Big Picture: Pollard and Sam Curran to the fore Desert Vipers and MI Emirates. The top two teams in this ILT20 season will meet again in the final in Dubai on Sunday. Vipers have had a chance to put their feet up for four days after overpowering MI Emirates in Qualifier 1 in Abu Dhabi…
Shubman Gill will return as ODI captain and Shreyas Iyer, subject to fitness clearance, will be the vice-captain for India’s three-match ODI series against New Zealand at home starting January 11. Mohammed Siraj also returns to the 15-man squad, while Hardik Pandya is being rested. Gill had missed the South Africa ODI series because of…
Jack Brassell is just 20, has played nine ODIs and 18 T20Is, and will be leading the fast-bowling attack with the relatively more experienced 25-year-old Ben Shikongo, who has played 23 ODIs and 40 T20Is and was one of the stars of Namibia’s win over Tanzania in the qualifying match that put them in the…
Shubman Gill’s return to the Vijay Hazare Trophy has been delayed after he was forced to miss Saturday’s clash against Sikkim due to a bout of food poisoning. Gill arrived in Jaipur on Friday afternoon and was expected to feature in the fifth round of matches. However, a decision was taken to rest him in…
“Due to the recent developments which is going on all across, BCCI has instructed the franchise KKR to release one of their players, Mustafizur Rahman of Bangladesh, from their squad and BCCI has also said that if they ask for any replacement, BCCI is going to allow that replacement,” Devajit Saikia, the BCCI secretary, told…
Australia have kept the door open for carrying Pat Cummins through the early stages of the T20 World Cup if it allows him to play a role later in the tournament, in a similar manner to how they kept an injured Travis Head part of the 2023 ODI World Cup, which enabled him to have…
Big Picture: New year, new beginnings? Had you canvassed England’s touring fans back in November (and bearing in mind the horrors they have witnessed in Australia over the past 15 years) it’s hard to imagine many would have been truly gutted at the prospect of a 3-2 Ashes defeat. At the very least, that scoreline…
Steven Smith has recalled playing against Usman Khawaja in age-group cricket and knowing then itself how good a player he would become, as he praised a “wonderful career” ahead of Khawaja’s final Test, in the Ashes finale at the SCG. Khawaja’s retirement marks the start of a transition in an ageing Australia Test team, although…
Pakistan will tour Bangladesh twice in three months after the PCB scheduled the Pakistan Super League during the March-April window. Pakistan will play three ODIs against Bangladesh in March, before returning to Bangladesh for two Tests in May. This was part of the BCB’s unprecedented announcement on Friday, that included several home series scheduled for…
Bangladesh are banking on their tried-and-tested players of the last two years in their squad for the upcoming Under-19 World Cup. Azizul Hakim will lead the side that has played the most Youth ODIs since the last World Cup held in 2024. He has Zawad Abrar as his deputy, with the two the only batters…