News Their captain MS Dhoni says the “players have taken more responsibility” A “change in attitude” in dealing with the various challenges posed by playing during a pandemic has resulted in a change in fortunes for the Chennai Super Kings, according to captain MS Dhoni and coach Stephen Fleming. Six months ago, the Super Kings left the UAE having endured their worst-ever showing at the IPL, not making the playoffs…
News Sunrisers Hyderabad captain struggled to get going in a 55-ball innings where he managed to score just 57 David Warner will not look back very fondly at the match that got him his 50th IPL half-century and his 10,000th T20 run. Warner struggled to 57 off 55 against the Chennai Super Kings, contributing to a sluggish start as the Sunrisers Hyderabad slumped to a seven-wicket defeat to stay at…
News Visitors will be boosted at Hove this week by return of Liam Livingstone from IPL James Anderson will miss Lancashire’s County Championship fixture against Sussex this week as he continues to manage a minor calf injury. England have been managing the workloads of their centrally contracted players carefully – and their bowlers in particular – at the start of the county season. Anderson was due to play his first…
The fifth edition of the TNPL will be held in four districts © TNCA/TNPL The BCCI has given the green signal for the fifth edition of the Tamil Nadu Premier League (TNPL), the state’s premier franchise-based T20 tournament, to be held in a bio-secure environment from June 4, the Tamil Nadu Cricket Association (TNCA) announced on Wednesday. The eight-team competition will start in Tirunelveli and conclude on July 4 in…
Marnus Labuschagne and Michael Neser have arrived in Wales © Glamorgan CCC When Marnus Labuschagne arrived in Cardiff in 2019, he had made five Test appearances and was by no means guaranteed to play another: he averaged 26.25, had batted in five different positions, and had only played while David Warner and Steven Smith were banned. Ahead of his early-season stint with Glamorgan, few Division Two seamers were losing sleep…
Zimbabwe pulled off a famous victory at home against Pakistan in 2013 © AFP Big Picture For the first time since 2017, Zimbabwe have the chance to play Test cricket against a side other than Afghanistan or Bangladesh. While that might be welcome in itself, the home side showed enough against Pakistan in the shorter formats to aspire to more than just a participation trophy in the upcoming two-match series….
Preview Will the Capitals turn to Nortje? And how much longer can the Knight Riders persist with Gill? Prithvi Shaw and Shikhar Dhawan have thrice had stands worth 50 or more this season Big picture All games in the IPL are crucial, even when it pits one of the top teams against another that hasn’t had things go its way much. The Delhi Capitals are flying high, on eight…
News Mamatha Maben, Nooshin Al Khadeer, Jaya Sharma, Hemlata Kala among prominent former cricketers in the fray The India Women team has only had male coaches since the exit of Purnima Rau in April 2017 Former India internationals Hemlata Kala, Mamatha Maben, Jaya Sharma and Nooshin Al Khadeer are understood to have applied for the job of head coach of the India Women’s team. The update comes less than…
MS Dhoni keeps wicket to Jonny Bairstow © BCCI Toss: chose to bat vs Chennai Super Kings David Warner won the toss and the Sunrisers Hyderabad chose to bat first against MS Dhoni’s Chennai Super Kings in Match 23 of IPL 2021. This is the first match of the tournament at the Arun Jaitley Stadium in Delhi. When asked for the reasoning behind his decision, Warner said, “Because we haven’t…
News Sri Lanka’s Dimuth Karunaratne and Dhananjaya de Silva move up in Test batting rankings Mohammad Rizwan gained five places to be placed 10th in the ICC men’s rankings for T20I batters Mohammad Rizwan continued his rapid rise as a T20I batter by entering the top 10 in the ICC rankings on the back of his player-of-the-series performance in Zimbabwe. Rizwan hit 82* and 91* in the two matches…