AHMEDABAD: India look to spin out England in the fourth Test on a similar pitch to the one that hosted last week’s two-day match, vice-captain Ajinkya Rahane said on Tuesday. The hosts demolished England in one of the shortest Tests in history to lead the four-match series 2-1 at the Narendra Modi Stadium — the […]
Former India batsmen VVS Laxman and Aakash Chopra hailed Ravichandran Ashwin as “very intelligent” and an “absolute phenomenal” ahead of the fourth Test against England in Ahmedabad, starting Thursday. Last month, Ashwin became the second-fastest bowler to take 400 wickets in the history of Test cricket as India defeated England by ten wickets inside two […]
KARACHI: The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has given approval to the eagerly-awaited First Boards of the six cricket associations at its 61st Board of Governors (BoG) meeting while empowering the interim bodies, appointed for one-year term, to carry out functions assigned to respective management committees. According to the discussions which took place here on Saturday, […]
AHMEDABAD: Victorious India and dejected England players took a rest Friday on what should have been the third day of a key five-day clash, with warnings that the speed of the result had tarnished the Test format. New spin hero Axar Patel took 11 wickets in two innings as India cruised to a 10 wicket […]
The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has reduced the ban on cricketer Umar Akmal to 12 months and fined him Rs 4.25 million for breaching the Pakistan Cricket Board’s (PCB) anti-corruption code. Akmal was suspended in February 2020 for failing to report details of corrupt approaches made to him just before the start of […]
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s former pace spearhead Chaminda Vaas resigned as the team’s fast bowling coach on Monday within days of his appointment and compounding problems for the national team on the eve of their virus-hit tour of the West Indies. Vaas, who retired from international cricket in 2009 having claimed 355 wickets from 111 Tests, […]
IPL’s perennial under-performer Glenn Maxwell once again fetched big money at the players auction with Royal Challengers Bangalore bidding a whopping Rs 14.25 crore to secure his services here on Friday. England all-rounder Moeen Ali also went for a high price of Rs 7 crore to Chennai Super Kings. Both Maxwell and Moeen had base […]
Flamboyant Australian Glenn Maxwell is expected to be a favourite, despite his under-whelming record, along with England’s spin bowling all-rounder Moeen Ali during a condensed IPL players auction slated here on Thursday. A total of 292 players have been enlisted for the shortened auctions — 164 of them Indian and 125 overseas. There will also […]
Axar Patel and Ravichandran Ashwin predictably completed the annihilation of clueless England batsmen, emphatically bringing India back in contention for the World Test Championship final with a series-levelling 317-run victory in the second Test here on Tuesday. Debutant Patel made full use of favourable conditions to bag 5 for 60 in 21 overs while Ashwin […]
“Pakistan cricket as a microcosm of the entire country.” After Pakistan lost to India in a World Cup match yet again in 2019, I wrote the aforementioned line in a column and it hit home for a number of Dawn readers. A year and a half later, a situation arose recently that further reinforced the […]