Australia’s men’s Test Player of the Year award will be named in honour of Shane Warne. CA and ACA made the joint announcement at the Boxing Day Test between Australia and South Africa where both sides have honoured Warne in the first Test match to be played at his home ground of the MCG since his passing in March this year. Australia’s Test Player of the Year award is handed…
At Faisalabad, October 24, 25, 26, 27. South Africa won by 53 runs. Toss: South Africa. South Africa took the series when they won, quite against the run of play, by bundling Pakistan out for 92 on the fourth day; Symcox played his first match-winning hand in 13 Tests. It was a thrilling game, fought out on a pitch which looked positively emerald by Pakistan’s standards: an edict from Majid…
One of the most satisfactory features of last season’s cricket was the way Reginald Thomas Simpson, the Nottinghamshire right-handed opening batsman, fulfilled the expectations of those who have watched his gradual development. Born on February 27, 1920, at Sherwood, within four miles of Trent Bridge, Simpson is a natural cricketer. He never received any coaching, none of his relatives played cricket, but when quite a youngster he was introduced to…
Australia chose to bowl vs South Africa South Africa’s batting line-up was asked to front up for the second successive Test after Pat Cummins put them in to bat on a pitch much less green than the Gabba’s a week ago. Whether Cummins’ decision was motivated by losing four wickets in the successful chase in Brisbane or not, Dean Elgar was surprised, but pleased, at being asked to bat and…
Big picture New Zealand are ok. Yeah, they’re going through “a transition”. Yeah, they’ve got a new Test captain. Yeah, they have lost six of their nine Tests in this World Test Championship cycle. Yeah, they were the first guinea pigs in the Bazball experiment. Yeah, they haven’t played a single Test since then. But they are New Zealand. This just doesn’t sound that drastic, right? It never does. They’ll…
India’s stand-in captain KL Rahul admitted they missed Kuldeep Yadav but didn’t regret the decision of leaving him out for an extra fast bowler because a team is selected for all five days and they felt three fast bowlers was the right balance for the conditions in Mirpur. Related R Ashwin and Shreyas Iyer make it 2-0 for India in close finish ‘Phenomenal’ Shreyas Iyer calms the panic down with…
It was a case of so near and yet so far for Bangladesh in Dhaka, and after the three-wicket defeat to India, Shakib Al Hasan was left ruing his team’s missed chances. Four chances were missed in the first India innings, and then, with Bangladesh three wickets away and India 65 from their target, Mominul Haque dropped R Ashwin at short-leg, and that proved decisive in the end. “It is…
India 314 (Pant 93, Iyer 87, Taijul 4-74, Shakib 4-79) and 145 for 7 (Ashwin 42*, Axar 34, Mehidy 5-63) beat Bangladesh 227 (Mominul 84, Umesh 4-25, Ashwin 4-71) and 231 (Litton 73, Zakir 51, Axar 3-68) by seven wickets A fighting and defiant half-century stand between No. 8 Shreyas Iyer and R Ashwin saved India from a lower-order collapse and led them to a thin three-wicket win on a…
Cricket West Indies has announced a new domestic red-ball tri-series, the Headley-Weekes series, which will be played at the end of the West Indies Championship, the regional four-day tournament. The series will feature three four-day matches and will be played from April 18 to 6 May at Coolidge Cricket Ground in Antigua. Team Headley and Team Weekes (named in honour of George Headley and Everton Weekes) will be selected from…
Big Picture It’s every cricketer’s Christmas dream: a Test match at the ‘G, with a big crowd in attendance. While Australia’s players experience this annually, for everyone in this South African squad, it is their first time featuring in this iconic occasion. None of them were part of the 2008 squad that stunned Australia and claimed South Africa’s post-readmission series win in the country. But, from what they’ve said in…