Harshal Patel, according to Royal Challengers Bangalore captain Faf du Plessis, is “the joker in the pack”. Before IPL 2022 started, Harshal told du Plessis, with confidence and conviction, that he prides himself on “bowling the tough overs”. In the Eliminator against Lucknow Super Giants, du Plessis once again gave him just that responsibility, keeping
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Yorkshire 175 for 3 (Brook 60*, Lyth 40, Root 35*, Malan 33) beat Worcestershire 172 for 9 (Haynes 61, D’Oliveira 32, Thompson 3-35) by seven wickets Two trophyless appearances at Finals Day are the paltry sum of 20 years of T20 cricket for Yorkshire, as if somehow their illustrious history inhibits them in the shortest
“As we saw at the most recent ODI World Cup, there are a number of nations really starting to emerge so we’re going to have to be at the top of our game. We pride ourselves on finding ways to keep evolving and it’ll be more important than ever over the next period,” Meg Lanning,
Oakland Coliseum, home of Major League Baseball’s (MLB) Oakland Athletics and formerly the NFL’s Oakland Raiders, has emerged as a potential venue for the 2024 Men’s T20 World Cup, to be co-hosted by the USA and the West Indies. The ICC CEO Geoff Allardice and development head Will Glenwright met with USA Cricket officials in
David Miller has always performed an unenviable role in T20 cricket: that of a finisher without an added bowling skill. It is by its nature a job where you fail more often than succeed. You don’t get to chalk up the big runs to seduce the decision makers with traditional stats. And when you go
Pakistan women 107 for 4 (Dar 36*, Maroof 28, Ranasinghe 2-20) beat Sri Lanka women 106 for 8 (Tuba 3-8, Amin 3-21, Anwer 2-32) by six wickets Legspinner Tuba Hassan enjoyed a fairtytale debut as she spearheaded Pakistan to a straightforward six-wicket win in the first T20I against Sri Lanka in Karachi. Brought on in
Former New Zealand captain Daniel Vettori has been appointed an assistant coach of the Australia men’s team alongside Andre Borovec as head coach Andrew McDonald builds his new team. The duo will take up their roles for the Test series against Sri Lanka which starts at the end of June with Borovec, who has worked
Supernovas 163 (Harmanpreet 37, Dottin 32, Matthews 3-29, Khatun 2-30) beat Trailblazers 114 for 9 (Mandhana 34, Rodrigues 24, Vastrakar 4-12, Ecclestone 2-19, King 2-30) by 49 runs Harmanpreet Kaur’s Supernovas made a winning start to the Women’s T20 Challenge in Pune on Monday. They successfully defended 163, a prospect that looked unlikely when Smriti
Kapp, Lee and Jafta are all recovering from illnesses, Klaas is out with a shoulder injury, and du Preez, who retired from ODIs but remains available in the shortest format, has been left out of the squad scheduled play three T20Is and three ODIs in Dublin. Regular captain Dane van Niekerk is also not in
New interim coach Shelley Nitschke says she will likely pursue the top job for Australia’s all-conquering women’s cricket team long-term as she prepares to head up a crucial on-field transition period. Nitschke admitted she was caught off guard last week when predecessor Matthew Mott told her he would leave the role after seven years to
Former India coach Ravi Shastri believes Punjab Kings should relieve Mayank Agarwal of the captaincy in order to get the best out of his batting skills, much like how Chennai Super Kings did with Ravindra Jadeja. Shastri said the pressure of captaincy affected Agarwal’s batting, and it might have even ended up costing him a
Essex 391 beat Lancashire 103 (S Cook 4-18) and 232 (Vilas 62, Harmer 5-89) by an innings and 56 runs Essex’s bowlers took just 21 balls to wrap up their innings-and-56-run victory over Lancashire on the final morning of their LV= Insurance County Championship match at Emirates Old Trafford. Needing just one wicket to complete
After the end of Mumbai Indians’ IPL 2022 campaign, their captain Rohit Sharma has said he is “pretty disappointed” with his batting performance this season, but is confident of turning it around in the coming days. In 14 games, Rohit scored just 248 runs at an average of 19.14 and a strike rate of 120.17.
Lancashire 103 (S Cook 4-18) and 213 for 9 (Vilas 62, Harmer 5-85) trail Essex 391 by 75 runs In the opening weeks of this season a few people of good judgement appeared to assume Lancashire were going to win the County Championship. This match has offered a powerful corrective to such weirdly confident views.
The BCB has granted leave to Mushfiqur Rahim for Bangladesh’s upcoming tour of West Indies, so that he can perform Hajj in July. This year’s Islamic pilgrimage is in July, for which Mushfiqur is likely to travel to Saudi Arabia on June 22. “He informed us before the Sri Lanka series that he wants to
Despite Chennai Super Kings suffering an early exit and being on the brink of finishing at the bottom in IPL 2022, their captain MS Dhoni drew confidence from the performances of youngsters who are finding their feet in the set-up. After Super Kings fell out of the race for the playoffs, they tinkered with their
Hampshire 144 for 5 (Holland 49, Overton 3-21) trail Somerset 211 (Overton 44, Abbott 3-60) by 67 runs Craig Overton claimed his 400th first-class wicket as Somerset fought back strongly at the end of a rain-shortened second day of the LV= Insurance County Championship match with Hampshire at Taunton. The visitors looked to be cruising
Ireland have announced the appointment Nathan Hauritz, the former Australia spinner, as their spin bowling coach. Hauritz, 40, took 128 wickets for Australia, playing all three formats in a nine-year international career. He retired from the game in 2016, and has been coaching with Brisbane Heat in the BBL and women’s team Queensland Fire since