Month: January 2021

News “I’d like to think more opportunities will come from this and we’ll see what happens,” Overton says England hopefuls Tom Kohler-Cadmore, Joe Clarke, Ben Duckett and Jamie Overton all performed with the bat at the T10 League on Sunday, serving up some timely reminders of their talent in a year of great opportunity for English players. The England think tank is committed to rotation throughout a stacked calendar in…

Report Ismail’s new-ball spell of 3-0-9-3 helped reduce Pakistan to a precarious 20 for 4 South Africa Women 133 for 5 (Brits 66, Amin 2-21) beat Pakistan Women 115 for 7 (Riaz 39, Naseem 33, Ismail 5-12) by 18 runs A second consecutive half-century from Tazmin Brits and career-best figures of 5 from 12 from experienced fast bowler Shabnim Ismail powered South Africa to a series win with an unassailable…

Report TN batsmen aced the chase after Siddharth’s 4-20 limited Baroda to 120 for 9 Tamil Nadu 123 for 3 (Hari Nishanth 35, Aparajith 29*, Sheth 1-20) beat Baroda 120 for 9 (Solanki 49, Siddharth 4-20, Aparajith 1-16) by seven wickets No R Ashwin (India duty). No M Vijay (personal reasons). No Washington Sundar (India duty). No T Natarajan (on a break after Australia tour). No Varun Chakravarthy (rehab at…

Play 01:06 Foakes: I expected to get more of a run in the side As Ben Foakes picked up his oversized Player-of-the-Series cheque following England’s clean sweep in Sri Lanka in November 2018, it was unthinkable – barring injury – that he would play only two out of their next 18 Test matches. But after a pair of underwhelming games in the Caribbean two months later he was squeezed out…

Report Mukidul Islam took four wickets while Khaled Ahmed picked up a three-for for the hosts, in Chattogram West Indians 257 (Brathwaite 85, Rishad 5-75) and 291 (Bonner 80, Campbell 68, Mukidul 4-59) drew with BCB XI 160 (Naim 45, Cornwall 5-47) and 63 for 2 (Yasir 33*, Shadman 23*, Reifer 2-7) A few more runs on the board would have delighted the West Indians at the end of their…

News Shah, 32, replaces BCB president Nazmul Hassan in the role BCCI secretary Jay Shah was on Saturday elected president of the Asian Cricket Council (ACC) following the continental body’s annual general meeting held virtually. Shah, 32, replaced BCB president Nazmul Hassan in the post, and is the youngest administrator to be appointed ACC president. In a virtual address to the AGM, Shah said: “The ACC continues to foster healthy…

News Shadab Khan, Imad Wasim and Mohammad Hafeez also miss out on 20-man squad Pakistan have dropped Fakhar Zaman and Wahab Riaz for the upcoming three-match T20I series against South Africa, with Shadab Khan, Imad Wasim and Mohammad Hafeez all missing from the 20-man squad as well. Pakistan squad: Babar Azam, Haider Ali, Khushdil Shah, Hussain Talat, Danish Aziz, Asif Ali, Iftikhar Ahmed, Mohammad Nawaz, Zafar Gohar, Faheem Ashraf, Aamer…

News A snap lockdown of the city due to a Covid-19 case in Western Australia’s hotel-quarantine programme forced the move Perth Scorchers will be away from familiar territory for Thursday’s knockout encounter   A snap lockdown of the city of Perth due to a Covid-19 case in Western Australia’s hotel-quarantine programme forced Cricket Australia into a last-minute shift of the Perth Scorchers’ Big Bash League Challenger on Thursday to Canberra’s…

News “I accept the fine handed down to me, my reaction to the umpire’s decision was unacceptable” Perth Scorchers allrounder Mitchell Marsh has been fined $5000 for dissent but has escaped suspension following his outburst at an umpire after his dismissal against Sydney Sixers in Saturday’s BBL Qualifier in Canberra. Marsh was given out caught down the leg side off the bowling of Steven O’Keefe despite appearing to miss the…