Former India batter Navjot Sidhu has been handed a one-year prison sentence by the Supreme Court of India which was reviewing a case involving the cricketer in 1988 in which one Gurnam Singh died. The verdict was announced on Thursday by the two-judge bench comprising Justices A. M. Khanwilkar and Sanjay Kishan Kaul which was
Month: May 2022
Midway through Matthew Potts‘ nets session on Thursday morning, Eoin Morgan walked over to shake his hand to congratulate him on his first call-up to a full England squad. With England only picked 13 players to cover the first two Tests against New Zealand, Potts is almost certain to make his debut at some stage
Former Australia allrounder Shane Watson has put the spotlight back on Aaron Finch‘s struggles with the bat saying that his poor form could make him a “liability” at the T20 World Cup later this year and he should not be assured of a place just because he is captain. Finch’s batting has been under microscope
Matthew Wade is frustrated after he is dismissed for 16.© BCCI/IPL Matthew Wade was an angry man on Thursday after the Gujarat Titans batter was dismissed LBW while batting on 16 by Royal Challengers Bangalore’s Glenn Maxwell. More than the score, it was his mode of dismissal that frustrated the Australian. After spin-allrounder Maxwell’s delivery
New Zealand’s pull-out citing security reasons last September was viewed as a major setback for Pakistan in their bid to ensure international cricket returns home. It was followed by England pulling out of a short tour the following month, though that decision generated significant blowback, both in Pakistan and beyond. Pakistan has since undone much
Both ESPNcricinfo experts agree that having been “consumed” for seven years leading India and also being their best batter for several years across all formats, Kohli is still coming to terms with transitioning into the background as one of the players. Vettori and Shastri were reacting to Kohli’s statement about him intending to talk to
Mark Wood is a naturally ebullient fellow, but even he admits he’s “clutching for straws” when trying to take any positives from the timing of the elbow injury that has interrupted his career just as he was hitting full flow. As recently as January, Wood was right at the top of his game. He alone
By the end of the Chattogram Test where even three innings couldn’t be completed, the once famished batters from both Bangladesh and Sri Lanka were wearing a satisfied look. They had spent five days tucking into some much needed comfort food thanks to the Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium pitch. Sri Lanka had a rough time
Virat Kohli is open to the idea of taking a break from cricket to “rejuvenate” himself mentally and get himself out of the lean patch he has been going through of late. At the same time, Kohli said he was going through the “happiest phase” of his life and he was “batting well” despite struggling
Brendon McCullum, England’s new Test coach, says that his existing relationships with Eoin Morgan and Matthew Mott, the new captain-coach partnership in the white-ball set-up, will help to create an environment where both squads are able to “sing from the same hymn-sheet”. McCullum, who is due to arrive in the UK next week ahead of
Bangladesh left-arm quick Shoriful Islam has been ruled out of the rest of the Test series against Sri Lanka after he sustained a right hand injury on the fourth evening in Chattogram. An X-ray revealed a fracture and Shoriful has been ruled out for four to five weeks, which is likely to make him unavailable
Lunch Sri Lanka 397 and 128 for 4 (Karunaratne 44*, Kusal 48, Oshada 19, Taijul 3-38) lead Bangladesh 465 for 9 dec by 60 runs Two key strikes from Taijul Islam made sure Bangladesh stayed ahead in the game on day five of the first Test, in Chattogram. For the longest time in the morning,
New Zealand coach Gary Stead is confident that Kane Williamson will be able to bounce back from his IPL struggles in the Test series against England next month, but the first match of the series may come too soon for Trent Boult. Williamson left the IPL early to return home for the birth of his
Matthew Fisher is unlikely to feature for England this summer after scans revealed that his back injury was worse than initially feared. Fisher, 24, made his Test debut in Barbados in March as a late replacement for the unwell Craig Overton and took a wicket with his second ball, having John Campbell caught behind. He
Nic Maddinson has lined up a stint in county cricket to further his prospects of an Australia recall in time for the 2023 Ashes. He has set his sights on a return to Test cricket and is closing in on a deal with Durham to replace Keegan Petersen as their overseas player for the second
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Quinton de Kock played with exuberance for Lucknow Super Giants against Kolkata Knight Riders to score a brilliant ton in an Indian Premier League (IPL) 2022 on Wednesday. He stayed unbeaten on 140 (70b, 10x6s, 10x4s) as LSG scored a massive 210/0 in 20 overs. His fellow opener and LSG captain KL Rahul stayed unbeaten
Matthew Mott has been named as the new head coach of England men’s white-ball squads, after being preferred in the role to Paul Collingwood, who took charge during the recent T20I series in the Caribbean. Mott, 48, joins the set-up after a seven-year stint as head coach of Australia Women, who recently claimed the ODI
Tamim, who retired hurt on 133 on the third day following cramps on his back and wrist, is currently at 4981 runs. In 2015, Tamim had overtaken Habibul Bashar’s tally of 3026 to become Bangladesh’s leading run-getter in Test cricket. Since then, the record has changed hands a couple of times between Tamim and Mushfiqur.
Pakistan have named two uncapped players – wicketkeeper-batter Gull Feroza and legspinner Tuba Hassan – in their T20I squad for the upcoming home series against Sri Lanka. Feroza is also part of the squad for the ODI series, which also includes uncapped batter Sadaf Shamas. Left-arm spinner Sadia Iqbal, meanwhile, has been recalled to both
Rob Key, England’s new managing director of men’s cricket who was involved in the selection process, said the squad represented “the start of a new era” but there was more continuity than change, with eight of the side that lost by ten wickets in Grenada in England’s most recent Test selected and the three absentees
Umran Malik needs to be given a central contract “straightaway” by the BCCI, in the opinion of Ravi Shastri, who also believes Malik will be “a handful” in first-class cricket and has the potential to even be part of the Indian Test set-up subject to him being put on the development pathway by Indian cricket
It was a case of mindset over matter as England unveiled their first squad selection of the Brendon McCullum era. Many of the same notes, in a slightly different order, like the set-up for a Morecombe and Wise sketch, but hopefully without quite the same element of farce in the final analysis. McCullum, currently at
Lunch Bangladesh 385 for 3 (Litton 88*, Mushfiqur 85*, Rajitha 2-31) trail Sri Lanka 397 (Mathews 199, Chandimal 66, Nayeem 6-105) by 12 runs Mushfiqur Rahim became the first Bangladesh cricketer to reach 5000 runs in Test cricket as the hosts continued to surge ahead on the fourth day of the first Test in Chattogram.
Does anyone remember Chris Dehring? Those of a certain age might raise an eyebrow of recognition at a name that, in the years leading up to the 2007 World Cup, was the ubiquitous, plausible face of West Indies cricket – first as the man who spearheaded the WICB’s successful bid, then as the Managing Director
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Despite Bangladesh’s strong showing with the bat on the third day of the Chattogram Test, Sri Lanka coach Chris Silverwood feels that the Chattogram Test is finely poised, but a result will depend on whether the home side “try to push things on” on the fourth morning. “I think it is a very well-balanced game,”
Tristan Stubbs, the second-highest run-scorer in South Africa’s domestic T20 challenge, has received his maiden call-up to the national side after being included in the squad to play five T20Is in India in June. Stubbs joins a full-strength South African outfit that includes all the players who missed the Bangladesh Test after opting to go
Leaving aside the odd season of injury comebacks, it’s been 15 extraordinary years since James Anderson last went into a home summer as anything other than England’s attack leader. You have to go way back to the India series in 2007, when his second Test five-for at Lord’s hinted at the bowler he was about
Shumba had Jan Nicol Loftie-Eaton stumped four overs later, the delivery after la Cock had brought up an aggressive half-century, off 36 balls, and then claimed the key wicket of la Cock, in the 17th over. With 35 runs required off 21 balls, la Cock dragged a wide delivery from outside off stump to deep
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