Hasaranga's Sunrisers debut to be delayed by at least a week

Wanindu Hasaranga is expected to be unavailable for Sunrisers Hyderabad for at least another week as he consults doctors overseas about chronic pain in his left heel. Although Hasaranga played in Sri Lanka’s limited-overs series against Bangladesh in March, ESPNcricinfo understands he did so through substantial pain. Sri Lanka Cricket’s medical staff have assessed him, and suspect the pain is down to musculo-skeletal apparatus in his left heel having become…

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Burger and de Zorzi get CSA contracts; de Kock omitted from list

Dean Elgar (retired), Quinton de Kock, Sisanda Magala, Wayne Parnell and Keegan Petersen have all dropped off the list which has reduced from 20 players to 18 for the upcoming season. The most notable of those omissions is de Kock, who walked away from 50-over cricket after last year’s World Cup but at the time said he would remain available to play in T20 tournaments this year. De Kock did…

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Blast veteran Bopara signs T20 contract with Northants

Ravi Bopara said he still feels “like a young man in the game” after signing a contract with Northamptonshire which ensures he will play in England’s T20 Blast for the 22nd consecutive season, at the age of 39. Bopara is one of three men to have played more than 200 matches in the Blast and one of two, alongside Samit Patel, to have featured in each of the tournament’s first…

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Shakib returns for second Test against Sri Lanka

Shakib Al Hasan has returned to the Bangladesh Test squad after being out of action for a year in the longest format. He has been picked for the second Test against Sri Lanka in Chattogram from March 30. Shakib last played a Test in April 2023 before an eye condition kept him away from Tests although he has been plaing white-ball cricket recently. Shakib comes into the squad in place…

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Australia-India five-Test blockbuster to start in Perth in late November

Perth Stadium has dethroned the Gabba as Australia’s preferred first Test venue with the five-match Border-Gavaskar Trophy to begin in Perth on November 22 this year before the series moves to Adelaide for the day-night Test, Brisbane, Melbourne for Boxing Day and Sydney for the New Year’s Test. Cricket Australia unveiled their international schedule for next summer with the Border-Gavaskar Trophy as the summer’s showpiece event. After Perth, the second…

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MCG to host historic women's Ashes Test to mark 90-year anniversary of format

Australia will host England in a four-day pink-ball women’s Ashes Test at the MCG in January to mark the 90-year anniversary of the first women’s Test series but the debate continues as to whether four-day or five-day cricket remains the best format for the women to play. Cricket Australia announced its schedule for the 2024-25 season on Tuesday with the multiformat women’s Ashes series to be held in January to…

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'One hell of a way to start' – Lyon praises England's young spinners

Nathan Lyon was impressed with how England’s inexperienced spinners acquitted themselves in India, even though the visitors lost 4-1 having won the opening Test, as he prepares to join forces with one of them, Tom Hartley, for a county season with Lancashire. In two of the five Tests England fielded Hartley, Shoaib Bashir and Rehan Ahmed as a spin trio. Hartley played the whole series and finished with 22 wickets…

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Kohli on his two-month break from cricket: 'A surreal experience not to be recognised'

Virat Kohli, after his match-winning 77 against Punjab Kings at the Chinnaswamy Stadium, opened up about his two-month break when his wife Anushka Sharma gave birth to their second child. Kohli missed India’s home Test series against England as he and his family spent time away from the country. “We were not in the country. We were at a place where people were not recognising us. Just time together as…

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The Kohli & Karthik show takes RCB over the line against spirited Punjab Kings

Royal Challengers Bengaluru 178 for 6 (Kohli 77, Karthik 28*, Brar 2-13, Rabada 2-23) beat Punjab Kings 176 for 6 (Dhawan 45, Jitesh 27, Siraj 2-26, Maxwell 2-29) by four wickets A Virat Kohli masterclass in a tricky chase at a packed Chinnaswamy Stadium. A last-over thriller. An RCB win. Everything that Royal Challengers Bengaluru fans would have wanted from their team’s first home game of the season, they got…

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New captains in the spotlight as CSK, Titans brace for first meeting since epic final

Match details Chennai Super Kings (CSK) vs Gujarat Titans (GT)Chennai, 1930 IST (1400 GMT) Big picture: Gaikwad vs Gill When Chennai Super Kings ran into Gujarat Titans in a bizarre three-day rain-hit final in IPL 2023, MS Dhoni and Hardik Pandya were in charge of the teams, respectively. Shubman Gill took over Titans’ captaincy after Hardik had moved back to Mumbai Indians in what is arguably the biggest player trade…

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