Issy Wong has entered the fray, claiming it’s not a terrible time to take on Australia Women with their multi-format series starting next month. England have fired the first shots, or attempted to, in time-honored tradition before of the men’s Ashes. Wong made her debut in all three forms during South Africa’s tour of England […]
David Willey has been replaced by Kedar Jadhav for the balance of the IPL 2023 by Royal Challengers Bangalore due to injury. Jadhav was purchased for INR 1 crore (about USD 122,300). In RCB’s home loss to Kolkata Knight Riders on Wednesday, Willey was struck on the toe while batting. Since then, he has taken […]
57 sixes and 56 fours since his 2019 IPL debut. His fours tally is the highest among Indian batsmen with at least 500 runs in the competition. Only Kieron Pollard, Andre Russell, Nicholas Pooran, Shimron Hetmyer, and Liam Livingstone have hit more sixes than fours for this condition in the IPL. One-third of Dube’s sixes […]
Pakistan allrounder Iftikhar Ahmed will replace batsman Haris Sohail for the final three ODIs against New Zealand. Sohail had a shoulder injury before the first ODI, and while the PCB said initial tests were good, he did not play in the second game on Sunday. For a January series against New Zealand, Sohail, 34, returned […]
Kapil Dev, Virender Sehwag, Harbhajan Singh, Irfan Pathan, and Shikha Pandey became the first cricketers to speak out against India’s best wrestlers’ calls for Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh’s firing. Singh is accused of sexually abusing and exploiting female wrestlers for a decade. The Delhi Police began investigating Singh’s claims on Friday afternoon, a week after […]
Ireland lost by an innings, however they batted for over two days, scored almost 700 runs, and played into the fifth day. After the second Test in Galle, captain Andy Balbirnie said this was an encouraging result given the circumstances. Ireland competed for most of the second Test after losing the opening three days. After […]
I got a random notion on Cubbon Road in Bengaluru at six o’clock on Wednesday. Diego Maradona’s Naples? Every shirt in front of me says 18 VIRAT. Someone tries to sell me a cheap Royal Challengers Bangalore jersey with the identical print every ten meters. His warm-up appearance confirmed who the 40,000 Chinnaswamy Stadium supporters […]
Smriti Mandhana, Harmanpreet Kaur, and Deepti Sharma are new Grade A yearly retainers for 2022-23. The legspinner Poonam Yadav, who had been placed in the highest bracket when the central contracts were last made public in May 2021 (for the period October 2020-September 2021), drops out, along with retired Mithali Raj and Jhulan Goswami, who […]
After a doping ban, Zubayr Hamza will play for South Africa A in Sri Lanka in June. Last year, Hamza was suspended for nine months after testing positive for a banned drug. According to his testimony to the ICC’s Integrity Unit, Hamza accidentally drank his father’s Furosemide-containing heart medication. Hamza played four South African first-class […]
Former India head coach Ravi Shastri stated that Mumbai Indians batsman Suryakumar Yadav needs to be a bit more patient early in his innings in order to break out of his rut in the Indian Premier League (IPL). Suryakumar is the top-ranked Twenty20 batter in the world, but he has struggled recently and was dismissed […]
