Hardik Pandya has hailed Rashid Khan‘s athletic outfield catch to dismiss Kyle Mayers that broke Lucknow Super Giants’ strong opening stand as a “match-changing” effort, after Gujarat Titans prevailed by 56 runs in Ahmedabad. Chasing 228, Mayers had powered to 48 off 31 balls in a partnership of 88 with Quinton de Kock in just
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Greg Shipperd, one of the most renowned coaches in Australian cricket, has been named new head coach of the New South Wales men’s team with the task of reviving the state’s fortunes after their first winless Sheffield Shield campaign in 84 years. Shipperd, who has previously coached Tasmania and Victoria, guiding the latter to four
Derbyshire 350 for 7 dec (du Plooy 94, Madsen 67, Haider 54, Mulder 5-67) lead Leicestershire 122 (Brookes 6-20) by 228 runs Derbyshire were frustrated by rain which washed out most of the third day of the LV=Insurance County Championship match against Leicestershire at Derby. The home side batted on in the morning to secure
Matheesha Pathirana “shouldn’t even get close” to red-ball cricket, in the opinion of MS Dhoni, his captain at Chennai Super Kings in IPL 2023. Pathirana, a new-gen version of Lasith Malinga, has emerged as one of the aces in Dhoni’s pack in the IPL, and picked up three wickets for just 15 runs against Mumbai
Lucknow Super Giants have drafted in Karun Nair as a replacement for KL Rahul for the remainder of IPL 2023. Nair comes on board for INR 50 lakh. Nair has scored 1496 runs in 76 IPL games over the years, turning out for Delhi Daredevils (now Capitals), Kings XI Punjab (now Punjab Kings), Kolkata Knight
Gujarat Titans 119 for 1 (Saha 41*, Hardik 39*, Chahal 1-22) beat Rajasthan Royals 118 (Samson 30, Rashid 3-14, Noor 2-25) by nine wickets Clinical. That’s what Gujarat Titans were against Rajasthan Royals on Friday night in Jaipur. After bowling out Royals for a mere 118, they chased the target down in just 13.5 overs
Ajaz Patel, the New Zealand left-arm spinner, has joined Durham as a replacement for Australia’s Matt Kuhnemann, who suffered a back injury while playing against Glamorgan in April and has had to pull out of his deal. Patel, 34, will link up with the Durham squad ahead of next week’s Championship fixture against Yorkshire and
Ravi Shastri and Tom Moody feel it is “inevitable” that IPL teams will start to influence world cricket by engaging players in long term contracts which will see them take part in multiple leagues. Last week, FICA confirmed that there have been informal conversations between some franchises and players about the possibility of such contracts,
Kolkata Knight Riders 171 for 9 (Rinku 46, N Rana 42, Jansen 2-24, Natarajan 2-30) beat Sunrisers Hyderabad 166 for 8 (Markram 41, Klaasen 36, Thakur 2-23, Arora 2-32) by five runs Varun Chakravarthy bowled overs 16, 18 and 20 for 12 runs – four of them off byes and leg byes – and one
Royal Multisport Private Limited – Rajasthan Royals’ parent company – have been David Miller‘s employers for around one-third of the last seven months but on Friday night, he will find himself walking out to bat against them. Miller represented Barbados in the Caribbean Premier League last September, and captained Paarl in the SA20 in January,
Two-time T20 World Cup champion Johnson Charles has joined Kolkata Knight Riders for the remainder of IPL 2023 as a replacement player for Litton Das. Charles, a member of the West Indies team that was crowned champions in 2012 and 2016, brings with him extensive experience at the top of the batting order. He has
As well as Ballance, the ECB asked for a combination of fines, suspensions, reprimands and education courses for Matthew Hoggard, Tim Bresnan, Andrew Gale, Richard Pyrah and John Blain – all of whom either played at Yorkshire, or worked in a coaching capacity while Rafiq was there. The ECB asked for Hoggard and Pyrah to
The game had started 15 minutes late due to an afternoon shower, and the surface ended up assisting spin big time. Moeen Ali dismissed Kyle Mayers for the second time in the season, and Maheesh Theekshana accounted for Manan Vohra and Krunal Pandya off successive deliveries in the sixth over. Moeen held on to a
Left-arm spinner Paddy Dooley has been handed his first state contract after signing a one-year deal with Tasmania. Dooley, 25, whose unorthodox action was modelled on Jasprit Bumrah, was one of the breakout stars of last season’s BBL with Hobart Hurricanes having initially played for Brisbane Heat during the 2021-22 campaign among the raft of
Buckingham, 23, impressed for South Australia in the most recent Sheffield Shield season, where he took 25 wickets in his first seven first-class matches at an average of 26.56 for South Australia. His returns resulted in selection for the Australia A tour of New Zealand in April and he took 6 for 58 in his
The BCCI has invited applications for the position of head coach of the India women’s team. The spot has been vacant since Ramesh Powar was transferred to the National Cricket Academy (NCA) in Bengaluru ahead of the women’s T20 World Cup earlier this year. A BCCI statement said that the applicant would be expected to
Following a fractious end to Monday night’s IPL game, with Virat Kohli and Gautam Gambhir having to be separated from each other, the Royal Challengers Bangalore batter addressed the situation in a video published by his team on YouTube. Captured candidly as he was celebrating with the rest of the players, Kohli was seen saying,
Virat Kohli and Gautam Gambhir are not IPL captains anymore, but they were still involved in a heated exchange after Royal Challengers Bangalore beat Lucknow Super Giants by 18 runs. It was over 10 years after their altercation in the IPL during RCB’s match against Kolkata Knight Riders in Bengaluru. Kohli now plays for RCB