Month: February 2017

Ryan Harris will continue his coaching career at the National Cricket Centre © Getty Images Former Australia fast bowler Ryan Harris and batsman Matthew Elliott have been appointed to coaching roles at the National Cricket Centre in Brisbane. Both men will work with the National Performance Squad and Cricket Australia XI youth squads, and their first task will be coaching Australia’s Under-19s in a home series against Sri Lanka in…

England XI 234 for 8 (Bairstow 86, Woakes 47*, Root 46) beat WICB President’s XI 233 (Hamilton 73, Cornwall 59, Stokes 3-35, Plunkett 3-44) by two wicketsScorecard Jahmar Hamilton and Rahkeem Cornwall added 123 for the sixth wicket © Getty Images Chris Woakes wasn’t the England allrounder who gained the most attention in the IPL auction, but he proved his value to England once again with a match-winning contribution in…

Rangana Herath had led Sri Lanka in a two-Test series against Zimbabwe last year © AFP Rangana Herath will captain Sri Lanka in the Tests against Bangladesh, while prolific domestic left-arm spinner Malinda Pushpakumara joins him in the squad, Sri Lanka Cricket has announced. These are the only squad details released so far, however. It is likely the remainder of the squad has not been picked yet – an earlier…

The India-Australia Test will be the M Chinnaswamy’s first since it’s drainage system was refurbished © Hindustan Times The spotlight on pitches has returned to Indian cricket following their defeat inside three days on a rank turner in Pune by an unfancied Australian team. Preparations at the venue for the second Test, Bangalore, though suggest the playing surface might not be as extreme. R Sudhakar Rao, secretary at the Karnataka…

Karachi Kings and Quetta Gladiators are expected to face the most difficulty with the PSL final set to be played in Lahore © PCB/PSL With only three matches left in the UAE, the Pakistan Super League and its franchises are beginning the process of figuring out which foreign players will travel to Lahore, where the final is scheduled for March 5. On Sunday evening in Dubai, Karachi Kings became the…

After Carlos Brathwaite helped West Indies win the World T20 last year, he hasn’t enjoyed much success © Getty Images Courtney Browne, the West Indies chairman of selectors, has said that allrounder Carlos Brathwaite cannot be expected to produce the heroics of the World Twenty20 final each time he plays. Browne was commenting on Brathwaite’s lean form with the bat in the recently-concluded Regional Super50 domestic one-day tournament, won by…

Marlon Samuels © Getty Images Derbyshire have announced that they are “no longer pursuing” a deal to bring Marlon Samuels to the club. Samuels revealed in an interview last week that he had been offered a contract “worth £120,000-130,000 a year” to sign as a Kolpak player for Derbyshire, while expressing his frustration with West Indies’ selection policies. Samuels was left out of the ODI squad for West Indies’ series…

Sri Lanka A 548 (Karunaratne 212, Samarawickrama 185, de Silva 74, Rayner 4-164) and 90 for 7 (T Curran 4-38) beat England Lions 353 (Livingstone 105, Westley 68, Pushpakumara 8-127) and 284 (Livingstone 140*, Foakes 54, Pushpakumara 5-78) by three wicketsScorecard File photo – Dhananjaya de Silva helped lead Sri Lanka A to a series-levelling win © AFP Malinda Pushpakumara claimed a 13-wicket haul and then hit the winning runs…

New South Wales 1 for 141 (Hughes 71*, Cowan 51*) and 253 trail Tasmania 490 (Bailey 200*, Somerville 5-99) by 96 runsScorecard File photo – George Bailey reached his first double-ton in first-class cricket moments before running out of partners in Tasmania’s 490 © Getty Images Captain George Bailey soared to a double-century in Tasmania’s first innings of 490 against New South Wales but the Blues top order responded in…