Month: April 2021

Edgbaston will host the women’s T20 event at the 2022 Commonwealth Games © Getty Images Australia, India, New Zealand, Pakistan, South Africa, England and a nation from the Caribbean have all qualified for the women’s event 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, Women’s cricket will feature at the Games for the first time, and cricket for the second time, after a men’s ODI competition, which was staged in Kuala Lumpur in…

Billy Stanlake will have to serve a period in quarantine © AFP Billy Stanlake, the Australia fast bowler, has been prevented from making his Derbyshire debut this week as the County Championship is not considered “elite sport”. Stanlake arrived in England on Sunday and was hoping to play in the Championship match against Nottinghamshire starting on Thursday. But while that would have been fine if he had been hoping to…

The Pakistan Super League (PSL) will conduct a replacement draft for the six teams to complete their squads ahead of the resumption of the 2021 edition of the tournament, which had been suspended after 14 matches following a spate of Covid-19 cases among players and support staffers. The remainder of the tournament will be played in June, with all matches in Karachi, in a bio-security bubble being put in place…

Luke Jongwe picked up nine wickets in the three T20Is against Pakistan © AFP/Getty Images Zimbabwe have named five uncapped players – Luke Jongwe, Richard Ngarava, Roy Kaia, Milton Shumba and Tanaka Chivanga – in their 16-man squad for the series of two Tests against Pakistan, the first of which starts in Harare on April 29. Brendan Taylor, who missed Zimbabwe’s last Test series against Afghanistan in the UAE because…

Pat Cummins in his delivery stride © BCCI/IPL The Kolkata Knight Riders’ Australian fast bowler Pat Cummins has donated $50,000 “specifically to purchase oxygen supplies for India’s hospitals” to PM Cares, a fund-raising scheme set up by the prime minister of India in March last year when the Covid-19 pandemic first broke out. Cummins – the first cricketer playing in this year’s IPL to publicly announce such a contribution –…