The fairy-tale ending! Stumped Kumar Sangakkara Bowled Mahela Jayawardena. The Sri Lankan legends end an era in spectacular fashion as they play their last ODI on home soil and combine for the winning wicket:
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Krunal Pandya tested positive for COVID-19 ahead of the second Sri Lanka-India T20I.© AFP The second T20I between India and Sri Lanka in Colombo will go on as scheduled on Wednesday, July 28, sources told NDTV, after eight close contacts of Krunal Pandya, India all-rounder who tested positive for COVID-19 on Tuesday, returned negative test
Preview The availability of Gayle, Russell, Bravo and Pollard makes the hosts a terrifying proposition on paper Big Picture West Indies’ extended warm-up for the T20 World Cup continues apace, with Pakistan the latest side the defending champions will host ahead of the global event later this year. While there might be legitimate concern around
News None of them, however, will travel to the ground for the last two matches of the series All the eight people identified as the immediate contacts of India allrounder Krunal Pandya have tested negative for Covid-19 in the fresh round of RT-PCR tests carried out on Tuesday. ESPNcricinfo understands the group of eight, whose
News He felt something click in the Sheffield Shield final and hopes to build on that this season Kurtis Patterson hopes having the New South Wales captaincy to focus on will help free up his batting as he searches for a return to the form that earned him two Test caps three seasons ago. Since
News Highly regarded fast-medium bowler played 30 Tests for England and also coached Ireland Mike Hendrick, the former Derbyshire and England seamer who was also Ireland’s first professional coach, has died at the age of 72. Hendrick, a tall seamer known for his classical side-on action and capable of expertly harnessing English conditions, played 30
News Will play alongside local star Sandeep Lamichhane for Kathmandu Kings XI Shahid Afridi and local superstar Sandeep Lamichhane will reunite as team-mates in the Everest Premier League, Nepal’s domestic T20 tournament. Legspinner Lamichhane made his international T20 debut alongside the legendary Afridi when they were part of an ICC World XI team that took
News Eight close contacts of the allrounder, all from the Indian contingent, are in isolation Krunal Pandya has tested positive for Covid-19, forcing the second T20I between Sri Lanka and India, scheduled for Tuesday evening, to be pushed back by a day. Pandya’s positive test result came not too long before the scheduled start of
News A British passport holder, the quick will not need to represent the county as an overseas player Daniel Worrall, the 30-year-old Australian quick who played three ODIs in 2016, has signed a three-year contract to play with Surrey. He will join the English county at the start of the 2022 season after wrapping up
News “It goes back even to our regional cricket as well. I think as a whole we need to do better,” he added. West Indies captain Kieron Pollard took a fierce swipe at the pitches produced for the one-day series against Australia in Barbados, calling them “absolutely ridiculous.” While acknowledging that his team did not
West Indies and Pakistan have agreed to play a revised four-match T20 series, Cricket West Indies (CWI) announced on Sunday. The two boards were forced into the alteration to the scheduled tour dates after West Indies’ current ODI series against Australia was rocked by a positive Covid-19 test which saw Thursday’s second match suspended. It
Preview It is not yet clear if Shaw and Suryakumar will be available for the second T20I Big picture Sri Lanka have lost 13 of their last 14 completed matches. Athough this is not India’s main team, they are more experienced in the format than Sri Lanka, and won comfortably on Sunday. So how do
News He was initially appointed only for the Zimbabwe tour, but positive feedback from the players spurred the BCB to extend his stay The BCB has extended former South Africa batter Ashwell Prince‘s contract as batting consultant up to this year’s T20 World Cup. Prince was initially roped in only for Bangladesh’s tour of Zimbabwe,
Report Shimron Hetymer returns for the home side in place of Jason Mohammed West Indies won the toss and decided to bat against Australia Dan Christian will play his first ODI in more than seven years – and his first List A game in four – as one of three changes for Australia in the
News Soumya Sarkar and Shakib Al Hasan are also nursing injuries, while Tamim Iqbal and Mushfiqur Rahim are out of contention Liton Das and Mustafizur Rahman remain the main injury worries for Bangladesh ahead of their T20I series at home against Australia, which begins on August 3, but chief selector Minhajul Abedin expects the two
Australia will need to find a way to combat spin and fit more overs of it into their attack © AFP Big Picture Even though all ODIs in the World Cup Super League now carry the importance of points, it is still good to have a series decider and that’s what’s on offer in Barbados.
News Thirty-one matches will be played across 27 days with Dubai hosting the final on October 15 The remainder of IPL 2021 in the UAE will resume in Dubai on September 19 with MS Dhoni‘s Chennai Super Kings taking on Rohit Sharma‘s Mumbai Indians. The fixtures were unveiled on Sunday, with a total of 31
Kurtis Patterson led the side towards the end of last season © Getty Images Kurtis Patterson has been named New South Wales’ Sheffield Shield captain, taking over permanently from Peter Nevill who held the role for three years. Patterson captained the side at the end of last season when Nevill was absent for the birth
Sri Lanka down India with spin to win by 3 wkts. Avishka Fernando 76, Bhanuka Rajapaksa 65. #SLvIND
Report Captain Dane van Niekerk plays an equally pivotal role with bat and ball Oval Invincibles 132 for 7 (Capsey 59) beat London Spirit 117 for 7 (Knight 40, van Niekerk 3-30) by 15 runs An early feature of the Hundred has been young, uncapped English players making a name for themselves and Alice Capsey
Suryakumar Yadav scored his second T20I fifty against in the 1st T20I against Sri Lanka.© AFP Suryakumar Yadav, with his 360-degree shots, is “amazing” to watch, said India captain Shikhar Dhawan after a crushing 38-run win over Sri Lanka in the first T20 International here on Sunday. Surya scored 50 off 34 balls, his second
Report The hosts field two debutants of their own – middle-order batter Charith Asalanka and allrounder Chamika Karunaratne Toss Sri Lanka chose to bowl vs India Sri Lanka won the toss and chose to bowl first in the first T20I. Captain Dasun Shanaka said he expected the pitch to get better for batting in the
News Postponement of second WI vs Aus ODI has domino effect on Pakistan series Complications due to Covid-19 has cut an entire T20I out of Pakistan’s tour of the West Indies. Set to begin a day later than originally scheduled (July 28), also due to the pandemic, the series will now feature only four T20Is,
News They have been picked as replacements for the injured trio of Shubman Gill, Avesh Khan and Washington Sundar Prithvi Shaw and Suryakumar Yadav are set to join the India Test squad in England for the five-match Pataudi Trophy. It is learned that both Shaw and Yadav, who are currently playing the T20I series in
News Two nights after failing to close out a chase, the teenager delivers under pressure Shamim Hossain, in his second T20I, is under pressure. Three fruitless slogs in the 18th over later, Bangladesh need 25 off 15 balls. The game has wildly swung both ways until this point. Dion Myers had conceded just three off
News The West Indies captain thought Australia should have been held to around 120 West Indies captain Kieron Pollard was left frustrated that his team made things harder than he believes they should have done in the second ODI in Barbados even though they came away with a four-wicket win which sets up a series
Bangladesh have brought in Nasum Ahmed in place of Mahedi Hasan © AFP For the third match in a row, Zimbabwe captain Sikandar Raza has decided to bat first after winning the toss against Bangladesh, in the third T20I against Bangladesh in Harare. The series is locked at 1-1 after the hosts won the second
News CA optimistic Finch, who was ruled out of the remainder of Australia’s West Indies and Bangladesh tours, will be fit in time for the world tournament Aaron Finch could be in a race to be fit for the 2021 T20 World Cup as he faces knee surgery after being ruled out of the remainder
News He has made use of all chances at international level and wants to improve at getting deep in the innings Suryakumar Yadav is only five-innings-old in international cricket. You wouldn’t know that, looking at him bat in any of those games. He’s looked nerve-less, decisive and crisp in his stroke-play, calm and confident in
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