Report New Zealand go in with four-man pace attack On the first day of 2022, Bangladesh captain Mominul Haque decided to field first against New Zealand in the first Test at the Bay Oval in Mount Maunganui. Mominul said that Bangladesh wanted to get first use the moisture on a greenish pitch. This is New Zealand’s first home test after becoming world champions in the format in June last year….
News No recall for Andre Russell, three players to miss Ireland series due to Covid-19 Kieron Pollard is back for T20I and ODI commitments against Ireland and England Pollard had been ruled out of West Indies’ tour of Pakistan in December because of a hamstring injury, with Nicholas Pooran leading the T20I side in his absence. Shai Hope had been due to take charge in the ODIs, before they…
News “The main goal for everybody is the same: to keep India on top. We don’t want controversies” Chetan Sharma: “We told Virat the World Cup is upon us, and everybody requested let’s talk after the World Cup” Everyone present in the meeting had asked Virat Kohli to reconsider stepping down as India’s T20I captain on the eve of the T20 World Cup, chief selector Chetan Sharma said on…
News Most of the regulars who missed the Sri Lanka tour in July are back in the mix Rohit Sharma, who has failed to recover from the hamstring injury that kept him out of the Test series in South Africa, doesn’t figure in the squad for the three-match ODI series in South Africa either. In the absence of the regular India white-ball captain, KL Rahul will take the reins of…
News Former Test captain advocates radical change with call for ECB to impose Hundred template on first-class game Former England batter Kevin Pietersen believes that the ECB must create a first-class competition with a similar structure to the Hundred if the men’s Test team is to “return to its former glories”. Pietersen, an Ashes winner in 2005, 2009, 2010-11 and 2013, was part of Sky Sports’ commentary team for the…
Report Spinners Ostwal, Tambe and opener Raghuvanshi shine as India beat Sri Lanka by nine wickets in rain-hit final India Under-19 104 for 1 (Raghuvanshi 56*, Rasheed 31*) beat Sri Lanka Under-19 106 for 9 (Ostwal 3-11, Tambe 2-23) by nine wickets via DLS method India ended 2021 with a memorable feat, winning a record eighth Under-19 Asia Cup title in nine editions, by thrashing Sri Lanka by nine wickets in…
News Adam Hollioake added to coaching staff after Covid-19 isolation rules hit tourists England’s batters have been given a “wake-up call” and an “education” by Australia’s bowling attack in the first three Ashes Tests. That is the view of Graham Thorpe, their assistant coach, who will stand in for the self-isolating Chris Silverwood in next week’s fourth Test at the SCG. The stats from the first three Ashes Tests make…
Report Strikers’ lack of power hitting resulted in a sixth defeat in seven games; Sams shines with four wickets for Thunder Sydney Thunder 3 for 187 (Sangha 91*) beat Adelaide Strikers 7 for 165 (Wells 46, Renshaw 38, Sams 4-33) by 22 runs They won the Boost Point, but there was little else to cheer the Adelaide crowd up on an abject night for the Adelaide Strikers, who slumped to…
Luckily there’s only a few more hours for anything else to go wrong in South African cricket in 2021. It’s been the third annus horribilis in succession after the disaster that was the 2019 World Cup, the administrative chaos that followed in 2020, the band-aid which has been ripped off the racial wounds in 2021, the results that just don’t get consistently better and the people who continue to walk…
News The BCCI president will remain in home isolation for the time being, with a team of doctors monitoring his health status Sourav Ganguly has been discharged from Kolkata’s Woodlands Hospital, where he had been admitted following a positive Covid-19 test, with the hospital declaring him “clinically stable”. Dr Rupali Basu, the MD and CEO of the hospital, issued a statement confirming that the BCCI chief would “remain in home…