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Kerrigan withdrawn from EPP tour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Kerrigan, the Lancashire spinner who endured a nightmare England debut during the summer's fifth Ashes Test, has been withdrawn from the Performance Programme tour of Australia in order to work on his bowling at home.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...
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