Cricket

News How, where and when to watch Sunrisers Hyderabad vs Royal Challengers Bangalore live match at 7.30 PM IST on April 14, 2021 Having started their campaign with a win against the defending champions Mumbai Indians, the Royal Challengers Bangalore will be keen to make it two out of two when they face Sunrisers Hyderabad

News Streak is understood to have facilitated approaches by a corruptor to people within teams he was coach at Former Zimbabwe captain and legend Heath Streak has been banned for eight years after being charged with – and accepting – five breaches of the ICC’s anti-corruption code. Streak, one of Zimbabwe’s greatest fast bowlers, has

News Becomes only fourth Pakistan player to attain top ranking, after Zaheer Abbas, Javed Miandad and Mohammad Yousuf Pakistan captain Babar Azam is now the No.1-ranked ODI batsman, ending India captain Virat Kohli‘s long reign at the top of the charts. Babar’s match-winning 82-ball 94 in the third ODI against South Africa helped him gain

Preview Good news for Capitals with Rabada and Nortje likely to be available, while the Royals face selection dilemma with injured Stokes out Big picture These teams are fire. Delhi Capitals once struggled to find an identity for themselves. Now they are the home of young Indian batting geniuses. Rajasthan Royals see-sawed from one extreme

Usman Khawaja was a world away the last time Queensland hosted the Sheffield Shield final – and had their stride to the title rudely interrupted by the Newlands scandal. In the last week of March, 2018, Khawaja was part of the Australian team pilloried for egregious ball tampering and an even worse cover-up in South

One of the most famous sporting victories of recent history was the curse-breaking campaign of the 2016 Chicago Cubs to win the Major League baseball club’s first World Series in more than a century. It was built largely upon a formula of marrying up a young and dynamic batting and fielding line-up to a seasoned

News Already without Jofra Archer, the Rajasthan Royals might have to do without another key man Ben Stokes has been ruled out of the remainder of the Rajasthan Royals’ campaign in IPL 2021 with a broken finger in his left hand. The allrounder sustained the injury during the Royals’ opening game, against the Punjab Kings,

News Tour games between English first-class teams and New Zealand, Sri Lanka and Pakistan also scrapped India A’s tour of England this summer, which would’ve seen them play against both India and England Lions, has been postponed. Instead, the BCCI will send an inflated squad to “prepare for, and use during” India’s five-Test series against

Preview South Africa might want to tinker with their batting personnel, while Pakistan would look for more from their bowlers Big picture Match one went down to the penultimate ball. Match two was as one-sided as they come. What are these two teams really about? South Africa have been rebuilding for much of the last

Preview Whether Sunrisers, who are searching for their first points, can fit Williamson in will be worthing watching out for Big Picture It’s been a good beginning for the Royal Challengers Bangalore to IPL 2021, winning a hard-fought encounter against defending champions Mumbai Indians on the opening day. They looked like they had the chase

News “People are starting to realise that uncapped bowlers are good enough to take responsibilities of death bowling” For Harshal Patel, being asked to bowl at the death in a T20 game is to be in a “privileged position”, one that he says he has worked hard to earn after being a bit of a

News Batsman may become ‘batter’ under terms being discussed by tournament organisers Wickets could be referred to as “outs” in the Hundred under proposed terms being discussed by the ECB to make cricket more accessible to the new audience the tournament is hoping to attract. The inaugural Hundred – postponed from last year – starts

News Leigh Kasperek’s nine wickets in two games helps her get to No. 17 on the bowlers’ chart Leigh Kasperek‘s career-best returns of 6 for 46, followed by 3 for 24, in the recently concluded ODI series against Australia has pushed her seven spots up to No. 17 among bowlers in the ICC rankings in

News Five members of the touring party hadn’t left for home with the others after returning positive Covid-19 tests on Monday The five members of the South Africa Emerging Women’s side, who had tested positive for Covid-19 on Monday while on tour in Bangladesh, returned negative tests on Tuesday afternoon, with CSA saying the initial

News Lancashire consider options to sign another overseas player after Australia seamer is told to rest Jackson Bird has a bulging disk in his neck and has been ordered to rest for a month, ruling him out of his planned County Championship stint with Lancashire. Bird, the Australia seamer who has 414 wickets from 99

News How, where and when to watch Kolkata Knight Riders vs Mumbai Indians live match at 7.30 PM IST on April 13, 2021 Kolkata Knight Riders come into Tuesday’s contest against the Mumbai Indians having beaten the Sunrisers Hyderabad in their opener. Mumbai, the defending champions, though, had suffered a narrow two-wicket loss against Royal

News The players have undergone another round of testing, the results of which will be available later on Tuesday Five members of the touring South Africa Emerging Women’s side have tested positive for Covid-19 in Sylhet late on Monday before they left for Dhaka. The players have undergone another round of testing, the results of

News Ongoing elbow problem will be assessed once fast bowler returns to nets, ECB says Jofra Archer has been cleared to resume training after undergoing surgery to remove a glass fragment from his hand. Archer, missing from Rajasthan Royals’ side for the start of the IPL because of the operation to fix an injury he