IPL 2016

Steffan Jones is convinced Stuart Broad can return to England’s white-ball side © Getty Images It’s hard to imagine a situation where a Premier League football club might call upon a teacher to provide some specialist coaching for a few weeks in their school holidays, but that’s pretty much what happened to Steffan Jones. Jones, the head of Sports Performance and Wellbeing at Wellington School in Somerset (and a part-time…

Match facts February 1, 2017Start time 1.30pm local (1130 GMT) Sri Lanka need much more from their top order © AFP Big Picture Eleven innings into this tour now, Sri Lanka have one major question hanging over them still: when will the top order finally fire together? It had been ground down and blown away in the Tests, before in the T20 series one win was the outcome of Angelo…

Match facts Wednesday, February 1, 2017Start time 1900 local (1330 GMT) England would love to go back home with at least one piece of silverware after a long and difficult tour © AFP Big picture It is not often that India have to contend with their batting being a weakness but ahead of the deciding T20I in Bangalore – which only gained that status courtesy Jasprit Bumrah’s bowling – that…

Ashok Dinda took two wickets in the 19th over to help Bengal defend 152 © BCCI Tripura needed 11 runs to win off the final 12 balls of their match but Bengal‘s Ashok Dinda and Sayan Ghosh denied them to pull off a come-from-behind victory at Eden Gardens. Chasing 153, Tripura seemed quite comfortable at 142 for 4 in the 18th over. That’s when their captain Manisankar Murasingh fell for…

File photo – Manoj Tiwary scored 39 crucial runs after Bengal were reduced to 49 for 4 in a 61-run fifth wicket stand with Pankaj Shaw © BCCI A tight final over by Sayan Ghosh took Bengal to a five-run win against Tripura at Eden Gardens. Chasing 153, Tripura needed 11 off 12 balls after Manisankar Murasingh was dismissed after striking 27 off eight deliveries but instead they lost another…

Hashim Amla has not sensed any change in Russell Domingo or his coaching staff © AFP News that South Africa’s coach Russell Domingo will have to reapply for his job if he hopes to continue in the role after the team’s tour of England in August resulted in “a few sad hours in the changeroom” according to ODI captain AB de Villiers but fellow senior figure Hashim Amla said he…

File photo – Left-arm spinner Abdur Razzak went past 450 first-class wickets in his 100th game © AFP North Zone got the better outcome from their drawn Bangladesh Cricket League game against South Zone at the Sylhet International Cricket Stadium courtesy their 44-run first innings lead. North Zone declared their first innings on the third day, after amassing 492 runs for 9 in 189.3 overs. Naeem Islam was their top…