A combination of injuries and illnesses compelled Pakistan into fielding a pace attack with only two Tests worth of experience in Centurion. It gave their bowling coach Mohammad Akram insight into their resources - a look into the future - and he said he was "pretty satisfied" with what he saw, although there are some concerns. The most obvious issue is that the 19-year old debutant Ehsan Adil may...
Could have been more ruthless - Henriques
As he walked out to bat in his first Test innings, Moises Henriques felt like his legs were made of jelly. The first-afternoon pitch looked like something that had been played on for a full five days already. R Ashwin was spinning Australia into a trance. Wickets were falling much too quickly for their liking. Plenty of fans and pundits back home had questioned the selection of Henriques, not that...
Shafayat ton rescues Tuskers
Mountaineers 475 for 7 (Lamb 157, Maruma 105*) and 13 for 0 drew with Tuskers 298 (Shafayat 67, Nyumbu 65) and f/o 312 (Shafayat 152, Williams 83)Scorecard Tuskers, helped by a defiant century by Bilal Shafayat, held Mountaineers for a draw after following on at Mutare Sports Club. Trailing by 134 runs at the start of the fourth day, Tuskers faced a tough task of saving the match with seven wickets...
Unplayable Finn lays platform for England
25 overs New Zealand 67 for 5 (Finn 2-6) v EnglandScorecard If occasionally knocking over the bowler's end bails can be deemed a weakness, it is the only blemish against Steven Finn at the moment. His new, shorter, run up is designed to address that issue and it has taken none of the pace and aggression away from him, qualities which again were too good for the New Zealand top order as England...
Feb
22
Fresh start for cricket-starved Zimbabwe
Match facts February 22, 2013Start time 0930 local (1330 GMT) Big picture Think of a match involving Zimbabwe in 2012 and you could be forgiven if you failed to recall a single one. Bizarrely, Zimbabwe played just eight internationals in total (three ODIs, four T20s and a Test), losing all, in a forgettable year. Their last one-dayer was 11 months ago, on the tour of New Zealand. They...
Australia calm despite Hyderabad blasts
Cricket Australia has denied reports the team will refuse to travel to Hyderabad for next week's second Test after bombings in the city on Thursday night. The two blasts, which killed at least 11 people, came on the eve of the first Test in Chennai and nine days out from the second Test in Hyderabad. Although it is too early to determine whether the second Test will be shifted to a different venue,...
Rankin hopes to reach Test heights
Being big and bad has helped many bowlers to a successful Test career and Boyd Rankin hopes his main selling points can help him become the next. At 6ft 7in, Rankin is brushing shoulders with contemporaries whose ability to look down on others has helped them into Test cricket. Steve Harmison, Chris Tremlett and Steve Finn have all recently been picked for England on their height and aggression (at...
BBL chief McKenna's dual roles under spotlight
Mike McKenna's contentious dual role as Cricket Australia's chief of commercial operations and custodian of its disciplinary codes is expected to be placed under the spotlight as part of the former AFL executive Adrian Anderson's review of CA integrity. While McKenna's job as CA's commercial head and executive in charge of the Big Bash League is not in question, ESPNcricinfo understands there have...
Feb
21
Tiger Pataudi 'liberated Indian cricket' - Gavaskar
Mr. N Srinivasan (president, BCCI), Mr. Wally Edwards (chairman, Cricket Australia), David Richardson (chief executive, ICC), chief executives of the Australian and Sri Lankan Cricket boards, Michael Clarke and the Australian cricket team, Mahi [MS Dhoni] and the Indian team, some of my former team-mates and other former cricketers, ladies and gentlemen. That was the easy part. Now comes the difficult...
Langer hopes to halt Hogan deal
Justin Langer, the Western Australia coach, will do "everything he can" to stop Michael Hogan joining Glamorgan for the English season. Hogan, a 31-year-old fast bowler, is set for a move to Glamorgan on a two-year deal as a British passport holder. The contract requires him to forego playing as a domestic cricketer in Australia. But Langer is desperate to keep him in Perth, describing him as a...
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