News It is not clear what impact this will have on SL’s T20I series against India starting Tuesday Grant Flower is not believed to have been in especially close contact with other squad members over the last few days Sri Lanka batting coach Grant Flower tested positive for Covid-19 on Thursday, three days after the squad returned from their tour of England. For now, it is not clear what…
News The development comes on the back of findings of the organisational review done by global consultant PricewaterhouseCoopers The ICC board has decided to relieve Manu Sawhney as the CEO with immediate effect. The decision was taken by the board at an emergency meeting on Thursday chaired by Greg Barclay, the ICC chairman. The development comes on the back of findings of the organisational review done by global consultant PricewaterhouseCoopers…
News She’s confident, however, that she’ll be back among the runs during the T20Is against England ‘I usually prefer more open nets and practice games than nets’ – Harmanpreet Kaur Harmanpreet Kaur has admitted that the longer-than-expected recovery from the groin injury she sustained in March, followed by her contracting Covid-19 later that month, affected her preparations leading up to India’s ongoing tour of England. That, in turn, she…
News The panel includes Justice Nimal Dissanayaka, a retired judge of the Sri Lankan Supreme Court Kusal Mendis and Danushka Gunathilaka are two of the three players under investigation SLC has formed a five-member panel to probe the incident in which three Sri Lanka players – Niroshan Dickwella, Danushka Gunathilaka and Kusal Mendis – breached the team’s biosecure bubble in Durham on June 27. The trio, who flew back…
Report Crawley, Salt, Carse, Gregory and Simpson win caps as Stokes captains for first time England have named five new caps in their side for the first ODI of the series against Pakistan in Cardiff. Brydon Carse (Durham’s fast bowler), Zak Crawley (Kent’s top-order batter), Lewis Gregory (Somerset’s seam-bowling allrounder), Phil Salt (Sussex’s top-order batter) and John Simpson (Middlesex’s keeper) are all making their ODI debuts. While Crawley and Gregory…
Yuzvendra Chahal last played an ODI against Australia, in November 2020 © BCCI India legspinner Yuzvendra Chahal has said we will “see a more confident Yuzi” during India’s limited-overs tour of Sri Lanka starting from July 13 in Colombo. Chahal, alongside Kuldeep Yadav, was a key member of India’s ODI squad in their lead up to the 2019 World Cup. Since that tournament, however, neither of them has had an…
News The 36-year-old pacer was the leading wicket-taker in the 2019 Vitality Blast Derbyshire have re-signed Ravi Rampaul, who was the leading wicket-taker in the 2019 Vitality Blast, for their final three group games in this year’s competition and the duration of the Royal London Cup. Rampaul, the 36-year-old fast bowler, spent the 2018 and 2019 seasons at Derbyshire as a Kolpak registration, but did not return last summer due…
Dasun Shanaka was among the first to agree to sign Sri Lanka Cricket’s tour contracts for India series © PA Images via Getty Images Dasun Shanaka is set to be named Sri Lanka’s new men’s limited-overs captain, replacing Kusal Perera who himself had only had the job since May . The captaincy switch is only partly a consequence of on-field performance. Although Sri Lanka have comfortably lost all three series…
Report Mahmdullah and Taskin added 110 for no loss in day two’s first session Lunch Bangladesh 404 for 8 (Mahmdullah 112*, Taskin 52*, Muzarabani 3-72) vs Zimbabwe Mahmudullah and Taskin Ahmed turned Bangladesh’s innings around on the second morning of the one-off Test against Zimbabwe. On the back of their 134-run unbeaten stand for the ninth wicket, the visitors breached 400, a score unexpected when they finished day one on…
Haris Sohail last played an ODI in October 2020 © Getty Images Haris Sohail has been ruled out of the England tour with a grade 3 hamstring injury and will return to Lahore by the first available flight to undergo a four-week rehabilitation programme at the high performance centre. He was meant to make a comeback in ODIs after he was dropped last year after the Zimbabwe series. Pakistan have…