Month: April 2022

Apr 16: Delhi Capitals vs Royal Challengers Bangalore, 27th Match, Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai Safe XI: Rishabh Pant, Dinesh Karthik, David Warner, Virat Kohli, Rovman Powell, Glenn Maxwell (capt), Shahbaz Ahmed, Kuldeep Yadav, Wanindu Hasaranga, Khaleel Ahmed (vice-capt), Josh Hazlewood Royal Challengers’ leading run-scorer last season, Maxwell missed the start of this edition but scored an 11-ball 26 in his second match, against Chennai Super Kings. He was in brilliant form…

Apr 16: Mumbai Indians v Lucknow Super Giants, 26th Match, Brabourne Stadium Safe XI: Quinton de Kock, KL Rahul (capt), Suryakumar Yadav (vice-capt), Deepak Hooda, Tilak Varma, Jason Holder, K Gowtham, Dewald Brevis, Jasprit Bumrah, Avesh Khan, Ravi Bishnoi Captain: KL Rahul The ever-consistent KL Rahul jas surprisingly not been at his best so far in the new jersey this season but has made a couple of important contributions –…

Delhi Capitals assistant coach Shane Watson believes the availability of the fit-again Mitchell Marsh for the side’s upcoming fixture, against Royals Challengers Bangalore on Saturday, will make them “really hard to beat now”. Marsh, the Australia allrounder, had sustained a hip-flexor injury during the white-ball leg of the Pakistan tour last month and had been undergoing his rehabilitation with Capitals, under head physio Patrick Farhart. He will likely come in…

Big picture As IPL 2022 moves closer to the halfway stage, the race to consolidate a top-four spot gets intense. On Saturday, Delhi Capitals and Royal Challengers Bangalore will be up against each other in a bid to pull away from the mid-table traffic. For Capitals, Prithvi Shaw has been imposing at the top, and forms a threating opening pair with David Warner. In their previous game, the two gave…

“There’s no coach, no managing director of cricket, no selector.” Eoin Morgan did his best to sum up the power vacuum at the heart of England’s men’s teams in an interview with ESPNcricinfo last week but now Joe Root has thrown the Test captaincy into the black hole, too. Even before Root’s resignation on Friday, England were in a mess. They had won one of their last 17 Tests and…

Big picture Miracles do happen in sport. In cricket too. Pakistan took home the 1992 World Cup after only one win in their first five matches, and closer home, Kolkata Knight Riders won nine games in a row on their way to a second IPL title in 2014. Why talk about that now? Well, Mumbai Indians must win almost all their remaining nine league matches to have a chance of…

The PCB has begun an ambitious bid to launch a franchise-based T20 League for junior cricketers. To avoid a clash with the PSL economy, the proposed five-team tournament tipped to be the Pakistan Junior League (PJL) will have host cities that aren’t part of the PSL bandwagon. The inaugural edition is slated to be held in October, with all the existing six PSL franchise being given the rights to acquire…

Deepak Chahar, the Chennai Super Kings quick, has been ruled out of the 2022 IPL altogether because of the back injury that had prevented him from taking part in the initial part of the competition. He had picked up the injury while undergoing rehab at the National Cricket Academy (NCA) in Bengaluru, where he was recovering from the quadricep tear he picked during India’s T20I series against West Indies in…

Joe Root has stepped down as England’s Test captain with immediate effect. Root has been in the role for five years and has overseen more games (64), wins (27) and defeats (26) than any other England captain. But his side have won only one of their last 17 Test matches, a run of form that has made his position untenable. Root has insisted after England’s defeat in their most recent…

Fall of wickets: 1-50 (Ben Charlesworth, 24.4 ov), 2-58 (James Bracey, 28.3 ov), 3-99 (Graeme van Buuren, 41.6 ov), 4-152 (Miles Hammond, 58.6 ov), 5-167 (Ryan Higgins, 65.5 ov), 6-167 (Tom Lace, 65.6 ov), 7-178 (Zafar Gohar, 68.6 ov), 8-183 (Matt Taylor, 69.5 ov), 9-226 (Marcus Harris, 77.3 ov), 10-227 (Ajeet Dale, 78.1 ov) Source: ESPN Crickinfo