Month: October 2016

Jeevan Mendis is heading for Derbyshire © BCCI Jeevan Mendis, Sri Lanka’s experienced legspinning allrounder, has signed for Derbyshire for the first half of the 2017 season. Mendis’ arrival continues the emphasis on legspin for next season with Mendis due to be replaced after the ICC Champions Trophy at the end of June by South Africxa’s experience leggie Imran Tahir. He will feature in the first-half of the Specsavers County…

Stumps Sri Lanka 317 for 4 (Tharanga 13*, de Silva 10*) v ZimbabweScorecard and ball-by-ball details Kusal Perera smashed 15 fours and two sixes in his 121-ball 110 © AFP Kusal Perera preyed on a sub-par bowling effort, a docile Harare surface and sloppy fielding to hammer his maiden Test ton, a 121-ball 110, as Sri Lanka racked up 316 for 4 against Zimbabwe on the first day. Perera, batting…

India 269 for 6 (Rohit 70, Kohli 65) beat New Zealand 79 (Mishra 5-18, Axar 2-9) by 190 runsScorecard and ball-by-ball details Amit Mishra picked up his second five-wicket haul in ODIs as New Zealand crashed to 79 all out © Associated Press Choosing to bat first and picking three frontline spinners on a slow turner, India overwhelmed New Zealand by 190 runs in the deciding fifth ODI in Visakhapatnam,…

Joe Root is feeling under the weather © AFP England are facing an anxious wait to see if Joe Root will be able to take any further part in the second Test against Bangladesh in Dhaka. Root was forced off the pitch during the evening session of day two after complaining of an upset stomach. He was subsequently isolated from the rest of the squad to limit any chance of…

Misbah-ul-Haq and Younis Khan watch Asad Shafiq take a catch during practice © AFP Pakistan have already won the series against West Indies but their captain Misbah-ul-Haq has all but said that there are no dead rubbers in Test cricket. Victory in Sharjah will mean Pakistan have won all nine matches across formats, something no team has achieved before, after 3-0 wins in the ODIs and T20Is during West Indies’…

File photo – Stuart Binny struck 17 fours and three sixes in his first century this season © Getty Images Stuart Binny’s ninth first-class century – a 158-ball 156 – gave Karnataka an opportunity to push for full points after they took a 245-run lead over Assam at the Bandra Kurla Complex ground in Mumbai. Assam went to stumps on 48 for 1, with Gokul Sharma, the captain, and Rahul…

File photo – Yuvraj Singh scored his second century of the season © ESPNcricinfo Ltd Manan Vohra scored his first double-century and put on an unbroken stand of 314 runs with Yuvraj Singh to bring Punjab within 77 runs of Baroda‘s first innings total of 529 in Feroz Shah Kotla. They ended the day on 452 for 2. 529. In the morning, Vohra and Uday Kaul (42) added 17 runs…

Lunch Sri Lanka 91 for 0 (Silva 49*, Karunaratne 42*) v ZimbabweLive scorecard and ball-by-ball details Kaushal Silva struck eight boundaries in his unbeaten 49 © Associated Press Sri Lanka’s openers may have worn the widest smiles on their journey to Zimbabwe. In their home series against Australia, Sri Lanka’s opening stands amounted to 27 in six innings, an average of 4.5. In their first Test since that series, Dimuth…

File photo – Paras Dogra scored his 20th first-class fifty © ESPNcricinfo Ltd Fifties from Paras Dogra (57) and Robin Bist (50 not out) helped Himachal Pradesh rebound from their dismal first-innings score of 36 to take a 142-run lead over Hyderabad on the third day in Guwahati. Himachal scored 232 for 6 in their second innings, having dismissed Hyderabad for 126 earlier in the day. Hyderabad resumed from 99…

50 overs: India 269 for 6 (Rohit 70, Kohli 65) v New ZealandLive scorecard and ball-by-ball details Rohit Sharma gave India early impetus by scoring 70 off 65 balls © Associated Press On a slow pitch where boundaries were hard to come by, India set New Zealand a target of 270 thanks to half-centuries from Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli and the slog-overs enterprise of Kedar Jadhav and Axar Patel….