Just a few months into his first-class career, Andrew Symonds gave notice of his talent as he flayed the England attack around Heritage Oval in Toowoomba with 108 off 127 balls in an unbroken 205-run stand with Jimmy Maher. “He reached his century with a pulled boundary from Angus Fraser, a back-foot punch behind point
Shami now has the joint-most wickets in the powerplay in IPL 2022, and he even bowled a boundary-less 20th over in which he got the wicket of MS Dhoni. Shami is joint-fourth on the wicket-takers’ list, with 11 of his 18 wickets having come inside the powerplay. However, it is his maturity at the death
Andrew Symonds‘ former captain, Ricky Ponting, the man who put faith in him ahead of what became a defining 2003 World Cup, has called the allrounder an “extraordinary player” following his death in a car crash at the age of 46. Symonds was a controversial selection for the tournament in South Africa as he averaged
Toss Sri Lanka chose to bat vs Bangladesh Sri Lanka captain Dimuth Karunaratne decided to bat first after winning the toss against Bangladesh in the first Test in Chattogram. He said that he took the decision based on the typically good batting conditions of the Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium, and wanting to make best use
Andrew Symonds, the former Australian allrounder who played in 26 Tests and 198 ODIs in an international career spanning from 1998 through 2009, has died in a car crash in Queensland. Symonds was 46 and is said to have been involved in an accident outside Townsville where he lived in retirement. In a statement, police
Follow the T20 Blast at: https://www.ecb.co.uk/t20-blast Wayne Madsen’s 28-ball fifty helped Derbyshire chase down Northamptonshire’s score of 180. This is the official channel of the ECB. Watch all the latest videos from the England Cricket Team and England and Wales Cricket Board. Including highlights, interviews, features getting you closer to the England team and county
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IPL 2022: Andre Russell played a match-winning role in KKR’s win over SRH.© BCCI/IPL Kolkata Knight Riders all-rounder Andre Russell has crossed 2,000 runs in the Indian Premier League (IPL) on Saturday. He accomplished this feat during his side’s match against Sunrisers Hyderabad at MCA Stadium in Pune. During the match, he played a solid
Bangladesh are looking for ways to get out of tight spots in Test cricket, something that hurt them repeatedly in South Africa last month. But how? Russell Domingo believes the batters must be more focused when batting in poor light, and be more mindful of conditions. He also wants the team to be ruthless, and
Big picture A new Prime Minister in the country, a new cricket coach and a host of newcomers in the Test side. Sri Lanka, on and off the field, are making a new start, of sorts. They take on a Bangladesh side that is keen to restore some parity in 2022, where they have blown
Ambati Rayudu, the- 36-year-old Chennai Super Kings batter, created a bit of a stir on Saturday after deleting a tweet where he had said IPL 2022 would be his final season. Posting a tweet on Saturday, Rayudu had initially said: “I am happy to announce that this will be my last ipl. I have had
IPL 2022: Rahul Tripathi hit a fine fifty when SRH last met KKR this season.© BCCI/IPL Struggling after four straight losses, Sunrisers Hyderabad will need to sort their bowling woes when they take on an inconsistent Kolkata Knight Riders as both the teams look to to stay afloat in the IPL play-off race here on
Sri Lanka have played twice in Chattogram over the past eight years, and on both occasions the matches had petered out to fairly uneventful draws. Sri Lanka captain Dimuth Karunaratne was a part of both those Tests, and though he only managed to register 46 runs across three innings, the lasting memory is undoubtedly that
Brendon McCullum “knocked it out the park” during his interview to become England’s new Test coach and “blew us away with his clarity of thinking”, according to Andrew Strauss, a strategic advisor to the ECB. McCullum’s appointment was confirmed on Thursday after two days of interviews at the start of this week and Strauss, who
It is the fifth Test that Shakib will miss since playing one against Pakistan back in December last year. He skipped the New Zealand series due to personal reasons and then had to miss the South Africa Tests due to illness in his family. Shakib has now played three Tests out of Bangladesh’s 11 since
Cummins came into the IPL on the back of a highly-successful tour of Pakistan. His 5 for 56 and 3 for 23 in Lahore were instrumental in Australia winning that series 1-0. Before that, in his first series as captain, he led the side to a resounding Ashes victory, picking up 21 wicket across four
In what is a largely stable group of players, there was a vacancy created by the retirement of Ross Taylor while Bracewell, who was recently included in the Test squad to tour England after making his international debut against Netherlands in March, effectively replaces Neesham. Neesham, who has not featured in Test cricket since 2017,
The challenge of lifting England’s Test cricket from “rock bottom” instead of a “cushy” role with the limited-overs side is what attracted Brendon McCullum to his first red-ball coaching job. He admitted that initially it was not a job he had given much thought to but as the interview process progressed the opportunity “kind of
Mumbai Indians on Thursday snuffed out defending champions Chennai Super Kings’ faint hopes of making the Indian Super League play-offs with a five-wicket win in a low-scoring match in Mumbai. Opting to bowl, MI shot CSK out for 97 with pacer Daniel Sams (3/16 from 4 overs) running though the MS Dhoni-led side’s top-order with
To paraphrase Monty Python, apart from 6453 runs in 101 matches, a highest score of 302 and a world-record 54-ball century in his final appearance, what has Brendon McCullum ever done for Test cricket? Well, if those numbers alone don’t impress you, how about his defining role, in the winter of 2014-15, in creating the
Allan Donald will have his work cut out this week as he prepares one of Bangladesh’s least experienced pace attacks for the Chattogram Test against Sri Lanka. The home side are missing their important spin duo in Shakib Al Hasan and Mehidy Hasan Miraz, apart from Taskin Ahmed, their most in-form fast bowler. The South
Brendon McCullum, the former New Zealand captain, has been confirmed by the ECB as England Men’s new Test head coach, on a four-year deal. McCullum, who will step down from his role as Kolkata Knight Riders’ head coach at the end of the ongoing IPL, played 101 Tests for New Zealand between 2004 and 2016,
Cricket Australia will expand the Women’s National Cricket League to a full home-and-away season under a new 12-month Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed with the Australian Cricketers’ Association. The acrimonious negotiations of 2017 were avoided with CA CEO Nick Hockley and ACA CEO Todd Greenberg working closely together over the last 12 months, including travelling
Kieron Pollard may be in the middle of his least productive IPL campaign but there’s still more to come from him, in the eyes of Ian Bishop. The former West Indies bowler and current broadcaster suggests some reinvention can go a long way to prolong Pollard’s stint at Mumbai Indians. “Pollard himself has to reinvent
Tim Paine‘s playing career appears over with the former Australia captain not given a fresh contract with Tasmania. Paine, who stepped down as Test captain in a texting-messaging controversy before last summer’s Ashes series, hasn’t been included in Tasmania’s list for the 2022-23 season. After taking time away from cricket after his captaincy resignation, Paine
India recorded an incredible victory over Australia in the second ODI in Jaipur, chasing down 359 with 39 balls to spare.
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Sri Lanka have made just two changes to the squad that emerged victors in the Commonwealth Games Qualifiers in January for their upcoming tour of Pakistan, which is set to kickstart the third edition of the ICC Women’s Championship. The 15-member strong squad otherwise remained unchanged from the side that won the Commonwealth Games Qualifiers.
Ishan Kishan admits having “lost focus” in trying to deviate from being an early enforcer to a finisher. Having gotten into a rut, he’s trying to revert to his original style that has brought him T20 success. Currently, his strike rate of 117.15 is the fourth lowest among batters who have faced at least 150
Among the latest players to catch Ian Bishop‘s eye is West Indies and Delhi Capitals’ explosive middle-order batter Rovman Powell, who Bishop believes has “matured” and evolved to become a “versatile” batter. Talking on ESPNcricinfo’s T20 Time:Out, Bishop said the biggest improvement he noticed in Powell’s batting was how he has confidently dominated spin bowling