News Vaccination passports being considered as clubs focus on getting crowds back into venues County cricket took a hit in 2020, but all the clubs have made it to the start line for the new season The domestic game is expected to report combined losses in excess of £100 million by the time all 18 first-class counties have published their accounts at the end of April, according to Neil…
Report Suranga Lakmal took 4/94 but the captain’s century and the allrounder’s 73 kept the home team strong Kraigg Brathwaite brought up his ninth Test century and first as West Indies captain Lunch: West Indies 354 (Brathwaite 126, Mayers 49, Cornwall 73, Lakmal 4-94, Chameera 3-69) v Sri Lanka Sri Lanka removed the three remaining West Indies wickets, but it took them all of the morning session, and cost…
Tackling the menace of slow over rates, the IPL has made it mandatory for bowling teams to deliver their 20 overs within the stipulated 90 minutes (including strategic time-outs) for the 2021 edition. Other significant tweaks to the playing conditions for IPL 2021 include: no soft signal for close catches and obstruction of field, putting in a cap on the time till which multiple Super Overs can be bowled, and…
RThis is the first captaincy assignment for Pant in the IPL © BCCI Rishabh Pant has been appointed Delhi Capitals’ captain for the 2021 IPL. The development comes in the wake of Capital’s regular captain Shreyas Iyer being ruled of the season after he dislocated his left shoulder during the ODI series against England. This is the first captaincy assignment for Pant in the IPL, who was bought by the…
Angus Fraser, Middlesex’s director of cricket, has insisted that a uniform spread of good cricket wickets remains the best way to develop Test-class cricketers, in spite of the difficulties that England encountered in spinning conditions on their tour of India this winter, where they succumbed to three heavy defeats at Chennai and Ahmedabad. After dominating the first Test at Chennai in the most batsman-friendly conditions of the series, England had…
Chris Morris had played all of one international – a T20I against New Zealand in Durban – when he earned his maiden IPL deal in 2013, with the Chennai Super Kings shelling out US$ 625,000 for him. Eight years later, Morris’ South Africa future is uncertain, but he continues to be a sought-after player in the IPL. In the most recent auction, he became the most expensive player ever in…
News South Africa’s Sune Luus and Nadine de Klerk also gain following 2-1 series win in India India Women’s T20I opener Shafali Verma has consolidated her position at the top of the batting rankings table in the format. Verma’s 30-ball 60 in the third T20I against South Africa last week helped her gain another 26 points to further strengthen her grip on the top spot. That has put Verma on…
News The revised target was communicated well after Bangladesh began their reply to New Zealand’s 173/5 in 17.5 overs Bangladesh played the first nine balls of their innings without knowing their target The match officials had to stop play for five minutes soon after Bangladesh began their chase in the second T20I in Napier on Tuesday, as there was no clarity on Bangladesh’s target till that point. New Zealand…
News Australia’s bowlers almost turned the game around but New Zealand’s lower order came through Beth Mooney believed Australia’s bowlers could close out the second T20I in Napier, but conceded the visitors had been under par with the bat on a surface where they were not able to significantly accelerate. Despite only having 129 on the board, Australia had squeezed the chase after the fall of Frankie Mackay to the…
Report The match ended before lunch on the second day, with Junaid Siddique’s 43 the best individual batting effort Rajshahi Division 151 (Siddique 43, Taijul 37, Tanzid 36, Gazi 6-65) beat Barisal Division 82 (Sunzamul 4-18, Taijul 4-39) and 60 (Sunzamul 6-15, Taijul 4-23) by an innings and nine runs Sunzamul Islam‘s record-breaking 10 for 33 and Player-of-the-Match Taijul Islam‘s eight wickets sent Barisal Division crashing to an innings-and-nine-run defeat…