Month: April 2022

Naseem Shah, the Pakistan fast bowler, has been ruled out for a month of his stint with Gloucestershire through injury. Naseem bowled 11 overs on his Gloucestershire debut against Northamptonshire in the opening round of the season before suffering a shoulder injury which rendered him unavailable for their fixture against Yorkshire last week. Related Pakistan County Championship round-up: Masood, Hasan take top billing Karunaratne joins Yorkshire for short-term Championship stint…

A second overseas player, after Mitchell Marsh, in the Delhi Capitals camp has tested positive for Covid-19, again putting a question mark over their match against Punjab Kings at Mumbai’s Brabourne Stadium later this evening. The positive result emerged after the fourth round RT-PCR tests conducted on Wednesday morning. It is understood that the organisers have kept open the option of rescheduling the match, which was on Tuesday shifted from…

Former India captain Virat Kohli is mentally “overcooked” and needs to take a break from cricket in order to serve the country for at least another six-seven years, feels Ravi Shastri, the former India head coach. Kohli, 33, has been going through a lean patch in the ongoing IPL, with just two 40-plus scores in his last seven innings for Royal Challengers Bangalore. Shastri is of the view that Kohli…

David Lawrence, the former England fast bowler, has been unveiled as the new President of Gloucestershire. Lawrence, whose five-match England career was cut short by a horrific knee injury in 1992, claimed 625 wickets in 280 matches for Gloucestershire between 1981 and 1997, in which time he formed a feared pace attack alongside Courtney Walsh and Kevin Curran. He was announced as the club’s new president at their AGM on…

Royal Challengers Bangalore 181 for 6 (du Plessis 96, Holder 2-25, Chameera 2-31) beat Lucknow Super Giants 163 for 8 (Krunal 42, Hazlewood 4-25, Harshal 2-47) by 18 runs Faf du Plessis equalled his highest IPL score with a supremely paced innings of 96 from 64 balls, as Royal Challengers Bangalore restated their top-of-the-table credentials with an emphatic 18-run victory over fellow high-fliers Lucknow Super Giants. On a high-kicking surface…

The pair bowled at Lancashire training this morning and, as centrally contracted players, were cleared by the ECB to play in the Division One fixture starting at Emirates Old Trafford on Thursday. The ECB also made Stuart Broad available for selection by Nottinghamshire, with the club due to announce their squad tomorrow to travel to Durham, although the Daily Mail, for whom Broad is a columnist, reported that he would…

Over a week after the ouster of Imran Khan and his government, the fate of PCB chairmanship remains uncertain. Ramiz Raja, the current board chairman, was hand-picked by Imran when he was prime minister last year, having played nearly half of his 255 international matches under Imran’s captaincy. But with Imran gone, speculation has grown around Ramiz’s future; traditionally, any changes of government have led to a change of PCB…

Mosharraf Hossain, the former Bangladesh left-arm spinner, has died aged 40 in Dhaka. He was suffering from brain cancer, which was diagnosed in March 2019. He had recovered after undergoing treatment, but the tumour relapsed in November 2020. Nicknamed Rubel, Mosharraf had been in hospital over the last couple of weeks, but went home after another bout of chemotherapy recently. Mosharraf was one of seven cricketers to score 3000 runs…

Apr 20: Delhi Capitals v Punjab Kings, 32nd Match, Brabourne Stadium Safe XI: Rishabh Pant, Jitesh Sharma, David Warner (capt), Shikhar Dhawan, Prithvi Shaw, Liam Livingstone (vice-capt), Kuldeep Yadav, Rahul Chahar, Kagiso Rabada, Khaleel Ahmed, Shardul Thakur Captain: David WarnerOne of the most successful overseas players in IPL, Warner hit the right notes for Capitals in the last two games, recording scores of 61 and 66. No other player has…

Big picture The doughty virus has squeezed through the bio bubble, a player has been hospitalised as a precaution, and the match has been relocated across the expressway from Pune to Mumbai, but the good news is that the match will still be happening. Fingers crossed, for who can forget 2021? Both Delhi Capitals and Punjab Kings have lost three and won two of their last five matches, thus showing…