Cricket

News More fall-out from Azeem Rafiq racism scandal as senior management feel the heat Yorkshire’s head coach, Andrew Gale, has been suspended pending a disciplinary hearing, while the club’s director of cricket, Martyn Moxon, has been signed off from work due to a stress-related illness, as the fall-out intensifies in the wake of the Azeem

News The squad is without a number of first-choice players including Kohli, Bumrah, Jadeja and Shami Rohit Sharma will captain India in their first T20I series following Virat Kohli’s stepping down from the captaincy in the shortest format. It is not yet known if Rohit will be given the role permanently – for now, the

News Hesson will continue in his original role as director of cricket operations Former India allrounder Sanjay Bangar has been named the head coach of the Royal Challengers Bangalore for the next two IPL seasons. Bangar had joined Royal Challengers as their batting consultant for IPL 2021. He takes over from Mike Hesson, who had

Ravi Shastri signed off from his four-and-a-half-year tenure as India’s men’s head coach as an “emotional, but a very proud man”, labelling his side “one of the great cricket teams in the history of the game” and underlining the toll that non-stop touring in biosecure conditions had taken on him and his players. Since his

Report Hayley Matthews chipped in with a fifty and three wickets as Pakistan fell 46 runs short of their target West Indies 253 for 8 (Dottin 132, Matthews 57, Amin 5-35) beat Pakistan 208 for 9 (Riaz 46, Matthews 3-31) by 46 runs A 146-ball 132 from Deandra Dottin and an all-round display from Hayley

News The son of former Zimbabwe batter Murray had planned to take two years out of the game for his Mormon mission Jayden Goodwin, the son of former Zimbabwe batter Murray Goodwin, could make his Western Australia first-class debut this week after being named in the Sheffield Shield squad to take on Queensland. Goodwin, a

News Captain wants his side to build on experience for next T20 World Cup Kyle Coetzer has called upon Cricket Scotland to be “bold and brave” in order to “push our whole organisation forward” after his side’s T20 World Cup campaign ended with heavy defeats against India and Pakistan. Scotland defied the odds to qualify

News Bowling coach also thinks a small break after the 2021 IPL might have helped refresh a team that has been on the road for six months Although he admitted that India have not performed to potential, bowling coach Bharat Arun is of the opinion that the toss has played too big a role at

News India legspinner claimed 3 for 17 while Redmayne made 57 in five-wicket win over Thunder Brisbane Heat 5 for 144 (Redmayne 57, Darlington 3-21) beat Sydney Thunder 7 for 143 (Litchfield 40, Poonam 3-17) by five wickets Three wickets from Poonam Yadav and a half-century from Georgia Redmayne has guided Brisbane Heat to a

News Sluggish chase against Bangladesh proves costly, but Boucher proud of team’s revival Too few runs, scored too slowly in the early stages of the T20 World Cup cost South Africa a place in the semi-finals, according to coach Mark Boucher. He called their victory over England, and elimination on net run-rate, a “bitter pill