New Zealand are currently on a four-match losing streak in Tests © BCCI Australia’s Test-match losing streak may be making headlines, but their neighbours across the Tasman have not fared much better this year. Of nine Tests played in 2016, New Zealand has lost six, winning only the two matches against Zimbabwe. Their four most-recent results have all been losses. Unlike for Australia, however, the losing streak has come overseas,…
India tour dented our confidence, but have to move on – Hesson
New Zealand are currently on a four-match losing streak in Tests © BCCI Australia’s Test-match losing streak may be making headlines, but their neighbours across the Tasman have not fared much better this year. Of nine Tests played in 2016, New Zealand has lost six, winning only the two matches against Zimbabwe. Their four most-recent results have all been losses. Unlike for Australia, however, the losing streak has come overseas,…
Lodha Committee approves direct payment for BCCI tournaments
The Lodha Committee has told the BCCI that payments to players and officials for all board-organised tournaments, like the Ranji Trophy, can be made directly under existing terms, the board secretary Ajay Shirke said. The Committee’s permission came after the BCCI sought direction on the release of funds for the Rajasthan Ranji Trophy team and the state’s various age-group teams. According to the Indian Express, Shirke had written to the…
'3-0 is the mission for us now' – Du Plessis
Kyle Abbott was central to South Africa’s third consecutive series win in Australia © Getty Images There’s a generation of South Africans whose memories of watching their Test team play in Australia are the complete opposite of Faf du Plessis and his team’s. Generation now. Anyone 10 or younger has never known a South African side that has lost a Test series in Australia and to have added a layer…
Jurgensen to continue as NZ bowling coach until end of 2019
Shane Jurgensen was head coach of Bangladesh from 2012 to 2014 © AFP Shane Jurgensen will continue as New Zealand’s bowling coach until the end of 2019, New Zealand Cricket has announced. Jurgensen had worked in an interim capacity since February this year, but has now been awarded a full-time contract. “We got to know Shane and got to know how he worked with the group,” New Zealand head coach…
'I'm embarrassed to be sitting here'
Steven Smith: “We are not being resilient, we are not willing to tough it out.” © Getty Images Angry, embarrassed, frustrated, disappointed, upset, hurting. These were the words synonymous with Steven Smith’s Australians in the aftermath of defeat to South Africa in Hobart. Another, resilient, is not. Smith cut a bewildered and downtrodden figure as he sorted through the wreckage of a humiliating fifth Test match defeat in succession, the…
Aftershocks force abandonment of Plunket Shield match in Wellington
Toppled shipping containers near the other cricket venue in Wellington – the Westpac Stadium – after the earthquake © AFP The Plunket Shield match between Wellington and Central Districts in Wellington has been abandoned after frequent aftershocks, in the wake of an earthquake on late Sunday night, left players sleep-deprived and anxious, New Zealand Cricket said. The match, originally scheduled to start on Monday, was delayed so that the venue…
Abbott, Rabada bowl SA to series victory
South Africa 326 (De Kock 104, Bavuma 74, Hazlewood 6-89, Starc 3-79) beat Australia 85 (Smith 48*, Philander 5-21, Abbott 3-41) and 161 (Khawaja 64, Abbott 6-77, Rabada 4-34) by an innings and 80 runsScorecard and ball-by-ball details Kyle Abbott started the damage on day four © Cricket Australia/Getty Images Take a bow, Kyle Abbott. Take a bow, Kagiso Rabada. Take a bow, Faf du Plessis and the entire South…
Comilla beaten comprehensively; Dhaka climb to the top
Dhaka Dynamites 194 for 5 (Mehedi Maruf 60, Rashid 3-28) beat Comilla Victorians (Mashrafe 47, Mohammad Shahid 3-34) by 33 runsScorecard and ball-by-ball details Mohammad Shahid took another three-wicket haul as Dhaka Dynamites climbed to first place © BCB Defending champions Comilla Victorians will go into the Chittagong leg of the BPL – beginning on November 17 – as the only team without a win, after they lost their fourth…
Don't need talent to fight – Streak
Zimbabwe’s batsmen were undone by conditions conducive to swing bowling and some shoddy strokes © Associated Press Zimbabwe coach Heath Streak lost his gruntle. While Zimbabwe was able to take heart from the way they resisted defeat during the Test series, Streak opened the press conference after his side’s eight-wicket thrashing in the tri-series opener by admitting: “I won’t have too many positives today.” Streak seemed particularly vexed by the…