Cricket

Ravi Bopara said he still feels “like a young man in the game” after signing a contract with Northamptonshire which ensures he will play in England’s T20 Blast for the 22nd consecutive season, at the age of 39. Bopara is one of three men to have played more than 200 matches in the Blast and

Perth Stadium has dethroned the Gabba as Australia’s preferred first Test venue with the five-match Border-Gavaskar Trophy to begin in Perth on November 22 this year before the series moves to Adelaide for the day-night Test, Brisbane, Melbourne for Boxing Day and Sydney for the New Year’s Test. Cricket Australia unveiled their international schedule for

Nathan Lyon was impressed with how England’s inexperienced spinners acquitted themselves in India, even though the visitors lost 4-1 having won the opening Test, as he prepares to join forces with one of them, Tom Hartley, for a county season with Lancashire. In two of the five Tests England fielded Hartley, Shoaib Bashir and Rehan

Match details Chennai Super Kings (CSK) vs Gujarat Titans (GT)Chennai, 1930 IST (1400 GMT) Big picture: Gaikwad vs Gill When Chennai Super Kings ran into Gujarat Titans in a bizarre three-day rain-hit final in IPL 2023, MS Dhoni and Hardik Pandya were in charge of the teams, respectively. Shubman Gill took over Titans’ captaincy after

With Western Australia just one wicket away from a hat-trick of Sheffield Shield titles after an electric passage of play late on day four, Joel Paris was in a reflective mood and turned to experienced teammates Sam Whiteman and Hilton Cartwright. “I reckon this means more than the other two [titles],” he told them. Moments

On day one of the Sheffield Shield final, offspinner Corey Rocchiccioli woke up at 4am with a fever. He was feeling rotten to the core, but with Western Australia bidding for a hat-trick of titles there was no way he was going to remain bedridden. “I was a little bit iffy…but came to my senses

Royal Challengers Bengaluru (KKR) vs Punjab Kings (PBKS)Bengaluru, 1930 IST (1400 GMT) After a defeat at Chepauk against Chennai Super Kings, RCB are set to begin a three-match stretch at home. Over the years, their attempts to make the M Chinnaswamy Stadium a fortress have not borne fruit, and it is not going to be

In a move that could potentially pave way for the others to follow suit, the Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA) has agreed to incentivise its senior men’s team with a 100% pay raise from the 2024-25 season. A recommendation for the state association to match players’ BCCI earnings from the domestic circuit has been approved at

Harshit Rana, with just 12 T20s to his name before Saturday night, found himself with the unenviable task of defending 12 runs off the final over in Kolkata Knight Riders’ first game of IPL 2024. On strike was a marauding Heinrich Klaasen, batting on 56 off 26 deliveries. The previous over, bowled by the IPL’s

Match details Rajasthan Royals (RR) vs Lucknow Super Giants (LSG)Jaipur, 1530 IST (1000 GMT) Big picture – Where will Rahul bat? After the 2016 season, KL Rahul has only batted as an opener in the IPL, except for one match against Royal Challengers Bengaluru last year when he came out at No. 11 after picking

Chennai Super Kings 176 for 4 (Ravindra 37, Dube 34*, Green 2-27) beat Royal Challengers Bengaluru 173 for 6 (Rawat 48, Karthik 38*, du Plessis 35, Mustafizur 4-29) by six wickets Chennai Super Kings, under a brand-new captain, enjoyed a winning start to their defence of the IPL title in front of a raucous Chepauk

Match details Punjab Kings (PBKS) vs Delhi Capitals (DC)Mullanpur, 3.30pm IST (1030 GMT) Big picture – Rishabh Pant is back The first afternoon match of IPL 2024 will be dominated by just one storyline in the lead up: the return of Rishabh Pant, who survived a car crash in December 2022. He had three ligament

Match details Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) vs Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH)Kolkata, 1930 IST (1400 GMT) Big picture – Cummins vs Starc In December, Pat Cummins became the most expensive player at an IPL auction when SRH bought him for INR 20.5 crore (US$2.47 million approx.). But the record did not survive for even two hours as

Former Tamil Nadu wicketkeeper-batter Adithya Ganesh, who had recently moved to the USA, was the No.1 pick in the domestic draft, and he’ll turn out for Knight Riders. Ganesh, 32, was TN’s reserve wicketkeeper-batter when they won the 20-overs Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy under Vijay Shankar in 2021. Ganesh is a good player of spin

It was MS Dhoni‘s call to hand over the Chennai Super Kings captaincy to Ruturaj Gaikwad, ahead of IPL 2024, their head coach Stephen Fleming has revealed on the eve of the tournament opener in Chennai. “It was MS [Dhoni’s decision] with a lot of consideration and one view to the future on the back

Match details Chennai Super Kings (CSK) vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB)Chennai, 1930 IST (1400 GMT) Big picture: Can RCB break the Chennai jinx? It was only last month that Faf du Plessis played a blinder to put Joburg Super Kings in the SA20 playoffs. And four months from now, he will be wearing yellow again

Pathirana’s absence could potentially open up a slot for Bangladesh left-arm seamer Mustafizur Rahman, who also operates at the death. Mustafizur had suffered cramps, and a stretcher was required to carry him off the field in the third ODI against Sri Lanka in Chattogram on March 18. But he has since recovered to join CSK

Five of the seven players signed on top-bracket £125,000 contracts in the men’s draft were West Indies power-hitters, with the new Northern Superchargers coach Andrew Flintoff choosing Nicholas Pooran as the first signing of the draft. Andre Russell and Shimron Hetmyer will play for London Spirit, Kieron Pollard has joined Southern Brave and Rovman Powell