Dean Elgar and Mark Boucher, South Africa’s Test captain and coach, assessed this summer as a success after two Test series wins, an ODI clean-sweep over India, albeit not part of the World Cup Super League, and a better-than-expected showing at the T20 World Cup, which saw South Africa narrowly miss out on the semi-finals. South Africa won 13 out of 19 matches across all formats in 2021-22, including five…
April 12: Chennai Super Kings vs Royal Challengers Bangalore, 22nd match, DY Patil Stadium Safe XI: Dinesh Karthik, Robin Uthappa, Virat Kohli (vice-capt), Glenn Maxwell, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Moeen Ali, Wanindu Hasaranga (capt), Dwayne Bravo, Josh Hazlewood, Mohammed Siraj, Chris Jordan Captain: Wanindu HasarangaThe Sri Lankan spin wizard has been a terrific wicket-taker wherever he has played so far and IPL is no different. He is the leading wicket-taker for Royal…
Big Picture One has to go way back to 2010 to find the last time Chennai Super Kings lost four IPL matches on the trot. And they’ve never lost four at the start of the season. In the ten-team tournament, they are already in the dreaded ‘must-win’ territory. Their opponents, Royal Challengers Bangalore, are being led by one of their own in Faf du Plessis and are in the top…
South Africa 453 (Maharaj 84, Elgar 70, Tail 6-135) and 176 for 6 dec. (Erwee 41, Verreynne 39*, Taijul 3-67) beat Bangladesh 217 (Mushfiqur 51, Mulder 3-25, Harmer 3-39) and 80 (Maharaj 7-40, Harmer 3-34) by 332 runs When the Test series will be read about years later, it will say South Africa 2, Bangladesh 0. Many would take it as a usual occurrence since Bangladesh have usually been below-par…
Royal Challengers Bangalore fast bowler Harshal Patel has left the IPL bio-bubble following the death of his sister. It is not clear yet for how long Harshal will remain unavailable for his team and he will miss at least one game, against Chennai Super Kings at the DY Patil Stadium on Tuesday. To re-enter the IPL bubble, he will need to undergo quarantine for a minimum of three days. Harshal…
This is the first instance of the Covid substitution protocol being used in international cricket after Covid replacement incidents in the Plunket Shield and County Championship. It is just the second instance of two substitutes for a team in the same match in international cricket – Bangladesh had two concussion subs against India in 2019. It wasn’t all unexpected. The series is being played in a managed environment rather than…
As was widely expected, Ramiz Raja‘s proposal for a quadrangular T20 event got no further than a presentation to the ICC board meeting, the board deciding such a tournament could not fit into the next rights cycle. But Ramiz, whose own future at the board is now under a cloud, took some solace from the fact that it sparked discussion among Full Members over the weekend ICC meeting, at the…
Australia’s tour of Pakistan and a lengthy domestic summer wrapped up last week with a number of players now headed overseas for the winter to play in the IPL and county cricket ahead of a three-format tour of Sri Lanka in June. Here is how they are faring so far. Who’s in form and who’s not David Warner has returned to where it all started for him in the IPL…
Rajasthan Royals 165 for 6 (Hetmyer 59*, Gowtham 2-30) beat Lucknow Super Giants 162 for 8 (de Kock 39, Stoinis 38*, Chahal 4-41) by three runs Having lost their fourth toss in four matches, Rajasthan Royals found a way to defend successfully for the third time in a highly tactical game. Royals promoted R Ashwin to No. 6 in the 10th over only for him to declare himself out in…
Leicestershire 213 (Hill 93, Leach 4-37) and 218 for 9 (Azad 104*, Baker 4-51) drew with Worcestershire 348 (D’Oliveira 118, Leach 70, Barnard 57) and 234 for 5 declared (Pollock 112, Libby 75, Mike 4-27) A century of heroic defiance by Leicestershire opener Hassan Azad and a last-wicket stand spanning an hour and 38 minutes denied Worcestershire victory after a tense finish to their LV= County Championship match at the…