Month: January 2016

Melbourne Renegades 5 for 176 (White 61, Bravo 47) beat Sydney Thunder 5 for 173 (Khawaja 62, Watson 62, Bravo 2-26) by five wicketsScorecard and ball-by-ball details Cameron White took charge of Melbourne Renegades’ chase with a series of flat sixes down the ground © Getty Images Melbourne Renegades fought back brilliantly to keep their Big Bash League season alive after Sydney Thunder made a flying start at the Sydney…

Mohammad Shahzad has 681 points, which is only three behind New Zealand’s Brendon McCullum © Chris Whiteoak Less than a week ago Afghanistan confirmed their place among the top 10 teams in the world, as rated by the ICC. Now they have a representative each in the top 10 batsmen and bowlers rankings in Twenty20 cricket. Mohammad Shahzad struck 118 off 67 balls last night – the highest score by…

Graham Napier came close to an England cap but it never quite arrived © Getty Images Graham Napier, the Essex allrounder, has announced he will retire at the end of 2016 English season to take up a position running his cricket academy. Napier, 36, made his Essex debut in 1997 and is widely considered a player unlucky not to have earned an England cap in white-ball cricket. The closest he…

Dale Steyn will again be on the sidelines © Getty Images Dale Steyn has been ruled out of the third Test against England at the Wanderers due to the shoulder injury he sustained during the opening match of the series in Durban. There had been encouraging updates about Steyn’s fitness during the Newlands Test but doubts over his recovery came when he was ruled “50-50” at the conclusion of that…

Get set and go: AB de Villiers is poised for his captaincy stinto © Associated Press AB de Villiers‘ ability to inspire will be the most important aspect of his leadership as he takes over South Africa’s Test team, according to his former coach Ray Jennings and team-mates, Paul Harris and Jacques Rudolph. The trio believe de Villiers was the right choice to succeed Hashim Amla and to turn the…

MS Dhoni and Stephen Fleming will be reunited at IPL 2016 after the latter was confirmed as the Pune coach © Hindustan Times via Getty Images Former New Zealand captain Stephen Fleming has been named as head coach of the Pune franchise for the next two seasons of the IPL. The appointment was confirmed in a media release by Sanjeev Goenka, head of New Rising group which owns the franchise….

MS Dhoni and Stephen Fleming will be reunited at IPL 2016 after the latter was confirmed as the Pune coach © Hindustan Times via Getty Images Former New Zealand captain Stephen Fleming has been named as head coach of the Pune franchise for the next two seasons of the IPL. The appointment was confirmed in a media release by Sanjeev Goenka, head of New Rising group which owns the franchise….