Month: September 2022

England’s men arrived in Karachi on Thursday morning for their first tour to Pakistan in 17 years and were immediately escorted off the upper deck of their Emirates flight from Dubai into bulletproof buses to take them to the team hotel. The team have been granted VVIP (very, very important person) status throughout their three-week tour, comprising seven T20Is – the first four in Karachi, the last three in Lahore….

Middlesex 390 (Stoneman 128, Simpson 76, Hollman 58, Harris 5-90) and 45 for 0 beat Glamorgan 214 (Cooke 52, Higgins 4-59, Murtagh 3-58) and 220 (Lloyd 70, Roland-Jones 5-61) by ten wickets Two collapses, one of them understandable on the first morning, the other barely forgivable on the third evening, did as much as anything to determine the outcome of this match. That slightly glib assessment gives insufficient credit to…

Andrew Gale and Rich Pyrah have agreed compensation with Yorkshire after winning their case for unfair dismissal. Gale, the former captain and head coach, and Pyrah, who spent more than a decade on the Yorkshire playing staff before becoming bowling coach, were among 16 members of staff abruptly sacked last year in the wake of Azeem Rafiq racism scandal. Yorkshire’s accounts revealed that the club had set aside £1.9 million…

Who is Yannic Cariah?Cariah is a 30-year-old legspin-bowling allrounder who has bolted into West Indies’ squad for the upcoming T20 World Cup in Australia, for which they first need to qualify by playing against Scotland, Zimbabwe and Ireland in the opening round in Hobart. Cariah made his international debut only last month, in the first ODI against New Zealand at Bridgetown, in place of left-arm fingerspinner Gudakesh Motie, who was…

A knee injury has seen Fakhar Zaman miss out on Pakistan’s squad for the 2022 T20 World Cup, while Shan Masood has been called up. Fakhar was named in the reserves instead. There are no wholesale changes to the side that played the Asia Cup earlier this month. Usman Qadir kept his place despite playing just one match in the Asia Cup and limited match-time prior to it. Shaheen Shah…

The Bangladesh team will travel to Dubai next week, to play two T20Is against UAE and complete a training camp that was interrupted by rain in Dhaka. Only one day of training was possible in the past week, as heavy rain lashed the capital and other parts of the country. BCB chief executive Nizamuddin Chowdhury said that the camp in Dubai will run from September 22 to 27, with the…

Durham 296 (Jones 97, Maddinson 56, Parkinson 3-56) and 108 for 3 (Jones 50, Maddinson 31*) beat Leicestershire 202 (Potts 6-52) and 198 (Kimber 75, Potts 7-49) by seven wickets Durham needed only 37 minutes to wrap up a seven-wicket victory after another chastening week for Leicestershire in the LV= Insurance County Championship. Michael Jones, who fell three runs short of a century in the first innings, added a 58-ball…

Alec Stewart has emerged as the frontrunner to become the new England national selector. Stewart, who has been director of cricket at Surrey for the past eight years, is believed to be highly rated by Rob Key, the England team’s managing director, given his detailed knowledge of the county circuit and the talent therein, and his own success in nurturing young talent at Surrey. The role of national selector was…

Keaton Jennings, the Lancashire and England opener, has called for the structure of the English season to be improved but has opposed the idea put forward by Andrew Strauss’s high-performance review that county cricketers need to play less or that the number of Championship matches should be reduced from 14. On Saturday, Jennings will lead out Lancashire against Kent in the Royal London Cup final at Trent Bridge at the…

Uncapped fast bowler Mohammad Saleem has made it to Afghanistan’s 15-player squad for the 2022 T20 World Cup in Australia in October-November. He is among three call-ups for the tournament, the others being legspinner Qais Ahmad and batter Darwish Rasooli. Saleem had finished joint-sixth in the Shpageeza Cricket League, Afghanistan’s domestic T20 tournament, with 11 wickets for Boost Defenders at an impressive economy rate of 6.63. Qais, a globe-trotting T20…