Former Pakistan captain Younis Khan will return to the Afghanistan set-up as mentor for the Champions Trophy 2025. Younis had worked with Afghanistan in 2022, at a 15-day training camp in Abu Dhabi with an expanded squad of 25. The Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB) said in a statement that Younis will join the team in Pakistan for a conditioning camp ahead of the Champions Trophy, which is set to begin…
The SCG pitch for the final Test of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy series against India, which was dominated by pace bowlers who gained lavish seam movement and some uneven bounce, has been rated “satisfactory” by the ICC match referee, and Cricket Australia has termed it a “step in the right direction” for surfaces at the venue. The groundsman used a new variety of grass for this season’s Test pitch, having trialled…
Fakhar Zaman is “100% certain” he will play for Pakistan again and is gearing up for the 2025 Champions Trophy, which begins on February 19 and will be hosted in Pakistan and Dubai. “A 100%, I will play for Pakistan (again),” Fakhar, 34, told the Vipers Voices podcast. “Actually, many people do not know about that, but after the T20 World Cup I got sick and because of the medical…
Barishal, who are also strong contenders for the BPL title, will view the defeat to Rangpur as a major setback. They have won their other three matches: one against Sylhet and two against Durbar Rajshahi. Sylhet and Dhaka are the winless teams, having lost three and four matches respectively. Best batters: Three centurions Related BPL: Batter given timed out before Mehidy calls him back BCB chief reassures players after non-payment…
Former Australia captain Michael Clarke has termed Jasprit Bumrah the best all-format quick bowler ever after his player-of-the-series performance in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy. Bumrah took 32 wickets at 13.06 before pulling up injured midway through Australia’s first innings at the SCG. India’s other quicks were able to secure a four-run lead, but in Bumrah’s absence Australia chased down 162 on the third day to win the series 3-1. Related What…
While Padikkal and Prasidh will fly out with a majority of the Indian contingent from Sydney on Wednesday, Abhimanyu was granted permission to fly out a day in advance. He was subsequently booked on an earlier flight by the Cricket Association of Bengal to be able to link up with the state squad in Vadodara, after stops in Singapore and Ahmedabad. On Wednesday, Abhimanyu will train with the rest of…
“It’s a new series, a new opportunity,” West Indies Test coach Andre Coley said ahead of the two-match series in Pakistan. The last series between the two sides, in Kingston in 2021, was drawn 1-1, but West Indies have not won a Test in Pakistan since November 1990. It’s also true that there haven’t been too many of these – only seven since that game – but the best West…
Players from Australia and England have called for future multi-format Women’s Ashes series to include three Test matches, although the chances of that becoming a reality are slim, certainly in the next four years. In the upcoming series, the one-off Test – a four-day match under floodlights at the MCG – will be played as the final instalment of the Ashes for the first time since it was introduced in…
Toss Sri Lanka chose to field vs New Zealand Sri Lanka won the toss and chose to bowl first under cloudy skies in Hamilton, after rain delayed the start of the second ODI by two-and-a-half hours. The match will now be a 37-overs-a-side contest, with the first powerplay eight overs long, and two bowlers allowed to deliver a maximum of eight overs. In the first match, Sri Lanka’s top order…
Ben Stokes, England’s Test captain, has described himself as “the Bionic Man” after undergoing scheduled surgery on his torn left hamstring. Stokes, 33, suffered a recurrence of the injury while bowling during England’s third Test against New Zealand in December, having first torn his hamstring while batting for Northern Superchargers against Manchester Originals in the men’s Hundred in August. That initial injury kept him out of action for two months,…