Month: March 2021

Chadd Sayers announces retirement from first-class cricket

March 31, 2021
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Chadd Sayers has been one of South Australia’s finest bowlers © Getty Images Chadd Sayers, the South Australia seamer who earned one Test cap for Australia, has announced his retirement from first-class cricket at the end of the season. Sayers, 33, will play his final game when the Redbacks take on Victoria in Melbourne over Easter weekend. With one match remaining in his career, Sayers has 319 first-class wickets of…

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Pakistan's chance to revive their dormant one-day cricket

March 31, 2021
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Babar Azam has so far had precious little opportunity to build an ODI team for the 2023 World Cup © AFP via Getty Images Despite not making it to the semi-finals of the 2019 World Cup, Pakistan had their moments. They won four games in a row to sign off the tournament and they beat both teams that ended up making it to the final. They lost out on a…

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Ollie Robinson senses Test cap is close

March 31, 2021
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Ollie Robinson has been on the fringes of England selection over the past year   For England’s Test hopefuls the start of the County Championship season offers a simple, if slightly vague, formula for realising their dream: make runs, take wickets, get noticed by the national selectors. Ollie Robinson, the Sussex seam bowler, is among a handful of current players to have progressed considerably further along that path. Having spent…

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ECB step up batsman protection with no hit-wickets via the helmet

News Regulation tweak may lead to law change given mandatory use of headgear Alex Carey avoided being dismissed in the 2019 World Cup semi-final, when he caught his helmet as it fell towards the stumps   The ECB are hopeful that a tweak to their playing regulations for this season’s County Championship may prompt a change to the game’s laws, after it was deemed that batsmen will remain not out…

March 31, 2021
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Warwickshire allrounder Alex Thomson heads to Durham on two-month loan

News Former PE teacher will be available from start of Championship on April 8 Warwickshire’s off-spinning allrounder Alex Thomson has been farmed out to Durham on a two-month loan. Thomson, who put a career as a PE teacher on hold to try to make it in county cricket, faced limited first-team opportunities in the Championship following Warwickshire’s signing of Danny Briggs from Sussex. He will return to Edgbaston at the…

March 31, 2021
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Pakistan series a chance for Markram to secure top-order spot

News Analysis “I’d see myself anywhere in the top four, probably more comfortable up-top for the time being,” he says “I understand my white-ball game for the Proteas hasn’t been where I would have liked it to be”   A long, long time ago, in the age BC (Before Coronavirus), South Africa played an ODI series. And won. Really. In March 2020, they swept Australia 3-0 at home, prompting suggestion…

March 31, 2021
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Rain forces early lunch after Gabriel, Blackwood put West Indies ahead

Report The loss of Chandimal and de Silva substantially dented Sri Lanka’s likelihood of establishing a first-innings lead Lunch Sri Lanka 189 for 5 (Thirimanne 55, Roach 1-54, Gabriel 1-33) trail West Indies 354 all out (Brathwaite 126, Cornwall 73, Lakmal 4-94) by 165 runs Sri Lanka made further slow progress on a sluggish pitch, but the loss of both overnight batsmen – Dinesh Chandimal and Dhananjaya de Silva –…

March 31, 2021
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Josh de Caires, son of Mike Atherton, thwarts Yorkshire with century for Leeds/Bradford MCCU

News Teenage son shows familiar mettle in 270-run stand for second wicket at Headingley Josh de Caires, the son of former England captain Michael Atherton, scored an unbeaten hundred for Leeds/Bradford MCC Universities against Yorkshire on the third and final day of their pre-season warm-up at Headingley. De Caires, 18, signed a three-year deal with Middlesex in August, having come through the club’s academy, and made his second XI bow…

March 31, 2021
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Eoin Morgan recovering well from injury to play in Knight Riders' IPL 2021 opener on April 11

News The Kolkata Knight Riders captain said the side’s spin attack is “one of the best” in the tournament this season Eoin Morgan has said that he has progressed well enough to have a chance to play in the Kolkata Knight Riders’ season opener against the Sunrisers Hyderabad on April 11 after sustaining a hand injury that kept him out of the last two ODIs against India in Pune. Morgan,…

March 31, 2021
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'X-factor' Glenn Maxwell 'fits what we require in the middle order' – Mike Hesson

March 31, 2021
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Mike Hesson, the Royal Challengers Bangalore team director, is clear that the team is looking at Glenn Maxwell to be the finisher they have lacked in the recent past. Without giving away much of the team’s plans, Hesson stressed on clarity of roles as being key to getting the best out of “X-factor players” such as Maxwell. “Glenn Maxwell is a fantastic player, and he fits what we require in…

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