IPL 2016

He’s still lost for words over his amazing 258 in Cape Town. Here’s your Man of the Series @benstokes38 #topman https://t.co/FsQbBJiuCY — England Cricket (@englandcricket) January 26, 2016 Man-of-the-series Ben Stokes says England should be proud of their series win in South Africa despite losing the fourth Test by 280 runs at Centurion. The Proteas took little more than an hour to dismiss England for 101 on the final morning…

South Africa captain AB de Villiers suspects that England will emerge as “the team to beat” in Test cricket over the next couple of years. De Villiers was fulsome in his praise for England after South Africa grabbed a consolation 280-run win in the final Test at Centurion today. Alastair Cook’s side had already wrapped up the series after impressive wins in Durban and Johannesburg and, while England sit fifth…

Shivnarine Chanderpaul was signed by Gemini Arabians for $ 30,000 to play in the Masters Champions League © WICB Media/Randy Brooks of Brooks LaTouche Photo The West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) has granted NOCs to Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Tino Best, Fidel Edwards, and Krishmar Santokie to play in the Masters Champions League, after the four players had written to the board about their international retirements. Their NOCs come two days ahead…

Mehedi Hasan had featured in the previous Under-19 World Cup as well, in the UAE © PTI “What you are saying about pressure, I am hearing this for the first time.” Mehedi Hasan, the Bangladesh Under-19 captain, had a straight face while saying this, but quickly broke into a giggle. Either he hid the sarcasm of the comment well or cloistered himself from social and mainstream media over the last…

Test skipper Alastair Cook is among several England players past and present to send their best wishes to Brad Taylor‘s Under-19s ahead of their opening game of the 2016 World Cup against Fiji in Bangladesh tomorrow. Cook, who has played in 126 Test matches and is 36 runs shy of 10,000 format runs, served notice of his potential in the 2004 edition when he scored 383 runs in seven innings at an…

England achieved what they set out to in South Africa but problems remain © Getty Images Alastair Cook admitted England had been left with “a lot of unanswered questions” at the end of their Test tour of South Africa. It was not so much England losing the final Test that worried Cook. They had already wrapped up the series and were, he thought, a little lacking in intensity as a…

Harmanpreet Kaur held India together amid a brief wobble to hand Australia their first loss at home since the 2013-14 Women’s Ashes © Getty Images In an age where technology and cricket go hand in hand to reduce the element of surprise, Australia women have admitted that not knowing enough about their Indian counterparts contributed to their record-breaking defeat in the first T20I in Adelaide. Australia put up a challenging…

Liam Plunkett has been ruled out of the remaining two matches of England Lions’ one-day series against Pakistan A in Dubai, and will fly to South Africa on Wednesday to continue his rehabilitation with the fast bowlers on the Potential England Performance Programme in Potchefstroom. Plunkett suffered a thigh injury in the Lions’ second warm-up match against a United Arab Emirates XI last week, and a scan yesterday revealed a…

Mehedi Hasan had featured in the previous Under-19 World Cup as well, in the UAE © PTI “What you are saying about pressure, I am hearing this for the first time.” Mehedi Hasan, the Bangladesh Under-19 captain, had a straight face while saying this, but quickly broke into a giggle. Either he hid the sarcasm of the comment well or cloistered himself from social and mainstream media over the last…