Preview Australia will be keen to experiment, with Green and Labuschagne coming in for Marsh and Smith; Pakistan will miss injured Shadab Big picture After a historic and much-hyped three-Test series, comprising 15 gruelling and emotionally charged days, the limited-overs leg of Australia’s tour of Pakistan can feel somewhat neglected by comparison. The anti-climax is
Month: March 2022
Report Pacer picks four wickets on debut while the opener scored his maiden ODI ton New Zealand 204 for 3 (Young 103*, Nicholls 57, Rippon 2-32) beat Netherlands 202 all out (Rippon 67, Seelaar 43, Tickner 4-50) by seven wickets New Zealand hadn’t played an ODI for just over a year, had as many as
News Australia’s team physio also tests positive on the morning of the opening ODI; rest of the players test negative Spinner Ashton Agar has become the second Australia player to test positive for Covid-19 in 24 hours, and has been ruled out of the entire ODI series against Pakistan in Lahore. Cricket Australia (CA) confirmed
News Pakistan are set to host SL, tour Australia, and play Ireland home and away as well as feature in the Commonwealth and Asian Games The PCB has chalked out a year-long calendar for women’s cricket, comprising extensive international and domestic cricket including home series against Sri Lanka and Ireland and Pakistan’s participation in the
News Who’s this 22-year-old who comes in and slog-sweeps Rashid for a six and hooks Ferguson for another? The first thing Harsha Bhogle asked him in the mid-match interview was, “where have you been hiding?”. It was, of course, a valid question. Just eight runs to his name in T20 cricket and no List A
News Fast bowler expected to be out of action until May at the earliest after successful procedure Mark Wood, the England fast bowler, has undergone elbow surgery in London to address an “impingement issue” that caused him to pull out of both the ongoing West Indies tour and the IPL. Wood pulled up injured midway
News The allrounder suffered back spasms last Tuesday and “ran out of time to prove her fitness” for Wednesday’s knockout game against West Indies Ellyse Perry has been ruled out of Australia’s 2022 ODI World Cup semi-final against West Indies scheduled for Wednesday in Wellington. Meg Lanning, the Australia captain, confirmed Perry’s unavailability for the
Australia batting star Marnus Labuschagne talks about moving to Brisbane from South Africa as a youngster, his early introduction to cricket and his hobbies away from the game (spoiler: it’s more cricket)
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News “We have to make do with our next best that we have in the country, who I’m still very confident in.” South Africa’s IPL-contracted players were “put in a bit of a situation” when asked to choose between staying to play in the two-Test series against Bangladesj or going to the T20 tournament, according
News PCB said West Indies have agreed to play three T20Is in Pakistan “in early 2023” West Indies will tour Pakistan for a three-match ODI series in June, the PCB announced. All three matches, which are part of the 2023 World Cup Super League, will take place in Rawalpindi. They will take place on June
News “I couldn’t be more positive of what we’ve done over these past three-and-a-half weeks,” says interim coach Interim head coach Paul Collingwood has said that despite England’s loss to West Indies he believes the team is making progress and that he “couldn’t be more positive of what we’ve done over these past three-and-a-half weeks”.
News A round-up of the second week of matches, which included a very dodgy umpiring decision which is under BCB review Key takeaways Prime Bank Cricket Club and Sheikh Jamal Dhanmondi Club continue to lead the Dhaka Premier League points table with four wins each but both clubs also dropped their first points during the
News Interim appointment expected in wake of Shane Warne’s death Trevor Bayliss is set to be appointed as London Spirit’s men’s head coach in the Hundred, linking back up with Eoin Morgan after four successful years together with England’s white-ball sides. Bayliss, who was England’s coach during the white-ball revolution from 2015 to 2019 that
News Claims England made “big improvements” and played some “brilliant cricket” despite defeat to West Indies Joe Root has insisted that he retains the backing of England’s Test players and wants to continue in the job as captain, despite defeat in the Caribbean extending their run without a series victory to five – a sequence
News Australia allrounder says “we’ll probably need to make a decision in the next day or two” Ellyse Perry‘s availability for Australia’s World Cup semi-final against West Indies on March 30 remains uncertain two days out from the fixture, she confirmed before heading into her first training session in nearly a week. Perry, who had
Preview Agarwal’s men boast a lot of power-hitting talent, but will be without Bairstow for their season opener Big picture A lot of IPL teams, for a lot of the time, go into the auction to buy back the players they’d been forced to let go. And it makes for fun viewing because their rivals
News Atherton, Hussain and Vaughan lead calls for change of leadership England’s defeat on the Spice Isle was Root’s 26th in 64 Tests as captain since his appointment five years ago, meaning that only two men in Test history – Stephen Fleming (27) and Graeme Smith (29) – have overseen more defeats. While Root said
IPL 2022: DC top table with win vs MI, PBKS go 2nd after big chase vs RCB.© BCCI/IPL On Sunday, Delhi Capitals came back after a top-order collapse to beat Mumbai Indians by four wickets, while Punjab Kings chased down 206 against Royal Challengers Bangalore. The results, adding to Kolkata Knight Riders’ win against Chennai
News Joe Root in the firing line as England brace for inevitability of another series loss Marcus Trescothick, England’s batting coach, insists that “one bad day” cannot undermine the progress that has been made in the Caribbean, as the squad faces up to the near-inevitability of humiliating defeat in the third and final Test in
News South Africa’s batting is starting to hit top gear at the business end of the World Cup South Africa’s batting is starting to click at the business end of the World Cup, thanks largely to a resurgence in form for Mignon du Preez, who scored her first fifty of the tournament in a thrilling,
Report KKR’s mystery spinners Narine and Chakravarthy prove unhittable; Rahane shines with the bat Kolkata Knight Riders 133 for 4 (Rahane 44, Bravo 3-20) beat Chennai Super Kings 131 for 5 (Dhoni 50*, Umesh 2-20) by six wickets MS Dhoni, 40 and no longer captain, turned the clock back with a vintage display of death-overs
Report Match wrapped up in style inside an hour-and-a-half on the fourth morning West Indies 297 (da Silva 100*) and 28 for 0 (Brathwaite 20*) beat England 204 and 120 (Mayers 5-18) by ten wickets The stadium DJ was playing “London Bridge is Falling Down” as the last rites of England’s Caribbean humiliation were being
News The rest of the squad are unaffected, and will continue following Covid guidelines and completing their daily health-checks New Zealand batter Mark Chapman has been ruled out of the upcoming ODI series at home against Netherlands, after testing positive for Covid-19. Auckland batter George Worker, who last played for New Zealand in 2018, has
Report South Africa left out Tazmin Brits at No. 3 for Lara Goodall and Masabata Klaas replaced Tumi Sekhukhune Toss India chose to bat vs South Africa Jhulan Goswami was out of India’s XI for their must-win match against South Africa with a side strain, leaving India without their most experienced bowler as they aim
News “It’s pretty rare for a cricketer these days to get three months off, so I’m really going to make the most of it.” Australia legspinner Adam Zampa is confident his upcoming three-month break won’t leave him short of a gallop for this year’s T20 World Cup on home turf. Zampa is currently in Pakistan
Since her international debut in 2019, Shafali Verma‘s rapid rise as an all-format player has played out like an action-packed cliffhanger, at 2x speed. Even before she faced her first ball in international cricket as a 15-year-old, she had etched her name in the record books as the youngest Indian to play T20Is. Soon after,
News Super Kings coach admits “it is going to be a bit of a transition period” MS Dhoni and Stephen Fleming had captaincy talks even last season, the Chennai Super Kings coach has revealed. Dhoni decided to give up the CSK captaincy on the eve of the tournament, evident from how all the promotional advertising
Close England 204 and 103 for 8 (Mayers 5-9) lead West Indies 297 (da Silva 100*) by 10 runs West Indies are closing in on a stunning victory in the third Test in Grenada, after Kyle Mayers’ blink-of-an-eye five-wicket haul seized on the dogged, emotional efforts of Joshua Da Silva’s maiden Test century to leave
Report Bangladesh bring in Shamima Sultana for Murshida Khatun in the last day of the 2022 ODI World Cup’s league stage Toss England Women chose to bat vs Bangladesh Women Defending champions England opted to bat against debutants Bangladesh in windy Wellington as they look to seal the third semi-finals spot of the 2022 ODI
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