Anupam Sanklecha has picked up 26 wickets in the last two matches © PTI Maharashtra picked up the four remaining wickets early on the fourth day to beat Assam by an innings and 52 runs in Chennai. Their second successive win brought them storming back into contention for a berth in the quarter-finals. Assam, resuming on 115 for 6, needed to wipe out a deficit of 171 more. KB Arun…
Anupam Sanklecha has picked up 26 wickets in the last two matches © PTI Maharashtra picked up the four remaining wickets early on the fourth day to beat Assam by an innings and 52 runs in Chennai. Their second successive win brought them storming back into contention for a berth in the quarter-finals. Assam, resuming on 115 for 6, needed to wipe out a deficit of 171 more. KB Arun…
Anupam Sanklecha finished with 12 wickets – his last four innings earning him 26 scalps © PTI Maharashtra beat Assam by an innings and 52 runs as their pacers Anupam Sanklecha and Mohsin Sayyed, and spinner Satyajeet Bachhav picked up the last four wickets before lunch to give them seven points in Chennai. Assam started the day on 115 for 6, still trailing Maharashtra by 171. Overnight batsmen KB Arun…
Toss South Africa chose to bat v AustraliaLive scorecard and ball-by-ball details Nic Maddinson, Matt Renshaw and Peter Handscomb are all making their Test debuts for Australia © Getty Images Steven Smith lost the toss for the sixth consecutive Test and South Africa’s captain Faf du Plessis chose to bat in the day-night Test at Adelaide Oval. South Africa made one change to the XI that triumphed in Hobart, bringing…
Asad Shafiq will be looking to pile some runs after he scored 16 and 17 in the first Test © PA Photos New Zealand doesn’t quite have Sri Lanka’s reputation in producing result pitches, but you have to go back seven Tests – to February 2014 – to find the most-recent draw in the country. Little surprise then, that a batting approach gaining credence in Sri Lanka (13 Tests without…
Ross Taylor is confident of coping with his vision problem in Hamilton but is prepared for criticism if he fails © Getty Images He has been cleared to play in Hamilton, and doctors are confident he will recover well, but Ross Taylor admits the experience of going into a Test match with doubts over his vision was a galling one. Taylor had received news that the pterygium on his left…
Match facts November 25-29, 2016Start time 1100 local (2200 GMT) Jeet Raval will know that Pakistan will have better plans for him in Hamilton © Getty Images Big Picture While tawny Asian pitches can still prompt outrage and consternation, tracks coloured a lurid, nausea-inducing green have quietly become a New Zealand trademark. The response from most touring sides has been perfectly even-handed. “These are their home conditions,” is the consensus….
Match facts November 25-29, 2016Start time 1100 local (2200 GMT) Jeet Raval will know that Pakistan will have better plans for him in Hamilton © Getty Images Big Picture While tawny Asian pitches can still prompt outrage and consternation, tracks coloured a lurid, nausea-inducing green have quietly become a New Zealand trademark. The response from most touring sides has been perfectly even-handed. “These are their home conditions,” is the consensus….
Toss South Africa chose to bat v AustraliaLive scorecard and ball-by-ball details Nic Maddinson, Matt Renshaw and Peter Handscomb are all making their Test debuts for Australia © Getty Images Steven Smith lost the toss for the sixth consecutive Test and South Africa’s captain Faf du Plessis chose to bat in the day-night Test at Adelaide Oval. South Africa made one change to the XI that triumphed in Hobart, bringing…
Niroshan Dickwella fell six runs short of what would have been his maiden ODI hundred © AFP Sri Lankan wicketkeeper-batsman Niroshan Dickwella credited his team’s seamers for holding their nerve against a big-hitting West Indian lower order after Sri Lanka pulled off a one-run win to secure their place in the final of the Zimbabwe tri-series. Dickwella was one of two Sri Lankans to reach the 90s in a total…