R Ashwin has come out in strong support of Mumbai Indians captain Hardik Pandya, blaming India’s “fan wars” and “cinema culture” for the vehement booing Hardik has been subjected to at various grounds this IPL season. Hardik, who took over the Mumbai captaincy from Rohit Sharma this season, was given a hostile reception by the fans in Ahmedabad last week when he faced his former team Gujarat Titans, whom he…
From working in a Tesco supermarket to representing her country, Lauren Filer had seen more than many before making her England debut in last year’s Women’s Ashes. Now part of a tour to New Zealand in which her side will embark on a three-match ODI series off the back of a dominant 4-1 victory in the T20I leg, Filer is still eager to learn everything she can. “It was probably…
Lucknow Super Giants have called up fast bowler Matt Henry to replace David Willey in their squad. Willey had pulled out of the start of this year’s IPL due to personal reasons, but has now withdrawn from the entire tournament. England’s left-arm quick Willey was bought by LSG at his base price of INR 2 crore (approx. US $239,856) at last year’s mini-auction in Dubai after spending the last two…
Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to bat in the second Test against Bangladesh in Chattogram. The visitors opted to stick a three-seamer set-up by making just the one forced change, with Asitha Fernando coming in for Kasun Rajitha, who was ruled out with a back injury. Bangladesh, meanwhile, were boosted by the returning Shakib Al Hasan. The last time Shakib played a Test was against Ireland last April….
Kolkata Knight Riders 186 for 3 (Venkatesh 50, Narine 47) beat Royal Challengers Bengaluru 182 for 6 (Kohli 83*, Russell 2-29, Rana 2-39) by seven wickets It took 10 matches for IPL 2024 to produce a victory by the away team. Though it was perhaps predictable that it came at the M Chinnaswamy stadium, where the small ground really does favour the chasing team. That, on Friday, was Kolkata Knight…
Match details Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) vs Punjab Kings (PBKS)Lucknow, 1930 IST (1400 GMT) Big picture – Welcome home, Lucknow Super Giants The last time these two teams met, there were relentless fireworks in Mohali, where LSG first racked up 257, the second-highest IPL total then, followed by Kings’ 201. The two teams now meet in Lucknow, a venue of low bounce and low totals last year, when conditions changed…
Shaheen Shah Afridi‘s one-series stint as Pakistan T20I captain is set to come to an end, with Babar Azam offered the white-ball captaincy once more. The PCB chairman Mohsin Naqvi met Babar earlier this week to make the offer. Babar, for his part, has not yet accepted the offer. The decision to strip him of the armband in all three formats following Pakistan’s poor 2023 ODI World Cup campaign rankled…
Alan Wilkins, the veteran broadcaster, has been appointed as the new president of Glamorgan on a three-year term. As a left-arm seamer, Wilkins claimed 243 first-class wickets in eight seasons with Glamorgan from 1976 to 1983, and a further 130 in List A games, during which time he helped the club reach their first one-day final, against Middlesex in the Gillette Cup in 1977. After retirement, Wilkins embarked on a…
Netherlands will host Ireland and Scotland in a T20 tri-series as part of the three teams’ preparations for the T20 World Cup, which begins on June 2. The tri-series will take place in Amstelveen from May 18 to 24, with matches on all days other than May 21. The all-European tri-series will follow a pure round-robin format, with no final, with each team meeting the others twice. Ireland, who completed…
After Rashid Khan had Shivam Dube holing out for 51 off 23 balls, with just ten balls left in Chennai Super Kings’ innings, on Tuesday, 33,400-odd spectators at Chepauk were expecting MS Dhoni to walk out to bat for the first time this season. The cameras also kept panning to the OG finisher, but instead, CSK unleashed their new finisher, Sameer Rizvi, on Rashid. The 20-year-old viciously slog-swept his first…