Jos Buttler, England’s new white-ball captain, does not expect to have his best team available to him until two weeks before the T20 World Cup due to fixture congestion. England will play 12 limited-overs internationals – three ODIs and three T20Is against both India and South Africa – in 25 days from July 7, and announced their squads for the India fixtures on Friday. Players involved in the ongoing Test…
Tuba Hassan, the 21-year-old legspinner, has been awarded her maiden central contract by the PCB for the upcoming 2022-23 season while former Pakistan captain Javeria Khan has been demoted from Category A to C following an ordinary season. Tuba recently claimed the best figures for a Pakistan debutant in T20Is, when she returned three wickets for just eight runs in the first T20I against Sri Lanka in Karachi, finishing with…
Richard Gleeson, the Lancashire seamer, has earned his first full England call-up at the age of 34 and could make his debut in next week’s T20I series against India. Gleeson, a late developer who made his first-class debut at 27, spent most of the last two seasons sidelined by back injuries and signed a T20-only contract with Lancashire for the Blast this year. He has played every game and taken…
Sri Lanka crashed and burned in the second innings, nosediving to 113 all out in 22.5 overs. Four of their top seven fell attempting sweeps or reverse sweeps. And of that top seven, only Dhananjaya de Silva was out not playing and attacking stroke – he left a ball that would have hit leg stump. Still, it wasn’t Sri Lanka’s approach that paved their way to such a swift and…
Being proactive. Being brave. And embracing the challenge of playing on spinning surfaces. According to captain Pat Cummins, these were the tenets of Australia’s success in Galle, where they crushed Sri Lanka inside two-and-a-half days. Proactive and brave, because Australia had scored at 4.53 in the 70.1 overs they’d batted in the first innings, even though they’d been 100 for 4 at one stage. The sixth-wicket partnership between Cameron Green…
Dimuth Karunaratne: c Carey b Lyon 235.3 Bottom edge, given! Went for the sweep from outside off and gets a thin tickle. Neatly done from Carey who has done well in tough conditions behind the stumps. Australia have their first | 37 for 1 Pathum Nissanka: lbw b Swepson 146.5 Big appeal and given lbw! Nissanka goes for the sweep and misses. Looks very straight but he reviews. Pitches middle,…
Krunal Pandya, the India spin-bowling allrounder, will play county cricket for the first time this summer after agreeing a deal to join Warwickshire for the Royal London Cup. Krunal, 31, is not involved in India’s ODI or T20I squads for their series against England this month and will join Washington Sundar (Lancashire) and Cheteshwar Pujara (Sussex) in the domestic 50-over competition, which starts on August 2. The launch of the…
Big picture “Why did he do thaaat?” Five years after a thrilling finish between West Indies and Pakistan elicited this response from Fazeer Mohammed at Windsor Park, we are back here once again. The T20I series opener between West Indies and Bangladesh will be the first match at the venue in five years and first since the Covid-19 pandemic struck. The lack of recent competitive cricket at the venue means…
Australia 321 (Green 77, Khawaja 71, Ramesh 4-112) and 10 for 0 beat Sri Lanka 212 (Dickwella 58, Lyon 5-90) and 113 (Head 4-10, Lyon 4-31) by 10 wickets Australia’s spinners tore through Sri Lanka’s line-up as they lost 10 wickets inside 23 overs in a staggering collapse to lose the opening Test in Galle inside two-and-a-half days. Nathan Lyon and Travis Head took four wickets each and Mitchell Swepson…
Sri Lanka chose to bat vs India Under sunny Pallekele conditions, Sri Lanka captain Chamari Athapaththu chose to bat first against Harmanpreet Kaur’s India in the opening fixture of a three-match ODI series. Athapaththu said that despite a few changes from the T20I series, the victory from the last T20I game will give Sri Lanka confidence to replicate the same in the ODI contest. India captain Harmanpreet said that India…