Month: September 2024

Lack of overs and suggestions that he is struggling with multiple injuries have raised questions about Shakib Al Hasan‘s appearance in the ongoing Chennai Test against India. Shakib, who on Saturday became Bangladesh’s oldest Test cricketer, bowled seven overs on the third day after captain Najmul Hossain Shanto brought him into the attack belatedly. Shakib was uncharacteristically poor, with Rishabh Pant hitting him for six fours and two sixes. Shakib…

England won the toss and decided to bowl against Australia Australia have been able to recall the experienced trio of Glenn Maxwell, Mitchell Starc and Glenn Maxwell for the second ODI at Headingley after they missed the opening game due to illness. England, who opted to bowl first on a cloudy morning, have made one change with Olly Stone replacing the rested Jofra Archer. It had always been expected that…

Ashleigh Gardner has been cleared of concussion after the allrounder’s bizarre collision with Georgia Wareham before Australia’s T20I against New Zealand. Gardner missed Australia’s series-opening win in Mackay on Thursday night, after she and Wareham clashed heads during a warm-up game. Wareham has also been cleared of any concussion symptoms after recovering from the knock to play in the five-wicket win. Gardner, the reigning Belinda Clark Medallist, initially laughed off…

“I got a hamstring [injury], I had it a month before as well, quite unlucky but I tried my best to stay on the ground till the end, tried my best to do for the team as much as I can,” Rashid said after the whopping 177-run win was sealed in Sharjah. “Big opportunity for us as a team you know, to win the series against a big team and…

India 376 and 205 for 3 (Gill 86*, Pant 82*) lead Bangladesh 149 by 432 runs Shubman Gill and Rishabh Pant got to their half-centuries as India moved closer to batting Bangladesh out of the Test with a wicketless first session on day three in Chennai. The ease with which India batted was apparent from how the average seam movement had died down from 1.3 degrees on day one to…

Lions 367 for 6 (Irfan 100, Khushdil 73, Shafique 52, Imam 51, Zahid 2-49) beat Markhors 332 for 9 (Fakhar 82, Salman 69, Yamin 2-54, Daniyal 2-66, Khushdil 2-67) by 35 runs Irfan Khan‘s 56-ball ton and Khushdil Shah‘s all-round heroics handed Lions their first win and snapped table-toppers Markhors’ unbeaten streak. The result meant that all eight games in the Champions One-Day Cup have been won by the team…

“I thought there was a run. Daryll trusted my call. It was a pretty good throw. At the end of the day, run-outs in Test cricket are not exactly ideal. I take full accountability for it, and hopefully on another day I make a different decision.” Glenn Phillips isn’t the kind to mince words, especially when he’s the guy who did a team-mate wrong. Daryl Mitchell had been batting beautifully…

Gareth Batty, Surrey’s head coach, dedicated his team’s third consecutive County Championship title to the outgoing director of cricket, Alec Stewart, describing him as “irreplaceable” and adding that it was “delusional” to think that anyone could emulate the influence he has wielded across his five decades at the Kia Oval. Surrey, who beat Durham by ten wickets on Thursday afternoon to put themselves on the brink of the title, were…

India B 210 for 6 (Easwaran 116, Arshdeep 3-30) trail India D 349 (Samson 106, Saini 5-74) by 139 runs Like he did in the previous match, Abhimanyu Easwaran waged a lone battle for India B as they stare at a substantial first-innings deficit in the final round of the 2024-25 Duleep Trophy in Anantapur. Easwaran backed his unbeaten 157 in the previous game with a second-straight century, a 170-ball…

Allrounders often tend to draw from doing well in one discipline to do well in the other but there is perhaps a chance that R Ashwin‘s primary skill might have held back his secondary one. “Bowling and batting are very separate sports in the same game,” Ashwin said after the second day of the Chennai Test between India and Bangladesh. “One is done consciously. The other one is done subconsciously….