VVS Laxman is likely to coach India on their short tour of Ireland, filling in for Rahul Dravid who will instead be in England to assist the team’s preparation for rescheduled fifth Test as well as the limited-overs series. Dravid will be with India’s Test squad, which will play a four-day game in Leicester from
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New Zealand wicketkeeper Katey Martin has announced her retirement, bringing to a close a 21-year career. Martin made her international debut in what would be her only Test, against India in 2003, then went on to play 103 ODIs and 95 T20Is, finishing at the recent home ODI World Cup. Her 169 domestic one-day appearances
On a five-match losing streak, Sunrisers finally dropped Kane Williamson down the order, which brought immediate dividends with Priyam Garg, his replacement at the top of the order, and Rahul Tripathi bossing the first 16 overs with help from Nicholas Pooran. Despite the sensational pace of Umran Malik, Mumbai’s inexperienced batting line-up stayed alive till
Tom Harrison is set to step down as chief executive of the ECB after seven-and-a-half years in post. Harrison was appointed in October 2014, starting full-time the following January, and has been a controversial figure throughout his tenure. He oversaw the introduction of the Hundred, which belatedly launched last summer, and while the £1.1 billion
Former England captain Charlotte Edwards has been named Sydney Sixers’ new WBBL head coach as the club looks to turn around three seasons of poor results. Edwards, who is also coach of Southern Vipers in county cricket and has been an Adelaide Strikers assistant coach for five seasons, replaces Ben Sawyer who has been in
The Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB) also named fast bowler Mohammed Shami in the squad although his participation will depend on clearance from the BCCI and head coach Rahul Dravid taking his workload management into account. However, it was 37-year-old Saha whose comeback headlined the Bengal squad after he had skipped the league stage citing
Deepti Sharma has replaced Mithali Raj as the captain of Velocity, while Harmanpreet Kaur and Smriti Mandhana continued to be in charge of Supernovas and Trailblazers respectively in the squads announced for the Women’s T20 Challenge, to be held from May 23 to May 28 in Pune, on Monday. Sneh Rana, who led Railways to
As Kent and Surrey players lined up on the boundary in front of the Beckenham pavilion to observe a minute’s silence to honour Andrew Symonds, they represented two clubs which had been touched by his “magic” more than most. It was on this suburban out-ground in South London that Matt Walker, the Kent head coach,
Lasith Malinga’s last ball in the IPL was a bewitching slower ball to trap Shardul Thakur lbw and defend one run off the final ball of an IPL final. Three years later, Baby Malinga, Matheesha Pathirana, trapped Shubman Gill lbw with his first ball in the IPL. A similar low release, accuracy with the yorker,
Andrew Symonds‘ former captain, Ricky Ponting, the man who put faith in him ahead of what became a defining 2003 World Cup, has called the allrounder an “extraordinary player” following his death in a car crash at the age of 46. Symonds was a controversial selection for the tournament in South Africa as he averaged
Andrew Symonds, the former Australian allrounder who played in 26 Tests and 198 ODIs in an international career spanning from 1998 through 2009, has died in a car crash in Queensland. Symonds was 46 and is said to have been involved in an accident outside Townsville where he lived in retirement. In a statement, police
Central Sparks 156 for 4 (Jones 52, Freeborn 52) beat Western Storm 136 for 6 (Luff 43, Wong 2-28) by 20 runs Amy Jones and Abigail Freeborn registered impressive half-centuries as Central Sparks made a winning start to their Charlotte Edwards Cup campaign, beating Western Storm by 20 runs in their Group B fixture at
Ambati Rayudu, the- 36-year-old Chennai Super Kings batter, created a bit of a stir on Saturday after deleting a tweet where he had said IPL 2022 would be his final season. Posting a tweet on Saturday, Rayudu had initially said: “I am happy to announce that this will be my last ipl. I have had
Virat Kohli believes a big innings is around the corner, his IPL captain Faf du Plessis has said, and the Royal Challengers Bangalore coach Mike Hesson is not ruling out that big innings in their final league match, which could well be a must-win affair. Kohli has not scored an international century since the end
In the midst of a protracted legal battle regarding the delayed general elections from 2020, USA Cricket now has a second lawsuit on its hands after Kirk Greaves, who was terminated from an independent-contractor role early last month, filed legal action in the US Federal Court against the national governing body claiming “racial discrimination in
It is the fifth Test that Shakib will miss since playing one against Pakistan back in December last year. He skipped the New Zealand series due to personal reasons and then had to miss the South Africa Tests due to illness in his family. Shakib has now played three Tests out of Bangladesh’s 11 since
In what is a largely stable group of players, there was a vacancy created by the retirement of Ross Taylor while Bracewell, who was recently included in the Test squad to tour England after making his international debut against Netherlands in March, effectively replaces Neesham. Neesham, who has not featured in Test cricket since 2017,
When Kumar Kartikeya Singh left home in Uttar Pradesh nine years ago, he had decided to return only after achieving something. On April 30, Kartikeya lived a dream many Indian youngsters aspire: to play in the IPL. Having originally joined the franchise as a net bowler, Kartikeya graduated into the main squad and helped Mumbai