Month: June 2017

Abdur Razzak last played international cricket in August 2014 © AFP Bangladesh left-arm spinner Abdur Razzak has suffered a car accident in Gopalganj, according to The Daily Star. Razzak has been reported to be ‘out of danger’ after receiving preliminary treatment. The accident took place when he was travelling from Khulna with his family. The local police came to their rescue after they suffered minor injuries. Razzak is the third-highest…

‘I certainly think that the team we’ve got here can beat any side’ – Heath Streak © AFP Zimbabwe’s consistent spells as the bottom-ranked team, 25 years after being granted Test status, are down to sporadic scheduling and the subsequent migration of players, said their head coach Heath Streak. Speaking to the media ahead of the first match of their Sri Lanka tour, Streak highlighted the difficulty of retaining talent…

Pat Howard, CA’s team performance manager, has also warned players against entering into commercial arrangements with sponsors in conflict with CA’s commercial partners © Getty Images Australia’s players face a ban from this summer’s Ashes series should they take part in any kind of “disapproved cricket” in the event of an extended pay dispute beyond the July 1 expiry of the current MOU between Cricket Australia and the Australian Cricketers’…

Sabbir Rahman is the only Bangladesh batsman in the top ten. © AFP Bangladesh batsman Sabbir Rahman has broken into the ICC’s top 10 rankings for T20I batsmen for the first time. He is currently tenth with 627 points, after the rankings were updated following the T20I series between England and South Africa. Sabbir, 25, rose in the rankings despite scoring only 117 runs in five innings this year. Sabbir…

While denying that the CAC had been undermined by the Kohli-Kumble episode, Sourav Ganguly expressed dissatisfaction with how the matter was handled © AFP Former India captain Sourav Ganguly has said that the differences between former coach Anil Kumble and captain Virat Kohli had not been handled properly. Ganguly is a member of the Cricket Advisory Committee (CAC) that is tasked by the BCCI with identifying India’s new coach, and…

Sunil Ambris has a List A average of 51.71 after 20 matches © WICB Media/Randy Brooks of Brooks LaTouche Photo Kyle Hope and Sunil Ambris have earned call-ups to West Indies’ one-day international squad for the final three ODIs of their ongoing home series against India. The duo came in at the expense of Jonathan Carter and Kesrick Williams in Cricket West Indies’ 13-man squad named on Tuesday. Hope, the…

Wellington last played a one-day international in 2015 © Christopher Lee-IDI/IDI Wellington Masakadza, who last played an international match in March 2016, has been included in Zimbabwe’s ODI squad for the series against Sri Lanka. The left-arm spinner, who has 15 wickets from 10 ODIs, last appeared in a 50-over international fixture in 2015, against Afghanistan at Sharjah. The Zimbabwe squad for the only Test of the tour had four…

Wellington last played a one-day international in 2015 © Christopher Lee-IDI/IDI Wellington Masakadza, who last played an international match in March 2016, has been included in Zimbabwe’s ODI squad for the series against Sri Lanka. The left-arm spinner, who has 15 wickets from 10 ODIs, last appeared in a 50-over international fixture in 2015, against Afghanistan at Sharjah. The Zimbabwe squad for the only Test of the tour had four…

Natalie Sciver converted her maiden ODI century into a blistering innings of 137 from 92 balls, and Heather Knight, the captain, also passed three figures for the first time in limited-overs cricket, as England dusted themselves down after their opening-match defeat against India to rack up a formidable total of 377 for 7, and a commanding if rain-interrupted 107-run victory over Pakistan at Grace Road. The Pakistan women’s cricket team…