Report Ajaz Patel removed both openers to take his match tally to 12, having also troubled Virat Kohli Lunch India 325 and 142 for 2 (Agarwal 62, Pujara 47, Ajaz 2-77) lead New Zealand 62 by 405 runs Agarwal and Pujara, who was bumped up to the top after Shubman Gill hadn’t recovered sufficiently from the blow on the elbow while fielding, added a tone-setting 30 in the first five…
Report The weather lived up to the original forecast of rain on Sunday, and it is likely to continue into the third and fourth days Lunch Pakistan 161 for 2 (Babar 60*, Abid 39, Taijul 2-49) vs Bangladesh Lunch was taken at 11:25am local time after play was suspended during the first session of the second day in Dhaka. The players were out around 11:15am local time when the umpires…
News Mitchell Starc will complete the fast-bowling trio alongside Josh Hazlewood and captain Pat Cummins Travis Head has won the race to be Australia’s No. 5 for the opening Ashes Test at the Gabba with Mitchell Starc also locked into the pace attack. Starc was expected to be retain his place ahead of the in-form Jhye Richardson but the final batting spot was the closest decision that needed to be…
Deccan Gladiators 159 for 0 (Russell 90*, Kohler-Cadmore 59*) beat Delhi Bulls 103 for 7 (Hemraj 42) by 56 runs Once he gets going, there is quite simply no stopping him. Dynamic, powerful and with the ability to hit sixes at will; a revolutionary, a game-changer. Andre Russell has helped to redefine the scope of short-format batting in and of itself, with his ability to fuse his natural strength with…
The 16 members of Yorkshire’s coaching and backroom staff who were sacked this week are expected to seek legal advice on Monday, as a club that has long specialised in internal strife braces itself for the deepest crisis in its history. Even allowing for the widespread acceptance that change at Yorkshire was necessary in the wake of Azeem Rafiq‘s allegations of institutional racism, the purge of the club’s coaching and…
News Seamer hopes lessons of 2019-20 Lions tour will serve him well in maiden Ashes series As a 13-year-old in 2006-07, Ollie Robinson bunked off a week of school to spend Christmas out in Australia and watch Andrew Flintoff’s team get crushed in three of the five Tests of that winter’s Ashes whitewash. He’s back 15 years later with rather more uplifting recent memories of life Down Under, after his…
News Former India batter to officially take over NCA job on December 13 VVS Laxman will be taking over as NCA chief on December 13 along with the other coaches after the appointments were ratified by the general body at the BCCI AGM in Kolkata on Saturday. Laxman and Troy Cooley who has been roped in as bowling coach, are among the high-profile appointments. Cooley has been signed with an…
News As a result of the 10-for, he has something to do as he quarantines when he goes back home Ajaz Patel is in no hurry to go through the notifications on his phone after he became only the third man in the history of Test cricket to take all 10 wickets in an innings. He might have been born in the chaotic city of Mumbai, but Ajaz is a…
News BCB president believes the fact-finding committee’s report may not yield much Even as a two-member BCB committee looks into what ails the Bangladesh men’s team, president Nazmul Hassan wants to conduct an investigation of his own. He wants to do so after Jalal Yunus and Enayed Hossain Siraj, the members of that committee, submit their report in January. The committee was formed in the first place after Bangladesh’s disastrous…
News Spinner says the hosts’ bowlers failed to form partnerships as Pakistan put on 161 for 2 on day one in Dhaka Bangladesh rarely pick five specialist bowlers at home, so when they did so against Pakistan in the Dhaka Test, there were more expectations of them. But as Mehidy Hasan Miraz put it, even during a truncated first day’s play, the home team’s bowlers couldn’t combine well to keep…