A groundsman tried spraying the bees with an extinguisher, also known as the Chris Morris Method © AFP There are lions, leopards, elephants, cheetah and buffalo all within a few hours’ drive from the Wanderers stadium, but it was a more mundane intrusion from the natural world that brought the third ODI to a standstill. Bees swarmed the pitch in the middle of the 26th over, forcing players to momentarily…
The ICC has, in principle, passed a new constitution that undoes much of the imbalance in power and finances the Big Three had attempted to create in 2014. But in practice it may require more negotiations, particularly on a new revenue-distribution model, before it becomes the new reality. At the ICC Board meeting in Dubai on Saturday, a new constitutional and financial model received preliminary approval despite the BCCI having…
File photo – Yusuf Pathan hit 56 runs while his brother Irfan conceded 47 runs for Baroda in their seven-wicket loss to Maharashtra © BCCI Central Zone Apoorv Wankhade scored 15 runs off the last over to take Vidarbha to a last-ball win against Rajasthan at Jaipur. Chasing 155, openers Faiz Fazal (28) and Jitesh Sharma (54) struck 78 runs in their stand. A flurry of wickets soon after saw…
Toss South Africa chose to bowl v Sri LankaLive scorecard and ball-by-ball details Lahiru Kumara was one of the two debutants for Sri Lanka © AFP South Africa won the toss and chose to bowl first, with AB de Villiers suggesting there might be something in the pitch for the new-ball bowlers. This was despite South Africa having scored more than 300 on each of the previous six occasions they…
Faf du Plessis and AB de Villiers could be playing a T20 league at home next summer © AFP Cricket South Africa has put out a tender inviting bids for eight T20 teams that will make up its new tournament to be played in the last quarter of 2017. The competition will be similar to other major T20 tournaments around the world such as the IPL, BBL and CPL, and…
George Worker made 181 off 143 balls, and then took four wickets © Getty Images Allrounder George Worker dazzled with bat and ball at picturesque Pukekura Park, smashing 181 off 143 balls to power Central Districts to 401 for 8 in 50 overs, before taking a career-best 4 for 36 to help skittle Northern Districts for 174. Having opened the batting, Worker treated the sprinkling of people watching from the…
George Worker made 181 off 143 balls, and then took four wickets © Getty Images Allrounder George Worker dazzled with bat and ball at picturesque Pukekura Park, smashing 181 off 143 balls to power Central Districts to 401 for 8 in 50 overs, before taking a career-best 4 for 36 to help skittle Northern Districts for 174. Having opened the batting, Worker treated the sprinkling of people watching from the…
Queensland 405 (Hartley 102*, Burns 83, Labuschagne 60, Stevenson 3-77) and 6 for 146 dec beat Tasmania 200 (Bailey 55, Neser 3-39) and 218 (Milenko 68, Stevenson 42, Floros 3-72) by 133 runsScorecard File photo: Jack Wildermuth ran out Cameron Stevenson and bowled Simon Milenko to seal the tense win for Queensland © Getty Images When Tasmania fell to 8 for 114 on the final day at the Gabba chasing…
Fahad Babar began his cricket career with USA Under-19s after coming to the country as a 14-year old © Peter Della Penna USA batsman Fahad Babar has left the ICC Americas squad midway through their WICB Regional Super50 campaign in Barbados on the recommendation of his immigration lawyer. Babar, a Pakistan national who qualified to play for USA under the ICC’s seven-year residency rule, said he returned to the USA…
Fahad Babar began his cricket career with USA Under-19s after coming to the country as a 14-year old © Peter Della Penna USA batsman Fahad Babar has left the ICC Americas squad midway through their WICB Regional Super50 campaign in Barbados on the recommendation of his immigration lawyer. Babar, a Pakistan national who qualified to play for USA under the ICC’s seven-year residency rule, said he returned to the USA…