Cricket-Australia's Smith ruled out of Pakistan white ball matches
MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Australia batsman Steve Smith will miss the one-day and T20 matches against Pakistan to manage a left elbow injury, the team said on Saturday.
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Pakistan vs Australia: Injured Steve Smith ruled out of white-ball series in Pakistan
Steve Smith will miss the one-day and T20 matches against Pakistan to manage a left elbow injury, the team said on Saturday. Smith experienced some discomfort during the latter stages of Australia's 1-0 win in the three-match Test series against Pakistan, team physiotherapist Alex Kontouris said. “Given he had an injury with the same elbow last year, we felt it important to manage this proactively," Kontouris said in a statement.
West Indies vs England: Chris Woakes answers critics with quick wickets after wasteful first spell
Chris Woakes confounded his critics by picking up three wickets in 14 balls on day two of the deciding Test against West Indies in Grenada on Friday. Woakes came into the match surely knowing his place in the team was on the line after taking only two wickets for a total of 272 runs in the first two Tests, and he hardly helped his cause with a poor opening spell on Friday morning. Initially bowling too wide of off stump, he did not make West Indies captain Kraigg Brathwaite play at a ball in the first over.
West Indies vs England 3rd Test: Joshua da Silva steers West Indies into narrow lead in Test decider
Joshua da Silva's unbeaten maiden Test half-century in the Caribbean anchored a West Indies lower-order revival which pushed the home side ahead of England on the second day of the third and final Test on Friday. Replying to the tourists' first innings total of 204, da Silva's unbeaten 54 and vital contributions from Kyle Mayers, Alzarri Joseph and Kemar Roach lifted the home side from the depths of 95 for six to 232 for eight at stumps. While not nearly as dramatic as the last-wicket stand of 90 between Saqib Mahmood and Jack Leach on day one which resuscitated the English from 114 for nine, the West Indian version of tail-end resistance saw 137 runs added for the loss of two wickets.
IPL 2022: Time for Hardik Pandya 2.0
Hardik Pandya on television these days. “Jahan game on hai, wahan pohochna hai (you’ve got to reach wherever the game’s on).” A scrawny kid running after an autorickshaw, a motor van, to catch a train, running between the wickets, running in to bowl, running to his teammates in jubilation. Just running the distance. Running all the time. Until 2015, the year he made his Mumbai Indians debut, Pandya lived a life running against all odds. Between 2015 and last year, he ran with those very odds stacked in his favour. From here, he has to run to draw some semblance to the journey so far.
IPL 2022: CSK's consistency vs KKR's unpredictability first up
Indian Premier League (IPL) champions. Since then, a mega-auction has happened, both Chennai Super Kings and Kolkata Knight Riders have acquired a new look with their cores intact. And now they are back in the cauldron of Wankhede to kickstart a new season. The CSK-KKR rivalry isn’t exactly top billing, with the Chennai team generally having the better of the exchanges, including the last final. But KKR have had an X-factor over the years that always makes them an uncomfortable team to play first up. Probably, CSK’s bitterest-ever defeat in IPL came in the 2012 final at Chepauk against KKR when Manvinder Bisla played a blinder. Since then, CSK have always been cautious going into this fixture, more so due to the presence of the likes of West Indians Andre Russell and Sunil Narine. These two players have bothered the four-time champions time and again and CSK will try to ensure that the duo does not get going on Saturday.
Australia's Smith ruled out of Pakistan white ball matches
MELBOURNE : Australia batsman Steve Smith will miss the one-day and T20 matches against Pakistan to manage a left elbow injury, the team said on Saturday.
