Colombo Kings topped the league, winning six of their eight games, and yet lost the Lanka Premier League semi-final to a team that had suffered six defeats in the tournament. Perhaps understandably, they feel aggrieved at the tournament’s format. On the day after their tournament exit, Kings captain Angelo Mathews said that although the LPL
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Galle Gladiators 151 for 8 (Rajapaksa 33, Lakshan 31*) beat Colombo Kings 150 for 9 (Bell-Drumond 70, Sandakan 3-32) by 2 wickets How the game played out Three wins, six losses, LPL finalists. The Galle Gladiators are the first team to qualify for the final of the Lanka Premier League, coming out victors in a
Jaffna Stallions 165 for 9 (Charles 76, Fernando 39, Pushpakumara 2-24) beat Dambulla Viiking 128 (Tharanga 33, Hasaranga 3-15) by 37 runs How the game played out The Jaffna Stallions will meet the Galle Gladiators in the finals of the Lanka Premier League. Though the hope for those watching will be that it will be
However the knockouts turn out, the Lanka Premier League must continue in future years, to help ensure the health of Sri Lankan cricket. The above is what Dambulla Viiking captain Dasun Shanaka had to say on the eve of his team’s semi-final against Jaffna Stallions. Shanaka has been a long-time supporter of starting up Sri
Paul Farbrace is in line to coach the Bangla Tigers in the T10 League in Abu Dhabi in early 2021. Farbrace, who is currently Warwickshire’s sporting director, is yet to sign a contract but has been approached by the franchise and confirmed his interest in the role to ESPNcricinfo. The T10 League will run from
Mushfiqur Rahim has apologised to his Beximco Dhaka team-mate Nasum Ahmed for misbehaving with him twice during the Bangabandhu T20 Cup Eliminator against Fortune Barishal on Monday. In a match that Dhaka eventually won by nine runs, to remain in contention for a place in the final, Rahim’s behaviour with his team-mates, notwithstanding their fielding
With India and Australia set to face off for the first Test of their series this week, this time on Dream Team we’re picking the best current Test XI from the two teams. Australia and India are the top two teams in the World Test Championship rankings, and so we’re looking to pick a team
Sydney Thunder 6 for 180 (Sams 65*, Wildermuth 3-23) beat Brisbane Heat 6 for 179 (Lynn 69, Cook 2-31) by 4 wickets An astonishing innings from Daniel Sams helped Sydney Thunder pull off a remarkable win over Brisbane Heat in Canberra. Sams, who had never scored more than 42 in 35 innings in T20 cricket
Yuvraj Singh could be back in the Indian domestic circuit early next year, after being named in Punjab’s 30-man list of probables for the 2020-21 Syed Mushtaq Ali (T20) Trophy, to be played in January. 2 Related Singh, now 39, had announced his retirement from international – and IPL – cricket in June last year,
Chris Lynn, the Brisbane Heat captain, and Dan Lawrence, one of the club’s overseas signings, will be physically distanced from the rest of the team and opponents in Monday night’s fixture against the Sydney Thunder as Cricket Australia investigates a potential Covid-19 protocol breach by the two players in Canberra on Saturday. Both Lynn and
Pakistan head coach Misbah-ul-Haq isn’t averse to bone dry gallows humour, but this is the one thing you don’t joke about in Pakistan cricket these days. The absence of Babar Azam from the T20I series against New Zealand would appear to be the loss not just of a player but of an entire strategy of
Around this time nine years ago, a 17-year-old Jacob Duffy made his T20 debut under Brendon McCullum for Otago and took out Northern Districts’ top three, including Kane Williamson and Tim Southee. Come Friday in the absence of a number of New Zealand seniors including Williamson and Southee, Duffy, now 26, could potentially make his
New Zealand are hopeful injured pacer Lockie Ferguson, who has been ruled out of the Pakistan series at home, will return to the side before the end of the season. Ferguson has been diagnosed with a partial stress fracture to his lumbar spine and will require four to six weeks of rest before returning to
Jason Holder was at home in Barbados last in June this year. Since then, despite the pandemic, he has travelled with the West Indies side to England and New Zealand, and in between, played in the Caribbean Premier League and the Indian Premier League with a vacation thrown in between the two biosecure bubbles. He
Danny Briggs and Johan Botha are answers to the quiz question. It has taken eight matches but the BBL has seen the first X-factor substitutions with both the Hobart Hurricanes and the Adelaide Strikers using the new rule in the match in Launceston on Tuesday. The Hurricanes were battling at 3 for 70 after 10
Adelaide Strikers 5 for 147 (Weatherald 68*, Carey 55, Faulkner 2-35) beat Hobart Hurricanes 146 (McDermott 46, Ingram 46, Siddle 5-16) by five wickets Peter Siddle produced a masterful career-best 5 for 16 before a century stand from Jake Weatherald and Alex Carey helped the Adelaide Strikers put the Hobart Hurricanes to the sword in
Kent 331 (Bell-Drummond 102, Leaning 75, Lawes 4-51) and 121 for 0 (Denly 63*) trail Surrey 673 for 7 dec (Curran 126, Jacks 103*) by 221 runs Towards the back of what will always be known as the Peter May Stand at the Kia Oval a small encampment has been created. There is a canopied
Western Australia will begin their Sheffield Shield title defence against New South Wales at the WACA, while the details of the expanded WNCL have been locked in with the announcement of the domestic fixtures for the Australian summer. There will be a full men’s domestic programme for the first time since 2018-19 following two disrupted
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