England Women confirmed their spot in the semifinals of the ICC Women’s World Cup on March 27, beating a hapless Bangladeshi side in Wellington. Despite initial jitters in the competition, England successfully made the cut for the knock-outs, coming out triumphant by 100 runs at the Basin Reserve. Batting first after winning the toss, defending World Cup champions England made a more-than-decent score of 234/6 in their allotted 50 overs, thanks to knocks of substance from Sophia Dunkley (67), Natalie Sciver (40) and critical thirties by Tammy Beaumont (33) and Amy Jones (31). Bangladesh did a reasonably good job with the ball, led by their experienced off-spinner Salma Khatun, who…
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The possibility of aggravating an injury to his left elbow has seen Steve Smith opt-out of the limited-overs leg of the Pakistan tour, featuring three ICC Super League games and a standalone T20I from March 29. The 32-year-old, however, doesn’t think he has a “major issue” at hand but wants to not push things too much with it in what is essentially a busy cricket calendar. “It’s disappointing to miss these matches against Pakistan but after chatting with the medical staff I can see the need to take a break at this time.” “I do not regard this as a major issue but…
Chennai Super Kings head coach Stephen Fleming has revealed he had talks on imminent captaincy change in the side’s set-up with MS Dhoni even during the previous edition of the Indian Premier League. Fleming unveiled this after CSK’s 2022 season opener on March 26 that saw premier allrounder Ravindra Jadeja takeover from the legendary figure as the mark of a new era. The former New Zealand skipper said the timing of the change – just a few days leading into the IPL 2022 – was entirely Dhoni’s call. The great wicketkeeper-batter wanted to give Jadeja a “clean slate” going forward in a period of…
Runners-up from the previous season Kolkata Knight Riders posted a comprehensive six-wicket win over defending champions Chennai Super Kings in the 2022 Indian Premier League opener. A tight bowling display from the Knight Riders followed by a composed run chase led by ousted Indian middle-order veteran Ajinkya Rahane helped them claim the first win of the season. Chennai’s batting disappointed, as none of the batsmen could make that much of an impact, apart from the legendary MS Dhoni, whose unbeaten half-century was a stern statement to all those who thought his time was up. https://twitter.com/IPL/status/1507741804569194499 The Knight Riders opted not to retain or…
Pakistan captain Babar Azam said that their approach and mindset on the fifth day of the Lahore Test but soft dismissals cost them the match. https://twitter.com/TheRealPCB/status/1506585258627670020 Pakistan failed to hold off Australia on the fifth day of the deciding third Test at Lahore, eventually losing by 115 runs to concede the series. Captain Babar Azam felt the hosts were positive throughout the innings but the soft dismissals were the measure reason for their downfall. “We didn’t go defensive, we played positive cricket. We had a good session early in the day but unfortunately we had soft dismissals and that’s the reason we lost the game,”he said…
A tweet made in prank and fun made by Rajasthan Royals social media admin felt distasteful to the franchise skipper Sanju Samson, who called out the lack of professionalism from the admin and went to the extent of reportedly unfollowing his own team. The incident came to light on March 25 afternoon, a day before the start of IPL 2022, after RR social media admin made a post where Samson, sitting in the team bus, had his picture filtered around in a funny way. But while some fans enjoyed the filtering of the picture and engaged with the tweet, the picture did…
The longstanding calls for a full-fledged Women’s IPL seem likely to bear fruit by next year as the BCCI mulls a five or six-team event from 2023. BCCI president Sourav Ganguly confirmed the development after an IPL governing council meeting on March 25, saying “hopefully” there will be a proper WIPL held from next year onwards. He, however, added that the proposal from the governing council would need approval at BCCI’s Annual General Meeting. “It [the full-fledged women’s IPL] has to be approved by the AGM. We plan to start it by next year hopefully,” Credit: TOI As per PTI, plans are set in…
The Bangladeshis did give Australia a scare at the start of the run chase, yet the Meg Lanning led all-conquering force proved too good for the challenge once again and eventually coasted to another comprehensive win in the ICC Women’s World Cup on March 25. Chasing a paltry 136-run target, the mighty Aussies were reduced to 29 for three at one stage in their little chase. However, Beth Mooney’s fine hand of 66 off 75 helped them recover well and reach home at the lost of only two further wickets in the innings. To Bangladesh’s credit, they dismissed half the Australian side and kept them on the park for over 32 overs of the allotted 43 overs…
South Africa head coach Mark Boucher cited “fear of failure” and lack of self-belief and intent as major causes of his side’s unprecedented 2-1 ODI series loss to Bangladesh at home. A massively improved Taskin Ahmed took eight wickets from the first and the third one-dayers that South Africa lost in Centurion. But Boucher reckons things wouldn’t have worsened to the extent they did if the hosts had played out the duo of Shakib Al Hasan and Mehidy Hasan better. In the series opener at SuperSport Park, the Proteas let Shakib (0/54) and Mehidy (4/61) get away in a high-scoring game with not much on offer for spinners,…
The 2022 edition of the IPL kicks off a two-month expanded window that is set to offer fans the biggest T20 carnival in the world. The 10-team tournament looms large upon us. But before that, here are all the details you need to know about the much-anticipated season. Dates and tournament window? The tournament starts on March 26 with the opening game between defending champions Chennai Super Kings and last year’s runners-up Kolkata Knight Riders. That starts off a 63-day tournament that concludes on May 29. Nice! But what is the format? Since the tournament is re-expanding to 10 teams after a decade following the inclusions…