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...
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