James Faulkner has been ruled out of Australia's Test tour of South Africa due to a knee injury and Shaun Marsh and Jackson Bird are still in doubt and will remain in Australia for further assessment while the rest of the squad departs on Wednesday. Faulkner has been replaced in the squad by fellow allrounder Moises Henriques, who played his only three Tests on the tour of India early last year and...
ZC close to clinching sponsorship deal
Zimbabwe Cricket are close to clinching a sponsorship deal which could lead to the resumption of domestic cricket in the next few weeks. ESPNcricinfo understands ZC have been in positive talks with Lay's, the potato chip company, who are interesting in backing them. Although the deal will not cover the total cost of salaries ZC owes their players, it is expected to provide a portion of it. ZC are...
Big Three offer redraft to ICC as lobbying intensifies
'Revamp has many legal implications' Cricket's formally-united Big Three - the BCCI, Cricket Australia and the ECB - will present the seven other Full Member nations with a set of re-drafted "resolutions" around their radical "position paper" at an ICC executive meeting in Dubai on Tuesday. The resolutions - five in number - were being talked through the first official meeting of the Finance...
New-look India recover with rohit fifty
25 overs India 100 for 2 (Rohit 56*, Rayudu 36*) v New ZealandLive scorecard and ball-by-ball details India made an overdue axing and an unexpected one, but once play began the story of the first 25 overs was the exceptional discipline Tim Southee and Kyle Mills bowled with. The consequent pressure created the wickets of Virat Kohli and Ajinkya Rahane, and should have had Rohit Sharma too but the...
Jan
27
Perera, Mubarak's record stand powers NCC win
Group B Angelo Perera's 244 and Jehan Mubarak's 164 helped Nondescripts Cricket Club (NCC) beat Sri Lanka Air Force Sports Club by an innings and 39 runs at the NCC ground. Mubarak and Perera were involved in a mammoth stand of 405, which was the highest partnership for the fourth wicket in a first-class match on Sri Lankan soil. They came together when NCC were 81 for 3 in response to Air Force's...
Concerns over Marsh and Faulkner
Australia have further injury worries ahead of the tour of South Africa after both Shaun Marsh and James Faulkner picked up problems during the final one-day international against England in Adelaide. Marsh, a surprise inclusion for the South Africa tour, left the field in the 36th over of England's chase and has had a scan on his calf while Faulkner underwent scans on his knee on Monday after not...
Captains uncertain over Bopara stumping
Both Alastair Cook and Michael Clarke admitted to confusion about the pivotal stumping of Ravi Bopara during England's run chase. With England requiring nine runs from nine balls and two wickets still standing, Bopara was given out by the third umpire, after lengthy deliberation, as a delivery from Clint McKay rebounded off keeper Matthew Wade's gloves down on to the stumps, eventually dislodging...
Machan sets up Scotland win
Scotland kept themselves in touch near the top of the Super Six table with a 21-run victory over Namibia who remain at the bottom. The match was halted after 12 overs of Namibia's chase on Sunday due to rain after Scotland had posted 279 for 9 They had made brisk progress through Matt Machan and captain Preston Mommsen as the pair took their third-wicket stand to 82 in 15 overs. Machan was on course...
Jan
26
A Test series before a testing future
Two weeks ago, the biggest question in Bangladesh cricket was whether Shamsur Rahman could become only the second batsman from the country to score a first-class triple hundred. When he failed to do so, everyone wondered if his 267 would earn him a Test call-up. All of that is now a distant memory, after a leaked document has reopened age-old questions about Bangladesh cricket's future. To consider...
Shakib wants sporting Mirpur pitch
Shakib Al Hasan wants a sporting pitch at the Shere Bangla National Stadium in the first Test against Sri Lanka. He said Bangladesh are now capable of handling such conditions, and not just playing on featherbeds. The home side has never won a Test match in Mirpur. They have lost eight times and drawn twice, both against New Zealand. The pitch has tended to be on the slower side over the last three...
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