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After being clean-swept in Tests and T20Is, Bangladesh bowlers Shoriful Islam and Mehidy Hasan put on an impressive show to set up a six-wicket win in the three-match ODI series opener in Guyana on July 10. In a game reduced to 41 overs per side due to a delay, with a wet outfield at the start, it took the hosts just 31.5 overs to achieve the 150-run target with six wickets remaining. Liton Das was trapped leg-before by left-arm spinner Akeal Hosein for 1 in just the third over, but skipper Tamim Iqbal led an early attack with a 25-ball 33 before being run-out in a mix-up with Najmul Shanto to end a rapid 40-run stand.…

India captain Rohit Sharma backed Virat Kohli for the latter’s extended run of underwhelming returns, while also speaking in detail about the team’s refreshing approach in terms of performing in the T20I format. After failing to deliver big in the Edgbaston Test earlier in July, Virat registered scores of one and 11 in the second and third T20I against England, prompting further questions over his form. The former India skipper hasn’t scored an international hundred since November 2019, and his strike-rate of 116 during IPL 2022 had escalated debates on the T20 form too. Also read 👉 Pant jumps to fifth in Test batting rankings, Virat slips out…

Having won just one of their 17 Tests in build-up to the 2022 home summer, England registered four wins on the trot against the inaugural World Test Championship finalists recently, doing so with great audacity and ease. “I don’t really like that silly term that people are throwing out there,” Brendon McCullum said on SEN Radio, referring to ‘Bazball’, the most trending cricketing term in recent times. While the England Test coach stresses that there’s deeper thinking that goes in while executing the aggressive approach on either fronts, he doesn’t deviate from the vision of keeping Test cricket “sexy”, and…

BCCI President Sourav Ganguly, who turned 50 on July 8, opened up on India fielding with seven different skippers in the last few months. India’s multiple captaincy changes, albeit for a temporary basis with an aim to address workload management and a product of untimely injuries, has been a major subject of discussion among fans and experts recently. Since the completion of the T20 World Cup 2021, India have been led by Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Ajinkya Rahane, KL Rahul, Rishabh Pant, Hardik Pandya and Jasprit Bumrah across formats, with Shikhar Dhawan set to lead the ODI side during their upcoming West Indies tour, thereby totalling to eight captains. https://twitter.com/Cricketracker/status/1544681249163603971 The BCCI president addressed the…

Former Pakistan wicket-keeper Rashid Latif believes that Virat Kohli will soon overcome his lean patch, and that the modern day great be at par with some of game’s greats by the time he retires. Virat’s long wait for an elusive international hundred has continued after his twin failures with the bat in the recently concluded rescheduled Test against England at Edgbaston. The former India captain registered scores of 11 and 20, as the side suffered a seven-wicket defeat, leaving the series drawn at 2-2. His last international hundred came back in the pink-ball Test against Bangladesh in Kolkata in November 2019, which now means that…

India’s 50-run win in the first T20I against England on July 7 was their 13th successive win under Rohit Sharma, which is now a world-record. The sequence had started back in November 2019 in India’s three-match home series against Bangladesh, wherein they had lost the opener in Delhi. Leading the side in Virat Kohli’s absence then, Sharma stroked a brilliant 43-ball 85 in the following game in Rajkot, and Deepak Chahar registered a hattrick during his 6/7 record-spell in the series-decider in Nagpur, with India winning the series. The Mumbai Indians captain then led India to a seven-wicket win against New Zealand a few months later, as the side completed a 5-0 sweep…

India captain Harmanpreet Kaur and all-rounder Pooja Vastrakar scored fifties, before sharing three wickets between them to hand Sri Lanka a 39-run defeat in the third and final ODI in Pallekele on July 7. After having won the three-match T20I series 2-1, India women ended their Sri Lanka tour on a high by completing a 3-0 clean-sweep in the ODI series on Thursday, July 7. Kaur, Vastrakar and Shafali Verma stood out with the bat before an all-round bowling show helped the visitors secure a fairly comfortable 39-run win. Credit: ICC India didn’t have the best of starts after being put in…

An integral part of India women’s setup across formats, Shafali Verma is keen to work on strike rotation to build longer innings while also working on her bowling. Verma has been one of India’s most exciting women cricketers ever since her international debut as a 15-year-old in September 2019. A few months later, she was a key part of the team’s run to the final in the women’s T20 World Cup 2022, wherein the hosts emerged victorious. The free-flowing stroke-play is the hallmark of Shafali’s batting, and has fetched her results across formats, with the right-hander having scored three fifties…

India’s Rishabh Pant and England’s Jonny Bairstow made significant gains in the ICC Test Rankings for batters following their brilliance in the recent Edgbaston Test, while Virat Kohli fell out of top 10 for the first time since 2016. Pant has attained his career-best Test Batting Ranking of No.5, leapfrogging Kane Williamson, Usman Khawaja, Dimuth Karunaratne and Rohit Sharma in the latest charts. The Delhi Capitals skipper scored 146 and 57 in India’s seven-wicket defeat in the rescheduled fifth Test against England at Edgbaston. Bairstow, who registered twin-match winning hundreds, has moved up a staggering 11 spots to No. 10, thereby breaking into the top 10 for the first time…

Shikhar Dhawan has been named captain of India’s 16-member ODI squad for their upcoming tour of the West Indies, which includes three 50-over games and five T20Is. Dhawan will lead India in their three-match ODI series later this month, as announced by the Board of Control for Cricket in India on July 6. Ravindra Jadeja has been named the vice-captain in the 16-member squad, which has notable absentees in regular skipper Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Jasprit Bumrah, Rishabh Pant, Hardik Pandya and Mohammed Shami. KL Rahul, who recently underwent surgery for a sports hernia, was not considered for selection. Dhawan had led India during their white-ball tour of Sri Lanka last…