Cricket

CAPE TOWN :India’s progress was checked late on Day 1 of the first test in South Africa on Friday, with the tourists 28-3 at stumps and 258 runs behind on a tough batting surface. India lost both openers and captain Virat Kohli as it tried to limit the damage in the 11 overs faced before the close. Top-ranked India had ...

COLOMBO: Sri Lanka on Thursday ousted Thisara Perera as one-day captain and said it would announce a replacement next week. Perera took on the job in late November, succeeding Upul Tharanga, who was sacked after a series of losses. Sri Lanka Cricket said it would name a successor after consulting new coach Chandika Hathurusingha, who has pledged to get tough ...

NEW DELHI: Batting star Virat Kohli will pick up the Indian Premier League´s largest-ever salary — $2.7 million — in this year´s tournament, with a host of big foreign names including Australian captain Steve Smith also cashing in. Kohli will stay with Royal Challengers Bangalore alongside South Africa´s AB de Villiers, who will earn $1.7 million in the cash-rich event ...

Australia captain Steve Smith continued to be England´s Ashes nemesis on Friday as he passed 6,000 test runs in an unbeaten knock of 44 to help his team to 193 for two at close of play on the second day of the fifth test. The world´s top ranked batsman and Usman Khawaja batted through the final session in a 107-run ...

Wellington:Pakistan captain Sarfraz Ahmed has his eyes set on continuing the team’s winning run in the five-match ODI series against New Zealand starting Saturday. The winners of Champions Trophy 2017 are heading into the series with a winning streak of nine consecutive games, and Sarfraz is hopeful his team will continue the momentum. “After Champions Trophy our players were boosted ...

COLOMBO– Former Sri Lanka captain Sanath Jayasuriya is suffering from a knee injury and is even unable to walk without crutches. According to details, the 48-year-old has been facing the injury for quite some time now. He will fly to Melbourne in coming days to undergo a surgery. It has been reported that the recovery procedure will take a month ...

SYDNEY: England skipper Joe Root again missed out on an elusive first century in the series as Australia fought back with two late wickets on the opening day of the fifth Test on Thursday. Root was out to a superb diving catch by Mitchell Marsh at square leg for 83 in the day´s penultimate over before Jonny Bairstow was caught ...

Pakistan’s bowling sensation Hasan Ali ended 2017 with a bang, holding on to his number one spot in ICC ODI rankings thanks to an impressive tally of 45 ODI wickets during the year. So it doesn’t really come as a surprise when we see him named in ESPNcricinfo’s ODI team of 2017 – an awe-inspiring group of cricketing behemoths who ...

Colin Munro became the first batsman to hit three T20I centuries with his 104 off 53 balls against West Indies in Mount Maunganui. Four other batsmen have hit two hundreds in this format, including Munro’s former captain Brendon McCullum. Munro carted ten sixes in his innings, which are the joint most by a New Zealand batsman in a T20I innings. Corey Anderson too ...

The International Cricket Council today announced the umpire and match referee appointments for the ICC U19 Cricket World Cup 2018, which will be staged in New Zealand from 13 January to 3 February. The Windies will be looking to defend their title and emulate Pakistan, who won consecutive titles in 2004 and 2006. Australia and India have won the title ...