Shubman Gill, India’s vice-captain in ODIs and T20Is, has said he aims to improve his performance in the shortest format, as the team begins to build towards defending their T20 World Cup title in 2026. “My performance in T20Is before the World Cup this year wasn’t how I had expected it to be,” Gill said ahead of the series opener against Sri Lanka in Pallekele. “Hopefully, going forward, in the…
Last month, a South African T20 squad that last played together in December 2023*, traveled to (the USA and) the Caribbean and reached the World Cup final. This month, a South African Test side that last played together in the first week of January** is traveling to the Caribbean to begin their busiest period of red-ball cricket this cycle and attempt to get their WTC campaign on track. South Africa…
Samit Dravid, son of former India captain and head coach Rahul Dravid, has bagged his maiden Maharaja Trophy KSCA T20 contract with last season’s runner-up Mysuru Warriors at the auction in Bengaluru on Thursday. Dravid, an 18-year old allrounder, was bought at a price of INR 50,000. A medium-pacer and middle-order batter, he was part of the Karnataka Under-19 team that won the 2023-24 Cooch Behar Trophy, and also represented…
Kevin Sinclair, West Indies’ offspinning allrounder, will be replaced by Gudakesh Motie for the third and final Test after sustaining a fractured left forearm courtesy of England’s Mark Wood on the final day of the second Test. Sinclair, the sixth man out as West Indies capitulated to 143 all out in Nottingham on Sunday, wore a sickening blow while attempting to fend off a 92mph bouncer from Wood. The ball…
Cricket South Africa [CSA] will host a three-day diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) Indaba (conference) from Friday, with the main aim of identifying a roadmap to ensure a demographically-reflective national men’s team by the 2027 ODI World Cup at home. They will also address issues of representation in the game overall but have changed the labelling of the event from Transformation Indaba to DEI Indaba to reflect an agenda that…
Match details India vs BangladeshDambulla, July 26, 2.00pm local time India and Bangladesh – recent form India are the in-form team going into the first semi-final. They have played 14 T20Is this year and have won 10 of those with one being a no-result. After losing the home series to Australia 2-1 in January, they bounced back to sweep Bangladesh 5-0 and then draw 1-1 against South Africa at home…
Big picture: Can West Indies go to the well again? They were putting out the bunting ever so briefly at Trent Bridge last week. Roll up, roll up, free entry for the fifth and final day! Relive the glories of that first heady summer of Bazball in 2022 … marvel at the chutzpah! Swoon at the strokeplay! Savour the glorious uncertainty of Test cricket at its finest! At 61 for…
Toss Ireland choose to bowl Ireland won the toss and decided to bowl first on return to Test cricket at home after a gap of six years. Zimbabwe’s batters will be tested on a wet Belfast morning with a passing shower turning up about an hour before the toss. There is rain forecast on all five days, more so in the first three. There were no surprises from Ireland’s selection….
Fast bowler Gerald Coetzee has been ruled out of South Africa’s upcoming Test series against West Indies because of a side strain, which he picked up during the USA’s T20 franchise league, Major League Cricket (MLC). Migael Pretorius, uncapped at Test level but with the experience of 64 first-class games to his credit, comes in as Coetzee’s replacement. Coetzee, playing for Texas Super Kings, returned home to undergo assessments on…
Sri Lanka fast bowler Nuwan Thushara has broken a finger in his left hand at training, and will now be ruled out of at least the T20I series against India. Team manager Mahinda Halangoda confirmed to ESPNcricinfo that the injury was sustained to a finger on Thushara’s left hand, which is not the hand he bowls with. Nevertheless it is severe enough for him to be ruled out. Halangoda said…