In what is a largely stable group of players, there was a vacancy created by the retirement of Ross Taylor while Bracewell, who was recently included in the Test squad to tour England after making his international debut against Netherlands in March, effectively replaces Neesham. Neesham, who has not featured in Test cricket since 2017,
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The challenge of lifting England’s Test cricket from “rock bottom” instead of a “cushy” role with the limited-overs side is what attracted Brendon McCullum to his first red-ball coaching job. He admitted that initially it was not a job he had given much thought to but as the interview process progressed the opportunity “kind of
Mumbai Indians on Thursday snuffed out defending champions Chennai Super Kings’ faint hopes of making the Indian Super League play-offs with a five-wicket win in a low-scoring match in Mumbai. Opting to bowl, MI shot CSK out for 97 with pacer Daniel Sams (3/16 from 4 overs) running though the MS Dhoni-led side’s top-order with
To paraphrase Monty Python, apart from 6453 runs in 101 matches, a highest score of 302 and a world-record 54-ball century in his final appearance, what has Brendon McCullum ever done for Test cricket? Well, if those numbers alone don’t impress you, how about his defining role, in the winter of 2014-15, in creating the
Allan Donald will have his work cut out this week as he prepares one of Bangladesh’s least experienced pace attacks for the Chattogram Test against Sri Lanka. The home side are missing their important spin duo in Shakib Al Hasan and Mehidy Hasan Miraz, apart from Taskin Ahmed, their most in-form fast bowler. The South
Brendon McCullum, the former New Zealand captain, has been confirmed by the ECB as England Men’s new Test head coach, on a four-year deal. McCullum, who will step down from his role as Kolkata Knight Riders’ head coach at the end of the ongoing IPL, played 101 Tests for New Zealand between 2004 and 2016,
Cricket Australia will expand the Women’s National Cricket League to a full home-and-away season under a new 12-month Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed with the Australian Cricketers’ Association. The acrimonious negotiations of 2017 were avoided with CA CEO Nick Hockley and ACA CEO Todd Greenberg working closely together over the last 12 months, including travelling
Kieron Pollard may be in the middle of his least productive IPL campaign but there’s still more to come from him, in the eyes of Ian Bishop. The former West Indies bowler and current broadcaster suggests some reinvention can go a long way to prolong Pollard’s stint at Mumbai Indians. “Pollard himself has to reinvent
Tim Paine‘s playing career appears over with the former Australia captain not given a fresh contract with Tasmania. Paine, who stepped down as Test captain in a texting-messaging controversy before last summer’s Ashes series, hasn’t been included in Tasmania’s list for the 2022-23 season. After taking time away from cricket after his captaincy resignation, Paine
India recorded an incredible victory over Australia in the second ODI in Jaipur, chasing down 359 with 39 balls to spare.
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Sri Lanka have made just two changes to the squad that emerged victors in the Commonwealth Games Qualifiers in January for their upcoming tour of Pakistan, which is set to kickstart the third edition of the ICC Women’s Championship. The 15-member strong squad otherwise remained unchanged from the side that won the Commonwealth Games Qualifiers.
Ishan Kishan admits having “lost focus” in trying to deviate from being an early enforcer to a finisher. Having gotten into a rut, he’s trying to revert to his original style that has brought him T20 success. Currently, his strike rate of 117.15 is the fourth lowest among batters who have faced at least 150
Among the latest players to catch Ian Bishop‘s eye is West Indies and Delhi Capitals’ explosive middle-order batter Rovman Powell, who Bishop believes has “matured” and evolved to become a “versatile” batter. Talking on ESPNcricinfo’s T20 Time:Out, Bishop said the biggest improvement he noticed in Powell’s batting was how he has confidently dominated spin bowling
Among all the batters that Mohammad Rizwan has ever seen or played with, the Pakistan wicketkeeper believes India’s Cheteshwar Pujara is right up there among the top three batters he knows in terms of focus and concentration. Rizwan has been able to see Pujara closely since both players are representing Sussex in the County Championship
Brendon McCullum has emerged as a surprise contender for the vacant role as England’s Test coach following two days of interviews at Lord’s. McCullum, who is in his third season as Kolkata Knight Riders’ coach at the IPL, has never coached a first-class game and was widely expected to be a candidate for the white-ball
But he has departed CA to join Victoria, taking over from long-time GM Shaun Graf who retired after several decades in the role earlier this year. Manou will work alongside Victoria head coach Chris Rogers after the pair worked together at CA when Rogers was a high-performance coach working at the National Cricket Centre with
Shakib Al Hasan has tested positive for Covid, and is ruled out of the first Test against Sri Lanka that begins on May 15. He tested positive on Tuesday in a PCR and a rapid antigen test, pre-requisites for joining the team. Shakib was supposed to join the Bangladesh Test squad on Wednesday, two days
South Africa and Australia have not played against each other in Tests since the Sandpapergate series in South Africa in 2018. They have since met in three ODIs in South Africa in March 2020, which South Africa won 3-0, and at the 2021 T20 World Cup, which Australia won, but were set to headline the
Rob Key, the ECB’s new managing director of men’s cricket, has given the first clear outline of his vision for England’s white-ball sides by throwing his weight behind Eoin Morgan‘s captaincy while underlining that he is not looking for a “facilitator” white-ball head coach during the ongoing interview process. Key has largely focused on England’s
Chris Lynn is looking for a new BBL club after Brisbane Heat made the shock decision to delist the BBL’s all-time leading runscorer after 11 seasons at the club. Queensland Cricket and Brisbane Heat CEO Terry Svenson confirmed on Wednesday that Lynn would not be offered a new contract for next season after another disappointing
On Tuesday, Rashid Khan achieved a huge T20 milestone during Gujarat Titans’ (GT) Indian Premier League (IPL) 2022 match against Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) at the Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium in Pune. The spinner took four wickets for 24 runs as GT cruised past LSG, winning by 62 runs and also qualifying for the playoffs.
Jamie Siddons, the Bangladesh batting coach, has backed Mushfiqur Rahim and Mominul Haque to return to form in the first Test against Sri Lanka in Chattogram next week. Mushfiqur and Mominul had made only 59 and 13 runs respectively in the two Tests in South Africa. In fact, Mominul had the personal-worst two-Test series of
Cricket West Indies lead selector Desmond Haynes and director of cricket Jimmy Adams have criticised West Indies’ players for falling to meet “even minimum fitness standards”. Adams warned that there were contractual consequences for players who fell below the mark, while Haynes said he was “pretty disappointed” at players who hadn’t met the criteria. “When
Surrey head coach Gareth Batty has confirmed that Sam Curran‘s return to full bowling fitness is on track despite the England all-rounder’s limited workload. Curran has sent down just 10 competitive overs since his Surrey return three weeks ago, following six months out with a stress fracture of the back. Those overs all came on
Cricket South Africa have “formally and unreservedly,” withdrawn charges of gross misconduct against men’s national head coach Mark Boucher less than a week before his disciplinary hearing was due to begin. That means they are no longer seeking his dismissal over the tentative findings of the Social Justice and Nation-Building (SJN) report which concluded that
New Zealand have suffered an injury scare shortly before their departure to England with batter Henry Nicholls picking up a calf problem during training. Nicholls, the left-handed middle-order player, has undergone a scan on his right calf after picking up the injury doing running drills in Mount Maunganui ahead of flying out at the weekend
Graham Thorpe, the former England batter, is “seriously ill” in hospital, according to the Professional Cricketers’ Association. Thorpe, 52, played 100 Tests for England between 1993 and 2005, averaging 44.66 with 16 centuries. He was recently announced as the new head coach of Afghanistan following a decade of involvement within England’s coaching set-up, which came
Cricket Australia is monitoring fast-growing unrest in Sri Lanka but remains confident next month’s tour of the country will go ahead as planned. Sri Lanka’s Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa resigned on Monday night, following months of protests after the nation was plunged into its worst economic crisis in decades. His resignation followed an attack by
Former England allrounder Luke Wright will be part of New Zealand’s coaching staff during their upcoming limited-overs tours of Ireland, Scotland and Netherlands. Wright is part of an expanded coaching group which means no one will be involved in New Zealand’s full schedule of tours which begins with the Test series against England and runs
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