Adam Zampa has called for the third umpire to be used to adjudicate on all waist-high full tosses rather than just those that take wickets. Zampa was in the Fox Cricket commentary box on Thursday when Asif Ali nearly conjured a remarkable win for Hobart Hurricanes. With 45 needed off 10 balls, Ali struck three sixes and a four to leave Hurricanes needing 23 off the last. However, the last…
Armed with a 111-run lead, South’s batters dominated the bowling again, scoring at over three-and-a-half runs an over to get to 269 and set North 381 to win. The left-hand pair of Pinak Ghosh and Fazle Mahmud added 109 runs for the third wicket for South. Fazle missed out on a century when he fell on 95, while Pinak made 66. Sunzamul Islam took four wickets for North. Source: ESPN…
England 44 for 2 (Sciver 20*) beat West Indies 43 (Davies 3-2, Davidson-Richards 3-5, Dean 2-8) by eight wickets West Indies slumped to their lowest total in women’s T20Is as England completed a 5-0 whitewash over them in the five-T20I series with an eight-wicket win in Bridgetown. England only took 16.2 overs to bowl West Indies out, with Freya Davies and Alice Davidson-Richards taking three wickets apiece while Charlie Dean…
by Diana ChingThursday, October 4, 2001 The news that Michael Atherton has signed up to join Channel 4’s Test commentary team from next year comes as no big surprise. It was pretty evident from his rather self-conscious appearances in English press-boxes in 2001 that he was limbering up for a role somewhere. In fact, you almost expected to see him walk off camera displaying a big L-plate on his back….
For the fourth game in a row, famously mercurial India kept their cool and delivered. In the previous matches, it was the Indian batsmen who got the plaudits, combining subcontinental flair with a temperament and consistency one would normally associate with an Australia or a South Africa. There was more of that today, but the most heartening aspect of this game was the Indian bowling. Ashish Nehra has been remarkable…
Nasser Hussain has pointed to the lack of depth in English cricket as the reason why unfit players have had to be selected in the Ashes squad. Hussain was speaking after Darren Gough had suffered yet another setback in his bid to be fit in time for the second Test at Adelaide. Gough suffered a swollen knee after feeling some discomfort during bowling practice, and with Steve Harmison suffering from…
Stephen Fleming admitted that New Zealand’s victory over West Indies in the first Test in Barbados was one of the most satisfying of his career. New Zealand comprehensively outplayed West Indies to win by 204 runs inside four days – their first Test success in the Caribbean after eight defeats and three draws. “I rate it highly because of where we are,” Fleming said. “There have been a lot of…
The West Indian bowlers used the helpful conditions at Sabina Park much better than the Indians, and that is why they are in a better position in this match. India had wasted the new ball yesterday, but today West Indies used it well, pitching the ball up to the batsmen and making them play a lot of deliveries early, when the ball was new. While they did well compared to…
We asked Y Ananth Narayan, who devised the ratings system for the Wisden 100, why neither of the Sachin Tendulkar innings which most of our entrants talked about didn’t make the Top 100: What about Tendulkar’s matchwinning innings of 155 not out against Australia in 1997-98? There’s no doubt that this was a very good innings. It has probably attained immortality because of the assault Tendulkar unleashed against Shane Warne….
The International Cricket Council’s much-hyped Test Championship is in danger of being scrapped after the major Test-playing countries failed to reach an agreement on the ten-year programme. The ICC are meeting at Lord’s today (June 26) and one of the main talking points will be the Championship, which was only launched last summer. One of the key requirements is that all Test-playing countries meet home and away at least once…