On Tuesday, India announced their 15-member World Cup squad that was largely on similar lines as the one they picked for the ongoing Asia Cup. The composition did, however, elicit a few talking points. Kishan v Rahul: Who will win the race? It’s a massive show of confidence from the selectors and team management to pick KL Rahul despite him having not played a competitive game since May. But this…
Surrey 396 (Foakes 125, Steel 71, Sibley 65, Smith 60, Barnard 5-66) beat Warwickshire 161 (Burgess 54, Roach 4-64, Worrall 3-34) and 138 (Worrall 5-25, Clark 4-26) by an innings and 97 runs How’s that for ruthless? By 10.45am on day three, Surrey had sewn up victory over Warwickshire by an innings and 97 runs. The three remaining wickets taking so little time people were still coming through the gates…
New Zealand A 277 and 20 for 0 lead Australia A 275 (Philippe 105, McSweeney 56, Dwarshuis 50) by 22 runs Josh Philippe struck a counterattacking century to rescue Australia A on the second day of the pink-ball encounter with New Zealand A. The hosts were in trouble on 150 for 7 and threatening to concede a substantial deficit but Philippe registered a 109-ball hundred, his third in first-class cricket,…
Kent have appointed Simon Cook, the former seamer who is currently the club’s bowling coach, as their new director of cricket. Cook will take over from Paul Downton at the start of October, after Downton announced his intention to retire after years in the job. Cook, 46, played for Kent between 2005 and 2012, before rejoining the club’s coaching staff in 2019. In between, he served as head coach and…
South Africa opener Quinton de Kock has announced a sudden retirement from ODIs which will be effective after the upcoming World Cup in India in October-November. De Kock’s retirement was announced minutes after Cricket South Africa (CSA) named him in the World Cup squad of 15, which will be led by Temba Bavuma. De Kock, 30, was rested from the recently-concluded T20I series against Australia which South Africa lost 3-0….
Keshav Maharaj has completed a remarkable recovery from an Achilles’ rupture sustained in March and has been included in South Africa’s 15-player World Cup squad. Maharaj was expected to be sidelined for the rest of the year after sustaining the injury in a Test against West Indies but returned to action at the weekend, for South Africa’s final ODI against Australia and has been declared fit for the tournament. Maharaj…
A deadlock between the PCB and the Asian Cricket Council (ACC) has thrown the planning for the last leg of the Asia Cup into disarray. Over the last 48 hours, the ACC took significant steps towards moving the last five Asia Cup matches to Hambantota – a move the PCB was on board with – because of inclement weather in Colombo, but the ACC has since backtracked and conveyed to…
Toss Sri Lanka chose to bat vs Afghanistan Dasun Shanaka won a crucial toss for Sri Lanka against Afghanistan in Lahore and decided to bat first. He confirmed that Sri Lanka had an unchanged XI. Hashmatullah Shahidi said that he would’ve bowled first in any case, as they feel more comfortable chasing in a scenario where they need to overcome Sri Lanka’s net run rate. Afghanistan too named an unchanged…
The BCB said that Shanto would be brought back home to begin his rehabilitation, with an eye on getting him fit in time for the ODI World Cup, which starts October 5. He will be replaced by Litton Das, who was omitted from the original squad following a bout of ill health, had flown into Lahore on Tuesday morning to join the team. Bangladesh team physio Bayjedul Islam Khan said…
KL Rahul has been included in India’s World Cup squad despite not having played any competitive cricket since May this year. Rahul, the first-choice wicketkeeper, is currently preparing to fly out to Sri Lanka for the Super Four stage of the Asia Cup after passing a fitness assessment at the National Cricket Academy in Bengaluru on September 4. Middle-order batter Tilak Varma and fast bowler Prasidh Krishna are the two…