Cricket

JOHANNESBURG- Cricket South Africa on Tuesday named three uncapped players in their squad for three Test matches in India in October, the first matches for both teams in the world Test championship. Fast bowler Anrich Nortje, wicketkeeper-batsman Rudi Second and left-arm spinner Senuran Muthusamy were picked for the 15-man squad for a three-Test series which starts in Visakhapatnam on October ...

LONDON- England all-rounder Moeen Ali will take a “short break” from cricket after being dropped from the squad to face Australia in the second Ashes Test this week. The 32-year-old was axed after scoring nought and four in England’s first Test defeat at Edgbaston. He also struggled with his off-spin, taking three wickets for 172 runs across Australia’s two innings, ...

LONDON- Australia have left pace bowler James Pattinson out of their 12-man squad for the second Ashes Test against England, with Mitchell Starc and Josh Hazlewood both vying for a recall. Pattinson was part of the team that won by 251 runs at Edgbaston, taking two wickets in his first Test in three years. But the 29-year-old will sit out ...

Virat Kohli, India’s captain across all formats needs just 19 runs to become the highest run-scorer against the West Indies in One-Day International (ODI) cricket. Virat Kohli will go past former Pakistan batsman Javed Miandad who scored 1930 runs against the West Indies in 64 innings. Kohli did not get a chance to bat in the first ODI in Guyana ...

After a rain-affected first One-Day International (ODI) between India and the West Indies, the two teams will be hoping that the rain stays away from the second ODI which is scheduled to be played at Port Of Spain in Trinidad on Sunday. In the first ODI, only 13 overs were possible as rain in Guyana led to a no result. ...

KARACHI: Pakistan’s women cricket team is slated to spend one day as military cadets during their high-performance conditioning camp in Abbottabad later this month, the Pakistan Cricket Board announced on Friday. According to the PCB, some 30 women cricketers were called for a high -performance camp to be held August 16-31 in Abbottabad. On August 28, however, they would spend ...

Warne became captain and coach of Rajasthan Royals in 2008 after he retired from international cricket – leading them to the 2008 IPL title Legendary Australia leg-spinner Shane Warne has been named head coach of a Lord’s-based London men’s side for the inaugural season of The Hundred. The 49-year-old is seen as one of the best spin bowlers in cricket ...

Pakistan batsman Shoaib Malik destroyed glass windows by hitting two sixes during a Global T20 Canada match at CAA Centre in Brampton on Thursday. Vancouver Knights were playing Brampton Wolves in Qualifier 1 of Global T20 Canada. After being put to bat, skipper Shoaib Malik along with West Indies batsman Andre Russell were hitting the Vancouver Knights bowlers all around ...

Former captain Dinesh Chandimal has been recalled to Sri Lanka’s squad for the first Test against New Zealand in Galle from August 14, after being left out of the tour of South Africa earlier this year and then the World Cup because of poor form. Niroshan Dickwella, the wicketkeeper-batsman who was the vice-captain on that tour of South Africa, where ...

The BCCI has agreed to come under the ambit of the National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA) after years of resisting the move. The decision came after BCCI chief executive Rahul Johri and general manager (cricket operations) Saba Karim met sports secretary Radheshyam Jhulaniya and NADA director general Navin Agarwal in New Delhi on Friday. The meeting took place after the sports ...