Mitchell Santner will lead in the New Zealand in the first three of the five-match T20I series against South Africa starting March 15 at Bay Oval in Mount Maunganui, Tauranga. Santner, alongside seven other Blackcaps squad members from the recently held T20 World Cup 2026 have been named in the squad. While Santner, Devon Conway…
Gujarat Titans named Australia legend Matthew Hayden as its batting coach ahead of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2026 season, the franchise announced on Tuesday. A two-time ODI World Cup winner, Hayden joins the Titans with an illustrious international career. He represented Australia in 273 international matches across formats, scoring over 15,000 international runs and…
Swashbuckling Indian batter Smriti Mandhana retained the top spot in the latest women’s ODI batting ranking released on Tuesday. Mandhana was joined by her captain Harmanpreet Kaur who remained static on eighth spot. However, Jemimah Rodrigues slipped to 12th after India lost the three-match ODI series 0-3 against Australia. A host of New Zealand’s best…
Tamil Nadu took a significant step towards its maiden Col. C.K. Nayudu Trophy title by securing a 71-run first-innings lead and ending day two on 309 for eight in the final against Maharashtra at the NPR College Cricket Ground here on Tuesday. The contest marks Tamil Nadu’s first-ever final in the competition. Having already won…
India fast bowler Arshdeep Singh was fined 15 per cent of his match fee for breaching ICC Code of Conduct during the T20 World Cup 2026 final against New Zealand in Ahmedabad on Tuesday. Arshdeep was found guilty of breaching level 1 of the ICC Code when he threw the ball at Daryl Mitchell’s pads…
In cricket’s slimmest format, India is leaving its largest footprint. The Men in Blue ticked many boxes as they retained the ICC T20 World Cup after a lopsided final against New Zealand at Ahmedabad’s Narendra Modi Stadium on an adrenaline-soaked Sunday. There was no case of the ides of March scuppering the team as Suryakumar…
With the Indian Premier League (IPL) still a couple of weeks away, disruption in the supply of commercial LPG cylinders used by restaurants, hotels and food businesses has prompted the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) to take note of the situation and explore contingency plans if required. The IPL is scheduled to…
Lost in the tide of jersey sellers outside the Narendra Modi Stadium, a little boy sat cross-legged on the pavement, presiding over a tiny universe of cricket posters, plastic toys, dog-eared first copies of popular paperbacks, and, somewhat improbably, a few old comic books. One of them, its soft cover fluttering in the Ahmedabad breeze,…
The tournament accurately reflected the ever-increasing high-risk nature of modern-day T20 cricket. A record 780 sixes were hit during this edition of the T20 World Cup, an increase of more than 50 per cent from the previous highest (517 sixes in 2024). The number of fours stood at a whopping 1,434, a drastic uptick from…
Tamil Nadu’s supply of left-arm spinners is almost industrial. It currently has more of them than it knows what to do with. For instance, there were at least 22 across squads in the last Tamil Nadu Premier League (TNPL) season. When Ranji Trophy spinner D.T. Chandrasekar assessed the depth last year, he identified seven –…
