Jafer Chohan, a 20-year-old legspinner, has joined Yorkshire on a rookie contract until the end of the 2023 season. Chohan, who came through the ranks at Middlesex and played in the Berkshire side that won last season’s National Counties 50-over competition, has since impressed at the South Asian Cricket Academy (SACA) and will link up
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India chose to bowl vs Sri Lanka India won the toss and elected to field first in the second T20I at the MCA stadium in Pune. Hardik Pandya, the India captain, expected the surface to remain the same throughout the game, and suggested dew as one of the reasons behind him electing to field first.
Innings Pakistan 408 (Shakeel 125*, Imam 83, Sarfaraz 78, Ajaz 3-88, Sodhi 3-95) trail New Zealand 449 (Conway 122, Latham 71, Henry 68*, Abrar 4-149, Naseem 3-71, Salman 3-75 Ish Sodhi trapped No. 11 Abrar Ahmed off the final delivery of the first over of the fourth day to wrap Pakistan’s innings up. Saud Shakeel
While Samson did not wear the wicketkeeping gloves in the first game, Jitesh has been added to India’s squad as a cover for Ishan Kishan for the next two T20Is. Jitesh had a good season for Punjab last year in the IPL, where he scored 234 in 12 outings with a strike rate of 163.63.
Hardik Pandya is not afraid of putting his side in difficult situations during bilateral T20Is, long-term gains being more important than short-term ones – he said as much at the toss during the first T20I against Sri Lanka and reiterated it after the game. The record at Mumbai’s Wankhede Stadium favoured chasing sides, who had
Australia captain Meg Lanning and legspinner Georgia Wareham will make their respective long-awaited returns after being named in Victoria’s WNCL squad to face New South Wales in two 50-over matches on January 5 and 7 at Junction Oval in Melbourne. Lanning, who has been named to return as Australia’s captain for the upcoming limited-overs series
The BCCI has invited applications for “the right to own and operate” teams at the inaugural women’s IPL, which is expected to start in March and get over before the men’s IPL begins. A press statement from the BCCI on Tuesday asked for “reputed entities” to make a non-refundable payment of INR 5 lakh (USD
Similarly, the board would’ve had to anyway appoint a new selector from West Zone as the Chetan Sharma-led selection panel was reduced to four members in late 2021 after Abey Kuruvilla, the former Mumbai and India fast bowler, completed the maximum tenure of five years. While Kuruvilla moved on to the role of BCCI general
Pat Cummins expects there to be a “huge connection” between the conditions for the Sydney Test against South Africa and what Australia will face on the upcoming tour of India, with their focus on the present but also the challenges ahead. Through a combination of factors, Australia have some tricky decisions to make over the
Dasun Shanaka wants his team to “step up” against India after a T20 World Cup where they won only two games in the main round. They play three T20Is and as many ODIs on this tour, and India being the host country for the ODI World Cup later this year, getting familiarised with the conditions