File photo – Aditya Tare resurrected Mumbai’s innings with 83 off 81 balls © BCCI Fifties from Aditya Tare and Siddhesh Lad helped Mumbai recover from 85 for 4 and post 273, a total that proved 98 too many for Gujarat at Chepauk. Asked to bat, Mumbai lost wickets at regular intervals before a 117-run fifth-wicket stand between Tare and Lad put them back on course. Tare’s 83 came off…
If you thought for a moment that this was like any other win for Australia, think again. It was so special, so rare, that Steven Smith knew to the day the length of the drought his men had broken. “We haven’t won a game here for 4502 days,” he said after Australia’s triumph in Pune. The number rolled easily off his tongue in every interview. It might be imprinted in…
Western Australia 4 for 178 (Wells 70*, Turner 10*) lead Victoria 117 (Christian 39, Behrendorff 9-37) by 61 runsScorecard File photo – Jason Behrendorff returned the second-best figures by a Western Australia bowler in first-class cricket © Getty Images In his first domestic match on return from injury, Jason Behrendorff produced the fifth-best figures in Sheffield Shield history, a sensational 9 for 37, to help Western Australia bowl out Victoria…
Tasmania 0 for 40 (Doolan 21*) trail New South Wales 253 (Cowan 115, Henriques 47, Milenko 4-60) by 213 runsScorecard File photo – Ed Cowan built on his form to score another century © Getty Images Ed Cowan‘s 115 proved a lone hand for New South Wales in Wollongong as Tasmania made a bright start to their first Sheffield Shield match since the sacking of coach Dan Marsh. NSW lost…
© Getty Images Kane Williamson has said that New Zealand needed to be better at “sucking up pressure” with the bat and learn to play a smarter game after they crashed to a 159-run defeat in Wellington. Their innings lasted just 32.2 overs with Colin de Grandhomme’s unbeaten 34 the top score. The openers fell cheaply, and though Williamson and Ross Taylor tried to mount a recovery they were squeezed…
Australia 260 (Renshaw 68, Starc 61, Umesh 4-32) and 285 (Smith 109, Ashwin 4-119) beat India 105 (Rahul 64, O’Keefe 6-35) and 107 (Pujara 31, O’Keefe 6-35) by 333 runsScorecard and ball-by-ball details Steven Smith scored his first hundred in India © Associated Press Fortress India has been sacked. Or should that be SOKed? Not since 2012 had India lost a Test at home, and rarely in that stretch of…
File photo – Adam Zampa took his first five-wicket haul in first-class cricket © Getty Images Adam Zampa emulated the first-innings feat of Steve O’Keefe in India by snaring six wickets in a strong opening day for South Australia against Queensland in the Sheffield Shield match at Adelaide Oval. Oueensland elected to bat first after winning the toss, but were unable to generate a substantial score as Zampa proved his…
File photo – Angelo Mathews is likely to be available for the ODI and T20 series that follow the Tests © AFP Sri Lanka captain Angelo Mathews has been ruled out of the Test series against Bangladesh as the hamstring injury that has ailed him since January 22 continues to pose problems. Sri Lanka’s selectors are expected to name the Test squad on Tuesday, and with it, the replacement captain….
Australia 260 (Renshaw 68, Starc 61, Umesh 4-32) and 285 (Smith 109, Ashwin 4-119) beat India 105 (Rahul 64, O’Keefe 6-35) and 107 (Pujara 31, O’Keefe 6-35) by 333 runsScorecard and ball-by-ball details Steven Smith scored his first hundred in India © Associated Press Fortress India has been sacked. Or should that be SOKed? Not since 2012 had India lost a Test at home, and rarely in that stretch of…
Tea India 105 and 99 for 6 (Pujara 31*, O’Keefe 5-33) need another 342 runs to beat Australia 260 and 285 (Smith 109, Ashwin 4-119, Jadeja 3-65)Live scorecard and ball-by-ball details Steven Smith scored his first hundred in India © Associated Press Australia have not won a Test in India for 12 years. India have not lost a home Test to anyone for four years. And neither of those things…