Indian ace quick Jasprit Bumrah unveiled the beast inside him with bat in hand and smashed England’s Stuart Broad for a 35-run over, the most expensive ever in Test match history. The barely believable over was seen on Day 2 of the Edgbaston Test between India and England on July 2, with Bumrah not holding himself back and absolutely hammering Broad in an over that featured four fours and two sixes off the batter’s willow, including on a no-ball, alongside five wides. Facing Broad, England’s second-highest Test wicket-taker ever, from the over-the-wicket angle, Bumrah looked prepared for the series of…
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Kashish Chadha
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James Anderson has declared England’s safest path to recovery in the Edgbaston Test against India will be to “attack” the visiting bowlers. Finding themselves in a deep hole at 84/5 in response to India’s 416 all-out, the pacer believes England need to consider the aggressive route as their most likely road to resurrection. Speaking to the press after a difficult Day 2 where rain and the incisive Indian bowlers combined to trigger the downfall for half of the England batting unit, the 39-year-old didn’t look overly concerned. England’s greatest ever fast-bowler instead took heart from the multiple strong comebacks that the hosts…
England have handed a maiden call-up to Richard Gleeson for the three-match T20I series against India despite the Lancashire player ageing 34. The seamer could well be in line for a national debut versus the Indians approaching an age where most fast-bowlers are either staring at their sunset or trying to delay the inevitable. Gleeson is a late-bloomer who made his first-class cricket debut aged 27 and had to spend most of the previous two English summers on the sidelines because of a career-threatening back injury. With his stocks on the decline, he got a glimmer of hope when Lancashire offered him…
The ever-explosive Rishabh Pant unveiled perhaps his greatest batting act to date on July 1, the opening day of the Edgbaston Test. The player produced a scintillating hundred against England to help India resurrect from troubled waters and end with the day’s honours to their name. Walking into bat at No.5, with India reeling at 3 for 64, Pant characteristically took the aggressive route and bullied the England attack into submission towards an incredible 146 off 111 deliveries at his end. Glittered with 20 fours and 4 sixes, Pant recorded a jaw-dropping Test match strike-rate of 131.51 in trying circumstances. The left-hander bulldozed past a quality English bowling attack towards his fifth Test…
Missing out on the Test in Edgbaston due to COVID-19, the selectors are expecting opening batter Rohit Sharma to have recovered in time to resume captaincy duties for the white-ball leg of the series in England. Rohit has been named skipper for both T20Is and ODIs part of the limited-overs section of India’s July tour of England. Rohit takes the captaincy honour back from Rishabh Pant and Hardik Pandya, who were placed at the helm of affairs temporarily for the five-match T20I series at home against South Africa and the short stop-over trip to Ireland, respectively. The veteran cricketer, in whose absence Jasprit Bumrah will be leading the…
Appointed skipper for the Edgbaston Test against England, Indian spearhead Jasprit Bumrah called it one of his “biggest achievements” in what happens to be a career on the rise for arguably the world’s finest quick. Bumrah will be captaining India in Birmingham in the absence of regular captain Rohit Sharma, who is yet to recover from a bout of coronavirus. His rise to captaincy makes him the first Indian fast-bowling male to be appointed captain in any format since the great allrounder Kapil Dev donned the leader’s badge. Kapil’s last assignment as India captain came way back in 1987 when he led the side against England in…
A spectacular hundred from Deepak Hooda and a gigantic score of 225/7 was nearly not enough for India to beat the Ireland side that went as close as 221/5 in the run-chase during the second and final T20I of the series in Malahide. The tourists were nearly handed the shock of their lives by a fighting Irish team that missed out on series parity by just four runs. Experienced opening duo Paul Stirling and Andrew Balbirnie kicked off the chase with a level of command and authority that Ireland needed to send a message across to the opposition. Stirling, Ireland’s white-ball great, took on…
CVI announced a major tweak to their leadership group in T20Is, with powerhitter Rovmen Powell made vice-captain to newly appointed skipper Nicholas Pooran for the three-match series against Bangladesh at home. The Calypso Kings have gone through multiple playing changes since their most recent T20I assignment in India in February. Apart from veteran Kieron Pollard signalling an end to his international career and premier allrounder Jason Holder getting rested for the entire Bangladesh visit to the Caribbean, missing from the squad that lost 3-0 to the Indians are also Fabian Allen, Darren Bravo, Roston Chase, Sheldon Cottrell and Shai Hope. In search of a T20I revival after facing a Super 12 exit…
Kyle Mayers’ fantastic allround display helped West Indies bruise Bangladesh towards a 2-0 Test series whitewash at home on June 27. The Calypso Kings absolutely shattered the Bangla spirits into pieces on their way to a ten-wicket victory, chasing only 13 runs in the final innings. Mayers produced a fantastic knock of 146 in the first-innings of the Test match to help his side reach a massive 408 in response to Bangladesh’s 234 all out on the opening day in St Lucia. This, either side of his effective medium fast-bowling, once again produced crucial wickets for the West Indies. He bagged 2 for 35 in the first half and bowled…
Ben Stokes used words like “wow” and “phenomenal” to describe the incredible form that Jonny Bairstow has been in since the start of the year as he peaked with his game throughout England’s 3-0 Test series whitewash over the Kiwis at home. Bairstow, who smashed an unbeaten 71 off 44 deliveries to take England home in their series-clinching run-chase at Leeds on June 27, finished the three-match rubber with 394 runs in six innings, made with an astonishing strike-rate of 120.12. The explosive right-hander smashed 77 and 95-ball hundreds in the series against a quality New Zealand attack, which he made seam toothless on what were relatively flatter surfaces than seen at the start…