When Royal Challengers Bangalore bought KS Bharat for his base price of INR 20 lakh at the IPL 2021 auction, his T20 batting stats weren’t too flashy: an average of 17.80 at a strike rate of 106.10 in 48 games. He had been a more than competent wicketkeeper in domestic cricket and for India A,

News The former Zimbabwe captain and England men’s team coach joins Shaun Tait and Lance Klusener on the coaching staff Andy Flower, the former Zimbabwe captain, has been named Afghanistan consultant for the T20 World Cup starting later this month. An Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB) release said Flower, who oversaw England men’s’s title-winning 2010 T20

Gary Stead – ‘We will certainly be calling on the expertise of and knowledge of those guys that have been playing in the IPL – what they can add to our intel as well’ © Getty Images Having won the inaugural World Test Championship earlier in June, New Zealand now have the rare chance to

News Mark Arthur and Martyn Moxon come under renewed pressure from former club captain Azeem Rafiq has questioned the on-going employment of Mark Arthur and Martyn Moxon by Yorkshire in light of a damning report into racism at the club. Yorkshire recently produced a summary of a report they had commissioned into the issue which

Report Jordan Silk struck an unbeaten century on another batter-friendly pitch Queensland 2 for 122 trail Tasmania 6 for 500 dec (Ward 144, Silk 100*) by 378 runs Queensland’s star batters Marnus Labuschagne and Test hopeful Joe Burns blew promising starts against Tasmania in their Sheffield Shield match. Labuschagne struck 32 from 29 balls but

News For the fourth year in a row, he is among the top three scorers in the IPL but his strike rate has been dipping There has always been a clamour for KL Rahul to bat freely. He has all the shots in the book and, at a pinch, he is more than capable of

Report Punjab Kings get to fifth place with the win, but getting into the final four might still be a bit beyond them Punjab Kings 139 for 4 (Rahul 98*, Thakur 3-28) beat Chennai Super Kings 134 for 6 (du Plessis 76, Jordan 2-20, Arshdeep 2-35) by six wickets KL Rahul blitzed his way to

News Team will be hoping that experience holds them in good stead since they haven’t competed since the T20 WC Sri Lanka have named three new faces in their 17-strong squad, including the 16-year-old Vishmi Gunaratne, for next month’s Women’s ODI World Cup Qualifier in Zimbabwe. The team will be captained by Chamari Athapaththu, who

News Hurricanes sign England rising star following his stunning season for Yorkshire and Northern Superchargers Hobart Hurricanes have signed one of the hottest young properties in English cricket with Harry Brook set for his first stint in the BBL this coming season. The 22-year-old had an outstanding season for Yorkshire in the Vitality Blast. He

News Sri Lanka Cricket are hopeful of the tour possibly going ahead sometime before the 2022 World Cup Talks about a potential tour of Pakistan by the Sri Lankan women’s team later this month have hit a stumbling block following a change in management at the PCB. As a result, the series will not be