Month: November 2016

Queensland 137 and 4 for 50 (Holland 3-8) trail Victoria 417 (White 104*, Maxwell 81, Harris 75, Handscomb 60, Wildermuth 3-51, George 3-92) by 230 runsScorecard Cameron White struck his 20th first-class century on Friday © Getty Images Cameron White scored an unbeaten hundred and Glenn Maxwell sent a message to Victoria’s selectors with 81 as Victoria dominated the second day against Queensland at the MCG. Victoria piled on 417…

Lunch South Africa 242 and 2 for 183 (Duminy 74*, Elgar 69*) lead Australia 244 by 181 runsLive scorecard and ball-by-ball details It was a tough morning for Australia’s bowlers © Cricket Australia/Getty Images Dean Elgar and JP Duminy both brought up half-centuries on the third day at the WACA, where they batted through the opening session to lift South Africa’s lead close to 200. It was a frustrating, wicketless…

File photo: Steady rain during much of the afternoon meant not even a toss was possible in Mirpur © AFP Both matches on the opening day of the Bangladesh Premier League 2016-17 were abandoned without a ball being bowled in Dhaka. The only match-related action was the toss at the first match, where Rajshahi Kings opted to bowl first against Comilla Victorians. Twenty minutes after the toss took place, however,…

Mustafizur Rahman’s last match for Bangladesh came during the World T20 © AFP Mustafizur Rahman has been named in a 22-member preparatory squad that will train in Australia next month before Bangladesh embark on their tour of New Zealand. The left-arm pace bowler is recovering after undergoing shoulder surgery in August after sustaining an injury playing for Sussex last season. Mustafizur’s last international match was at the World T20 earlier…

The BCCI cannot enter into any contracts without the Lodha committee’s approval, which held up the signing of an MoU with the ECB © Cricket Australia England’s tour of India is unlikely to be disrupted by the hurdles the BCCI faces in signing a Memorandum of Understanding with the ECB. Officials from both boards have confirmed there was no change to their preparations ahead of the series, which starts in…

File photo – Tamim Iqbal was handed a one-match domestic suspension for his involvement in an incident with the umpires during a Dhaka Premier League match on June 13 © Associated Press Tamim Iqbal can play in Chittagong Vikings’ first match of this season’s Bangladesh Premier League. The tournament’s member-secretary Ismail Haider Mallick has said the one-match domestic suspension Tamim picked up during the Dhaka Premier League only applied to…

David Warner: “It’s tough to see as an opening batter sometimes when you get off to those starts as a top four and then you sort of fall away that easily.” © Getty Images David Warner admits that Australia’s batsmen have fallen into a debilitating pattern of middle-order batting collapses that are wasting decent starts, and also says he does not know how the problem will be rectified. Having made…

Rohit Sharma had a productive series against New Zealand, and his 82 off 132 balls in Kolkata was vital to the team’s victory © BCCI India batsman Rohit Sharma will travel to London next week for treatment on his thigh injury, which has ruled him out of cricket for at least 10 to 12 weeks. This means he is almost certain to miss the limited-overs leg of the England tour,…

Alastair Cook and Joe Root head to the nets at the Brabourne Stadium © AFP At first it was meant to be a day off. Then it became an optional training day. But, by the time England left the Brabourne Stadium in Mumbai on Friday, every member of the squad had undergone not one but two full training sessions. The positive – and entirely accurate – interpretation of such behaviour…