Preview As they come up against a confident New Zealand, Scotland have an opportunity to garner eyeballs Big picture When Scotland last played New Zealand in a T20I in 2009, Kane Williamson was a year away from an international debut. Devon Conway was a struggling age-group cricketer looking to break into the franchise system in South Africa. Mark Chapman was contemplating a career with Hong Kong. Daryl Mitchell was looking…
Report Both seamers collected career-best figures to help bowl Bangladesh out for 84, and South Africa aced the chase inside 14 overs South Africa 86 for 4 (Bavuma 31*, Taskin 2-18) beat Bangladesh 84 (Mahedi 27, Nortje 3-8, Rabada 3-20) by six wickets It was a fast bowling day at Abu Dhabi and that eventually made it a big win for South Africa, who chased 85 with six wickets in…
News Parliamentary pressure on Yorkshire “to give a much fuller explanation than we have had so far” Yorkshire have admitted that Azeem Rafiq suffered from “racial harassment” during his time at the club Yorkshire’s handling of the investigation into allegations of institutional racism by Azeem Rafiq will face further parliamentary scrutiny with the news that Roger Hutton, the club’s chairman, is to be called before the Department for Culture,…
News The event technical committee approved the replacement following concerns over Asghar’s mental wellbeing Sharafuddin Ashraf has been approved as Asghar Afghan‘s replacement in the Afghanistan squad for T20 World Cup. The event technical committee approved the replacement “following concerns over Asghar’s mental wellbeing,” an ICC statement said. In an unexpected move, former captain Afghan announced his retirement on the eve of Afghanistan’s game against Namibia in Abu Dhabi, saying…
News He has returned two negative tests since, and will be tested one final time today, November 2 [File pic] Michael Gough was suspended on October 28, and has returned two negative Covid-19 tests since Michael Gough, the English umpire, had to be suspended from his duties at the ongoing T20 World Cup for a six-day period starting October 28 following “a breach of the event bio-security protocols”. The…
News “It was the whole management who sits together and takes this call and of course, Rohit is part of that group” Ishan Kishan had scored 70* off 46 balls while opening the innings during the warm-up against England India’s reshuffle of their batting order against New Zealand became a major talking point after the side careened to a second successive defeat at the T20 World Cup. A back…
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News “If I get that job, there’ll be a lot of work to be done. We will take it as it goes.” Vikram Rathour, India’s incumbent batting coach, has revealed that he has reapplied for the role. The former India and Punjab wicketkeeper-batter was originally appointed to the post in 2019, for a period of two years, starting with the home series against South Africa in September and running till…
News His absence would leave England short on death-bowling options; any of Curran, Wood and Willey could replace Mills Tymal Mills pulled up hurt in his delivery stride and left the field immediately on Monday Tymal Mills will discover in the next 48 hours if he will play any further part in the T20 World Cup after he reported tightness in his right quadriceps during England’s 26-run win against…
News Says India’s last-minute rejig of their batting order may have done them more harm than good India have fallen behind in the race to the semi-finals of the T20 World Cup, and according to Mumbai Indians’ head coach and former Sri Lanka captain Mahela Jayawardene, they may have contributed to their own downfall a little bit by fiddling with a settled batting order. Rohit Sharma was pulled out of…