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Sri Lanka announced four new coaching staff on Sunday to assist new head coach Chris Silverwood ahead of next month's two-match Test series in Bangladesh. Former Sri Lankan Test player Naveed Nawaz was named assistant coach for a two-year period, Sri Lanka Cricket said in a statement.
Sri Lanka announced four new coaching staff on Sunday to assist new head coach Chris Silverwood ahead of next month's two-match Test series in Bangladesh. Former Sri Lankan Test player Naveed Nawaz was named assistant coach for a two-year period, Sri Lanka Cricket said in a statement. Nawaz had been the head coach of the Bangladesh junior team that won the Under-19 World Cup in 2020.
Sri Lanka's World Cup-winning cricket captain Arjuna Ranatunga and fellow ex-skipper Sanath Jayasuriya have joined street protests demanding the president step down over the country's economic crisis. Cricket is avidly followed in the Indian Ocean island nation and the pair called on other former players to support attempts to oust President Gotabaya Rajapaksa. The island nation is in the grip of its worst economic crisis since independence in 1948, with severe shortages of essential goods and regular blackouts causing widespread misery.
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka's World Cup-winning cricket captain Arjuna Ranatunga and fellow ex-skipper Sanath Jayasuriya have joined street protests demanding the president step down over the country's economic crisis.
Kolkata Knight Riders' (KKR) leg-spinner Varun Chakravarthy is hoping to add a "new dimension" to his game once his new variation starts "clicking" in IPL 2022, and he is banking on the delivery to put him back on top on the wicket-takers' list soon. If things go according to plan, the 30-year-old mystery spinner would have added an eighth variation to his repertoire. After enjoying a breakthrough IPL season in 2020 with the Kolkata Knight Riders, where he picked 17 wickets in 13 games, Chakravarthy became a part of India's T20I series against England in March last year only to be ruled out on fitness grounds.
Former Pakistan skipper Rashid Latif lauded fast bowler Umran Malik after he produced a stunning performance to help SRH get over the line vs KKR. Umran bowled superbly for his 2/27 and got the crucial scalp of Shreyas Iyer and Sheldon Jackson which helped SRH restrict KKR to 175/8 in 20 overs. Umran took centerstage after castling the stumps of KKR skipper Shreyas with a superb yorker for 28 runs.
Pakistan will host five men's and women's teams over the next 12 months as the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) announced the international calendar on Friday. The Pakistan men's team is scheduled to play seven Tests, 17 ODIs and a minimum of 25 T20Is in the next 12 months while the women's team participate in the ICC Women's Championship, ICC U19 and T20 World Cups and Birmingham Commonwealth Games. The PCB confirmed that West Indies, England and New Zealand men's sides will tour Pakistan twice each in the next 12 months while Sri Lanka and Ireland women will visit Pakistan in May/June and October/November.
New Zealand and England, who had cancelled their respective international series in Pakistan last year, are set to return to the country in November 2022 and January 2023, in a packed schedule announced by the PCB on Friday. England will travel to Pakistan for a seven-match T20I series in September-October followed by the WTC series in November-December. While New Zealand will first play two WTC matches followed by three World Cup Super League (CWCSL) ODIs in December-January.