News Former Zimbabwe captain says cocaine involved in trap laid by alleged corruptors Former Zimbabwe captain Brendan Taylor has revealed that the ICC is about to “impose a multi-year ban” on his international career after he allegedly delayed reporting a corrupt approach “by an Indian businessman”. Taylor had met with the businessman in October 2019
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News Also returning to the national fold are legspinner Ghulam Fatima and opener Nahida Khan On a comeback trail, Bismah Maroof is set to lead Pakistan’s 18-member contingent in the upcoming Women’s ODI World Cup in New Zealand, scheduled for March-April. Nida Dar will be her deputy. Batting allrounder Maroof, who last played an international
News New Zealand allrounder expected to feature in full campaign in 2022 season James Neesham, the New Zealand allrounder, has agreed to join Northamptonshire for their T20 Blast campaign. Neesham, whose heroics in the 2019 World Cup final at Lord’s were instrumental in that contest’s thrilling finish, gained a measure of revenge over England in
News The RP Sanjiv Goenka group had earlier called the Pune franchise they acquired for two years Rising Pune Supergiants Lucknow Super Giants. That is the team name unveiled on Monday by the new IPL franchise bought by the RP Sanjiv Goenka group, a diversified Indian business group, for a record sum of INR 7090
News Allrounder hopes late fireworks in Bridgetown can turn heads ahead of mega-auction Just like anyone else, IPL owners, head coaches and general managers are afflicted by recency bias. Whenever the time comes to sit down at the auction table, performances that are fresh in the memory are given greater weighting than those that happened
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News Vice-captain backs Odean Smith to find form after Shepherd-Hosein fall just short West Indies slipped to 65 for 7 and 98 for 8 in pursuit of 172 in the second T20I at Kensington Oval, but Shepherd and Hosein put on 72 runs in just 29 balls for the ninth wicket to take them to
On January 24, former Zimbabwe captain Brendan Taylor put out a statement on Twitter detailing how he was allegedly pushed into a corner by supposed corruptors in late 2019 and the events which followed that incident. He said in his statement that he will be banned by the ICC for delaying reporting that approach. Here’s
News Athapaththu plays key role in victory as Sri Lanka knock out Bangladesh Sri Lanka won’t be going to the 50-overs World Cup in New Zealand in March, but at least assured themselves of an opportunity to compete at the 2022 Commonwealth Games to be played in Birmingham this July-August. Incidentally, Bangladesh, who pipped them
News While acknowledging areas of improvement still needed after the India series win, coach Boucher also said the players are “growing as cricketers and human beings” South Africa were playing more than just the opposition over the last few summers with matters coming to a head this season after their coach, Mark Boucher, was charged
Report Shakib Al Hasan becomes the fifth bowler to take 400 wickets in T20 cricket Minister Group Dhaka 130 for 6 (Mahmudullah 47, Russell 31*, Shafiul 2-20) beat Fortune Barishal 129 for 8 (Gayle 36, Russell 2-27, Udana 2-29) by four wickets How the match played outAndre Russell was in his element, following up figures
News “The word from anyone overseas that I chat to is they don’t want to come here for that long and be stuck” Peter Siddle has urged BBL administrators to trim the length of the season but believes they were right to block Steven Smith‘s request to play. Siddle’s Adelaide Strikers will face Sydney Sixers
News Babar was named the ODI cricketer of the year, while Root bagged the Test award after making six centuries from 15 matches Babar Azam, the Pakistan captain, has been named the ICC men’s ODI cricketer of the year for 2021, while England Test captain Joe Root bagged the award for men’s Test cricketer of
News SA batter Lizelle Lee is ICC women’s ODI cricketer of the year Smriti Mandhana has won the Rachael Heyhoe-Flint Trophy for being the ICC’s Women’s Cricketer of the Year 2021. She becomes only the second player, after Australia allrounder Ellyse Perry, to win the highest individual distinction in the women’s overall category of the
News The fast bowler delivered the fourth-most expensive final over in a men’s T20I on Sunday night Saqib Mahmood will benefit from his experience of bowling an expensive final over in England’s nervy one-run win against West Indies in Barbados on Sunday night. That is the view of Moeen Ali, who told Mahmood that he
News “I look forward to that challenge and test my body, physically and mentally” Keeping wicket and opening the batting in Test cricket has been, arguably, the toughest juggling act in the history of the game, but Alyssa Healy is adamant that she wants to do the job again in the women’s Ashes Test starting
Ravi Shastri has shared his views on Virat Kohli’s Test captaincy era.© AFP Virat Kohli’s era as Test captain of Team India came to an end earlier this month after he decided to step down following the team’s loss in the three-match series (1-2) against South Africa. Kohli, who won 40 out of 68 matches
Three knockouts appearances in as many world tournaments between 2017 and 2020. Yet, a maiden world title eluded India in all three events, their mental toughness in the face of pressure coming under scrutiny every time. As runners-up India renew their pursuit of the ODI World Cup on March 6 in New Zealand, their premier
Report Liam Livingstone remains unavailable for England, who were again asked to set a target Toss West Indies chose to bowl vs England West Indies sought to repeat the trick in the second T20I in Barbados, inserting England at the toss once again 24 hours after their new-ball bowlers had exploited conditions perfectly to set
News The quick bowler has suffered a recurrence of the injury which ended her T20 World Cup Australia fast bowler Tayla Vlaeminck will miss her second consecutive World Cup as well as the remainder of the ongoing Ashes after suffering another stress fracture in her right foot. Vlaeminck played the opening T20I against England in
News India captain wants her batters to dig their heels in and ‘play according to match situation’ India captain Mithali Raj wants her batting line-up, especially the top order, to dig their heels in and “play according to the situation” in the upcoming ODI World Cup, instead of channeling their focus “entirely” on strike rate.
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News Zeeshan Maqsood, Andrea-Mae Zepeda, Janneman Malan and Fatima Sana among the other winners Rizwan, who also won the PCB’s Most Valuable Cricketer of the Year award recently following a stellar year, scored 1326 runs in 29 T20Is at an average of 73.66 and a strike rate of 134.89. He also effected 22 dismissals behind
News Australia batter back in the nets less than a week after surgery, with coach Mott declaring her a chance for Thursday’s Test Australia batter Beth Mooney has a chance to play in the women’s Ashes Test match on Thursday in Canberra despite having undergone surgery on a fractured jaw last week. Mooney missed the
News Visits by India women and South Africa men, plus the Women’s World Cup and a tour by Netherlands men, are scheduled for the next few weeks Upcoming domestic and international matches in New Zealand, potentially including the Women’s ODI World Cup, will continue to take place – behind closed doors – after the entire
Report R Ashwin, Shardul Thakur, Venkatesh Iyer and Bhuvneshwar Kumar made way for Jayant Yadav, Suryakumar Yadav, Prasidh Krishna and Deepak Chahar Toss: India opt to bowl vs South Africa Having already conceded the ODI series and with no Super League points up for grabs, India made four changes and chose to bowl in what
Report After only 4.1 overs were possible in the second game, not a ball could be bowled in the third Australia vs England – Match abandoned Unrelenting rain in Adelaide washed out the third T20I of the Women’s Ashes between Australia and England without a ball bowled. Just 24 hours after only 4.1 overs were
News She could become first West Indian and only fourth bowler in women’s cricket to get 300 international wickets A new variation to unleash on the opposition and four wickets to add to her tally during the four-ODI tour of South Africa. These, along with helping West Indies fine-tune their preparations ahead of the ODI
News Australia’s matches at both upcoming men’s World Cups in 2022 and 2023 will be broadcast by Nine Australia’s defence of the Men’s T20 World Cup will be broadcast on the Nine Network but the Women’s ODI World Cup is set to be without a free-to-air broadcaster. Nine has confirmed it will screen every game
Jason Holder did the bulk of the damage as England’s latest batting collapse paved the way for West Indies’ nine-wicket win in the first T20I in Bridgetown on Saturday. Towering paceman Holder twice struck with successive deliveries on his Kensington Oval home ground during a format-best return of four for seven as England were dismissed for