Allrounder Amelia Kerr and batter Will Young have been named ODI Players of the Year in the women’s and men’s categories respectively at the 2022 New Zealand Cricket awards. While Kerr scored 171 runs and picked six wickets in six matches in 2021, she put up superb performances in the recently-concluded Women’s World Cup where

Former Test allrounder Andrew McDonald has been officially confirmed as Australia’s new full-time men’s coach for all three formats after signing a four-year contract. McDonald takes over after Justin Langer resigned in messy circumstances in February following an offer from the Cricket Australia board for a six-month contract extension only. McDonald, who has been the

With four defeats in as many matches, the start of IPL 2022 has been far from ideal for five-time champions Mumbai Indians. However, their experienced quick, Jasprit Bumrah, believes that in T20 cricket, anyone could have a bad game and “to quickly move on” is all that matters. “This is T20 cricket, anyone can get

Mohammad Hussain, the former Pakistan left-arm spinner, has died in Lahore at the age of 45. He had been suffering from kidney-related illness for a while and was relying on dialysis. He was also a diabetic. Hussain played two Tests and 14 ODIs for Pakistan between 1996 and 1998. He made his Test debut against

Sunrisers Hyderabad 168 for 2 (Williamson 57, Abhishek 42, Pooran 34*, Pandya 1-27) beat Gujarat Titans 162 for 7 (Pandya 50*, Manohar 35, Natarajan 2-34, Bhuvneshwar 2-37) by eight wickets After starting the season with successive defeats, Sunrisers Hyderabad have turned it around with back-to-back victories. Two days after swamping Chennai Super Kings, Sunrisers’ attack

One has to go way back to 2010 to find the last time Chennai Super Kings lost four IPL matches on the trot. And they’ve never lost four at the start of the season. In this ten-team tournament, they are already in a situation where another defeat could all but end their season. Their opponents,

Did you see?In Jackson Bird‘s last Test match for Australia in 2017 he had to bowl 30 overs on a lifeless MCG pitch as Alastair Cook piled up 244 not out across 10 hours of batting. Bird faced Cook for the first time in five years as Kent took on Essex on a highway in

R Ashwin has become the first batter to be tactically retired out in the IPL, by Rajasthan Royals against Lucknow Super Giants on Sunday evening. Promoted to No. 6 in the tenth over, presumably to allow the regular No. 6 Riyan Parag a more suitable point of entry, Ashwin walked off after two balls of

Innings South Africa 176 for 6 dec. (Erwee 41, Verreynee 39*, Taijul 3-67) and 453 lead Bangladesh 217 by 412 runs South Africa set Bangladesh a 413-run target to chase in the fourth innings of the second Test, in Gqeberha, but more importantly about half an hour of batting on the third evening, after they

Super Kings are being led by Jadeja after Dhoni, who had captained them since the start of the IPL in 2008, bar the two seasons when the team was suspended, stepped away from the role two days before the start of the 2022 edition. Jadeja was given the job even though he came into it