South Africa’s Khaya Zondo has questioned whether the light was suitable for play to be continuing at the time of his dismissal in the Sydney Test and also believed he got an inside edge on the yorker from Pat Cummins. Zondo, who fought hard for his 39 after coming in with South Africa 37 for 3, was pinned in front deep in the final session on Saturday with floodlights on…
Rishabh Pant has undergone a successful knee ligament surgery, conducted at Mumbai’s Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital on Friday, BCCI sources have confirmed. “Rishabh Pant has successfully undergone a knee ligament surgery on Friday. He will be under observation. Further course of action and rehabilitation will be advised by Dr Dinshaw Pardiwala and followed by the BCCI sports science and medicine team,” PTI reported a BCCI source as saying. Pant was…
Lunch Australia 475 for 4 (Khawaja 195*, Smith 104, Nortje 2-55) vs South Africa Rain continues to thwart Australia’s push for a series sweep over South Africa after the first session on day four was washed out at a gloomy SCG. The third Test has frustratingly ground to a halt on the back of day three being abandoned without a ball bowled. Khawaja remains stuck on his highest Test score…
Lord Kamlesh Patel has announced he will step down as Yorkshire chair at the Club’s next Annual General Meeting. Lord Patel, who took over from Roger Hutton in November 2021 at the height of the club’s racism crisis, endured a turbulent tenure that began amid the suspension of Headingley’s international hosting rights and the withdrawal of a raft of sponsors that left the club facing bankruptcy. His response to that…
There was but one member of this New Zealand squad on tour in Pakistan to have ever played cricket in the country, and that was their batting coach. Even so, they were “one ball away from series victory” and the captain Tim Southee took a lot of heart from that. Karachi provided conditions that made batting and bowling a hard graft, so much so that both Test matches only really…
The thrill of securing a draw in the dark may provide its own endorphin rush, but Babar Azam was lucid enough to see the bigger picture. The Pakistan captain has acknowledged his side had not met expectations during the home Test season, which came to a close with a 0-0 draw in this second Test. “The Test season hasn’t gone according to expectations,” Babar said at the post-match press conference….
Sarfaraz Ahmed has said that his fifth-day century that almost helped Pakistan pull off an epic chase against New Zealand in Karachi on Friday was the best in his Test career. Speaking at the post-match presentation after bad light forced a draw with Pakistan needing 15 more runs to chase down 319 and New Zealand a wicket away from victory, Sarfaraz said that batting in the fourth innings is always…
Big picture: SL eye first T20I series win in India The last time India lost a bilateral T20I series at home was in 2019 when Australia beat them 2-0. Since then they have been on an 11-series unbeaten streak. But that could change on Saturday. After running India close in the first T20I, Sri Lanka beat them by 16 runs in the second to make it 1-1. A win for…
Sydney Sixers 176 for 4 (Vince 91*, Coulter-Nile 1-20) beat Melbourne Stars 173 for 5 (Stoinis 52, Rogers 48, Abbott 3-31) by six wickets English import James Vince fell short of a century but delivered at the top of the order to steer the Sydney Sixers to a six-wicket win over Melbourne Stars. Marcus Stoinis blasted 52 off 28 balls to lift the Stars to a competitive 5 for 173…
Mitchell Santner, the New Zealand spinner, has signed for Worcestershire to play in next summer’s Vitality T20 Blast. Santner, 30, previously represented the club in 2016 and 2017. He will join fellow New Zealand international Michael Bracewell as Worcestershire’s overseas signings for the Blast. Santner is his country’s third-leading wicket-taker in T20Is and has experience of playing in the IPL and Caribbean Premier League. “It’s great to be coming back…