Mumbai Indians 103 for 5 (Varma 34*, Choudhary 3-23) beat Chennai Super Kings 97 (Dhoni 36*, Sams 3-16) by five wickets The greatest rivalry in IPL history lived down to its improbable basement-battle status, as Chennai Super Kings gave Mumbai Indians an outside chance of leapfrogging them at the bottom of this year’s standings with
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The Knight Riders Group has acquired the rights to own and operate the Abu Dhabi franchise, which has been named Abu Dhabi Knight Riders, in UAE’s new six-team T20 league. This will be the fourth T20 franchise owned by the Knight Riders Group, which is owned by Bollywood actors Shah Rukh Khan and Juhi Chawla
Shaun Marsh will play on for a 23rd first-class season to help Western Australia and Perth Scorchers coach Adam Voges try and achieve the near-impossible task of defending all three domestic crowns. Marsh took some time after the Shield final to decide whether he would continue to play for WA next season. He was contracted
The challenge facing counties regarding the availability of overseas players has been laid bare by Sussex’s announcement that they have signed a third wicketkeeper-batter for the T20 Blast, with New Zealand’s Tim Seifert joining Mohammad Rizwan and Josh Philippe in their squad. Counties are only able to register three overseas players simultaneously and field two
Brendon McCullum has emerged as a surprise contender for the vacant role as England’s Test coach following two days of interviews at Lord’s. McCullum, who is in his third season as Kolkata Knight Riders’ coach at the IPL, has never coached a first-class game and was widely expected to be a candidate for the white-ball
Chris Lynn is looking for a new BBL club after Brisbane Heat made the shock decision to delist the BBL’s all-time leading runscorer after 11 seasons at the club. Queensland Cricket and Brisbane Heat CEO Terry Svenson confirmed on Wednesday that Lynn would not be offered a new contract for next season after another disappointing
Jamie Siddons, the Bangladesh batting coach, has backed Mushfiqur Rahim and Mominul Haque to return to form in the first Test against Sri Lanka in Chattogram next week. Mushfiqur and Mominul had made only 59 and 13 runs respectively in the two Tests in South Africa. In fact, Mominul had the personal-worst two-Test series of
Cricket South Africa have “formally and unreservedly,” withdrawn charges of gross misconduct against men’s national head coach Mark Boucher less than a week before his disciplinary hearing was due to begin. That means they are no longer seeking his dismissal over the tentative findings of the Social Justice and Nation-Building (SJN) report which concluded that
Former England allrounder Luke Wright will be part of New Zealand’s coaching staff during their upcoming limited-overs tours of Ireland, Scotland and Netherlands. Wright is part of an expanded coaching group which means no one will be involved in New Zealand’s full schedule of tours which begins with the Test series against England and runs
While Hetmyer has been given a break so he can be home for the birth of his first child, the statement from Cricket West Indies said Even Lewis was not considered since he failed CWI’s fitness criteria. Holder has been rested, with workload management cited as the key reason. All three are part of the