Cricket

Mohammad Hafeez has signed for Middlesex as AB de Villiers’ replacement for three Vitality Blast games. De Villiers’ initial stint finished with a victory against Surrey last week, but he will return to the club for the final two games of the group stage, and the knockouts if Middlesex qualify. Hafeez has been playing in the Global T20 Canada – ...

Cricket is set to make a reappearance at the Commonwealth Games (CWG) for the upcoming edition – Birmingham 2022 – with the top eight international women’s teams from among countries that come under the Commonwealth ambit competing in the T20 format over eight days, with all matches taking place at Edgbaston. The game, then in the 50-over format, last featured ...

GALLE- New Zealand have a chance of securing the top spot in Test cricket when they take on Sri Lanka in a two-match series from Wednesday, exactly a month after their cruel World Cup defeat to England. New Zealand, with 109 points in Test cricket, are ranked behind India on 113 points, but a 2-0 series win in Sri Lanka ...

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 ...