After putting a challenging phase on personal front behind him, which had sidelined him for a few assignments, India seamer Deepak Chahar is ready for a comeback and has set his sights on the T20 World Cup to be jointly hosted by the USA and West Indies in June. Chahar had to miss India’s tour of South Africa in December followed by the home T20Is against Afghanistan after his father…
Australia allrounder Marcus Stoinis will remain at Melbourne Stars in the BBL after signing a three-year contract extension that will take him through until the end of BBL16 in 2026-27. Stars had several players coming out of contract with Stoinis being the biggest name among them and there had been interest from other clubs to lure him elsewhere, including Perth Scorchers given he is based in Perth and plays his…
India 326 for 5 (Kulkarni 108, Musheer 73, Subramanian 2-45) beat USA125 for 8 (Srivastava 40, Tiwari 4-20) by 201 runs Arshin Kulkarni‘s 108 off 118 balls, Musheer Khan‘s 76-ball 73, and Naman Tiwari‘s frugal spell of 4 for 20 led India to a big 201-run win over USA in the Under-19 World Cup on Sunday. The win meant they kept their unblemished record intact going into the Super Six…
Pope said that he rated his fifth Test century “head and shoulders above the other four” and described India as “probably the toughest place for a batter to come at the minute”. On England’s most recent tour of the country, in 2021, he managed 153 runs across four innings with a top score of 34 and said that he had made technical adjustments during his comeback. Related Hartley’s comeback embodies…
Where did India lost the game in Hyderabad? Was it when their spinners were unable to stop Ollie Pope and England running rampant in the second innings? Was it when their batting was unable to deal with the rookie left-arm spinner Tom Hartley on the fourth day? Nope. Head coach Rahul Dravid says the biggest mistake they made was leaving runs on the field when they batted in their first…
The pain of a first home defeat as Test captain for Pat Cummins was still raw, but he was able to appreciate the bigger picture of what had unfolded on a dramatic fourth day at the Gabba, while his opposite number Kraigg Brathwaite reiterated his call for West Indies to be given more Test cricket. When Josh Hazlewood’s off stump was extracted by Shamar Joseph, it gave West Indies their…
SLC was suspended on November 10 for being in “serious breach of its obligations as an ICC Member”. Specifically, this had to do with “the requirement to manage its affairs autonomously and ensure that there is no government interference in the governance, regulation and/or administration of cricket in Sri Lanka”. The ICC Board said it had been monitoring the situation since the suspension and “are now satisfied that SLC are…
Ben Stokes described England’s unlikely turnaround win against India in Hyderabad as their “greatest triumph” since he took over as captain, and labelled Ollie Pope‘s second-innings 196 “the greatest innings that has ever been played in the subcontinent by an English batsman”. England have won 14 of their 19 Tests since Stokes took over as captain in May 2022, a streak that has included statement victories over New Zealand, South…
Rohit Sharma feels India were not “brave enough” in their second innings and they “overall failed as a team” as they went down by 28 runs in Hyderabad. “When you are put against a wall, you need to show character and you need to be brave enough, which I thought we weren’t,” Rohit said on the official broadcast after India went 1-0 down in the five-Test series. “We wanted to…
England 246 (Stokes 70, Bairstow 37, Ashwin 3-68, Jadeja 3-88) and 420 (Pope 196, Duckett 47, Bumrah 4-41, Ashwin 3-126) beat India 436 (Jadeja 87, Rahul 86, Jaiswal 80) and 202 (Rohit 39, Hartley 7-62) by 28 runs Less than two days after advancing many a travel plan, England pulled off one of their greatest Test wins in front of the raucous Barmy Army and a stunned home crowd in…