MANCHESTER: England were left needing five wickets for victory in Monday’s final session on day five of the second Test at Old Trafford to level the series as a determined West Indies dug in to finish at 137-5 at the tea interval. West Indies, who were set a stiff target of 312 to win the […]
MANCHESTER: Shamarh Brooks led the West Indies to within sight of avoiding the follow-on in the rain-marred second Test against England at Old Trafford on Sunday. The tourists, already 1-0 up in this three-match series, were 227-4 at tea on the fourth day, needing just 43 more runs to make England bat again in Manchester. […]
MANCHESTER: All-rounder Ben Stokes piled on the agony for the West Indies with a century in the second Test at Old Trafford on Friday after Dom Sibley’s painstaking hundred finally came to an end. England were 378-5 at tea on the second day, with Stokes 172 not out in a match the hosts need to […]
Former Australia batsman Michael Hussey has had the opportunity to play under some of the best captains of world cricket. Whether it was playing under Ricky Ponting or Michael Clarke for Australia or playing under MS Dhoni for Chennai Super Kings in the IPL, and under Rohit Sharma in Mumbai Indians, Hussey has played with […]
KARACHI: The International Cricket Council (ICC) is all set to postpone the World T20 this month due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. However, some controversy is likely to be created over who will be staging the next editions of the ICC World T20 — in 2021 & 2022 — as the Indian Cricket Board (BCCI) […]
It’s been five years since Jermaine Blackwood featured in a T20 match, and three years since he enlisted his name in a Caribbean Premier League auction. Yet, when you watch him tee away in Test cricket, striking sweetly and cleanly, straight off a bygone Caribbean batting canon, you must have presumed that he’s already a […]
NEW DELHI: India’s cricket chief Sourav Ganguly late on Saturday said the national team will tour Australia in December but called for a shortened quarantine period for the players. Australia has checked the spread of the novel coronavirus (Covid-19) except in Melbourne, its second-biggest city, which has witnessed a recent surge in cases. “Ya, ya, […]
Given the lacklustre performance by Jofra Archer and Mark Wood in the West Indies first innings in Southampton, it seemed like England had blundered by leaving out Stuart Broad and Chris Woakes. Conventional wisdom suggested that Broad and James Anderson — their two most experienced pacers — would be the automatic choices with Woakes as the third […]
Players will have to motivate each other in the absence of any spectators in cricket’s post-coronavirus reality, spin bowling coach Mushtaq Ahmed has said while quarantining with the Pakistani team in England ahead of a three-Test series next month. Playing behind closed doors is one of the many conditions the game has reluctantly accepted before […]
COLOMBO: Domestic cricket in Sri Lanka will resume next Tuesday without spectators, the country’s cricket board said on Wednesday. Lockdown and curfews have ceased in Sri Lanka, where the total number of infections was reported to be 2,084 on Wednesday. Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) organised two residential training camps for the national team squad last […]