Trent Boult and Sophie Devine have been named New Zealand T20I Players of the Year in the men’s and women’s categories respectively at the 2022 ANZ awards. Boult picked up 23 wickets in 15 matches last year, including 13 wickets in seven games at the 2021 T20 World Cup in October-November. This is Devine’s second consecutive ANZ T20I award, after finishing 2021 with 145 runs and seven wickets in eight…
South Africa are not throwing the doors open to welcome back the IPL absentees who “vacated their spots”, as coach Mark Boucher put it, after finding a strong second-tier of players in their series sweep over Bangladesh. South Africa dominated the two Tests despite being without their entire frontline pace pack, and with four of their top six batters having 13 Test caps between. That will give the selectors a…
Washington Sundar is likely to miss at least the next two games for Sunrisers Hyderabad after suffering split webbing in his bowling hand, coach Tom Moody has revealed. Washington has been the lone specialist spinner for the Sunrisers so far this season. After a poor opening fixture where he was taken apart for 47 in three wicketless overs against Rajasthan Royals, he has bounced back to pick up a combined…
Sunrisers Hyderabad 168 for 2 (Williamson 57, Abhishek 42, Pooran 34*, Pandya 1-27) beat Gujarat Titans 162 for 7 (Pandya 50*, Manohar 35, Natarajan 2-34, Bhuvneshwar 2-37) by eight wickets After starting the season with successive defeats, Sunrisers Hyderabad have turned it around with back-to-back victories. Two days after swamping Chennai Super Kings, Sunrisers’ attack turned up once again, this time to consign Gujarat Titans to their first loss. It…
James Anderson says he has “stopped trying to make sense” of his omission from England’s Test squad for their series defeat against West Indies and that he remains unclear “what the reset thing actually means” after minimal contact from the ECB. Anderson, along with his long-term team-mate and close friend Stuart Broad, was left out of the squad that travelled to the Caribbean last month and has kept a low…
Naseem ShahA young, tearaway Pakistan quick signing up for a full season at an English county to hone his skills and learn the craft? Naseem Shah at Gloucestershire has a very 1990s feel about it. He’s arriving at a good moment in his career, off the back of being, arguably, Pakistan’s best bowler in the Tests against Australia. But a shoulder injury in his first county outing restricted him to…
Hasan Ali plans to pick James Anderson’s brains during his six weeks as Lancashire’s overseas player and says he is excited to follow in Wasim Akram’s footsteps after his success at the county in the 1990s. Hasan arrived in Manchester on Saturday and will be available for six County Championship games, starting with Lancashire’s fixture against Kent at Canterbury later this week. Speaking at the club’s press day, he told…
Bangladesh’s captain Mominul Haque has admitted that his team has been out of sorts ever since the first innings of the Durban Test, which the visitors lost by 220 runs. Bangladesh’s poor form with the bat continued into the second Test as well, as they were bowled out for 80 in the fourth innings in Gqeberha, their second sub-100 score in the series. For the second straight game, Bangladesh capitulated…
Mohammad Hussain, the former Pakistan left-arm spinner, has died in Lahore at the age of 45. He had been suffering from kidney-related illness for a while and was relying on dialysis. He was also a diabetic. Hussain played two Tests and 14 ODIs for Pakistan between 1996 and 1998. He made his Test debut against Zimbabwe in Faisalabad in 1996. He had to wait for two years for his next…
Mark Boucher has given no clear indication of whether he wants to continue as South Africa’s coach pending the outcome of his upcoming disciplinary hearing. Boucher will appear before senior counsel Terry Motau between May 16-20, where he faces charges of gross misconduct for his handling of racial issues, both historically and with the current team; CSA is seeking his dismissal, which could end Boucher’s term well short of his…