Karachi Kings pacer Mohammad Amir was in sublime form during a Pakistan Super League (PSL) match against the Babar Azam-led Peshawar Zalmi on Wednesday. Despite his team falling short in the end, Amir got the ball rolling with three wickets in the powerplay. He dismissed Zalmi openers Mohammad Haris and Babar Azam in the first
India captain Harmanpreet Kaur will lead the Mumbai Indians franchise in the inaugural edition of the WPL, set to begin on March 4 in Mumbai. Harmanpreet was not the most expensive player bought by Mumbai at the auction last month but she was expected to lead the side, which will feature other top international names
Brendon McCullum is confident that Ben Stokes’ involvement in the Indian Premier League will not jeopardise his participation in the Ashes this summer. Stokes, England’s Test captain, has found himself in the middle of a franchise versus country dilemma: insistent on fulfilling his £1.6million contract for Chennai Super Kings despite a left knee that requires
Jason Holder became the second West Indies player after Sir Garry Sobers to take 150 Test wickets and score 2500 runs but does not think he will be able to break Sobers’ record because of the dearth of Test cricket facing teams like West Indies. “The way world cricket is going now, apart from the
Karachi’s dream start turned into a full on nightmare when Rovman Powell joined in on the fun, scoring 64 off just 34 balls. He hit six fours and four sixes during his stay; basically, he was able to hit a boundary once every three or four balls. Sixty-five runs – 33% of the total –
Rest of India 381 for 3 (Jaiswal 213, Abhimanyu 154) vs Madhya Pradesh Yashasvi Jaiswal and Abhimanyu Easwaran put on a massive stand of 371 for the second wicket to flatten last season’s Ranji Trophy champions Madhya Pradesh on the first day of the Irani Cup in Gwalior. Jaiswal smashed his third first-class double-century studded
The ECB opened the long-awaited, much-delayed Cricket Discipline Commission’s racism hearings by laying out its case against, among others, former fast bowlers Matthew Hoggard and Tim Bresnan. On the opening day of hearings at the International Arbitration Centre in London, the ECB accused Hoggard, Bresnan and John Blain of repeatedly making racist remarks while at
Bangladesh have made five changes to their T20I squad for the first two matches against England later this month. Rony Talukdar returns to the set-up after eight years, Shamim Hossain makes comeback after a two-year absence, while Towhid Hridoy, Rejaur Rahman and Tanvir Islam have received their maiden call-ups to Bangladesh’s T20I squad. All five
West Indies 71 for 2 (Reifer 19*, Blackwood 13*, Rabada 1-16) trail South Africa 342 (Markram 115, Elgar 71, Joseph 5-81) by 271 runs Kagiso Rabada and debutant Gerald Coetzee took a wicket each in West Indies’ reply after Alzarri Joseph‘s 5 for 81 – his maiden Test five-for – ended South Africa’s innings on
Najam Sethi, the PCB chairman, made the announcement on Twitter on Tuesday night and said Maroof would continue to be available for selection as a player. “It has been an honour for me to captain my country and I feel fortunate to have led an incredible and hardworking bunch of cricketers,” Maroof, 31, said in
Australia 156 for 4 (Khawaja 60, Jadeja 4-63) lead India 109 (Kuhnemann 5-16, Lyon 3-35) by 47 runs Matthew Kuhnemann’s maiden five-wicket haul and Usman Khawaja’s hard fought half-century gave Australia their best day of the tour, as they finished the first day in Indore 47 ahead of India’s 109 with six wickets in hand.
Innings break Bangladesh 209 (Shanto 58, Wood 2-34, Archer 2-37) vs England England bowled Bangladesh out for 209 on a slowish pitch offering appreciable turn in the first ODI at the Sher-e-Bangla Stadium in Mirpur, barely 24 hours after the remarkable climax of their Test against New Zealand, 7,000 miles away. Najmul Hossain Shanto, who
Having not been parachuted into Australia’s tough tour of India, in-form opener Cameron Bancroft is instead focusing on continuing his run glut in the domestic season ahead of the Ashes. Australian selectors resisted replacing the injured David Warner with Bancroft, who is the leading run-scorer in the Sheffield Shield with 767 runs at 63.91 with
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KL Rahul has been dropped from India’s playing XI in the third Test against Australia in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy after a prolonged lean patch. Youngster Shubman Gill has been included in KL Rahul’s place in the XI. Rahul, who was named vice captain for the first two Tests, scored just 38 runs in the series. The
It has been a frustrating wait for Bumrah, who has attempted to make a comeback more than once since suffering a back injury last August which had ruled him out of the Asia Cup. Initially, the injury had not seemed too serious as Bumrah was named in India’s T20 World Cup squad on September 12.
Big picture: What next for Australia? So where do Australia go from here? Indore, of course, but in a more philosophical, soul-searching and series situation kind of way. Not surprisingly, 32 of their 40 wickets have fallen to spin so far, and 21 out of those 32 were either bowled or lbw. “Use your feet
Wolvaardt struck half-centuries in the final and in a make-it-or-break-it game against Bangladesh and as a result has moved up eight places. Her opening partner Tazmin Brits, who was named player of the semi-final for a half-century and four catches, is up five places to No. 12. Among the bowlers, Ismail, having been down at
Ben Stokes, England’s captain, insisted that his team’s pride at playing a part in one of the most gripping Test matches of all time outweighed their disappointment at the final result, after their run of six Test wins in a row came to an end with an incredible one-run loss against New Zealand in Wellington.
Rishabh Pant is “making some good progress with my recovery” after suffering a serious car accident in December 2022. The India wicketkeeper is expected to be out of action for most of 2023 after tearing three key ligaments in his knee, but is hopeful that “with the grace of God, and the support of the
Moeen Ali, England’s vice-captain, believes his side have the skill and experience to thrive in front of a partisan home crowd at the Sher-e-Bangla Stadium in Mirpur, Dhaka in their first ODI in Bangladesh on Wednesday. England have lost five of their six ODIs this winter, generally fielding under-strength teams in front of underwhelming crowds
His value to Australia’s Test side has been made abundantly clear during the first two Tests of this series where the selectors have had to make concessions each way in his absence. Now the allrounder is back and Australia can for the first time, even in the absence of some senior players, at least look
Rohit Sharma has hinted that India could request a green pitch for the fourth Border-Gavaskar Test in Ahmedabad if they win the third Test in Indore and seal their place in the World Test Championship final. India, currently 2-0 up in the four-Test series, need one more win to confirm their place in the WTC
Big picture: A ‘proper contest’ awaits Long gone is the “little brother vs big brother” equation in Bangladesh-England matches. The 2015 World Cup game brought a bit of edge into the contests, and then came the pushing and shoving between players in the end-of-game beeline during the last bilateral series back in 2016. Since then,
Bangladesh head coach Chandika Hathurusingha belives that his full-strength Bangladesh side are slightly ahead of an England side that is missing some key batters due to the Test series in New Zealand. Even while praising England’s depth, calling them the “envy” of the rest of the world, he said that he backed his own side’s
Lunch South Africa 99 for 0 (Elgar 53*, Markram 42*) vs West Indies Dean Elgar and Aiden Markram held their own in a near-perfect session as South Africa went into lunch at 99 for 0 on day one of the first Test against West Indies. Temba Bavuma, in his first Test as full-time captain, won
Neil Wagner, New Zealand’s final-day hero at Wellington, was hailed by Brendon McCullum – his former captain and current England coach – as “one of the toughest I’ve come across”, after his bruising four-wicket haul secured a thrilling one-run win in the second Test. Wagner’s final figures of 4 for 62 in 15.2 overs included
Steven Smith has admitted he had rarely felt the anger that he did at being dismissed sweeping against R Ashwin in Delhi during Australia’s match-losing collapse. The emotion was exacerbated by the fact that he believed India were “on the ropes” after the visitors had made a rapid start to their second innings and he