Play 01:39 Playing Shield cricket one of my goals for the year – Cummins Pat Cummins will officially return to contention for a place in Australia’s Ashes team for next summer when he plays his first Sheffield Shield match in almost six years, for New South Wales against South Australia at the SCG from Tuesday. Cummins made his state debut at 17 and his Test debut later that year, before…
Play 01:39 Playing Shield cricket one of my goals for the year – Cummins Pat Cummins will officially return to contention for a place in Australia’s Ashes team for next summer when he plays his first Sheffield Shield match in almost six years, for New South Wales against South Australia at the SCG from Tuesday. Cummins made his state debut at 17 and his Test debut later that year, before…
India 189 and 213 for 4 (Pujara 79*, Rahul 51, Rahane 40*, Hazlewood 3-57) lead Australia 276 (S Marsh 66, Renshaw 60, Jadeja 6-63) by 126 runsScorecard and ball-by-ball details Play 04:00 Binoy: Impossible to predict how the ball behaves Four years ago, in the second Test of the series in Hyderabad, Cheteshwar Pujara was part of a match-winning stand against Australia, a massive 370-run partnership with M Vijay. It…
Match Facts March 7-11, 2017Start time: 10am local (0430GMT) The Galle strip had some live grass two days before the start of the series opener © AFP Big Picture The last time Bangladesh came to Galle, they played on perhaps the flattest pitch seen in Sri Lanka this decade – one which saw the visitors amass 638, while Mushfiqur Rahim hit his nation’s first ever international double-hundred. Four years later,…
File photo – Sharjeel Khan scored 1 in the opening game of this season’s PSL © Getty Images The PCB has formed a three-man tribunal to hear the cases of Sharjeel Khan and Khalid Latif, the two players provisionally suspended as part of an investigation into alleged corruption during the Pakistan Super League (PSL). The pair responded to the official charges laid against them on Saturday, and denied some of…
Pat Cummins said the return to first-class cricket was his no. 1 goal of the year © Getty Images Pat Cummins will officially return to contention for a place in Australia’s Ashes team for next summer when he plays his first Sheffield Shield match in almost six years, for New South Wales against South Australia at the SCG from Tuesday. Cummins made his state debut at 17 and his Test…
Lunch India 189 and 38 for 0 (Rahul 20*, Abhinav 16*) trail Australia 276 (S Marsh 66, Renshaw 60, Jadeja 6-63) by 49 runsLive scorecard and ball-by-ball details Ravindra Jadeja picked up 6 for 63 © Associated Press India’s openers made a swift start in their aim to overhaul Australia’s lead on the third morning in Bengaluru, after Ravindra Jadeja earlier wrapped up Australia’s first innings with a six-wicket haul….
New Zealand v South Africa, 1st Test, Dunedin March 6, 2017 They haven’t come across each other much since their careers developed on opposing sides of the world, but it should be a feisty battle between New Zealand’s bouncer-happy quick and South Africa’s stubborn opener Play 01:37 Moonda: South Africa’s quicks could heat up Dunedin In an increasingly globalised sporting world, the story of the migrant player who has to…
New Zealand v South Africa, 1st Test, Dunedin March 6, 2017 They haven’t come across each other much since their careers developed on opposing sides of the world, but it should be a feisty battle between New Zealand’s bouncer-happy quick and South Africa’s stubborn opener Play 01:37 Moonda: South Africa’s quicks could heat up Dunedin In an increasingly globalised sporting world, the story of the migrant player who has to…
Duanne Olivier may move down the pecking order with Morne Morkel fit again © Gallo Images It is dangerous to judge a Test pitch two days before the match starts, but the Dunedin surface had certainly caught the attention of the South Africans on Monday. The pitch looked “juicy” in the words of Dean Elgar, so much so that the self-confessed pie-chucker joked it “looks like I might have to…