SA vs IND: Shreyas Iyer will be hard to ignore for the first Test in Centurion.© AFP Ex-Team India cricketer Wasim Jaffer took to social media and gave his suggestions in relation to the Indian cricket team’s composition for the South Africa Test series, ahead of the first match from December 26 at the SuperSport
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Eoin Morgan will captain the England for the West Indies T20I series.© AFP Eoin Morgan will captain England’s five-match T20 tour to the West Indies next month under stand-in coach Paul Collingwood. With the Ashes Test series in Australia set to end just four days before the first clash between the sides in Barbados, Collingwood
Harnoor Singh scored a century© Twitter/ACC Harnoor Singh struck a fine hundred before the Indian bowlers ran through the opposition to complete a 154-run rout of UAE in their opening U19 Asia Cup match on Thursday. Put in to bat, India put up 282 for five, courtesy Harnoor’s 120 off 130 balls and skipper Yash Dhull’s
File picture of Jasprit Bumrah and Mohammed Shami.© AFP The first Test of the three-match series between India and South Africa is set to start from Sunday at the SuperSport Park in Centurion. The Indian team is already in South Africa and has been training hard ahead of the much-awaited series. Indian pacers Jasprit Bumrah
Tom Latham was named as New Zealand captain for the Bangladesh Test series after regular skipper Kane Williamson was ruled out with an elbow injury, New Zealand Cricket announced on Wednesday. In another major development, wicketkeeper-batter Devon Conway returned to the squad after recovering from an injury that kept him away from the India tour.
The Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA) is keen to have former India captain Dilip Vengsarkar as the ‘mentor’ for its Ranji Trophy team in the upcoming season, which begins in January. The move comes after domestic giants Mumbai performed miserably in both the white-ball tournaments — Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy and Vijay Hazare Trophy — under
Tim Southee weighed in on Virat Kohli’s role only as a batter or fielder for Team India.© AFP New Zealand pacer Tim Southee has been playing international cricket for more than a decade. He comes in with an experience of playing all formats for his country and different franchises all around the world. Even in
Himachal Pradesh rode on a stroke-filed 99 by Prashant Chopra as they stunned Uttar Pradesh by five wickets to storm into the semi-finals of the Vijay Hazare Trophy on Tuesday. First, despite a 76 by Rinku Singh, UP could only manage 207/9 as the Himachal bowlers, led by pacer Vinay Galetiya (3/19), ripped apart the opposition
Former England batter and coach David Lloyd on Tuesday announced his retirement from commentary. Lloyd was employed with Sky Sports and he was popularly known as ‘Bumble’ by his colleagues. While announcing his decision, Lloyd said that the commentary box feels a little emptier following the departure of David Gower, Ian Botham and Michael Holding.
Australian men’s cricketers Alex Carey and Wes Agar and women stars Ashleigh Gardner and Maitlan Brown put their cooking skills to test as they competed in a “Big BBQ Bash Challenge”. Wicketkeeper-batter Carey and pacer Agar can be seen sporting the jersey of their Big Bash League (BBL) team Adelaide Strikers while Gardner and Brown
Australia batter Steve Smith Australia stand-in skipper Steve Smith on Monday had some words of advice for his English counterpart Joe Root, who has had troubles with the captaincy in the ongoing Ashes. Jhye Richardson scalped five wickets in the second innings as Australia defeated England by 275 runs in the second Ashes Test. With
Australia beat England by 275 runs to win the second Ashes Test at Adelaide on Sunday and take a 2-0 series lead going into Sunday’s Boxing Day Test in Melbourne. Here, AFP Sport looks at what we learned from the day-night clash: Selection blunders The sight of paceman Ollie Robinson bowling off-spin with his sunglasses
Ashes: Joe Root shatters multiple Test cricket records as England captain.© AFP England skipper Joe Root on Sunday became England’s highest run-scorer in Test cricket as captain, surpassing Sir Alastair Cook in the elite list. Root achieved this feat during Day 4 of the ongoing second Ashes Test against Australia at the Adelaide Oval. Cook
Cheteshwar Pujara will hope to recover his form with the bat in South Africa.© AFP India batter Cheteshwar Pujara is hoping to recover his form with the bat when the three-match Test series in South Africa starts later this month. India will face the Proteas in three Tests starting with the opening match in Centurion
Jhye Richardson was in amazing form during Day 4 of the ongoing 2nd Ashes Test.© AFP Australian pacer Jhye Richardson on Sunday said that Nathan Lyon had a big role in setting up England skipper Joe Root before Mitchell Starc got the prized scalp on Day 4 of the ongoing second Ashes Test. Root was
Ashes: Joe Root did not take the field after being hit in the abdomen during warm-up.© AFP Just before start of play of Day 4 in the ongoing second Ashes Test against Australia in Adelaide, England suffered a massive blow as skipper Joe Root was hit in the abdomen during throw downs in the warm-up
The West Indies team’s senior selection panel will be recruited starting January.© AFP St John’s : Cricket West Indies (CWI) on Saturday announced that it will commence a recruitment process for the new men’s selection panel in January. The recruitment will replace lead selector Roger Harper and fellow selector Miles Bascombe, whose contracts will not be
BCCI’s chief medical officer Abhijit Salvi resigned© AFP BCCI’s chief medical officer Abhijit Salvi has resigned due to personal reasons. Salvi told PTI on Saturday that his notice period ended on November 30 but he carried on till the end of the second Test between India and New Zealand on December 7. His role had