India captain Rohit Sharma on Friday lauded the application of his players under pressure situations and attributed the T20 series win over New Zealand to “team effort”. India on Friday defeated New Zealand by seven wickets to take an unassailable 2-0 lead in the three-match series. The series-win came just after their Super 12 exit
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News Thirimanne opts out; Mathews, Chandimal part of 22-member squad that has four uncapped players Lahiru Thirimanne has made himself unavailable for Sri Lanka’s upcoming two-Test series against West Indies starting on Sunday in Galle. Minod Bhanuka and Chamika Karunaratne, both one-Test old, also made the cut. Bhanuka, the top-order batter, makes a return after
News The early days to becoming Australia’s accidental Test captain and, now, stepping down after emergence of details of an old off-field scandal Tim Paine‘s tenure as Australia’s Test captain came to a sudden end on Friday when he resigned from the position following the emergence of details of explicit messages he sent a co-worker
News Full text of de Villiers’ retirement video Before he announced his retirement from cricket on Friday, AB de Villiers issued a short speech, which was put out by Royal Challengers Bangalore, the IPL franchise he joined in 2011. Seemingly emotional, de Villiers declared he is now “half Indian and half South African” thanks to
News Batter’s comments about being dropped from the T20I squad have come under the scanner On the sidelines of the series opener against Pakistan, BCB cricket operations chairman Akram Khan, chief executive Nizamuddin Chowdhury, disciplinary committee chairman Sheikh Sohel and media committee chairman Jalal Younis met with Mushfiqur and handed him a letter which they
Report Shaheen Afridi sits out, Pakistan field Mohammad Wasim Jnr, Haider Ali and Mohammad Nawaz Toss Bangladesh won the toss and chose to bat against Pakistan Bangladesh won the toss and opted to bat first in the first international fixture for them, as well as their opponents Pakistan, since the T20 World Cup. Bangladesh named
Report Milne, Sodhi and Neesham return as visitors face a must-win game Toss India chose to bowl vs New Zealand If his first two matches as full-time T20I captain are anything to go by, Rohit Sharma will significantly improve on his predecessor Virat Kohli’s record in one respect: winning tosses. India, who are 1-0 up
News English duo sign up for maiden BBL campaigns Evans, the Surrey batter, has not been capped but built up an impressive record on the T20 circuit in recent years, featuring in leagues in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and the Caribbean. Durham seamer Carse made his England debut during the ODI series against Pakistan
News He has stepped down as Australia’s Test captain with immediate effect Australian cricket was sent into crisis on Friday when Tim Paine quit as captain following the emergence of explicit messages sent to a female colleague in 2017. Here is his statement in full “Today I am announcing my decision to stand down as
News “Now, at the age of 37, that flame no longer burns so brightly” AB de Villiers has announced his decision to retire from all cricket. This will end his association with all franchise T20 leagues, including Royal Challengers Bangalore, with whom he continued to play in the IPL following his international retirement in 2018.
News Victoria allrounder Will Sutherland ‘returned a test result which requires further analysis’ The Sheffield Shield match between New South Wales and Victoria at the SCG has been postponed after allrounder Will Sutherland tested positive for Covid-19. Confirmation arrived less than an hour before the toss was due to take place with the Victoria team
News The three-year broadcast deal with state television broadcaster PTV was signed in 2020 A landmark cricket broadcast deal that was expected to fetch in excess of USD 200 million for the Pakistan Cricket Board is understood to be cancelled. The PCB has opened a new tender inviting bids for new media rights for home
Preview New Zealand need their bench strength to come to the fore in a more prominent way in the second T20I Big picture It was only last Sunday that New Zealand lost to Australia in the final of the T20 World Cup but so jam-packed is the international calendar at the moment that only five
Matt Prior, the former England wicketkeeper, believes that Joe Root’s Ashes squad has the right calibre of fast bowlers to match the methods that delivered their last victory in an overseas Ashes campaign in 2010-11 – but only if their batters can compile enough runs to keep England competitive across the five-Test series. Prior made
Young New Zealand all-rounder Rachin Ravindra on Thursday said he was clueless if his name had any link with Rahul Dravid but he hoped to pick the brains of the India chief coach during the course of the ongoing T20I series. Rachin, who celebrated his 22nd birthday on Thursday, was asked during a virtual media
News Wicketkeeper revealed he suffered the injury at training the day before and didn’t want to know the result of his scan Australia wicketkeeper Matthew Wade has revealed he played the T20 World Cup final with a grade two tear in his side after suffering the injury at training the day before the game. Wade
Big Picture Bangladesh and Pakistan are two sides very much on the opposite ends of the confidence scale, with a team on a roll taking on a line-up that is in transformation after a disappointing T20 World Cup campaign. The two teams meet in a three-match T20I series starting Friday in Dhaka. The visitors will
News Meanwhile, chief curator is expecting heavy dew on the match day from around 7.30pm onwards The second T20I between India and New Zealand is set to be played in front of a full house at the JSCA International Stadium Complex in Ranchi. According to Jharkhand State Cricket Association secretary Sanjay Sahay, they are expecting
News Former Australia captain reveals he was approached by BCCI to coach India before Dravid was appointed Former Australia captain Ricky Ponting is not able to take up coaching roles with the Australian and Indian teams because of “time commitments”. Ponting said “giving up 300 days a year is not something I would do” with
News Australia’s players will get to play up to four 50-over domestic matches before the multiformat Ashes begins Cricket Australia has announced new fixtures for the Women’s National Cricket League season which will provide Australia’s players the perfect lead-in to the Women’s Ashes starting on January 27. The WNCL was initially set to begin back
News Having been on the sidelines, he finally got some game-time after seven months, scoring a 50-ball 63 Mark Chapman has had such a long break between playing competitive games of cricket, that he isn’t quite sure when he was in the middle last. The cricket caravan might be hurtling along for viewers – and
News “Security is the main challenge there, like teams have been attacked in the past, which is a concern,” India’s sports minister Anurag Thakur said Just one day after the ICC awarded the rights to the 2025 Champions Trophy to be played in Pakistan, the Indian government has expressed apprehensions about participation in the global
News Perth Test still on the cards with plans being still worked through between Cricket Australia and the Western Australian government There could be 100000 people at the MCG on Boxing Day after the Victorian government announced all Covid crowd restrictions would be lifted on Thursday following the state reaching its vaccination targets. Victoria’s vaccination
News Michael Neser and Jhye Richardson are the back-up quicks; Mitchell Marsh named in Australia A group Travis Head and Usman Khawaja are set to battle it out for the final middle-order spot in Australia’s Test side having been included in a 15-player squad for the first two matches of the men’s Ashes next month.
News They will also play West Indies for a bilateral series in December before the global event Warriors batter George van Heerden will lead the South Africa Under-19 side in the World Cup early next year in the Caribbean. They will also take part in a pre-World Cup bilateral tour against West Indies in December
News Kanitkar, SS Das, Kotak to be batting coaches while board considers rolling out exclusive contracts for fast bowlers Former India and Mumbai legspinner Sairaj Bahutule will be the spin-bowling coach. Cooley is being roped in with an aim to create the country’s next generation of fast bowlers. A reputed fast-bowling coach, Cooley was with
India captain Rohit Sharma on Wednesday admitted that the win against New Zealand in the first T20 International did not come easy in the end but said the players would learn from the experience. India bungled towards end before recovering in time to fashion a five-wicket win over New Zealand in Rohit’s first match as
News Hosts West Indies to face Australia in U-19 World Cup opener New Zealand have withdrawn from the 2022 men’s Under-19 World Cup, owing to “extensive mandatory quarantine restrictions for minors on their return home”. Scotland, who initially missed qualification in the Europe qualifiers, became the 16th team to participate in New Zealand’s absence. The
News Arthur will stay with the Sri Lanka team till the end of their upcoming home Test series against West Indies Mickey Arthur will join Derbyshire CCC as its head of cricket at the end of Sri Lanka’s upcoming two-Test series at home against West Indies, which runs from November 21 to December 3. His
News South Africa allrounder set to play Championship and Royal London Cup games for Running Foxes South Africa allrounder Wiaan Mulder will join Leicestershire for the 2022 county season. Mulder, 23, who travelled to the T20 World Cup with the South Africa squad but didn’t play a game, was initially due to sign for Leicestershire