Uttar Pradesh 155 (Garg 39, Rinku 33, More 3-47) and 213 for 5 (Karan 93*, Garg 52, Vyshak 3-47) beat Karnataka 253 (Samarth 57, Gopal 56*, Saurabh 4-73, Mavi 3-60) and 114 (Sharath 23*, Saurabh 3-36, Rajpoot 2-15) by five wickets Uttar Pradesh created history by beating Karnataka for the first time in the Ranji Trophy, as captain Karan Sharma led from the front with an unbeaten 93 in their…
Australia A 298 for 3 (Green 119*, Renshaw 68, Carey 52*) beat Sri Lanka A 297 for 7 (de Silva 68, Fernando 65) by seven wickets Green finished on 119 and added 121 in 117 balls for the third wicket with the fluent Matt Renshaw to break the back of a testing target of 298. He brought up his century, his second in List A cricket, off 92 balls with…
Toss West Indies won the toss and chose to bat against Pakistan On a blazing day in Multan, it was unsurprising to see West Indies opt to keep their bowlers in the shade in the afternoon heat. West Indies are coming in fresh off a 3-0 series victory over Netherlands, though the last away ODI series they won before that came in 2011. Pakistan meanwhile, languish below the automatic qualification…
Mark Alleyne, the former England and Gloucestershire allrounder, will join Welsh Fire as an assistant coach ahead of their upcoming men’s Hundred season. Alleyne, who represented England in 10 one-day internationals and captained Gloucestershire to nine one-day trophies in seven years, joins head coach Gary Kirsten and fellow assistants Matt Maynard and Jason Kerr to form Welsh Fire’s men’s coaching team. Alleyne works as a Test scout for the ECB…
Yorkshire have been plunged deeper into financial crisis after six members of their sacked coaching team, including the former head coach Andrew Gale, won a preliminary hearing at Leeds Employment Tribunal into a case of wrongful dismissal. Gale made his legal claim along with the 2nd XI coach Ian Dews, bowling coach Richard Pyrah, head of the academy Richard Damms and strength and conditioning coaches Ian Fisher and Peter Sim….
England batter Joe Root has moved up to second spot in the ICC Test batting rankings following his match-winning 115 not out in the final innings of the first Test against New Zealand at Lord’s. He has moved past Steve Smith (currently at No. 3) and Kane Williamson – who has slipped to fifth position behind Babar Azam – and has 882 rating points, ten fewer than the No.1-ranked Marnus…
Mithali Raj has brought the curtain down on her storied career, announcing her decision to “retire from all forms of International Cricket” in a message on Twitter. Raj, 39, wrote, “I feel now is the perfect time to call curtains on my playing career as the team is in the capable hands of some very talented young players and the future of Indian Cricket is bright.” It has been one…
When Sayan Mondal, Bengal’s No. 8 batter, reached his half-century first ball after lunch on the third day of their Ranji Trophy 2021-22 quarter-final against Jharkhand, it became the first instance of the top-eight batters of a team scoring at least fifty runs in a first-class innings. They went one better, as Akash Deep, the big-hitting fast bowler, smashed an 18-ball 53 not out, with eight sixes, from No. 9…
Finch entered the tour with his form again under scrutiny after four low scores in five innings at the IPL and unconvincing returns for Australia for much of the last 12 months. Former team-mate Shane Watson had even gone as far as to say that Finch’s form could be a “liability” for Australia heading into their T20 World Cup title defence later this year. For a split second on Tuesday…
The intense Multan heat has been a major talking point for the Pakistan-West Indies ODI series. The games are set to start at 4pm local time start through the series to mitigate the weather conditions, but with West Indies desperate to win more ICC Super League games, they are taking no chances, with captain Nicholas Pooran saying that the heat won’t be “too much of a problem”. Keemo Paul, the…