Match Facts July 10, 2017Start time: 0945 local (0415GMT) Danushka Gunathilaka leads the run charts with 271 from four innings © AFP Big Picture To find the most-recent bilateral series in which Zimbabwe pushed Sri Lanka to a decider, you’d have to go back decades, to a time before Sri Lanka won the World Cup, to before the island’s players were fully professional – all the way back to November…
“After scoring 300, how many times can you lose a game?” Angelo Mathews said of his bowlers © Getty Images Angelo Mathews has hinted, for the first time, that he is unsure if he will captain Sri Lanka in the 2019 World Cup, having led his side to a second loss against Zimbabwe in the ongoing five-match series. The defeat, Mathews conceded, put his captaincy under significant pressure. His comments…
Birmingham 159 for 4 (Bell 47) beat Nottinghamshire 158 for 6 (S Patel 55, J Patel 4-22) by six wicketsScorecard Luke Fletcher was struck on the head while delivering his first ball of the night © Getty Images Nottinghamshire seam bowler Luke Fletcher was struck on the head in a horrific incident at Edgbaston, with the NatWest T20 Blast match against Birmingham Bears suspended for half-an-hour while he received treatment….
“We won’t take any pressure into the final because we will take the confidence from this game” © AFP If touring a much higher-ranked cricketing nation after 16 years weren’t much of a challenge in itself, Zimbabwe also had to contend with the history of not having won an ODI against Sri Lanka on their home soil. Prior to this series, they had lost all their eight ODIs to Sri…
Mithali Raj on India’s opening partnerships: “The way they opened the World Cup campaign for us against England, we were expecting maybe one or two off games but it can’t be four in a row” © ICC A lack of strong opening partnerships for India in the Women’s World Cup has become a worrying sign for the team. Captain Mithali Raj said after their 115-run loss in Leicester on Saturday…
“We are not giving up the revenue sharing model for all players” © Cricket Australia Australia’s captain Steven Smith insists that the players will not back down from their demand to retain the fixed revenue percentage share they have enjoyed for two decades. In his strongest message yet in the pay war between Cricket Australia and the Australian Cricketers’ Association (ACA), Smith declared that the leaders of the men’s and…
Birmingham 159 for 4 (Bell 47) beat Nottinghamshire 158 (S Patel 55, J Patel 4-22) by six wicketsScorecard Luke Fletcher was struck on the head while delivering his first ball of the night © Getty Images Nottinghamshire seam bowler Luke Fletcher was struck on the head in a horrific incident at Edgbaston, with the NatWest T20 Blast match against Birmingham Bears suspended for half-an-hour while he received treatment. The fast-bowler…
Luke Fletcher was struck on the head while delivering his first ball of the night © Getty Images Nottinghamshire’s seam bowler, Luke Fletcher, has been struck on the head in a serious-looking incident at Edgbaston, with the T20 Blast match against Birmingham Bears being suspended while he received treatment. The incident occurred in the fourth over of Birmingham Bears’ run-chase at Edgbaston, as Fletcher was delivering his first ball of…
Luke Fletcher was struck on the head while delivering his first ball of the night © Getty Images Nottinghamshire’s seam bowler, Luke Fletcher, has been struck on the head in a serious-looking incident at Edgbaston, with the T20 Blast match against Birmingham Bears being suspended while he received treatment. The incident occurred in the fourth over of Birmingham Bears’ run-chase at Edgbaston, as Fletcher was delivering his first ball of…
Najam Sethi already holds considerable influence in the PCB, as part of the three-man Executive Committee and one of the key forces behind the Pakistan Super League © AFP Najam Sethi’s chances of taking over as chairman of the Pakistan Cricket Board have been strengthened after he was named as one of two direct nominees on the PCB’s Board of Governors (BoG). Sethi and Arif Ejaz, a prominent corporate figure,…