Michael Klinger has finally been rewarded for his domestic form © Getty Images Michael Klinger is in line for an international debut at the age of 36 after being named in Australia’s T20 squad to take on Sri Lanka in three matches this month. Wicketkeeper Tim Paine was also picked, nearly six years after he last represented Australia in any format, while the uncapped fast bowler Jhye Richardson and allrounder…
Andre Russell has never tested positive for performance enhancing drugs and should be considered ‘clean’ according to his lawyer © BCCI Calling his client a “clean athlete”, Kingston lawyer Patrick Foster has said he “disagrees” with the one-year ban imposed on West Indies allrounder Andre Russell by an independent anti-doping tribunal on Tuesday. The tribunal found Russell guilty of failing to file his whereabouts three times in 2015. Under the…
Joe Root fell to an umpiring blunder in the final over in Nagpur © AFP Joe Root, who was incorrectly adjudged lbw in the last over of a nerve-wracking chase in Nagpur, has said that the introduction of DRS in Twenty20 cricket could help prevent such umpiring errors. Root echoed his captain Eoin Morgan’s frustration with the umpiring decisions that went against England in their five-run loss, which left the…
Steffan Jones is convinced Stuart Broad can return to England’s white-ball side © Getty Images It’s hard to imagine a situation where a Premier League football club might call upon a teacher to provide some specialist coaching for a few weeks in their school holidays, but that’s pretty much what happened to Steffan Jones. Jones, the head of Sports Performance and Wellbeing at Wellington School in Somerset (and a part-time…
West Indies allrounder Andre Russell has been banned for one year from cricket by an independent anti-doping panel in Kingston. The ban is effective from January 31. Patrick Foster, Russell’s lawyer, confirmed the development and said he would discuss all options with his client including appealing the ban. Russell had missed filing his whereabouts on three separate occasions in 2015 – which amounts to a failed drug test under World…
West Indies allrounder Andre Russell has been banned for one year from cricket by an independent anti-doping panel in Kingston. The ban is effective from January 31. Russell had missed filing his whereabouts on three separate occasions in 2015 – which amounts to a failed drug test under World Anti-Doping Agency guidelines. Patrick Foster, Russell’s lawyer, confirmed the development and said he would discuss all options with his client including…
Match facts February 1, 2017Start time 1.30pm local (1130 GMT) Sri Lanka need much more from their top order © AFP Big Picture Eleven innings into this tour now, Sri Lanka have one major question hanging over them still: when will the top order finally fire together? It had been ground down and blown away in the Tests, before in the T20 series one win was the outcome of Angelo…
Match facts Wednesday, February 1, 2017Start time 1900 local (1330 GMT) England would love to go back home with at least one piece of silverware after a long and difficult tour © AFP Big picture It is not often that India have to contend with their batting being a weakness but ahead of the deciding T20I in Bangalore – which only gained that status courtesy Jasprit Bumrah’s bowling – that…
Tamil Nadu opener Abhinav Mukund has been recalled to India’s squad for the one-off Test against Bangladesh beginning on February 9 in Hyderabad. Squad Virat Kohli, M Vijay, KL Rahul, Cheteshwar Pujara, Ajinkya Rahane, Karun Nair, Wriddhiman Saha, R Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Jayant Yadav, Umesh Yadav, Ishant Sharma, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Amit Mishra, Abhinav Mukund, Hardik Pandya More to follow … © ESPN Sports Media Ltd. Source: ESPN Crickinfo
Ashok Dinda took two wickets in the 19th over to help Bengal defend 152 © BCCI Tripura needed 11 runs to win off the final 12 balls of their match but Bengal‘s Ashok Dinda and Sayan Ghosh denied them to pull off a come-from-behind victory at Eden Gardens. Chasing 153, Tripura seemed quite comfortable at 142 for 4 in the 18th over. That’s when their captain Manisankar Murasingh fell for…