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...
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