Cricket

News Rajapaksa had cited “familial obligations” as a key reason behind his resignation in the first week of January A little over a week after announcing his retirement from international cricket, Sri Lanka batter Bhanuka Rajapaksa has withdrawn his resignation and proclaimed his desire to represent the country for “years to come”. His decision comes

News Travis Head returns to the middle order while the attack is still to be confirmed with Scott Boland needing to pass a fitness test Australia’s bowling attack is still to be finalised with captain Pat Cummins confirming Scott Boland would need to pass a fitness test on his rib injury to play in Hobart.

News England captain weighing up IPL auction involvement with deadline looming Joe Root has publicly backed Chris Silverwood to keep his job as England coach despite their heavy Ashes series defeat, suggesting that he had been let down by his players. Silverwood has maintained since his promotion from bowling coach to head coach in October

News Navdeep Saini named a cover for Mohammed Siraj, who is yet to recover from a hamstring injury Both Jayant and Saini are already a part of the Indian contingent in South Africa. Jayant has been a part of the Test squad, though he hasn’t featured in the XI yet. He bowls offspin and is

News With Rachael Haynes back and Tahlia McGrath’s form against India, there’s a battle for batting spots Ellyse Perry faces the prospect of being squeezed out of Australia’s T20I side at the start of the Ashes as the selectors look for continued evolution in the format and a focus on strike rates. Since her T20I

News Allrounder prepared to play through pain again but will wait to see how side strain responds to treatment Ben Stokes has said he wants to play in the fifth Ashes Test in Hobart but admitted his availability to feature as a specialist batter would depend on how his side strain responded to treatment, with

News “I think after losing the toss, putting a significant score on the board, and then for the bowlers to do their thing, was outstanding.” New Zealand captain Tom Latham said he was pleased with his team’s scoring rate, which he believes put Bangladesh under a lot of pressure, in the second Test in Christchurch.

Report Hosts would have had another wicket had Daryl Mitchell hit the stumps with a direct hit, with Mominul Haque out of the frame Lunch Bangladesh 126 and 74 for 2 (f/o) (Shanto 29, Shadman 21, Jamieson 1-16) trail New Zealand 521 for 6 dec by 321 runs Bangladesh put up a bit of fight

News The rest of the Zimbabwe squad returned negative results Zimbabwe coach Lalchand Rajput will miss at least the first two games of Zimbabwe’s series against Sri Lanka after testing positive for Covid-19. Rajput, 60, is understood to be asymptomatic, though he was placed under observation at a hospital briefly, before being taken to a

News BCCI to “continue to monitor the situation and identify a new window once the situation improves” The BCCI has postponed the knockout rounds of the Coach Behar Trophy, the domestic Under-19 tournament, in the wake of “some positive covid-19 cases within the team environment”. Till Monday, the BCCI had conducted 93 matches across 20