Play 04:55 Ugra: Expect an unsettling environment in the ICC now Shashank Manohar has said that any differences he might have had with the BCCI had no bearing on his decision to step down as ICC chairman. Manohar revealed he had made that clear to the Supreme Court-appointed Committee of Administrators (CoA), which is presently running the BCCI, when he met them in Mumbai a day before he resigned: he…
Trent Boult will miss his second Test of the season © AFP Trent Boult has been ruled out of the second Test against South Africa in Wellington with the leg injury he sustained in Dunedin. Boult did not bowl after tea on the fourth day of the opening Test – when he was one of just two frontline seamers alongside Neil Wagner – and even with the final day’s play…
Toss Sri Lanka chose to bat v BangladeshLive scorecard and ball-by-ball details Play 03:28 Fernando: P Sara Oval the most result-oriented venue in the world On the 140th birth anniversary of Test cricket, Bangladesh captain Mushfiqur Rahim strode into the middle wearing a special-edition blazer to mark the country’s 100th Test. Sri Lanka captain Rangana Herath won the toss though, and decided to bat. The home side made one change,…
Match Facts March 16-20 2017Start time 11.00am local (2200GMT) Play 01:09 Moonda: Matt Henry might get into the XI Big Picture As you were, then. Sort of. Four days of cut-and-thrust set things up for a fascinating fifth day in Dunedin. Then it rained. It’s done that quite a lot in New Zealand this summer. The good news, however, is after a wet and windy build-up the forecast for the…
Match Facts March 16-20 2017Start time 11.00am local (2200GMT) Play 01:09 Moonda: Matt Henry might get into the XI Big Picture As you were, then. Sort of. Four days of cut-and-thrust set things up for a fascinating fifth day in Dunedin. Then it rained. It’s done that quite a lot in New Zealand this summer. The good news, however, is after a wet and windy build-up the forecast for the…
Ross Taylor’s absence removes a significant part of New Zealand’s batting core © AFP Take Michael Hussey or Mohammad Azharuddin out of Australia in the 2000s or India in the 1990s and it would have left a hole. Take Jason Gillespie and Javagal Srinath out of the same sides at the same time and, if they didn’t have the likes of Ricky Ponting and Glenn McGrath or Sachin Tendulkar and…
Trent Boult will miss his second Test of the season © AFP Trent Boult has been ruled out of the second Test against South Africa in Wellington with the leg injury he sustained in Dunedin. Boult did not bowl after tea on the fourth day of the opening Test – when he was one of just two frontline seamers alongside Neil Wagner – and even with the final day’s play…
Match Facts March 16-20 2017Start time 11.00am local (2200GMT) Play 01:09 Moonda: Matt Henry might get into the XI Big Picture As you were, then. Sort of. Four days of cut-and-thrust set things up for a fascinating fifth day in Dunedin. Then it rained. It’s done that quite a lot in New Zealand this summer. The good news, however, is after a wet and windy build-up the forecast for the…
Trent Boult will miss his second Test of the season © AFP Trent Boult has been ruled out of the second Test against South Africa in Wellington with the leg injury he sustained in Dunedin. Boult did not bowl after tea on the fourth day of the opening Test – when he was one of just two frontline seamers alongside Neil Wagner – and even with the final day’s play…
Tea Sri Lanka 149 for 5 (Chandimal 54*, Mehedi 2-47) v BangladeshLive scorecard and ball-by-ball details Play 03:28 Fernando: P Sara Oval the most result-oriented venue in the world Sri Lanka now have all their hopes pinned on the continued solidity of Dinesh Chandimal and the free flowing Niroshan Dickwella as Bangladesh eked out one wicket in the second session at the P Sara Oval. Chandimal hadn’t struck a boundary…