News Rathour says if Rahane has any technical issues, they shouldn’t be discussed mid-series or mid-game Shardul Thakur has scored 117 runs in the fourth Test with his twin fifties. That is eight more than India vice-captain Ajinkya Rahane has aggregated across seven innings in this series so far with a solitary half-century. Since the
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New Zealand brought in Finn Allen,Scott Kuggeleijn and Jacob Duffy for the third T20I © Getty Images Toss New Zealand chose to bat vs Bangladesh New Zealand captain Tom Latham won the toss and opted to bat in the third T20I, a must-win game for his side, on a sunny afternoon in Mirpur. It’s the
File photo: Chandrapaul Hemraj plays away to the leg side © CPL T20/Getty Images Guyana Amazon Warriors 136 for 1 (Hemraj 105*) beat Barbados Royals 130 all out (Khan 28, Tahir 3-34) by nine wickets Guyana Amazon Warriors opening batter Chandrapaul Hemraj scored his maiden T20 ton to cap a nine-wicket demolition of the woeful
Roston Chase and Faf du Plessis led St Lucia Kings’ charge © CPL T20/ Getty Images St Lucia Kings 224 for 2 (du Plessis 120*, Chase 64*, Fawad 1-23) beat St Kitts & Nevis Patriots 124 (Lewis 73, Paul 3-23, Joseph 3-27) by 100 runs Faf du Plessis‘ first franchise T20 hundred saw the St
“Everyone talks about Afghanistan’s spinners, so one of the specifics of my role is to get people talking more about their fast bowlers” © Hindustan Times via Getty Images Shaun Tait, the former Australia quick who recently signed a five-month deal to be bowling coach with the Afghanistan national team, has also been roped in
Play 01:24 Laxman: Pope looked assured right from the first ball India 191 and 43 for 0 (Rahul 22*, Rohit 20*) trail England 290 (Pope 81, Woakes 50, Yadav 3-76) by 56 runs Ollie Pope and Chris Woakes made their first Test fifties in a year to give England a 99-run first-innings lead at The
Tom Latham took the innings deep but couldn’t pull it off at the end © AFP/Getty Images Before the Bangladesh tour, Tom Latham had last played a T20I in November 2017. Before the Bangladesh trip, Latham had last played a T20 on January 19, 2019, when he cracked 110 off 60 balls for Canterbury against
News The captain for the T20I series will be named by the selection panel later Temba Bavuma, the South Africa limited-overs captain, has been ruled out of the remainder of the ongoing series in Sri Lanka after suffering a fracture in his right thumb during the first ODI on Thursday. In his absence, Keshav Maharaj
News The batter had been omitted from the Caribbean and Bangladesh tours because of failed fitness tests Avishka Fernando, long considered one of Sri Lanka’s finest limited-overs batting prospects, was left out of the squad entirely for Sri Lanka’s first two limited-overs assignments this year (in the Caribbean, and in Bangladesh). The omission wasn’t down
Report Chris Woakes leads England’s charge with ball, India under-par despite rapid fifty from Shardul Thakur England 53 for 3 (Malan 26*, Bumrah 2-15) trail India 191 (Thakur 57, Kohli 50, Woakes 4-55, Robinson 3-38) by 138 runs India were bowled out cheaply on the first day for the second Test in a row but