England’s cricketers, including skipper Ben Stokes, have been struck down with a suspected stomach bug on the eve of the first Test against Pakistan in Rawalpindi, despite the touring party bringing their own chef. A ceremony Wednesday for the two captains to unveil the series trophy was postponed to give Stokes time to recover. “Several
Month: November 2022
Pakistan and England will start their much-awaited red-ball battle with the first Test of the three-match series at the Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium on December 1. This is England’s first Test tour since Michael Vaughan and his side travelled the country 17 years back in 2005. Both teams recently met in the T20 World Cup 2022
File photo of Shoaib Akhtar© YouTube England will play their first Test match in Pakistan in 17 years when the first Test of a three-match series begins in Rawalpindi on Thursday. Under Ben Stokes and former New Zealand great McCullum, England have remodelled their game – winning six of their last seven Tests at home
Pakistan and England are all set to face each other in the three-match Test series, starting December 01 at Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium. Earlier this month, both sides locked horns in the final of the T20 World Cup, where the English team defeated the Men in Green by five wickets at the iconic Melbourne Cricket Ground.
England have named their playing XI for the first Test of the three-match series against Pakistan. The opening Test is scheduled to start on Thursday (December 1) in Rawalpindi. All-rounder Liam Livingstone is all set to make his debut in red-ball cricket, while middle-order batter Ben Duckett has received a long-awaited recall against Pakistan. Livingstone,
Right-handed batter Sanju Samson has been regularly finding himself going in and out of Team India, and he has not been able to get games on a consistent basis. After scoring 36 in the first ODI against New Zealand, Samson was dropped for the 2nd ODI as team management wanted to have a batting all-rounder,
AUS vs WI, 1st Test Live: Australia opt to bat vs West Indies© AFP Australia vs West Indies, 1st Test, Day 1 Live Score Updates: Australia captain Pat Cummins won the toss and opted to bat against West Indies in the 1st Test of the two-match series on Wednesday in Perth, Australia had announced their playing
Wicketkeeper-batter Rishabh Pant on Wednesday said that he would like to open the batting in the shortest format of the game, while he would prefer to bat at No.4 or 5 in ODIs. Off late, the left-handed batter has failed to get going in white-ball cricket, and he has been subjected to criticism on social
Liam Livingstone will make his England Test debut against Pakistan in Rawalpindi on Thursday. Livingstone, 29, will be one of two new faces named by skipper Ben Stokes for the first Test from the team that ended the English summer. Ben Duckett will partner Zak Crawley at the top of the order, replacing Alex Lees
More home matches and playing at bigger stadiums are on the cards for the WBBL, as the rapidly expanding women’s game puts pressure on the tournament to retain its standing as the premier event. The latest edition of the WBBL came to a conclusion in front of a crowd of 6478 at North Sydney Oval
Twelve millimetres of grass have been left on the Optus Stadium pitch for the first Test between Australia and West Indies starting on Wednesday, with head curator Isaac McDonald tipping “good pace and bounce” from the surface. Fireworks are expected as both teams are blessed with explosive pace attacks. There is also the notion of
Northern 593 (Hurraira 221, Amin 114, Waheed 109, Rohail 94, Aaliyan 4-96, Umar 4-116) beat Sindh 284 and 254 (Fawad 113, Musa 3-49, Jamal 3-63) by an innings and 55 runs Northern fast bowlers Aamer Jamal and Muhammad Musa shared six wickets between them to wipe out the second Sindh innings inside two sessions on
Prithvi Shaw could be a future India captaincy candidate, according to former India batter Gautam Gambhir. Gambhir also picked Hardik Pandya, who has already led India in T20Is, as a future India captain, but Shaw was a more left-field choice as he has not played for India since July 2021. Hardik has been touted as
If you’ve been paying even vague attention, you’ll have heard that James Anderson is the only member of this England touring party to have played international cricket in Pakistan prior to this winter. Back in the winter of 2005, a younger, sprightlier but no less downbeat Anderson was part of the squad that last played
India A 120 for 0 (Jaiswal 63*, Easwaran 53*) lead Bangladesh A 112 (Mosaddek 63, Saurabh 4-23, Saini 3-21) by eight runs Navdeep Saini and Mukesh Kumar helped India A take the opening-day honours in the first unofficial Test against Bangladesh A in Cox’s Bazar. Put in to bat, Bangladesh A were shot out for
Test captain Pat Cummins has fired back at former coach Justin Langer’s claim that he was undermined by leaks, saying there are “no cowards” in the Australian team. The first Test between Australia and West Indies starting on Wednesday has been overshadowed by Langer’s recent candid interview on the Back Chat podcast, where he attacked
Australia captain Pat Cummins has confirmed his team’s playing XI that will take the field in the first Test against the West Indies in Perth on Wednesday, November 30. Scott Boland, who was the star performer for Australia during the Ashes this year, couldn’t find a place in the starting XI as Cummins, Mitchell Starc
File image of BCCI president Roger Binny© AFP BCCI ethics officer Vineet Saran has served a conflict of interest notice to board president Roger Binny. PTI has learnt that Saran has asked Binny to file a written response by December 20 against the conflict of interest allegations levelled against him. The complainant, Sanjeev Gupta, has
The cricketing ecosystem is witnessing a paradigm shift with a major chunk of international cricketers save India rejecting their respective country’s central contracts to become freelance agents for the T20 leagues across the globe, world players’ body FICA stated in its annual report. It must be mentioned that the Indian players’ body is not under
The pace-spin combo of Navdeep Saini and Saurabh Kumar impressed the most as India A grabbed the opening-day honours after a commanding performance against Bangladesh A in the first unofficial Test, in Cox’s Bazar on Tuesday. Opting to field after winning the toss, Saini (3/21), Saurabh (4/23) and Mukesh Kumar (2/25) helped India A bundle
Since the last couple of weeks, rain and wet outfield have followed India in their limited-overs tour of New Zealand 2022. The second ODI between New Zealand and India on Sunday (November 27) was called off due to consistent showers in Hamilton. It was the second game of the ongoing tour to be washed out
Australia will take on the West Indies in a two-match Frank Worell Trophy series scheduled to begin from Wednesday. The two matches will be a part of the 2021-23 ICC World Test Championship. Australia – with a win percentage of 70 – are on top of the WTC standings, while the West Indies are placed
File photo of Smriti Mandhana and Harmanpreet Kaur© BCCI The first edition of the Women’s IPL is set to be hosted in March, 2023, and the BCCI is leaving no stone unturned to make the tournament a massive success in its inaugural season. Now, sources have confirmed that the Indian cricket board will float tender
England head coach Brendon McCullum wants his team to play an aggressive brand of Test cricket during their upcoming three-match Test series in Pakistan. Under McCullum’s guidance, Ben Stokes & Co. has shown plenty of aggression in the longest format of the game. They first thrashed the Black Caps (3-0) and then edged past the
The Indian cricket team would like to finish their limited overs cricket series in New Zealand on a high when they take on the hosts in the final ODI on Wednesday. The match is going to be an interesting one as India will look to break a sequence of 5 losses against New Zealand in
Big Picture For the first time in nearly seven years, two sides with a great history meet in Test cricket. That history has been sadly one-sided for a long time, but this is an overdue meeting for Australia and West Indies. The last time West Indies won a Test on these shores was back in
Just as it was in the T20Is, the ODIs have also effectively become a two-match series because of rain, except that New Zealand lead 1-0 now and India can at best square it. But rain is threatening to spoil the game, in Christchurch, too, even though there is a chance of a shortened game being
Brendon McCullum says England will continue their mantra of attacking cricket in Pakistan ahead of a series in which he hopes his players will experience “the greatest accomplishment” of winning overseas. England’s first Test tour of Pakistan in 17 years is also a first assignment abroad for the McCullum-Ben Stokes revolution that took the home
When Australia won the T20 World Cup in 2021, there was feeling that they had finally secured that one global trophy that had long eluded them. But the reality is there is another trophy, albeit newly created, that quite literally slipped through their fingers in 2021. Australia missed the 2021 World Test Championship final because
The assortment of T20 leagues, including the cash-rich IPL has entirely changed the landscape of cricket with more and more players inclined to forego their national contracts in lure of lucrative overseas deals, feels New Zealand pacer Tim Southee. Three New Zealand players — Trent Boult, Martin Guptill and Jimmy Neesham — have so far
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