Pakistan Women 72 for 3 (Javeria 38) beat South Africa Women 68 for 9 (Kapp 40, Iqbal 2-14) by seven wicketsScorecard Pakistan Women capitalised on a poor batting display by South Africa Women to win the final of the PCB Qatar Women's 20-Over Tri-series by seven wickets in Doha on Friday. South Africa were put in to bat and their innings had a poor start as pacer Asmavia Iqbal dismissed opener Lizelle...
Northants confirm three for IPL auction
This year's IPL auction takes on increased significance for English cricket and Northamptonshire are the latest county to confirm they will have a vested interest on February 12. The ECB has opened up a bigger window for their centrally contracted players and many counties have also relaxed their stance on IPL participation, despite the prospect of losing players for nearly half of the County Championship...
Vijay Zol available for Ranji Trophy final
Vijay Zol, the Maharashtra batsman and India Under-19 captain, will be available for his side's Ranji Trophy final against Karnataka, which begins in Hyderabad on January 29. The BCCI had earlier asked Zol to skip the final in order to train with the Under-19 team at the preparatory camp ahead of the upcoming Under-19 World Cup in the UAE. The BCCI had given Zol permission to play only the semi-final...
Ishant dropped, India bowl again
India chose to bowl v New ZealandScorecard and ball-by-ball details India finally agreed to change when they left out Ishant Sharma for Varun Aaron, but they persisted with chasing possibly because they can never be sure how much is enough with their bowlers. India's last four ODI losses - all away from home - have come in chases, and all after winning the toss. Aaron last played an international...
Jan
24
Australia bowl; England unchanged
Australia won the toss and decided to bat against EnglandLive scorecard and ball-by-ball details Australia will aim to attack England with pace after winning the toss and bowling at the WACA. Defeat for England, who have named an unchanged side, would make it 10 in a row across all formats and equal their worst run. After the loss in Sydney, Alastair Cook said he would consider his future as...
BCB to decide on draft based on 'response of other boards'
BCB president Nazmul Hassan said the Bangladesh board will consider the other Full Members' takes on the 'position paper', put forward by a working group of the Finance & Commercial Affairs committee of the ICC, before coming out for or against it. However, ESPNcricinfo understands that when asked for their individual opinions at a board meeting on Thursday, an overwhelming majority of the BCB...
Draft will need 'extraordinary majority' to be passed - ICC vice-president
Mustafa Kamal, the ICC vice-president, has said an "extraordinary majority" will be required to approve ICC Finance & Commercial Affairs working group's increasingly controversial draft proposal. He does not believe, at this stage, that it would be right to bring such changes to the world of cricket. Kamal was apparently not present at the meeting in which the proposal was first discussed during...
Leicestershire gloom set to deepen
Leicestershire's problems are set to intensify with the announcement of a significant loss for the 2013 financial year. The club, which finished bottom of the Division Two County Championship table without a win in the season, have cited player salaries and the costs of maintaining their Grace Road ground as pertinent factors in the losses. Leicestershire also declared a loss of just over £250,000...
Jan
23
WV Raman appointed KKR batting coach
WV Raman, the former India batsman, has been appointed batting coach for the Kolkata Knight Riders ahead of the seventh edition of the IPL. Raman had earlier worked with Kings XI Punjab as the assistant coach for the 2013 season. "Former Indian cricketer WV Raman has been appointed @KKRiders batting coach #PepsiIPL," the IPL tweeted on Wednesday night. Raman, who played 11 Tests and 27 ODIs for...
De Villiers making slow progress after hand surgery
AB de Villiers, South Africa's Test wicketkeeper, has admitted he is making slow progress after his hand surgery but remains confident he will be fit for the upcoming series against Australia. De Villiers went under the knife on January 10 and was estimated to need up to a month of rehabilitation before taking the field again. "It's still swollen because it was done not so long ago. I still...
Openers should have batted for longer - Dhoni
Dhoni: Batsmen not able to convert starts It is hard to fault an opening pair that has been so successful over the past several months but it was Shikhar Dhawan and Rohit Sharma's slow start that pulled India down in their big chase in Hamilton, MS Dhoni has said. The pair consumed 7.4 overs and added only 22 after India were set a D/L target of 297 from 42 overs. The middle order, led...
Warne signs on for T20 coaching role
Shane Warne has signed on as a specialist spin coach to help Australia's slow bowlers in the lead-up to this year's World Twenty20 in Bangladesh. Cricket Australia has confirmed that Warne will join the T20 squad in South Africa in early March and he will support coach Darren Lehmann as what CA described as a "consultant providing specialist coaching to the spin bowlers". Spin is expected to play...
Jan
22
FICA slams 'Big Three' ICC proposal
The world's cricketers have voiced their strong opposition to the proposed revamp of the ICC's structure, declaring that it would only serve to strengthen India, England and Australia while weakening the rest of the cricketing nations. The Federation of International Cricketers' Associations (FICA), which represents player associations in seven of the ICC's ten full member countries, has declared...
Smith takes up Irish citizenship
Graeme Smith, captain of the South Africa Test team, has been granted Irish citizenship. Smith, 32, married the Irish singer Morgan Deane in August 2011, and the pair have been in Dublin in recent days to tie up the details. Deane posted a photo on Instagram of Smith with his certificate. Smith has not had to relinquish his South African citizenship. While the development will have no immediate...
Vijay Zol told to skip Ranji final
Vijay Zol, the Maharashtra batsman and India Under-19 captain, has been asked to skip the Ranji Trophy final and instead train with the India U-19 squad ahead of the upcoming ICC U-19 World Cup in the UAE. The final preparatory camp of the U-19 squad started at the National Cricket Academy in Bangalore on Tuesday. Since the Ranji Trophy semifinal overlapped with the preparatory camp, the Maharashtra...
Williamson fifty promises big total
25 overs New Zealand 130 for 2 (Williamson 55*, Taylor 9*) v IndiaLive scorecard and ball-by-ball details New Zealand promised India another big chase as their top order flogged a listless attack on a slow pitch with a small and quick outfield to counter the slowness of the surface. It could have been much worse for India, who were unchanged despite persistent failures of Suresh Raina and Ishant...
Jan
21
CSA demands ICC proposals withdrawn
Cricket South Africa has become the first national board to call for the ICC to withdraw the draft proposal that would put power in international cricket in the hands of India, England and Australia. South Africa have been identified as the big losers in the potential changes, which, if adopted, could be viewed as a power grab by the three nations that bring most revenue into the international game....
Proud to win semi within three days - Maharashtra coach
After Harshad Khadiwale knocked Sandipan Das for a single that took Maharashtra to their first Ranji Trophy final in 21 years, his team's celebrations were muted. The players formed a line outside the dressing room and waited for the Maharashtra openers, the Bengal team, and the match officials to cross the ropes and shake hands with them. No one brandished a stump in a frenzied victory dance. It's...
Mathews denies SL were too negative
Sri Lanka's captain, Angelo Mathews, has denied that negative tactics led to his team's dramatic downfall in Sharjah and said his batsmen should have been "a bit more cautious" in the second innings, which he believes cost Sri Lanka the match. Sri Lanka had achieved an 87-run first innings lead, but scored at 1.87 runs an over on the fourth afternoon and evening, seemingly in an attempt to stall...
Bennett replaces Milne in NZ ODI squad
Fast bowler Hamish Bennett has been chosen as a replacement in New Zealand's ODI squad for the injured Adam Milne for the remainder of the five-match series against India. According to a New Zealand Cricket (NZC) release, an MRI scan revealed a torn abdominal muscle which will sideline Milne for approximately six weeks. Milne sustained the injury during New Zealand's 24-run win in the first ODI at...
Jan
20
Sri Lanka tread too far down the conservative route
While conservatism has worked for Sri Lanka in this series, their dour defensive play on day four in Sharjah neither decisively put defeat beyond them nor, it would appear, did much to revive the flagging interest in Test cricketA few days ago, in the Emirate just west of Sharjah, a group of cricket administrators unveiled a proposal that would put the Test-match future of Sri Lanka and Pakistan in...
No knowledge of draft proposals, says Associate representative
One member of the ICC's Finance & Commercial Affairs committee has said he was not privy to any details about the F&CA working group's draft proposal that recommends a radical overhaul of the world cricket administration. Bermuda's Neil Speight, an ICC director and Associates & Affiliates (A&A) representative in the F&CA committee, said in an email message that he had "no knowledge"...
Muirhead and Lynn in Australia's T20 squad
Legspinner James Muirhead and batsman Chris Lynn will be in line for international debuts after being named in Australia's Twenty20 squad to take on England. Aaron Finch has been named vice-captain to George Bailey for the three-match T20 series that follows the ODIs, with Cameron White and Mitchell Starc both back in the reckoning along with Josh Hazlewood, Ben Cutting and Moises Henriques. The...
Bailey axed, Marsh back in Test squad
George Bailey has been axed from Australia's Test squad after playing in all five Ashes victories this summer, with Shaun Marsh and Alex Doolan included for the upcoming tour of South Africa. Australia's selectors have named a 15-man squad for the three-Test tour, which begins in early February, with Marsh, Doolan, James Pattinson, Jackson Bird and James Faulkner included from outside the Ashes XI....
Jan
19
Footmarks on pitch crucial to SL chances, says Sangakkara
The footmarks developing on the Sharjah pitch are crucial to Sri Lanka's hopes of winning the series 2-0, Sri Lanka batsman Kumar Sangakkara said. Day three saw the surface play reasonably well for the batsmen, even if it remained a challenging pitch for stroke-making, but Sri Lanka's spinners achieved success by attacking rough areas either side of the pitch. There has been no unplayable turn or...
Maharashtra lead after Fallah burst
Maharashtra 164 for 4 (Khurana 48, Jadhav 40, Dinda 2-45, Shukla 2-45) lead Bengal 114 (Arindam 37, Fallah 7-58) by 50 runsScorecard Twice before this season, Maharashtra had won the toss, sent their opponents out to bat on greentops, and rolled them over on the first day. On both those occasions - against Jammu & Kashmir and Himachal Pradesh - their batsmen had backed up their bowlers' efforts...
Shehzad unhappy with Sri Lanka's 'negative' approach
Pakistan might have been conservative with their batting approach on the third day in Sharjah, but their opener Ahmed Shehzad said he was "surprised" by the negative approach adopted by the Sri Lanka bowlers. He stated that the opposition got "afraid" and looked insecure despite having a hefty total on the board. "I was surprised with their negative approach," Shehzad said. "Although they had 400-plus...
Williamson, Taylor rebuild after Shami strikes
New Zealand 112 for 2 (Williamson 49*, Taylor 32*, Shami 2-16) v IndiaLive scorecard and ball-by-ball details India received a rude welcome to New Zealand but his intent to pepper the short square boundaries got better of him, and Mohammed Shami forced the hosts into rebuild mode with a double strike. Rebuild Kane Williamson and Ross Taylor did, going with a boundary for almost 10 overs before...
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