South Africa 150 for 4 (Du Plessis 51*, Miller 45*, Patel 2-26) beat New Zealand 149 (de Grandhomme 32, Rabada 3-25, Tahir 2-14) by six wicketsScorecard and ball-by-ball details Kagiso Rabada was named Man of the Match, leading South Africa’s pace onslaught with 3 for 25 © Getty Images South Africa’s one-day side started in New Zealand as the No. 1 and they will end it there after an oscillating…
Northants won the 2016 NatWest Blast at a sold-out Edgbaston © Getty Images A new report suggests the popularity of domestic T20 cricket in England rose sharply during 2016. The YouGov SportsIndex Report 2017 places the NatWest Blast among the top 10 sporting events in terms of public perception for the first time. The report comes as the ECB executive continue plans to launch a new T20 competition on top…
Tea India 168 for 5 (Rahul 79*, Lyon 3-40) v AustraliaLive scorecard and ball-by-ball details Play 04:42 Binoy: Unbelievable that Kohli chose to review his lbw First there was control, then panic and eventually wickets. India lost Cheteshwar Pujara on the stroke of lunch. Virat Kohli gave his wicket away – and then a review as well – by padding up to a straight ball. And were it not for…
The Gaddafi Stadium will host the final of the second season of the PSL on March 5 © AFP Over the last fortnight the security presence in Lahore has increased significantly, after a spate of bombings rocked Pakistan’s second largest city and other parts of the country too in February. The Gaddafi Stadium, situated in the Nishtar sports complex, has been off limits to the general public over the last…
The Gaddafi Stadium will host the final of the second season of the PSL on March 5 © AFP Over the last fortnight the security presence in Lahore has increased significantly, after a spate of bombings rocked Pakistan’s second largest city and other parts of the country too in February. The Gaddafi Stadium, situated in the Nishtar sports complex, has been off limits to the general public over the last…
Andile Phehlukwayo is one of the newly contracted players © AFP CSA has added three players to their usual 18-member men’s contract list, bringing the total number of new deals to five for the 2017-18 season. Stephen Cook, Keshav Maharaj, Chris Morris, Andile Phehlukwayo and Tabraiz Shamsi were all awarded deals with Kyle Abbott and Rilee Rossouw, who both signed Kolpak agreements with Hampshire the only two players from the…
Nice Garry: Nathan Lyon holds the ball up after claiming 8 for 50 © AFP Alongside Nathan Lyon‘s extraordinary 8 for 50, another figure stood out on a day when Australia took a giant leap towards retaining the Border-Gavaskar Trophy. It was 18 – the number of boundaries struck by India’s batsmen in their first innings or, more pointedly, the number Australia restricted them to striking. Lyon could certainly see…
The Gaddafi Stadium will host the final of the second season of the PSL on March 5 © AFP Over the last fortnight the security presence in Lahore has increased significantly, after a spate of bombings rocked Pakistan’s second largest city and other parts of the country too in February. The Gaddafi Stadium, situated in the Nishtar sports complex, has been off limits to the general public over the last…
Former Zimbabwe captain Elton Chigumbura is among the five overseas players who have agreed to join Quetta Gladiators for the PSL final in Lahore © AFP Quetta Gladiators will turn up on the field for the Pakistan Super League (PSL) final with a significantly altered line-up to the one that has seen them through in the first place. On Saturday, the morning after they discovered their opponents for the game…
AB de Villiers: ‘Tonight was a great way to show everyone we can handle pressure, that we can cross the line in tight games with tricky totals’ © AFP While AB de Villiers admitted South Africa enjoyed getting their own back at Eden Park, he stressed there was more to the series win than just erasing bad memories. Victory in the decider has put the Champions Trophy firmly in South…