England’s efforts to “rewrite” how Test cricket is played will leave opposition teams fearful of how to approach the third innings, in the knowledge that whatever target they set might not be enough, Ben Stokes said after his team pulled of a record chase of 378 against India at Edgbaston. Stokes chose to bowl first after winning the toss, going against Test match convention, on the grounds that England had…
It started with a match-haul of nine wickets at Trent Bridge over a year ago and ended with a world record with the bat at Edgbaston. In between, there was a workhorse-like spell at Lord’s and magic at The Oval – all of which contributed to his 23 wickets, the most by an Indian bowler in a Test series in England. Then came the captaincy. Essentially, it should’ve been everything…
The 2022 edition of the CPL is set to kick off with the inaugural match of the women’s tournament – the WCPL – between Trinbago Knight Riders and Barbados Royals on August 31 in St Kitts and Nevis. This match will be followed by the opening game of the men’s edition on the same day at the same venue, where defending champions St Kitts and Nevis Patriots will take on…
England 284 (Bairstow 106, Siraj 4-66, Bumrah 3-68) and 378 for 3 (Root 142*, Bairstow 114*, Lees 56, Crawley 46) beat India 416 (Pant 146, Jadeja 104, Anderson 5-60) and 245 (Pujara 66, Pant 57, Stokes 4-33) by seven wickets England came to Edgbaston having gunned down targets of 277, 299 and 296 in their last three Test matches. On Tuesday they made it four in a row, pulling off…
Trinbago Knight Riders have signed up the New Zealand pair of Colin Munro and Tim Seifert, and also Sri Lanka’s Maheesh Theekshana and Seekkuge Prasanna as part of their overseas draft for the upcoming CPL season starting August 31. They will be joined by USA’s Ali Khan, who will spend another year with Knight Riders, having first joined them in 2017. “We are very happy with our overseas signings this…
Deepti Sharma and Shafali Verma are having an excellent time of it in the ODI series in Sri Lanka, and have shot up the ICC ODI player rankings because of their returns in the two matches so far, both of which India have won. A day after India won the second game by ten wickets in Pallekele, Shafali, who hit a bruising unbeaten 71 in the 174 chase, moved up…
The 19-year-old Wellalage, who is also a left-arm spinner, was the leading wicket-taker in the ODI series with nine at 22.33 and could also add depth to Sri Lanka’s batting order if he debuts. He was one of the travelling reserves with the squad for the first Test but has now been elevated to the main group. Although he only claimed four wickets in the five ODIs, Theekshana, the right-arm…
New Zealand’s female cricketers will earn the same match fees as the men under a new five-year deal struck between NZC, the six major associations and the New Zealand Cricket Players Association meaning a substantial pay boost at international and domestic levels. It is the first time the men’s and women’s professional game has been combined under one master agreement. The match fees across formats played by both the men…
Warwickshire and the ECB are investigating reports of racist abuse on the fourth day of the rescheduled fifth men’s Test between England and India at Edgbaston which emerged on social media on Monday night. Several supporters made claims on Twitter that they had suffered racist abuse from other fans during the fourth day, which were highlighted by Azeem Rafiq, the whistleblower whose allegations of a culture of institutional racism have…
It could have been the biggest club match of the season: Surrey and Yorkshire head-to-head, England players available, in front of a capacity crowd at the Kia Oval in the quarter-final of the Vitality Blast. It could have set the standards for the county game and communicated that England’s professional circuit is not dead yet. It could have appeased traditional supporters at a time of change as well as showing…