Ambati Rayudu has cut his CPL stint with St Kitts and Nevis Patriots short and left the tournament due to personal reasons. Rayudu played three innings for Patriots in the ongoing edition, managing 47 runs at 15.66 and a strike rate of 117.50. His scores in the three innings were 0, 32 and 15. Rayudu was signed up as a marquee player by Patriots, making him just the second Indian…
Dhruv Shorey has moved from Delhi to Vidarbha for the 2023-24 domestic season. The 31-year-old middle-order batter played 42 games for Delhi in a 52-match first-class career that has brought him 3841 runs at an average of 54.87, including 11 hundreds. He also has 1945 List A runs at 36.01, and 866 T20 runs at a strike rate of 116.39. He was part of the Chennai Super Kings IPL squad…
Tim David has been added to Australia’s ODI squad in South Africa to provide them with an extra middle-order option. David has only played 16 List A matches in his career but averages 82.77 with a strike-rate of 123.14. Just one of those games has come in the Australian domestic scene with the others for Singapore and Surrey. Related Marsh, David, Sangha star as Australia rout South Africa Plane, gym,…
New Zealand A 147 (Swepson 3-19, Buckingham 3-29) and 468 (Kuggeleijn 101*, Solia 91) beat Australia A 263 (Jewell 78, Kuggeleijn 5-74) and 127 (Bancroft 47, Kuggeleijn 4-39, Solia 3-15) by 225 runs New Zealand A completed a remarkable turnaround in Brisbane to steamroller Australia A by 225 runs in the first four-day match. Scott Kuggeleijn and Sean Solia completed fine all-round outings as the home side were bundled out…
Tanveer Sangha made an immediate mark on international cricket (file photo) • Getty Images Tanveer Sangha was in the gym on Wednesday morning in Durban, having only arrived in South Africa the previous day and at that point not officially part of the T20I squad, when he was told he would be making his Australia debut after Adam Zampa had woken up with a cold. The first wicket came in his opening…
England won the toss and chose to bowl vs New Zealand Brydon Carse has been handed his England T20I debut on his home ground at Chester-le-Street, and will get an early outing with the ball after Jos Buttler won the toss and chose to bowl first in his team’s first white-ball fixture since the tour of Bangladesh in March. Carse, who has played nine ODIs since making his first international…
South Africa opt to bowl v Australia Dewald Brevis made a much anticipated international debut for South Africa as one of two new caps in their T20I XI. Apart from Brevis, who was the leading run-scorer at the 2022 Under-19 World Cup, Gerald Coetzee made a first T20I appearance, to add to his Test and ODI cap. Coetzee joins a young pace pack, who would get first use of the…
Bangladesh-Sri Lanka fixtures might have had a little more tension over the last few years, than they used to. And perhaps this match will add to the emotions. Speaking ahead of their group match, Sri Lanka’s captain Dasun Shanaka let slip that he thought Bangladesh’s players might be hasty in their decision-making. The question had been about Shakib Al Hasan, his Galle Titans team-mate in the recent Lanka Premier League…
Heather Knight says that England’s T20I series against Sri Lanka marks the start of the team’s new cycle, in the wake of a transformative Ashes campaign this summer, and that the aim of the coming weeks will be to create competition for places ahead of next year’s T20 Women’s World Cup in Bangladesh. Speaking on the eve of the first T20I at Hove on Thursday, Knight talked enthusiastically about the…
Prioritising Test cricket and ensuring that New Zealand’s best players want to keep playing for the country are on top of the agenda for NZC’s new chief executive Scott Weenink, who took over from David White on August 30. Weenink, 50, is a businessman and a former first-class cricketer from Wellington, and he was the chair of the New Zealand Cricket Players Association (NCPA), a position from which he will…