On Thursday, in the middle of his first game of cricket in five months following knee surgery, Jadeja picked up a seven-for for Saurashtra against Tamil Nadu in the Ranji Trophy. He also got through 41.1 overs of bowling across two innings. Ahead of this game, he had been rather more cautious in his outlook.
Month: January 2023
Temba Bavuma will continue as South Africa’s white-ball captain for as long as his team-mates and management want him to. Bavuma, who said he would not make a rash decision about his leadership future after South Africa were booted out of the T20 World Cup at the hands of Netherlands in November, has since had
Ben Stokes has been named ICC Men’s Test Cricketer of the Year, after leading England’s stunning revival in the format. Babar Azam collected the Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy awarded to the ICC’s Men’s Cricketer of the Year, while Nat Sciver won the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy as Women’s Cricketer of the Year. “I’d like to
Mitchell Santner is cool as when he walks out to bat in Hyderabad with New Zealand 131 for 6 in a chase of 350. He is cool as when some reporters at his press conference in Raipur force him into greeting the locals in traditional fashion. He is cool as when he bowls to Shubman
Big Picture Excuse me while I interrupt myself, as the great Murray Walker once put it, but we’ve got an international series about to butt into the schedule in South Africa. A nation newly energised by the successful launch of the SA20 will be putting that tournament on ice for a week to host the
Sean Abbott, the Australia seamer, has signed to play for Surrey in the LV= Insurance County Championship and Vitality T20 Blast this summer. Abbott, 30, who had an injury-affected spell at the club in 2021, will join for the start of the season and be available until the end of July. Surrey have previously announced
The owners of men’s IPL teams Mumbai Indians, Delhi Capitals and Royal Challengers Bangalore, as well as the Adani Group and Capri Global, have won bids to own the five women’s IPL teams at the auction ahead of the inaugural edition to be played in March this year. The tournament will be known as the
New Zealand Cricket (NZC) is introducing the Debbie Hockley Medal at this year’s annual awards ceremony, to honour the outstanding female cricketer of the year. The medal will be the women’s equivalent of the Sir Richard Hadlee Medal for the outstanding male cricketer of the year, and will be a regular feature at the NZC’s
After 36 matches, four teams remain in the inaugural Under-19 Women’s T20 World Cup. Both semi-finals will be played on Friday, January 27, with India vs New Zealand in the afternoon followed by Australia vs England in the evening. Here’s a look at what the four semi-finalists – and their key players – have done
Half of Nathan Lyon’s 16 overs were maidens, as the Test off-spinner snared 6-21 in a frugal and lethal bowling spell in the Marsh Sheffield Shield against Victoria at the SCG
In the Platinum category, Lahore Qalandars picked Sam Billings for Rashid Khan; Peshawar Zalmi replaced Rovman Powell with Richard Gleeson; Islamabad United picked Gus Atkinson and Tymal Mills for Rahmanullah Gurbaz and Alex Hales. Multan Sultans replaced David Miller with Izharulhaq Naveed. Quetta reserved their pick for Sri Lanka’s Wanindu Hasaranga, who will depart the
Adani Sportsline Adani Sportsline is the sports arm of the Adani Group, an Ahmedabad-based conglomerate. They have been trying to get their hands on an IPL team for a while, and now that they have, they wasted no time in picking a name: Gujarat Giants. Adani offered more money than anyone – INR 1289 crore
India’s middle-order veteran Cheteshwar Pujara turned 35 on Wednesday. Wishes started pouring in from fans and well-wishers for the star batter. The cricket fraternity also extended its wishes, however, that of batting legend Sachin Tendulkar hogged limelight amidst all. “Not all five fingers are the same. Not every Test batsman needs to be a big
South Africa 98 for 0 (Brits 50*, Wolvaardt 42*) beat West Indies 97 for 6 (Matthews 34, Gajnabi 33, Sekhukhune 2-24) by ten wickets It went from bad to worse for West Indies in the women’s T20I tri-series in East London. After facing back-to-back defeats in the first two games, another meek batting display saw
Siraj was third on the wicket-takers’ table for the series against New Zealand after picking up five wickets in two games, behind Shardul Thakur and Kuldeep Yadav, who both had six strikes. But that haul made it 14 wickets in five ODIs – with the three games against Sri Lanka in the earlier series added
The 2023 IPL final is likely to be played on May 28, with the start date likely to be March 31 or April 1. ESPNcricinfo has also learnt that the inaugural season of the Women’s Premier League (WPL) is likely to be played from March 4 to 24. The window for the WPL has to
Jofra Archer has rated himself “about 80 percent” fit ahead of his long-awaited return to international cricket during England’s ODI tour of South Africa. Despite his protestations that “there’s no reason to look back”, Archer is doing just that as he aims to pick up where he left off after nearly two years away from
Sydney Thunder 120 for 7 (Sams 28, Zampa 3-26) beat Melbourne Stars 119 for 7 (Cartwright 36, Qadir 3-24) by 3 wickets Sydney Thunder survived a wobbly chase to secure a BBL finals berth after a tense three-wicket victory over Melbourne Stars at the MCG. The finals positioning came down to the last match of
Rohit Sharma has warned India against rushing Jasprit Bumrah back into action and hopes the fast bowler will recover sufficiently from injury to be available for the last two Tests against Australia in March. Bumrah was on his way back to the ODI side for the home series against Sri Lanka earlier this month, having
The critics said he was too old and too slow, but Glenn McGrath was simply too good in the opening Test of the 2006-07 Ashes, taking 6-50 at the Gabba
Check out the best of England’s catches from 2021, featuring Katherine Brunt’s storming catch off Shafali Verma and Adil Rashid’s sensational diving take off his own bowling. Find out more at ecb.co.uk This is the official channel of the ECB. Watch all the latest videos from the England Cricket teams and England and Wales Cricket
India skipper Rohit Sharma is hoping that pace ace Jasprit Bumrah would return to lead the attack in the last two Tests of the upcoming four-match series against world number one Australia. The 29-year-old Burmah, who hasn’t played international cricket since September last year due to a back injury, is not in the India squad
Joburg Super Kings 182 for 2 (du Plessis 113*, Hendricks 45) beat Durban’s Super Giants 178 for 6 (Klaasen 65, Holder 28*, Coetzee 3-21) by 8 wickets A sensational century from Faf du Plessis saw Joburg Super Kings claim a much-needed eight-wicket win over Durban’s Super Giants. In a clash between the two sides at
The Pakistan Cricket Board has invited the country’s private and government departments besides three military institutes to be part of the domestic circuit. The PCB has initiated a restructuring of domestic cricket, and a return to the 16-team hybrid first-class model featuring both regions and departments. The PCB has already abolished the previous six-team model
If Matt Renshaw gets a call-up to Australia’s Test side on the upcoming tour of India, he says he will be as prepared as ever to take on spin maestro R Ashwin. In 2021 Ashwin became the first bowler in history to take 200 wickets against left-handed batters. The 26-year-old Renshaw will tour with fellow
Trent Bridge, the home of men’s reigning champions Trent Rockets, will host the opening fixtures of this year’s Hundred on August 1, with the final once again scheduled for Lord’s, on August 27. As revealed by ESPNcricinfo, this year’s tournament will played in a reduced four-week window, to avoid a clash with the summer’s men’s
Seventeen bidders, including seven entities that own men’s IPL teams, will participate in the BCCI’s January 25 auction to buy the five women’s IPL franchisees ahead of the inaugural edition in March. The auction will take place in Mumbai on Wednesday afternoon, and the winners will be determined through a closed-bid process. A key eligibility
The annual ICC teams for 2022 are out, in five categories: men’s Tests, ODIs and T20Is, and women’s ODIs and T20Is. Some of the usual suspects, the cream of the crop in each format, are there, of course, but there are a few names in each XI that might make you want to turn to
Former Pakistan batter Haroon Rasheed has been named chief selector by PCB chairman Najam Sethi, who said that the rest of the selection panel would be named later. Rasheed played 23 Tests and 12 ODIs for Pakistan between 1977 and 1983 and apart from his previous role as a selector, has also served as PCB’s
New Zealand chose to bowl vs India Rohit Sharma said he would have batted first anyway because defending on such a small ground will be difficult, and he said he wanted to put the team in tougher situations. Having decided they were going to bat first, India threw their spinners a big challenge as they
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