While football, rugby and judo have had players who received UAE citizenship following a presidential decree in 2018, cricket in the UAE has largely been played by expatriates who qualify to represent the country by satisfying the ICC’s eligibility criteria of having resided in the country for three years. Now, these five cricketers can play…
Peter Siddle, the former Australia seamer, has pulled out of this summer’s Vitality Blast stint with Notts Outlaws, due to personal circumstances. Siddle, 41, had been due to return to Trent Bridge for the entirety of the Blast this summer, having previously appeared for Nottinghamshire in the County Championship 12 years ago. On that occasion…
There was no change in the order of the top ten on the run-scorers’ table, but GT’s Shubman Gill, courtesy his 14 in 13 balls, did get a little bit closer to Heinrich Klaasen of Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) at the top. Klaasen leads with 283 runs. Gill, who had a shot at getting back to…
On the three occasions Chahar had opened the bowling, Bumrah had bowled the second overs – and the fifth and fourth on the other occasions. It’s still opening the bowling if you send down the second over, you’d think, but overs work differently in T20s these days. The second over is quite different from the…
The core of that batting line-up hasn’t changed from IPL 2025. Shubman Gill, B Sai Sudharsan and Jos Buttler are the top three. Phillips is new, Sherfane Rutherford is gone. But Shahrukh and Tewatia were there last year and are still there. Last season, Shahrukh scored 179 runs at a strike rate of 179.00 –…
Hardik dismissed Jos Buttler with the ball and was part of an 81-run stand with Tilak Varma earlier in the evening to snap a four-match losing streak in IPL 2026. Tilak was the star of the show. His 45-ball 101* allowed MI to score a hefty 73 runs in the final four overs and helped…
New Zealand 198 (Kelly 83, Abbas 19, Rana 5-32) v Bangladesh Nahid Rana’s five-wicket haul gave Bangladesh a great chance to level the series, as they bowled out New Zealand for 198 runs in 48.4 overs. This was Rana’s second five-wicket haul in as many ODI series, after he had taken 5 for 24 against…
Former Afghanistan left-arm fast bowler Shapoor Zadran is suffering from Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis (HLH), a rare, life-threatening disease, in which the immune system starts failing. Shapoor, who will turn 39 in July, has an advance form of HLH and is currently battling for life in the intensive care unit of a New Delhi hospital, where he…
On Sunday against Lucknow Super Giants (LSG), he hit 87 in 46 balls. It was relegated to second-best by Priyansh Arya, who hit 93 in 37 balls, but Connolly’s contribution in PBKS putting up the highest total of the season so far can’t be overlooked. As is the case with his consistency, which has netted…
PBKS’ Cooper Connolly is also on the rise after recording his second big score of the season – 87 in 46 balls. He is in sixth place with 223 runs, the same as RR’s Yashasvi Jaiswal, who scored 39 against KKR. Connolly’s partner-in-crime from Sunday, Priyansh Arya has also breached the 200-run mark – taking…