Category: Cricket

Sri Lanka batsman Kusal Perera and all-rounder Asela Gunaratne have returned to the one-day international squad for the three-match series against India, the country’s cricket board said on Tuesday. Perera has not played international cricket since suffering a hamstring injury in this year’s Champions Trophy and Gunaratne was included in the 16-man squad after recovering from thumb surgery in July. […]

Australia has won the inaugural day-night Ashes test by 120 runs on the last day, with Josh Hazlewood striking twice in the first three overs and Mitchell Starc finishing off the tail as the pace attack crushed England’s slim hopes of a comeback victory. England resumed at 176-4 on Wednesday, needing a further 178 to achieve a national record fourth-innings […]

Jasprit Bumrah finds a place in the Indian team for the three-match Test series against South Africa starting in January. The National selectors on Monday announced a 17-member team, which included Parthiv Patel as the reserve wicketkeeper. The selectors also picked the T20 team for the series against Sri Lanka and recognised consistency in domestic cricket by including Tamil Nadu […]

Indian cricket’s current ‘Milestone Man’ Virat Kohli on Saturday became the first international captain to hit three successive hundreds in a three-Test series. Kohli also completed his individual 5000 runs in the longest version of the game. While many captains have had three or four Test tons in a five-match series, it is rarity that a batsman has scored three […]

On the eve of the opening Test against the West Indies at Basin Reserve, New Zealand skipper Kane Williamson on Thursday picked paceman Matt Henry as a replacement for veteran Tim Southee in the playing XI. Southee, who is expecting the birth of his child, will miss the first Test against the Caribbean side. “Henry has been playing well for […]

India captain Virat Kohli was given a much-needed rest from the upcoming ODI series against Sri Lanka while spinners Ravichandran Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja continued to be ignored in the 50-over format. While Kohli will play in the third Test in New Delhi starting December 2, his limited overs deputy Rohit Sharma will be leading the squad in three-match ODI […]