Match facts Sunday, October 23, 2016Start time 1330 local (0800 GMT) New Zealand would want to lend their captain Kane Williamson a lot more support while batting © BCCI Big Picture Landscape-gazing from an airplane window is a fascinating exercise, mostly because the topography of each city tells its own story. While Dharamsala has gorgeously irregular shapes, with its jagged hills and silent valleys, Delhi’s tightly-packed clusters paint a chaotic…
De Kock smashes ton against pink ball
South Africa 415 (De Kock 122, Duminy 97, Amla 51) v Cricket Australia XIScorecard Quinton de Kock enjoyed a hit-out against the pink ball © Cricket Australia/Getty Images Quinton de Kock warmed up for the Test series against Australia with a century on South Africa’s first day of play on this tour, while JP Duminy fell just short of triple figures. Against an inexperienced Cricket Australia XI at Adelaide Oval,…
WI openers solid after Gabriel bowls Pakistan out for 452
Tea: West Indies 27 for 0 (Bravo 15*, Johnson 12*) trail (Pakistan 452 (Younis 127, Misbah 96, Shafiq 68, Sarfraz 56, Gabriel 5-96) by 425 runsLive scorecard and ball-by-ball details Sarfraz Ahmed scored an enterprising 56 before he was bowled by a Shannon Gabriel rocket © Getty Images Shannon Gabriel picked up his maiden five-wicket haul in Test cricket as West Indies bowled Pakistan out for 452 an hour after…
Gabriel five-for restricts Pakistan to 452
Innings: Pakistan 452 (Younis 127, Misbah 96, Shafiq 68, Sarfraz 56, Gabriel 5-96) v West IndiesLive scorecard and ball-by-ball details Sarfraz Ahmed scored an enterprising 56 before he was bowled by a Shannon Gabriel rocket © Getty Images Shannon Gabriel picked up his maiden five-wicket haul in Test cricket as West Indies bowled Pakistan out for 452 an hour after lunch on day two of the Abu Dhabi Test. Gabriel…
All-round Stokes regains control for England
Tea England 293 and 108 for 5 (Stokes 33*, Bairstow 17*) lead Bangladesh 248 (Tamim 78, Mushfiqur 48, Stokes 4-26) by 153 runsLive scorecard and ball-by-ball details Ben Stokes followed his wickets with a vital innings © AFP Ben Stokes came to England’s rescue twice in as many sessions – first with the ball, and then with the bat – as a thrilling Test match hurtled towards a fourth-innings shootout…
All-round Stokes regain control for England
England 293 (Moeen 68, Bairstow 52, Mehedi 6-80) and 108 for 5 (Stokes 33*, Bairstow 17*) lead Bangladesh 248 (Tamim 78, Mushfiqur 48, Stokes 4-26) by 153 runsLive scorecard and ball-by-ball details Ben Stokes followed his wickets with a vital innings © AFP Ben Stokes came to England’s rescue twice in as many sessions – first with the ball, and then with the bat – as a thrilling Test match…
Allround Stokes regain control for England
England 293 (Moeen 68, Bairstow 52, Mehedi 6-80) and 108 for 5 (Stokes 33*, Bairstow 17*) lead Bangladesh 248 (Tamim 78, Mushfiqur 48, Stokes 4-26) by 153 runsLive scorecard and ball-by-ball details Ben Stokes followed his wickets with a vital innings © AFP Ben Stokes came to England’s rescue twice in as many sessions – first with the ball, and then with the bat – as a thrilling Test match…
Gowtham's five-for routs Delhi for bonus-point win
Karnataka 414 (Gautam 63*, Agarwal 56, Nair 53, Samarth 53, Sood 4-80) beat Delhi 90 (Aravind 4-12, Gowtham 3-26) and 164 (Sood 41*, Gowtham 5-35) by an innings and 160 runsScorecard No Delhi batsman managed a half-century in the match as they folded twice inside three days in Kolkata © PTI Delhi’s coach KP Bhaskar lamented how batsmen these days, particularly in domestic cricket, undermined the use of technique in…
Busy Sarfraz steers Pakistan past 400
Lunch: Pakistan 401 for 6 (Sarfraz 45*, Nawaz 16*, Gabriel 3-57) v West IndiesLive scorecard and ball-by-ball details Shannon Gabriel denied Misbah-ul-Haq a sixth Test hundred in Abu Dhabi © Getty Images Sarfraz Ahmed kept Pakistan ticking towards a big first-innings total after West Indies struck two early blows on the second morning of the Abu Dhabi Test. Pakistan, 304 for 4 overnight, slipped to 342 for 6 before an…
Moeen shows he knows the Laws
Fortune has favoured Moeen Ali in Chittagong © Associated Press Moeen Ali has had his fair share of fortune in the first Test in Chittagong. His opening-day 68 involved five DRS interventions – three in a period of six balls when he was given out by Kumar Dharmasena either side of lunch – but in the second innings a reprieve came from a different route. Facing Shakib Al Hasan, on…