The upcoming FIH Junior Women’s Hockey World Cup in South Africa was on Saturday put on hold as a new variant of COVID-19 in the country stoked worldwide fears. The prestigious tournament was to be held in the Rainbow Nation from December 5 to 16. However, following the outbreak of a new coronavirus variant in
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News Reports suggest the BCCI will wait and watch before deciding on the senior men’s team’s scheduled tour of South Africa The Netherlands team will head back home without completing their ODI tour of South Africa, after a new Covid-19 variant made its presence felt in the country this week*. The first of the three
News Allrounder could miss entire series after failing to recover from hamstring injury Shakib Al Hasan has been ruled out of Bangladesh’s first Test against Pakistan in Chattogram, which begins on Friday. It was, however, an inevitable decision from the BCB’s medical team after Shakib apparently failed to recover from the hamstring injury he sustained
News Australian cricket heads into a new era following a tumultuous week Pat Cummins has been named Australia’s 47th Test captain and will lead them in the Ashes after the resignation of Tim Paine. There are a number of key challenges that he is set to face in the role. History of Australian bowling captains
News Batter hadn’t played red-ball cricket in a while but came good when India needed him Shreyas Iyer went to bed at around 11pm on Thursday hoping for and expecting a good night’s sleep. He had batted the best part of two sessions in less-then-ideal air so it wasn’t really an unrealistic expectation. However, he
News Review of dressing-room culture and game-wide approach to dealing with complaints are among pledges Tom Harrison, the ECB chief executive, says that the “earthquake” of revelations surrounding institutional racism in English cricket could prove to be the catalyst for long-overdue change within the sport, as the board on Friday unveiled its five-point action plan
Report Visitors make three changes from the last ODI they played; hosts recall Wayne Parnell, Kyle Verreynne and Khaya Zondo Toss Netherlands chose to bowl vs South Africa Zubayr Hamza and Sisanda Magala were handed their ODI caps as South Africa fielded a new-look side for their opening ODI against Netherlands. There were recalls for
Report Abdullah Shafique makes his Test debut for Pakistan Toss Bangladesh won the toss and chose to bat vs Pakistan Bangladesh have won the toss and decided to bat first against Pakistan in Chattogram in their first Test. Hours after an earthquake hit the city, the players were ready to begin play at the usual
News The two left handers are in the running to bat No. 5 against England Khawaja and Head are bidding for the vacant No. 5 batting berth in Australia’s team for the first Test against England starting on December 8. The state captains squared off in a Sheffield Shield match in Adelaide in their last
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Report All four of Shaheen Shah Afridi, Hasan Ali, Faheem Ashraf and Sajid Khan got a wicket each in first session On a day in Chattogram that began with an earthquake and saw smoke from a nearby fire billowing above the stadium, Pakistan rocked the Bangladesh top order and blazed through the middle to get
Report The visitors went to tea at 72 for 0 in Kanpur in reply to India’s 345 built on Shreyas Iyer’s debut ton Tea New Zealand 72 for 0 (Young 46*, Latham 23*) trail India 345 (Iyer 105, Gill 52, Jadeja 50, Southee 5-69, Jamieson 3-91) by 273 runs Tim Southee delivered one of the
News In a statement released by the BCB, Mahmudullah said “leaving a format of which I have been a part of for such a long time is not easy” Four months after informing his team-mates that he would no longer play Test cricket, the BCB has confirmed that Mahmudullah has indeed retired from the format,
News Steven Smith returns to a leadership position with the vice-captaincy Pat Cummins has been named Australia’s new men’s Test captain on the day it appeared Tim Paine’s international career may have come to an end a week after he stood down following the emergence of explicit text messages. Steven Smith has returned to his
News Phoebe Litchfield was named WBBL ‘Young Gun’ as the best player under the age of 21 Harmanpreet Kaur is hopeful a women’s IPL can be established sooner rather than later, after she created history becoming the first Indian to be named WBBL player of the tournament following a stunning season for Melbourne Renegades. The
News Non-white female chair steps down with immediate effect as ECB postpone plan to tackle racism The ECB has been forced to postpone the publication of its plan to improve diversity in English cricket, amid the abrupt departure on Thursday of one of the only two non-white chairs of a first-class county. Mehmooda Duke, who
New Zealand will not start as favourites despite facing an Indian team missing several key players, skipper Kane Williamson said Wednesday, as the world’s two top-ranked teams geared up for a spin battle in their first Test. Hosts India have rested skipper Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma, Rishabh Pant, Jasprit Bumrah and Mohammed Shami while opener
News Balbirnie to open with Stirling, Getkate and McClintock recalled to add middle-order power Ireland have left Kevin O’Brien out of their T20 squad for upcoming tours to USA and West Indies. O’Brien, 37, opened for Ireland during a disappointing T20 World Cup campaign in which they failed to qualify for the Super 12s. Having
News Netherlands suffer 7 for 12 collapse from winning position Ireland 199 (Delany 75, Siegers 2-24) beat Netherlands 170 (Rijke 56, Prendergast 4-24) by 29 runs Laura Delany and Orla Prendergast were the stars of the show for Ireland as they defended a total of 199 against Netherlands in the Women’s World Cup qualifiers at
News The Sri Lanka Test captain is one shy of equalling the world record for most 50-plus scores in consecutive innings He has scored 854 Test runs at an average of 77.63 in 2021, but as good as he has been this year, Dimuth Karunaratne has bigger goals in mind. Of Sri Lanka’s Test batters,
News The Netherlands have a number of players of South African origin, plenty of whom have played professional cricket in South Africa “Colin is the most recent of our players who has played first-class cricket here in South Africa, so he actually ran me through all the players (in their squad) that I didn’t know
News Bangladesh captain urges team-mates to “back each other” and stay focused amid waves of public criticism Mominul Haque has the monumental task of changing Bangladesh’s mood in and out of the dressing room. There has been an air of negativity around the team for the past two months. Nine defeats, fiery press conferences and
News Knowing he was locked in as David Warner’s partner for the start of the Ashes put the Australia opener’s mind at ease Marcus Harris is grateful for the vote of confidence from national selector George Bailey early in the season which ensured he was locked in as David Warner’s opening partner for the start
News Franchise’s former captain Shreyas Iyer opts to head to the player auction While Capitals could see Iyer’s exit as a setback, they wouldn’t have been entirely surprised by the batter’s decision. Ever since the Capitals handed the captaincy to Pant ahead of IPL 2021, after Iyer was ruled out of the first leg due
Report He and Nkrumah Bonner put up a 100-run seventh-wicket stand before Embuldeniya made a key breakthrough for Sri Lanka Lunch West Indies 125 for 7 (Joshua 54, Bonner 42*) and 230 need another 219 runs to beat Sri Lanka 386 and 191 for 4 dec Joshua da Silva dragged himself to a hard-earned half-century,
Preview Netherlands have their own points to prove against the “big boys”, with the ODI Super League being scrapped going forward You may expect the usual David and Goliath angle for a preview about a series between South Africa and Netherlands but this won’t exactly be it. You only have to go back a little
Preview The hosts will be without Tamim, Shakib and Mahmudullah while Pakistan will be keen to carry forward their T20I form into Tests Big Picture Bangladesh will look to bridge the gap in experience, skills and temperament with Pakistan, who have so far looked to be in control on this tour, when the two teams
News Although out for two low scores he came through his return to play The priority of Tasmania coach Ali de Winter has been Tim Paine‘s welfare as he prepares to help the wicketkeeper take another significant step towards the first Ashes Test. Paine, who underwent neck surgery in September, will bat at No. 3
Report Both sides pick three spinners each Toss India chose to bat vs New Zealand On a clear morning in Kanpur, India captain Ajinkya Rahane won the toss and chose to bat in the first Test against New Zealand. Rahane’s expectation was for the pitch to play “slow and low”, and both teams picked three
News With stories mirroring those of cricket nuts across the subcontinent, Mahmudul Hasan Joy and Rejaur Rahman Raja are on the brink of realising their dreams Mahmudul Hasan Joy and Rejaur Rahman Raja, the newest faces in Bangladesh’s Test squad, might have taken very different paths to the top, but taped-tennis-ball cricket, ubiquitous in cricketing