Sunrisers Hyderabad 168 for 2 (Williamson 57, Abhishek 42, Pooran 34*, Pandya 1-27) beat Gujarat Titans 162 for 7 (Pandya 50*, Manohar 35, Natarajan 2-34, Bhuvneshwar 2-37) by eight wickets After starting the season with successive defeats, Sunrisers Hyderabad have turned it around with back-to-back victories. Two days after swamping Chennai Super Kings, Sunrisers’ attack
James Anderson says he has “stopped trying to make sense” of his omission from England’s Test squad for their series defeat against West Indies and that he remains unclear “what the reset thing actually means” after minimal contact from the ECB. Anderson, along with his long-term team-mate and close friend Stuart Broad, was left out
Bangladesh’s captain Mominul Haque has admitted that his team has been out of sorts ever since the first innings of the Durban Test, which the visitors lost by 220 runs. Bangladesh’s poor form with the bat continued into the second Test as well, as they were bowled out for 80 in the fourth innings in
This is the first instance of the Covid substitution protocol being used in international cricket after Covid replacement incidents in the Plunket Shield and County Championship. It is just the second instance of two substitutes for a team in the same match in international cricket – Bangladesh had two concussion subs against India in 2019.
South Africa 453 (Maharaj 84, Elgar 70, Tail 6-135) and 176 for 6 dec. (Erwee 41, Verreynne 39*, Taijul 3-67) beat Bangladesh 217 (Mushfiqur 51, Mulder 3-25, Harmer 3-39) and 80 (Maharaj 7-40, Harmer 3-34) by 332 runs When the Test series will be read about years later, it will say South Africa 2, Bangladesh
In Jackson Bird‘s last Test match for Australia in 2017 he had to bowl 30 overs on a lifeless MCG pitch as Alastair Cook piled up 244 not out across 10 hours of batting. Bird faced Cook for the first time in five years as Kent took on Essex on a highway at Chelmsford in
Big picture So you’re Delhi Daredevils. No, Capitals. Sorry. And you’re facing Kolkata Knight Riders. Oh dear. Aren’t you a team built on your top two batters and a middle-order firebrand? But you’re going to go up against a team which has wicket takers up front, misers through the middle and whatever Pat Cummins is.
As was widely expected, Ramiz Raja‘s proposal for a quadrangular T20 event got no further than a presentation to the ICC board meeting, the board deciding such a tournament could not fit into the next rights cycle. But Ramiz, whose own future at the board is now under a cloud, took some solace from the
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Twelve teams will qualify automatically for the 2024 men’s T20 World Cup, which will be co-hosted by the West Indies and the USA. The qualification process for the two other marquee events, the women’s T20 World Cup in 2024 and the women’s ODI World Cup in 2025, have also been finalised by the ICC, which
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