Jofra Archer hopes to make his return to first-team cricket later this month and has admitted that his elbow injury left him fearing for his England central contract. Archer, 27, has not played for England since their T20I series in India last March and has undergone three bouts of surgery in the last 14 months: one on his hand to remove a shard of glass, and two on his elbow….
Chris Silverwood is no stranger to Sri Lanka’s foibles. After all, it was only a little over a year ago that he brought his England side to Lankan shores and swept the home team 2-0 in a Test series. But now, some 15 months later, he’s at the other end, charged with patching up the same weaknesses he had so brutally exploited. Sure, in the intervening year, Silverwood’s predecessor Mickey…
Inaugural women’s Hundred-winning coach Jonathan Batty has been appointed as the new coach of the Melbourne Stars for the upcoming WBBL season. Batty, who played county cricket for Surrey, Gloucestershire, and Northamptonshire over a nearly two-decade career, coached Oval Invincibles to the Hundred title last season. The former wicketkeeper-batter becomes Stars’ third WBBL coach in three seasons. Batty replaces Jarrad Loughman who had just one season in charge of Stars…
Ian Bishop is “concerned” at Virat Kohli‘s repeated struggles against spin, especially offspin, as he tries to get out of a form slump. In IPL 2022, where he has managed just one fifty-plus score and a strike rate of just 111.09, which is the third lowest among batters with at least 150 runs this season. Kohli was bowled by a ripping Moeen Ali offbreak for a 33-ball 30 in the…
Royal Challengers Bangalore 173 for 8 (Lomror 42, du Plessis 38, Kolhi 30, Theekshana 3-27) beat Chennai Super Kings 160 for 8 (Conway 56, Moeen 34, Harshal 3-35) by 13 runs Royal Challengers Bangalore halted a run of three consecutive defeats to boost their play-offs hope thanks to a scrappy win against Chennai Super Kings in Pune, iced by a death-bowling masterclass from Josh Hazlewood and Harshal Patel. Chennai needed…
May 5: Delhi Capitals v Sunrisers Hyderabad, 50th Match, Brabourne Stadium Safe XI: Rishabh Pant, David Warner (vice-capt), Mitchell Marsh, Rahul Tripathi, Prithvi Shaw, Abhishek Sharma, Aiden Markram, Kuldeep Yadav (capt), Shardul Thakur, T Natarajan, Umran Malik After winning three Man-of-the-Match awards in as many outings at Brabourne Stadium this season, Kuldeep is an automatic captaincy choice for our safe XI. Nine of his 17 wickets in this season have…
Stephen Fry, the actor and comedian, has been named as the next President of Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC). Fry, a lifelong cricket supporter, is a patron of the MCC Foundation, and delivered a memorable MCC Cowdrey Lecture last year. He was nominated for the role by the current President, Clare Connor, and will take over when her term ends on October 1. “I am honoured and proud to be nominated…
Joe Root and Ben Stokes, England’s past and present Test captains, will both return to action for the first time this season in the latest round of LV= County Championship matches on Thursday. Root, who stood down last month during an extended break following England’s series loss in the Caribbean, has been named in a 14-man squad for Yorkshire’s trip to Essex, where he is set to come up against…
Big picture Delhi Capitals and Sunrisers Hyderabad haven’t met this season yet. Capitals are currently placed seventh and Sunrisers fourth, with only two points separating the two sides. In fact, Sunrisers are fourth only because of a superior net run-rate over two other teams with the same points. Capitals, on the other hand, have the best net run-rate among all teams but can do nothing with it for now. There…
Richard Bedbrook has been appointed as the new England Women’s Head of Performance Pathways. Bedbrook, who is currently the regional director for South East Stars, will take up his new position at the conclusion of the Charlotte Edwards Cup next month, where he will oversee the England Women’s A and Under-19 programmes to help develop players for international cricket. “I’m really looking forward to my new role with the ECB…