Sydney Thunder have signed Pakistan legspinner Usman Qadir to bolster their bowling attack for the BBL. He will chiefly provide cover for Tanveer Sangha who has yet to play this season due a stress fracture of his back. Qadir is the fourth overseas player on Thunder’s list alongside Alex Hale, Rilee Rossouw and Fazalhaq Farooqi with a team able to field three in an XI. Farooqi, the Afghanistan quick bowler,…
Former Australia batter Phil Jaques has lost his job as New South Wales head coach after the state’s poor start to the domestic season which sees them bottom of both the Sheffield Shield and Marsh Cup. A planned mid-season review during the BBL break was brought forward following NSW’s latest Shield defeat against Western Australia last week and it was announced on Tuesday morning that Jaques had left his role….
Allan Border once observed that Australia playing a Test match in Perth was akin to them being overseas. Whether it was said in jest or not is hard to tell because Perth Test matches hit differently due to the innate parochialism of locals, who have a particularly strong identity unique from the rest of the country. Western Australia, separated to the east coast by the vast Nullarbor Plain, in the…
Ah, but what of South Africa? Sure, that didn’t work at the start. Defeat by an innings and 12 runs inside three days at Lord’s drew plenty of pent-up derision from the sidelines, most of it from traditional supporters – many of them English – who were slightly put out by the suggestion that they were the ones who had got this format all wrong. Cue victories by an innings…
De Kock, 29, is one of South Africa’s key players. His left-handedness and aggression at the top of the order make him a sought after commodity in the T20 cricket. Alongside his runs – 8497 at an average of 33 and a strike rate of 138 – de Kock also has experience captaining the national side. He has led them in four Tests, eight ODIs and 11 T20Is. De Kock…
Essex have appointed their first minority-ethnic chair, 12 months after a racism scandal led to the ousting of the former incumbent. Azeem Akhtar, a former chair of Active Essex who has also served as a board member at Sport England, was ratified by the club on Thursday, having been one of eight candidates elected to the board at this year’s AGM. He is currently lead customer chief technology officer at…
The deadline for applications closed on Monday (November 28), with the BCCI now likely to appoint a Cricket Advisory Committee to conduct interviews before announcing their decision. The first assignment for the new selection panel will be to pick the Indian team for the limited-overs series at home against Sri Lanka in 2023. Related Monga: An Indian selector’s job is crucial, but few will want it The resurrection of L…
Sindh 284 trail Northern 593 (Hurraira 221, Amin 114, Waheed 109, Rohail 94, Aaliyan 4-96, Umar 4-116) by 309 runs A 308-run third-wicket stand between Mohammad Huraira and Umar Amin, followed by a 155-run partnership between Umar Waheed and Rohail Nazir, powered Northern to a lead of 309 over Sindh at close of play on the third day of the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy final in Lahore. Northern started the third day…
The Hundred will run from August 1-27 in 2023, a shorter window than in its first two seasons as the competition avoids a clash with England’s home international cricket for the first time. England men’s Tests against India (2021) and South Africa (2022) have been previously played alongside the Hundred, overlapping with the second half of the competition, but the tournament will instead dominate the month of August in 2023….
Steve Waugh feels that the cricket-watching public, at least in Australia, “has almost overdosed” on the game, and it has reached a point where the interest levels are on the wane. “There’s a lot of cricket, it’s hard to follow as a spectator, it’s very hard to keep up with it,” Waugh said on SEN’s Saturday Morning Mowers Club show. “The three one-dayers against England [earlier this month, which Australia…