Category: Cricket

Off the final ball of the 102nd over of the Indian innings, Virat Kohli, the Indian captain, batting on 163, creamed a cover drive wide of the fielder for four. The shot was class, much like his innings had been, but what happened later told you everything you needed to know about how the first session was going. Marlon Samuels […]

Marlon Samuels, the West Indies batsman, was named the Cricketer of the Year and the One-Day International Cricketer of the Year on Tuesday (July 20) at the West Indies Cricket Board’s annual awards function in Antigua.

AB de Villiers, Dale Steyn and Wayne Parnell are set to end their Caribbean Premier League 2016 stints after they were recalled by Cricket South Africa (CSA) on Monday (July 18) in order to participate in the annual awards function to be hosted by the board in Johannesburg later this month.

Mohammad Kaif, the former India batsman, has been appointed as captain of Chhattisgarh for their debut Ranji season in 2016-17. Sulakshan Kulkarni, previously at the helm at Mumbai, was also unveiled as head coach at a press conference in Raipur on Monday (July 18).

Afghanistan’s victory over Ireland in the fourth One-Day International (ODI), enabling them to take an unassailable 2-1 lead in the five-match series, has been sullied by a reprimand handed to Mohammad Nabi for a breach of ICC code of conduct, on Tuesday (July 17). The charges on Nabi were levied by Alan Neill and Chettithody Shamshuddin, the on-field umpires, and […]

Joel Garner, on Saturday (July 16), has been named as the team manager of West Indies, inking a three-year deal with the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB). Garner previously worked as the manager of the team in 2009-10 during the ICC World Twenty20 in the Caribbean, also having worked with the ‘A’ team. “I always answer the call in West […]