Month: April 2022

Northamptonshire 233 for 7 (Young 63, Procter 60*) vs Essex Opener Will Young personified an obdurate batting performance by Northamptonshire on the first day of their LV= Insurance County Championship match at Chelmsford. The New Zealander followed up his match-saving 96 against Yorkshire last week with a painstaking 63 before Northants lost a clutch of late wickets to creep to 233 for 7 at the close. Young’s 100-run partnership for…

Rob Key, England’s new director of cricket, says that the chance to have some “skin in the game” was the primary reason why he was willing to forego a commentary role with Sky Sports that he had previously declared to be the “best job in the world” and take on the onerous challenge of reviving the flagging fortunes of English cricket. Key, who was officially unveiled at a press conference…

James Anderson and Stuart Broad will be considered “available for selection” for the first Test of the summer, against New Zealand at Lord’s on June 2, according to Rob Key, the new director of the England men’s team, following their controversial omissions from the recent tour of the Caribbean. Despite their combined haul of 1177 Test wickets, the futures of both Anderson, 39, and Broad, 35, had been up in…

Apr 29: Punjab Kings v Lucknow Super Giants, 42nd Match, MCA Stadium, Pune Safe XI: Quinton de Kock (vice-capt), KL Rahul, Shikhar Dhawan, Liam Livingstone (capt), Marcus Stoinis, Bhanuka Rajapaksa, Jitesh Sharma, Jason Holder, Avesh Khan, Kagiso Rabada, Arshdeep Singh The big-hitting England batter in the leading run-scorer at No. 4 in IPL 2022 – 245 runs in eight innings at a strike rate of 187.02. He has three scores…

Big picture For how long do you trust a high-risk process if it doesn’t produce high rewards? Punjab Kings face that question as IPL 2022 moves into the second half. Even before they got up from the auction table in February, it was clear how they would approach the season: Go hard or go home. But with four wins and four losses after eight matches, they are currently in the…

Bengaluru will host the Ranji Trophy knockouts from June 4, with the final scheduled to run from June 20-24, in a bio-bubble. It is understood that there will be no mandatory quarantine, but all teams will have to arrive with a negative RT-PCR test. Forty-one-time Ranji champions Mumbai will face Uttarakhand while Karnataka are pitted against Uttar Pradesh. Bengal will face Jharkhand and Punjab will run into Madhya Pradesh in…

Ben Stokes has been named as England men’s Test captain. Stokes was the preferred candidate to take on the job after Joe Root’s resignation following five years in the role. England’s leading allrounder, and one of the few players sure of their place in the XI, Stokes becomes the 81st captain of the men’s Test team. His appointment was recommended by Rob Key, the new managing director of men’s cricket,…

Sussex have signed Mason Crane, the one-cap England legspinner, on a month’s loan to help address their ongoing injury crisis. Sussex won the wooden spoon last season and are rock-bottom of Division Two after two rounds of the 2022 season, following a draw and two defeats. They have seven bowlers unavailable for their fixture against Durham at Hove this week, including Ollie Robinson, who has been ruled out after undergoing…

Mumbai Indians have signed left-arm spinner Kumar Kartikeya as a replacement for the injured Arshad Khan for the rest of IPL 2022. Arshad, the uncapped left-arm seamer, was yet to feature in a game this season. The 24-year-old has also played nine first-class games and 19 List A matches, picking up 35 and 18 wickets in them respectively. Kartikeya joins the Mumbai squad for the price of INR 20 lakh…

Umran Malik is a fast-bowling “gem” who is creating “anxiety” in all kind of batters and is now ready to play for India. That is the combined view of Daniel Vettori and Chris Lynn, ESPNcricinfo experts, who agree that Malik’s searing pace can make the difference even at the international level and he should be fast-tracked into India’s squad for the T20 World Cup later this year. According to Lynn,…