With the new ball “ragging”, as Sarel Erwee put it, Keshav Maharaj and Simon Harmer can continue to stake a claim for playing together as a spin duo in the future. The two opened the bowling in the second innings of the Gqeberha Test against Bangladesh, as they had in the first Test, and have
A measure of how difficult it is to defend is that despite Shimron Hetmyer‘s assault towards the end of the first innings – he scored 38 off the last 15 balls he faced – despite Boult’s swing at the start to get KL Rahul first ball, despite Ashwin’s four overs for 20 runs, despite Yuzvendra
Russell Domingo, Bangladesh’s head coach, and Charl Langeveldt, South Africa’s bowling coach, are both missing the ongoing Gqeberha Test after returning positive Covid-19 results*. A team source confirmed to ESPNcricinfo that Domingo, who tested positive on Thursday, has been resting at home in Gqeberha and is in good spirits, and has also been in regular
Durham will “speak privately” with their head coach James Franklin following allegations that he had physically harassed Yuzvendra Chahal when they were Mumbai Indians team-mates in 2011. “We are aware of recent news reports surrounding an incident in 2011 which name a member of our staff,” Durham said in a statement sent to ESPNcricinfo. “As
Innings Bangladesh 217 (Mushfiqur 51, Tamim 47, Yasir 46, Mulder 3-25, Harmer 3-39, Olivier 2-39, Maharaj 2-57) trail South Africa 453 by 236 runs Bangladesh lasted all of 26 balls after lunch as the South African spinners wrapped up the innings on 217, helping the hosts gain a 236-run lead. Having gone into the interval
Sunrisers Hyderabad 155 for 2 (Abhishek 75, Tripathi 39*) beat Chennai Super Kings 154 for 7 (Moeen 48, Washington 2-21, Natarajan 2-30) by eight wickets Sunrisers Hyderabad finally got on the board by chasing down 155 without any big contribution from their international stars, in the process consigning Chennai Super Kings to their fourth defeat
Ramiz Raja‘s proposal for a quadrangular T20 event may have acquired some non-specific support ahead of his presentation of the plans to the ICC Board on Saturday. Ramiz, the PCB chairman, will present an idea for an annual tournament involving Pakistan, India, Australia and England, but one, he says, will create revenue for all members.
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All-rounder Wiaan Mulder took three wickets in quick succession to put South Africa on top on the second day of the second Test against Bangladesh at St George’s Park in Gqeberha on Saturday. Bangladesh were 139 for five at the close in reply to South Africa’s first innings total of 453. Bangladesh lost a wicket
Royal Challengers Bangalore 152 for 3 (Rawat 66, Kohli 48) beat Mumbai Indians 151 for 6 (Suryakumar 68*, Harshal 2-23, Hasaranga 2-28) by seven wickets Back in 2011, Mumbai Indians had an exception made to allow them to field five overseas players in the Champions League T20. Now, a poor start to IPL 2022 has
Sri Lanka have been without a full-time head coach since Mickey Arthur’s departure in December after his contract had run out. While he had repeatedly expressed a desire to continue, SLC were understood to have been unresponsive. Since then, former fast bowler Rumesh Ratnayake had been in charge of the men’s team.
Khaled Ahmed got Bangladesh the first breakthrough when he had Sarel Erwee chasing a wide one before lunch. Taijul then removed a rampant Elgar, who made 70, with a delivery that slid through, taking the outside edge. He also took out Petersen after the young No 3 had scored his fourth Test fifty. The lbw
IPL 2022: RCB face Mumbai Indians in match 18 at the MCA Stadium in Pune.© BCCI In-form Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) will take on struggling Mumbai Indians (MI) in match 18 of the Indian Premier League (IPL) at the MCA Stadium in Pune on Saturday. After losing their first match, RCB are on a two-game
Derbyshire 177 for 4 (Masood 91) trail Middlesex 401 (White 65, Thomson 4-103) by 224 runs Shan Masood made a point of walking past Lord’s every day when he lived in St John’s Wood as a young man; in his first innings as a county cricketer, he made 91 there to lead Derbyshire’s reply against
Legspinner Mitchell Swepson was left “frustrated” by his challenging introduction to Test cricket in Pakistan but is being backed to play a key on Australia’s next tour to Sri Lanka in the middle of the year. Swepson, who was the first specialist legspinner to make his Test debut for Australia’s men’s team since 2009, managed
The ECB has confirmed India’s twin T20 warm-up fixtures on their tour of England this year. The two matches will be played against Derbyshire and Northamptonshire on July 1 and 3, respectively. While the first of those will be an evening match to be played at the Incora County Ground in Derby, the second of
South Africa chose to bat vs Bangladesh South Africa captain Dean Elgar decided to bat first in the second Test against Bangladesh in Gqeberha. The hosts are going with the same side that won the first Test by 220 runs. Tamim Iqbal has recovered from the stomach ailment that kept him out of the first
Yuzvendra Chahal has opened up – for the second time this year – about instances of physical harassment when he was a junior player in the IPL. The latest revelation relates to an incident in 2013, when Chahal was with Mumbai Indians, and a player allegedly dangled him from a 15th-floor hotel balcony after “getting
The game’s future bilateral calendar comes into sharp focus again in Dubai this weekend, as cricket boards get together for the ICC’s quarterly meetings in Dubai. The game’s chief executives are meeting in person for only the second time since the Covid-19 pandemic on Friday to continue scheduling discussions that began last year which will
Chairman of selectors George Bailey insisted fast bowler Jhye Richardson remains a key part of Australia’s plans across all three formats and could even tour Sri Lanka in June despite being dropped off the central contract list. Richardson was the most notable omission from the 20-man list having returned to Test cricket last summer for
After centuries to Tillakaratne Dilshan and Kumar Sangakkara, Virat Kohli’s blistering 133 (86) led India to a memorable ODI victory in Hobart in February 2018.
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Big picture It’s Gqeberha, with a hard click at the start and a guttural “gha” at the end, that’s the venue for the last dance of the South African summer. Where, you ask? The place with the oldest cricket ground in the country but the newest name. Formerly known as Port Elizabeth, the city was
Dean Elgar has told Bangladesh to “harden up” and accept the tough talk of Test cricket even as Mominul Haque denied complaining about excessive sledging after the Durban match. Bangladesh expressed their intent to lodge an official objection over both South Africa’s conduct and the umpiring at Kingsmead in the immediate aftermath of their defeat,
du Preez retires from the two formats, having played a solitary Test – which came back in 2014 against India, when she hit 102 in a losing cause – and 154 ODIs where she piled up 3760 runs in a career that started in 2007. The 32-year-old even captained her country in 46 ODIs from
Kane Richardson also drops out along with Tim Paine (indefinite leave) and James Pattinson (retired) from the previous group which had included 17 names instead of the full 20. Travis Head, who was Player of the Series in the Ashes, Marcus Stoinis and Mitchell Swepson are also included after not being part the previous original
Bangladesh’s spectacular batting collapse in the fourth innings in Durban, where they were bowled out for 53, largely overshadowed a wonderful bowling performance from their fast bowlers. It was only the fourth time Bangladesh took 20 wickets overseas, and the second time in the last three Tests when the fast bowlers have taken more than
Premier pacer Pat Cummins starred with the bat like never before, equalling the record for the fastest fifty in the IPL, including amassing 35 in an over, as Kolkata Knight Riders crushed Mumbai Indians by five wickets on Wednesday. Cummins blazed away to his fifty in just 14 balls, joining KL Rahul on the top