News Squad has emerged from hard quarantine to focus on acclimatisation in Queensland Joe Root, England’s captain, believes that Ben Stokes is firmly on track for the first Ashes Test in Brisbane in just under a month’s time, after making a cautious return to training at the squad’s quarantine base on the Gold Coast in
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Report Michael Neser, who will be in the frame for the Test squad, limped out of the Queensland attack Western Australia 2 for 108 (Green 48*) trail Queensland 129 (Khawaja 70) by 21 runs Usman Khawaja made his strongest case yet for a Test recall as he dominated a paltry Queensland batting effort with a
News Chairman says he wants PCB to be first Asian board to launch a women’s T20 league PCB chairman Ramiz Raja hinted at the possibility of organising a women’s Pakistan Super League in the near-future. While he is yet to provide any firm plans around the logistics or timing of the move, Ramiz did say
Jimmy Neesham‘s first six is a mis-hit over the deep midwicket boundary. He’d come to the crease with his team needing 59 runs off 25 balls. He’d faced a wide first up; Liam Livingstone firing one down legside. The next ball Neesham had tried to bash across the line, but managed only to get it
New Zealand never felt that the target of 167 was beyond their reach, despite losing early wickets and falling behind the asking rate, in their semi-final against England in Abu Dhabi. So said finisher-turned-opener Daryl Mitchell after his unbeaten 72 off 47 balls dragged New Zealand into their first-ever T20 World Cup final. He put
Kusal Perera, Angelo Mathews, and Dhananjaya de Silva are among the high profile names to miss out on selection in the Lanka Premier League draft, with several other players who were in the extended Sri Lanka World Cup squad also not picked. Perera had been a late addition to the draft thanks to a miscommunication
News “He’s left a legacy within this team which will last not only this generation but generations to come.” Matthew Hayden, the Pakistan batting coach, has singled out the late Dean Jones for special praise, on the eve of the second semi-final between Australia and Pakistan in the T20 World Cup in Dubai. Jones, the
Opener Daryl Mitchell smashed an unbeaten 72 to lead New Zealand into their first-ever Twenty20 World Cup final with a thrilling five-wicket victory over England on Wednesday. Chasing 166 for victory, New Zealand were in trouble at 13-2 and 107-4 when Jimmy Neesham turned the semi-final on its head with an 11-ball 27 to help
News Both players were tested for Covid-19 and they tested negative Mohammad Rizwan and Shoaib Malik missed Pakistan’s training session on Wednesday with mild flu, a day before their semi-final with Australia in Dubai. Both players were tested for Covid-19 and both tested negative. As with the rest of their squad, they have cleared regular
Report With 57 needed in the last four overs and the chase seemingly dead, they teed off to fell England New Zealand 167 for 5 (Mitchell 72*, Conway 46, Neesham 27; Livingstone 2-22) beat England 166 for 4 (Malan 41, Moeen 51*; Southee 1-24) by 5 wickets James Neesham contemplated retirement in 2017. He didn’t.
News van der Dussen also breaks into top 10; Zampa and Hazlewood move up in bowling charts Aiden Markram‘s unbeaten 52 off 25 in South Africa’s win against England in their last group match of the T20 World Cup has helped him attain a career-best No. 3 position in the T20I batting rankings. He has
News Keshav Maharaj will lead the team, which also sees a return for the Kolpak-returned Wayne Parnell Parnell’s comeback is the first indication that South Africa are ready to reintegrate players who gave up their international careers when they signed Kolpak deals. Since the UK’s exit from the European Union, which has dissolved the Kolpak
Big picture Other than “Shaheen Afridi has a niggle” or “Mohammad Hafeez wants to open the batting”, there’s little that makes Pakistan fans break out in a cold sweat than the words “T20 World Cup semi-final vs Australia”. Even amongst the panoply of inexplicable heartbreak Pakistan cricket has subjected its followers to, Gros Islet in
News He expects Fakhar to come out trumps in his potential match-up against in-form Zampa You don’t have to worry about Fakhar Zaman. So said Pakistan batting coach Matthew Hayden despite Fakhar managing only 54 runs in four innings at an average of 13.50 and strike rate of 90 in this T20 World Cup. Hayden
News Bowling coach also thinks a small break after the 2021 IPL might have helped refresh a team that has been on the road for six months Although he admitted that India have not performed to potential, bowling coach Bharat Arun is of the opinion that the toss has played too big a role at
News There remains confidence the Perth Test will be able to take place despite WA border restrictions lasting into next year Tasmania has formally launched a campaign to snatch the fifth men’s Ashes Test from Perth, with premier Peter Gutwein drawing on sentiment and sense in his pitch to Cricket Australia. The series finale between
News Hails senior bowlers Trent Boult and Tim Southee for their adjustments in the UAE Both Trent Boult and Tim Southee didn’t get a game in the 2016 T20 World Cup in India, with New Zealand packing their attack with spin and preferring the hit-the-deck style of Mitchell McClenaghan. Five years later, both Boult and
News “It’s unfortunate we are out of this tournament but that takes nothing away from this great side.” For the first time since 2012, India will bow out of an ICC tournament before the semi-final stage. White-ball cricket aside, India have also managed sustained success in Tests, with back-to-back series wins in Australia and a
Big picture Super Over, anyone? By the time England and New Zealand take the field for another World Cup encounter, 850 days will have elapsed since the craziest contest of the lot. Plenty has happened since that extraordinary day at Lord’s in July 2019 – a global pandemic, for starters, not to mention New Zealand’s
News Calls for Khawaja to open grow louder after a roaring start to the Shield season Usman Khawaja believes he can bat anywhere in Australia’s top-order if he were to get an Ashes call-up but he says a middle-order place would make more sense than opening. The Queensland captain has started the Sheffield Shield season in exceptional form, with back-to-back centuries,
With BCCI announcing the Team India squad for its upcoming home T20I series against New Zealand, there were plenty of surprises in the roster. There was no Virat Kohli in the squad with the Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) player rested for the series. Rohit Sharma was named captain with KL Rahul as vice-captain. Kohli stepped
News Decision will be based on Abu Dhabi conditions as new opening combo prepares to step up England will make a late decision regarding the balance of their side for Wednesday’s T20 World Cup semi-final against New Zealand based on conditions in Abu Dhabi, their captain Eoin Morgan has revealed. James Vince was added to
News The squad is without a number of first-choice players including Kohli, Bumrah, Jadeja and Shami Rohit Sharma will captain India in their first T20I series following Virat Kohli’s stepping down from the captaincy in the shortest format. It is not yet known if Rohit will be given the role permanently – for now, the
News Tom Harrison meets Ramiz Raja on bridge-building visit to Pakistan after October pull-outs England’s men will play two additional T20Is on their tour of Pakistan in September and October 2022, in compensation for the late cancellation of last month’s planned visit, following a meeting between ECB and PCB officials in Lahore on Tuesday. Tom
News West Indies allrounder available for entire 2022 campaign, having helped Bears to quarter-finals last season Carlos Brathwaite will return to Birmingham Bears as the team’s overseas T20 player and captain for next year’s Vitality Blast. Brathwaite, the West Indies allrounder who has previously captained his country in T20Is and the Patriots in the CPL,
News “As a South African cricket side, we have been put under immense pressure around this whole topic” Temba Bavuma has called for South African cricket to take a “collective” decision on how it will approach anti-racism gestures going forward, and said the pressure mounted on the team to take a knee is “sometimes a
News So far, Maxwell has scores of 18, 5, 6, and two 0 not outs in the World Cup but he is “not fazed by lack of time in the middle” Glenn Maxwell is happy to be a bit-part player in the World Cup semi-final if it means Australia goes on to claim their maiden
News New Zealand captain trying to find a balance to manage the problem better New Zealand captain Kane Williamson has found it challenging to refrain himself from over-hitting at the nets and instead keep himself fresh for the matches. Williamson’s elbow injury flared up during the warm-ups in the lead-up to the T20 World Cup and
Report Rohit sealed a small chase with a fifty, after Jadeja and Ashwin took three wickets apiece India 136 for 1 (Rohit 56, Rahul 54*) beat Namibia 132 for 8 (Wiese 26, Ashwin 3-20, Jadeja 3-16) by nine wickets India signed off from the T20 World Cup on a winning note after restricting Namibia to
Australia quick Shaun Tait produced an awesome spell of fast bowling in the T20 against Pakistan at the MCG in 2010, clocking 160kph on his way to three wickets and the Player of the Match performance