Bengal up against a wall

After a near-total domination of Day Two, Mumbai have Bengal staring at a follow-on and worse in their Ranji Trophy Elite Group B tie at the Eden Gardens. Mumbai dismissed the hosts for a mere 199 before stumps were drawn on Saturday. Anustup Majumdar stood tall amidst the ruins with an unbeaten 108, his 16th … Read more

Unheralded Proteas out to prove a point in NZ Tests

Stand-in South African captain Neil Brand said on Saturday the two-Test series against New Zealand has handed his group of unheralded players a ‘massive opportunity’ to become first-choice internationals. Brand is among eight uncapped players in an overhauled 15-man tour squad preparing for the first Test starting in Mount Maunganui on Sunday. Nearly all of … Read more

SA20: Joburg Super Kings clinch final playoffs spot following Donovan’s final over heroics

Johannesburg [South Africa], February 4 : Joburg Super Kings clinched the last remaining SA20 season two playoff positions miraculously at the Wanderers on Saturday evening. The Super Kings were handed a lifeline earlier in the day when Pretoria Capitals silenced Newlands when they beat MI Cape Town by four wickets with just two balls remaining. … Read more

Naseem, Hunain and Ubaid: The troika of Shah brothers who are set to continue Pakistan’s rich legacy of pacers

In Pakistan there is a saying, you shake a tree and a quartet of fast bowlers would fall. In the Shah household in the Jandol Mayar area of the Lower Dir district of Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa region, the adage almost became a reality. Naeem, fourth among the Shah brothers, played the tape ball cricket tournament … Read more

“Bumrah ripped heart out of England batting line-up”: Alastair Cook

Visakhapatnam (Andhra Pradesh) [India], February 4 (ANI): England batting legend Alastair Cook lauded star Indian pacer Jasprit Bumrah for his magnificent six-wicket haul in the second Test against Three Lions, saying that he changed the course of the game single-handedly and “ripped the heart out of England batting line-up”. Bumrah’s six-fer was the biggest highlight … Read more

‘Virat will play if…’: Selectors to speak with Kohli over return for England Tests after AB de Villiers revelation

The speculations over the “personal reason” behind Virat Kohli’s absence from the first two Test matches against England ended on Saturday after close friend and former South Africa captain AB de Villiers revealed that the India star and his wife Anushka Sharma are expecting their second child. The revelation soon sparked questions over whether Kohli … Read more