Jason Holder will miss Bangladesh’s tour of West Indies, having been granted his request for a period of request and recovery. He was not part of the 12-man squad named by Cricket West Indies (CWI) for the first Test of that tour, which starts on June 16. Kemar Roach is also not part of this squad, as he recovers from a hamstring injury picked up during his stint with English…
Mohammad Hasnain has been cleared to bowl internationally again. The verdict was based on an assessment of his action, where he bowled three overs under supervision, and it was revealed that his elbow extension has dropped within the permissible limit – it has come down from the earlier flex of 17-24 degrees to 12-13 degrees. Hasnain, reported for a faulty action in January this year during the BBL, where he…
Jack Leach will make an immediate return to England’s Test team after the selectors named an unchanged XI for the second Test against New Zealand at Trent Bridge, starting on Friday. Leach, for whom the Lord’s Test had been his first at home since the Ashes in 2019, had to be substituted out of the match after landing heavily on his head in the sixth over of the opening day,…
Mumbai 647 for 8 dec (Parkar 252, Sarfaraz 153, Dhapola 3-89) and 261 for 3 dec (Jaiswal 103, Shaw 72) beat Uttarakhand 114 (Kamal 40, Mulani 5-39) and 69 (Khurana 25*, Kulkarni 3-11, Kotian 3-13, Mulani 3-15) by 725 runs Mumbai registered the world record for the biggest ever first-class win in terms of runs by crushing Uttarakhand by 725 runs on their way to the Ranji Trophy 2021-22 semi-final….
Ricky Ponting believes former Australia coach Justin Langer wants to coach again and is one of the top names on a long list of candidates he would like to hire as Hobart Hurricanes coach after taking on a formal role as head of strategy for the BBL franchise. Hurricanes announced on Thursday that Ponting had signed a three-year deal with his former club to take on a newly created head…
Madhya Pradesh 397 (Shubham 102, Mantri 89, Choudhary 5-83) and 26/0 (Dubey 17*) beat Punjab 219 (Abhishek 47, Anmolpreet 47, Agarwal 3-36, Datey 3-48) and 203 (Malhotra 34, Markande 33, Kartikeya 6-50, Jain 4-100) by ten wickets If it was the seamers Puneet Datey and Anubhav Agarwal who seized the initiative for Madhya Pradesh on the first day of their Ranji Trophy quarter-final against Punjab, the legwork was shared by…
Australia fast bowler Mitchell Starc has been ruled out of the third T20I against Sri Lanka and is in doubt for the early part of the five-match ODI series after requiring six stitches in his left index finger following a bizarre laceration in game one in Colombo on Tuesday. Jhye Richardson, who replaced Starc in Australia’s T20I side and took 3 for 26 in the three-wicket win in game two…
Our bowling is alright, but the batting needs to catch up before the World Cup. Wanindu Hasaranga, easily the most high-profile cricketer in Sri Lanka’s T20 side now, took four wickets in the second match against Australia and brought his team back into the match. But in the end, the target was too meagre. Australia needed only 125 to win the match and seal the series. The previous night, they’d…
Former Australia captain Ricky Ponting has been unveiled as Hobart Hurricanes head of strategy in a major coup for the BBL club as they continue to chase their first title. Ponting has signed a three-year contract to work in a part-time capacity for Hurricanes while continuing his role as a commentator for Channel Seven during the Australian summer, including on BBL games, as well as coaching Delhi Capitals in the…
Tim Macdonald will leave his job as England Women’s Senior Assistant Coach after the Commonwealth Games to take up an assistant coaching post with the Perth Scorchers and Western Australian men’s teams. Macdonald played first-class cricket for Western Australia and Tasmania. His family has continued to live Australia since he was appointed full-time assistant to Lisa Keightley – with whom he previously worked at Perth Scorchers and Western Fury –…