Toss India chose to bowl vs Bangladesh The toss was delayed by an hour because of a wet outfield, caused by overnight rain. Rohit said the surface had a little softness and a bit more grass than the usual Kanpur pitch. He expected his three seamers to make use of the conditions as India picked an unchanged XI. That the two teams read the conditions differently became evident when Najmul…
Former West Indies allrounder Dwayne Bravo has ended his long and celebrated journey at Chennai Super Kings, with whom he won four IPL titles in different roles. He is joining defending champions Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) as a mentor from the 2025 season. Bravo, who turns 41 in October, will replace Gautam Gambhir, who took over as Indian head coach until 2027 soon after helping KKR clinch their third IPL…
Bravo, 41 next month, is the leading T20 wicket-taker in history. He had previously called time on his international career in 2021, and stepped away from the IPL last year, as he began to move into coaching – in the last 12 months he has worked with Chennai Super Kings and the Afghanistan men’s team. “My mind wants to keep going, but my body can no longer endure the pain,…
Hampshire 62 for 5 (Leach 3-9) trail Somerset 136 (Kohler-Cadmore 63, Dawson 4-28, Abbott 4-37) by 74 runs Kyle Abbott and Liam Dawson claimed four wickets each as Hampshire boosted their bid for runners-up spot in the Vitality County Championship by skittling nearest rivals Somerset for 136 on the opening day of the final Division One match at Taunton. Seamer Abbott returned 4 for 37 and left-arm spinner Dawson 4…
There will be a total of 74 matches played in IPL 2025, the same as the last three seasons. That number, though, is ten less than the 84 matches listed by IPL in 2022 when the media rights for the 2023-27 cycle were sold. In the tender document for the new rights cycle, the IPL had listed a varying number of matches per season: ranging from 74 games each in…
Josh Hull, the Leicestershire left-arm seamer, has been ruled out of England men’s Test tour of Pakistan with a quad injury. Hull, 20, picked up the niggle during his debut in the final Test of the summer against Sri Lanka at the Kia Oval. At the time, the ECB felt there was time for him to recover and pulled him out of the limited-overs series against Australia. However, with the…
Lalit Modi, the founder and architect of the Indian Premier League, has accused the ECB of being “disconnected from reality” in their ambitions for the Hundred, after leaking the board’s confidential financial projections for the tournament, and its valuations of each of the eight teams. In a post on X (formerly Twitter) on Thursday, Modi published details from the prospectus that the ECB’s financial advisors, Raine Group and Deloitte, has…
Nottinghamshire 33 for 2 (Barnard 1-8) vs Warwickshire The first day of a Vitality County Championship meeting at Trent Bridge between two sides still stalked by relegation was played by both with one ear cocked for developments 85 miles west, beside the Severn. Over in Worcester, Lancashire will escape if they can take 15 more points than Nottinghamshire can muster in this match, or 20 more than Warwickshire. With only…
BCB president Faruque Ahmed has said that the board cannot guarantee Shakib Al Hasan the security he has asked for, to play the Dhaka Test against South Africa in October. Earlier today, Shakib had said that that Test will be his last. Shakib said that he wants to play his final Test at home, provided Cricket South Africa (CSA) goes ahead with the tour of Bangladesh. The doubt around the…
Worcestershire 119 for 7 (Waite 47*, Bailey 3-9, Phillip 3-44) vs Lancashire Lancashire made up for lost time and maintained their Vitality County Championship Division One survival hopes after Tom Bailey and Anderson Phillip impressed with the new ball against Worcestershire at Visit Worcestershire New Road. Bailey and Phillip fully justified Lancashire skipper Keaton Jennings decision to put the home side into bat in reducing them to 22 for 5…