‘We want to tell world cricket what we can do in India, I don’t think about how many years later we are playing’ © Associated Press Bangladesh captain Mushfiqur Rahim has brushed aside the portrayal of their maiden Test in India next week as a “historic” one, saying that he feels it is more important to treat the game as an opportunity to show Bangladesh’s measure in world cricket. He…
Southern Vipers will begin their title defence on TV © Getty Images Six group matches and both games on Finals Day in the second edition of the Kia Super League will be broadcast by Sky Sports. The live matches begin with a rematch of last year’s final between the defending champions Southern Vipers and Western Storm on August 10 and also includes the Roses clash between Yorkshire Diamonds and Lancashire…
The ICC under Shashank Manohar has shown an eagerness to revert changes made during the Big Three revamp © IDI/Getty Images The most significant ICC board meeting in three years gets underway on Thursday – significant because the aim of most members will be to sign off on the undoing of the Big Three resolutions that were approved in February 2014, in Singapore. The ides of February is not quite…
Joe Root’s dismissal in Nagpur did not go down well with England © AFP Umpire C Shamshuddin has withdrawn himself from officiating in the T20I series decider between India and England at the Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bangalore. The Indian umpire faced criticism after the second T20I in Nagpur, particularly for his decision to adjudge Joe Root lbw in the final over of England’s chase. Replays showed the batsman had got…
Shashank Manohar appears determined to correct some of the imbalance between countries at the BCCI © AFP Shashank Manohar, the ICC chairman, has asked cricket’s administrators to be ready to embrace change as the governing body starts to “reverse” the vast changes implemented by the Big Three in 2014. In an unusual move, the ICC’s new website – relaunched today – carried a column by its chairman ostensibly looking ahead…
Play 03:27 ‘Time for DRS in T20s’ – Root Eoin Morgan won an important toss and chose to bowl first in the third and final T20 against India in Bangalore, as England looked to bounce back from their disappointing finish to last week’s T20I in Nagpur and complete a tough tour with a rare piece of silverware. Both captains announced one change each to the teams that took the field…
Misbah-ul-Haq said Pakistan needs to overhaul their domestic system if results need to change © AFP Pakistan Test captain Misbah-ul-Haq has said a change of captaincy won’t make as much difference to Pakistan’s cricket as an overhaul of the domestic system will. Misbah’s comments come at a time when the PCB is set to overhaul Pakistan’s team, following recent tours of New Zealand and Australia where they lost five straight…
Toss Sri Lanka chose to bowl v South AfricaLive scorecard and ball-by-ball details The return of Sachith Pathirana was one of two changes to the Sri Lanka XI © AFP Sri Lanka won the toss and chose to bowl first in the second ODI at Kingsmead, despite having added two spin-bowling allrounders to their XI. The visitors drafted in Sachith Pathirana and Chaturanga de Silva – both of whom bowl…
Liton Das scored a double-century for East Zone this week © BCB Batsman Liton Das has been recalled to Bangladesh’s squad for the one-off Test in India on February 9 after he scored a first-class double-century in the Bangladesh Cricket League. Mushfiqur Rahim, Mominul Haque and Imrul Kayes, who were all injured for Bangladesh’s previous Test in Christchurch, returned to the squad, along with Shafiul Islam. Nazmul Hossain Shanto, Mustafizur…
India Under-19s 287 for 8 (Desai 75, Rana 58, Fisher 4-44, Brookes 3-60) beat England Under-19s 158 (Rawlins 46, Roy 3-34) by 129 runsScorecard Himanshu Rana followed up his century in the first ODI with a 66-ball 58 © PTI A strong batting effort, led by fifties from Harvik Desai and Himanshu Rana, helped India Under-19s level the five-match series with a rout of England Under-19s in the second ODI…