Gloucestershire have signed Australian Cameron Bancroft as their overseas player for the first two months of the upcoming season. Subject to being granted a visa, the 23-year-old wicketkeeper-batsman will fill in at the Bristol County Ground for the first five County Championship games of the season until Michael Klinger rejoins the club at the end of May. Bancroft was the third highest scorer in last year’s Sheffield Shield, and the…
England’s bold approach to one-day cricket is laudable, but the batting needs to find a touch finesse © Getty Images It felt like a case of one step forward, two steps back for England. Or perhaps that should be two steps forward, three steps back, after they became only the fourth side to be defeated in an ODI series having taken a 2-0 lead. Football sages sometimes call that the…
Western Australia 3 for 247 (Harris 120, Bancroft 85*, Bolinger 2-14) trail New South Wales 316 (Hughes 124, Rohrer 78, Paris 4-61) by 69runsScorecard File photo – Joel Paris claimed 4 for 61 to clean up New South Wales’ tail © Cricket Australia/Getty Images Ben Rohrer’s 78, built on Daniel Hughes’ 124 from the first day, took New South Wales to 316 in their first innings. Unbeaten on 62 at…
Mark Pettini will captain Leicestershire Foxes in limited-overs cricket this season, while Mark Cosgrove will continue to skipper the County Championship side. Cosgrove, who last season oversaw Leicestershire’s first Championship win for three years, will be assisted by newly-appointed vice-captain Paul Horton . New signing Pettini previously led Essex to the Friends Provident Trophy and will lead his new county in the Royal London One-Day Cup and NatWest T20 Blast….
Saurashtra 353 (Pujara 126) and 21 for 0 beat Assam 234 (Verma 98, Arun Karthik 59, Unadkat 6-77) & 126 (Unadkat 5-45) by 10 wicketsScorecard and ball-by-ball details Saurashtra entered their first Ranji Trophy final in three seasons © ESPNcricinfo Ltd Jaydev Unadkat’s second five-wicket haul that took his match tally to 11 scalps triggered Assam’s disintegration and facilitated Saurashtra’s win that gave them their first entry into the final…
Mahendra Singh Dhoni celebrates with teammates after India won the T20 series against Sri Lanka. © BCCI Visakhapatnam: The emphatic triumph over Sri Lanka giving a perfect start to their World Twenty20 build-up, India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni said his side will be one of the top contenders at the showpiece even though some top batsmen are yet to get enough time in the middle. Due to India’s deep batting,…
Mahendra Singh Dhoni celebrates with teammates after India won the T20 series against Sri Lanka. © BCCI Visakhapatnam: The emphatic triumph over Sri Lanka giving a perfect start to their World Twenty20 build-up, India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni said his side will be one of the top contenders at the showpiece even though some top batsmen are yet to get enough time in the middle. Due to India’s deep batting,…
The move to overhaul the proposed tournament has drawn criticism from the former board members who had played a role formulating it © Getty Images The zonal first-class tournament scheduled for March and April by the previous Sri Lanka Cricket board is unlikely to go ahead this season, newly-elected SLC secretary Mohan de Silva has said. The new board affirmed its commitment to a provincial model, but were unhappy with…
Cameron Bancroft was in line for a Test debut before Australia’s tour of Bangladesh was called off © Getty Images Gloucestershire have signed Cameron Bancroft, the Western Australia wicketkeeper-batsman, for the first two months of the English season. Bancroft, who made his Australia debut in the final T20 against India in Sydney this month, comes with the recommendation of Western Australia team-mate Michael Klinger for who Bancroft will stand in…
Dinesh Chandimal also rued the lack of experienced players in the side to counter the Indian team. © BCCI Visakhapatnam: A disappointed Sri Lanka captain Dinesh Chandimal said not playing well in the Powerplay overs cost his inexperienced side the just-concluded Twenty20 series against India. In Ranchi, the Lankan bowlers bled runs throughout while here in the final match, they lost half the side inside first six overs. “Throughout the…