The power vacuum at the top of English cricket looks set to extend throughout the home summer, after the ECB was forced to restart the recruitment process for its new chairman, amid reports that Ron Kalifa – the man leading the nominations committee – is set to be put himself forward for the role instead.
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The leading fast bowlers on the county circuit are having their speeds tracked in the early stages of the Championship season as the ECB’s scouting and talent identification department look to improve the quality of data available before players are selected for England. While bowling coaches can use handheld guns that measure bowling speeds from
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Virat Kohli followed up two successive first-ball ducks with a scratchy, chancy 9 off 10 balls; Glenn Maxwell fell to a first-baller; and Dinesh Karthik was run out in tragicomic manner. There was no let-up at any point from Royals’ bowlers. All of them performed their roles perfectly on a two-paced pitch that also took
Allrounder Mehidy Hasan Miraz has been ruled out of the first Test against Sri Lanka after he injured the small finger on his right hand during a Dhaka Premier League game. The selectors haven’t yet named a replacement, but Nayeem Hasan, who is the next in line, could be a like-for-like option. Chief selector Minhajul
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Roach was due to spend the opening two months of the season with Surrey but injured his hamstring during their innings win against Hampshire, the second game of his second stint with the club. Alec Stewart, Surrey’s director of cricket, spent much of last week’s win against Somerset making phone calls to try and sort
England will revert to a split-coaching structure for the first time in eight years after the ECB formally advertised for two new head coaches: one for their Test team, the other for white-ball cricket. The decision to split the coaching role in two had been widely anticipated since Rob Key‘s appointment as managing director of
A round-up of the last week of matches at the Dhaka Premier League, as Sheikh Jamal Dhanmondi won their maiden title and Prime Bank Cricket Club’s Anamul Haque became the first batter to cross 1000 runs in a List-A tournament in Bangladesh. Key takeaways Sheikh Jamal Dhanmondi Club fulfilled their decade-long quest for a Dhaka
Stoinis fell for a duck in his most recent match against Mumbai Indians holing out off another Australian in Daniel Sams. The left-arm seamer took 1 for 40 against Super Giants following on from an excellent showing against Chennai Super Kings where he took 4 for 30 in a losing side. Riley Meredith also bowled
Former India head coach Ravi Shastri has said that ECB’s new managing director of men’s cricket Rob Key needs to grow a “thick skin” just like how he did to counter the “jealous people.” Speaking to the Guardian, Shastri said there was a “gang of people in India” who always wanted him to fail. Just
John Rutherford, the first Western Australian-based player to be selected for Test cricket, has passed away at the age of 92. Rutherford is part of Australia’s one-Test club having played his only Test match on the 1956 tour of India, that was held on the way home from the Ashes series that year. The right-handed
Flamboyant opener Shikhar Dhawan struck a magnificent 88 not out to trump Ambati Rayudu in the battle of batting heroics as Punjab Kings beat Chennai Super Kings by 11 runs in an IPL thriller on Monday. Dhawan hit nine fours and two sixes in his 59-ball superlative unbeaten knock to power Punjab to 187 for 4 after
The third round of the 2022 County Championship concluded on Sunday, with another strong showing from the Pakistan representatives. Here we take a look at how they got on. A joyous introduction to Old Trafford for Hasan Ali, who is already well on his way to feeling as at home in his northern surroundings as
Rehan Ahmed, the legspinning allrounder who played an integral role in England’s run to the final of this year’s Under-19 World Cup, has signed a long-term contract extension that will keep him at Leicestershire until the end of 2026. Ahmed, a product of the Leicestershire academy, made his first appearances for the senior team as
Graeme Smith, the former Cricket South Africa (CSA) director of cricket, has been cleared of allegations of racism in an independent arbitration process following the outcomes of the Social Justice and Nation-Building (SJN) commission’s report. The SJN made tentative findings that Smith had engaged in prejudicial behaviour on three counts and advocates Ngwako Maenetje SC
Lucknow Super Giants 168 for 6 (Rahul 103*, Pollard 2-8, Meredith 2-40) beat Mumbai Indians 132 for 8 (Rohit 39, Tilak 38, Krunal 3-19) by 36 runs The Mumbai Indians batting line-up fizzled out yet again to slump to their eighth straight loss of the season. The only team still without a win in IPL
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Shakib Al Hasan, who had missed the Tests against South Africa in March due to personal reasons, has returned to Bangladesh’s side for the first Test against Sri Lanka in Chattogram on May 15. Uncapped fast bowler Rejaur Rahman Raja, who was also named in the squad for the Pakistan Test last year, has also
The IPL playoffs will be played in front of full capacity crowds in Kolkata and Ahmedabad, the BCCI has confirmed. Eden Gardens will host Qualifier 1 on May 24 followed by the Eliminator the next day. After a day’s break, the Narendra Modi Stadium will play host to Qualifier 2 on May 27. The final
Netherlands coach Ryan Campbell is in a stable condition and is out of sedation, his family announced through the Australian Cricketers’ Association on Sunday. Campbell suffered a heart attack last Saturday and was in intensive care in an induced coma. Four days later, his brother Mark Campbell revealed that he was out of coma and
Delhi will host the opening match of the five-T20I series against South Africa starting June 9, the BCCI announced on Saturday. The other four cities to play hosts are Cuttack, Visakhapatnam, Rajkot and Bengaluru. The final T20I will be played on June 19. The series – key from the point of view of the men’s
Virat Kohli is doing “everything that is under his control” but there comes a phase in a player’s life when even the first edge is being taken by fielders, RCB head coach Sanjay Bangar said in former India captain’s defence after his second golden-ball duck. On Saturday, Sunrisers Hyderabad beat RCB by nine wickets after
Graham Ford has emerged as a leading contender to become England men’s new Test coach. Ford, 61, left his job as Ireland’s head coach in November after four years in charge, with his previous roles including stints with Sri Lanka, Surrey and his native South Africa. Most relevantly, he spent five years as Kent’s director
Delhi Capitals’ captain Rishabh Pant believes that the third umpire should have “interfered” to adjudicate on a controversial no-ball call in the final over of Friday evening’s contest against Rajasthan Royals. Pant said such a decision have proved “precious” for his team. However, Capitals’ assistant coach Shane Watson differed with his captain, saying the umpire’s
Abid had been on conservative cardiac rehabilitation since December last year and was allowed to play a local T20 tournament in Faisalabad recently. He started with walking on treadmills and was gradually allowed to run at a certain pace in the field. He started hitting the nets last month at the High Performance Centre in
Mohammad Amir will make a surprise return to first-class cricket after signing a short-term deal to play for Gloucestershire in the County Championship. Amir has not played a first-class match since August 2019, when he played a Championship game for Essex a month after his retirement from Test cricket. He will play three Championship games
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Ben Stokes, England’s vice-captain and the man widely tipped to take over from the outgoing Joe Root this summer, says that he offered his team-mate “nothing but love, respect and support” during an emotional phone-call last week, in which Root confirmed his intention to stand down after a record 64 Tests in charge. Writing in