IPL 2016

14 February 2016 | David Clark    Tweet                 Dawid Malan thrashed an unbeaten 60 to help Peshawar Zalmi beat Quetta Gladiators by eight wickets in the Pakistan Super League. Quetta were reduced to 66 for nine by a remarkable spell of bowling from Shahid Afridi, who took 5-7 from his four overs, including a maiden. Last-wicket pair Grant Elliott and Zulfiqar Babar at least made a…

West Indies 146 for 5 (Carty 52*, Paul 40*, Dagar 3-25) beat India 145 (Sarfaraz 51, Batham 21, John 3-38, Joseph 3-39) by five wicketsScorecard and ball-by-ball details An unbroken sixth-wicket stand of 69 between Keemo Paul and Keacy Carty helped West Indies clinch a last-over thriller © Getty Images West Indies’ mix of high-speed hustle with the ball and patience with the bat help them beat pre-tournament favourites India…

Australia moved a step closer to reclaiming the number one Test ranking on the back of Adam Voges’ second Test double century of the southern summer. Voges struck 239 before Australia’s bowlers dutifully prised out four New Zealand wickets to ensure they were in total command after three days of the first Test in Wellington. The Black Caps have been behind the eight-ball since their first-morning collapse and their hopes…

Sri Lanka were given a wake-up call ahead of their World T20 title defence as they were ripped out for 82 and crashed to a nine-wicket defeat in the series-deciding Twenty20 international against India at Visakhapatnam. The tourists meekly surrendered any hope of winning the three-game series, or grabbing the chance to replace India at the top of the Twenty20 rankings that a win would have supplied, once they lost…

Adam Voges was Australia’s last man to fall (finally), but not before he had added 614 runs from the last time he was dismissed in a Test © AFP When Adam Voges drove a return catch to Mark Craig on the third day at the Basin Reserve, he was out for 239. In another way, he was out for 614, for that was the amount of runs Voges had scored…

14 February 2016 | Matt Somerford    Tweet                 The O’Brien brothers steered Ireland to a 34-run run win in the first Twenty20 international against United Arab Emirates in Abu Dhabi. Niall and Kevin O’Brien shared a 55-run stand, after coming in at 19 for four, which proved critical in a low-scoring contest in which Ireland eked out 134 for eight. Kevin O’Brien then too 3-14 as…