England’s Test captain Joe Root is wholeheartedly behind his team’s premier all-rounder and friend Ben Stokes’ call to opt for an indefinite break in order to resolve a mental health issue. Root says he just wants Stokes to be fine while he strives to overcome an inner battle, adding that the cricketer can take as much time as he wants before making himself available for England again. Stokes went on a hiatus from the game on July 30. The England and Wales Cricket Board revealed that the cricketer has been dealing with mental health concerns and is also yet to fully recover…
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After enjoying a successful Zimbabwe tour, Bangladesh is in for a tougher challenge as they host Australia in an important five-match T20I series, starting Tuesday. The Asian rivals will take on the team from Down Under with an eye towards this year’s T20 World Cup in UAE and Oman. The series will be the first time in cricket history that Bangladesh will play Australia in bilateral T20Is. The two countries have previously only met in the T20 World Cups. Those matches – spanning 2007, 2010, 2014 and 2016 editions of the marquee ICC event – have all gone Australia’s way. Bangladesh have a 0-4 record against…
Australian spinner Shane Warne, who is serving as London Spirit’s head coach in The Hundred, is not the only person from the team camp who has tested positive. Another unnamed person has also been isolated after proving affected by the contagious virus. Warne is understood to have reported feeling unwell ahead of Spirit’s fixture against Southern Brave at Lord’s on Sunday. Following this, a rapid antigen test was conducted on the 51-year-old, and it turned out to be positive for COVID-19. He is awaiting the result of a PCR test. None of the playing members of the London Spirit squad have come out positive…
The penultimate game of Sri Lanka’s three-match T20I series last week against visitors India in Colombo, as it turns out, was left-arm pacer Isuru Udana’s final appearance in the national colours. On Saturday, he announced his retirement from international cricket. “I believe the time has come for me to make way for the next generation of players,” Udana was quoted as saying in a Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) press release. “It is with immense pride and passion, and unfathomable commitment that I have represented and served my country.” Bursting onto the scene as a left-arm paceman of good slow-ball variations, Udana made…
The KPL 2021 will run from August 6 to 17. The competition has six teams – Mirpur Royals, Overseas Warriors, Rawalakot Hawks, Kotli Lions, Muzaffarabad Tigers and Bagh Stallions – and will be hosted in Muzaffarabad. “Kashmir Premier League will go ahead as planned,” Taimoor said in a media statement. “In case some foreign players cannot participate due to pressure then we will include Pakistan players who weren’t picked in the draft.” The uproar over overseas players’ participation in KPL 2021 started early on Saturday when former South African batsman Herschelle Gibbs accused the BCCI of pressurising him to pull out of the event due to India’s strained…
India’s coach on their just-completed tour of Sri Lanka, Rahul Dravid, said wicketkeeper-batsman Sanju Samson will be a “little disappointed” with his performances in Colombo. Dravid, however, also mentioned it is important to not lose patience with players like Samson, who is undoubtedly very talented. Samson was one of the young Indians who carried a great sense of anticipation around him heading into the limited-overs series in Sri Lanka. But as has been the case with the 26-year-old Kerala right-hand batsman, he had a series of promising but insufficient scores and struggled to overcome the long-standing issue of inconsistency. Samson…
Premier all-rounder Ben Stokes has opted for an indefinite break from all forms of cricket to look after his mental health and properly recuperate from the finger injury he has been managing, the England and Wales Cricket Board had announced on Friday. In a media release, the ECB stated Stokes has withdrawn from the Test series India starting next week to prioritize his mental wellbeing and to rest his left index finger, which has not fully healed since his return to competitive cricket earlier this month. England’s men’s director of cricket, Ashley Giles, lauded the cricketer for bravely confronting the…
Sri Lankan cricketers Kusal Mendis, Danushka Gunathilaka and Niroshan Dickwella look set to face an extended ban from all forms of cricket and shed a hefty fine for breaching the bio-bubble on the tour of England, stated newswire.lk in a report. The recommendation to ban the trio for an elongated period, besides imposing on them a fine of US$ 25,000, has been taken by a five-member committee, which was appointed by SLC last month to conduct a disciplinary enquiry into three players’ actions. The report in the newswire.lk mentioned, while Mendis and Gunathilaka “have been recommended to be banned for…
Despite missing multiple of their first XI picks, the Shikhar Dhawan led Indian side gave hosts Sri Lanka a run for their money in the second T20I of the three-match series on Wednesday. But carrying an imbalanced unit had a telling impact eventually as they lost by a margin of four wickets in a low-scoring thriller. Originally meant to be played on Tuesday, the second T20I was rescheduled July 28 following confirmation that spin all-rounder Krunal Pandya has tested COVID-19 positive. Amid the scare of a viral outbreak in the Indian camp, all other members underwent another round of testing and returned…
All eight Indian players identified as all-rounder Krunal Pandya’s close contacts in Colombo have given negative tests for COVID-19, paving the way for the T20I series against Sri Lanka to resume on Wednesday (July 28). Krunal’s positive test for the contagious virus on Tuesday morning brought the series to an abrupt halt as the second T20I had to be postponed from its original date and rescheduled for the day later. BCCI stated at the time that: The entire (Indian) contingent is undergoing RT-PCR tests today to ascertain any further outbreak in the squad. The results of those tests have now…