News Jerome Jayaratne has been appointed team manager, but there is no news yet as to the selection panel’s composition Ashantha de Mel had held the posts of chief selector and team manager since November 2018 Ashantha de Mel has resigned as Sri Lanka’s chief selector following the 2-0 loss to England in the home Test series that concluded on Monday. Sri Lanka had also recently lost 2-0 in…
Play 02:36 Hussey: Question marks in Australia batting apart from Smith, Labuschagne National selector Trevor Hohns has hinted that Australia’s pace bowlers could be rotated during the series against South Africa after conceding they might have been better served doing so against India. Mitchell Starc, Pat Cummins and Josh Hazlewood – alongside Nathan Lyon and allrounder Cameron Green – play all four Tests and were unable to secure victory on…
News He will join as a third selector and will join former captains Minhajul Abedin, the panel chief, and Habibul Bashar Abdur Razzak will have to retire from the game to take up the new selector job The Bangladesh Cricket Board has named left-arm spinner Abdur Razzak as the third senior selector, to join former captains Minhajul Abedin, the panel chief, and Habibul Bashar. Razzak, who played 200 international…
News The first practice game is due to begin on July 21 and the second on July 28. The first Test starts on August 4 India have chosen to play warm-up matches against their own A team to prepare for their Tests in England in July 2021 India will warm up for their five-Test series in England this summer by playing two four-day fixtures against an India A side…
Report Rajasthan will meet Tamil Nadu in the first semi-final on Friday Rajasthan 164 for 5 (Lomror 78*, Aman 2-31) beat Bihar 148 for 4 (Mahrour 68*, Bishnoi 1-34) by 16 runs Bihar’s spirited fight was extinguished by a much-experienced Rajasthan, who became the fourth semi-finalist at the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy. They will play Tamil Nadu, last year’s runners-up in the first semi-final on Friday, with Punjab clashing against…
News West Indies’ top run-getter in their last two Test series believes he has a similar batting style to that of Rishabh Pant Since 2020, Jermaine Blackwood has three half-centuries and a hundred across Tests in England and New Zealand Trust Jermaine Blackwood to know what it’s like to bat deep into the fourth innings. His match-winning 95 during the Southampton Test against England last year put him in…
A total of 173 players responded to the PCA’s inaugural racism survey © Getty Images Every player, official and administrator in the English game will be obliged to undergo an education programme in an attempt to rid the sport of racism and boost inclusivity and diversity. The training programme is to be brought in following a damning survey conducted by The Professional Cricketers’ Association (PCA, the players’ union) which revealed…
News The Pakistan batsman looks back at his time in the wilderness and his road forward Between 2009 and 2020, Pakistan have had as many as seven chief selectors. The common strand: none deemed Fawad Alam good enough to be picked for the national team despite his stellar domestic performances, season after season. During this 11-year hiatus from international cricket, Fawad made 26 first-class centuries and 33 half-centuries, amassing 7965…
Judge Zak Yacoob is the fourth board chair to vacate the role since last August © Getty Images Judge Zak Yacoob, the chair of Cricket South Africa’s interim board, has stepped down following the publication of a telephone conversation between him and a South African journalist, in which Yacoob used language that was abusive. He is the fourth board chair to vacate the role, voluntarily or otherwise, since Chris Nenzani…
News BCCI president had been “doing well” after treatment following a heart problem earlier this month BCCI president Sourav Ganguly has been hospitalised for the second time this month after complaining of chest pain. Ganguly had been discharged from Kolkata’s Woodlands Hospital following treatment for a similar complaint, later described as a heart attack by doctors, at the start of the year and was said to have recovered. It is…