New Zealand head coach Gary Stead has said that although the team missed the services of Kane Williamson for the home season, the move to rest him was the right one and that the team was at peace with the decision. Williamson was ruled out of the Mumbai Test due to an elbow injury during
Cheteshwar Pujara will miss the opening game of his stint as Sussex’s overseas player in the County Championship due to a visa hold-up caused indirectly by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. He had been expected to arrive in time to make his debut against Nottinghamshire on Thursday, but will not be available until Sussex’s fixture against
Surrendering to spin in overseas conditions didn’t sit well with Bangladesh captain Mominul Haque, who has taken the responsibility of the team to bounce back in the Port Elizabeth Test which begins on Friday. Chasing 274 on the last day in Durban, the visitors were bowled out for just 53, their second-lowest Test score, with
Among the bowlers, Sophie Ecclestone continues to lead the rankings, despite going wicketless in the final. She picked six wickets in the semi-final against South Africa. Shabnim Ismail, who finished second among the wicket-takers in the World Cup, gained a spot to be ranked second. Anya Shrubsole’s five wickets across two knockout games saw her
Avesh Khan played the last season of the IPL in an attack that had Anrich Nortje breaking speed record, Kagiso Rabada threatening the purple cap, and the spinners R Ashwin and Axar Patel displaying their guile. Yet it was Avesh who bowled the most balls for Delhi Capitals at the death. In fact only Harshal
Golf and family time are top of Matthew Mott‘s agenda once he returns home, but it won’t be long before the planning starts for the next challenges in front of Australia’s latest invincibles after their five-year mission to rule the game was crowned with the ODI World Cup title. The summit was reached with what
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Andre Russell will join West Indies’ white-ball captain Kieron Pollard and his deputy Nicholas Pooran at Trinbago Knight Riders for CPL 2022. Sunil Narine has also been retained by the franchise, making it a star-studded pre-draft core already. Notably, this will be the first time in the history of the CPL that Russell and Pollard
New Zealand 333 for 8 (Young 120, Guptill 106, Floyd 2-41) beat Netherlands 218 all out (Myburgh 64, Henry 4-36, D Bracewell 2-23) by 115 runs New Zealand gave the departing Ross Taylor a perfect send-off by comprehensively beating the Netherlands to seal a 3-0 sweep of the ODI series. Fittingly, it was him who
Lucknow Super Giants 169 for 7 (Rahul 68, Hooda 51, Natarajan 2-26, Washington 2-28, Shepherd 2-42) beat Sunrisers Hyderabad 157 for 9 (Tripathi 44, Pooran 34, Avesh 4-24, Holder 3-34) by 12 runs Deepak Hooda, KL Rahul and Avesh Khan led the way as Lucknow Super Giants came back from behind with bat and ball
Alastair Cook says he is in awe of Joe Root’s ability to stay focused on his run-scoring amid intense speculation about his future as Test captain, but has warned his successor that the relentless focus on the “positives” within England’s dressing-room is running the risk of sounding “deluded”. Root is currently taking a break from
Bangladesh will lodge an official complaint about South Africa’s “deplorable” sledging during the Durban Test after, according to them, the umpires ignored their on-field complaints. The BCB is, in fact, planning to complain to the ICC about both the sledging as well as the overall umpiring during the game. Bangladesh have already filed one complaint
Australia interim coach Andrew McDonald is in no doubt that captain Aaron Finch will lead Australia’s T20 World Cup title defence later this year on home soil despite Finch’s current lengthy form slump. Since the start of the last T20 World Cup in the UAE in October 2021, Finch has played 12 T20Is and three
Finn Allen, the explosive New Zealand batter, has signed to play for Yorkshire in this year’s Vitality Blast. Allen, who appeared for Lancashire in the competition last year and is currently at the IPL with Royal Challengers Bangalore, will come in to the Yorkshire set-up after the departure of Pakistan seamer Haris Rauf, who is
South Africa 367 & 204 beat Bangladesh 298 & 53 by 220 runs Keshav Maharaj bowled South Africa to an emphatic win in 13 overs and 55 minutes on the fifth morning of the first Test, dismissing Bangladesh for the lowest total in an innings at Kingsmead. It was Maharaj’s eighth Test five-for and best
A one-off T20I at the end of the tour does not come with a huge amount of context, but if the last two ODIs are anything to go by, the atmosphere in Lahore should at least be terrific with the game starting after the heat of the day has passed. What either team can take
News Chief selector Abedin confirms that both players will return to Bangladesh on April 5 Taskin Ahmed and Shoriful Islam will both return home after the Durban Test due to their injuries, the BCB chief selector Minhajul Abedin has said. Taskin, who bowled five overs on the fourth afternoon of the first Test against South
T20 nomad Liam Livingstone justified his Rs 11.50 crore price-tag with a smashing all-round show while rookie seamer Vaibhav Arora announced his arrival on the big stage during Punjab Kings’ comfortable 54-run decimation of Chennai Super Kings in an IPL match here on Sunday. Livingstone with a 32-ball-60 laid the platform but Chennai Super Kings
Report The visitors triggered two collapses to bowl South Africa out for 204 in their second innings, but have lost their way after that Stumps Bangladesh 11 for 3 (Maharaj 2-7, Harmer 1-4) and 298 trail South Africa 367 and 204 (Elgar 64, Ebadot 3-40, Mehidy 3-85) by 262 runs South Africa are seven wickets
Report Allrounder’s 60 lifted Punjab Kings to 180, and Super Kings fell apart in the chase Punjab Kings 180 for 8 (Livingstone 60, Dhawan 33, Jordan 2-23) beat Chennai Super Kings 126 (Dube 57, Chahar 3-25, Livingstone 2-25) by 54 runs Chennai Super Kings’ winless start to the 2022 IPL continued into a third game
That’s how she played a remarkable innings in the final which might have left the most optimistic of England fans daring to dream and, by Meg Lanning‘s own admission, made the Australia captain “nervous”. The problem was, just as in their first encounter on March 5, Sciver’s knock was only the second-best of the day.
News “I have seen such inconsistency in umpiring after a long time,” team director Khaled Mahmud says Bangladesh team director Khaled Mahmud called the umpiring in the Durban Test “inconsistent”, adding that Bangladesh could have been “chasing 180 instead of 270” had the decisions gone their way. Following Shakib Al Hasan‘s tweet, which called for
News Australia’s captain picked up back-to-back ducks to continue a lean year but has faith he can bounce back Aaron Finch reckons he doesn’t need to be told he’s struggling with the bat after Australia’s ODI series defeat in Pakistan – but the white-ball captain is confident he’s going to fight back at 35. Finch’s
Report England go in unchanged to defend their title Toss England Women chose to bowl vs Australia Women England have opted to bowl in the final of the 2022 World Cup against Australia in Christchurch. Ellyse Perry will play for Australia – who have progressed through the tournament undefeated – most likely, as captain Meg
New Zealand fast bowler Lockie Ferguson scalped four wickets for 28 runs in a stunning display of pace and accuracy after Shubman Gill’s imperious 84 to help Gujarat Titans beat Delhi Capitals by 14 runs and register their second consecutive win in their maiden IPL season here on Saturday. Ferguson, who was bought for a
News The pair has been handed short-term contracts as batting and bowling coach Afghanistan have roped in former Pakistan players Younis Khan and Umar Gul as batting and bowling coach, respectively, on short-term contracts. They are set to join the team in Abu Dhabi for a 15-day stint, working with an expanded squad of 25
News Importantly, the New Zealand captain also focussed on singles, dominating the middle overs with his nudges and pushes Tom Latham put on a one-man show in Hamilton on Saturday in the second ODI against Netherlands. On his birthday, the New Zealand captain found himself walking out to bat 30 for 3 in the eighth
Preview Jonny Bairstow is set to return to Punjab Kings’ XI having completed his quarantine upon arrival from the Caribbean Big picture For the first time in their history, Chennai Super Kings have lost their opening two matches of an IPL campaign, and Ravindra Jadeja’s team will be keen to get off the mark against
Big picture And then there were two: Australia and England. Predictable? In part. They are the two most successful teams in the Women’s ODI World Cup history and were considered frontrunners for the silverware in the ongoing 12th ODI edition. But neither favourites Australia nor defending champions England could have potentially foreseen the contrasting campaigns
Report New Zealand captain stroked 140* before bowlers rallied to bowl Netherlands out cheaply New Zealand 264 for 9 (Latham 140*, van Beek 4-56, Klaassen 3-36) beat Netherlands 146 all out (de Leede 37, M Bracewell 3-13, Sodhi 2-17) by 118 runs Tom Latham cracked a career-best 140*, producing a batting masterclass in a near