Report Sri Lanka’s limited attack stood exposed in Mohali India 357 for 6 (Pant 96, Vihari 58, Embuldeniya 2-107) vs Sri Lanka Sri Lanka managed to deny Virat Kohli even a fifty in his 100th Test. They didn’t let Hanuma Vihari convert his fifty into a hundred in his 100th first-class match. By the end of the day, though, they might have regretted getting them out because it brought out…
Preview With Nasum and Litton in top form, the home team is eyeing a 2-0 T20I sweep in Dhaka Big picture Shere Bangla National Stadium, both literally and figuratively, lit up on Thursday evening as crowds returned in full capacity to Bangladesh’s home of cricket. As icing on the cake, the home team trounced Afghanistan by 61 runs in the first T20I, which sets up the second game, the last…
Anya Shrubsole will lead England’s attack five years on from her crowning glory Anya Shrubsole insists that her matchwinning display in the 2017 World Cup final will have “zero bearing” on how England go about defending their title in New Zealand this month, but says that her team-mates have nothing to lose as they prepare to take on Australia, the runaway favourites, in their opening match of the 2022…
News A severe lack of bowling time did not deter Dottin from wanting to bowling a high-pressure final over, and executing to perfection to quell New Zealand Deandra Dottin produced a sequence of 1 W 1 W W in the final over to seal the game “A player like Deandra Dottin, when she says give me the ball, you just give her the ball.” Even if you had already…
News The former English county cricketer had worked with the franchise as a fast-bowling coach during IPL 2019 Steffan Jones, who had served as Rajasthan Royals’ fast-bowling coach during the 2019 edition of the IPL, has been brought back by the franchise, this time as the high-performance fast-bowling coach, ahead of the 2022 chapter of the tournament. “Steffan has been closely associated with the franchise over the past few years…
At the peak of his powers, Rod Marsh was the best wicketkeeper in the world. He was also a more-than-handy batter, a villain, a rebel, irreverent, insubordinate – and loved and admired as one half of an Australian cricket partnership of uncanny proportions. Marsh, who died Friday aged 74, was also a coach, mentor and administrator who guided the game’s youth through national and international cricket academies. Born in Armadale,…
News Former Australia allrounder Watson also played a key role in Australia’s eventual trip Cricket Australia chief executive Nick Hockley said Australia’s pre-tour reconnaissance trip during West Indies’ visit in December was “the pivotal moment” that set the wheels in motion for Australia’s first visit of Pakistan since 1998. Calling the hesitation surrounding the visit to Pakistan “a fear or anxiety of the unknown”, Hockley said the security arrangements had…
Report Australia have named just the one specialist spinner in their XI, Nathan Lyon, while Pakistan have more options Toss Pakistan won the toss and chose to bat against Australia Josh Hazlewood has replaced Scott Boland as Australia resisted the temptation of fielding a second specialist spinner for the historic Test series opener against Pakistan, who won the toss and elected to bat on an expected flat Rawalpindi pitch. In…
Report Wicketkeeper-batter Rashada Williams has a concussion and hence not in the West Indies XI Toss New Zealand chose to bowl vs West Indies Hosts New Zealand handed 17-year-old left-arm spinner Fran Jonas a World Cup debut as they sent West Indies in, in the opening match of the delayed 2022 50-over world event at the Bay Oval in Tauranga. Captain Sophie Devine, Suzie Bates, Lea Tahuhu, Jess Kerr and…
News Marsh played 96 Tests and claimed what was then a world record 355 dismissals Australian cricket great Rod Marsh is being hailed as among the sport’s most influential figures after passing away, aged 74. Marsh suffered a heart attack in Queensland last Thursday and has died in an Adelaide hospital. A combative wicketkeeper-batter, Marsh played 96 Test matches for Australia between 1970 and 1984 and 92 one-day internationals. On…