Match facts January 28, 2015Start time 1400 local (0100 GMT) Ahmed Shehzad has a highest score of 16 from his four innings on the tour so far © Getty Images Big Picture Pakistan hoped to pose a stiffer challenge to New Zealand than Sri Lanka did, but with two matches to go, their tour is threatening to go the same way as the previous one. The most recent loss was…
Mark McLeod, who was reprimanded by NZC for his actions at Westpac Stadium (in pic), is a long-time stadium announcer © Getty Images New Zealand Cricket have admonished a stadium announcer for taunting Pakistan fast bowler Mohammad Amir during the third T20 on Friday. Long-time announcer Mark McLeod, who is contracted by NZC, had played a cash register sound effect during one of Amir’s spells during the match at Westpac…
[embedded content] Captain Alastair Cook has challenged his team to “go to the next level” after knocking South Africa from the top of the Test rankings this winter. England have further furnished their reputation as a growing force on the Test stage after the 2-1 series win, however, a 280-run defeat at Centurion today left Cook calling for greater consistency from his squad. Scintillating match-winning bursts have marked England’s success…
26 January 2016 | David Clark Tweet Kagiso Rabada made history as South Africa completed a consolation victory in the fourth Test at Centurion. England were bowled out for 101 in a little over an hour as Rabada took 6-32, with his match figures of 13-144 the best by a South African on home soil in Test cricket. At the tender age of 20 he…
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…
Play 01:06 Butcher: Top order deserve Sri Lanka chance 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 result. The worry, for Cook, was that…
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…