Month: October 2021

Play 02:08 Should Mumbai stick with Jayant Yadav? Should Royals try out Tabraiz Shamsi? Big Picture Rohit Sharma wants the Mumbai Indians to be free and fearless. At the stage they are at, they may as well be, because even two wins can’t guarantee an automatic playoffs berth because their net run rate is quite poor. They can take a cue from their opponents, the Rajasthan Royals, who exhibited these…

News England fly out to Oman with half of World Cup squad already in situ at the IPL Tymal Mills helped get Sussex to Blast Finals Day and picked up a winner’s medal in the Hundred with Southern Brave   When England were beaten by West Indies in the final of the 2016 World T20, Eoin Morgan was the only player in their side who had made an appearance in…

News The 31-year-old, who recently completed a ban for corruption, is weighing up his options including a long-term cricketing future in the USA Umar Akmal is playing for California Zalmi in the ongoing season of the Premier C league   Umar Akmal has left Pakistan mid-season to try and explore opportunities playing league cricket in the USA. He has signed a short-term contract with the Northern California Cricket Association but…

News ECB warns that tour rests on selection of squad “befitting a series of this significance” The ECB board is set to meet later this week to determine whether this winter’s Ashes can take place, after appearing to concede that several of the team’s leading players remain unwilling to submit to Australia’s stringent Covid-19 protocols. In a statement issued on Monday morning, the ECB said that it had been in…

News Warm-up matches and the DRS are also key elements that need to be available The argument that women’s Tests should be played over five days was given further weight by the day-night match at Metricon Stadium while Australia coach Matthew Mott suggested the points awarded for the game may need adjusting. With nearly 100 overs lost to rain over the first two days on the Gold Coast it was…

News Thieves broke into the team van while it parked outside the hotel Queensland’s rescheduled trip to Adelaide got off on the wrong foot after the team van was broken into and some playing equipment stolen ahead of Thursday’s Sheffield Shield clash with Tasmania at Karen Rolton Oval. Thieves broke the van’s window while it was parked outside the team hotel and stole some gear. Queensland wicketkeeper Jimmy Peirson posted…

News “The longer you go without contributing a significant score, the closer you are to actually contributing. And that’s coming from experience” Being an overseas captain of an IPL team is not an easy job. The moment you start to struggle, debates start if it is tenable to have an overseas captain because you are occupying one of the four key positions. The underlying implication is that it is okay…

Report The Sunrisers bowlers made a good fist of defending 119, with the debutant Umran Malik particularly impressive Kolkata Knight Riders 119 for 4 (Gill 57, Rana 25, Holder 2-32) beat Sunrisers Hyderabad 115 for 8 (Williamson 26, Samad 25, Southee 2-26, Chakravarthy 2-26, Mavi 2-29) by seven wickets Kolkata Knight Riders simply had to win, and they kept their end of the bargain thanks to a superb bowling performance…

News The T20 World Cup will now be the largest-scale event with fan involvement in the UAE since the start of the pandemic The upcoming men’s T20 World Cup, in October-November in the UAE (and Oman, for some of the first-round games), will witness significant spectator presence, with all stadia set to allow people in at 70% capacity throughout the tournament, the ICC announced on Sunday. This will make the…