England skipper Ben Stokes was extremely pleased with his side’s dominant seven-wicket win in the Edgbaston Test against India, which further highlights the success of their refreshingly positive brand of Test cricket. England completed their 378-run chase in just 76.4 overs with seven wickets remaining against India at Edgbaston to achieve their highest ever successful run-chase in Test cricket history. The chief architects were Joe Root and Jonny Bairstow, with the Yorkshire pair adding an unbeaten 269 for the fourth wicket, with both scoring unbeaten hundreds. https://twitter.com/englandcricket/status/1544276130332491777 The hosts had gunned down three successive run-chases in excess of 275 last month and have now further extended the one-of-its-kind…
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Several Indian supporters raised claims on social media of having suffered racist abuse by a section of Edgbaston fans during the ongoing England-India Test. The England and Wales Cricket Board and Warwickshire have started their investigation on racial abuse on Day 4 of the Edgbaston Test, after claims surfaced on July 4. The claims were highlighted by Azeem Rafiq, whose allegations of a history of institutional racism at Yorkshire had brought up the issue into wider public awareness last year. A social media user by the name Anil Sehmi (also an official Dhol Player for the Bharat Army) tweeted: “Racist behaviour at…
Yorkshire teammates Jonny Bairstow and Joe Root struck unbeaten hundreds to power England to a series-levelling victory, also their highest ever successful run-chase in Test cricket. Ben Stoke’s men started the final day at an overnight 259/3 – still 119 away from the 378-run target – and the task was completed within the first 90 minutes of play. The architects in chief were Root and Bairstow, with both converting their overnight seventies into historical hundreds. Ex-England skipper Root was the first to the landmark, as a neat trademark, late dab off Mohammed Siraj lobbed on the bounce over a leaping Shubman Gill to the third man boundary. A ball later,…
West Indies international Rovman Powell reflected on his approach and mindset to batting after smashing a match-winning 61* off 28 in the second T20I against Bangladesh on July 3. With his incredible ball-striking abilities, aided by a lot of muscle-power, Rovman Powell has been looked at by many as a worthy successor to Kieron Pollard. The right-hander was at his destructive best in the second T20I against Bangladesh in Dominica on Sunday, smashing an unbeaten 28-ball 61 to guide his team to 193/5 after opting to bat. https://twitter.com/windiescricket/status/1543719578525745153 That was enough for the hosts to secure a 35-run win, and with it, take a 1-0 lead…
In a seamless switch, England have gone from being Eoin Morgan’s team in the white-ball side of things to that of Jos Buttler, with the latter getting appointed the new full-time ODI and T20I skipper following Morgan’s retirement from international cricket. Buttler, England’s destroying right-hand batter and wicketkeeper, had been Morgan’s deputy for most of the World Cup-winning captain’s elongated tenure, beginning with the 2015 World Cup exit, peaking at the 2019 edition of the quadrennial event and culminating with a low-key ODI series in the Netherlands. Also read 👉 England white-ball skipper Morgan announces retirement from international cricket The 31-year-old had stood…
Travis Head and Nathan Lyon bagged four wickets each on Day 3 of the first Sri Lanka-Australia Test in Galle to skittle the hosts out for 113 in the second innings, thereby setting up a comfortable victory. It took the Aussies just a session to close out on a dominant victory on the third day of the opening Test of the two-match series, with spinners playing the lead roles. Lyon bagged a four-fer in Sri Lanka’s second innings to make it nine for the Test, while wrist-spinner Mitchell Swepson returned 2/34, but it was Head who turned out to be the standout performer,…
Pakistan skipper Babar Azam, and senior players Mohammed Rizwan and Shaheen Shah Afridi received top deals in PCB’s 2022-23 central contracts, while allrounder Faheem Ashraf and speedster Mohammad Hasnain were sidelined. Azam, Rizwan and Afridi have been listed in the highest category in Pakistan’s annual central contracts for 2022-23 for red-ball and limited-overs cricket. The Pakistan Cricket Board restructured its player contracts this year, splitting the players into two pools – for red-ball and white-ball cricket. The number of contacts has also been increased from 20 to 33. Seven players – Salman Ali Agha, Haseebullah, Muhammad Huraira, Ali Usman, Kamran Ghulam, Qasim Akram and Muhammad Haris – have been listed in the…
India skipper Rohit Sharma is battling a race against time to be available for the fifth rescheduled Test against England, after having tested COVID-19 positive for the second time on June 29. The Men in Blue are sweating over the availability of their captain for the rescheduled fifth Test against England at Edgbaston, beginning July 1. Rohit, who had tested positive for COVID-19 on the second day of the team’s warm-up game against Leicestershire last week, has returned another positive test on Wednesday, casting further uncertainty over his inclusion. The Mumbai Indians man is set to undergo two more tests – one…
England Test coach Brendon McCullum wants his team to take their ultra-aggressive approach at a level “too far”, to know “where exactly the line is”. England have had a glorious start to the 2022 home summer with a 3-0 whitewash of the current World Test Championship holders New Zealand. They gunned down three successive run-chases of 275-plus – the only such sequence in Test cricket history – the recent two at Trent Bridge and Headingley, respectively, coming at a breathtaking pace. It has been quite a start to the Brendon McCullum-Ben Stokes era, with the pair taking up the coach and captain’s role to…
Eoin Morgan, who led England to the No.1 position in the ODI rankings and their maiden World Cup title in 2019, has announced retirement from all forms of international cricket with immediate effect. The 35-year-old called it quits on a glorious international career spanning over a decade and a half. Morgan had recently led England in the first two ODIs of the three-match series against Netherlands in Amstelveen. He registered a first-ball duck in the team’s monumental effort of 498/4 – an all-time ODI record – and followed that with another seven-ball blob in a series-clinching six-wicket win. “After careful deliberation and consideration, I…