A player diagnosed with concussion in a Test cannot bat again in that match, and a like-for-like substitute arrives only with the Match Referee’s approval. Steve Smith found out how this works on day four in Durban, when Anrich Nortje struck him on the head during the thirteenth over. He did not pass testing that […]
By attacking the left-hander in two different ways. In the first innings at Durban he tempted a loose drive with a full delivery outside off stump, and in the second he angled a short ball across the batter for a top-edged pull. The outcome was 2 runs from 15 balls and two dismissals, a lot […]
By hitting harder rather than batting longer. The left-hander needed just 1,024 deliveries to reach the milestone, while Suryakumar took 1,164, a difference of 140 balls. Abhishek actually played more innings, 64 against 56, but each visit to the crease was shorter, averaging 16.0 balls compared with 20.8. That speed comes from a ruthless boundary […]
Litton Das ended the drawn Test with nine dismissals behind the stumps, a Bangladesh record that moves past Khaled Mashud’s seven. Eight of them were catches, and one was a stumping, shared across both Afghanistan innings. The haul still sits two short of the world mark of 11, but it places the wicketkeeper among the […]
Crocombe has been handed a two-year deal running to 30 September 2028, even though he has yet to win a cap. The announcement came on 12 October 2026 and marks the first central agreement of his career. The seamer moves from Sussex to Surrey once the season ends, and he arrives with a 40-wicket Championship […]
Fourteen runs separated the sides at Indore, and India should still be uneasy. Tilak Varma and Axar Patel both ran themselves out in the closing overs, and four wickets fell for 49 runs in the last five overs of a total that ended on 223. West Indies finished within touching distance on 209 for 7. […]
Steve Smith is the answer, though only by a whisker, with three catches the entire margin. His four slip catches on the third day in Durban lifted him to 223, three clear of Joe Root’s 220 among fielders outside the wicketkeeping ranks. Root had been the record holder since 2025, and the match wraps up […]
The pair rescued Bangladesh by refusing to attack. Captain Najmul Hossain Shanto, together with Mushfiqur Rahim, took the score from 53 for 3 to 212 for 4 at barely three runs an over, soaking up the new ball and the Afghan spinners across about 50 overs. Their partnership in Abu Dhabi turned a 106-run first-innings […]
Western Province vs Boland match prediction favours Western Province, who hold a 53% win probability against 47% for Boland in this CSA Pro20 Cup Pool A game at Newlands. George Linde’s all-round contribution and a projected 190-plus total give them the advantage, although Boland’s four wins from eight meetings keep the contest finely balanced. This […]
Knights vs Easterns match prediction favours Knights, who hold a 52% win probability against 48% for Easterns in this CSA Pro20 Cup Pool A clash at Mangaung Oval. Knights have won both previous meetings and are tipped to post 180+, while Easterns must fix a batting effort that stalled at 161/7 while chasing 261 against […]
Renshaw has the stronger claim, and the gap is wide. His 190 in the first innings at Durban took 397 balls, while Maddinson was bowled by Jansen for a duck after 33 deliveries. One innings never settles a selection, but the career records point the same way: 653 Test runs against 27. Australia’s next match […]
Tilak holds the clearer edge. His strike rate of 232.8 from 270 runs off 116 balls in overs 16 to 20 dwarfs the 151.66 Dube has managed in T20Is, and he has been dismissed only five times in that phase. Dube’s recent numbers across all T20 cricket narrow some of the gap, though they come […]
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Western Province win
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