Category: Cricket

Former Zimbabwe batsman Grant Flower is unlikely to get an extension of his contract as batting coach when the performance of the national team support staff is reviewed by the Pakistan Cricket Board later this month. Flower, who is with the Pakistan team for the last three and a half years, is the only member of the support staff who […]

Virat Kohli led from the front with a fluent century as India today wrapped up the five-match series 3-1 with a convincing eight wicket win over West Indies. Asked to bowl, comeback man Mohammed Shami bagged four wickets as an under-fire India produced a disciplined bowling effort to restrict West Indies to a modest 205 for nine. Playing only his […]

Sachin Tendulkar’s son Arjun, according to the Daily Mail, was practising with Joe Root’s team at Lord’s ahead of the first Test between England and South Africa that starts today, and with his first delivery bowled struck wicketkeeper-batsman Jonny Bairstow with a well-directed yorker. Now while Bairstow’s participation in the Test has not been effected, he did require medical attention […]

Australia’s players on Thursday boycotted this month’s Australia A tour to South Africa, escalating a bitter pay dispute which threatens to derail senior tours to Bangladesh and India as well as this year’s home Ashes. The Australia Cricketers’ Association (ACA) said the players were unavailable to tour South Africa for the Australia A team without an agreed pay deal or […]

India took a giant stride towards clinching a semi-final spot with another convincing 16-run victory over Sri Lanka in a one-sided ICC Women’s World Cup encounter on Wednesday. Mithali Raj and team recorded their fourth win on the trot as they defended a respectable 232/8 by restricting the island nation to 216/7. The Indian players also maintained a clean slate […]

Chris Gayle has returned to the Windies side for the one-off Twenty20 International against India, set to be played at Sabina Park in Kingston on July 9. The Jamaican opener last played for the national side in April 2016, when the side beat England to lift their second World T20 title. Gayle is the highest run-scorer for Windies in the […]