Gujarat Titans 182 for 5 (Gill 63, Hangargekar 3-36) beat Chennai Super Kings 178 for 7 (Gaikwad 92, Rashid 2-26, Shami 2-29) by five wickets Ruturaj Gaikwad marked his return from a wrist injury with a sublime 92 off 50 balls, and set Chennai Super Kings on track for a 200-plus score, but a middle-overs
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Three wickets in the first ten overs is great, but five in the first 20 is usually a match-defining passage of play. New Zealand dismissed three of Sri Lanka’s top four inside the powerplay in the third ODI in Hamilton, and then got two of their middle-order batters before the 18th over was completed too,
The Australia A squad that faces their New Zealand counterparts over two four-day games in Lincoln – using the Dukes ball to replicate Ashes conditions in the UK – is a combination of players close or recently in the Test team, some with a realistic chance of pushing for a place in the near future,
Mickey Arthur is excited by the prospect of rekindling his relationship with the PCB ahead of taking up a position as a consultant for the Pakistan men’s national team. ESPNcricinfo reported that Arthur, who coached Pakistan between 2016 and 2019, has struck a deal as team director, with the important caveat he can fulfil the
In the absence of designated captain Aiden Markram, Bhuvneshwar Kumar will lead Sunrisers Hyderabad in their opening match of IPL 2023, against Rajasthan Royals in Hyderabad on April 2. Markram is in South Africa for the two-match ODI series against Netherlands and will arrive in India only on April 3. The series is crucial for
Durham have signed Matthew Kuhnemann, the Australia slow left-arm spinner, for their LV= Insurance County Championship campaign, after a planned deal for Kuhnemann’s Test team-mate Todd Murphy fell through. Durham had hoped to bring in Murphy for the first part of the summer but the offspinner’s availability was blocked by Cricket Australia, with the expectation
Ollie Robinson has been likened to Glenn McGrath for his height and metronomic bowling style, and the England man seems keen to fulfil a similar pantomime villain role when it comes to the Ashes. Having suggested a couple of weeks ago, in an interview with BBC local radio, that England could give Australia “a good
Jasprit Bumrah made his IPL debut in 2013 and, for the first time since then, Mumbai Indians will be playing an entire season without him. To fill that massive gap, apart from making use of the new Impact Player rule, Mumbai plan to unleash a couple of young bowlers and their head coach Mark Boucher
Toss South Africa chose to bowl vs West Indies South Africa will unleash a full-strength pace pack on West Indies in the deciding T20I at the Wanderers. Kagiso Rabada, Anrich Nortje and Lungi Ngidi were all named in the starting XI after only Nortje played the first match, but was rotated out of the second,
The 39-year-old has since undergone bowling action remodelling and remedial work under the guidance of CSA head of High Performance, Vincent Barnes. He undertook a test at an ICC Accredited Testing Centre at the University of Pretoria, which “noted an improvement in his action, and cleared the way for him to return to bowling.” The