As per the ICC’S Future Tours Programme, India have six bilateral series – including the one in Bangladesh starting on Sunday – and an Asia Cup to plan for next year’s World Cup. Multiple members of the squad in Bangladesh are touring the country for the first time as India continue to expand their player base. Things are being set in motion but, the captain Rohit Sharma, insisted it was…
After he led from the front and thwarted a short-handed Australia attack with a stirring century to push the first Test into a final day, Kraigg Brathwaite implored West Indies to keep believing. Needing a record 498 runs for victory or bat through 154 overs to draw, West Indies reached stumps at 192 for 3 with Brathwaite batting through the final two sessions of day four to be unbeaten on…
Richard Thompson, the ECB’s chair, has valued the Hundred at over £1 billion (US$1.2 billion) after confirming the ECB has received an offer for its newest competition, and anticipates others will be in the offing Thompson suggested that reports of the offer, initially revealed by Sky News as a £400 million bid from Bridgepoint Group, were “exaggerated”. The London-listed buyout firm were supposedly interested in a 75% stake in the…
Western Australia 4 for 279 (Bancroft 116*, Cartwright 78, Sandhu 3-33) trail Queensland 6 for 295 dec by 16 runs Western Australia opener Cameron Bancroft made his third century of the Sheffield Shield season to put his side in a strong position at stumps on day three of the clash with Queensland. The former Test batsman was a study in concentration and class in an unbeaten 116 off 332 deliveries…
Azeem Akhtar, the new chair of Essex, has stepped down after just three days in the role, ahead of an independent review into his social media activity. The appointment of Akhtar, Essex’s first minority-ethnic chair, was this week hailed by the club as a “new beginning”, 12 months on from the controversial departure of the former chair, John Faragher, who continues to deny that he used racist language in a…
South Australia 329 (McSweeney118, Weatherald 100, Siddle 4-59) and 238 (Drew 92, Bird 4-48) beat Tasmania 148 (Doggett 4-21) and 208 (Freeman 52, W Agar 4-32) by 211 runs South Australia raced to their first Sheffield Shield win of the season after their pacemen ripped through Tasmania’s top order for the second time to secure a 208-run win. Tasmania were dismissed for 208 just before stumps on day three while…
New South Wales 260 and 1 for 58 need 175 more runs to beat Victoria 209 and 283 (Kellaway 81) New South Wales made a strong start to their run chase in a dramatic Sheffield Shield match where a combination of injury and illness have forced Victoria to field 14 players. Victoria had to call on debutant Jack Prestwidge as an emergency substitute after second-gamer Sam Elliott was ruled out…
Lunch Pakistan 298 for 3 (Imam 121, Shafique 114, Babar 28*, Shakeel 0*, Leach 2-102) trail England 657 by 359 runs Three wickets to spin put England back in control on the third morning after centuries to Pakistan openers Abdullah Shafique and Imam-ul-Haq had laid down a roadblock on their Rawalpindi rampage. Having resumed on 181 without loss, Pakistan were 298 for 3 at lunch in response to England’s massive…
Tea West Indies 283 & 84 for 0 (Brathwaite 40*, Chanderpaul 35*) need 414 runs to beat Australia 182 for 2 dec & 598 for 4 dec Needing a record 498 runs for victory or – more realistically – bat through 154 overs to draw, West Indies’ slim chances of avoiding a series-opening defeat were boosted when Cummins did not take the field after experiencing quadricep soreness. Former skipper Steven…
Big picture Cricket-mad Bangladesh is currently football-crazy. The ongoing FIFA World Cup is not just watched in this country, but also celebrated in every corner, with the sport ruling most of the conversations. The visiting Indian players were welcomed by flags of Brazil and Argentina in the buildings overlooking their training ground in Dhaka. There’s little cricket paraphernalia for what is the BCB’s first marquee home series this season. International…