Nortje, who is recovering from a hip injury, and Sisanda Magala, who failed a fitness test, were unavailable for selection South Africa have named a full-strength squad, minus Anrich Nortje and Sisanda Magala for fitness reasons, for the upcoming home ODI series against Bangladesh. The three-match series, which is to be played in
News The PCB chairman, however, more or less confirmed that the pitch had been prepared to nullify Australia’s fast-bowling strength Ramiz Raja, the PCB chairman, has conceded that the drawn Rawalpindi Test was not a good advertisement for Test cricket. He reiterated the claim he made when he first took over the post that Pakistan
News The allrounder returned a positive result when he was tested upon arrival at the team hotel in Karachi Pakistan’s selection frustrations in the Australia series are set to continue after allrounder Faheem Ashraf tested positive for Covid-19, days away from the second Test against Australia in Karachi. That rules out Faheem for another Test
News Displaces Jason Holder at the top after his Mohali masterclass against Sri Lanka Jadeja scored 175 not out and took a match haul of nine wickets to help India to an innings victory over Sri Lanka and displace West Indies’ Jason Holder at the top of the rankings. Holder held the No. 1 spot
News This announcement brings the curtain down on a career that had just recently restarted S Sreesanth, the controversial right-arm swing bowler who won the 2007 T20 World Cup and the 2011 ODI World Cup representing India, has called time on a career that began 20 years ago. The 39-year old, who represented his country
Report West Indies openers Kraigg Brathwaite and John Campbell set about brisk reply Lunch West Indies 44 for 0 (Brathwaite 29*, Campbell 14*) trail England 311 (Bairstow 140, Seales 4-79) by 267 runs Jonny Bairstow expanded on his first-day century to take England past the 300-mark for the first time in more than six months
News “Ten years ago, I would have said that we want to play good cricket. Now I will say that we want to win there, and we will do what we have to do to win” Tamim Iqbal expects the Mount Maunganui Test win a couple of months ago to inspire Bangladesh when they travel
News “Shakib wanted rest, we gave him rest,” says BCB; allrounder to sit out South Africa tour The BCB has “rested” Shakib Al Hasan from all forms of international cricket till April 30. According to cricket operations chairman Jalal Yunus, the BCB considered Shakib’s plea for a break from cricket due to his mental and
News Australia captain says coming away with a draw in sub-continent conditions “not a bad result” Australia’s captain Pat Cummins believes Rawalpindi’s lifeless pitch was specifically designed to nullify the visitors’ pace attack and that a draw was a good result despite his team only managing to take four wickets throughout the Test. Just 14
News Queenslander could become first specialist Australia legspinner to play Test cricket since Bryce McGain in 2009 Even if Australia had Shane Warne in his prime in Rawalpindi, they might not have gone close to taking 20 wickets on a surface that yielded just 14 in five days. But Australia are considering picking a specialist
News She has been out of the national frame after a bright international debut, and is gung-ho about making the latest chance count It was the final day of the first day-night Test in the women’s game and Wellington, then 20, hit the top of Beaumont’s off stump with a delivery that drew comparisons with
News Victorian premier Andrews said there will be no crowd cap at the venue, which can hold up to 100,000 spectators Shane Warne will be publicly farewelled at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, home to many of his greatest sports moments, later this month. Victorian premier Daniel Andrews has confirmed the MCG as the venue for
Women’s World Cup Live: India face New Zealand in their second league stage game.© AFP India face hosts New Zealand in their upcoming ICC Women’s World Cup league stage fixture at Seddon Park, in Hamilton, on Thursday. Recently, the Mithali Raj-led side faced New Zealand in a bilateral ODI series with the White Ferns coming
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Report Windies name four quicks plus spinner Permaul as Mayers, Phillip miss out Toss England chose to bat first vs West Indies England have won the toss and opted to bat first against West Indies in the first match of their three-Test series in Antigua. In the first true test of their red-ball reset plans,
News Nat Sciver, whose 109 off 85 balls went in vain for England against Australia, moved up to No. 6 among batters Australia captain Meg Lanning climbed up two spots to be ranked No. 2 among ODI batters. She is currently just 15 points behind the leader and team-mate Alyssa Healy. Lanning hit 86 in
Report Australia’s lower order folded in the first 20 minutes of play on a docile deck Pakistan 476 for 4 dec and 76 for 0 (Imam 40*, Shafique 33*) lead Australia 459 (Khawaja 97, Labuschagne 90, Smith 78, Nauman 6-107) by 93 runs Pakistan openers Imam-ul-Haq and Abdullah Shafique confidently blunted Australia’s attack on a
IND vs SL: Axar Patel has been added to the India squad for 2nd Test.© Instagram Axar Patel has been added to India squad for the second Test against Sri Lanka set to be played in Bengaluru from March 12, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) said in a media release. “The All-India
News England batter wary of power-packed West Indies, whom they face after opening defeat to Australia “We’re all really confident,” Wyatt said. “We played some fantastic cricket the other night against the Aussies. Obviously we’re gutted not to get the win, but there’s so many positives that we can take away from that game. Especially
Report Australia have opted for three spinners on a used surface Toss Australia chose to bowl vs Pakistan Australia bolstered their spin resources in the XI, adding a second wristspinner in Amanda-Jade Wellington, as they opted to bowl on the used Bay Oval surface against Pakistan in Mount Maunganui. In inserting Pakistan, they unsurprisingly reduced
News Absence of James Anderson and Stuart Broad won’t make hosts complacent, says coach West Indies will be focused on ensuring that their batters grind out enough runs for the bowlers to put England’s revamped Test side under pressure in Antigua, rather than worrying about who is or isn’t in the XI for the tourists.
News Lance Klusener rejoins support staff as batting coach; Lalchand Rajput retained as head coach Craig Ervine has been confirmed as Zimbabwe’s full-time white-ball captain while Sean Williams has been retained as Test captain. Ervine had captained Zimbabwe in an interim capacity during their limited-overs series in Ireland and Scotland last year and in Sri
News “If he was in a poor physical and mental state, he wouldn’t have given his name in the IPL auction” “I think it is logical to think that if he was in a poor physical and mental state, he wouldn’t have given his name in the IPL [auction],” Hassan said. “But he went ahead
News The autopsy in Thailand has confirmed death by natural causes and the body will now return to Australia Members of Shane Warne‘s family spoke of their heartache for the first time on Monday following his death, as an autopsy confirmed he had died of natural causes after a heart attack. Together, they spoke of
Big Picture “We’re not going to panic,” Paul Collingwood said last week, midway through England’s one and only warm-up game ahead of a Test series that – fairly or otherwise – is destined to attract some snap judgements in the coming days. As preambles go for England’s much-vaunted “red-ball reset”, it wasn’t the most glowing
News Captain wants his players “to prove a point” after turbulent winter for Test side Joe Root has described England’s three-Test series in the Caribbean as a chance “for all of us to prove a point” in the wake of a dismal winter Ashes campaign that led to a round of sackings at the ECB.
News The Bangladesh captain calls the conditions, especially when they were fielding, “not good” or “playable” Nigar Sultana, the Bangladesh captain, has criticised the conditions in Dunedin, where her team lost their second game of the Women’s World Cup 2022 – a rain-hit fixture to New Zealand. She called the damp outfield unplayable and said
News With 925 runs scored and only 11 wickets taken after four days, the first Test is on course to a tame draw Steven Smith said what had been evident to anyone watching any part of the Test match at Rawalpindi. He described the wicket as “dead” and benign”, and said it offered little to
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