Mohammad Abbas, the Pakistan Test seamer, has agreed to join Derbyshire as one of their overseas players, signing a two-year contract that covers the 2026 and 2027 seasons. Abbas has built an impressive record in red-ball county cricket with Leicestershire, Hampshire and Nottinghamshire, whom he helped to the Championship title last summer. He will be…
Prashant Veer, a 20-year old left-arm spin allrounder from Uttar Pradesh, and Kartik Sharma, a 19-year old wicketkeeper from Rajasthan, have smashed the record for the most expensive uncapped Indian player ever signed at an IPL auction, with Chennai Super Kings bidding a whopping INR 14.2 crore for each of them at the IPL 2026…
Anrich Nortje was just about finishing his pre-match media press conference ahead of South Africa’s fourth T20I against India in Lucknow when he received word that the city is also his new IPL home. Nortje was picked up by Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) in the IPL mini-auction for his base price of 2 crore (US$220,000…
Australian allrounder Cameron Green has been bought by Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) for INR 25.20 crore ($2.8 million) – making him the third most expensive player sold at an IPL auction, and the most expensive overseas player ever. KKR, who began the auction with the largest purse of INR 64.3 crore, had to stave off…
Harnoor, Arora fifties and Ramndeep’s cameo helped Punjab bounced back from two defeats; Venkatesh Iyer’s fifty went in vain Source link
Big picture – Can India close out series in Lucknow? If this tour followed the points system from the women’s Ashes – four points for a Test win and two for winning limited-overs games – South Africa would be leading India by 12 points to eight. If we look at it like that, while one…
Players from both Australia and England will wear black armbands at the third Ashes Test match at Adelaide Oval this week to commemorate the victims of Sunday’s shooting at Sydney’s Bondi Beach. Fifteen people died and many others sustained injuries after gunmen opened fire on crowds gathered in Sydney’s eastern suburbs to mark the first…
Shoaib Akhtar wants to pass on a few tricks to Bangladeshi fast bowlers in his first stint in the Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) as a mentor, with Dhaka Capitals. This will also be Akhtar’s first stint as a member of the support staff in the T20 franchise circuit. “I’ve never been part of the BPL…
Big picture: Stokes cries havoc, but is it too late as Cummins returns? The gloves are off, the dogs are unleashed, the battle is joined… or so England must fervently hope. At the third time of asking, there can be no more false dawns for an Ashes campaign that began with an optimism unparalleled for…
Usman Khawaja has been left out of the third Test in Adelaide, raising the prospect of him having played his final match for Australia, with Australia’s selectors backing the positive approach brought by the Jake Weatherald-Travis Head pairing. As expected, captain Pat Cummins and offspinner Nathan Lyon return to the side at the expense of…