News IPL governing council provides letters of intent to the two new IPL teams after a delay A year after returning as the title sponsors of the IPL, following a suspension, Vivo has stepped away from the deal and Tata Group, the Indian business conglomerate, has stepped in. The Tata Group, which has varied business
News Allrounder prepared to play through pain again but will wait to see how side strain responds to treatment Ben Stokes has said he wants to play in the fifth Ashes Test in Hobart but admitted his availability to feature as a specialist batter would depend on how his side strain responded to treatment, with
News Second ODI shifted to Thursday before series concludes on Sunday in Jamaica West Indies and Ireland have agreed to reschedule the remaining two fixtures of their three-match ODI series, after a Covid-19 outbreak contributed to the second match being postponed. As a result, the one-off T20I scheduled for Sunday has been cancelled. The second
Report Jansen complemented Rabada with a three-wicket haul; Pujara was the only other Indian batter to cross 40 South Africa 17 for 1 (Bumrah 1-0) trail India 223 (Kohli 79, Pujara 43, Rabada 4-73) by 206 runs Kagiso Rabada is already a super athlete. But, when his captain went and fired him up, he became
News The George Bailey-led panel will also have to assess how the pace bowlers have pulled up after their efforts in Sydney Australia’s selectors face “some challenging conversations” over the next couple of days as they debate whether to retain Usman Khawaja for the final Ashes fixture after his stunning return to Test cricket in
News Will be available for the first half of the Championship season and the group stages of the Blast Naseem Shah, Pakistan’s teenage tearaway fast bowler, has signed for Gloucestershire to play in the County Championship and T20 Blast as an overseas player. Naseem, 18, has played nine Tests since his debut against Australia in
News “I think after losing the toss, putting a significant score on the board, and then for the bowlers to do their thing, was outstanding.” New Zealand captain Tom Latham said he was pleased with his team’s scoring rate, which he believes put Bangladesh under a lot of pressure, in the second Test in Christchurch.
Despite a probing Australian bowling effort led by Scott Boland, the home side couldn’t snatch victory in the final hour of a thrilling SCG Test. Download our app: https://app.cricket.com.au/ More #Ashes videos: https://www.cricket.com.au/video Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cricketcomau Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cricketcomau Follow us on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/cricketcomau
News The allrounder is on the verge of completing his mandatory isolation but may or may not be able to fly out with the rest of the ODI squad members Washington Sundar, the India allrounder, has tested positive for Covid-19 and is now a doubt for the three-match ODI series against South Africa starting January
News England opener says substandard surfaces in Championship are a “country-wide problem” Zak Crawley says that England’s batting woes in the Ashes will not be improved until the standard of pitches in county cricket is raised, adding that he will stay committed to Kent rather than seeking a fresh start at a more prominent club
News Todd Greenberg assures players that he will travel to Pakistan with them; Nick Hockley is also expected to make the trip Todd Greenberg, the Australian Cricketers’ Association (ACA) chief, has assured the country’s cricketers that he would travel to Pakistan with the squad if the tour gets the go-ahead, and would be fine with
Former India off-spinner Harbhajan Singh is hopeful that Virat Kohli will end his century drought in the series-deciding third and final Test match against South Africa in Cape Town starting on Tuesday. Kohli, who had missed the second Test match in Johannesburg, which India lost by 7 wickets, will return to the side for the third
News Ireland return three further Covid-19 positives in addition to injuries suffered by McBrine and Adair A combination of three fresh Covid-19 positive cases along with two injured players has left the Ireland squad “severely depleted”, thereby forcing the postponement of the second ODI against West Indies, scheduled for Tuesday. In a joint media statement
Big picture After India’s dominance in Centurion to South Africa’s fightback in Johannesburg, this series is now set for a decider in Cape Town. It could not be more perfectly scripted, or perhaps more unexpected. Despite South Africa’s strong record against India at home, they came into this series on the back of two years
Report Hosts would have had another wicket had Daryl Mitchell hit the stumps with a direct hit, with Mominul Haque out of the frame Lunch Bangladesh 126 and 74 for 2 (f/o) (Shanto 29, Shadman 21, Jamieson 1-16) trail New Zealand 521 for 6 dec by 321 runs Bangladesh put up a bit of fight
News BCCI to “continue to monitor the situation and identify a new window once the situation improves” The BCCI has postponed the knockout rounds of the Coach Behar Trophy, the domestic Under-19 tournament, in the wake of “some positive covid-19 cases within the team environment”. Till Monday, the BCCI had conducted 93 matches across 20
News The rest of the Zimbabwe squad returned negative results Zimbabwe coach Lalchand Rajput will miss at least the first two games of Zimbabwe’s series against Sri Lanka after testing positive for Covid-19. Rajput, 60, is understood to be asymptomatic, though he was placed under observation at a hospital briefly, before being taken to a
News South Africa captain explains why victory in the third Test against India would be particularly special to him Not since South Africa took the Test mace from England in 2012, have they faced a greater challenge than the upcoming Cape Town Test. Then, they had a one-nil lead going into the third Test but
In bizarre scenes in a 1999 ODI, England captain Alec Stewart called up Victorian icon Shane Warne to calm down a rowdy MCG crowd
News “It comes with a bit of hard work, fitness and pride in your performance” The delivery Trent Boult bowled to get his 300th Test wicket was as memorable as the milestone itself. He came around the wicket to Mehidy Hasan Miraz. The ball pitched outside off stump, and swerved in, talking like only Boult
Transitions happen, but they can’t be forced. That’s the view of Virat Kohli, who is captaining India’s Test team at a time when their three middle-order mainstays, himself included, are all 33, and have all endured prolonged lean patches even as younger contenders such as Hanuma Vihari and Shreyas Iyer knock ominously on the door.
News Keeper-batter says he’s been guaranteed white-ball games in Caribbean after coming to Test squad’s rescue Sam Billings is keen to grasp the unexpected opportunity of a potential Test debut in Hobart later this week, although his thoughts will quickly return to pinning down a place in England’s white-ball teams. Billings embarked on a 500-mile
News “I think we can leave a few more balls outside off stump to make them bowl straighter at us.” Bangladesh have to be “decisive” in whatever they do in Christchurch now, according to batting coach Ashwell Prince. The visitors were bowled out for 126, responding to New Zealand’s 521 for 6 declared, a display
News The left hander only missed the SCG Test due to Covid and had been assured of returning Travis Head beat Covid-19 without showing any symptoms but admits Usman Khawaja‘s weight of runs could be harder to overcome to regain his spot in Australia’s XI for Hobart. Head is feeling fine and ready to return
News The opener picked up a calf injury during the Ford Trophy earlier this month Martin Guptill faces a tight timeframe to be fit for New Zealand’s limited-overs tour of Australia after picking up a “moderate” calf strain during the Ford Trophy one-day competition. Guptill suffered the injury on January 3 and is targeting a
SA vs IND, 3rd Test: When and where to watch Live telecast, streaming.© BCCI/Twitter India will take on South Africa in the decisive third Test at the Newlands in Cape Town and look to end their quest for a maiden Test series win in the Rainbow Nation. The three-match series stands level at 1-1 after
Report Captain unbeaten on 215 at lunch, as Bangladesh hit back through Ebadot Hossain and Shoriful Islam Lunch New Zealand 423 for 5 (Latham 215*, Conway 109, Shoriful 2-69) vs Bangladesh Although New Zealand remained in charge in terms of the runs and their scoring rate, Bangladesh also took four wickets in the first session
News England also have to deal with injuries to Ben Stokes and Jonny Bairstow ahead of the fifth Ashes Test Jos Buttler is set to fly home from England’s tour of Australia, after sustaining a broken finger that hampered his performance in the drawn fourth Test at Sydney. Buttler suffered the injury while keeping on
Report Ireland stay in the hunt courtesy Balbirnie and Tector, but fall short by 24 runs in the end West Indies 269 (Brooks 93, Pollard 69, Adair 3-38, Young 3-56, McBrine 2-52) beat Ireland 245 (Balbirnie 71, Tector 53, Dockrell 30, Shepherd 3-50, Joseph 3-55, Smith 2-26) by 24 runs Shamarh Brooks hit 93 off
Report Leach, Broad and Anderson resist Australia, England nerves jangle after late Smith strike England 294 (Bairstow 113, Stokes 66, Boland 4-36) and 9 for 270 (Crawley 77, Stokes 60, Boland 3-30) drew with Australia 8 for 416 dec (Khawaja 137, Smith 67, Broad 5-101) and 6 for 265 dec (Khawaja 101*, Green 74, Leach