IPL 2016

By Olawale Kuponipe James Taylor was pleased to see the rewards of catching practice pay off during England series-clinching victory over South Africa in Johannesburg. Stuart Broad’s outstanding spell, which saw him take 6-17 in the second innings of the third Test, stole the show as the England wrapped up the win inside three days. But Taylor aided the cause with two superb catches at short-leg including a full-stretched dive…

South Africa have added Stephen Cook to their squad for the fourth and final Test against England in Centurion. The Highveld Lions opener, whose father Jimmy played three Tests for South Africa, currently sits atop of the Sunfoil Series batting averages with 415 runs at an average of 83. Cook made an unbeaten half-century against England for South Africa A in a warm-up match before the series and looks set…

Callum Taylor hopes that England Under-19s set a template for World Cup success with their comfortable warm-up win against South Africa at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium. Essex’s Norfolk-born all-rounder struggled for runs as the team failed to win a match on their pre-Christmas trip to Sri Lanka, but he hit the ground running in the final preparations for Bangladesh by top-scoring with 78 from 88 balls against the reigning…

Graeme Welch believes that Derbyshire will be big beneficiaries of his spell on the England Lions coaching staff in Dubai. Welch will return to his day job at the 3aaa County Ground this week after 10 days of working with a new group of players and coaches which have provided a thought-provoking mid-winter tonic. “It’s the people you meet who make a trip like this so valuable,” he told ecb.co.uk….

England Under-19s will head for the World Cup in Bangladesh on the back of a morale-boosting win after beating the holders South Africa by 125 runs at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium today. Callum Taylor, an Essex all-rounder originally from Norfolk, played the key innings of 78 from 88 balls as England recovered from 16 for three to 260 for eight after being put in. Taylor, who made his senior…

Mashrafe Mortaza: “I wish that those in the Bangladesh team have books written about them too” © Associated Press Mashrafe Mortaza thinks his Bangladesh team-mates deserve more limelight after a successful 2015 in international cricket. To add to that, they have started 2016 with two successive wins over Zimbabwe in the T20Is despite a few key players being injured. “It is really inspiring to have a book written about me…