David Warner‘s missing baggy green has been located four days after he announced it had been lost in transit between Melbourne and Sydney ahead of his final Test. Details of how and where it was found have yet to be confirmed, but Warner posted a video on social media on Friday morning holding his original baggy green and thanked those involved for finding it. “Hi everyone, I am very pleased…
South Africa’s national team will have to “find a way to co-exist” with the SA20 and not fight against its primacy in the calendar, according to Test coach Shukri Conrad. His concession comes after South Africa announced a makeshift squad including an uncapped captain to play two Tests in New Zealand next month, sparking criticism, particularly from Australia, that they were disrespecting the oldest format. But Conrad called for a…
India captain Rohit Sharma has put the team’s maiden Test win at Cape Town, coming back an innings defeat in Centurion, right up there with the Gabba Test win in 2020-21. That Brisbane win sealed a miraculous series win in Australia, this one drew the two-Test series. “It’ll be one of our best Test match victories,” Rohit said after India’s seven-wicket win in just five sessions, the shortest Test ever…
Rohit Sharma has called out the ICC and the match referees for what he sees as double standards at rating pitches. After winning the shortest Test in the history of the game, thanks to a lottery pitch loaded too heavily in the favour of the seam bowlers, Rohit was scathing about the slander against pitches in India, which don’t go the distance. “I mean, we saw what happened in this…
Hobart Hurricanes 148 for 4 (Hain 51, Anderson 41*, O’Neill 2-25) beat Melbourne Renegades 147 for 4 (Cox 47, Wells 38, David 1-0) by six wickets The Hobart Hurricanes have snapped a 10-match BBL losing streak away from Tasmania with a six-wicket triumph over the Melbourne Renegades at Marvel Stadium. The Hurricanes restricted the under-fire Renegades to 147 for 4 and then cruised to their target with eight balls to…
Nathan Smith, the 25-year-old New Zealand allrounder, has joined Worcestershire as an overseas player for the entirety of the 2024 season. Smith has yet to make his international debut, but has featured domestically for Otago Volts and Wellington Firebirds, claiming 105 first-class wickets at 27.65 and 1620 runs at 26.55, with on first-class century. His T20 attributes include 52 wickets at 21.59, and a career strike-rate of 122. “I’m absolutely…
India 153 (Kohli 46, Rohit 39, Ngidi 3-30, Rabada 3-38, Burger 3-42) and 80 for 3 (Jaiswal 28, Jansen 1-15) beat South Africa 55 (Verreynne 15, Siraj 6-15) and 176 (Markram 106, Bumrah 6-61) by seven wickets Jasprit Bumrah‘s 6 for 61 paved the way for India’s seven-wicket win on the second day of the second Test in Cape Town, helping them level the two-match series 1-1. After South Africa…
Much of David Warner‘s aggressive behaviour at times before his one-year ban from international cricket for ball tampering came because he was following team instructions, according to his close friend and long-time team-mate Usman Khawaja. “For a long period of time, he was in people’s faces and doing stuff; but that wasn’t always Davey,” Khawaja said. “He was getting told to play a certain way by the coaching staff and…
Melbourne Renegades have sent an SOS to Netherlands captain Scott Edwards to be available for the last two games of the BBL season as a replacement for the injured Joe Clarke. Edwards is currently in South Africa with the Netherlands team on a training tour that includes five practice matches against SA20 teams before the start of that tournament and a month-long camp. But Edwards, who also holds Australian citizenship,…
The ICC has made a change in the playing conditions, according to which the TV umpire will not check for a caught behind when a stumping appeal is referred by the on-field umpires. The modification came into effect on December 12, 2023, and now if a team wants to review the caught behind when the keeper has also removed the bails, it will have to do so separately via the…