Month: October 2024

Rishabh Pant will be among the high-profile names at the 2025 IPL mega auction after not being retained by Delhi Capitals (DC). ESPNcricinfo has learned that talks between DC’s ownership group and Pant failed after stretching over the past few months and Wednesday. The franchise, though, has retained four players: the spin pair of Axar Patel and Kuldeep Yadav, South Africa batter Tristan Stubbs and uncapped Indian wicketkeeper-batter Abishek Porel….

Rabada’s average of 7.78 so far is the best, among all South Africans, in a series in which a bowler has taken a minimum of ten wickets. He currently has 14 wickets across the two matches. His efficacy remains unmatched and the only other bowler to take a wicket in the session was Dane Paterson. Mushfiqur Rahim gifted a catch to Tony de Zorzi at square leg to depart for…

The BCB has removed 11 directors from the board after they failed to attend three or more consecutive meetings, in accordance with the board constitution. The list includes former president Nazmul Hassan and BPL chairman Sheikh Sohel. The others are Manzur Kader, AJM Nasir Uddin, Anwarul Islam, Shafiul Alam Chowdhury, Ismail Haider Mallick, Tanvir Ahmed, Obeid Nizam, Gazi Golam Murtoza and Nazib Ahmed. In addition to the 11, the BCB…

Josh Hazlewood will make his first appearance of the season for New South Wales as he builds up to the India Test series while Nathan Lyon has been rested. Hazlewood had been due to play last week’s One-Day Cup game against Victoria alongside Pat Cummins but withdrew on the morning of the match due to illness. It means the Sheffield Shield fixture against Queensland will be his first outing since…

Brisbane Heat 169 for 8 (Redmayne 44, L Harris 31) beat Melbourne Renegades 141 for 9 (Matthews 35, Parsons 3-22) by 28 runs Brisbane Heat legspinner Grace Parsons starred in just her second WBBL match in a history-making 28-run win over Melbourne Renegades. The 21-year-old snared 3 for 22 in four overs to turn the game after Renegades started fast in pursuit of the Heat’s 169 for 8 at Allan…

Ben Stokes has pleaded for the return of a number of “irreplaceable” items after his house was burgled by a masked gang while the England captain was in Pakistan for the recently completed Test series. The incident took place on October 17 at his house in Castle Eden in the North East, with his wife, Claire, and two children, Layton and Libby, present in the house at the time. Stokes…

Big picture: Do not adjust your timezones Are you keeping up at the back? England’s Test team has just arrived back home from Pakistan, licking their wounds after a 2-1 series defeat, but already making plans for their next three-Test tour of New Zealand in barely three weeks’ time. And now, to fill the idle minutes between those two significant endeavours, a separate England squad has been dispatched to the…

It is also understood that another player Royals are still deliberating on, with less than 24 hours to go before the retention deadline expires, is wicketkeeper-batter Dhruv Jurel, who was signed by the franchise at the 2022 mega auction for INR 20 lakhs. Since then, Jurel has fast-tracked himself into the regular Royals XI and made his India debut in the Test series against England earlier this year. At Royals,…

Gujarat Titans are likely to retain Shubman Gill, Rashid Khan, B Sai Sudharsan, Rahul Tewatia and Shahrukh Khan, leaving them with one right-to-match card (RTM) option at the upcoming IPL 2025 mega auction. While the amounts for each player are not yet known, GT will have at least INR 51 crore deducted from their purse of INR 120 crore for retaining three international players and two uncapped players. If they…

Danni Wyatt-Hodge has been traded from UP Warriorz (UPW) to Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB), the defending champions, ahead of the third season of the WPL, expected to be played in early 2025. A statement from WPL confirmed that Wyatt-Hodge will get the same fee – INR 30 lakh – that she had been bought by UPW for at the last auction, in December 2023. Wyatt-Hodge, 33, is the third-most capped…