A little over a month ago, N. Jagadeesan earned his maiden Test call-up as a replacement for an injured Rishabh Pant. Jagadeesan did not feature in the eleven for that fifth Test against England a month ago, but the experience of being a part of the Indian team meant the world to him. This positive…
Hello and welcome to Sportstar’s LIVE coverage of the second ODI between England and South Africa at Lord’s in London on September 4. PREVIEW South Africa will look to pocket the three-match series when it faces England in the second One-Day International at Lord’s in London on Thursday. The Proteas blew England away in the series opener, with…
South Africa will look to pocket the three-match series when it faces England in the second One-Day International at Lord’s in London on Thursday. The Proteas blew England away in the series opener, with left-arm spinner Keshav Maharaj and medium pacer Wiaan Mulder dismantling the host by picking seven wickets between them. The English batters,…
“Stay hungry, stay foolish,” Steve Jobs had famously uttered in his Stanford University commencement speech in 2005. Tamil Nadu’s teen batter Andre Siddarth, 19, emphasised the first part of the phrase, speaking to Sportstar at the Chennai Super Kings (CSK) High Performance Centre on Tuesday. “You need to be hungry. I can’t be satisfied. For…
After being handed a 0-2 defeat in the ODI leg, Zimbabwe will want to bounce back when its three-match T20I series against Sri Lanka gets underway at the Harare Sports Club on Wednesday. The Sikandar Raza-led side lost all its four matches in the tri-series involving South Africa and New Zealand in July after beating…
Former New Zealand all-rounder Craig McMillan was on Tuesday appointed as the batting and fielding coach of the White Ferns ahead of the Women’s ODI World Cup, which will be jointly hosted by India and Sri Lanka from September 30. The 48-year-old, who played 55 Tests and 197 ODIs primarily as a batter scoring more…
Pakistan will look to do the double over Afghanistan and seal its spot in the final of the ongoing T20 tri-series when the two sides go head to head at the Sharjah Cricket Stadium on Tuesday. In the tournament opener, Pakistan had thrashed the Afghans by 39 runs to get its Asia Cup preparations underway…
South Africa will be without strike bowler Kagiso Rabada for Tuesday’s opening One Day International against England at Headingley, captain Temba Bavuma revealed ahead of the clash. The 30-year-old is still recovering from an ankle injury suffered in Australia, where South Africa won a three-match ODI series last month. Matthew Breetzke, who has started his…
UAE skipper Muhammad Waseem broke Rohit Sharma’s record for the most sixes as captain during UAE’s Tri-Series match against Afghanistan in Sharjah on Monday. The captain lofted Afghanistan spinner Mujeeb-ur-Rahman for two sixes in the third over of the UAE innings to set the record. The team is chasing down Afghanistan’s total of 188 for…
Netherlands will take on Bangladesh in the second T20I of the three-match series at the Sylhet International Cricket Stadium on Monday. Bangladesh, led by Litton Das, registered a comfortable eight-wicket win against Scott Edwards’ side in the first T20I and leads the series 1-0. LIVE streaming information: When will the second T20I between Bangladesh and…