MS Dhoni isn’t happy about the number of no-balls and wides his fast bowlers have bowled in Chennai Super Kings’ two IPL 2023 matches so far. In their second game itself, against Lucknow Super Giants on Monday night, Super Kings’ quicks sent down 13 wides and three no-balls. “We are bowling too many extra deliveries,” he said after the 12-run win on Monday night at Chepauk, and even mock-threatened his…
New Zealand A 224 (McConchie 74, Johnson 4-53, Agar 4-56) and 365 for 7 (Foxcroft 97, Bruce 64, Fletcher 56*, Cooper 52, Bartlett 3-78, Swepson 3-121) beat Australia A 370 for 6 dec (Renshaw 112, Ward 75, McSweeney 50, Kuggeleijn 3-94) and 218 for 2 dec (Renshaw 78, McSweeney 69*, Ward 67*) by three wickets New Zealand A produced a fantastic final-day run chase to topple their Australian counterparts in…
Toss Ireland chose to bat vs Bangladesh Ireland captain Andrew Balbirnie decided to bat against Bangladesh in the one-off Test in Dhaka with as many as six Test debutants in his XI. He said it looked like a pretty good pitch to bat on whereas Bangladesh captain Shakib Al Hasan said he wanted his fast bowlers to take advantage of the slight presence of grass on the Shere Bangla National…
Women emerged as the biggest winners in cricket’s pay deal on Monday, with an extra AU$53 million in the player pool over the next five years and a pay rise of 66 percent. Those winnings will be felt most significantly at domestic level, where the average pay packet will sit at AU$151,000 for players with state and WBBL deals. The majority of dual-format female players will also earn six figures…
Azeem Rafiq has said he is open to meeting Michael Vaughan with a view to finding a way forward for the sport after the findings of the Cricket Discipline Commission’s (CDC) racism hearings were published last week. On Friday, Vaughan was cleared of using racist language towards Rafiq and three other players of Asian descent before Yorkshire’s T20 match against Nottinghamshire in 2009. The former England captain was one of…
Chennai Super Kings 217 for 7 (Gaikwad 57, Conway 47, Bishnoi 3-28, Wood 3-49) beat Lucknow Super Giants 205 for 7 (Mayers 53, Pooran 32, Moeen 4-26) by 12 runs A game high on entertainment ended with 35,000 boisterous fans celebrating Chennai Super Kings’ and MS Dhoni’s grand homecoming in style. Despite piling up 217, the highest score of the season so far, the Super Kings had threatened to get…
Tom Latham will captain New Zealand’s ODI squad on their tour of Pakistan in April. The 15-member squad is significantly depleted from New Zealand’s full strength squad, with Tim Southee, Glenn Phillips, Mitchell Santner, Devon Conway, Finn Allen, Michael Bracewell and Lockie Ferguson all given clearance to participate in the ongoing IPL. Kane Williamson was also part of the IPL, but has been ruled out with a knee injury. “We’ve…
Of the thoughts pre-occupying Ben Foakes ahead of the 2023 season, his status as England’s No. 1 wicketkeeper is not one of them. The news Jonny Bairstow has requested the keeping gloves upon his return to action for Yorkshire in a bid to boost him claims on a Test place after breaking his leg last September was a shot across the bows for Foakes. The Surrey wicketkeeper has been the…
International engagements and personal reasons have forced Bangladesh allrounder Shakib Al Hasan to opt out of IPL 2023. ESPNcricinfo has learned that Shakib informed Kolkata Knight Riders about this development on Sunday. The franchise will begin the process of seeking a replacement once it gets a nod from the IPL. Shakib is set to be involved in a busy few weeks for Bangladesh. He and keeper-batter Litton Das already missed…
Big picture: Delhi need a response Gujarat Titans started their title defence in style on Friday night, overcoming the loss of Kane Williamson through injury to gun down a target of 180 against Chennai Super Kings in Ahmedabad. Tuesday’s game in Delhi presents a new challenge for them: their first time as the visiting team during a full home-and-away IPL season. They will come up against a Delhi Capitals side…