Ajay Ratra, the former India wicketkeeper, has been named as the fifth selector in the Ajit Agarkar-led India men’s selection committee. Ratra replaces Salil Ankola, the former India fast bowler, to complete a process that had begun in January this year when the BCCI invited applications for the position. The season-opening Duleep Trophy will be Ratra’s first assignment. The need for a new selector in the committee arose after Agarkar’s…
Brendon McCullum has been announced as England’s new men’s white-ball head coach, and will combine that role with his existing Test duties. McCullum has agreed a remarkable new three-year deal as part of what the ECB has termed a “strategic restructure” within the men’s set-up. The contract extension, announced on Tuesday, means that McCullum is set to oversee England’s white-ball fortunes, up to and including the next 50-over World Cup…
England players will miss the latter stages of the WBBL, due to a clash with their tour of South Africa. To avoid a repetition of the situation which occurred earlier this year, when the end of the WPL overlapped with England Women’s arrival in New Zealand for a bilateral series, causing players to have to choose between club and country, the ECB has told players that they are expected in…
There were useful contributions from across the XI, but Bangladesh’s win in the second Test against Pakistan was orchestrated by their youngsters. Especially Hasan Mahmud and Nahid Rana, 24 and 21 respectively, who picked up nine wickets between them in the second innings to set up the 185-run chase. “They wanted to win, that was very important,” Najmul Hossain Shanto, the Bangladesh captain, said after the win when asked about…
South Africa have named 18-year old uncapped legspinner Seshnie Naidu and 20-year old seamer Ayanda Hlubi in an otherwise experienced 15-member squad for the T20 World Cup in the UAE. Both players were part of the squad that competed in the inaugural Under-19 Women’s World Cup held in South Africa last year. The rest of the playing group, apart from wicketkeeper batter Mieke de Ridder, were all part of the…
Former South Africa allrounder JP Duminy has been named head coach of International League T20 (ILT20) side Sharjah Warriorz. Duminy is currently also South Africa’s white-ball batting coach, having taken up the role in late 2023. Duminy’s white-ball international career had run from 2004 to 2019, and in between he was also part of the Caribbean Premier League (CPL), Indian Premier League (IPL) and Pakistan Super League (PSL). After retirement,…
The final of the World Test Championship (WTC) 2023-25 will be played at Lord’s from June 11. India and Australia are currently the top two teams on the points table with 68.52 and 62.50 percentage points respectively, but the identity of the finalists will not be known till early next year. For India, who were the losing finalists in both the previous WTCs, there are ten Tests left to play…
After two poor performances in the space of 48 hours dumped Australia out of the T20 World Cup earlier this year having previously been unbeaten, they are back in action with an eye to building towards the next event in 2026 with three-matches series against Scotland and England. David Warner has retired and other senior players are missing for a variety of reasons meaning there is a fresh look to…
Lunch Bangladesh 262 and 122 for 2 (Zakir 40, Shanto 33*, Hamza 1-34) need 63 runs to win against Pakistan 274 and 172 The Pakistan bowlers found their lengths, stuck to a plan and dried up the runs, but were unable to get past the experienced duo of Najmul Hossain Shanto and Mominul Haque as Bangladesh closed in on a historic series clean sweep on the final day of the…
Clarkson, the 27-year-old middle-order batter and medium-pace bowler, has played three ODIs and T20Is while 26-year-old Smith has yet to make his international debut. Related Meet Josh Clarkson, New Zealand’s most ‘dangerous’ T20 hitter Conway offered casual contract, Allen declines New Zealand deal Smith was the leading wicket-taker in last season’s Plunket Shield with 33 at 17.18 for champions Wellington. He also represented Worcestershire this season where he claimed 27…