Cricket

Before the Dhaka Test, Harry Tector played just a single first-class match in four years. He didn’t feel too nervous coming into this game, admittedly not as much as he thought he would, but enough to keep him awake to the challenge at hand. Ireland’s long gap from Tests was the overriding theme on the

Azeem Rafiq has said he is open to meeting Michael Vaughan with a view to finding a way forward for the sport after the findings of the Cricket Discipline Commission’s (CDC) racism hearings were published last week. On Friday, Vaughan was cleared of using racist language towards Rafiq and three other players of Asian descent

International engagements and personal reasons have forced Bangladesh allrounder Shakib Al Hasan to opt out of IPL 2023. ESPNcricinfo has learned that Shakib informed Kolkata Knight Riders about this development on Sunday. The franchise will begin the process of seeking a replacement once it gets a nod from the IPL. Shakib is set to be

MS Dhoni is instinct-driven, and doesn’t believe in match-ups, but has bought into the Impact Player rule. It was logical to replace a pure batter with a frontline bowler in their defence of 179, and Tushar Deshpande, the fast bowler, became the IPL’s first Impact Player when he replaced Ambati Rayudu. Deshpande, though, proved expensive,

Mumbai can’t dwell on that, Rohit insisted. “For the past six to eight months, I am used to playing without Jasprit Bumrah [for India too],” he said after the loss. “Of course, this is a different set-up. Someone needs to put their hand up and come in to fill that place. We can’t keep dwelling

The biggest challenge for Mumbai Indians heading into IPL 2023 was to fill the Jasprit Bumrah-sized hole in their fast bowling department. This has, however, helped realise the dream of Arshad Khan, an all-rounder from Gopalganj, Seoni district of Madhya Pradesh, who might have earned his Mumbai Indians cap a year back. Mumbai bagged Arshad

Cricket is poised to become the first sport in Australia to break the six-figure wage mark for the vast majority of its domestic female athletes, with players on state and WBBL contracts to earn an average of AU$151,000 from next season. Cricket Australia and the players’ union are closing in on finalising the sport’s new

Delhi Capitals head coach Ricky Ponting reckoned that dropping Kyle Mayers early on, and the team’s lacklustre fielding in general, was a big reason behind their 50-run loss against Lucknow Super Giants. Mayers was on 14 off 15 balls when Khaleel Ahmed shelled a sitter at short third off Chetan Sakariya in the sixth over.

Punjab Kings 191 for 5 (Rajapaksa 50, S Dhawan 40, Southee 2-54) beat Kolkata Knight Riders 146 for 7 (Russell 35, Arshdeep 3-19) by seven runs (DLS method) For most of the contest, Kolkata Knight Riders were behind the run of play against Punjab Kings. Chasing 192, they were 80 for 5, with victory looking

Ruturaj Gaikwad “is going to do wonders for Indian cricket” and the team will “back him enough” when his time comes. Hardik Pandya, potentially India’s T20I captain as they build towards next year’s T20 World Cup, couldn’t have been more effusive in his praise for the Chennai Super Kings opener for his incredible 52-ball 90

The Impact Player rule can lead to situations where certain bowlers are underutilised, Gujarat Titans Hardik Pandya has said. Hardik was speaking after the IPL season-opener in Ahmedabad, where Titans beat Chennai Super Kings by five wickets. This was the first-ever IPL match to involve the Impact Player rule. On Saturday, Titans won the toss

Bracewell, who recently made a return to the New Zealand Test team after a seven-year gap, will join up with Essex after next week’s opening fixture against Middlesex. He will stay with the club until the end of July, and could feature in as many as 10 Championship games. “It’s great that we’ve been able

The Australia A squad that faces their New Zealand counterparts over two four-day games in Lincoln – using the Dukes ball to replicate Ashes conditions in the UK – is a combination of players close or recently in the Test team, some with a realistic chance of pushing for a place in the near future,

Mickey Arthur is excited by the prospect of rekindling his relationship with the PCB ahead of taking up a position as a consultant for the Pakistan men’s national team. ESPNcricinfo reported that Arthur, who coached Pakistan between 2016 and 2019, has struck a deal as team director, with the important caveat he can fulfil the

Jonny Bairstow‘s recovery from a “horrific” broken leg means he can still do little more than run in straight lines. But he can think in straight lines, too, and he has identified a return to Yorkshire wicketkeeping duties as necessary to maximise his chances of playing in this summer’s Ashes series. A freak accident when

Having shared the points, and despite Sri Lanka also being docked a Super League point for a slow over-rate in the first ODI, the equation nevertheless remains the same for the visitors; win the game on Friday and force South Africa and Ireland to win their remaining games this World Cup cycle. Indeed, if both

Durham have signed Matthew Kuhnemann, the Australia slow left-arm spinner, for their LV= Insurance County Championship campaign, after a planned deal for Kuhnemann’s Test team-mate Todd Murphy fell through. Durham had hoped to bring in Murphy for the first part of the summer but the offspinner’s availability was blocked by Cricket Australia, with the expectation

Bradburn, the former New Zealand allrounder, had been in the Pakistan system for over three years before resigning in 2021. He first worked as the national men’s side’s fielding coach, since September 2018, before taking over the new role at the HPC. In May 2020 when the National Academy was revamped, he quit the job