Cricket

The past week has been unlike any other for 20-year-old Nitish Kumar Reddy. The Andhra allrounder made an unbeaten eight-ball 14 when Sunrisers Hyderabad beat Chennai Super Kings four nights ago. But on Tuesday, he played a bigger role – hitting a 37-ball 64 that lifted a floundering Sunrisers innings from 64 for 4 to

Sunrisers Hyderabad have signed 22-year-old Sri Lanka legspinner Vijayakanth Viyaskanth as a replacement for the injured Wanindu Hasaranga at his reserve price of INR 50 lakh. Hasaranga was officially ruled out of IPL 2024 on Saturday owing to chronic pain in his heel that initially delayed his arrival for the tournament. Viyaskanth first rose to

The last Chennai Super Kings captain, MS Dhoni, had such a strong connection with this team that he has broken down while talking about them and wants to end his career at their home ground. The new CSK captain, Ruturaj Gaikwad, seems to be cut from the same cloth. His connection to this team is

Chennai Super Kings got back to winning ways after two away defeats and handed Kolkata Knight Riders their first loss of IPL 2024 by slowing them down with spin on a tacky Chepauk surface. Unlike the last two matches where none of the home spinners accounted for a wicket at the MA Chidambaram Stadium, on

“I’m still not decided [on retirement],” she said in East London, where Sri Lanka will play South Africa in the first of three ODIs tomorrow. “We can talk about it later. At the moment, I’m focused on the [South Africa] ODIs and World Cup qualifiers. Let’s see in the future.” Athapaththu, who is 34 and

Williams has joined Capitals for his base price of INR 50 lakh. This will be his first stint in the IPL. Williams will bolster Capitals’ pace department, which comprises his compatriot Anrich Nortje, Ishant Sharma, Khaleel Ahmed, Jhye Richardson and Mukesh Kumar. They also have two pace-bowling allrounders in Mitchell Marsh and Sumit Kumar. Capitals

Surrey 15 for 0 trail Lancashire 202 (Bohannon 84, Steel 5-25, Lawrence 4-91) by 187 runs The Vitality County Championship match between Lancashire and Surrey looks certain to end in a draw after only 21 balls were bowled on the third day of the game at Emirates Old Trafford. Surrey had progressed to 15 without

Romario Shepherd, remember the name. The Mumbai Indians allrounder blasted Anrich Nortje for 32 runs to close out their innings against Delhi Capitals on Sunday. His 10-ball 39 lifted Mumbai to 234 for 5, their highest total at the Wankhede Stadium. Here’s how ESPNcricinfo’s ball-by-ball commentary recorded the 20th-over carnage. 19.1 Nortje to Shepherd, FOUR

Surrey 11 for 0 trail Lancashire 202 (Bohannon 84, Steel 5-25, Lawrence 4-91) by 191 runs The emergence of Tom Hartley on the Test tour of India months after the acquisition of Nathan Lyon gave us a new slant on a timeless conversation about the domestic game’s duty to English spin. As everyone had their

Middlesex 138 for 1 (Stoneman 62*) trail Glamorgan 620 for 3 dec (Northeast 335*, Ingram 132*, Carlson 77, Root 67) by 482 runs Greed is good, as Sam Northeast proved on the second day of the English season at Lord’s. After ransacking Middlesex’s bowlers to the tune of 186 not out on day one, Glamorgan’s

Match Details Mumbai Indians (MI) vs Delhi Capitals (DC)Mumbai, 3.30pm IST (10am GMT) Big picture – Suryakumar’s potential return, and Bumrah vs Pant Sunday’s double-header will be kicked off by a bottom-of-the-table clash as Mumbai Indians and Delhi Capitals look to turn their fortunes around. Mumbai are still without a win, while Capitals have won

Pakistan batter Bismah Maroof and legspinner Ghulam Fatima suffered minor injuries after being involved in a car accident on Friday. The PCB said in a statement that the two received immediate first aid and were placed under the care of the board’s medical team. The series, comprising three ODIs and five T20Is, is scheduled to

Leicestershire 164 for 5 (Harris 56, Hill 3-25)) vs Yorkshire Seamer George Hill claimed three key wickets, including Australian opener Marcus Harris for 56, as Yorkshire had the better of a shortened opening day of the Vitality County Championship season against Leicestershire at Headingley. Heavy overnight rain meant a wet outfield and a delayed start

Suryakumar Yadav has linked up with Mumbai Indians in what is sure to come as a boost to Hardik Pandya’s misfiring team at IPL 2024. Suryakumar, one of the pillars of the Mumbai side over the years, has not featured in IPL 2024 so far as he was at the BCCI’s National Cricket Academy recovering

The PCB’s medical management of fast bowlers is again under the microscope after it emerged that Pakistan and Multan Sultans fast bowler Ihsanullah had an elbow injury initially misdiagnosed, which has resulted in a routine injury turning into a significantly more serious one. Ihsanullah last played for Pakistan on his ODI debut in April 2023

Punjab Kings 200 for 7 (Shashank 61*, Noor 2-32) beat Gujarat Titans 199 for 4 (Gill 89, Rabada 2-44) by three wickets Punjab Kings had only a 9% chance of victory even as late as the 17th over of the chase. That too was the result of Shashank Singh being out there one short of

Cricket Australia have blocked Xavier Bartlett from playing in the County Championship for Kent, denying him a No-Objection Certificate (NOC) shortly after offering him his first national contract. Bartlett had a breakout season in the 2023-24 Australian summer, making his ODI and T20I debuts against West Indies in February and taking 20 wickets – the

New Zealand seamer Rosemary Mair has been ruled out of the ODI series against England because of a back injury. Fellow seamer Molly Penfold has been called up as her replacement. Mair was making a comeback to the national side. She had played all five T20Is, picking up four wickets at an economy of 7.56.