Preview The hosts will have to make tough selection calls for the second Test in Mumbai Big picture New Zealand’s Test tours of India over the years have been rather one-sided; the closest the visitors came to a series win was in 1969. However, they’ve always shown signs of competing well, even if they haven’t gone on to win. Having fought their way through to eke out a draw in…
News Pakistan spinner will join club on pay-as-you-play deal from April Zafar Gohar, the Pakistan left-arm spinner, will return to Gloucestershire for the 2022 season, as the club prepare for their first Division One campaign since 2005. Gohar collected 20 wickets at a cost of 14.35 in four Championship games earlier this year – including a match haul of 11 for 101 against Durham – as Gloucestershire finished second in…
Report England Lions XI make 226 for 4 against potential Test attack featuring Stokes, Anderson and Broad England Lions XI 226 for 4 vs England XI Ben Stokes was England’s most-successful bowler as the Brisbane rains finally relented, allowing the tourists their most significant warm-up action since arriving in Australia. Stokes claimed 2 for 31 from 12 overs in his first red-ball outing since appearing for Durham in July, as…
News The India Test captain is back to reclaim his spot in the XI for the Mumbai Test, but who will sit out? He isn’t telling just yet “When you play so much cricket at a certain level for so long, it gets taken for granted that you will keep turning up series after series and perform with the same intensity in every match” Virat Kohli is back in…
News As of now, India are scheduled to start their Test series in South Africa on December 17 Virat Kohli: “You want to have clarity and you want to be in a situation where you know exactly what is going on” India players are confident they will have “absolute clarity” around the South Africa tour in “a day or two or pretty soon”, their captain Virat Kohli has said….
News Sri Lanka Cricket doctors have suggested the injury is more serious than initially thought Mathews himself hoped that he would miss only the first few days of the tournament, or between three and four matches. But Sri Lanka Cricket doctors have suggested that the strain could be more serious, and that Mathews could end up potentially missing the whole tournament. The LPL is set to start on Sunday, and…
News Domestic cricket in South Africa does not take place under strict biosecure bubbles Last week, the second and third ODIs between South Africa and Netherlands were called off CSA has postponed all three Division 2 four-day matches scheduled to start on Thursday after some players were tested positive for Covid-19. The one-day matches due to take place on December 16 have also been pushed back to 2022. This…
News Not since Gilchrist’s debut in 1999 as an Australia keeper made their Test debut at home Adam Gilchrist expects Alex Carey to warm to Test cricket, knowing all too well the upside of serving a long-term apprenticeship in the coloured clothes before donning the baggy green. Carey, having captained Australia’s ODI side earlier this year and represented his country in 83 white-ball matches, will replace Tim Paine behind the…
Report Chase struck off the last ball before lunch to yank West Indies back into a good position Sri Lanka 204 and 151 for 4 (Nissanka 66, Dhananjaya 45*) lead West Indies 253 (Brathwaite 72, Mendis 6-70) by 102 runs Veerasammy Permaul removed Charith Asalanka in an otherwise quiet first hour, Pathum Nissanka and Dhananjaya de Silva then put on 78 for the third wicket, before Roston Chase struck with…
News “Naturally you bowl a little shorter here but you don’t want to be drawn into bowling too short” Chris Woakes: “Getting the ball to move sideways is probably the biggest challenge” It’s a question that dogs England ahead of every Ashes tour: can their attack master the Kookaburra ball like their favoured Dukes back home? The Kookaburra, which swings considerably less than the Dukes used in the UK,…