Month: September 2017

Saeed Ajmal has not played first-class cricket since 2015 © AFP Saeed Ajmal, who last played first-class cricket in 2015, has been picked up by Faisalabad Region for the upcoming Quaid-e-Azam Trophy, Pakistan’s premier domestic tournament. As many as eight regional teams selected their squads, with eight players out of 20 selected through the draft process for the very first time in the history of Pakistan cricket. A total of…

India 174 for 3 (Kohli 82, Pandey 51*) beat Sri Lanka 170 for 7 (Munaweera 53, Priyanjan 40, Chahal 3-43, Kuldeep 2-20) by seven wicketsScorecard and ball-by-ball details Virat Kohli ended his tour of Sri Lanka with scores of 131, 110* and 82 © Getty Images Three-nil in the Tests, five-nil in the ODIs, a crushing eight-wicket win in the one-off T20I. Virat Kohli followed up successive hundreds in the…

Pakistan news September 6, 2017 Danyal Rasool and Umar Farooq Fakhar Zaman is one of a number of players who could miss the Global T20 due to the National T20 Cup © AFP The participation of Pakistan’s players in the Bangladesh Premier League and the inaugural edition of the Global T20 in South Africa is in doubt, as Pakistan’s national T20 competition is scheduled to clash with those dates. With…

© International Cricket Council Patrick Matautaava produced one of the all-time great knocks in the history of the World Cricket League, striking an unbeaten 139 off 76 balls as Vanuatu defeated Germany by four wickets. Chasing a target of 228, Vanuatu needed to achieve victory in 31.3 overs or less to overtake Germany on the net run rate tiebreaker with the Germans holding a +1.710 advantage at the start of…

13-year-old legspinner Rehan Ahmed bowls in the nets at Lord’s © Getty Images There had been talk going into this Lord’s Test that a young English legspinner might win his chance to impress. But it wasn’t Mason Crane who stuck out in the nets ahead of the third and final Test. It was an even younger legspinner named Rehan Ahmed. Rehan is just 13. But such is his talent that,…

David Warner celebrates the slowest hundred of his Test career © Getty Images If you were told that one of Australia’s openers had spent six hours at the crease for 123 runs, painstakingly accumulated from 234 balls, with only seven boundaries, you would have complete confidence in declaring that the man in question would be Matt Renshaw. But you would be wrong. This was David Warner posting most un-Warner-like numbers…

© ESPNcricinfo Ltd The biggest media rights deal in cricket means that the IPL’s eight franchises have had their finances doubled with the stroke of a pen, even before they formulate plans for the 11th season of the league. Going forward, each IPL franchise will pocket INR 150 crore (US$ 23.4 million) from the central-revenue pool, twice the amount they had been working with in the first ten seasons. Each…

Toss: India chose to bowl v Sri LankaLive scorecard and ball-by-ball details KL Rahul came in for Ajinkya Rahane after sitting out the fifth ODI © AFP With the start delayed by 40 minutes and rain likely to remain an influence on the one-off T20I, Virat Kohli, India’s captain, chose to bowl at the Premadasa Stadium, where a hard pitch is likely to encourage run-scoring. India made two changes to…

Tea Australia 321 for 5 (Warner 123, Handscomb 82) lead Bangladesh 305 by 16 runsLive scorecard and ball-by-ball details David Warner’s 209-ball hundred was his slowest in Test cricket © ESPNcricinfo Ltd David Warner’s second hundred in as many innings was offset by his wicket plus those of Peter Handscomb and Hilton Cartwright as Bangladesh sought to restrict Australia’s lead on day three in Chittagong. After rain washed out the…