IPL 2021: Chris Morris climbed to second on bowling chart after his four-wicket spell.© Twitter Rajasthan Royals got back to the winning ways after beating Kolkata Knight Riders by six wickets at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai on Saturday. Before the game, both teams were languishing at the bottom of the points table but RR
Day 1 Highlights | Sri Lanka v Bangladesh, 1st Test 2021
News Coach backs legspinner Hasaranga to give Bangladesh tough time in fourth innings Sri Lanka are still 29 runs behind Bangladesh’s first-innings total, but they think – or rather they hope – that they can still win the first Test, with one day left to play. The Pallekele surface continued to be abominably flat through
News Joint letter signed by staff including Graeme Smith, as crisis looms for national body Cricket South Africa’s staff have warned of more than 1,000 job losses if their organisation is derecognised by the country’s sports ministry, and have asked the Members’ Council and Inteirm Board to hold a “meeting of minds” to save the
Big picture It was about time the chickens would come home to roost on Pakistan’s middle order, but the manner of that reckoning was so grave even those predicting it were taken aback. A first-ever T20I loss to Zimbabwe, and the fourth-lowest total defended against a Full Member saw Pakistan bowled out for 99 in
The aggregate batting average on this Pallekele pitch can only be compared to the 1997 Test at the R Premadasa Stadium, in which Sri Lanka posted a world-record 952 for 6. After seeing his bowlers suffer for three days, Sachin Tendulkar called it unfit for Test cricket. Depending on how much more is scored in
News Kumara’s exit leaves Sri Lanka with only three frontline bowlers for the second innings Seamer Lahiru Kumara will not bowl again in the ongoing series against Bangladesh after picking up a hamstring injury while fielding on day three, in Pallekele. MRI scans on Friday evening confirmed the presence of the injury. He had bowled
News The board could well be stripped of its status as the game’s governing body in the country if the minister does intervene Cricket South Africa is on the verge of being stripped of its status as the game’s governing body in the country, with the sports minister preparing to intervene in the ongoing crisis
Report The pair put on 141 for the unbroken fourth wicket, as Karunaratne reached his 11th Test ton Sri Lanka 331 for 3 (Karunaratne 139*, Thirimanne 74*) trail Bangladesh 541 for 7 by 210 runs Dimuth Karunaratne reached his 11th Test century as Sri Lanka had a near-perfect session on the fourth morning. They are
News Franchise currently bottom amid injury and absence of three England squad members Rassie van der Dussen, the South Africa batsman, is expected to join the Rajasthan Royals for the 2021 IPL season, as a reinforcement for the England pair of Ben Stokes and Liam Livingstone, who have both withdrawn from this year’s tournament. It
News Trevor Hohns knows that those players also involved in the T20 World Cup will get very little red-ball preparation Australia’s national selector Trevor Hohns has admitted to being “very concerned” about the lack of Test cricket the team will play ahead of the Ashes next season. With the tour of South Africa last month
Sri Lanka captain Dimuth Karunaratne led his side’s bid to match Bangladesh’s mammoth score on a third day of batting domination in the first Test between the two nations on Friday. Karunaratne built an unbeaten 85 as Sri Lanka moved to 229 for three at the close, still needing 112 to avoid the follow-on after
News Will there be no South Africa in international cricket? If yes, why? Is there no way things can change? South Africa’s sports minister Nathi Mthethwa is on the verge of derecognising Cricket South Africa (CSA), and if that happens, CSA will not be the body that officially runs cricket in the country. That is
Babar Azam walks off the pitch after being dismissed by Blessing Muzarabani © AFP/Getty Images Pakistan’s struggles with middle order were laid bare in Harare on Friday as the team slumped to a 19-run defeat, with Zimbabwe bowling them out for 99. Wobbles in the middle order had been a worry for much of Pakistan’s
News Archer has been training with Sussex at Hove as he works his way back to fitness England fast bowler Jofra Archer will not be available for the Rajasthan Royals in the 2021 IPL. The decision was taken on Friday by the ECB who said Archer would be “stepping up” his training intensity after spending
News Full Members outside the WTC have been pushing for a more formalised “second division” for the WTC An enhanced structure for more multi-day cricket for Full Members outside the World Test Championship (WTC) and Associates could be a possibility in the next cricket calendar. Though the discussions, which took place last week at the
Report Pakistan replaced Haider Ali with Asif Ali, while Zimbabwe were also without Craig Ervine Pakistan choose to bowl vs Zimbabwe Zimbabwe will have to chase in an attempt to stay alive in the three-match T20I series against Pakistan after Babar Azam chose to bowl with a debutant seamer. Twenty-year old Arshad Iqbal will play
Mushfiqur Rahim’s steady fifty carried Bangladesh past 500 © AFP/Getty Images Bangladesh 541 for 7 dec (Shanto 163, Mominul 127, Tamim 90, Mushfiqur 68*, Das 50, Fernando 4-96) v Sri Lanka Bangladesh declared 90 minutes into the first session of the third day at 541-7. Mushfiqur Rahim was unbeaten on 68 as the visitors batted
Travis Head and Matthew Wade have lost their Cricket Australia contracts while allrounder Cameron Green has earned his first deal though Will Pucovski has not been included. Joe Burns, who lost his place during the series against India, and Mitchell Marsh have also been cut from last year’s original list with just 17 deals handed
IPL 2021: Devdutt Padikkal scored 101 off 52 deliveries against Rajasthan Royals.© BCCI/IPL After scoring his maiden IPL century, Royal Challengers Bangalore batsman Devdutt Padikkal said he was keen to contribute to the team’s win after he missed the first game of the ongoing Indian Premier League (IPL) season due to COVID-19. Padikkal had contracted
Dasun Shanaka scored his maiden half-century contributing massively to Sri Lanka’s score of 306-7 and when South Africa began their run chase for 191 of 21 overs played crucial roles on the field to restrict them to 187-9 to give Sri Lanka an exciting three-run win. ???? Follow on: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/srilankacricket Twitter: https://twitter.com/officialslc Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/officialslc
There wasn’t much for the Sri Lankans to be happy about, but they found their reasons © AFP/Getty Images Upon realising that the Pallekele surface was offering little to the quicks and even less to spinners in the early part of this Test, Sri Lanka changed their bowling strategy. Where they had begun the Test
Preview Zimbabwe may have squandered their best chance to hit Pakistan hard, losing the first game mainly because of lapses in the field Big picture Harare threw up a fun T20I contest in the first game, though both Zimbabwe and Pakistan were far from pleased with how things unfolded. Zimbabwe captain Sean Williams termed his
Report The pair added 226 runs for their unbroken third-wicket stand, having batted together for 79.3 overs Bangladesh 378 for 2 (Shanto 155*, Mominul 107*, Fernando 2-75) vs Sri Lanka Bangladesh completed four achievements by lunch on the second day against Sri Lanka. They moved to 378 for 2 in an otherwise circumspect session in
News The England and Rajasthan Royals batter has spent much of the last ten months moving in and out of biosecure environments Liam Livingstone, the England and Rajasthan Royals batter, has opted to return home early from the IPL, citing “bubble fatigue” after spending much of the last ten months moving in and out of
Faf du Plessis’ magnificent 95 not out and Deepak Chahar’s impressive four-wicket haul outshone dazzling half-centuries from Andre Russell and Pat Cummins as Chennai Super Kings beat Kolkata Knight Riders by 18 runs in their IPL match, on Wednesday. Put in to bat, CSK posted a big total of 220 for 3, riding on du
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News Allrounder feared he had cancer until tests came back negative, but his recovery is still expected to take several weeks Sikandar Raza will be out of action for an indefinite period after suffering an infection on his bone marrow, which was suspected to be cancerous at one stage. Following surgery on April 2 to
News Fakhar Zaman jumps 17 slots, Mohammad Rizwan reaches 15h position Pakistan captain Babar Azam has moved up by a place to second spot in the ICC men’s rankings for T20I batters. Azam’s record-breaking 122 off 59 balls against South Africa in the third T20I saw him gain 47 points to displace Australia’s Aaron Finch
News Former England batsman returns to club where he forged memorable career Jonathan Trott has returned to Warwickshire as a batting consultant for the men’s squad. Trott, who retired in 2018 with a haul of 18,662 first-class runs and more than 12,000 more in List A and T20 cricket, performed a similar role for England