News India captain wants administrators to reconsider the schedule considering the bubble life Virat Kohli will join the Royal Challengers Bangalore squad on April 1, two days after the team begins their training camp in Chennai. The Royal Challengers will play their initial set of matches, including the IPL tournament opener on April 9 against defending champions Mumbai Indians, in the city. It is understood that Kohli would need to…
News Game moved from Hove to Old Trafford after leatherjacket larvae cause damage to outfield Sussex and Lancashire have agreed to switch their season opener from Hove to Emirates Old Trafford after an infestation of leatherjackets – crane fly larvae – damaged the outfield at Sussex’s headquarters. Lancashire will now host the teams’ encounter in the opening round of the County Championship, starting on April 8, with the corresponding fixture…
It would not be this cricket season without Covid-19 making a late reappearance. After the WNCL final was briefly caught up in the fallout of the new community outbreak in Brisbane, the last rounds of the Marsh Cup and Sheffield Shield, with finals berths up for grabs, will now try and avoid the ramifications. So far the impact has been mitigated with Queensland flying to Sydney ahead of schedule on…
News Allrounder also makes second-fastest List A half-century along the way Thisara Perera, the allrounder, became the first Sri Lankan to hit six sixes in an over in any form of professional cricket, on Sunday. En route to his unbeaten 13-ball 52, he also smashed the second-fastest half-century in List A cricket, for Army Sports Cricket Club in SLC’s Major Clubs tournament. The record for fastest fifty is held by…
While stranger things have happened in cricket, it just doesn’t seem like Bangladesh have it in them to turn things around on this tour Big picture A win remains elusive for Bangladesh while New Zealand have their eyes on claiming an unprecedented ninth consecutive home series. Going by their form and confidence in the three ODIs and the first T20I in Hamilton, Napier is appearing to be a repeat:…
News The fast bowler spent the last many weeks recovering from a fractured forearm at the NCA ‘The injury while batting was unfortunate as I have not had any fitness issues for a long time’ – Mohammad Shami Mohammed Shami is “absolutely fine and ready to go” for the Punjab Kings in IPL 2021 after spending time at the National Cricket Academy (NCA) recovering from the fractured forearm he…
Big picture After a first Test that had started with a patented Sri Lankan batting collapse that almost anyone who had been watching them play cricket over the past few years could have predicted, here we are somehow entertaining the very real possibility of them securing a first ever Test series win in the Caribbean. Now, of course, for this to actually transpire, it would require Sri Lanka to replicate,…
Jos Buttler, England’s stand-in captain, says he is proud of the manner in which his side stayed true to the values that won them the 50-over World Cup at Lord’s two years ago, despite succumbing to a thrilling seven-run defeat in the ODI series decider against India in Pune. Faced with a stiff target of 330, England had slumped to 168 for 6 shortly after the halfway mark of their…
News Representatives from the Guyana and the Barbados cricket boards failed to show up at the virtual AGM Representatives from two out of six territorial boards that were supposed to vote in the election were no-shows In a dramatic turn of events, the Cricket West Indies (CWI) board elections have been adjourned till April 11 after representatives from the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) and the Barbados Cricket Association (BCA)…
News India’s captain expressed his surprise at the choices for the awards, which went to Sam Curran and Jonny Bairstow respectively India’s seven-run win in the third ODI against England won them the series 2-1 and completed a sweep across formats. India had put up 329 and had England on the ropes at 257 for 8, but a career-best 83-ball 95* by Sam Curran kept England in the game till…