Hardik Pandya will lead India during their two-match T20I tour of Ireland at the end of June. With the squad lacking a number of regulars who will be in England preparing for the Edgbaston Test match, Hardik will get a chance to bring to international cricket the leadership skills he displayed while captaining Gujarat Titans
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England batter Joe Root has replaced Australia’s Marnus Labuschagne at the top of the ICC men’s Test rankings, following his recent run of form. Root, who recently became only the second England batter to score more than 10000 Test runs, has been in fine touch during the ongoing home series against New Zealand, producing knocks
Sometimes seeing is believing. England have not so much talked about positive cricket over the last fortnight, as preached it. And sure, they played some enterprising stuff in victory last week at Lord’s, followed up by scoring 500-plus at a run rate of more than four per over in Nottingham. But to witness Jonny Bairstow
The world’s richest cricket league has just got a lot richer. The IPL’s blockbuster media rights auction will net a potential INR 48,390.5 crore (US$ 6.2 billion approx.) in the next five years, making the league among the wealthiest in the world of sports. Disney Star* has retained the TV rights in the subcontinent for
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Go to ecb.co.uk to join We Are England Cricket Supporters for free and get priority access to tickets and much more! Watch match highlights from Day 2 the 1st LV= Insurance Test between England and New Zealand at Trent Bridge.
With the selection of Dinesh Karthik in India’s T20I squad for the South Africa series, the options are many for the Indian team management when it comes to wicketkeeper-batter. Rishabh Pant and Ishan Kishan are the other two wicketkeeper-batters in the squad. Sanju Samson is also another choice who has been in and out of
Steyn and Laura Wolvaardt got South Africa off to a quick start, putting on 52 before Georgina Dempsey got Wolvaardt, who had been handed a life earlier, to chip one to short midwicket. Dempsey then saw another catch going down off her bowling, Goodall the beneficiary early in her innings. But once she was off
It may take some time for the shock to wear off, but when it does it may strike New Zealand how close they were to winning this Test – which, given the final make-up of their XI – might have counted among one of their most remarkable wins. A post-tea mishit to a fielder, a
Afghanistan 125 for 8 (Nabi 31, Raza 2-18, Burl 2-22) beat Zimbabwe 90 for 9 (Noor 4-10, Ashraf 2-13) by 35 runs A four-wicket haul from Noor Ahmad on debut enabled Afghanistan to complete a 6-0 sweep of their white-ball tour of Zimbabwe, with the visitors winning the third and final T20I by 35 runs
Kyle Jamieson, the New Zealand pace bowler, is set to return home with a stress-reaction in his lower back, meaning he will miss next week’s third and final Test at Headingley. MRI scans revealed the extent of his injury after Jamieson pulled up mid-over experiencing sharp pain in his lower back on the third evening
196% – That’s how much the overall value of the IPL media rights has skyrocketed compared to the previous cycle (2018-22), when talking in India rupees. In 2017, Star India had bought the consolidated IPL media rights (that is, TV and digital) for INR 16,347.5 crore for a set of 300 matches (60 per season,
Toss: South Africa chose to bowl vs India Temba Bavuma chose to chase after calling correctly for the third time in the series and with the knowledge that South Africa have been successful fielding first in the previous two matches. South Africa’s captain wants only a slight improvement (1 or 2%, he said at the
A back injury has ruled Yasir Ali out of Bangladesh’s two-Test series in the Caribbean, which begins later this week in North Sound. The 26-year-old batter is suffering from discogenic back pain on the lumber spine, according to the team’s physio Bayjedul Islam. “Recovery from such injuries take about two to three weeks’ time. Therefore,
While the ODI series is their next focus, Australia have twin ambitions over the next couple of weeks in Sri Lanka as they look to take advantage of a world returning to something closer to normal after the many restrictions of the last two years. For the first time since the 2019 tour of England,
Former Zimbabwe batter Dave Houghton has been appointed the side’s new head coach, ahead of next month’s T20 World Cup qualifier that will be held in the country. The 64-year-old takes over from Lalchand Rajput who will now assume a new role as technical director. Rajput’s coaching contract was extended recently in March by Zimbabwe
Lunch England 539 and 36 for 1 (Lees 30*, Pope 6*) need 263 runs to beat New Zealand 553 and 284 (Mitchell 62*, Young 56, Conway 52, Broad 3-70) Trent Boult made an early dent in England’s attempts to chase down a final-day target of 299, dismissing Zak Crawley for a duck to send them
The blockbuster IPL media rights deal will be followed by a bigger window for the IPL from the next ICC FTP calendar, likely starting with the 2024 edition of the tournament, Jay Shah, the BCCI secretary, has said. Confirming the chatter about the IPL being an 84- or even a 94-match competition in the near
Tsolekile, a former South Africa Test cricketer, was handed a 12-year ban for “contriving to fix a match or matches in the 2015 Ram Slam; failing to disclose to the CSA Anti-Corruption Officer the full details of an approach to engage in corrupt conduct”. Symes was banned for seven years, while Mbhalati was handed a
Sri Lanka chose to bat vs Australia Sri Lanka won the toss and chose to bat first in the first ODI against Australia, at Pallekele. The hosts are again playing with six recognised batters, plus two allrounders, and three specialist bowlers. Dunith Wellalage, the 19-year old left-arm spinner who can bat a bit, is making
“I’ve absolutely loved playing for Wellington over the last four years,” Neesham said. “I’m so proud to have been part of this team and am thankful to the group for welcoming me and seeing the vision we’ve wanted to create. “We’ve had some serious fun and experienced some serious success, and I know that the
The BCCI has announced a hike in monthly pensions of former cricketers – both men and women – and also former umpires, with effect from June 1, 2022. First-class players who earlier got INR 15,000 will get INR 30,000 while former Test players, who get INR 37,500, will now receive INR 60,000 under the new
Go to ecb.co.uk to join We Are England Cricket Supporters for free and get priority access to tickets and much more! Watch match highlights from Day 1 the 1st LV= Insurance Test between England and New Zealand at Trent Bridge.
New Zealand collapsed to 224-7 as England gave themselves a chance to chase a dramatic series victory by close of play on the fourth day of the second Test. The Kiwis lost five wickets for 110 in a tense evening session at Trent Bridge and head into the final day with a lead of 238.
Almost two days after he’d played the T20I innings of a lifetime, Dasun Shanaka revealed his thinking going into the last three overs of that chase. Australia having set 177 for a target, Sri Lanka needed a highly improbable 59 for victory, with the last recognised batting pair at the crease. Shanaka, who had lumbered
It wasn’t a particularly easy series for Pakistan to play. Not just because of how hot it was, which everyone including captain Babar Azam, acknowledged, but also because there were limited gains to be made across the three games against the West Indies this week. It was a series that was put off last December,
A clatter of New Zealand wickets through the second half of the day may have left England looking the likely victors at Trent Bridge, but Michael Bracewell believes the tourists are well-placed to level the series. At the time, as New Zealand fell from 104 for 1 to 131 for 4 and then to 213
Kotak, who accumulated 8061 first-class runs for Saurashtra in a career spanning two decades, was part of the India A support staff during their tour of South Africa in November-December 2021. Bahutule, one of the most successful spinners in Ranji Trophy history with 630 first-class wickets, was bowling coach of the India Under-19 side that
Nicholas Pooran, West Indies’ white-ball captain, has expressed disappointment at his recent patchy form with the bat in ODI cricket, but hopes that a turnaround could ease the burden on Shai Hope and usher the team to “something special”. In six innings in Netherlands and Pakistan, Pooran managed just 81 runs at an average of