Category: Cricket

Ravi Shastri on Monday formally applied for the position of Indian cricket team’s head coach, making him a front-runner for the high-profile job. A senior BCCI official confirmed to PTI that Shastri has submitted his application ahead of the July 9 deadline. The interviews will be conducted the following day by the Cricket Advisory Committee (CAC) comprising Sourav Ganguly, VVS […]

The outgoing chief of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Shaharyar Khan has invited the ICC chairman Shashank Manohar to visit Lahore next month. Khan confirmed today that he had spoken to Manohar during the ICC meetings in London last month and extended an invitation to him. “Manohar said he will look into the invitation and try to make it. But […]

The pitch was slow and shot-making difficult but India batting coach Sanjay Bangar said these factors cannot cover up for the fact that batsmen . “let the team down” in the lost fourth one-dayer against the West Indies here. Chasing a modest 190 for win, the Indian willow-wielders found the going tough on a two-paced Antigua pitch to lose the […]

The India and Pakistan women’s teams are coming into this game in Derby on Sunday with contrasting experiences so far in the 2017 Women’s World Cup. While Pakistan lost both their opening games – the second by 107 runs – India have won both theirs, and in comprehensive fashion. India: Poonam Raut, Smriti Mandhana, Deepti Sharma, Mithali Raj, Harmanpreet Kaur, […]

Australian cricket team captain Steve Smith yesterday announced his engagement with partner Dani Willis on Instagram (picture below). “Today I got down on one knee and @dani_willis said YES,” Smith wrote. Today I got down on one knee and @dani_willis said YES 🍾💍#engaged A post shared by Steve Smith (@steve_smith49) on Jun 28, 2017 at 1:52pm PDT

Opener Smriti Mandhana made amends for missing out on a hundred against England with a scintillating unbeaten 106 guiding India to a comfortable seven-wicket victory against West Indies in the ICC Women’s World Cup on Thursday. Chasing a modest target of 184, the Indian team won with as many as 45 balls to spare, courtesy another superlative performance from the […]