Tag: T20s

Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) spinner Sunil Narine on Friday became only the fourth player to play the 500 T20 matches. The 35-year-old archived the feat during KKR’s thumping seven wicket win over Royal Challengers Bengaluru at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru on Friday. Sunil Narine celebrated his 500th ...

India and Pakistan are set to resume their cricket rivalry when they meet in their T20 World Cup opener in Melbourne on Sunday. It will be the 12th time that both teams will face each other in cricket’s shortest format. India hold a clear lead in the head-to-head record, ...

Moments after KL Rahul sealed the game against South Africa in Thiruvananthapuram with a six, Rishabh Pant dragged a support staff onto the corner of the ground and made him spit throw-downs. Some of the crowd who were leaving the stadium stopped and began to watch Pant, cheering him ...

As was widely expected, Ramiz Raja's proposal for a quadrangular T20 event got no further than a presentation to the ICC board meeting, the board deciding such a tournament could not fit into the next rights cycle.But Ramiz, whose own future at the board is now under a cloud, ...

“He doesn’t use the off-spin much. He is defensive.” Barely had Ravichandran Ashwin began his T20 comeback after a break of four years, commentators started to observe the same old thing they used to say for years. He doesn’t. And he won’t. And he will be “defensive”. Ashwin has ...

Pakistan toured England last summer, living and playing in a bio-secure environmentEngland will visit Pakistan for the first time in 16 years when they play two Twenty20 internationals in October.England have not toured since 2005 following an attack by gunmen on the Sri Lanka team in Lahore in 2009.The ...

West Indies all-rounder Dwayne Bravo on Wednesday became the first bowler to take 500 T20 wickets. Bravo achieved the feat during the CPL match between Trinbago Knight Riders and St Lucia Zouks. The all-rounder, who was one shy of the landmark, dismissed Zouks’ Rahkeem Cornwall for his prized 500th ...

Eoin Morgan is excited by the prospect of additional exposure when England make their return to terrestrial television this summer but admits his players must also guard against striving too hard to impress. Under English cricket’s new five-year rights deal the live coverage for two men’s Twenty20 internationals will ...

Dawid Malan scored a century for England against New Zealand in Napier in November 2019Venue: Emirates Old Trafford Dates: 28 Aug, 30 Aug, 1 SeptCoverage: Ball-by-ball Test Match Special commentary on BBC Radio 5 live sports extra, Radio 4 LW, online, tablets, mobiles and BBC Sport app. Live text ...