The PCB will conduct dope tests for its players during the Faysal Bank T-20, which begins in Lahore on December 1, in accordance with World Anti-Doping Authority (WADA) regulations. "The PCB is introducing in-competition dope testing during the Twenty20 tournament in order to strive for drug-free sports and to protect the basic framework for the athletes," the board said in a statement. "Cricketers...
Nehra fit to play against Haryana
Medium-pacer Ashish Nehra has been declared fit to play in Delhi's Ranji Trophy group match against Haryana, which begins in Lahli, a town outside Rohtak, on Saturday. Delhi coach Vijay Dahiya said Nehra had bowled for an hour and fielded during a training session, and was looking in good condition. Nehra played two of Delhi's four Ranji games so far - the season opener against Uttar Pradesh in...
Rohit and Tiwary's shared goal
Results from Group A will be watched closely in the latest round of the Ranji Trophy, given the difference between seven of the nine teams that are part of it is a maximum of two points. That's the margin that separates Mumbai and Bengal ahead of their clash at the Brabourne Stadium on Saturday, and an outright result may trigger a churning in the points table. Not much separates the two protagonists...
Tuskers pull off impressive chase in dramatic game
Matabeleland Tuskers 216 (Muzhange 4-73) and 346 for 7 (Williams 118, Coventry 106*) beat Mid West Rhinos 65 (Querl 5-24, Meth 4-24) and 491 (Waller 208*, Taylor 140) by three wicketsScorecard Mid West Rhinos, riding on a double-century from Malcolm Waller and a hundred from Brendan Taylor, made the highest total of the match at Kwekwe Sports Club but still lost to Matabeleland Tuskers because...
Nov
30
MCC Universities allrounder Hardman dies
Tom Hardman, an allrounder with Leeds/Bradford MCCU, has died aged 21. Hardman, who had been part of Lancashire's academy and played second-XI cricket for the county, was found dead at his house in Leeds on Wednesday afternoon. His death is not being treated as suspicious by police. Hardman played in two first-class matches, against Surrey and Yorkshire last season, and had been named as Leeds/Bradford...
We believed we could cause an upset - Anderson
James Anderson has said a desire to prove their critics wrong was at the heart of England's improved performance in the second Test in Mumbai. Anderson, a member of the team that was beaten by nine wickets at Ahmedabad before winning by 10 wickets in Mumbai, accepted that England had "slipped up" in the first Test but felt that the motivation to "prove a point" had inspired them in the second. "The...
Smith wins toss, bats at WACA
South Africa's captain Graeme Smith won the toss and chose to bat first against Australia in the series-deciding third Test in Perth. The visitors made three changes, bringing in Dean Elgar, Robin Peterson and Vernon Philander for Imran Tahir, Jacques Rudolph and Rory Kleinveldt. Australia welcomed back the vice-captain and allrounder Shane Watson after injury, while also calling in a completely...
Windies bat, four debutants for Bangladesh
Toss West Indies chose to bat v BangladeshLive scorecard and ball-by-ball details West Indies chose to bat in the first game of the five-match ODI series against Bangladesh. Their squad for the limited-overs contests has been modified. Lendl Simmons will open the batting, Devon Thomas will keep wicket, allrounder Andre Russell comes back and so does Kemar Roach, who missed the Test series against...
Nov
29
New fielding rules hard on spinners, captains
Kieron Pollard, the West Indians' stand-in captain for the warm-up game against BCB XI in Khulna, has said the new playing conditions for fielding restrictions in ODIs were challenging for bowlers and captains. West Indies and Bangladesh will be the third and fourth teams to experience the amended playing conditions when they begin the five-ODI series on November 30. "It was very challenging," Pollard...
Bahawalpur new addition to Faysal Bank T-20
The PCB has announced a new format and a new team for its domestic Twenty20 tournament, and created a window for it in the 2012-13 season by indefinitely pushing back the President Trophy final, which was scheduled to begin on December 3. Bahawalpur is the new team in the T20 competition. The Faysal Bank T-20 Cup will begin on December 1 and its final will be on December 9, and it will be held entirely...
Tredwell to join England squad
James Trewell, the Kent offspinner, will fly out to India and join up with the England Test squad on December 1. The 30-year-old Tredwell, who was appointed captain of Kent earlier this month, was not selected as part of the England Performance Programme - who are currently in India playing their first match on tour - but he will join the Test squad as back-up for the first choice spinners, Monty...
England role was unsustainable says Flower
Andy Flower, who has relinquished his day-to-day involvement with England's one-day side, has admitted that he found the conflicting demands of his coaching role "unsustainable" as he agonised over his need to contribute to a family life with his wife and three young children. Flower, according to an estimate from England's managing director of cricket, Hugh Morris, has spent around 60% of his life...
Nov
28
Southee happy to hunt wickets with Boult
Unlike Sri Lanka's attack, New Zealand's has supported their spearhead effectively at the P Sara Oval. Their spearhead, Tim Southee, has claimed another heavy haul in Colombo, after his four wickets in the first innings in Galle, and he has attributed this to the others in the attack. Southee had removed Tillakaratne Dilshan and Kumar Sangakkara on the second evening, and he dismissed Angelo Mathews...
Stop questioning Nehra's absence, says Dahiya
Delhi are now at the halfway stage of their Ranji Trophy campaign and are looking for outright victories in two of their four remaining games. Central to their chances of progressing to the quarters is the fitness of their most experienced and skillful bowler, left-arm swing man Ashish Nehra. An injury to Nehra's hamstring meant he bowled only six overs in Delhi's previous Ranji game against Baroda...
'An amazing but harrowing day'
Lahli in Haryana is a village 14 km from Rohtak, which is a further 70km from Delhi, the nearest city you can trust an average cricket fan in India to know of. It is cold there these days. Temperatures have begun to fall to a low of single digits. On Tuesday, though, two Ranji teams warmed the place up with frenetic action. Fourteen wickets fell in the space of 30 overs and 81 runs, a total of...
Broad's Test place in the balance
David Saker, the England bowling coach, has admitted Stuart Broad's performance in Mumbai "wasn't up to scratch" and provided the biggest hint yet that he will struggle to keep his place in the team for the third Test in Kolkata. Broad has yet to take a wicket in the Test series against India and, since the start of June, has taken 11 Test wickets, eight of those at Headingley against South Africa,...
Nov
27
Sri Lanka not worried about following on - Herath
Sri Lanka may have lost three of the four most prolific batsmen in their side on the second evening at the P Sara, but Rangana Herath says Sri Lanka will give little thought to avoiding the follow on. New Zealand made 412 in their first innings, with Ross Taylor and Kane Williamson both making hundreds, but Tillakaratne Dilshan, Kumar Sangakkara and Mahela Jayawardene could only manage nine among...
Championship returns to late September in 2013
County cricket will return to the latter half of September in 2013, with the fixture list confirming that the window in the ICC's Future Tours Programme reserved for the T20 Champions League will not be kept free. The final round of the Championship will begin on September 24, 2013, meaning that the season will not be subject to the record early starts of recent years. For the last three seasons,...
Pressure on Sri Lanka - Williamson
On a surface that even New Zealand's tail made seem friendly, three of Sri Lanka's big four batsmen could not manage better than single figures, and Kane Williamson said the value of those wickets could not be understated, given the pitch remained good for batting. New Zealand amassed 412 on the P Sara surface, thanks in the main to a 262-run partnership between Ross Taylor and Williamson, which...
Punjab continue relentless march
Punjab 205 (Jiwanjot 61, Trivedi 5-64) and 120 for 2 (Goel 75*) beat Saurashtra 90 (Sandeep 7-25) and 233 (Jogiyani 76, S Kaul 6-63) by eight wicketsScorecard A solid all-round showing from Punjab on Monday helped them ease past Saurashtra by eight wickets in Mohali with over a day to spare, and record their third win in four games in the Ranji Trophy this season. While medium pacer Siddarth Kaul...
Nov
26
Asnodkar century gives Goa advantage
Kerala 47 for 1 trail Goa 512 for 8 dec (Kamat 107, Asnodkar 100*, Shahid 4-147) by 465 runsScorecard An unbeaten century from Rohit Asnodkar, batting at No. 7, and useful lower-order contributions led Goa to a strong first-innings total against Kerala in Malappuram. Overnight batsman Ravikant Shukla scored 87 and Asnodkar made his maiden first-class century in his 13th match. Goa declared on 512...
Murad spins Khulna to big win
Khulna Division 367 (Imran 156, Kayes 62, Haque 4-145) and 8 for 0 beat Sylhet Division 244 (Imtiaz 108, Mabud 43, Razzak 3-65) and 130 (Ahmed 41, Murad 6-64) by ten wicketsScorecard Khulna Division have taken a big lead in the National Cricket League after they crushed Sylhet Division by ten wickets in Rangpur. Sylhet narrowly avoided an innings defeat as Left-arm spinner Murad Khan took six wickets...
Ontong, Vilas lead Cape Cobras to tight win
Cape Cobras 246 for 3 (Vilas 78*, van Zyl 57, Ontong 52*) beat Lions 245 for 5 (Cook 59, Morris 49*, Bodi 43) by seven wicketsScorecard and ball-by-ball details An unbeaten 85-run partnership between Dane Vilas and Justin Ontong in 8.2 overs took Cape Cobras to a seven-wicket win against Lions with one over to spare in a tight chase in a 37-overs-a-side contest Potchefstroom. After a wet outfield...
Du Plessis and de Villiers keep stonewalling
Lunch South Africa 388 and 4 for 126 (du Plessis 49*, de Villiers 31*) need another 304 runs to beat Australia 550 and 8 for 267 decLive scorecard and ball-by-ball details Faf du Plessis and AB de Villiers gave South Africa hope of salvaging a draw at Adelaide Oval, where they stone-walled until lunch on the fifth day and left Australia needing six wickets in the final two sessions. Runs were...
Nov
25
Chand and Dhawan score centuries
Delhi 287 for 1 (Chand 134*, Dhawan 104) v Tamil NaduScorecard Unmukt Chand is one of many prodigies almost mysteriously produced by Delhi cricket. Now only 19, he has already played 16 first-class games since his debut in 2010. That his second century came in his 17th match brought relief to the young man. In this Ranji season Chand must, at double speed, graduate from being India's under-19...
Best jumps hurdles to hurt Bangladesh
West Indies fast bowler Tino Best is having a fruitful Test series in Bangladesh. On the fourth day in Khulna, he once again blew away the hosts' top order, but not through raw pace alone, like he had in Mirpur. Best bowled only ten overs in the first innings, after aggravating a hamstring injury that has been troubling him since his county stint with Yorkshire in 2010. Having undergone a scan on...
Muzumdar, Sumanth shine for Andhra again
Andhra 118 for 4 (Muzumdar 60*, Sumanth 41) trail Jammu and Kashmir 153 (Sahabuddin 5-53) by 35 runsScorecard A five-wicket haul by Andhra fast bowler Syed Sahabuddin helped his team take a stranglehold against Jammu and Kashmir in Jammu. After Andhra bowled the hosts out for 153, middle-order batsmen Amol Muzumdar and B Sumanth put on another century partnership, their third in a row, to rescue...
Hussey pushes Australia's lead past 350
Lunch Australia 550 and 7 for 206 (Hussey 54, Wade 13*, Pattinson 0*) lead South Africa 388 by 368 runsLive scorecard and ball-by-ball details A half-century from Michael Hussey stretched Australia's lead to 368 on the fourth day in Adelaide, where South Africa will need to complete a record chase to claim victory. The Australians added 95 to their overnight total before lunch for the loss of...
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