Author: RoshanGede

Australia Women have suffered a major blow on their ongoing tour of India, with premier spinner Jess Jonassen being ruled out of the remainder of the five-match T20I series with a hamstring injury. The 30-year-old sustained the injury while fielding during Australia’s nine-wicket win over India in the first T20I in Mumbai on Friday, on a day she returned 0/18 from two overs. Jonassen, the second ranked-bowler in the ICC women’s ODI bowling rankings and the ninth in T20Is, has bagged 87 and 82 wickets in the respective formats till date. “Unfortunately Jess sustained a right hamstring strain while fielding…

India wicketkeeper-batsma Ishan Kishan etched his name into the record books during his blistering display in the third ODI against Bangladesh played at the Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium on Saturday, becoming the youngest batter to register an ODI double hundred. Having replaced the injured Rohit Sharma in India’s XI, the left-hander stroked a scintillating 210 off 131, setting it up for India’s dominant 227-run win. He added 290 runs for the second wicket with Virat Kohli after Shikhar Dhawan fell to Mehidy Hasan Miraz in just the fifth over, the partnership being India’s third-highest in the format for any wicket. Kishan dominated through and through, racing to his…

Australia completed a comprehensive 419-run win over the West Indies in the second Test at the Adelaide Oval on Sunday to seal the series 2-0. As such, the Aussies have consolidated their top positioning in the ICC World Test championship points table for the ongoing cycle. With eight wins and a defeat from 12 Tests, the men from down under now have a points percentage of 75, 15 better than the second-placed South Africa, whom they’ll host for a crucial three-match series beginning December 17. It took Australia just 18.5 overs, within 90 minutes, on Day 4 to bag the remaining…

Virat Kohli registered his 44th ODI hundred – his first since August 2019 – which took him further close to Sachin Tendulkar’s tally of 49. However, the feat was merely a side-note, as Kishan smashed record books and Bangladesh bowlers to the cleaners in the third and final ODI at the Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium, Chattogram on Saturday, December 10. India, having already lost the first two ODIs, and with it, the series, were asked to bat first in the absence of regular skipper Rohit Sharma, who missed out with a thumb injury he’d sustained during the second game. Mehidy Hasan Miraz, Bangladesh’s match-winner…

Ben Duckett, England’s top-scorer in their first innings of the ongoing second Test in Multan, maintained that the visitors would continue with a positive brand of cricket even against Pakistan’s mystery-spinner Abrar Ahmed, returned 7/114 on debut on Day 1 of the ongoing second Test against in Multan. Abrar was handed the ball in just the ninth over of his debut and castled Zak Crawley on the fifth delivery he bowled – a googly that breached the right-hander’s defence – to earn his maiden Test wicket. The 24-year-old then trapped Duckett leg-before for 63 to break a 79-run second-wicket stand involving Ollie Pope,…

The Impact Player concept, set to be introduced in the next edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL) in 2023, is likely to be limited to Indian players. The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) is yet to reveal a clear set of regulations regarding the new innovation to the IPL, but as reported by Cricbuzz, the governing body officials are in conversations with the franchises, indicating that only Indian players can come in as the 12th player or as an active substitute during a game. The franchises have been conveyed that a team cannot introduce an overseas…

Beth Mooney continued her imperious run against India women, scoring a fluent 89* to power Australia women to a nine-wicket win in the first T20I in Mumbai on Friday, December 9. The unrivalled champions of the women’s game and the current ODI and T20 World Cup holders began their tour of India in an emphatic manner, registering an emphatic nine-wicket win in the first T20I played at the Dr. DY Patil Sports Academy in Mumbai on Friday. The star of the show was Mooney, who added 73 and an unbeaten 100 with stand-in skipper Alyssa Healy and Mahila McGrath for the first two wickets…

India skipper Rohit Sharma expressed his frustration over players getting injured repeatedly in recent times despite passing fitness tests. India have been plagued with injuries throughout the year, with Jasprit Bumrah and Ravindra Jadeja being the most notable absentees during their T20 World Cup 2022 campaign in Australia, wherein they finished semi-finalists. Bumrah suffered a back injury and played two T20Is against Australia at home in build-up to the T20 World Cup upon a brief return and subsequently missed out due to a stress reaction in his back. The speedster hasn’t played any competitive cricket since, and there is no…

Mehidy Hasan Miraz revisited how he structured his maiden ODI hundred against India in Dhaka on Wednesday, one that helped Bangladesh register a historic series-clinching win. The all-rounder walked in to bat at No.8, with the hosts down at 69/6 from 19 overs after having won the toss. Mehidy added 148 runs for the seventh wicket with Mahmudullah, the joint third-highest by any pair for the seventh or a lower wicket in ODIs, and a further unbroken 54-runs for the ninth wicket with Nasum Ahmed to lift Bangladesh to 271/7 in the allotted 50 overs. In a stunning counter-attack at the back…

India all-format captain Rohit Sharma achieved the enviable record of becoming just the second batter to hit 500 sixes in international cricket. Rohit achieved the feat during his valiant 51* off 28 in the second ODI against Bangladesh at the Shere Bangla National Stadium, Dhaka on Thursday. The 35-year-old has now struck 64 sixes in Tests, 256 in ODIs and 182 in T20Is, leading the charts in the shortest format. His overall count across formats now stands at 502, a tally bettered only by former West Indies batter Chris Gayle (553). Pakistan’s Shahid Afridi (476) and New Zealand’s Brendon McCullum (398) and Martin Guptill (383) round off the top-five, with…