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News Good performances in West Indies and Bangladesh could yet make the selectors change their plans There is no guarantee from Australia’s selectors that all the players who made themselves unavailable for tours of West Indies and Bangladesh will immediately return to the fold for the T20 World Cup if others take the chance to

The two-Test series against England was certainly advantageous but New Zealand coach Gary Stead doesn’t feel that it’s as big a deal as it is being made out to be compared to their World Test Championship final rivals India’s lack of game time. New Zealand secured a rare Test win in England during a two-match

News South Africa created 14 catching chances in the first Test against West Indies and took 13 of them Dean Elgar had asked for centuries and five-fors in his first series in charge of South Africa’s Test team and, so far, Quinton de Kock, Lungi Ngidi and Kagiso Rabada have delivered. Though he didn’t say

England pacer Ollie Robinson will return to the cricket pitch to play for Sussex’s second team in the T20 game against Hampshire, his county confirmed on Monday. “Mitch Claydon is added to the Sharks squad as cover for the trip to Chelmsford. Henry Crocombe will not travel and will play in Sussex’s behind-closed-doors Second XI

Graham Thorpe, England’s assistant coach, has called on his team’s young batters to prove their “desperation” to stay in the Test team, after New Zealand’s eight-wicket win at Edgbaston on Sunday completed their first series victory in this country since 1999, and England’s first loss on home soil in seven years. Thorpe, who was a

Former pacer Venkatesh Prasad feels that a high-on-resources India has got all bases covered to get past a high-on-confidence New Zealand in the World Test Championship final beginning June 18 at Southampton. Unlike his playing days, Prasad feels India now have a third or a fourth seamer who can maintain pressure built by the new

Report Qalandars surrendered from advantageous positions in both innings after dominating the first ten overs each time Islamabad United 152 for 7 (Asif 75, Iftikhar 49, Faulkner 3-19) beat Lahore Qalandars 124 (Zaman 44, Musa 3-18, Shadab 2-14) by 28 runs At first, the Islamabad United’s historic decision to bat first at the toss –

Hardik Pandya was seen with partner Natasa and friends in a photo he posted on Instagram.© Hardik Pandya/Instagram Hardik Pandya posted a photo on social media where he is seen aboard an airplane and captioned it as “Chilling in the clouds”. Hardik had also posted on social media platforms on Saturday, where he was seen

Sussex 155 for 1 (Salt 72*, Bopara 56*) beat Hampshire 154 for 7 (Vince 36, Lenham 3-14) by nine wickets Over at Edgbaston, English cricket had descended into its periodic bout of unremitting gloom. But 170 miles away on the south coast the world was a bountiful place as Archie Lenham, a 16-year-old Sussex legspinner,

Shakib Al Hasan misbehaved with the umpires in a local T20 game in Dhaka.© Instagram/Bangladesh Cricket Sakib Ummey Al Hasan, wife of Bangladesh all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan, posted a stern reply relating to the controversial incidents involving her husband in a Dhaka Premier League match on Friday. She hinted at a possible “plot” against her

News Fast bowler says simulating game fitness by playing a Test is much better compared to preparing in the nets Trent Boult wasn’t expecting to play the ongoing second Test at Edgbaston “initially” but hopes that bowling against England compared to preparing in the nets will put him in “good stead” for the World Test

Will Young fell in sight of a maiden Test hundred during the last over of Friday’s play after helping New Zealand establish a solid position against England in the second and final Test at Edgbaston. There were just three balls left in the second day when Young was out for 82 after turning part-time off-spinner

News Spinner’s 5 for 20 led Lahore Qalandars to a ten-run win over Peshawar Zalmi in their PSL 2021 encouter The Peshawar Zalmi conceded 44 runs in the last two overs against the Lahore Qalandars in their game on Thursday, Wahab Riaz‘s 19th over proving especially costly, going for 29 runs. But Shoaib Malik, who

Trent Boult took two wickets in two balls on his return to New Zealand duty before England fought back to be 258-7 at Stumps on the first day of the second and final Test at Edgbaston on Thursday. The hosts were 85-3 and 175-6 but opener Rory Burns’ 81 and Dan Lawrence’s 67 not out

News Rashid helped the Qalandars score 16 off the final over, a task never achieved in PSL history previously When Rashid Khan walked to the crease on the opening night of the resumption of the PSL, the Lahore Qalandars needed 22 from eight balls. Tim David was facing up to the last two balls of

James Anderson is on the verge of adding to his list of record-breaking achievements by becoming England’s most-capped Test cricketer, yet when he made his debut in 2003 the Lancashire swing bowler thought he “wasn’t good enough”. Anderson will surpass the mark of 161 Tests he currently shares with retired former England captain Alastair Cook,

News Players will participate in another ‘moment of unity’ as ECB investigate unsavoury social media histories England will reaffirm their commitment to making cricket a more representative and inclusive sport by wearing anti-discrimination t-shirts in another ‘moment of unity’ on the morning of the second Test at Edgbaston. The move comes at the end of

While pundits keep talking about India’s pace battery, spinner Ravichandran Ashwin is a vital cog of the much-famed Indian bowling attack. To bring statistics into play, he is the first bowler in the 143-year history of Test cricket to dismiss 200 left-handed batsmen. Former English spinner Monty Panesar believes Ashwin could hold the key for