On a slightly two-paced pitch, Indian batters struggled to get going before getting bundled out for 188 in 42.4 overs, with Musheer Khan (50) and Murugan Abhishek (62) doing the bulk of the scoring. Despite some jitters, Bangladesh went over the line pretty comfortably in 42.5 overs with Islam (94 off 90 balls) defending the
Month: December 2023
Moeen Ali says there are “no excuses” for England’s recent performances, after they suffered a fourth defeat in five matches against West Indies. England fell to a 10-run loss in Grenada to leave them 2-0 down in the five-match T20I series, having already lost the ODI series 2-1. The change of formats from ODIs to
Losing the ODI World Cup final to Australia hit India captain Rohit Sharma so hard that “it was very hard to get back and start moving on”. Speaking to fans helped him heal, he said in a social-media video on Wednesday. Twenty-four days after the final in Ahmedabad, which India lost after winning all ten
Uncapped fast bowler Ben Sears has been added to New Zealand’s ODI squad for the three-match series against Bangladesh as cover for Kyle Jamieson, who has a stiff left hamstring. Jamieson returned to New Zealand after the two-Test series in Bangladesh on Tuesday and then travelled to Dunedin to join the ODI squad. He played
Shehzad, 32, last played in the PSL in 2020, primarily representing Quetta Gladiators with whom he won the title in 2019, scoring a half-century in that final. He had a poor tournament in 2020, scoring 61 runs in seven innings, and did not play again. He scored 1077 runs in 45 PSL matches at a
South Africa A 319 (Jean du Plessis 106, Hermann 95, Prasidh 5-43, Saurabh 3-83) and 152 for 2 (Valli 72*, du Plessis 50*) drew with India A 419 (Paul 163, Shardul 76, Sarfaraz 68, Jones 4-100, Plaatjie 3-65) Prasidh, who is in India’s Test squad for the two-Test series in South Africa, could make his
Tea Pakistan 43 for 0 trail Australia 487 (Warner 164, Marsh 90, Jamal 6-111) by 444 runs Openers Abdullah Shafique and Imam-ul-Haq weathered Australia’s formidable attack in the second session of day two as Pakistan made a resolute start to their first innings in the series-opener at Optus Stadium. After spending 113.2 overs in the
A total of 77 slots (30 overseas) lie vacant across the 10 IPL squads, ready for filling up at the IPL 2024 auction in Dubai on December 19. The franchises have a combined purse of INR 262.95 crore (USD 31.58 million approx.) available to spend at this auction – this is the highest combined purse
Australia’s World Test Championship final and ODI World Cup hero Travis Head has formally been elevated to co-vice-captain in Australia’s Test team alongside Steven Smith, with current captain Pat Cummins saying that he has all the makings of a future Test leader as they try to future-proof the leadership stocks within Australian cricket. Head, 29,
Yasir Ali, bowlers impress for East Zone East Zone‘s seven-wicket win against Central Zone in Chattogram put them on top of the Bangladesh Cricket League’s table. Yasir Ali struck a century to win the player-of-the-match award but it was their bowlers who played a big part on the win. Batting first, Central Zone reached 280
File image of Sanath Jayasuriya© AFP Sri Lanka Cricket on Thursday appointed former opener Sanath Jayasuriya as the full-time Cricket Consultant for one year to ensure all-round development of the sport in the country. The appointment of Jayasuriya follows the reconstitution of the national selection panel on Wednesday under new lead selector and former opener
This is Jayasuriya’s first role with SLC after having been banned from all cricket for two years by the ICC’s anti-corruption unit in 2019. He had incurred that ban after admitting to two charges – the failure or refusal to cooperate with an investigation, and obstructing or delaying an investigation, under the anti-corruption code.
Toss: South Africa chose to bowl vs India Aiden Markram decided his team would chase as they look to close out the series against India at a dry Wanderers on the eve of a public holiday. South Africans have been given the day off tomorrow to commemorate the Springboks Rugby World Cup win in October
Toss England chose to bowl vs West Indies Jos Buttler won the toss for England and chose to bowl first, as the second T20I prepared to get underway in Grenada. Both sides made one change from the teams that contested Tuesday’s series opener in Barbados, with Moeen Ali coming into the England team in place
Warner made his 26th Test century and finished with 164 as no other Australian passed fifty in their opening day total of 346 for 5 on a surface that had something in it for the bowlers. Warner had been the subject of a lot of talk in the lead-up to the Test match after Johnson
Test captain Temba Bavuma and pace spearhead Kagiso Rabada, who were rested from South Africa’s white-ball matches against India to prepare for the two-Test series, will not play in a domestic first-class fixture as previously planned. Bavuma and Rabada were due to turn out for the Lions against the Dolphins in Durban starting on Thursday,
Toss India opt to bat vs England On a cool Navi Mumbai morning, India captain Harmanpreet Kaur won the toss and opted to bat in the one-off Test against England, who are playing their 100th match in the format, at the DY Patil Stadium. Batter Jemimah Rodrigues, fast bowler Renuka Singh and Satheesh Shubha, who
Shoaib Bashir admitted he cried after receiving the call informing him of his selection for England men’s Test series against India. The Somerset offspinner was a shock inclusion in the 16-man squad just six months after making his professional debut. Bashir has just six first-class matches to his name, all for Somerset, with 10 wickets
Australia allrounder Cameron Green has revealed he was born with chronic kidney disease and at one stage had a life expectancy of just 12 but has been able to manage the issues throughout his professional cricketing career. Green, 24, was left out of Australia’s XI for the opening Test of the summer against Pakistan in
For the second time in as many tours to Australia, Pakistan have decided to line up in the opening Test with a relatively inexperienced bowling attack. Fast bowlers Aamer Jamal and Khurram Shahzad will both make their Test debuts, with Shaheen Shah Afridi leading the attack. That leaves no room for Hasan Ali or any
Big picture: India, SA and their T20 World Cup gains And just like that, both teams best chance for T20 World Cup preparation on the international stage will come to an end, two days after it began. What’s been gleaned so far? Only as much as we could from 19.3 overs of India’s batting and
Pujara will be available for the first seven County Championship matches in his third successive season with Sussex. Hughes, meanwhile, will be available from the start of the T20 Vitality Blast until the end of the season, playing in both the Blast and County Championship. They join bowlers Jayden Seales, of West Indies, and Australia’s
England Lions have announced a 15-man squad for their red-ball tour of India in the New Year, designed to run parallel with the men’s five-match Test series at the start of 2024. Hosted entirely in Ahmedabad, the Lions will play a two-day warm-up match against India A, followed by three four-day matches against the same
Australia won the toss and decided to bat against Pakistan Pat Cummins won the toss and elected to bat on an expected bouncy and fast Optus Stadium surface for the first Test between Australia and Pakistan. Australia will face an inexperienced Pakistan attack on a hard pitch amid sunny conditions in Perth on day one.
There were a few familiar names in the New Zealand men’s Under-19 squad picked to play the World Cup which begins on January 19 in South Africa. Zac Cumming, the son of former player turned commentator and coach Craig Cumming, Matt Rowe, the cousin of Hannah Rowe, and Tom Jones, the grandson of former captain
Australia vs Pakistan 1st Test Day 1 Live: Shan Masood with Pat Cummins© Twitter Australia vs Pakistan 1st Test Day 1 Live Updates: Australia take on Pakistan on the first day of the first Test of a three-match series in Perth on Thursday. The last time ‘Men in Green’ stood victorious against the ‘Kangaroos’ in
Australia allrounder Daniel Sams and the South Africa duo of Reeza Hendricks and Lungi Ngidi are set to play their maiden PSL events after being picked up in the draft held on Wednesday in Lahore. Sams was a platinum pick by Karachi Kings, Hendricks was a gold pick by Multan Sultans while Ngidi the supplementary
The move comes in the wake of Sri Lanka’s underwhelming 2023 World Cup campaign, which had them win only two out of nine games and subsequently miss out on qualification for the 2025 Champions Trophy. Their first assignment will be picking the squad for Sri Lanka’s home series against Zimbabwe in January, which will be
Embracing T20 leagues as a feeder system for international cricket, instead of viewing franchise tournaments and bilateral matches as being in conflict with each other, will benefit both forms of the game, according to South Africa wristspinner Tabraiz Shamsi. Speaking after South Africa beat India by five wickets in Gqeberha, with both teams fielding experimental
Haryana 293 for 7 (Himanshu 116*, Yuvraj 65, Sumit 48, Natarajan 3-79) beat Tamil Nadu 230 (Indrajit 64, Kamboj 4-30) by 63 runs Haryana stormed into their maiden Vijay Hazare Trophy final by thrashing five-time champions and a star-studded Tamil Nadu in the first semi-final in Rajkot. Haryana’s historic win was set up by an
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