Derbyshire all-rounder Alex Hughes has signed a one-year contract extension to keep him at the 3aaa County Ground until the end of the 2017 season. The right-arm seamer appeared 24 times across all formats in 2015 and recorded his maiden first-class century against Northamptonshire. In total, the 24-year-old has made 86 appearances for Derbyshire, scoring 1,456 runs and claiming 60 wickets across three formats. Derbyshire elite performance director Graeme Welch…
James Anderson will commit the final years of his career to England’s Test team © AFP James Anderson has reiterated his commitment to England on the eve of the third Test in Johannesburg. Confirming that he will not be entering into the IPL auction, Anderson made it clear that, whatever overs he has left in his career, they will be bowled for his country in Test cricket. Other players may…
Rohit Sharma’s average in Australia is highest among all batsmen. © AFP Rohit Sharma showed the way for India by slamming a brilliant ton against Australia in the first ODI in Perth on Tuesday. His century came in 122 balls. (Scorecard / Blog) Rohit, who has always been criticised for not doing justice to his talent, looked sure of himself in the first of the five ODIs. The India opener…
Salman Butt scored a hundred in his first competitive match in five and half years on Sunday in the national one-day championship. © AFP Karachi: Pakistan’s national cricket coach Waqar Younis has backed an international comeback for convicted spot-fixers Salman Butt and Mohammad Asif, saying that they should not be treated any differently from the rehabilitated Mohammad Amir. “The way I see it if Butt and Asif perform well in…
Dasun Shanaka set a Sri Lankan record for most number of sixes in a T20 innings, hitting 16 of them, for Sinhalese Sports Club in a clash against Saracens Sports Club in Colombo on Tuesday. Along the way, Shanaka waltzed to 123 off 46 balls and took his team to a massive 251 for 6 in 20 overs. It proved to be 66 too many for the opponents. Shanaka, who…
Australia 5 for 310 (Smith 149, Bailey 112, Sran 3-55) beat India 3 for 309 (Rohit 171*, Kohli 91, Faulkner 2-60) by five wicketsScorecard and ball-by-ball details Australia’s chase may have panned out differently had George Bailey fallen to Barinder Sran in the fifth over © Getty Images If this is summer’s main course, then Steven Smith and George Bailey wasted no time at all tucking in. A batsmen’s battle…
Irfan Ahmed has represented Hong Kong in six ODIs and eight T20 internationals. © AFP Hong Kong: Hong Kong international Irfan Ahmed has been charged and provisionally suspended for failing to report an alleged fixing approach, the International Cricket Council (ICC) said. (Read more cricket stories here) The 26-year-old all-rounder, who was slated as part of Hong Kong’s squad for the World Twenty20 championship in India in March, faces a…
Ashar Zaidi was making his Sussex debut © Getty Images Ashar Zaidi, the former Sussex allrounder, has joined Essex on a one-year deal, and will be available in all three formats after impressing in the recent Bangladesh Premier League. Zaidi, 34, a left-handed batsmand and a slow left-arm bowler, was named as Player of the Tournament after scoring 215 runs at 53.75 and taking 17 wickets at 10.41. His first-class…
Steven Smith led by example as Australia won the first one-day international against India by five wickets in Perth. Skipper Smith fired 149 from 135 balls and his third-wicket stand of 242 alongside fellow centurion George Bailey was the catalyst for victory at the WACA. India made 309 for three, with Rohit Sharma’s magnificent 171 not out the highest ODI score against Australia on their own soil, but their total…
India and Pakistan were slated to meet in a series in December 2015 but it was called off. © AFP Board of Control for Cricket in India secretary Anurag Thakur ruled out the possibility of an Indo-Pak bilateral series stating that no such series is scheduled in Futures Tours & Programme (FTP) calendar. (Pakistan Give Up on India Bilateral Series) “In the FTP, we had a series planned in 2015…