Author: Kashish Chadha

Former Australia captain Michael Clarke believes Cricket Australia have mismanaged the ongoing captaincy controversy and turned David Warner into a scapegoat after the experienced cricketer requested a change on his lifetime captaincy ban. Clarke took the board’s approach to Warner’s request and their mishandling of the whole situation to task and said they’ve messed up the case where the left-hander only sought the lifting of an “unprecedented” restriction in Australian cricket history. Imposed with a lifetime captaincy ban for proven involvement in the 2018 ball-tampering scandal during the tour of South Africa, Warner had requested revocation of CA’s stance, stating that the…

Reeling from a loss in Perth, West Indies have had a string of injury concerns added to their woes ahead of the second Test against Australia in Adelaide, starting Thursday. Their latest concern is a left knee issue that fast bowler Jayden Seales is carrying into the D/N pink-ball encounter at the Adelaide Oval. The 21-year-old has been under supervision of the tourists’ medical staff ever since picking up the injury in the back half of the first Test in Perth, where he didn’t bowl in the second innings until late in the Australian batting effort. The youngster sent down…

England fast bowler James Anderson revealed that the sickness that English camp dealt with before the Test match in Rawalpindi against Pakistan had an impact on the side’s batting linchpin Joe Root even during the five-day encounter. Anderson disclosed that Root overcame sickness and the viral spread within the English camp to bat and bowl for his team and play his part in their remarkable triumph on Pakistani shores. Root produced a freeflowing knock of 73 in the second-innings of the Test match as England approached a brave declaration to ensure a result on a docile surface in Pindi. He…

Former England cricketer David ‘Bumble’ Lloyd believes Virat Kohli can transform the Indian batting approach and inspire a similar change that England have undergone under Ben Stokes’s stewardship with the guidance of their aggressive head coach Brendon McCullum.  The way Stokes-McCullum era has seen England bat with extreme freedom and gusto to operate with a rate of scoring well above 6 runs an over, Lloyd thinks, Virat could do the same to India by leading the way with the bat and inspiring other Indian batters to follow suit. Lloyd’s remarks were made in his column for the Daily Mail, where…

Legendary batter Sunil Gavaskar believes KL Rahul’s continuous success at No.5 in ODIs is a blessing for India as the elegant right-hander gives the team an all-round option with the bat in hand, with the added bonus of his wicketkeeping skills. Speaking to Sony Sports after the first ODI of the ongoing India tour of Bangladesh in Mirpur on Sunday, Gavaskar lauded Rahul for his superlative knock of 78 off 73 balls on a testing surface and said his ascent into a dependable No.5 player augurs really well for Indian cricket. “He has been batting for India at No.5 with…

Pakistan skipper Babar Azam revealed his inputs were sought by the curator before preparing the surface in Rawalpindi but they weren’t eventually adhered to as the track his side eventually got to take on England was not what they had hoped for. Babar’s revelation came in the aftermath of Pakistan’s 64-run loss in the Test series opener in Pindi, with England completely outperforming the hosts with bat and the ball despite a viral spread into their camp before entering the field. Also read 👉 Stokes on last-gasp win over Pakistan: ‘One of England’s greatest away Test wins’ Pakistan missed their…

England captain Ben Stokes praised his men for their effort throughout the Test series opener against Pakistan and called their triumph on a featherbed of a surface in Rawalpindi as “one of England’s greatest away Test wins”. The tourists came up with their first away Test win in more than a year and also recorded their first victory in Pakistan upon their 17-year-long awaited return to the shores with an excellent all-round display that showcased skill and valour with which Stokes and co. continue to play under head coach Brendon McCullum. Переглянути цей допис в Instagram Допис, поширений Wisden (@wisden_cricket) The…

Ex-India middle-order giant Yuvraj Singh foresees a future brighter than the sparkly present that Shubman Gill continues to operate in at the international stage and thinks the prodigiously talented right-hander will be dominating the scene over the next 10 years. Yuvraj has followed the young gun’s career from close quarters and has been a mentor and a guiding light for the fellow Punjab cricketer. He also opined that Gill is a strong contender to open the batting for India at the next year’s 2023 World Cup in home conditions as he keeps pushing the door for regular selection. Gill has…

Bangladesh pulled off a heist with a record tenth wicket partnership in a low-scoring thriller against India in the first ODI in Dhaka on Sunday. Mehidy Hasan’s rearguard knock of 38 not out and a stoic effort from No.11 Mustafizur Rahman (10*) in a game-changing 51-run partnership did the trick for the hosts in a one-wicket triumph for the memories. Left in a big strife at 136/9, chasing an otherwise modest target of 187, the hosts propelled through on the back of an excellent partnership that saw Mehidy farm the strike amidst few calculative risks that paid off while Rahman…

Australia managed to sneak past a resilient West Indies batting line-up to record victory at Perth by a heavy margin of 164 runs in the first Test of the summer. The Caribbean men kept their mighty opposition at bay for the best part of four sessions to post an impressive final-innings score of 333. But still fell way short of the hosts. In many ways, this was one of Calypso Kings’ more encouraging performances with the bat in hand in the recent history of Test cricket, as they reached near the 350 mark in the fourth innings after posting a…