Month: January 2017

Andre Russell has continued to play while awaiting a verdict from the JADCO tribunal © Cricket Australia/Getty Images The anti-doping tribunal hearing West Indies allrounder Andre Russell‘s case is set to deliver its verdict on January 31. The independent tribunal is looking into whether he breached the World Anti-doping Agency (WADA) code by being negligent about filing his whereabouts three times between January and July 2015. If found guilty, Russell…

BCCI CEO Rahul Johri has taken over as caretaker head after its president Anurag Thakur was removed by the Supreme Court © Sajjad Hussain/AFP The Supreme Court is likely to finalise a committee of administrators to run the BCCI on Tuesday, and amicus curiae Gopal Subramanium has asked for this committee to be given the power to run the IPL, appoint the board’s representative to ICC meetings and take over…

Andre Russell has continued to play while awaiting a verdict from the JADCO tribunal © Cricket Australia/Getty Images The anti-doping tribunal hearing into whether West Indies allrounder Andre Russell was guilty after allegedly failing to file his whereabouts three times between January and July 2015 will deliver its verdict on January 31. If the charge is proved Russell faces the danger of being banned for two years. According to the…

BCCI CEO Rahul Johri has taken over as caretaker head after its president Anurag Thakur was removed by the Supreme Court © Sajjad Hussain/AFP The Supreme Court is likely to finalise a committee of administrators to run the BCCI on Tuesday, and amicus curiae Gopal Subramanium has asked for this committee to be given the power to run the IPL, appoint the board’s representative to ICC meetings and take over…

Carlos Brathwaite left the Big Bash League to play domestic cricket in West Indies, which also clashes with the PSL © Getty Images West Indies allrounders Dwayne Bravo and Carlos Brathwaite as well as England batsman Alex Hales are among the prominent players who have been ruled out of the second season of Pakistan Super League which begins on February 9. Shakib Al Hasan and Tamim Iqbal of Bangladesh and…

Afghanistan have never lost a bilateral series to Zimbabwe © ICC/Getty Images Zimbabwe have successfully negotiated a five-match ODI series with Afghanistan to plug the gap in their cricket calendar. They last played internationals in November – a 50-over tri-series with West Indies and Sri Lanka – but were looking at a six-month hiatus before their next assignment – a tour of Sri Lanka. This has now changed with Afghanistan…

Max Holden can anticipate a county debut with Northants © Getty Images Max Holden, who will skipper England Under-19s on their impending tour of India, has been loaned by Middlesex to Northants for the first half of the 2017 season. Holden, a correct opening batsman who has yet to make a first XI debut for Middlesex, will take part in Northants’ pre-season tour of the Caribbean and remain with the…

Virender Sehwag played for Kings XI in 2014 and 2015, was their mentor in 2016, and now he’s got a promotion © BCCI Virender Sehwag is likely to have greater say in the coaching and decision-making at Kings XI Punjab after the franchise appointed him head of cricket operations and strategy. Sehwag represented Kings XI for two years from 2014, when they made the final for the first time. In…

Parvez Rasool’s only ODI was against Bangladesh in Mirpur in 2014 © Associated Press With R Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja being rested for the three-T20I series against England, Parvez Rasool has been added to the squad along with Amit Mishra, but the offspinning allrounder from Jammu & Kashmir hopes to find a place in the India side when Ashwin is around. “I had no clue that Ashwin has been rested…

Play 01:11 ‘I think a superstar is born’ – Behardien Twenty-year-old Lungi Ngidi, who has taken six wickets in his first two T20 Internationals, has earned a maiden call-up to South Africa’s ODI squad for the first three matches against Sri Lanka, which start on January 28. AB de Villiers, who has not played an ODI for South Africa since June last year, because of an elbow injury, will return…