West Indies A 239 for 6 (Fudadin 103, Kraigg 75, Kaushal 5-94) v Sri Lanka AScorecard Assad Fudadin's fourth first-class hundred helped West Indies A to a strong start in Moratuwa, but a five-wicket haul from the offspinner Tharindu Kaushal dragged the visitors down to 239 for 6 at stumps. Opting to bat, West Indies began brightly as Fudadin and his opening partner Kraigg Brathwaite put up a 137-run...
Disciplinary hearing on RCA postponed again
The BCCI disciplinary committee meeting has been deferred, once again, with none of the three stakeholders of the Rajasthan Cricket Association turning up for the hearing today at the BCCI headquarters. The BCCI had asked the Lalit Modi group, the opposing Amin Pathan faction and the Rajasthan State Sports Council to appear before its disciplinary committee today to discuss the RCA's suspension. ...
Choosing the 'difficult path' pays off for Younis
Younis Khan, the Pakistan batsman, has said he chose the more difficult path by deciding to play the Tests against Australia, after being dropped for the ODIs, and the decision has paid off. Younis had lashed out at the PCB and selectors for dropping him for the one-day series, and challenged them to build a team without him in the mix. However, he was picked for the Tests, and in Dubai he has gone...
Clarke craves time in the middle after tough day
'Pakistan outplayed us in all areas' - Clarke You have to hand it to Michael Clarke, he doesn't shirk responsibility when things go wrong. In a different era, the Australians used to ask then coach Tim Nielsen to answer the hard questions on days like this. "Tough Day Tim", the media called him. But often during Clarke's captaincy he has insisted he front the press when the team has failed,...
Oct
25
VVS Laxman named Bengal batting consultant
VVS Laxman has been named batting consultant by the Cricket Association of Bengal as part of its Vision 2020 project, which aims to help Bengal players progress to the national team. In March, Muttiah Muralitharan had been named as Bengal's spin bowling consultant. "Over the period of next year, I'll be coming here for at least 30 days. We'll work out what's best for myself as well as the youngsters,"...
Brathwaite in West Indies A one-day squad
Opener Kraigg Brathwaite has been named in the West Indies A squad for the one-dayers against Sri Lanka A in the first week of November. West Indies A are currently trailing Sri Lanka A 1-0 after two four-day matches, with the third and final match starting on Saturday. Brathwaite is available for the matches after the West Indies senior team pulled out midway of their India tour earlier this month....
Australia slow on the uptake of the slow
Australia's performances on slow pitches are consistent. And the more they struggle, the more teams will prepare slow surfaces to greet them To Chennai, Hyderabad, Mohali, Delhi, Nottingham, Lord's, Chester-le-Street and Port Elizabeth can now be added Dubai. Not yet in terms of Australia's losing venues over the past 18 months, for they will hold out hope of preventing defeat over the next two...
Yasir Shah makes early impact after long wait
The legspinner made his first-class debut back in 2002, and grabbed his Test chance when it finally came Yasir thrilled with Warne praise Pakistan usually have several quality legspinners in their domestic circuit but it has taken four years for one to reach the national team after the decline of Danish Kaneria. And this time the legspinner has emerged from the northern Pakistani province...
Oct
23
Loughborough becomes fourth bowlers' testing centre
Loughborough University, home of the ECB's national cricket performance centre, has become the fourth accredited testing centre for suspected illegal bowling actions. Loughborough joins Cardiff Metropolitan University, Cricket Australia's national cricket centre in Brisbane and the Sri Ramachandra University in Chennai, which were all announced earlier this month. Testing in Loughborough will be...
South collapse after Uthappa century
South Zone 236 for 9 (Uthappa 120, Shukla 4-30) v East ZoneScorecard On a green surface in Lahli, South Zone were put in to bat, and for three-fourths of the day Robin Uthappa and the top-order kept East Zone at bay. Towards the end of the day though, East sliced through the middle-and lower-order to leave South gasping at 236 for 9. South Zone, packed with eight Karnataka players including the...
Johnson thrives in trying conditions
Mohammad Hafeez must have a masochistic streak. Why else would he have asked for a review in the first over of the series, having just had his toes compressed by a 144kph Mitchell Johnson yorker? Perhaps the pain made him delirious. Whatever the case, the ball was hitting the lower third of middle stump. It was the funniest review since Leonard Maltin wrote that Police Academy 6 was only for those...
Another crisis, another Younis masterclass
Walking in at seven for two, Younis Khan soaked up stifling pressure from Australia's bowlers and emerged with a record-equalling 25th Test hundredYet another failure from Pakistan's openers, and yet another rescue-act hundred from Younis Khan. His 25th hundred not only drew him level with Inzamam-ul-Haq at the top of Pakistan's list of century-makers but also made him Pakistan's only batsman with...
Oct
19
Full coverage of the West Indies payment dispute
On September 19, 2014, following years of often bitter disputes, the WICB and the West Indies Players Association (WIPA) signed a new collective bargaining agreement and memorandum of understanding. The agreement, according to WIPA, was expected to bring "stability" to the system, but on the eve of West Indies' first ODI on a tour to India, one-day captain Dwayne Bravo came out strongly against WIPA...
Taufeeq Umar returns for Australia Tests
Taufeeq Umar, the left-hand opening batsmen, has made a comeback to the Pakistan Test squad for the two-match series against Australia in the UAE. Taufeeq played the last of his 43 Tests in July 2012. Legspinner Yasir Shah, 28, and seamer Imran Khan, 27, get maiden call-ups to the Test squad. Mohammad Hafeez has recovered from a hand injury and gets a recall after being dropped for the away Tests...
BCCI's damages bill to West Indies may touch $65m
The BCCI is likely to claim damages of at least Rs 400 crore (US$65 million approx) from the WICB for West Indies having pulled out of the tour to India. The BCCI's working committee will decide whether to go ahead with the claim at a meeting on October 21 in Hyderabad. West Indies had agreed to play five ODIs, a Twenty20 and three Tests in India, but pulled out after the fourth ODI, in Dharamsala,...
Southee declared fit for SA ODIs
Tim Southee has been declared fit for the ODI series against South Africa after missing the warm-up game due to a sore shoulder. New Zealand have also added batsmen Dean Brownlie and Tom Latham to their squad of 14 for the first match of the series. Latham and Brownlie, who are both making a return to the ODI squad, were included to make up for the losses of Ross Taylor, who is out of the series...
Oct
17
Grassroots investment for Leicestershire
There was at last some good news for Leicestershire as a new cricket facility was opened in the city centre. A boost to the recreational game in the city can only be of benefit to a beleaguered county. Continuing to develop home-grown youngsters is central to the club's plan to haul themselves from the lowest point in their history, some details of which were revealed at a members' forum on Wednesday...
Anderson prepares for year of hotel rooms
English cricket has been in the headlines recently, and not in a very flattering light, but for the current players it is a rare period of downtime before they embark on a demanding schedule. Next month they head off to Sri Lanka for a one-day series before returning home for Christmas, then leave again for Australia ahead of the World Cup early in the New Year. During 2015 those that play all, or...
Wade suspended for broken window
Victoria's captain Matthew Wade has been suspended for the second time in as many seasons, this time for inadvertently breaking a window following his dismissal in the Bushrangers' loss to Queensland at North Sydney Oval on Tuesday. Chasing Queensland's record total of 5 for 372, Wade was the first Victorian dismissed when he flicked a ball from his his opposite number James Hopes to leg slip. After...
Lehmann locked in until 2017
Darren Lehmann has been rewarded for his positive impact on Australia's performance with a one-year extension to his contract as head coach. Lehmann was installed on the eve of last year's Ashes series in England when Cricket Australia made the dramatic last-minute decision to sack Mickey Arthur, and while an Ashes defeat was the immediate outcome, Australia have been on the rise since then. A 5-0...
Oct
16
Murali helps O'Keefe beat 'dead track'
There was no doosra, but Steve O'Keefe showed on the first day in Sharjah the benefits of working with Muttiah Muralitharan over the past week and a half. Muralitharan has been in the UAE with Australia's squad as a bowling consultant and his advice to O'Keefe proved invaluable on a surface that offered little for bowlers of any persuasion. On a day when the frontline offspinner Nathan Lyon went...
All-round Kapp downs Sri Lanka Women
South Africa women 225 for 8 (Kapp 89*, Lee 72, Kaushalya 2-24) beat Sri Lanka women 172 for 9 (Kaushalya 59, Ismail 2-19) by 53 runsScorecard Marizanne Kapp fueled South Africa Women to a winning start in the ICC Women's Championship. She complemented an unbeaten 89 with a spell of 2 for 36 to keep Sri Lanka Women 54 runs short of their target of 226 in Colombo. South Africa, after opting to...
Last-ball run out spares New Zealand's blushes
New Zealand XI 263 (Anderson 53, McCullum 52, Berrington 3-66) beat Scotland 262 (Machan 83, Coleman 56, Gardiner 54, Anderson 4-47) by one runScorecard Scotland came within a whisker of beating a strong New Zealand XI - only three players away from being a full-strength home side - but after striking a boundary in the last over to leave the visitors needing two off three balls, Alasdair Evans...
Bravo, Hinds battle intensifies in email exchange
The growing impasse between West Indies players and the West Indies Players Association (WIPA) has intensified with both sides exchanging bitter emails in the past week. After Wavell Hinds, who has been the direct target of the players' ire, vehemently refused to step down from his dual positions as WIPA president and chief executive, the players fired fresh salvos against him via a two-part letter...
Oct
15
Misbah the best choice to lead in World Cup - Afridi
Shahid Afridi has said that Misbah-ul-Haq was the "best choice as Pakistan captain" for the upcoming World Cup. His comments in support of Misbah's captaincy came through a PCB media release after Shaharyar Khan, the PCB chief, had expressed disappointment with Afridi's remarks in a post-match conference after the third ODI. "Let me state at the very outset, Misbah is the best choice as Pakistan...
Manish Pandey hails IPL impact for call-up
Being consistent is the reason for this call - Pandey On May 21, 2009, a 20-year-old Manish Pandey, playing for Royal Challengers Bangalore in the IPL, pummelled a Deccan Chargers bowling attack which included Ryan Harris, Andrew Symonds and Pragyan Ojha, as he went on to become the first Indian centurion in the competition. While Pandey's form in the IPL remained consistent - he has scored...
UWA's issues with ICC's current bowling-action testing methods
The dispute between the ICC and the University of Western Australia (UWA), which was previously the sole laboratory for testing bowlers with suspect actions, centres around the loopholes that UWA says can be found in current testing procedures, and the impact of technical issues on the bowlers under scrutiny. The chief concerns, raised by Jacqueline Alderson, associate professor in biomechanics at...
Barbados Cricket parts ways with chief executive
The Barbados Cricket Association announced on Saturday via a press release that it has "agreed to a mutual separation" with chief executive Jeff Miller after he served in the post for just three and a half months. Miller, 55, reportedly faced legal issues back home in the United States. The Barbados Today reported on October 3 that Miller pleaded guilty to a second-degree felony charge of grand...
Oct
13
Newby, Agathangelou leave Lancashire
Oliver Newby and Andrea Agathangelou have been released by Lancashire as the club continues their reshaping following relegation. The confirmation that both players would not be retained came shortly after Ashley Giles was appointed the new head coach. Pace bowler Newby, 30, has been with the club 12 years but, despite showing promise, failed to secure a regular first-team place and spent time out...
Modi rival makes move to take over RCA
Amin Pathan, who allegedly ousted Lalit Modi as the Rajasthan Cricket Association president on Saturday, has been allowed to enter the RCA office with his his colleagues and supporters on Sunday. After claiming to have taken over as acting president, it is understood that Pathan's team has started proceedings to get clearance from the state government and then try and end the impasse with the BCCI....
Misbah sat out voluntarily - PCB chief
The PCB chairman Shaharyar Khan has said Misbah-ul-Haq had opted out of the third ODI against Australia in Abu Dhabi on his own accord, and that the board had left it up to him whether he wanted to remain captain until the 2015 World Cup. "Misbah ul Haq decided that he needed a break from the rather depressing scores he has had in SL as well as here," Shaharyar said in Abu Dhabi. "The management...
Pakistan dial down the extras
3 Number of times Australia have whitewashed Pakistan in an ODI series of three or more matches. Australia have now won five such ODI series while Pakistan have only won two. 1 Number of runs by which Australia won this game, their narrowest win against Pakistan. Australia have won six ODIs by this margin, India being the only team that they have beaten twice. 20 In the last 20 years there have...
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