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News He will stay with the team for the T20 matches against India which follow the tournament Shane Bond will be part of New Zealand’s coaching set-up for the T20 World Cup and T20 matches in India which follow the tournament. Bond, a former bowling coach with the national side, will be in the UAE

Play 03:29 Laxman: This win on par with the Brisbane win for India When the final day of the second England-India Test began at Lord’s, England had their noses ahead. When, in the fourth over of the day, Ollie Robinson had Rishabh Pant caught behind, England were favourites to take a 1-0 lead in the

News The NZ contingent will undergo a three-day in-room quarantine before starting to train, but they are not inclined to play a practice match The New Zealand contingent arriving in Dhaka on August 24 will have most of the elements of the bio-secure environment that the BCB provided Australia with, according to chief executive Nizamuddin

Report Invincibles now have a two-point cushion over Superchargers and Rockets Oval Invincibles 107 for 2 (Adams 37*) beat London Spirit 103 for 9 (Beaumont 42, Knight 34) by eight wickets Oval Invincibles will play in Friday’s eliminator at their home ground unless they lose their final group game and other results go against them,

News IPL COO Hemang Amin has informed franchises that players who had been replaced in the tournament’s first leg can be brought back Shreyas Iyer and T Natarajan are fit for action again, and are eligible for a return for the remainder of IPL 2021 as the BCCI has allowed franchises to bring back players

News With domestic events postponed, Barbados get the nod as they are the defending T20 Blaze champions Barbados will participate in the 2022 Birmingham Commonwealth Games as the “representative team from the West Indies”, the update coming after Cricket West Indies postponed the 2021 T20 Blaze and Women’s Super50 Cup until next year. That meant

News Former captain still insists that team can win the T20 World Cup if all first-choice picks are fit and healthy Ricky Ponting has questioned the depth in Australian cricket after the poor T20 results on the recent tours of West Indies and Bangladesh but believes the team can still challenge for the World Cup

Report Qualifiers for knock-out phase won’t be known until all the contenders have played their final matches Birmingham Phoenix 166 for 6 (Livingstone 50, Hammond 38*) beat Trent Rockets 150 for 9 (Mullaney 49, Brown 3-27) by 16 runs Birmingham Phoenix added a first away win to their 100 percent home record to climb above

News South African plans to return home and then head to CPL; Dane Vilas to continue as his replacement Faf du Plessis has been ruled out of this year’s men’s Hundred after failing to recover adequately from the concussion he suffered at the PSL two months ago. Dane Vilas will stay on as his replacement.

News Australia’s white-ball captain is expected to take 8-10 weeks to recover Australia’s limited-overs captain Aaron Finch has undergone knee surgery with the recovery expected to take eight to 10 weeks as he aims to be fit for the T20 World Cup. Finch missed the recent Bangladesh tour having suffered cartilage damage ahead of the

Report Unbeaten 71 off 28 lifts home side to competition’s first 200 total as Originals have a shocker in the field Northern Superchargers 200 for 5 (Simpson 71*, Vilas 36) beat Manchester Originals 131 (Raine 3-15) by 69 runs Northern Superchargers kept their slim qualification chances alive, becoming the first team to score 200 runs

Ryan Patel made a century for Surrey at Guildford © Getty Images Surrey 219 for 2 (Patel 111*, David 52*) beat Derbyshire 215 (McKiernan 38, Wagstaff 36, McKerr 3-43, Moriarty 3-44) by eight wickets Ryan Patel‘s century took Surrey to the knockout stages of the Royal London Cup with a crushing eight wicket victory over

Report Eight-wicket victory with 13 balls to spare continues surging run of form for Vince’s men Southern Brave 147 for 2 (de Kock 57*, Vince 53) beat Welsh Fire 144 for 5 (Banton 36, Phillips 30*, du Plooy 30) by eight wickets Southern Brave will spend the next 48 hours at the top of the

News Tournament’s leading run-scorer credits ignoring criticism for her upturn in form India and Northern Superchargers batter Jemimah Rodrigues says she handled criticism by “ignoring it” as she overcame a few “tough months” in international cricket this year to emerge as the Hundred’s leading scorer after nearly 80% of the tournament’s league matches had been

News Batter seemed to have been ousted from the England Test team but is now back as one of its senior-most members At the start of the summer, it wasn’t out of the question that Jonny Bairstow‘s Test career was done and dusted. He finished a dispiriting tour of India with three ducks in four

Shardul Thakur picked up four wickets during the first Test in Trent Bridge © Getty Images India have suffered a selection headache on the eve of the second Test against England with an injury likely to rule out Shardul Thakur. The nature of Thakur’s injury is unclear, but ESPNcricinfo understands the team management has decided

Report Originals run out of road after Carlos Brathwaite cameo is undone at the death London Spirit 142 for 6 (Rossington 46) beat Manchester Originals 136 for 9 (Ackermann 53, Wheal 4-17) by six runs Brad Wheal claimed the stunning figures of 4 for 17 to help London Spirit claim their first win in six

News There will be no camp in Chennai before the CSK players leave India Chennai Super Kings captain MS Dhoni landed in Chennai on Tuesday ahead of the departure of a group of players to the UAE, which will host the remainder of IPL 2021 starting next month. A bunch of Indian players will travel