Month: April 2022

Former Test allrounder Andrew McDonald has been officially confirmed as Australia’s new full-time men’s coach for all three formats after signing a four-year contract. McDonald takes over after Justin Langer resigned in messy circumstances in February following an offer from the Cricket Australia board for a six-month contract extension only. McDonald, who has been the senior assistant and bowling mentor since late 2019, took over as interim coach for the…

Chennai Super Kings 216 for 4 (Dube 95*, Uthappa 88) beat Royal Challengers Bangalore 193 for 9 (Shahbaz 41, Karthik 34, Theekshana 4-33) by 23 runs It was supposed to be all about Faf du Plessis (and Josh Hazlewood) coming up against his former team Chennai Super Kings – it’s like playing brothers, he said at the toss – but it was Shivam Dube and Robin Uthappa who absolutely pulverised…

Luke Georgeson, the batting allrounder who played for New Zealand at the Under-19 World Cup four years ago, has signed a central contract with Cricket Ireland. Georgeson, who turns 23 later this week, had a contract with Wellington in New Zealand’s recent domestic season but has taken the “big decision” to commit his future to Ireland after spending last summer playing for Northern Knights in the inter-provincial set-up. “Obviously I’m…

County cricket has an “attitude problem” that is failing a generation of young spinners. That is the view of Matt Parkinson, who has called upon counties and their groundstaff to resist the temptation to prepare green pitches to suit medium-paced seam bowlers. Parkinson, who was England’s reserve spinner on their recent tour to the Caribbean, averages 23.35 in first-class cricket but has only made 32 appearances in the format at…

With four defeats in as many matches, the start of IPL 2022 has been far from ideal for five-time champions Mumbai Indians. However, their experienced quick, Jasprit Bumrah, believes that in T20 cricket, anyone could have a bad game and “to quickly move on” is all that matters. “This is T20 cricket, anyone can get targeted, anyone can have a good game or a bad game,” Bumrah said ahead of…

Apr 13: Mumbai Indians v Punjab Kings, 23rd Match, MCA Stadium, Pune Safe XI: Ishan Kishan, Jitesh Sharma, Shikhar Dhawan, Rohit Sharma (c), Suryakumar Yadav, Tilak Varma, Liam Livingstone, Rahul Chahar (VC), Kagiso Rabada, Jasprit Bumrah, Basil Thampi Captain: Rohit Sharma Rohit Sharma has played a couple of decent knocks – 41(32) and 26(15) – this season but he is due for a big score. In his last five IPL…

Big picture So. Mumbai Indians. It’s not been great. But let’s think *points to title of this section* here. Four losses in four games vs five IPL championships. This is potentially the greatest team in T20 history. But they needed five years to get there. Good things take time and in that time there will be pain. The idea is to find a way to endure it and still keep…

Glenn Phillips will return to Gloucestershire for the T20 Blast this summer after finishing last season as the tournament’s second-highest run-scorer. Phillips, the New Zealand middle-order batter, scored exactly 500 runs in his 12 appearances in the Blast last year, scoring his runs at a strike rate of 163.39 and finishing second on the run charts behind Leicestershire’s Australian wicketkeeper-batter Josh Inglis. “I really enjoyed my time at Glos last…

New Zealand quick Hamish Bennett has announced his retirement from all cricket, bringing the curtains down on a 17-year long career. The 35-year old, who has represented the New Zealand U-19 side, the senior men’s team and domestic teams Wellington and Canterbury, has said that the 2021-22 season will be his last. “When I started out as a young kid bowling in the nets in Timaru, I never dreamed I…

Deepak Chahar‘s potential return to IPLremains doubtful after the India and Chennai Super Kings strike bowler suffered a back injury during his rehab at the National Cricket Academy in Bengaluru. The gravity of the injury remains to be ascertained, as it is learned that Super Kings are yet to get a formal report from BCCI. Chahar has been at the NCA for more than a month now, recovering from the…