The PCB and CSA have agreed a Memorandum of Understanding that will increase cricketing ties between the two countries. Pakistan will tour South Africa later this month, filling a void left by India's truncated visit, and the boards have now signalled their intention to cooperate further after a meeting between Najam Sethi, the interim PCB chairman, and the CSA chief executive, Haroon Lorgat, in Abu...
Bopara signs up for BBL
England allrounder Ravi Bopara has signed up to play for the Sydney Sixers in this season's Big Bash League. He will replace Chris Tremlett, who is in England's Ashes squad, for the first part of the tournament. Bopara is part of England's limited-overs teams, putting in a series of impressive displays during the northern summer, but has not played a Test since 2012. He is currently in action in...
Mills confident of youngsters stepping up
Successive ODI series losses in Bangladesh might stretch the optimism of even the most seasoned international captain, but ahead of his first full series at the helm of a youthful side in Sri Lanka, Kyle Mills found cause for positivity in New Zealand's 0-3 result.
Leading the New Zealand team in the absence of Brendon McCullum, Ross Taylor and Kane Williamson, who have been ruled out by either...
'Win series first, blood youth later' - Mathews
Sri Lanka captain Angelo Mathews said his team would aim to secure the three-match ODI series against a depleted New Zealand before entertaining the prospect of blooding young players, despite his team's continuing quest for regeneration. One of the senior batsmen had been rested for each match of the most recent Twenty20 series against South Africa, in order to free a space up for a young player,...
Nov
08
England insist on Ashes cookbook
The leaking of England's minutely detailed dining requirements highlights their attention to details. The days of pies, pizza and pints are long goneAustralia still idly likes to imagine England as a depressing culinary backwater of fish and chips and bacon butties, but if they serve that up for the England cricket team in the forthcoming Test series it could create the greatest Ashes stand-off since...
Sethi committee gets extended run
A two-judge bench of Islamabad High Court heard arguments of the PCB and the petitioners on a judgment passed by Justice Shaukat Aziz Siddiqui before adjourning the case till the first week of December. Till then, the bench said, the Najam Sethi-run Interim Management Committee in the PCB could continue to function. The PCB is appealing the judgment passed by Justice Siddiqui that called for fresh...
Another century for Aparajith
Tamil Nadu 294 for 3 (Badrinath 126*, Aparajith 118) v Madhya PradeshScorecard Nineteen-year-old B Aparajith struck another hundred, his fourth in five matches, and along with Tamil Nadu veteran S Badrinath, took the team to a commanding position on the first day against Madhya Pradesh in Indore. While Aparajith fell for 118 ten balls before stumps, Badrinath was unbeaten on a patient 126 after...
Warne critical of Clarke's off-field role
Australia's captain Michael Clarke must improve as a leader off the field and redouble his efforts to create a happier team environment during the forthcoming Ashes series, Shane Warne has said. In a significant departure from usually glowing support of his "best friend", Warne has conceded the national team lapsed into an insular mode that recalled the doomed England teams of the 1990s under Clarke's...
Nov
07
Houghton gets role in Somerset restructuring
Somerset have moved to strengthen their coaching structure by bringing in Dave Houghton, the former Zimbabwe captain and Derbyshire's batting coach for the last two seasons, and promoting Jason Kerr to assist with the bowlers. Andy Hurry will no longer deal with the first team, moving into the role of high performance director, with responsibility for players coming through the academy and 2nd XI....
Mills pleased with NZ's T20 comeback
New Zealand captain Kyle Mills said he was happy with the manner in which his team had overcome Bangladesh's aggressive charge in the only Twenty20 between the two sides in Mirpur. New Zealand won the game by 15 runs their first on this tour after they drew the Test series 0-0 and lost the ODI series 3-0. "I think we were on the front foot from ball one," Mills said. "To post 204 runs, I think the...
SL coach race down to Atapattu and Mark Davis
Poll Who do you want as Sri Lanka coach? Sri Lanka have narrowed down the choices for the successor to national coach Graham Ford to two - former Sri Lanka captain Marvan Atapattu and little-known Mark Davis, who is part of Sussex's coaching staff. An SLC release said that a panel appointed by the executive committee had interviewed four candidates - three Sri Lankans and one foreigner...
England's career 12th man
Jonny Bairstow appears to have lost the ebullience that initially won England over and now faces another trying time carrying the drinks on tourIf Jonny Bairstow did not already suspect that he will be extending his role as England's drinks waiter throughout the Ashes series, he will no longer be able to suppress the thought. While Michael Carberry produced the sort of innings designed to cement his...
Nov
06
Watson not yet ruled out of Gabba Test
Shane Watson may yet play in the opening Ashes Test after scans showed his hamstring injury was only a low-grade strain, but his chances depend on how he responds to "intense treatment and rehabilitation" over the coming days. Watson suffered the injury while bowling during Australia's final ODI in India on Saturday, less than three weeks before the Gabba Test. His availability in Brisbane will have...
NZ players need better coaching - Siddons
Jamie Siddons, the former Bangladesh coach who is now in charge of Wellington, has questioned whether coaching standards in New Zealand are up to providing players, particularly batsmen, for the national side who can cope in alien conditions. After New Zealand suffered a second ODI whitewash against Bangladesh, Siddons suggested that the team's overall skill levels were not high enough. Siddons was...
Former Madras seamer Mohan Rai dies
Mohan Rai, the former Madras and South Zone fast bowler, died on Monday in Mangalore aged 80, after a brief illness. Rai played 24 first-class matches between 1955 and 1963, taking 52 wickets in 24 games with a best of 4 for 27, and scored 373 runs. He also played for South Zone against the visiting New Zealanders in 1955-56. VV Kumar, the former India legspinner and state team-mate, said Rai was...
A superficial face-saver
CSA were left with a significant hole - fixture-wise and financially - after the reduced India visit and while Pakistan's tour will help in some respects it is another series without much meaningContests without context, rather than dwindling Test crowds or a glut of Twenty20s in a seven-week window called the IPL, will be the death of cricket simply because there are so many. Another has been announced,...
Nov
05
Kerrigan withdrawn from EPP tour
Simon Kerrigan, the Lancashire spinner who endured a nightmare England debut during the summer's fifth Ashes Test, has been withdrawn from the Performance Programme tour of Australia in order to work on his bowling at home. Although he will officially remain part of the EPP squad, Kerrigan will undertake a programme of development drawn up by Peter Such, the ECB's spin coach. Kerrigan was due to...
Du Plessis insists he's not a cheat
South Africa batsman Faf du Plessis has described himself as a "morally good person" who does not want to be associated with cheating in his first public comment since the ball-tampering episode that took place during the second Test against Pakistan in Dubai last month. South Africa had five penalty runs awarded against them and the ball was changed after the 30th over of Pakistan's second innings,...
'Even-bouncing wicket' at Eden Gardens
Amid reports that Eden Gardens is likely to roll out a low and slow pitch for the first Test against West Indies starting on Wednesday, chief groundsman Prabir Mukherjee has said stroke-making won't be too difficult. "It will be a good, firm, even-bouncing wicket, so that the [batsmen] will be able to play their shots," Mukherjee told ESPNcricinfo. Eden Gardens has had a lot of rain in the lead-up...
Hales given IPL green light
England batsman Alex Hales has been cleared to play in the Indian Premier League after extending his contract with Nottinghamshire until 2016. According to the new deal, Hales will be granted time off to play in the next three seasons of the IPL, which clashes with the first few weeks of the county season, subject to him securing a contract in excess of $400,000 per year. Hales, who has played...
Nov
04
Warne attacks Ponting, Cook
Shane Warne has accused Ricky Ponting of being motivated by "jealousy" in criticising his Australian captaincy successor Michael Clarke, while also asserting that Alastair Cook will risk losing the Ashes for England should he continue to lead in a "negative" manner. In a typically showstopping stream of opinions ahead of Australia's return bout with England, Warne leapt to the defence of his "best...
This win better than 4-0 - Mushfiqur
Bangladesh captain Mushfiqur Rahim rated the 3-0 whitewash against New Zealand slightly ahead of their 4-0 win over the same opponents in 2010. He believed the win this time was evidence of Bangladesh's progress and at the same time argued it is harder to follow up on a previously high achievement. The home side won three close matches last time New Zealand visited, but in the current three-match...
Pakistan's proposed tour to South Africa scrapped
The plans for Pakistan's proposed limited-overs tour of South Africa in November have been scrapped due to the PCB's ongoing legal existential crisis that has prevented them from making a commitment to the tour. The short series was planned during a two-week window in November after the two sides wrap up their current bilateral series in the UAE on November 15. The PCB currently has no board chairman...
Saker wants bowlers under pressure
A hailstorm, heavy rain and temperatures about 20 degrees lower than Perth greeted England's cricketers as they arrived in Hobart for the second leg of their Ashes warm-up. The players were quick to take to Twitter to say how much it felt like home - and bemoan not packing a few warmer clothes - and for England's bowlers the feeling of something more familiar is likely to extend a bit further than...
Nov
03
Najam Sethi hits out at Islamabad High Court in editorial
Najam Sethi, the suspended PCB chairman, has attributed the Pakistan board's ongoing existential crisis to "extraordinary judicial intervention". He wrote an op-ed in the Friday Times, the weekly newspaper of which he is editor-in-chief, questioning the Islamabad High Court's (IHC) rulings by which two chairmen have been suspended in past five months, leaving the board's administration in a state...
McCullum heads home with back trouble
Brendon McCullum, the New Zealand captain, is returning home immediately after being ruled out of the final two matches of the Bangladesh tour with "significant" pain from a long-standing back problem. McCullum had already been withdrawn from the forthcoming short tour to Sri Lanka, alongside Ross Taylor, so that he could play some domestic first-class cricket in preparation for the Test series against...
Rohit takes strides towards consistency
Since moving to the top of the order, Rohit Sharma has become a more reliable cog in India's one-day set up, and that was on show in this seriesClint McKay was at the top of his run-up, ready to bowl, but he had to wait. And wait. Rohit Sharma had already punched the air in jubilation, hugged his captain MS Dhoni, soaked up the applause of the euphoric crowd and was walking towards the batting crease....
Bangladesh opt to field, Tamim out
Toss Bangladesh chose to bowl v New ZealandLive scorecard and ball-by-ball details Bangladesh captain Mushfiqur Rahim won the toss and decided to field in the third and final ODI against New Zealand at the Fatullah Cricket Stadium, the first international game at the ground since April 2006. New Zealand made four changes. Brendon McCullum returned home with a back injury while James Neesham,...
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