The CPL was the first of the major franchise tournament to resume operations since the start of the pandemic © Getty Images The 2021 Caribbean Premier League will be hosted entirely at Warner Park in St. Kitts, beginning on August 28. The 33-match tournament will allow fans to attend at up to 50% capacity of
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News Says teams are not playing to win, but for “something far more important, humanity” The BCCI has told the eight teams in the IPL that they will not just be playing to win this time, but for something “much more important…humanity.” Reassuring the franchises that everyone’s safety was the priority, the BCCI also confirmed
Edgbaston will host the women’s T20 event at the 2022 Commonwealth Games © Getty Images Australia, India, New Zealand, Pakistan, South Africa, England and a nation from the Caribbean have all qualified for the women’s event 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, Women’s cricket will feature at the Games for the first time, and cricket for
The Pakistan Super League (PSL) will conduct a replacement draft for the six teams to complete their squads ahead of the resumption of the 2021 edition of the tournament, which had been suspended after 14 matches following a spate of Covid-19 cases among players and support staffers. The remainder of the tournament will be played
News Cricket in South Africa will continue to be run by CSA once the new memorandum is adopted in next 48 hours Cricket South Africa has potentially avoided being derecognised and defunded by the country’s sports ministry after agreeing to adopt a new Memorandum of Incorporation (MOI) that will include a framework for a majority
News It wasn’t the best of weeks for Australian players at the IPL with some being dropped and a couple of costly errors playing parts in defeats Cummins goes for plenty, scores a few Pat Cummins made a bigger impact with the bat this week than the ball. Off 7.5 overs in the two games
News ESPNcricinfo understands that two other Australian cricketers have told their franchise that they want to go home Andrew Tye, the Rajasthan Royals fast bowler, flew back home to Australia on Sunday citing “personal reasons”, his exit coming even as India battles a severe wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, with over a million positive cases
Report The Royal Challengers brought in Saini to go hard at the batsmen with his pace in the middle overs Toss Chennai Super Kings chose to bat vs Royal Challengers Bangalore Chennai Super Kings captain MS Dhoni opted to bat in the day game in Mumbai citing “heat” as one factor and the pitch potentially
News KKR captain says his side ended up “40 short” in the six-wicket loss to the Royals Eoin Morgan has called for better intent and more clarity from his Kolkata Knight Riders’ team-mates, following their fourth loss in five games in IPL 2021. Speaking after the six-wicket defeat to the Rajasthan Royals at the Wankhede,
The aggregate batting average on this Pallekele pitch can only be compared to the 1997 Test at the R Premadasa Stadium, in which Sri Lanka posted a world-record 952 for 6. After seeing his bowlers suffer for three days, Sachin Tendulkar called it unfit for Test cricket. Depending on how much more is scored in
News Kumara’s exit leaves Sri Lanka with only three frontline bowlers for the second innings Seamer Lahiru Kumara will not bowl again in the ongoing series against Bangladesh after picking up a hamstring injury while fielding on day three, in Pallekele. MRI scans on Friday evening confirmed the presence of the injury. He had bowled
News Trevor Hohns knows that those players also involved in the T20 World Cup will get very little red-ball preparation Australia’s national selector Trevor Hohns has admitted to being “very concerned” about the lack of Test cricket the team will play ahead of the Ashes next season. With the tour of South Africa last month
News Will there be no South Africa in international cricket? If yes, why? Is there no way things can change? South Africa’s sports minister Nathi Mthethwa is on the verge of derecognising Cricket South Africa (CSA), and if that happens, CSA will not be the body that officially runs cricket in the country. That is
Report Pakistan replaced Haider Ali with Asif Ali, while Zimbabwe were also without Craig Ervine Pakistan choose to bowl vs Zimbabwe Zimbabwe will have to chase in an attempt to stay alive in the three-match T20I series against Pakistan after Babar Azam chose to bowl with a debutant seamer. Twenty-year old Arshad Iqbal will play
News He is back to full fitness and participated in his first team training session on Friday After spending nearly three weeks in a medical care facility in Mumbai, India and Delhi Capitals allrounder Axar Patel has bounced back from Covid-19. Patel, who tested positive in early April, rejoined the Capitals on Thursday in Chennai.
News Sunrisers are yet to name a replacement for the left-arm quick, who played only two games this IPL Sunrirsers Hyderabad’s T Natarajan has been ruled out of the 2021 IPL. ESPNcricinfo understands the left-arm fast bowler had been coping with the knee injury he picked up during the Australia tour, which has now flared
Report The pair added 226 runs for their unbroken third-wicket stand, having batted together for 79.3 overs Bangladesh 378 for 2 (Shanto 155*, Mominul 107*, Fernando 2-75) vs Sri Lanka Bangladesh completed four achievements by lunch on the second day against Sri Lanka. They moved to 378 for 2 in an otherwise circumspect session in
News KKR captain Morgan said that from 31 for 5 in the chase, he didn’t expect the game to go so close MS Dhoni felt that he couldn’t really do much as the fielding captain when Andre Russell and Pat Cummins were putting the Chennai Super Kings bowlers to the sword in a high-scoring thriller