News The defending champions picked up further damage during the Challenger final It could be a case of third time lucky for Sydney Sixers as the injury-riddled BBL club prepare to send another SOS to Cricket Australia, asking for Steven Smith to return in Friday night’s final against the Perth Scorchers. Sixers attempted to sign
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ODI squad: Rohit Sharma (capt), KL Rahul (vice-capt), Ruturaj Gaikwad, Shikhar Dhawan, Virat Kohli, Suryakumar Yadav, Shreyas Iyer, Deepak Hooda, Rishabh Pant (wk), Deepak Chahar, Shardul Thakur, Yuzvendra Chahal, Kuldeep Yadav, Washington Sundar, Ravi Bishnoi, Mohammed Siraj, Prasidh Krishna, Avesh Khan In: Rohit Sharma, Deepak Hooda, Kuldeep Yadav, Washington Sundar, Ravi Bishnoi, Avesh Khan Out:
News Apart from the four suspension points that resulted in the sanction, five demerit points have also been added to his record Netherlands fast bowler Vivian Kingma has been banned by the ICC for four ODIs/T20Is for ball-tampering. The incident took place during the third ODI against Afghanistan, which Netherlands lost by 75 runs, in
News He is the third Sixers player ruled out of the finals alongside Jack and Mickey Edwards Sydney Sixers have been dealt a huge blow with Josh Philippe ruled out of their home BBL Challenger against Adelaide Strikers on Wednesday night after returning a positive Covid test. Philippe returned the positive test on Wednesday morning
Report Offspinner joins Shahid Afridi in bowling the most economical four-over spell in the BPL Comilla Victorians 158 for 7 (Joy 48, Bravo 3-30, Shakib 2-25) beat Fortune Barishal 95 (Shanto 36, Nahidul 3-5, Tanvir 2-19) by 63 runs How the match played outNahidul Islam claimed extraordinary figures of 4-1-5-3 as Comilla Victorians thumped Fortune
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