Five-time IPL champions Mumbai Indians have not made a final since 2020 but their head coach Mahela Jayawardene downplayed the significance of that gap, insisting their focus remains on process and culture rather than results. “To be honest, every year we want to win, so it’s not about the gap,” Jayawardene said on the eve…
Phil Salt put in an electric shift in the field to restrict SRH from scoring more. His sharp catches sent Kishan and Klaasen packing Source link
Jasprit Bumrah has joined the Mumbai Indians (MI) squad and is available for their opening match against Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) at the Wankhede on Sunday, according to head coach Mahela Jayawardene. He had missed MI’s training session on Friday but was present on Saturday, the eve of the game against KKR. Bumrah came on…
Ashwin, who retired from international cricket in December 2024 and then from the IPL at the end of the 2025 season after a lukewarm return to Chennai Super Kings, recently played an exhibition match in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. “Just looking at the reception that the Asian diaspora was able to bring for that game…
CA’s trial injury substitute rule has been in place for the entire season with players able to be replaced for any injury in the first half of the match. The rule has only been used seven times across the course of the season but it faced it’s biggest test on day three of the final….
The T20I series didn’t go the way South Africa would have wanted, with Amelia Kerr leading New Zealand to a 4-1 win, but Laura Wolvaardt wants to “be a lot better” in the upcoming series of three ODIs, which is crucial keeping in mind qualification for the next ODI World Cup, in 2029. “We’ve had…
The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has accused fast bowler Naseem Shah of “violating the terms of his central contract” and issued him with a show-cause notice after a post on his X account, later deleted, appeared to criticise the Chief Minister of Punjab, Maryam Nawaz. A statement from the PCB said it would determine any…
Glamorgan have signed Afghanistan’s Fazalhaq Farooqi for the T20 Blast to reinforce their pace-bowling stocks. Farooqi was the joint-highest wicket-taker at the 2024 T20 World Cup and has previously played for Nottinghamshire and Manchester Originals in English cricket. “Fazalhaq comes with a growing reputation as one of the leading bowlers in T20 cricket,” Mark Wallace,…
It is understood that Thushara has failed the fitness test made mandatory by Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC), and has therefore been denied a no-objection certificate (NOC) by his board. Ashley de Silva, the chief executive of SLC, confirmed to ESPNcricinfo on Friday that Thushara had failed to achieve the pass score of 17 out of…
Kingsmen wore a maroon kit, and the colour rubbed off on the white kookaburra ball. The maroon tinge on the ball was visible to the naked eye from the media box as early as the end of the powerplay. Kingsmen captain Marnus Labuschagne, though, had already raised the matter with the umpires by the second…