Play 02:02 Kieron Pollard gets to 300 T20 wickets: ‘Fabulous awareness, reading of the game’ Mumbai Indians 137 for 4 (Tiwary 45, Hardik 40*, Bishnoi 2-25) beat Punjab Kings 135 for 6 (Markram 42, Bumrah 2-24) by six wickets Not for the first time this season, Punjab Kings paid the price for losing their nerve at the death. After failing to score any boundaries in the final four overs to…
Craig Miles claimed four wickets in his opening spell © Getty Images Warwickshire 120 for 0 (Yates 69*, Sibley 49*) lead Lancashire 78 (Wood 46*, Miles 5-28, Johal 3-29) by 42 runs Warwickshire went a long way towards confirming their status as the strongest first-class team in the country with a dominant first-day performance against Lancashire at Lord’s. Having bowled out Lancashire for just 78 – their third lowest first-class…
RCB vs DC will now be played simulatenously with MI vs SRH © BCCI In a first, the final two matches in the league phase of the IPL will start simultaneously. As per the original schedule, the league phase was scheduled to end with a double header on October 8. In the morning match, starting at 11 am UAE time, Sunrisers Hyderabad were scheduled to face defending champions Mumbai Indians…
News “If he wants to make a name for himself, he needs to keep producing these knocks” Nitish Rana has received a glowing endorsement from Dinesh Karthik after he saw Kolkata Knight Riders through in a tricky chase against Delhi Capitals on Tuesday. Rana, who has dropped back into the middle order for Knight Riders after Venkatesh Iyer’s emergence at the top, batted ahead of Eoin Morgan at No. 4…
News Dinesh Karthik was happy to play peacemaker after Tim Southee, R Ashwin and Eoin Morgan got into a war of words Tuesday’s first IPL game between the Delhi Capitals and the Kolkata Knight Riders produced a momentary argument involving Tim Southee, Eoin Morgan and R Ashwin, which required intervention from the KKR wicketkeeper Dinesh Karthik, who said he was happy to have played peacemaker. The argument came about in…
PCB is looking to expand the pool of women cricketers in Pakistan © Getty Images The PCB has roped in Tania Mallick, a member of the Pakistan Olympics Association, to head their women’s cricket wing. The position was vacant since May this year after Urooj Mumtaz – who was holding multiple jobs in PCB – relinquished the main role, allowing PCB to hire a full-time head. Tania, 52, an alumnus…
Play 02:54 Brathwaite: This is the Sunil Narine that drove fear into batsmen’s hearts Kolkata Knight Riders 130 for 7 (Rana 36*, Gill 30, Avesh 3-13) beat Delhi Capitals 127 for 9 (Pant 39, Smith 39, Ferguson 2-10, Narine 2-18, V Iyer 2-29) by three wickets In replacing the injured Andre Russell with a fast bowler rather than an allrounder, Kolkata Knight Riders were placing a lot of faith in…
News Opener targets England chance after starring for Phoenix and Sparks If any more evidence was needed – and it’s become abundantly clear this summer – of the positive knock-on effects from professionalising domestic women’s cricket in England, look no further than Eve Jones. The first uncapped cricketer to win a player-voted PCA award, Women’s Player of the Year Jones has gone from having to shoehorn her own training around…
Joe Root has been in the form of his life in 2021, but may have played his final Test of the year Joe Root says he cannot yet commit to captaining England in Australia this winter, or taking part in the series at all, even though he is “desperate” to carry his formidable run of form into the Ashes, and so improve his record in one of the few…
News Capsey youngest-ever winner, Eve Jones first domestic player to be named women’s Player of the Year Joe Root and Eve Jones have been voted winners of the cinch Professional Cricketers’ Association (PCA) men’s and women’s Player of the Year awards, with Harry Brook and Alice Capsey each picking up Young Player of the Year. Root has scored six Test hundreds in the year to date, including three in consecutive…