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Graeme Smith's role as Cricket South Africa's (CSA) director of cricket, which he vacates at the end of the month when his contract expires, will not be subjected to major changes in terms of scope.
A “super proud” Kevin Pietersen confirmed his cricket career was finally over on this day four years ago.
World Cup semi-final loss to India might have "reshaped" their "values" but the Australian women's team haven't really discussed about that match in recent times, all-rounder Tahlia McGrath said ahead of her team's league match against the 'Women In Blue' on Saturday. Six-time champions Australia, whose World Cup campaign five years back, ended after losing to India by 36 runs in the semifinals, are currently placed on top of the table with four wins in as many matches. India, on the other hand, suffered a four-wicket loss against defending champions England after three wins to be positioned at the third spot in the overall standings.
After registering a two-wicket victory over New Zealand in the ongoing ICC Women's World Cup 2022 on Thursday at Seddon Park, South Africa consolidated their position at number two in the points table. The Sune Luus-led side remains unbeaten in the tournament so far and they now have eight points from four games. On the other hand, New Zealand remained static at the fourth spot with four points from five games. India are at the third spot in the points table with four points from four games. The Mitali Raj-led side will now square off against Australia on Saturday.
Bangladesh have lost every match across all formats that they have played in South Africa - but go into a one-day series against the Proteas on Friday with reasonable hopes of ending the drought. The series opens with a day-night game at SuperSport Park in Centurion on Friday. Bangladesh have a settled one-day side and currently are on top of the International Cricket Council's World Cup Super League, while South Africa are languishing in tenth place.
MS Dhoni, who is known for his witty remarks, was at his best during the interaction with Chennai Super Kings' new recruits Rajvardhan Hangargekar and Shivam Dube. The winner of three ICC titles (2007 ICC World Twenty20, 2011 ICC Cricket World Cup and 2013 ICC Champions Trophy) was in a humorous mood at a virtual interaction organised by India Cements along with CSK's Hangargekar and Dube. Hangargekar was narrating his first interaction with Dhoni at the Super Kings' camp in Surat, speaking about the freedom he has received during the camp, but Dhoni chipped in during the conversation, "he (Hangargekar) has been told to improve his football skills." His witty answer immediately got attention and was uploaded by CSK on Twitter. Dhoni, who loves playing football at practice sessions, engaged with fans just days well before the start of the new season, exchanging banter with young players.
Virat Kohli nowadays looks "stress free" without the burden of captaincy weighing him down, a dangerous sign for the opposition teams in the upcoming IPL, feels Royal Challengers Bangalore teammate Glenn Maxwell. Kohli, who relinquished RCB captaincy after last year's IPL, has also resigned from T20 and Test captaincy while being removed from the ODI leadership role.
"To win a Test match you need to take 20 wickets" - that is something we have heard multiple times over the years, with the likes of Steve Waugh making it a point to stress that it's the bowlers who win a team Test matches. It's not that India didn't have great fast bowlers earlier, but cricket is a team game and individual brilliance can make you win battles (small passages of play), but not the whole war. Things started changing for the better towards the turn of the century when India started winning abroad regularly and also maintained their stranglehold at home. Indian spinners made touring batsmen dance to their tunes on dust-bowls to remain a formidable force at home. Indian pacers used to bowl with the red cherry just to take the shine off the ball and make it ready for the spinners to go for the kill. In the process if the pacers used to get any wickets, then it would be considered a bonus. Touring batsmen who were adept at playing spin, used to be successful with the willow. But things are changing. The trend over the last few years has been one of Indian pacers joining the party that is India enjoying prolonged long spells of Test wins at home. The two Test series win vs Sri Lanka recently was India's 15th consecutive Test series win at home. Let's analyse this closely, taking the Tests India have won over the last few years as the benchmark. The first period we considered was from January 1, 2013 to December 31, 2016. In this time period Team India won 16 of 18 Tests played at home, with 2 draws If we look at the overall number of wickets taken in Test wins from January 1, 2013 to December 31, 2016, the numbers tell us that the pacers took 68 wickets, while the spinners took 242 wickets.