England will revert to a split-coaching structure for the first time in eight years after the ECB formally advertised for two new head coaches: one for their Test team, the other for white-ball cricket. The decision to split the coaching role in two had been widely anticipated since Rob Key‘s appointment as managing director of men’s cricket and has now been officially confirmed, with candidates invited to apply for their…
Virat Kohli has been moved to the opening slot by Royal Challengers Bangalore, at least for the Tuesday-night game against Rajasthan Royals. He will open alongside captain Faf du Plessis. And Daniel Vettori, head coach to captain Kohli at the franchise between 2014 and 2018, expects the plan to work, saying that the two “are equals”, and that might free Kohli up to get back among the runs. “I think…
Apr 27: Gujarat Titans vs Sunrisers Hyderabad, 40th Match, Wankhede Stadium Safe XI: Nicholas Pooran, Rahul Tripathi (vice-capt), David Miller, Kane Williamson, Abhinav Manohar, Hardik Pandya (capt), Aiden Markram, T Natarajan, Mohammed Shami, Lockie Ferguson, Bhuvneshwar Kumar Captain: Hardik Pandya The India allrounder is the only player among these two sides to have featured in the top-performing players list in all the games they have been involved in this season…
A round-up of the last week of matches at the Dhaka Premier League, as Sheikh Jamal Dhanmondi won their maiden title and Prime Bank Cricket Club’s Anamul Haque became the first batter to cross 1000 runs in a List-A tournament in Bangladesh. Key takeaways Sheikh Jamal Dhanmondi Club fulfilled their decade-long quest for a Dhaka Premier League in style, when they beat defending champions Abahani Limited by four wickets in…
Roach was due to spend the opening two months of the season with Surrey but injured his hamstring during their innings win against Hampshire, the second game of his second stint with the club. Alec Stewart, Surrey’s director of cricket, spent much of last week’s win against Somerset making phone calls to try and sort a replacement in time for their next Championship fixture against Gloucestershire in Bristol on Thursday….
Big picture Related Short proves sweet for Gujarat Titans’ pace quartet Five players who have gone from being back-ups to certainties Umran Malik, bringing the IPL alive with raw pace The last time these two sides met, earlier this month, Rashid bagged a duck with the bat and his bowling was largely diffused by Sunrisers as Titans suffered their first – and only – defeat of the season. Can Sunrisers…
Allrounder Mehidy Hasan Miraz has been ruled out of the first Test against Sri Lanka after he injured the small finger on his right hand during a Dhaka Premier League game. The selectors haven’t yet named a replacement, but Nayeem Hasan, who is the next in line, could be a like-for-like option. Chief selector Minhajul Abedin had said at the time that the offspinner will be okay but the extent…
County cricketers believe in the principle that less is more and are happy to play fewer games overall to ensure that the country’s best players are involved in a domestic 50-over competition. Those are among the key findings of extensive conversations between the Professional Cricketers’ Association (PCA) and current players as part of the ECB’s high-performance review into men’s domestic cricket, which is being undertaken by Andrew Strauss in the…
Former India head coach Ravi Shastri has said that ECB’s new managing director of men’s cricket Rob Key needs to grow a “thick skin” just like how he did to counter the “jealous people.” Speaking to the Guardian, Shastri said there was a “gang of people in India” who always wanted him to fail. Just like Shastri, Key has been an acclaimed commentator for a long time and though he…
John Rutherford, the first Western Australian-based player to be selected to play Test cricket, has passed away at the age of 92. Rutherford is part of Australia’s one-Test club having played his only Test match on the 1956 tour of India, that was held on the way home from the Ashes series that year. The right-handed opener made 30 and took a wicket in the second innings, dismissing Vijay Manjrekar…