Month: April 2023

The PCB has played down concerns of conflict of interest in the ongoing regional electoral process, at the end of which the board’s directors will be appointed. The concerns are about officials from the interim setup, who are currently tasked with overseeing the PCB’s restructuring but are also taking part in the elections. A 12-member management committee, headed by Najam Sethi, was handed interim charge of the board last December…

Big picture: A tale of two top orders After having conceded the highest IPL total at Eden Gardens, Kolkata Knight Riders will run into Royal Challengers Bangalore for another potential run-fest at the Chinnaswamy Stadium. In all, KKR have conceded three 200-plus scores across seven games this season, with the recent injury to Shardul Thakur also messing with the balance of their side. KKR’s issues at the top are more…

Sri Lanka 81 for 0 (Madushka 41*, Karunaratne 39*) trail Ireland 492 (Campher 111, Stirling 103, Jayasuriya 5-174) by 411 runs Paul Stirling and allrounder Curtis Campher struck their nation’s third and fourth Test hundreds respectively, as Ireland stormed past their previous highest Test score early in the day, and on to a mammoth 492 by tea. Although the sheen of Ireland’s excellent first innings was dulled somewhat by the…

South Africa’s Test coach Shukri Conrad and eight Test players will lead a strong South Africa A squad to Sri Lanka for three one-day matches and two four-day games in June. In the absence of any Test cricket until December, Cricket South Africa’s director of cricket Enoch Nkwe has sought to fill gaps in the calendar with as much A team cricket as possible to ready the red-ball players for…

Ajinkya Rahane, who has not played a Test since January 2022, has been named in India’s 15-man squad for the upcoming World Test Championship final against Australia in June. Rahane, who made his Test debut in 2013, has been out of the red-ball side since the Cape Town Test against South Africa last year, where he made 9 and 1, capping off a poor run of form during a tour…

Mark Wood is set to miss the final stages of IPL 2023 to attend the birth of his daughter in late May, but the majority of England players involved in the competition are expected to stay in India for the whole season. Wood has missed Lucknow Super Giants’ last two matches due to illness but has been a revelation for them this season, taking 11 wickets in his four appearances…

Mark Chapman has been added to the New Zealand ODI squad for their upcoming five-match series against Pakistan that begins in Rawalpindi on Thursday. Chapman has been called up on the back of his impressive performances in the T20I series, where he finished as the highest run-scorer with 290 runs in five games. His runs tally is the most by any player in a five-match T20I series. The series ended…

Delhi Capitals 144 for 9 (Pandey 34, Axar 34, Washington 3-28, Bhuvneshwar 2-11) beat Sunrisers Hyderabad 137 for 6 (Agarwal 49, Klaasen 31, Axar 2-21, Nortje 2-33) by seven runs For a large part of the contest, Sunrisers Hyderabad seemed to have a hold on Delhi Capitals. Like when Washington Sundar picked up three wickets in an over. When Bhuvneshwar Kumar gave away almost nothing in his four overs. When…

Virat Kohli has been fined INR 24 lakh (USD 29,300 approx.) after Royal Challengers Bangalore maintained a slow over rate in their win against Rajasthan Royals at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium on Sunday. It was the second over-rate offence committed by Royal Challengers in IPL 2023. Aside from Kohli, who stood in as captain in the game, the other members of the playing XI and the impact substitute also faced…

New Zealand won the toss and chose to field first against Pakistan New Zealand have won the toss and elected to field first in the fifth T20I against Pakistan. The visitors have the opportunity to level the series with a win at the Pindi Cricket Ground. “You never quite know what a good total is on this surface, and we’d like to have a score on the board to chase,”…