News Fast bowler confirms his role will be promotional-only as he saves energies for red-ball While the rest of the country were glued to TV screens on Tuesday night, watching England’s 2-0 win against Germany at Euro 2020, James Anderson was bowling in the middle with Jon Lewis and Marcus Trescothick – England’s bowling and
Month: June 2021
News Fully vaccinated fans should have taken the second dose 14 days prior to the match In a first since 2019, fully vaccinated cricket fans in Grenada will get a chance to watch the West Indies Women live in action against the touring Pakistan Women during their eight limited-over matches, starting with a three-match T20I
Lord’s will host a full-capacity ODI for the first time since the 2019 World Cup final © Getty Images England will play a home international in front of a full-capacity crowd for the first time since September 2019 next Saturday, after the second ODI against Pakistan at Lord’s was included in the UK government’s Event
News Test captain hasn’t given up hope of T20 World Cup involvement after starring role in ODI Joe Root hopes England’s controversial rest-and-rotation policy can be “put behind us” ahead of the Test series against India and in the Ashes that follows. While England have selected their strongest available T20I squad for two successive series
Joe Root still has ambitions to break into England‘s powerful batting line-up for the Twenty20 World Cup, with the Test captain insisting the controversial rest-and-rotation policy was “being put behind us”. Root last played a Twenty20 international in 2019 and, in his absence, England have climbed to the top of the T20 world rankings. But
Preview West Indies believe they aren’t too far away from putting a winning performance together Big picture If you’d given South Africa a 2-0 Test series sweep and an opportunity to win the T20I rubber with a game to spare before they’d set off for West Indies, they would have taken it in a heartbeat.
England v Sri LankaThursday 1 July, 13:00TV: live on Sky Sports England shaky England are 1-0 up with two games to play. But should it have been as ‘close’ as a five-wicket success? Didn’t they rather make a mess of a simple chase? England should be destroying this Sri Lanka outfit. That they didn’t in
England v Sri LankaThursday 1 July, 13:00TV: live on Sky Sports Go for big prices After 20 balls of Jonny Bairstow’s innings in game one against Sri Lanka, we were sitting pretty on a wager for him to be top match batsman. He had smashed 43, including six fours and one six, and had only
New Zealand recently trumped India by eight wickets in the World Test Championship (WTC) final at Southampton’s Rose Bowl. The Kiwis outclassed their opponents in what was looking like a probable draw. The contest went to the reserve day when Kane Williamson & Co. barraged India’s batting line-up and were set a target of mere
Shubman Gill has picked up an injury, according to sources.© AFP India opener Shubman Gill has been ruled out of the five-match Test series against England beginning in August, sources in the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) told NDTV on Wednesday. Gill will reportedly stay on with the Indian Test squad in
England all-rounder Chris Woakes produced an impeccable performance against Sri Lanka in Chester-le-Street on Tuesday and returned with outstanding bowling figures of 10-5-18-4 to restrict the visitors at 185. Woakes picked up his first scalp of the match when he removed Pathum Nissanka for just 5. The Sri Lankan opener batsman batsman pulled a short
Ashes: The MCG will have an initial capacity of 85 per cent.© AFP Cricket Australia on Wednesday confirmed that all the Ashes Tests will have 100 per cent crowd capacity except for the Boxing Day Test at the MCG as it will have an 85 per cent crowd in attendance. The 2021-22 international cricket season
Former England batsman Ian Bell was one of the most gracious stroke makers in his country’s line-up. Bell had a bulwark defence and an ability to gauge loose balls to hit them out of the park. Bell even finished some critical games for the side and took them over the finish line. He has a
IPL 2021: Riyan Parag hailed a CSK player in his tweet through RR’s account.© BCCI/IPL Ravindra Jadeja is considered by many to be the best all-rounder in the current Indian cricket team. The Chennai Super Kings (CSK) player was recently part of India’s World Test Championship (WTC) Final team. They lost to New Zealand by
Rohit Sharma with wife Ritika Sajdeh in England.© Instagram India’s limited-overs vice-captain Rohit Sharma and his wife Ritika Sajdeh have recently grabbed the eyeballs of the Internet after their endearing banter went viral on social media. On Tuesday, Ritika shared a clip of Rohit along with an adorable puppy and claimed that she has found
Jasprit Bumrah shared a selfie with his wife Sanjana Ganesan.© Instagram The Indian Test team is on a three-week break in England after the World Test Championship final against New Zealand. As the players will soon be thrust back into a bio-secure bubble for over a month for the five-match Test series against England, they
Preview Jason Roy in line to return on home ground as SL eye first win of tour Big picture In some ways, the shellacking they received at Chester-le-Street was an improvement for Sri Lanka. No one got injured, no one broke curfew (that we know of), and at 80 for 4 in England’s chase, it
England defeated Germany 2-0 in the Round of 16 stage on Tuesday during the Euro 2020 that is currently underway. It was the first time in five and a half decades that the English side has managed to beat the mighty Germans in a football knockout clash. The players who scored the two goals were Harry
Danushka Gunathilaka and Kusal Mendis are among 3 players found breaching bio-bubble in England.© AFP Three Sri Lankan cricket players ordered to leave the tour of England on disciplinary grounds will be dropped from a home series against India in July, officials said Wednesday. Dubbed the “terrible trio” by media, vice captain Kusal Mendis, opener
News Only the MCG will not be sold to capacity for the Boxing Day Test, although the current lockdowns are a reminder of the challenging situation Cricket Australia will sell venues at 100% capacity for next season, with the exception of the Boxing Day Ashes Test at the MCG, in the hope of bumper crowds,
New Zealand captain Kane Williamson has reclaimed his number one position in the latest released Men’s Test Player Rankings by the International Cricket Council (ICC) on Wednesday. Williamson leapfrogged Steve Smith after leading his side to the World Test Championship (WTC) title in Southampton last week. Williamson’s knocks of 49 and unbeaten 52 in the
News Shikhar Dhawan, Jasprit Bumrah and KL Rahul have been recommended for Arjuna Award The BCCI has decided to recommend Mithali Raj and R Ashwin for the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award, India’s highest sporting honour. The board has also recommended the names of Shikhar Dhawan, KL Rahul and Jasprit Bumrah for the Arjuna Award,
News The New Zealand batter says he has no no plans of retiring, and that he “still want(s) to learn and still get better” New Zealand batter Ross Taylor has toasted New Zealand’s World Test Championship victory, saying it will “make up” for the 2019 World Cup heartbreak at Lord’s, where they lost without actually
The second cycle of the World Test Championship (WTC) 2021-23 begins from the upcoming five-match Test series between India and England. This series, along with the Ashes 2021-22, scheduled to start in December in Australia, are the only two series comprising five Tests in the WTC 2, spanning August 2021 to June 2023. Further, Australia’s
New Zealand skipper Kane Williamson on Wednesday reclaimed the number one spot in the ICC Test Player Rankings. The 30-year-old’s knocks of 49 and 52 not out in the low-scoring World Test Championship final against India have helped him move above the 900-point mark and he now enjoys a 10-point lead over Steve Smith (891
India all-rounder Krunal Pandya on Wednesday proved that it’s a myth that you need a proper training ground and facility to work out. He shared a video of him practising ‘anywhere’ on Instagram. For the last two years, many training facilities and gymnasiums in the country have been shut down due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
News Ross Taylor, Devon Conway, Kyle Jamieson and Trent Boult also move up after WTC final performances There were a number of key contributors in New Zealand’s eight-wicket win over India in the World Test Championship (WTC) final, and many of them, led by captain Kane Williamson, have made gains in the latest ICC Test
Australian cricketer David Warner is an active social media user and often entertains his fans by sharing interesting photos and videos to keep his admirers engaged. In the recent past, Warner has used the Face swap app to come up with some side-splitting posts. From his social media activity, it is quite evident that Warner
The International Cricket Council (ICC) will award standardised 12 points for every match won during the second World Test Championships cycle which kicks off with the five-match series between India and England in August. Teams will get six points in case of a tie and four points if the match ends in a draw. That
Former Pakistan skipper Inzamam-ul-Haq amassed 8,830 Test and 11,739 ODI runs and remains one of the icons of the game. Inzamam was known for his cool temper and skill to access situations with his acumen. The 51-year-old, however, wasn’t one of the greatest runners and was involved in innumerable run-outs. One such instance occurred during
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