Month: March 2023

India’s batters weren’t “brave” enough against Australia’s spinners during the third Border-Gavaskar Test in Indore. This was the view of Rohit Sharma after India slipped to a nine-wicket defeat inside three days on a pitch with a high degree of variable turn, pace and bounce. Rohit felt India’s batters could have been more proactive with their approach against the spinners, particularly Nathan Lyon – who bagged 11 wickets in the…

Gavin Larsen has decided to step down as New Zealand selector after almost eight years in the job. The former New Zealand seamer will now move to England along with his wife Karen to take up the role of performance director at Warwickshire, subject to a visa approval. He is set to replace Paul Farbrace, who had left his job as sporting director at Warwickshire in October last year. Under…

South Australia 272 (Manenti 88, Lehmann 65, Neser 3-60, Bartlett 3-54) & 8 for 0 trail Queensland 290 (Peirson 90, Johnson 7-47) trail by 10 runs Exciting left-arm quick Spencer Johnson took a stunning career-best 7 for 49 while Queensland captain Jimmy Peirson has come to the rescue for the second time in a week as his side recovered to collect a slim 18-run first-innings lead over South Australia at…

Victoria 264 for 6 (Short 81*, Harris 53, Kellaway 51, Hatcher 3-80) lead New South Wales 203 (Green 52, Henriques 29, Perry 4-24) by XX runs Matthew Short has continued his rich vein of form to help Victoria to a 61-run lead at the midway point of their Sheffield Shield match against New South Wales in Albury. Victoria batted with increasing confidence at Lavington Sports Ground to end the day at…

Bangladesh won the toss and chose to bowl first vs England Tamim Iqbal, Bangladesh’s captain, won the toss and chose to bowl first, in a bid for the victory that could extend their proud unbeaten run on home soil, in the second ODI against England at Mirpur. No visiting 50-over side has won a series in Bangladesh’s conditions since England themselves secured a 2-1 win in 2016-17, but Jos Buttler’s…

Australia 197 (Khawaja 60, Jadeja 4-78, Umesh 3-12) and 78 for 1 (Head 49*) beat India 109 (Kuhnemann 5-16, Lyon 3-35) and 163 (Pujara 59, Lyon 8-64) by nine wickets Australia sealed their place in the final of the World Test Championship with an emphatic nine-wicket win over India in the third Test in Indore. India still have their destiny in their own hands; if they win the fourth Test…

Of all the messages Temba Bavuma received as he prepared to make his Test captaincy debut against West Indies in Centurion, Brian Lara‘s was among those that meant the most. “He came to me and said, ‘Big respect, big up. All respect to you for the position you have,’ and he wished me well,” Bavuma said. “I had to pinch myself there.” When Lara made his Test debut in December…

Adil Rashid has denied being pressured into supporting Azeem Rafiq’s claims that their former team-mate, the ex-England captain Michael Vaughan, made racist remarks to a group of Asian players ahead of a Yorkshire T20 match in 2009. Rashid, who is currently on tour with England’s white-ball squad in Bangladesh, joined the Cricket Discipline Commission hearing in London via Zoom on Thursday, where he was cross-examined for 80 minutes by Vaughan’s…

Lahore Qalandars 148 (Raza 71*) beat Quetta Gladiators 131 for 7 (Rauf 3-22) by 17 runs Defending champions Lahore Qalandars staged a magnificent recovery from 50 for 7 to win by 17 runs at Gaddafi Stadium and keep Quetta Gladiators rooted to the bottom of the PSL table. Sikandar Raza was their hero with the bat, smashing an unbeaten 71 from 34 balls, before the Qalandars attack recovered from a…

Harry Brook has made a stunning start to his career as a Test cricketer but this weekend he will swap Bazball for baseball as he tries his hand at a different kind of hitting. Brook, who has made 809 runs and four hundreds in his first four Tests, arrived in the United States on Wednesday following England’s one-run defeat to New Zealand in the second Test in Wellington, and will…