Quetta Gladiators 176 for 7 (Usman Khan 81, Dhani 3-44) beat Multan Sultans 154 (Rizwan 66, Qais Ahmad 3-21) by 22 runs At the 14th attempt, the unthinkable happened: the team that lost the toss and were asked to bat first managed to win a match in the 2021 Pakistan Super League. Winless in their first four games of the season, Quetta Gladiators were unlikely candidates to break the infamous…
News “The vaccine doses will be administered on Thursday and will be offered to all those inside the bio-secure bubble” “The players and officials will be under no obligation to have the vaccine,” a PCB release said The PCB has offered doses of the Covid-19 vaccine to all participants of PSL 2021. The decision comes as a boost after the recent cases in the PSL which saw three overseas…
News “I have started to understand more about my own game and leadership skills,” says Zimbabwe’s captain Sean Williams has led Zimbabwe in three Tests so far and averages 80.50 as captain Zimbabwe’s captain Sean Williams hailed his side’s ten-wicket win over Afghanistan in the first Test in Abu Dhabi as a coming-of-age performance from a young group of players, and particularly important for his fledgling captaincy. Three Tests…
News The Lahore Qalandars have objected to the idea of not playing the second leg of matches in Lahore The discussions are only in very preliminary stages as the board is thinking of back-up plans The Covid-19 outbreak in Karachi within the biosecure bubble during the Pakistan Super League (PSL) has prompted the PCB to look at contingencies. The league management is believed to be considering the option of…
The ECB has been accused of “failing to adopt their own policies” on inclusion and diversity after they made a high-profile coaching appointment without advertising the role. The ECB announced on Monday that Richard Dawson, currently the head coach at Gloucestershire, would be the new Elite Performance Pathway Coach alongside three other specialist coaching positions. But while the vacancies for a spin bowling, seam bowling and batting coach (subsequently filled…
Karachi Kings 191 for 4 (Azam 77, Nabi 67, Saqib 2-41) beat Peshawar Zalmi 188 for 5 (Bopara 58*, Rutherford 46, Abbas Afridi 2-27, Ilyas 2-38) by six wickets Early into the second innings, it finally seemed like a side batting first would win a game in PSL 2021. However, it wasn’t to be as frequent dropped catches from the Peshawar Zalmi fielders combined with individual fifties for Babar Azam…
India versus England. The last Test of the last-but-one series in the current World Test Championship cycle. Everything is on the line. For India, it’s simple: win or draw, and they book their place in the final, alongside New Zealand. For England there’s the incentive of playing spoiler: if they win, India will miss out, and Australia will make the final instead. When you throw in all the conflicting emotions…
Big picture It would be tempting to place the Ahmedabad pitch and ball on centre stage, given that both stole the critics’ attention after the two-nights-only performance that was the third Test. But then, that would be akin to allowing some wonky scenery to distract from the actors and there’s so much more at play here. Crucially for India, they cannot afford to lose the grand finale at the same…
News Bess admits being dropped was ‘a tough pill to swallow’ after role in Chennai win Dom Bess has admitted that being dropped from the England team was “a tough pill to swallow” but said that he accepted, in retrospect, that it might have been the best thing for him. Bess claimed five wickets in the first Test of England’s series in India and said he did not see his…
News Debutant quick dismissed Martin Guptill and Kane Williamson to finish with 2 for 24 in Wellington Riley Meredith had played out his first delivery in international cricket “a thousand times” in his head, so when it landed on a good length at more than 140kph to Tim Seifert during the third T20I against New Zealand in Wellington, there was relief for the fast bowler that his Australia career was…