Toss Australia chose to bowl vs Sri Lanka Australia won the toss and chose to bowl first in their match against Sri Lanka, in Gqeberha. Both teams have won their opening matches – Australia beating New Zealand and Bangladesh, while Sri Lanka defeated South Africa and Bangladesh. Sri Lanka made one change to the side that won against Bangladesh, with allrounder Kavisha Dilhari not named in this XI. Right-arm bowler…
India batter Prithvi Shaw has been involved in an incident in the suburbs of Mumbai, in which his friend’s car was allegedly attacked by a group of people, against whom a case has been filed with the police. “Oshiwara Police has registered a case against 8 persons over an alleged attack on the car of a friend of Indian cricketer Prithvi Shaw after Shaw refused to take a selfie for…
England were 325 for 9 after only 58.2 overs when Stokes called time on their innings, a move that his team-mates explained owed to the challenge of facing a new pink ball under lights in a day-night Test. Related Brook’s one-two punch encapsulates his real-time evolution New Zealand’s Astle retires from all formats England strike under the lights after Brook, Duckett cut loose “I haven’t played many pink-ball games, but…
Saurashtra 81 for 2 (Desai 38*, Mukesh 1-23) trail Bengal 174 (Shahbaz 69, A Porel 50, Sakariya 3-33, Unadkat 3-44) by 93 runs Saurashtra’s fast-bowling trio of Chetan Sakariya, Jaydev Unadkat and Chirag Jani made full use of a lively Eden Gardens pitch on day one of the Ranji Trophy final to bowl Bengal out for 174 in the first innings. In what is a rematch of the 2019-20 Ranji…
South Africa batter Theunis de Bruyn has announced his retirement from international cricket, saying it is time to focus on ‘the next chapter’. De Bruyn, who made his South Africa debut in a T20I against Sri Lanka in January 2017, represented the country in 13 Tests and two T20Is. “I’ve been fortunate to represent my country at the highest level of cricket and that’s been the proudest moment of my…
The Hundred’s retention window closed on Tuesday night, following weeks of negotiations between players, agents, coaches and general managers. In the women’s competition, each team was able to retain four players from their 2022 squad, with a maximum of three ‘marquee’ players – either two overseas players and one England-contracted player, or vice versa. In the men’s competition, they could retain up to 10 players at a mutually-agreed salary band,…
New South Wales 291 (Hughes 126, Ellis 4-59, Rogers 4-62) beat Tasmania 189 (Zampa 3-45) by 102 runs Birthday boy Daniel Hughes has continued his golden week and special one-day campaign as NSW demolished Tasmania’s Cup final hopes with a 102-run win at North Sydney Oval. Opener Hughes, who turned 34 on Thursday, celebrated by scoring 126 off 130 balls to help NSW to a score of 291 all out…
Former Pakistan opener Imran Farhat and fast bowler Naved-ul-Hasan are set to join Afghanistan’s high performance centre in Kabul as batting and bowling coaches respectively. Both were given year-long contracts in which they will also oversee the 2023 domestic season. Since the Taliban took over in the country, Afghanistan cricket has revamped its corporate and domestic cricket structure and invested to upgrade the facilities in Kabul to include a high…
Todd Astle, the New Zealand legspinner and Canterbury stalwart, has retired from professional cricket, aged 36, after the Super Smash final last Saturday. Astle had already ended his red-ball career in 2020 and focussed on only limited-overs cricket in the past two years. “Thanks for the memories. Thanks for the experiences, the learning and the growing,” Astle posted on Instagram. “Thanks for the adversity, the people and of course the…
Big Picture It was at this ground, when it was officially known as the Feroz Shah Kotla, a much more evocative name than its current moniker, that the Border-Gavaskar Trophy began. A one-off Test in October 1996, decided by Anil Kumble’s nine wickets and Nayan Mongia’s career-best 152 spanning more than eight hours, in what was Australia’s first Test in the country for 10 years. From that relatively low-key beginning,…