An incident while playing golf has proven calamitous for England batter Jonny Bairstow, who has been ruled out of action for the coming months and is set to miss the T20 World Cup in Australia in October-November. The player is ruled out of the final Test against South Africa and also their marquee trip Down Under. In a statement issued on September 2, the England and Wales Cricket Board confirmed that the 32-year-old has suffered a lower-limb injury to his left leg after a “freak” accident at the golf course. He will be meeting a specialist in the coming week…
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Former Australia allrounder and renowned coach Tom Moody and 2016 Indian Premier League champions Sunrisers Hyderabad have come to a mutual agreement not to extend their head coach’s contract ahead of the 2023 edition of the tournament. Moody’s second stint with SRH as head coach is over, stated ESPNcricinfo in a report, with Brian Lara being the frontrunner to replace the Australian as the head of the coaching staff. Lara had been appointed SRH’s strategic advisor and batting coach for the 2022 season but could now be promoted to the head coach’s role. Both parties have cut ties mutually after a disastrous…
A resurfaced knee injury has effectively ended Ravindra Jadeja’s Asia Cup 2022, with the Indian allrounder getting ruled out of the rest of the tournament officially on September 2. Axar Patel has been called up as a like-for-like replacement prior to the first Super 4 stage game against Pakistan on Sunday. Jadeja has picked up the injury to his right knee again, as confirmed by the BCCI in a media release, and is under the supervision of the board’s medical staff. The board didn’t divulge the details of the extent of the injury or laid clear an estimated time when…
Pakistani seamer Naseem Shah could be a doubtful participant in his side’s direct knock-out Asia Cup 2022 encounter versus Hong Kong on September 2 in Sharjah. The youngster is understood to have still not recovered from the cramps he picked up near the close of the arch-rivals clash with India last Sunday (August 28). In a clip posted over YouTube by ‘Events & Happenings Sports’, Naseem was seen moving around with his left leg still taped under medical supervision during a Pakistan net session at the ICC Academy Ground in Dubai. The right-arm seamer could be seen walking through gingerly…
Shakib Al Hasan pointed to his team’s death-overs struggles and extras on the field as two major worries after a loss to Sri Lanka on September 1 in Dubai ended Bangladesh’s Asia Cup 2022 campaign from Group B. The skipper wasn’t pleased by his team delivering 8 wides and 4 no-balls in a close-fought thriller, where the Bangla Tigers suffered yet another failure in overs 16-20 to lose despite posting a score of 183/7 batting first. Falling under his scrutiny the most were the pair of no-balls that off-spinner Mahedi Hasan delivered, including one when Sri Lanka closed out the…
Indian skipper Harmanpreet Kaur wants her great teammate Jhulan Goswami to go on a winning note via the three-match ODI series against the hosts, with the final one-dayer scheduled at Lord’s on September 24. Goswami was the Indian captain herself when Harmanpreet kicked off her international career back in 2009. Now Harmanpreet is at the other end of the road, and her former captain is approaching her sunset as a cricketer at the top-level game. The 39-year-old quick is set to retire from international cricket as the leading woman wicket-taker with 352 scalps across formats for India. Goswami most recently…
Afghanistan ended the Group B of the Asia Cup 2022 with a clean sweep, backing their stellar victory over Sri Lanka with an impressive win against Bangladesh on August 28 to become the first team to enter the Super 4 stage. The tournament dark horses were propelled to the finish line in a low-scoring thriller in Sharjah by their middle-order batters Ibrahim Zadran and Najibullah Zadran. Chasing a tricky target of 128 on a dry, spin-friendly surface in Sharjah’s first game of the competition, Afghanistan reached home with seven wickets intact and nearly 10 balls remaining in the innings. The…
Australia’s have lost their fast-bowling allrounder Mitchell Marsh to an injury for the remaining ODIs of their home series against Zimbabwe. The 30-year-old will also skip the three-match rubber later against New Zealand after going down with an ankle issue. Marsh’s injury has been described by the team management and CA’s medical staff as “minor ankle soreness”, but the think-tank is taking no risk with the cricketer, who was key to their 2021 T20 World Cup win. Desperate to retain the crown in home conditions in October-November, Australia have given Marsh ample time to rehab and be available for the three-match T20I…
Former Pakistan head coach Mickey Arthur lauded the Indian team management for thinking on their feet and promoting allrounder Ravindra Jadeja to No.4 in their run-chase in Dubai on August 28 for the Group A clash in the Asia Cup 2022. Chasing a tricky target of 148 on a rare pace-friendly deck in the Middle East, India found themselves 53/3, with both Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli gone, near the halfway mark when Jadeja played a very measured knock of 35 off 29 deliveries to help his team navigate home. The key to Jadeja’s promotion was the make-up of the Pakistani attack, which included…
The Afghans got off to an excellent start to their Asia Cup 2022 campaign on August 27 as they scripted an eight-wicket mauling of their Lankan counterparts, coming up with a terrific all-round display to take a giant leap towards the Super 4 round from Group B. Winning the toss and opting to bowl first, they bundled out the Sri Lankans for just 105 in 19.4 overs, before going on to chase the paltry 106-run target down in only 10.1 overs. The nature of their victory gave Afghans a massive boost to their NRR in what happens to be a…