Ravi Shastri feels the frequent and recurring injuries to senior Indian bowlers is “unreal”, “ridiculous” and “frustrating”. Shastri’s comments came while discussing the latest injury to Deepak Chahar, who bowled just one over before pulling out of Chennai Super Kings’ IPL match against Mumbai Indians after picking up a left hamstring injury. “Let’s put it

Mumbai Indians 173 for 4 (Rohit 65, Tilak 41, Mukesh 2-30) beat Delhi Capitals 172 (Axar 54, Warner 51, Chawla 3-22, Behrendorff 3-23) by six wickets Mumbai Indians held their nerve with the last ball of a scrappy, tension-fuelled basement battle against Delhi Capitals to claw themselves off the bottom of the IPL standings with

If Mumbai Indians captain Rohit Sharma wants to rekindle his IPL batting form, he should bat a minimum of 50 balls to provide heft to an otherwise inexperienced middle order. That is the suggestion from former India head coach Ravi Shastri, who believes Rohit needs to “revisit” his approach in the IPL. A string of

Lucknow Super Giants 213 for 9 (Stoinis 65, Pooran 62, Siraj 3-22) beat Royal Challengers Bangalore 212 for 2 (du Plessis 79*, Kohli 61, Maxwell 59, Mishra 1-18) by one wicket It was a rolling ride where the teasing tickle in the stomach never seemed to stop, as the coaster went up and down, left

The Royal Challengers bowlers had reduced Super Giants to 23 for 3 in four overs, but Stoinis’ 30-ball 65 gave them a platform, from which Pooran’s 19-ball 62 and Badoni’s 24-ball 30 took them to the doorstep of victory. “In T20s, I think that’s the most important batting position – Nos. 5, 6 and 7,”

PCB chairman Najam Sethi has attempted to calm speculation around the role of Babar Azam, backing him as Pakistan’s all-format captain for now. In his first public comments offering further detail on what has become a lingering locus of instability for the Pakistan side since Sethi took over, he tweeted that everyone “should support Babar

Australia A 253 and 297 for 5 (Renshaw 140, Ward 63, van Beek 2-47) lead New Zealand A 246 (Solia 60, Bruce 44, Hay 43, Buckingham 6-58) by 304 runs Matt Renshaw piled on another century in New Zealand to keep up in the hotly contested race for an Ashes berth. The Australia A opener

Leicestershire 415 (Handscomb 112, Rehan 85, Milnes 3-72, Thompson 3-86) and 392 for 7 (Patel125, Ackermann 72, Handscomb 68*, Bess 5-158) beat Yorkshire 517 (Malan 132, Bean 118) and 286 for 8 dec (Hope 83, Hill 67, Wharton 52, Hull 3-68) by three wickets In 1910, King George V was crowned, the London Palladium was

Sussex 335 (Pujara 115) and 232 for 8 (Haines 64, Pujara 35, Carter 33*) beat Durham 376 (Jones 87, Lees 79, McAndrew 5-85) and 189 (Robinson 58, Hudson-Prentice 4-27, Crocombe 4-47) by two wickets Sussex won their opening match in the LV= Insurance County Championship for the first time since 2015 after Oli Carter‘s unbeaten

Coming in at No. 3 after Devon Conway fell to Jason Behrendorff in the first over of Super Kings’ run chase, Rahane was the aggressor in his partnership with Ruturaj Gaikwad and struck 23 runs off a single over from Arshad Khan, the fourth of the innings, to get his new franchise ahead of the