Cricket

News “I’d rather have a longer run as a successful captain and leader, than start off with something big and then go downwards.” The past week has been bittersweet for KL Rahul. He became the joint-highest paid player in IPL history when Lucknow Supergiants signed him for INR 17 crore, but also captained India to

News The former Pakistan batter played two Tests, in 1969 and 1975 Aftab Baloch, a domestic giant from the 1970s, maker of Pakistan’s second domestic quadruple ton, and a batter who could have played more than his two Tests for Pakistan, has died. He was 68 years old. Baloch is probably best remembered for the

News Allrounder hopes late fireworks in Bridgetown can turn heads ahead of mega-auction Just like anyone else, IPL owners, head coaches and general managers are afflicted by recency bias. Whenever the time comes to sit down at the auction table, performances that are fresh in the memory are given greater weighting than those that happened

Report Shakib Al Hasan becomes the fifth bowler to take 400 wickets in T20 cricket Minister Group Dhaka 130 for 6 (Mahmudullah 47, Russell 31*, Shafiul 2-20) beat Fortune Barishal 129 for 8 (Gayle 36, Russell 2-27, Udana 2-29) by four wickets How the match played outAndre Russell was in his element, following up figures

News “I look forward to that challenge and test my body, physically and mentally” Keeping wicket and opening the batting in Test cricket has been, arguably, the toughest juggling act in the history of the game, but Alyssa Healy is adamant that she wants to do the job again in the women’s Ashes Test starting

Report Netherlands lost their last eight wickets for just 64 runs, costing them the opportunity to level the series. Afghanistan 237 for 6 (Gurbaz 103, Shahidi 54, Boissevain 2-39) beat Netherlands 189 (Edwards 86, Mujeeb 4-32) by 48 runs In the second of three matches in Doha, Afghanistan batted first after winning the toss, and

Report R Ashwin, Shardul Thakur, Venkatesh Iyer and Bhuvneshwar Kumar made way for Jayant Yadav, Suryakumar Yadav, Prasidh Krishna and Deepak Chahar Toss: India opt to bowl vs South Africa Having already conceded the ODI series and with no Super League points up for grabs, India made four changes and chose to bowl in what

News Australia’s matches at both upcoming men’s World Cups in 2022 and 2023 will be broadcast by Nine Australia’s defence of the Men’s T20 World Cup will be broadcast on the Nine Network but the Women’s ODI World Cup is set to be without a free-to-air broadcaster. Nine has confirmed it will screen every game

News She could become first West Indian and only fourth bowler in women’s cricket to get 300 international wickets A new variation to unleash on the opposition and four wickets to add to her tally during the four-ODI tour of South Africa. These, along with helping West Indies fine-tune their preparations ahead of the ODI

When Melbourne Stars and Brisbane Heat played a high-octane clash on December 27, as the BBL entered its traditional peak period of the school holidays, there was reason for optimism and little indication of the mayhem ahead for the tournament. In front of almost 15,000 fans at the Gabba, one of the biggest crowds of