IPL 2016

News Barbadian fast bowler has UK passport and impressed on trial with 2nd XI Warwickshire look set to pull off something of a coup in signing Che Simmons, a young fast bowler who has been dubbed the “new Jofra Archer”. Simmons, a 17-year-old seamer, was born and raised in Barbados. But he also holds a UK passport through his father and, having been recommended to Warwickshire’s director of sport, Paul…

News South Africa fast bowler becomes latest international player to withdraw The Hundred is set to lose more big-name players as the competition battles to compete with international schedules and bubble fatigue. Days after it emerged that David Warner, Marcus Stoinis and Sophie Devine had pulled out, ESPNcricinfo understands that Kagiso Rabada is also withdrawing. Rabada, the South Africa fast bowler who had signed for Manchester Originals, is currently involved…

England Women had to contend with a used pitch at Taunton during the 2019 Ashes   Heather Knight, the England captain, has expressed her disappointment at being given a used pitch to host India in the first women’s Test between the sides for seven years. Knight revealed on the eve of the match at Bristol’s County Ground that the pitch had been used for Gloucestershire’s T20 Blast fixture against Sussex…

News South Africa created 14 catching chances in the first Test against West Indies and took 13 of them The new South Africa Test slip cordon – “it was a matter of getting them in the right places”   Dean Elgar had asked for centuries and five-fors in his first series in charge of South Africa’s Test team and, so far, Quinton de Kock, Lungi Ngidi and Kagiso Rabada have…

Play 01:28 Heather Knight: Jhulan Goswami is ‘one of the best of our generation’ Big picture They call it the seven-year itch and after so long in the Test match wilderness, India are ready for a change of scene which they and their opponents, England, hope will be anything but dull or scratchy. So rare are women’s Tests that there is a sense of pressure to provide excitement, not least…

News Shardul Thakur, Washington Sundar, Axar Patel, Mayank Agarwal and KL Rahul left out Ishant Sharma and Mohammed Shami are among the five pacers Virat Kohli has in his squad of 15   India’s opening combination for the WTC final against New Zealand has possibly been finalised, with Shubman Gill and Rohit Sharma the only regular opening batters in the final 15, named on Tuesday evening. Hanuma Vihari, who India…

News “Test cricket needs to survive, and a WTC format helps where every Test, every series is important” “Maybe a few extra days of preparation would’ve helped, but we can’t complain”   The absence of a proper warm-up fixture for India in the lead-up to the WTC final is a “bit of a disadvantage”, but the team is happy just being able to play cricket in a pandemic-hit world, according…

Play 00:52 Five batters and two spinners? Aakash Chopra’s India XI for WTC final VVS Laxman has offered two tips to Rohit Sharma ahead of the World Test Championship final against New Zealand starting Friday: know where your off stump is to leave the ball outside off and don’t take the left leg across too much while facing Trent Boult, who is likely to swing the ball into the batter….