Month: March 2024

Babar Azam has been appointed captain of the Pakistan side in white-ball cricket, the PCB announced on Sunday. “>As reported by ESPNcricinfo a few days ago, the announcement means Shaheen Shah Afridi‘s one-series stint as T20I captain comes to an end. “Following unanimous recommendation from the PCB’s selection committee, Chairman PCB Mohsin Naqvi has appointed Babar Azam as white-ball (ODI and T20I) captain of the Pakistan men’s cricket team,” the…

It was a debut to remember for Mayank Yadav who cranked up the pace and tore through the Punjab Kings batting unit, to help Lucknow Super Giants record their first win of the season. Mayank picked up 3 for 27 in his four overs, and the Player-of-the-Match award, but it was his pace that had everyone stand up and take notice. He clocked 147kph on the speed gun with his…

Ben Foakes will continue to bat in the top six for Surrey in the early stages of the County Championship season, despite conceding that he is learning on the job while batting at No. 7 in England’s Test team. Twenty-five Tests into his England career, Foakes has batted exclusively at No. 7 or 8 and has often struggled to adjust to batting alongside tailenders. He made 205 runs in 10…

Lucknow Super Giants 199 for 8 (de Kock 54, Krunal 43*, Curran 3-28) beat Punjab Kings 178 for 5 (Dhawan 70, Mayank 3-27, Mohsin 2-34) by 21 runs Justin Langer has arrived in the IPL. It took just one game of tired-old T20 cricket, and the consequent heavy defeat of course, for Lucknow Super Giants to burn that book of conservative T20 cricket and play with much higher intent. As…

Sri Lanka 138 for 3 (Gunaratne 65, Dilhari 45*, Tryon 1-14) beat South Africa 137 for 8 (Bosch 50, Kapp 44, Kulasuriya 2-26) by seven wickets Eighteen-year-old Vishmi Gunaratne scored her first T20I half-century as Sri Lanka levelled the three-match series against South Africa with a seven-wicket win in Potchefstroom. Gunaratne and Kavisha Dilhari shared an unbeaten fourth-wicket stand of 76 off 46 balls to successfully chase 138 after South…

Match details Gujarat Titans (GT) vs Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) Ahmedabad, 1530 IST (1000 GMT) Big picture A plethora of subplots from outside the cricket field may have helped Gujarat Titans lift themselves to a come-from-behind win against Mumbai Indians in their season opener, but a 63-run defeat away against Chennai Super Kings begs the question: are the Titans of 2024 championship material? David Miller, for example, has crossed 30 only…

Bangladesh’s poor catching once again brought about their undoing as Sri Lanka took the opening day honours in the second Test in Chattogram. The hosts spilled three chances on the first day which saw Sri Lanka close the day on 314 for 4. Mahmudul Hasan Joy, at second slip, dropped Nishan Madushka in the sixth over of the day. Sri Lanka were 13 for 0 at that time; the openers…

Match details Delhi Capitals (DC) vs Chennai Super Kings (CSK)Visakhapatnam, 1930 IST (1400 GMT) Big picture: Capitals on shaky (home) ground MS Dhoni, with his shoulder-length hair, is back at the scene of his first big innings from way back in 2005. Almost 20 years ago, Sourav Ganguly promoted Dhoni to No.3, ahead of himself, and the rest is history. Ganguly is now the director of cricket in the opposition…

KL Rahul has handed over the Lucknow Super Giants’ (LSG) captaincy to Nicholas Pooran for their second game of IPL 2024 against Punjab Kings in Lucknow on Saturday. Rahul, however, was part of the playing XI as an Impact Player. Pooran said at the toss that the team management wanted Rahul to ease back into action because he was returning from an injury. He missed the last four Tests of…

Joseph took eight wickets in her five appearances in the Women’s Super50 Cup, which took place in March. Chedean Nation took six wickets in five games in the Women’s T20 Blaze. Djenaba Joseph, Ashmini Munisar, and Shabika Gajnab are the ones to miss out after being part of the squad for the Australia tour last year. “The upcoming series against is extremely important for the team as they return to…