Author: Kashish Chadha

India’s experienced wicketkeeper-batsman Dinesh Karthik felt it was absolutely “unnecessary” on pacer Mohammed Siraj’s part to be shushing England batsman Jonny Bairstow as he got him out in the first Test of the ongoing series at Trent Bridge. Siraj got Bairstow out caught off a pull shot straight to the square leg fieldsman in the second innings in Nottingham. Once Ravindra Jadeja grabbed hold of the ball, the young promising quick, who wasn’t having the best of days as a bowler, stared at the dismayed batsman with his finger on the mouth. Karthik, commentating for Sky Sports this England summer, wrote in his column…

England’s veteran fast bowler Stuart Broad and Indian right-arm quick Shardul Thakur have picked up injuries ahead of the much-anticipated second Test of the ongoing five-match series. The England and Wales Cricket Board confirmed that Broad tweaked his right calf in the warm-up. The pacer was “unable to train this afternoon with the rest of the England squad” and will now undergo scans to determine the extent of the injury. While the ECB did not specify how Broad injured his calf, a report in The Guardian mentioned that the bowler slipped and hurt his ankle “while undertaking a light warm-up jog.” Credit: The…

After an absorbing Test match at Trent Bridge, the two teams will renew their rivalry at Lord’s. With the series honours at 0-0, England and India will be desperate to pull one in their favour and take the important lead. The upcoming Test will be India’s 19th at Lord’s. Of their previous 18 outings at the ‘Home of Cricket’, they have lost 12, drawn 4 and won 2 times – famously in 1986 and 2014. Overall in England, India have won just seven of their previous 63 Test matches, with 34 losses and 22 draws. The tourists have suffered defeats by margins of 4-0, 3-1 and 4-1 on their last three trips to…

The 2021-23 cycle of the World Test Championship (WTC) has kickstarted with the England-India Test series in the United Kingdom (UK). West Indies and Pakistan square off to kick off their respective campaigns in this new WTC cycle. Both West Indies and Pakistan had a middling finish in the first WTC edition. West Indies won just three games (lost six and drawn two) in the inaugural WTC edition, two of which came in Bangladesh earlier this year. Their major issue has been the batting. Barring Kyle Mayers and Nkrumah Bonner, both of whom have played Test cricket only this year,…

As per the board’s procedure, Dravid will have to reapply if he is willing to continue before the cut-off date of August 15. Otherwise, the board will look at other options for vacant NCA position. The NCA head’s job is a wholesome one. It requires a candidate to develop all coaching programmes at the state-of-the-art facility in Bangalore and look after the development of emerging and youth cricketers at the NCA and India’ A’, U-19s and other age-group teams. The NCA head also works in cohesion with the men’s and women’s team captains and coaches. The main aim is to keep…

Former England captain Geoffrey Boycott shed light on the defensive techniques of contemporary English batsmen and noted down how lack of tight defence and patience have been letting them down against quality Test match bowling for a while now. Boycott was bitterly disappointed by what he saw in the first Test against India at Trent Bridge where, if not for skipper Joe Root’s 64 & 109 in the two innings, the hosts might not have managed to take the game to Day 5 when a washout resulted in a draw. And this wasn’t the first instance that the current set of England…

Australia’s tour of Bangladesh finally ended on Monday with another horrible loss in the fifth T20I in Dhaka. The visitors finished the series with the ignominy of 62 all out in a gut-wrenching defeat by 60 runs despite staring at a target of only 123. As they did all series barring the previous encounter, which they managed to win, Australia began precariously with the bat, losing Dan Christian (3) and Mitchell Marsh (4) very early in the piece. Later on, stand-in captain Matthew Wade (22) and Ben McDermott (17) calmed things down to an extent with a steady partnership. But once those two were also dismissed in quick…

Following a stellar return to form in the first Test against England at Trent Bridge, Indian speedster Jasprit Bumrah said he did not make any major adjustments to his bowling after facing criticism from certain corners earlier on the UK tour. Bumrah, who has been outstanding for India since his debut in Test matches, had a one-off poor outing in the World Test Championship final against New Zealand in June. The ace quick was the only specialist seamer from both sides to go wicketless across the two innings. Given India heavily depended on Bumrah to provide them breakthroughs at one end, disappointed fans had…

The two best teams of the tournament are about to square off in Qualifier 1. The winner will earn a direct entry into the final, while the losing team will get a second chance of making it to the title decider. This is the first time that Ruby Trichy Warriors have finished in the top four, and this will be their first knockout/qualifier game. Prior to this season, they had finished seventh thrice (2016, 2017 and 2019) and sixth once (2018). They have been in top form this season and finished at the top of the points table at the end of the league stages. RTW…

Indian skipper hinted that India are “most likely” to retain their four pacers and one spin all-rounder combination for the second Test of the five-match series against England, starting Thursday. Tweaking their balance for the first Test in Trent Bridge, India separated the spin duo of Ravindra Jadeja and Ravichandran Ashwin, dropping the latter to bring in the extra seamer in Shardul Thakur. And though Thakur didn’t contribute with the bat, he took four important wickets. The pacer provided fine support to India’s three main quicks Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Shami and Mohammed Siraj, who played ahead of an injured Ishant Sharma. “Most likely it will be a template going ahead in…