News Becomes only fourth Pakistan player to attain top ranking, after Zaheer Abbas, Javed Miandad and Mohammad Yousuf Pakistan captain Babar Azam is now the No.1-ranked ODI batsman, ending India captain Virat Kohli‘s long reign at the top of the charts. Babar’s match-winning 82-ball 94 in the third ODI against South Africa helped him gain
Rohit Sharma played a crucial knock of 43 runs against Kolkata Knight Riders on Tuesday.© BCCI/IPL A pleased Mumbai Indians skipper Rohit Sharma lauded his team for an “excellent fightback” against Kolkata Knight Riders, saying that one doesn’t get to see these kind of tantalisingly close games. Mumbai Indians came back strongly in the last
Big picture Match one went down to the penultimate ball. Match two was as one-sided as they come. What are these two teams really about? South Africa have been rebuilding for much of the last six years and still don’t seem to have much beyond the outlines of a foundation. They know they have a
News Tour games between English first-class teams and New Zealand, Sri Lanka and Pakistan also scrapped India A’s tour of England this summer, which would’ve seen them play against both India and England Lions, has been postponed. Instead, the BCCI will send an inflated squad to “prepare for, and use during” India’s five-Test series against
News Lancashire consider options to sign another overseas player after Australia seamer is told to rest Jackson Bird has a bulging disk in his neck and has been ordered to rest for a month, ruling him out of his planned County Championship stint with Lancashire. Bird, the Australia seamer who has 414 wickets from 99
News Ongoing elbow problem will be assessed once fast bowler returns to nets, ECB says Jofra Archer has been cleared to resume training after undergoing surgery to remove a glass fragment from his hand. Archer, missing from Rajasthan Royals’ side for the start of the IPL because of the operation to fix an injury he
News The players have undergone another round of testing, the results of which will be available later on Tuesday Five members of the touring South Africa Emerging Women’s side have tested positive for Covid-19 in Sylhet late on Monday before they left for Dhaka. The players have undergone another round of testing, the results of
Among the many things Covid-19 did to Australian cricket was finally provide an answer to questions about how state teams might perform if asked to depart from the formulas they have honed over generations of playing games on extremely familiar home ground pitches. For some, it was not so well: deprived of Bellerive Oval’s seaming
News Amelia Kerr, Devon Conway also pick up top honours at the New Zealand Cricket Awards New Zealand captain Kane Williamson has been awarded the Sir Richard Hadlee medal for the fourth time in six years, while women’s allrounder Amelia Kerr and rising star Devon Conway also claimed top honours at the New Zealand Cricket
IPL Points Table: Punjab Kings entered the top four with a four-run win over Rajasthan Royals.© Instagram Punjab Kings held their nerves in a nail-biting finish against Rajasthan Royals at the Wankhede stadium in Mumbai to begin their Indian Premier League (IPL) 2021 campaign with a win. Rajasthan skipper Sanju Samson hit a brilliant century
Amidst the current panic about over rates and T20 matches extending beyond four hours, the second T20I between South Africa and Pakistan was over well within three. And yet, despite it’s brevity, it’s difficult to imagine George Linde will play another international match that provides as much gratification as this one did. Not only did
News Both he and his deputy Kishore Shallow were elected unopposed Ricky Skerritt has been officially elected for a second term as president of Cricket West Indies. Skerritt and his deputy Kishore Shallow were elected unopposed at CWI’s annual general meeting, held virtually, on April 11. The fresh two-year term will last until March 2023.
Report Mohammad Hasnain replaces Haris Rauf in the second change for the visiting side Toss Pakistan chose to bat vs South Africa Both South Africa and Pakistan wanted to bat first at the Wanderers and the hosts initially thought they had won the right to it when match referee Andy Pycroft said the coin had
News The franchise is looking at Pollard as their sixth bowling option Hardik Pandya did not bowl in the IPL 2021 opener against the Royal Challengers Bangalore because of his workload management, and Kieron Pollard will be Mumbai Indians’ sixth bowling option, according to their director of cricket operations Zaheer Khan. Hardik’s bowling – or
Kolkata Knight Riders captain Eoin Morgan on Sunday said that his side couldn’t have asked for a better start in their IPL campaign as they beat Sunrisers Hyderabad by 10 runs, on Sunday. KKR notched up an easy win against SRH, riding on opener Nitish Rana (80) and Rahul Tripathi’s (53) fluent half-centuries after being
Preview The visiting side won the first T20I despite not being at their best, which will give them added confidence Big picture It’s difficult to establish whether the nail-biting nature of the first T20I was about as good as this hollowed South African unit can produce, or the harbinger of a tremendously competitive T20I series.
News Dr Saleem had tendered his resignation last month, only for it to be accepted now The PCB has decided to release the head of its Medical Department Dr Sohail Saleem, officially accepting his resignation, which had been tendered on March 5 in the wake of the PSL’s postponement last month. The PCB believes there
News Team director admits Archer’s fitness issues had tempted Royals to consider their options ahead of the IPL auction in February Rajasthan Royals will take a long-term view on Jofra Archer‘s fitness – for England as well as for the franchise – and not seek to rush him back to action simply to fulfil his
News The visitors plan to return on Monday before a stricter lockdown is imposed in Bangladesh South Africa Emerging Women’s tour of Bangladesh has been cut short by one game after the visitors decided to leave the country on April 12 before a stricter lockdown is enforced from April 14, which was their originally-scheduled departure
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News The season was curtailed last month after an outbreak of Covid-19 among a number of players The PCB will outsource the management of its bio-security protocols to an international firm when the sixth season of the PSL resumes in June. The dates for the resumption have now been finalised, with the league restarting on
News Sangakkara’s advice for India’s T20 World Cup hopefuls is to ‘focus on the IPL’ While Rajasthan Royals’ new captain Sanju Samson believes their batting order will see “bit more stability” in IPL 2021, their team director Kumar Sangakkara, however, said they would still want to keep their options open before finalising the first-choice pair
News ‘The situation we find ourselves in, we have to take up this challenge and get a good result in Sri Lanka’ Bangladesh are expecting a ‘competitive’ series when they travel to Sri Lanka for a two-match Test series, and the captain Mominul Haque is hoping the team rises up to the challenge to get
News The New Zealand offspinner took all the pace off the ball during a spell that included three wickets in an over Australia’s depth and confidence again shone through as they secured a 3-0 ODI series victory over New Zealand, to keep their record run going, but there was a glimpse at a potential weakness
IPL 2021: Shardul Thakur gave away 53 runs in 3.4 overs against Delhi Capitals on Saturday.© BCCI/IPL Chennai Super Kings started their Indian Premier League (IPL) 2021 campaign with a seven wicket loss to Delhi Capitals at the Wankhede stadium in Mumbai on Saturday. Despite putting up a total of 188/7 from their allotted 20
Report The home side has handed maiden caps to Wihan Lubbe, Sisanda Magala and Lizaad Williams Toss South Africa opt to bat vs Pakistan South Africa captain Heinrich Klaasen opted to bat first after winning the toss in the first ODI against Pakistan in Johannesburg on Saturday, and have named three debutants for the game:
At a time when the vast majority of people have not seen others regularly, one person has overstayed his welcome over the last three months from the South African point of view. With two hundreds, two fifties, and two forties in nine innings, and a T20I average of 135.50 in 2021, Mohammad Rizwan has been
Big picture Eoin Morgan is in his first season as full-time captain of an IPL team. When he takes the field on Sunday in Chennai, he will not just square off against David Warner‘s Sunrisers Hyderabad, but also against Trevor Bayliss, a close confidante who helped Morgan plot England’s white-ball renaissance, which culminated in their
No surprises that the Player of the Match was the explosive Dan Christian! Christian was instrumental firstly with the bat, and lastly with the ball, in the Sixers’ impressive win over the Strikers.
Follow the latest from the England v Australia ODI series at: https://www.ecb.co.uk/england/men Jos Buttler made an amazing 110 to give England a narrow victory in the fifth one-day international and a first 5-0 whitewash over Australia. Despite only chasing 206 runs, England were 114-8 when Buttler was joined by Adil Rashid for a stand of