News The batter has a grade one strain and will look to return to action next week Ross Taylor has been diagnosed with a grade one calf strain after he limped out of New Zealand’s first training session ahead of their departure for England with a calf injury.* He was batting in the marquee that
Report Bangladesh lose their last seven wickets for 37 to fall behind by a long way Sri Lanka 493 for 7 dec (Thirimanne 140, Karunaratne 118, Taskin 4-127) and 17 for 2 lead Bangladesh 251 all out (Tamim 92, Mominul 49, Jayawickrama 6-92) by 259 runs Praveen Jayawickrama‘s six-wicket haul shaped Sri Lanka’s ascendancy over
Pakistan 374 for 6 (Fawad 108*, Butt 91, Abid 60) lead Zimbabwe 176 by 198 runs This might not have been the best advert for Test cricket, but it is precisely days like these Fawad Alam has come to relish. With Pakistan needing to press home an advantage following an under-par Zimbabwe first-innings total, the
Pakistan 426 (Fawad 140, Butt 91, Abid 60, Muzarabani 4-73) beat Zimbabwe 176 (Kaia 48, Afridi 4-43, Hasan 4-53) and 134 (Musakanda 43, Hasan 5-36) by an innings and 116 runs Hasan Ali joined Shaheen Afridi in the 50 Test-wicket club as he wrapped up Zimbabwe’s lower order inside half an hour after tea on
A day after IPL 2021 had to be postponed because of the Covid-19 situation, all eight franchises started to disband, with their players and support staff trying to find a way back home quickly. Most of the players from England have reached the UK. Most of the Australians, the biggest overseas contingent in the IPL
Marylebone Cricket Club has responded to criticism from leading female cricketers, including Heather Knight, the current England captain, after a report in The Times claimed that a proposal to erect a permanent memorial to one of the sport’s most pioneering figures, Rachael Heyhoe-Flint, had been met with resistance from sections of the club’s 18,500 male-dominated
News The New Zealand cricketer failed both his pre-departure tests, and “is experiencing moderate symptoms” New Zealand’s Tim Seifert, who was part of the Kolkata Knight Riders squad at the curtailed 2021 edition of the IPL, has tested positive for Covid-19. As a result, he will not be on the charter flight with his fellow
IPL 2021: Kane Williamson replaces David Warner as SRH captain this year© BCCI/IPL Kane Williamson and three other New Zealanders on Friday flew to Maldives in a departure from their original plan, as they were not feeling comfortable staying in COVID-19 hotspot Delhi. Sunrisers Hyderabad captain Williamson, Chennai Super King’s Mitchell Santer and Royal Challenger
News The selectors are expected to pick an enlarged squad with enough reserves to cater for any contingency The Indian squads for both the World Test Championship final and the five-Test England series are set to be picked over the weekend. It is understood that the Virat Kohli-lead Indian squad is likely to depart for
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Report Allrounder Luke Jongwe makes his debut for Zimbabwe in the second Test Toss Pakistan opt to bowl vs Zimbabwe Pakistan have won the toss and elected to bat in the second Test against Zimbabwe in Harare. The visitors will look to make amends for the last time they played a series in Zimbabwe, when
Only 14 matches of the 2021 season of the PSL could be completed before it was postponed © Pakistan Super League The PCB has formally approached the Emirates Cricket Board (ECB) to host the remaining games of the rescheduled 2021 edition of the Pakistan Super League (PSL) in the UAE. The earlier plan was to
News KL Rahul and Wriddhiman Saha were picked subject to “fitness clearance” There was no Hardik Pandya or Kuldeep Yadav as India named a squad of 20 players, including two – KL Rahul and Wriddhiman Saha – subject to “fitness clearance”, as well as four standby players for the final of the World Test Championship
News ‘Things have been very tough for India…and it really pains us to see our country suffer like this,’ they said India captain Virat Kohli and his wife, actor Anushka Sharma, have donated INR 2 crore (US$ 2,70,000 approx.) towards a fundraising campaign to aid India’s Covid-19 relief. “Things have been very tough for India,
The India A regulars like Abhimanyu Easwaran and Priyank Panchal will be in contention along with rookie sensation Devdutt Padikkal when the selectors on Friday pick a 30-strong India squad for the four-month trip to United Kingdom. The Indian team is scheduled to play the World Test Championship final against New Zealand at Southampton from
News After returning a negative test in Bengaluru, she has not been able to visit her family in Kadur India Women batter Veda Krishnamurthy, whose mother died of Covid-19 on April 23, has been bereaved a second time in a fortnight with her elder sister succumbing to complications caused by the virus on Wednesday. Krishnamurthy’s
News MCC, Surrey, Warwickshire and Emirates Old Trafford part of group; existing schedules remain a challenge A group of English counties has offered to host the remainder of the IPL 2021 season in September this year. The MCC (who own Lord’s), Surrey (who are based at The Kia Oval), Warwickshire (who are based in Birmingham)
News In all, eighteen women players have been offered deals, an increase of three from the last season Qiana Joseph and the uncapped Kaysia Schultz have received their first West Indies central contracts, for the 2021-22 season. Shawnisha Hector, who has played just a solitary international – an ODI against India in 2019 – also
Big picture Test cricket is perhaps the format where Pakistan’s progress is most discernible. There is a stability about the side which is lacking in the other formats, with the results beginning to show something of an uptick of late. Performances against Zimbabwe may not appease the critics but remain vital, because an upset would
News Analysis Late September and late November are the primary options that the BCCI can explore On Thursday, BCCI president Sourav Ganguly suggested that the 2021 IPL could be completed in a window just prior to the men’s T20 World Cup. That was the first public hint of the windows the BCCI is looking at
News Proposal for statue or gate in memory of female pioneer met with resistance from members Heather Knight, the England women’s captain, has called on MCC to “move with the times”, after a proposal to erect a permanent memorial to one of cricket’s most pioneering figures, Rachael Heyhoe Flint, was met with resistance from sections
Trent Boult will certainly miss the first Test against England next month © Getty Images Trent Boult will return to New Zealand after the aborted IPL instead of heading straight to England with the other Test players and could miss the two-match series although will still be available for the World Test Championship final against
Cricket West Indies (CWI) on Wednesday confirmed the international retainer contracts for the West Indies Men’s Team for the 2021-2022 season. A total of 18 players have been offered contracts for the upcoming 2021-22 season which runs from July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2022. For the first time Nkrumah Bonner, Joshua Da Silva, Akeal
News Reports said MacGill was allegedly abducted from near his home in Sydney on April 14 Australian police arrested four men in dawn raids on Wednesday in connection with the alleged kidnap and assault of former Test cricketer Stuart MacGill. Reports said MacGill, 50, was allegedly abducted from near his home in Sydney on April
Find out more at ecb.co.uk England lost to Pakistan by 75 runs after they were bowled out for 207 at Lord’s in the First Investec Test. Chasing 283, which would have been an England record at Lord’s, the hosts lost early wickets and despite a stubborn 56-run stand between Jonny Bairstow and Chris Woakes fell
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News New Zealand batter signs for nine T20 Blast games, two County Championship fixtures Somerset have signed Devon Conway as an overseas player for the second half of the T20 Blast’s group stage. Conway appeared for the county’s second XI as an unknown South African in 2010, when he was spending the summer playing club
News Roston Chase, Shimron Hetmyer, Sheldon Cottrell and Oshane Thomas cut from the list Kyle Mayers and Nkrumah Bonner, who helped West Indies secure the fifth-highest successful chase in Test history in Chattogram in February earlier this year and then were also impressive during the home Test series against Sri Lanka, have been rewarded with
News Dimuth Karunaratne has edged closer to a top-ten spot following his 118 and 66 in second Test against Bangladesh Praveen Jayawickrama‘s 11 for 178 in Sri Lanka’s 209-run win over Bangladesh in their second Test in Pallekele has helped him enter the ICC Test bowlers’ rankings at No. 48. Sri Lanka captain Dimuth Karunaratne,
Big picture Fortunes couldn’t be any different for the Sunrisers Hyderabad and the Mumbai Indians at the moment. After suffering five defeats in six matches, the Sunrisers axed their captain David Warner, hoping a new leader would help change their fortunes. It brought them little respite, as Kane Williamson couldn’t prevent what would be a