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SYDNEY: Cricket Australia continues to monitor the situation in Sri Lanka but has no plans to change the schedule of the upcoming tour of the island state despite continued violence, the governing body said on Thursday (May 12).
Cricket Australia is monitoring the unrest in Sri Lanka with the national team due to tour the island nation in June and July.
Australian batter Peter Handscomb has opened up on his mental health struggles during his poor outings with the bat. Handscomb, who had made his Test debut in 2016 against South Africa in Adelaide, started his career at an average of 99.75 in his first four Tests, but was later dropped from the Australian team following a poor run of form in the longest format of the the game. Eyeing a return to the side following a 697-run season in the Sheffield Shield, Handscomb said that he received constant abuse on Facebook and Twitter for his batting technique, suggesting that it was hard to "not take that to heart."
Among the few positives that Chennai Super Kings (CSK) had in the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2022, Sri Lankan spinner Maheesh Theekshana's rise is a major one. The 22-year-old, playing his maiden IPL season, has so far taken 12 wickets in eight matches. He is only behind Dwayne Bravo (16) and Mukesh Choudhary (13) in terms of number of scalps for the defending champions. However, things never came easy for Theekshana. In a video released by CSK, Theekshana talks on his struggle with weight and how he managed to overcome it.
Punjab Kings are not having the best of times in the ongoing IPL 2022, with the team languishing in eighth place in the IPL points table. They have won five matches this season so far and lost six. Apart from PBKS, there are three other team on 10 points but the Punjab outfit have the worst net run-rate among them all. Despite their on-field travails, the spirit in the camp doesn't seem to have been dampened. On Tuesday, the team's official Twitter handle, shared a video of a few players taking part in a fun challenge.
Bangladesh all-rounder Shakib Hasan tested positive for Covid-19 on Tuesday and was ruled out of this week's first Test against Sri Lanka, the country's cricket authorities said.
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Bangladesh all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan tested positive for Covid-19 on Tuesday and was ruled out of this week's first Test against Sri Lanka, the country's cricket authorities said. Shakib returned from the United States on Tuesday and underwent a PCR and a rapid antigen test as a prerequisite for joining the team ahead of the series.