The PCB and the Pakistan men’s team players have reached a landmark agreement on central contracts, ending several months of deadlock and uncertainty. For the first time in Pakistan, three-year contracts have been put in place – rather than the standard 12 months – along with a significant increase in player earnings, as well as
Month: September 2023
New Zealand captain Kane Williamson plans “to have some involvement in the warm-up games” ahead of the World Cup, as he gradually makes his way back from a six-month lay-off. Williamson is returning to action after rupturing his anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) during the opening game of the IPL in March. He was continuing his
Toss Australia chose to bat vs India Australia welcomed back big guns Glenn Maxwell and Mitchell Starc into the playing XI and elected to bat in the third and final ODI in Rajkot as they look to avoid a clean sweep against India. Also returning to the side was captain Pat Cummins, who sat out
File photo of Shaheen Afridi (left) and Babar Azam.© AFP Pakistan cricket team had a good start in the recently-concluded Asia Cup tournament but failed to carry the momentum and bowed out of the event in the Super 4 stage, following a disappointing loss to Sri Lanka. After their shocking exit, rumours emerged that Pakistan
Ireland won the toss and chose to bowl vs England Ireland won the toss and chose to bowl in the third and final ODI as the English international home summer comes to an end at Bristol. Following defeat in the second ODI at Trent Bridge over the weekend, Paul Stirling decided Ireland’s best chance of
India won the first two ODIs against Australia, taking the series in the process. The first win, which took India to the No. 1 position in the ICC’s ODI team rankings, came by five wickets with eight balls in hand, after Australia fought back from a poor position. But in the second, India were as
Western Australia 371 for 7 (Whiteman 89, Turner 86, Bancroft 66, Hobson 64*) beat South Australia 349 for 8 (Drew 120, McSweeney 51, Short 3-81), South Australia, despite a superb century from Daniel Drew, slipped to a 22-run defeat to reigning champions Western Australia in their high-scoring one-day clash which brought 720 runs. WA, with
Pakistan may have endured a tumultuous Asia Cup campaign where they finished last in the Super Four stage, but Babar Azam was keen to remind everyone they were the top-ranked ODI side in the world just days earlier. And while Pakistan missed out on a semi-final spot at the last ODI World Cup, Babar was
The 34-year-old dislocated the finger while attempting a catch during New Zealand’s fourth and final ODI against England at Lord’s earlier this month. He subsequently went under the knife, and will now fly to India on Saturday with an aim to be fit for New Zealand’s opening World Cup game against England on October 5.
Matthew Mott, England’s head coach, will fly out to India with the World Cup squad on Wednesday night knowing that he has an enviable depth of options available to him in white-ball cricket, after England’s reserve squad put on an extraordinary show of power in the third ODI against Ireland at Bristol. Although a dramatic
Big picture: Can Australia avoid whitewash? The third ODI between India and Australia was expected to be a dress rehearsal for the teams’ opening game at the World Cup but some of the key characters will be missing on Wednesday. India will be without Shubman Gill, Hardik Pandya, Shardul Thakur, Axar Patel and Mohammed Shami.
Bangladesh will go to the 2023 World Cup without arguably the best batter in the country’s history, as Tamim Iqbal has been left out of the 15-man squad, due to his persistent back injury. ESPNcricinfo had learnt that Tamim had informed the selectors couple of days ago that they should keep his back injury in
Mitchell Starc is in line to return to the Australian side for the third and final ODI against India in Rajkot. The fast bowler has been out of international action since the Ashes in July but hinted his comeback is on track as Australia try to avoid a whitewash. Starc was ruled out of the
It’s official – Sri Lanka will be without Dushmantha Chameera and Wanindu Hasaranga at the ODI World Cup. Dasun Shanaka, whose role as captain had been under much speculation over the past few weeks, will lead the side in India through October and November. The rest of the 15-member squad has formed up as expected,
Toss Bangladesh chose to bat vs New Zealand Middle-order batter Zakir Hasan and top-order batter Dean Foxcroft were handed ODI debuts, and Bangladesh stand-in captain Najmul Hossain Shanto opted to bat against New Zealand in the third ODI. For Shanto, too, it was a landmark occasion with the game being his first as ODI captain.
File Photo of the BCCI logo© AFP Former CAB president Avishek Dalmiya and current IPL chairman Arun Singh Dhumal have been re-elected in the IPL governing council as per decisions taken at the Annual General Meeting of the BCCI held in Goa on Monday. The general body was apprised about BCCI earning more than 38
Marcus Trescothick says he has been buoyed seeing Andrew Flintoff “grow back into Freddie” during his stint with the limited-overs squad, and hopes to see more of his former England team-mate in a coaching capacity in the future. Flintoff, 45, has been working as an unpaid assistant coach for England’s men during their one-day series
Bangladesh 65 for 5 (Shorna 14*, Sandhu 3-10) beat Pakistan 64 for 9 (Riaz 17, Shorna 3-16) by five wickets Shorna Akter first ran through Pakistan’s lower-middle order and then did the needful with the bat when Bangladesh’s lower-middle order could easily have unraveled similarly to take her team to the podium at the Asian
Richard Gould, the ECB’s chief executive, believes English cricket is “on a journey to try and change history”, but conceded that funding will be an ongoing issue, following the publication of the governing body’s response to this summer’s damning report by the Independent Commission for Equity in Cricket (ICEC), which found the sport to be
Najmul Hossain Shanto‘s life has become a “then and now” meme. Every time he does something meaningful in 2023, it gets compared to last year when he was really struggling. His career has seen a complete reversal in fortunes this year, with the BCB now naming him the captain for the third ODI against New
Victoria (Handscomb 51, Webster 2-17) beat Tasmania 224 (Webster 83, Boland 2-30) by three wickets An aggressive Peter Handscomb half-century has helped Victoria grind to a three-wicket win against Tasmania in the first round of the Marsh Cup. Chasing 225, Handscomb top-scored with 51 from 42 balls as Victoria reached 229 for 7 with 31
Sachithra Senanayake, the former Sri Lanka offspinner, has been granted bail by the Colombo Chief Magistrate’s court, the police media division has confirmed. Senanayake had been arrested on September 6 on charges related to match-fixing. Bail was granted on two sureties of LKR 5,000,000 each, while the previously court-imposed travel ban is still in effect.
The PCB has expressed its strong displeasure to the ICC over the delay in visas being issued to the Pakistan team, and warned of the adverse impact on the team’s preparations for the World Cup. With the team scheduled to fly out of Pakistan early morning on Wednesday, visas had still not been issued to
The Jamaican government has said that it opted against submitting an official bid to host games at next year’s men’s T20 World Cup because it had to “pay attention to the cost-and-benefit analysis” as a consequence of “limited resources” in the island. The Jamaica Observer quoted sports minister Olivia Grange as saying that “it wasn’t
But it was defending champions Comilla Victorians who made some big-name signings. They were conservative in the draft because they already had Rashid Khan, Sunil Narine and Iftikhar Ahmed among their 11 overseas signings before the draft took place. During the draft, they picked the West Indian duo Rahkeem Cornwall and Matthew Forde, apart from
Australia’s bowlers have admitted they need to execute better among a host of problems they need to solve with just three games remaining before the ODI World Cup. The beleaguered bowlers copped yet another hiding in Indore on their way to a fifth consecutive ODI defeat. After winning the toss and bowling first for the
Suryakumar Yadav in action for Indian cricket team© AFP Suryakumar Yadav played an explosive knock that included four consecutive sixes off the bowling of Cameron Green during the second ODI clash between India and Australia on Sunday. Suryakumar looked in brilliant touch and in the 43rd over, he decided to attack his Mumbai Indians teammate’s
Every generation has a cricketer that is the best of the bunch to never play for England. A decade ago it was James Hildreth, now it’s Sam Northeast, but tomorrow it will never be Sam Hain. Having “made peace” with the idea that his chance for England may never come, Hain, 28, scored a fluent
Bangladesh have named Najmul Hossain Shanto as captain for the third ODI in Mirpur against New Zealand on Tuesday. The hosts have also changed the make-up of the side from the first two ODIs, for which they had rested a number of World Cup-bound players. Most of those players have returned for the third ODI,
Western Australia 242 for 6 (Philippe 90, Whiteman 62) beat Queensland 238 (McDermott 52, Bryant 42, Neser 40, Morris 4-64) by four wickets Josh Philippe carried his outstanding domestic one-day form from last season into a new campaign as he starred in Western Australia’s four-wicket win over Queensland in Brisbane. The player of the 2022-23
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