News West Indies allrounder available for entire 2022 campaign, having helped Bears to quarter-finals last season Carlos Brathwaite will return to Birmingham Bears as the team’s overseas T20 player and captain for next year’s Vitality Blast. Brathwaite, the West Indies allrounder who has previously captained his country in T20Is and the Patriots in the CPL,
News “As a South African cricket side, we have been put under immense pressure around this whole topic” Temba Bavuma has called for South African cricket to take a “collective” decision on how it will approach anti-racism gestures going forward, and said the pressure mounted on the team to take a knee is “sometimes a
News So far, Maxwell has scores of 18, 5, 6, and two 0 not outs in the World Cup but he is “not fazed by lack of time in the middle” Glenn Maxwell is happy to be a bit-part player in the World Cup semi-final if it means Australia goes on to claim their maiden
News New Zealand captain trying to find a balance to manage the problem better New Zealand captain Kane Williamson has found it challenging to refrain himself from over-hitting at the nets and instead keep himself fresh for the matches. Williamson’s elbow injury flared up during the warm-ups in the lead-up to the T20 World Cup and
Report Rohit sealed a small chase with a fifty, after Jadeja and Ashwin took three wickets apiece India 136 for 1 (Rohit 56, Rahul 54*) beat Namibia 132 for 8 (Wiese 26, Ashwin 3-20, Jadeja 3-16) by nine wickets India signed off from the T20 World Cup on a winning note after restricting Namibia to
Australia quick Shaun Tait produced an awesome spell of fast bowling in the T20 against Pakistan at the MCG in 2010, clocking 160kph on his way to three wickets and the Player of the Match performance
News Series will mark Australia’s return to the country for the first time since 1998 Australia are set to tour Pakistan for the first time in over 24 years, in March 2022. This frees up a window in February for Pakistan to host the PSL. The series will comprise of three Tests, three ODIs and
News Seventeen of the 18 members from the World Cup squad retained Pakistan have recalled batting allrounder Iftikhar Ahmed for upcoming three-match T20I series in Bangladesh. The selectors have retained 17 of the 18 players part of the ongoing T20 World Cup, with Mohammad Hafeez missing out after he requested to be left out to
News “Haven’t heard anything spoken about it, I’m not sure anything from that game will come into it.” England vs New Zealand in a World Cup: here we go again. In 2019, nothing but boundary countback separated the two sides in the 50-over World Cup final at Lord’s as England snatched the title. Two years
Ravi Shastri signed off from his four-and-a-half-year tenure as India’s men’s head coach as an “emotional, but a very proud man”, labelling his side “one of the great cricket teams in the history of the game” and underlining the toll that non-stop touring in biosecure conditions had taken on him and his players. Since his
News Scans on Sunday confirmed he would be unable to recover for the knockout stages Jason Roy has been ruled out of the rest of England’s T20 World Cup campaign with a torn left calf. He has been replaced in the squad by James Vince, who was one of two remaining travelling reserves along with
News He provided a timely reminder of his red-ball credentials with a Test summer looming Lutho Sipamla was one of three bowlers to pick up a six-for in the match as Lions beat Warriors by an innings and 20 runs to move to the top of the first-class points table. Sipamla took 6 for 34
News Two-member panel expected to speak to squad members, coaching staff, board officials, and even members of the media The BCB has formed a two-member committee to review Bangladesh’s dismal performance at the T20 World Cup. Directors Jalal Yunus and Enayet Hossain are the members of this committee – they have not been given a
Virat Kohli on Monday said that it was the right time for him to relinquish T20 International captaincy so as to manage his workload after India failed to qualify for the T20 World Cup semifinals in a disappointing campaign. India beat minnows Namibia by nine wickets, courtesy half centuries from Rohit Sharma (56) and KL
News ECB chief to meet with Ramiz Raja in advance of England’s Test tour in 2022 Tom Harrison, the ECB chief executive, has flown to Pakistan to repair the board’s damaged relationships with their PCB counterparts, and to discuss future tours. Now Harrison has flown in to assure Ramiz Raja, the new chairman of the
News Virat Kohli and Ravi Shastri tip the multiple-time IPL winner to take the reins as they sign off India’s selectors have not yet sat down with new coach Rahul Dravid to decide who the next T20I captain should be but the outgoing captain and coach have made an endorsement for Rohit Sharma. Virat Kohli
News England allrounder praises Azeem Rafiq for encouraging others to share experiences Moeen Ali hopes that the short-term pain of the racism crisis at Yorkshire can have long-term benefits for the whole of English cricket, as he welcomed the chance for the sport to embrace true diversity and “open up those avenues for everybody”. Speaking
Report Hayley Matthews chipped in with a fifty and three wickets as Pakistan fell 46 runs short of their target West Indies 253 for 8 (Dottin 132, Matthews 57, Amin 5-35) beat Pakistan 208 for 9 (Riaz 46, Matthews 3-31) by 46 runs A 146-ball 132 from Deandra Dottin and an all-round display from Hayley
News The pace bowler how has 15 wickets in two Sheffield Shield matches this season Last week, Victoria coach Chris Rogers said he wouldn’t swap Scott Boland “for just about anyone”. After a match-winning display against New South Wales at the MCG, the caveat is perhaps not needed. There wasn’t really much talk around Boland
News If he takes up the job, Laxman will have to give up the role of Sunrisers Hyderabad mentor, as well as that of commentator and analyst The BCCI is looking at VVS Laxman as its favoured candidate to head the National Cricket Academy (NCA) in Bangalore, following Rahul Dravid‘s elevation as head coach of
In his first Test as skipper, Virat Kohli led India’s response to Australia’s mammoth first innings with a hundred at Adelaide Oval
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News Analysis They bounced back impressively from the England drubbing, helped by reverting to their initial balance of team A week ago, Australia’s T20 World Cup campaign could have come off the rails. Hammered by England, progression was taken out of their hands even with wins in the final two group matches. However, by the
News Captain wants his side to build on experience for next T20 World Cup Kyle Coetzer has called upon Cricket Scotland to be “bold and brave” in order to “push our whole organisation forward” after his side’s T20 World Cup campaign ended with heavy defeats against India and Pakistan. Scotland defied the odds to qualify
News The legspinner returned to competitive cricket for the first since April having taken time to manage her mental health New Zealand allrounder Amelia Kerr has made a prolific return to action, after taking time away from the game to manage her mental health, with consecutive five-wicket hauls over the weekend. Legspinner Kerr claimed 5
News India’s outgoing bowling coach looks back at his stint Bharat Arun is set to bow out as India’s bowling coach when the team’s T20 World Cup campaign ends on Monday, and he reckons India’s success in overseas Tests over the last two years has been the highlight of his work with the team. The
Designated captain Javeria Khan, pacer Diana Baig and spin-bowling allrounder Nida Dar has been ruled out of Pakistan’s first ODI against West Indies scheduled for Monday, hindering their preparations ahead of the 2022 ODI World Cup global Qualifier slated to take place in Zimbabwe from November 21. In Javeria’s absence, Sidra Nawaz has been named
Babar Azam praised his teammates after Pakistan’s fifth straight win in the T20 World Cup.© AFP Pakistan captain Babar Azam on Sunday said their aim in the T20 World Cup semifinals is to maintain the remarkable momentum of the group stage where they were the only undefeated side. Pakistan beat Scotland by 72 runs for
Pakistan 189 for 4 (Babar 66, Malik 54*) beat Scotland 117 for 6 (Berrington 54*, Shadab 2-14) by 72 runs Like he has done all through the tournament, Babar Azam set anchor and scored his fourth half-century of the competition while other batters rallied around him to lift Pakistan to their fifth win of the
Report Southee-Boult strike with the ball, Williamson-Conway see the chase through as New Zealand enter semifinals New Zealand 125 for 2 (Williamson 40*, Conway 36*) beat Afghanistan 124 for 8 (Najibullah 73, Boult 3-17, Southee 2-24) by eight wickets New Zealand were clinical. As they have now made the semi finals of four World Cups