IPL 2016

Allrounder Samit Dravid, who had been sidelined from the three-match one-day series against Australia Under-19s in Puducherry, hasn’t recovered from a knee injury and will likely miss the upcoming four-dayers in Chennai as well, according to India Under-19s’ coach Hrishikesh Kanitkar. “As of now he’s at the NCA, recovering from his knee injury,” Kanitkar said of Dravid on the eve of India Under-19s first four-dayer against Australia Under-19s at Chepauk….

Trinbago Knight Riders (TKR) have signed local offspinner Bryan Charles as Dwayne Bravo’s replacement for the rest of CPL 2024. Bravo had announced his retirement from all cricket on Thursday after a groin injury cut short his stint in CPL 2024. Bravo had suffered the injury when he attempted to take the catch of Kings’ captain Faf du Plessis in the seventh over in Tarouba. Charles, 29, plays for Trinidad…

Members present at the BCCI’s 93rd Annual General Meeting (AGM) in Bengaluru on Sunday requested incumbent secretary Jay Shah to speed up the process of finding his successor to make the transition as smooth as possible. Shah is expected to step down from his post in the last week of November to take over as chairman of the ICC for a three-year period from December 1. While selecting the new…

Bangladesh’s government will provide Shakib Al Hasan with the security that is accorded to a national cricketer, but Shakib also has to clarify his political standpoint according to the country’s sports adviser Asif Mahmud. Mahmud said that Shakib, a former member of parliament whose party the Awami League was overthrown by a student-led revolution last month, can appease the public with him with his “own words”. Mahmud was alluding to…

Leicestershire 264 for 8 (Budinger 87, Trevaskis 57) drew with Derbyshire 252 for 3 dec (Madsen 105*, Lloyd 73) Leicestershire’s rain-hit Vitality County Championship match against East Midlands neighbours Derbyshire ended in the tame draw that had been long anticipated as the curtain came down on the season at the Uptonsteel County Ground. What would otherwise have been a decidedly unmemorable final day was rescued by the veteran Derbyshire stalwart…

Sussex 459 for 4 dec (Coles 132*, Haines 105, Simpson 87*) drew with Middlesex 271 (Robson 113) Tom Haines and James Coles both scored centuries as Sussex clinched the second division title on a day of celebrations at Hove. Haines made 105 – his third hundred of the season – and Coles hit an unbeaten 132 as Sussex finished the season undefeated at the 1st Central County Ground after drawing…

Kent 353 for 8 dec (Leaning 84, Evison 77, Denly 63) drew with Durham 360 (Lees 144, Bedingham 66, Parkinson 6-109) Excellent knocks from Jack Leaning, Joe Denly and Joey Evison steered already-relegated Kent to a creditable draw in their rain-affected Vitality County Championship clash at Durham. Leaning and Denly led a good Kent batting performance, something that has been all too rare this season, and secured a draw on…

Yorkshire 726 for 7 dec (Wharton 285, Lyth 147, Bairstow 78) drew with Northamptonshire 147 (Bartlett 61, Coad 4-51) and 71 for 2 James Wharton completed a mammoth 285, posting the fifth highest individual first-class score ever at Headingley and the joint-eighth highest in Yorkshire history as their Vitality County Championship clash with Northamptonshire drifted to a final day draw. England’s Jonny Bairstow also added an aggressive 78 as promoted…

Panthers 123 for 5 (Bangalzai 41, Imran 2-11, Javed 2-42) beat Markhors 122 (Fakhar 46, Minhas 3-1, Hasnain 3-38) by five wickets An inspired Mohammad Hasnain led Panthers to a rout of Markhors in the Champions One-Day Cup final in Faisalabad. Hasnain took three wickets to extend his lead at the top of the wickets charts to 17 – no one else has more than ten – while Arafat Minhas…

Surrey 267 for 7 (Sibley 125) drew with Essex 508 for 8 dec (Elgar 182, Westley 135, Critchley 112) Dom Sibley batted for more than four hours for his third century of the season to ensure there was no last-day embarrassment before Surrey lifted aloft the Vitality County Championship trophy following an attritional draw at Chelmsford. Surrey savoured the traditional champagne-spraying celebrations for the third successive year after a season…