Month: May 2023

The ECB has recommended an eight-week ban and £8000 fine for Gary Ballance for the use of racist language against Azeem Rafiq while the pair were at Yorkshire. The board recommended a combination of fines and suspensions for five other former players at a Cricket Discipline Commission (CDC) sanction hearing on Wednesday. The players were found guilty of using racist language by the independent three-person CDC panel last month, after…

Big picture – Can Brook rekindle Eden memories? Two misfiring teams that currently make up the bottom half of the points table clash to keep their IPL campaigns alive. Kolkata Knight Riders need to win every game from here on to get to 16 points, which is generally considered a safe number. Sunrisers Hyderabad also have just six points at this stage but they have the cushion of an extra…

19.2 overs Lucknow Super Giants 125 for 7 (Badoni 59, Moeen 2-13, Pathirana 2-22) v Chennai Super KingsMatch abandoned Rain had the final say in Lucknow, where MS Dhoni‘s Chennai Super Kings had taken the upper hand against the Super Giants after 19.2 action-packed overs of the first innings. CSK spinners ran through the home team’s line-up, but 23-year-old Ayush Badoni scored a counter-attacking fifty before the game was called…

Rovman Powell, who led Jamaica Tallawahs to the CPL title last season, has been traded to Barbados Royals, ahead of CPL 2023. Powell, who is West Indies’ current T20I captain, could be a contender to lead Royals, who had finished runners-up last season. As part of the trade, legspinner Hayden Walsh Jr. has joined Tallawahs from Royals. Walsh Jr. had been named Player of the tournament in his first year…

Shabnim Ismail, lauded as the quickest in the women’s game, has retired from international cricket. Ismail, whose 16-year career concluded with the home T20 World Cup in February, will continue to play in T20 competitions around the world. Despite being offered a national contract for the 2023/24 season and being announced by Cricket South Africa (CSA), Ismail did not accept and has chosen to end her South Africa career with…

Pakistan have a one-two at the top of the ICC ODI batting rankings, with opener Fakhar Zaman moving eight places up to achieve a career-best second spot, only behind his captain Babar Azam. Fakhar has scored back-to-back centuries in Rawalpindi in the ongoing five-match series against New Zealand, while Babar has hit 49 and 65 in the two matches. Fakhar made 117 in the chase of 289 in the first…

Toss New Zealand won the toss and chose to field vs Pakistan New Zealand have won the toss and elected to field first in the third of five ODIs against Pakistan, being played in Karachi. New Zealand, who need to win this one to stay alive in the series after losing the first two games, have rung in the changes. Cole McConchie makes his ODI debut, while Tom Blundell comes…

Lucknow Super Giants’ quick Jaydev Unadkat has been ruled out of the remainder of IPL 2023 because of a left-shoulder injury, which he picked up while training in the nets on Sunday. ESPNcricinfo has learnt that he will be fit in time for the WTC final against Australia, starting on June 7 at The Oval. Unadkat was going to bowl his first ball in the Lucknow nets on Sunday when…

Left-arm spinner Paddy Dooley has been handed his first state contract after signing a one-year deal with Tasmania. Dooley, 25, whose unorthodox action was modelled on Jasprit Bumrah, was one of the breakout stars of last season’s BBL with Hobart Hurricanes having initially played for Brisbane Heat during the 2021-22 campaign among the raft of Covid replacements. Related Australia’s T20I future: who has stood out from the BBL? Crowds, controversies…

Delhi Capitals 130 for 8 (Aman 51, Shami 4-11, Mohit 2-33) beat Gujarat Titans 125 for 6 (Hardik 59*, Ishant 2-23, Khaleel 2-24) by five runs In a game with twists of epic proportions, tenth-placed Delhi Capitals trumped table-toppers Gujarat Titans in Ahmedabad, winning by five runs in dramatic fashion. The game’s pendulum swung numerous times, starting with Mohammed Shami picking up four wickets inside the powerplay to reduce Capitals…