News She is the first cricketer to be sanctioned since the BCCI agreed to come under NADA Madhya Pradesh women allrounder Anshula Rao has been suspended from cricket for four years, backdated to July 2020, for failing a dope test in March 2020. She is the first cricketer to be sanctioned since the BCCI agreed to come under the National Anti Doping Agency’s (NADA)’s ambit in 2019. Rao, an under-23…
News “In terms of having the four of us in one time is pretty special” – Tim Southee Tim Southee and Shane Jurgensen during a training session at the NZC High-Performance Centre Shane Jurgensen, the New Zealand bowling coach, has described winning the inaugural World Test Championship (WTC) as his “greatest coaching achievement”. “I think for me this is about, for all of New Zealand really, from people that…
News Bismah Maroof, who is on maternity leave, retains her place in category A There are now 12 players across the A, B and C categories, up from nine last year The PCB has increased its number of centrally contracted women players across the A, B and C categories from nine to 12, and awarded 10% salary hikes in each category. Bismah Maroof, who is on maternity leave, retains…
If they did indeed breach the bubble, the two men would likely be required to isolate for several days © AFP/Getty Images There are serious concerns that two Sri Lanka cricketers have breached the team’s bio-bubble in England, after a video emerged on Twitter showing Kusal Mendis and Niroshan Dickwella out in a public space. Sri Lanka manager Manuja Kariyapperuma told ESPNcricinfo that the team management would be investigating the…
News Analysis Jurgensen reveals Southee’s unusual inswinger was developed at a camp in Lincoln just before the England tour There’s a lot more to it, of course, but at its deadliest, Tim Southee‘s method is all about that old three-card trick: outswing, outswing, and the one that goes the other way. Except it isn’t just the “one” that goes the other way, but three different ways of delivering a ball…
Tim Southee is pumped after sending back Shubman Gill, one of his five victims in the WTC final © PA Photos/Getty Images New Zealand have played 18 bilateral Test series over the last five years. Of those, four have been three-match series, with two-match series making up the remainder. Compare that to the team they defeated in the World Test Championship final. India have played 18 series too, but 12…
Mithali Raj has admitted that India’s long-standing inability to minimise their dot-ball percentage and rotate strike more proactively will need to be redressed if they are to save the ongoing three-match ODI series against England. Chewing up 181 dot balls and posting a paltry 201 for 8, India suffered an eight-wicket loss in the first ODI on Sunday in Bristol as England overhauled the target with more than 15 overs…
News He had picked up the injury while fielding in the second T20I, in Cardiff Sri Lanka batsman Avishka Fernando has been ruled out of the ODIs against England with a grade two tear to his quadriceps. Fernando had picked up the injury while fielding in the second T20I, in Cardiff, and had not played in the third match in Southampton. The injury is particularly disappointing for Fernando, because this…
Report South Africa opt against change in balance despite lack of sixth bowling option West Indies won the toss and chose to bowl first vs South Africa Twenty-four hours have passed since West Indies beat South Africa convincingly in the opening T20I of this match series but little else has changed. The home side have again won the toss and put South Africa in and both teams have retained the…
Worcestershire 157 for 3 (D’Oliveira 69) beat Leicestershire 156 for 7 (Hill 59, Pennington 2-20) by seven wickets Brett D’Oliveira improved his career-best T20 score for the second time in the weekend to take Worcestershire to victory over Leicestershire. D’Oliveira, who made 67 as Worcestershire defeated Durham on Friday evening, scored 69 on this occasion to help his side to a seven-wicket victory with five balls to spare. The result…