West Indies and Pakistan have agreed to play a revised four-match T20 series, Cricket West Indies (CWI) announced on Sunday. The two boards were forced into the alteration to the scheduled tour dates after West Indies’ current ODI series against Australia was rocked by a positive Covid-19 test which saw Thursday’s second match suspended. It
Preview It is not yet clear if Shaw and Suryakumar will be available for the second T20I Big picture Sri Lanka have lost 13 of their last 14 completed matches. Athough this is not India’s main team, they are more experienced in the format than Sri Lanka, and won comfortably on Sunday. So how do
News He was initially appointed only for the Zimbabwe tour, but positive feedback from the players spurred the BCB to extend his stay The BCB has extended former South Africa batter Ashwell Prince‘s contract as batting consultant up to this year’s T20 World Cup. Prince was initially roped in only for Bangladesh’s tour of Zimbabwe,
Report Shimron Hetymer returns for the home side in place of Jason Mohammed West Indies won the toss and decided to bat against Australia Dan Christian will play his first ODI in more than seven years – and his first List A game in four – as one of three changes for Australia in the
News Soumya Sarkar and Shakib Al Hasan are also nursing injuries, while Tamim Iqbal and Mushfiqur Rahim are out of contention Liton Das and Mustafizur Rahman remain the main injury worries for Bangladesh ahead of their T20I series at home against Australia, which begins on August 3, but chief selector Minhajul Abedin expects the two
Australia will need to find a way to combat spin and fit more overs of it into their attack © AFP Big Picture Even though all ODIs in the World Cup Super League now carry the importance of points, it is still good to have a series decider and that’s what’s on offer in Barbados.
News Thirty-one matches will be played across 27 days with Dubai hosting the final on October 15 The remainder of IPL 2021 in the UAE will resume in Dubai on September 19 with MS Dhoni‘s Chennai Super Kings taking on Rohit Sharma‘s Mumbai Indians. The fixtures were unveiled on Sunday, with a total of 31
Kurtis Patterson led the side towards the end of last season © Getty Images Kurtis Patterson has been named New South Wales’ Sheffield Shield captain, taking over permanently from Peter Nevill who held the role for three years. Patterson captained the side at the end of last season when Nevill was absent for the birth
Sri Lanka down India with spin to win by 3 wkts. Avishka Fernando 76, Bhanuka Rajapaksa 65. #SLvIND
Report Captain Dane van Niekerk plays an equally pivotal role with bat and ball Oval Invincibles 132 for 7 (Capsey 59) beat London Spirit 117 for 7 (Knight 40, van Niekerk 3-30) by 15 runs An early feature of the Hundred has been young, uncapped English players making a name for themselves and Alice Capsey
Suryakumar Yadav scored his second T20I fifty against in the 1st T20I against Sri Lanka.© AFP Suryakumar Yadav, with his 360-degree shots, is “amazing” to watch, said India captain Shikhar Dhawan after a crushing 38-run win over Sri Lanka in the first T20 International here on Sunday. Surya scored 50 off 34 balls, his second
Report The hosts field two debutants of their own – middle-order batter Charith Asalanka and allrounder Chamika Karunaratne Toss Sri Lanka chose to bowl vs India Sri Lanka won the toss and chose to bowl first in the first T20I. Captain Dasun Shanaka said he expected the pitch to get better for batting in the
News Postponement of second WI vs Aus ODI has domino effect on Pakistan series Complications due to Covid-19 has cut an entire T20I out of Pakistan’s tour of the West Indies. Set to begin a day later than originally scheduled (July 28), also due to the pandemic, the series will now feature only four T20Is,
News They have been picked as replacements for the injured trio of Shubman Gill, Avesh Khan and Washington Sundar Prithvi Shaw and Suryakumar Yadav are set to join the India Test squad in England for the five-match Pataudi Trophy. It is learned that both Shaw and Yadav, who are currently playing the T20I series in
News Two nights after failing to close out a chase, the teenager delivers under pressure Shamim Hossain, in his second T20I, is under pressure. Three fruitless slogs in the 18th over later, Bangladesh need 25 off 15 balls. The game has wildly swung both ways until this point. Dion Myers had conceded just three off
News The West Indies captain thought Australia should have been held to around 120 West Indies captain Kieron Pollard was left frustrated that his team made things harder than he believes they should have done in the second ODI in Barbados even though they came away with a four-wicket win which sets up a series
Bangladesh have brought in Nasum Ahmed in place of Mahedi Hasan © AFP For the third match in a row, Zimbabwe captain Sikandar Raza has decided to bat first after winning the toss against Bangladesh, in the third T20I against Bangladesh in Harare. The series is locked at 1-1 after the hosts won the second
News CA optimistic Finch, who was ruled out of the remainder of Australia’s West Indies and Bangladesh tours, will be fit in time for the world tournament Aaron Finch could be in a race to be fit for the 2021 T20 World Cup as he faces knee surgery after being ruled out of the remainder
News He has made use of all chances at international level and wants to improve at getting deep in the innings Suryakumar Yadav is only five-innings-old in international cricket. You wouldn’t know that, looking at him bat in any of those games. He’s looked nerve-less, decisive and crisp in his stroke-play, calm and confident in
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Jemimah Rodrigues guided Northern Superchargers to victory with her 92* off 42 balls.© Twitter Indian batter Jemimah Rodrigues slammed 92 off just 43 balls to help Northern Superchargers register a thumping win over Welsh Fire at Headingley in The Hundred on Saturday. While skipper Lauren Winfield Hill, Laura Wolvaardt, and Hollie Armitage struggled to get
Preview The hosts have lost all but one of their last 13 completed T20Is Big picture After snatching rare ODI Super league points against what was arguably a third-string India side, Sri Lanka will now have to deal with some of the best IPL players in this T20I series. And they might have to do
News Matches to be played in Karachi and Lahore, and finish before Australia’s tour of Pakistan The seventh edition of the PSL will be played in Pakistan in a window in January-February next year, the PCB has confirmed after consulting the six franchises. The tournament is expected to start in early January and continue till
News He has been in terrific form in the IPL since 2019 and yet may not find a spot in India’s first-choice T20I XI right now Shikhar Dhawan has added a new gear to his T20 batting, as evidenced by his returns in the IPL, particularly since the middle of the 2019 season. In IPL
News The WI-Aus ODIs were rescheduled after a non-playing member from the WI camp had tested positive The BCB is prepared to handle a delay for their home T20I series against Australia after the West Indies-Australia ODIs were rescheduled. The second ODI between West Indies and Australia was postponed moments before the first ball after
Report No Quinton de Kock, Tabraiz Shamsi and Lungi Ngidi for visitors; hosts replace Josh Little with Barry McCarthy South Africa chose to bat vs Ireland A new-look South Africa XI has been chosen to close out their winter tour and the T20I series against Ireland, which the visitors have won already. The visitors made
News ESPNcricinfo understands that the venues in the UAE were rendered unavailable because of the IPL The three-match ODI series between Pakistan and Afghanistan will be played at the Mahinda Rajapaksa Stadium in Hambantota, Sri Lanka instead of in the UAE, as originally planned. The series, which is the first bilateral contest between the two
News The three had to isolate after training assistant Dayanand Garani tested positive for Covid-19 Bowling coach Bharat Arun, wicketkeeper Wriddhiman Saha, and reserve batter Abhimanyu Easwaran rejoined the Indian squad in Durham on Saturday – and even took part in a training session – after completing a ten-day quarantine in accordance with the UK’s
Preview If fit, Mustafizur Rahman and Liton Das could come back to the visitors’ playing XI for the decider Big picture It is rather apt that a series that has had almost every shade of drama possible, including a touch of the inexplicable when, in Friday’s game, there was the hit-wicket-that-wasn’t, should have a finale
Avishka Fernando laces it through the off side © AFP/Getty Images A minor technical change and a more sophisticated approach through the middle overs helped Avishka Fernando finish as highest run-scorer in the series against India. This is what the Player of the third ODI said, after his 76 off 98 balls helped set up