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Sri Lanka revives virus-hit Bangladesh Test tour | Cricket News – Times of India

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COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s cricket board Friday announced that it will host Bangladesh next month and revive a Test series that was postponed last year due to the coronavirus pandemic.
“The series was originally scheduled to be played during October – November 2020 but was postponed due to Covid-19,” the board said in a statement.
Sri Lanka was originally scheduled to play three Tests, but under the revised schedule only two matches will be played.
Sri Lanka Cricket said Bangladesh will arrive in Sri Lanka on April 12 and play their first Test on April 21 in Kandy followed by the next match, also at the same venue, from April 29.
Sri Lanka hosted its first international match during the pandemic when they played against England in January at an empty stadium where spectators were barred under health regulations.
Sri Lanka has recorded a surge in cases since October. Nearly 90,000 Covid-19 infections have been reported in the South Asian island where 538 have died of the virus.

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Pakistan optimistic about hosting India in 2023 Asia Cup: Ehsan Mani | Cricket News – Times of India

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KARACHI: Pakistan Cricket Board chairman Ehsan Mani is optimistic about hosting India in the Asia Cup in 2023 and hopes the political relations between the two neighbouring countries would improve by then.
Mani informed that Sri Lanka will host the Asia Cup in 2022, ruling out any chances of the continental event being staged this year in June.
“In 2022 Sri Lanka will have it (Asia Cup) and in 2023 Pakistan will be hosting the regional event. I am optimistic that by time the political relations between the two countries would have improved and this would pave the way for the Indian team to come to Pakistan,” Mani said.
“In recent days there has been some positive signs through backdoor channels and hopefully the ice will melt in the relations,” he told the ‘Jang’ newspaper in an interview on Wednesday.
Mani said if the Indian team visits its neighbours, it will be a “big breakthrough” for Pakistan cricket.
Mani further said that the Asia Cup 2021 is unlikely to be held as Pakistan doesn’t have the time for it due to PSL 6 matches and India will also be busy with the ICC World Test Championship final against New Zealand.
“Their is no question of the Asia Cup being held this year as we are very busy and don’t have time to spare this year.”
“There was a small window in June in which we are going to play the rest of the Pakistan Super League matches,” Mani said.
“The Indian team will play the final of the Test Championship against New Zealand. They have to go to England two weeks ago and stay in quarantine so the Indian team is also busy,” he added.
Mani said he hasn’t officially received any information on the reports of India sending its ‘B’ team for the Asia Cup.
“We have also heard about the Indian board wanting to send a B team to Asia Cup but no one has spoken about it to us.”
Mani said the revenue earned from the Asia Cup will be spend on promoting cricket in associate countries.
He said the Asian Cricket Council is guaranteed a proper income from the tournament only if all the teams take part in the regional competition.
Mani also disclosed that the ICC had assured the PCB about Pakistan’s participation in the World T20 this year in India.

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ICC Rankings: Virat Kohli rises to 5th in T20I list, only batsman in top 5 across formats | Cricket News – Times of India

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DUBAI: India skipper Virat Kohli has moved back into the top five while England star batsman Jos Buttler has re-entered the top 20 in the latest ICC men’s T20I rankings after blistering performances in their ongoing five-match series in Ahmedabad.
Kohli, a formerly top-ranked batsman in the format and currently number one in ODIs, has gained one slot and a massive 47 rating points after unbeaten knocks of 73 and 77 in the second and third T20I. The India skipper is at the fifth spot and that has made him the only batsman to be placed in the top-5 across all three formats.
Buttler’s match-winning 83 not out in the third match has helped him advance five places to the 19th position, just two shy of his career-best 17th position attained in October 2018.
Shreyas Iyer (up 32 places to 31st) and Rishabh Pant (up 30 places to 80th) have gained among batsmen while all-rounder Washington Sundar (up two places to 11th) and seam bowlers Shardul Thakur (up 14 places to 27th) and Bhuvneshwar Kumar (up seven places to 45th) have moved up the list for bowlers.
For England, Jonny Bairstow, who chipped in with 40 runs and was associated in an unbroken 77-run stand with Buttler in the eight-wicket win on Tuesday, has moved up two slots to 14th position in the list led by his compatriot Dawid Malan. Jason Roy has advanced four slots to 24th with scores of 49 and 46 in the first two matches.
Fast bowlers Jofra Archer (up 43 places to 34th) and Mark Wood (up 59 places to 39th), as well as left-arm seam bowler Sam Curran (up 41 places to 74th) have gained in the weekly update for men, carried out on Wednesdays.
In the men’s ODI rankings, wicketkeeper-batsman Shai Hope’s Player of the Series effort against Sri Lanka, in which he had scores of 110, 84 and 64, has helped him gain five slots and reach joint-seventh position, three off his career-best fourth position attained in May 2019.
Nicholas Pooran (up one place to 32nd), Evin Lewis (up 10 places to 44th) and Darren Bravo (up eight places to 99th) are the other West Indies players to move up in the batting list after their team won the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup Super League series 3-0. Fast bowler Alzarri Joseph’s four wickets see him advance seven places to a career-best 27th position.
For Sri Lanka, Danushka Gunathilaka has gained 20 slots to reach 51st position after scoring 187 runs in the series while PWH de Silva (up from 94th to 66th) and Lakshan Sandakan (up from 124th to 99th) are among those to move up the bowlers’ list.
In the men’s Test Rankings, Hashmatullah Shahidi has entered the top 100 after notching up Afghanistan’s first Test double century, which helped his team beat Zimbabwe by six wickets to level the two-match series 1-1. He has rocketed 47 places to 90th position.
Captain Asghar Afghan, who scored 164 and shared a fourth-wicket partnership of 307 with Hashmatullah, has moved up to a career-best 65th place while leg-spinner Rashid Khan’s toil of bowling nearly 100 overs not only earned him returns of four for 138 and seven for 137 but also a reward of nine places to reach 32nd position in the rankings.
Zimbabwe captain Sean Williams is up to a career-best 24th place after scoring 151 while following-on, his tally of 621 rating points the highest for his country since Brendan Taylor in 2014. Donald Tiripano’s knock of 95 in the second innings has helped him progress 22 places to 123rd in the charts.

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Match-Fixing: ICC bans UAE players Naveed and Shaiman for eight years | Cricket News – Times of India

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DUBAI: The ICC on Tuesday slapped eight-year bans on United Arab Emirates (UAE) cricketers Mohammad Naveed and Shaiman Anwar Butt for their alleged role in trying to fix matches in the T20 World Cup qualifier in 2019.
The bans are backdated to October 16, 2019, when they were provisionally suspended for attempting to corrupt matches and found guilty of breaching the global body’s Anti-Corruption Code.
The 33-year-old former captain and right arm pacer Naveed has played 39 ODIs and 31 T20 Internationals for his country, while 42-year-old middle-order batsman Butt has played 40 ODIs and 32 games in the shortest format.
“Mohammad Naveed and Shaiman Anwar represented their adopted country, the UAE at the highest level in cricket,” Alex Marshall, ICC General Manager – Integrity Unit, said in an ICC release.
“Naveed was the captain and leading wicket taker. Anwar was the opening bat. Both had long international careers and were well versed in the threat from match fixers.

“That they both chose to engage with this corrupt activity was a cynical betrayal of their positions, their teammates, and all supporters of UAE cricket.”
According to the release, the two cricketers were found guilty of: Article 2.1.1 – for being party to an agreement or effort to fix or contrive or otherwise influence improperly the result, progress, conduct or other aspect(s) of a match or matches at the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup Qualifier 2019.
Article 2.4.4 – Failing to disclose to the ACU full details of any approaches or invitations received to engage in corrupt conduct under the Code at the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup Qualifier 2019.
Naveed was also found guilty of breaching the following two counts of the Emirates Cricket Board Anti-Corruption Code for Participants of the T10 League 2019:
Article 2.1.1 – for being party to an agreement or effort to fix or contrive or otherwise influence improperly the result, progress, conduct or other aspect(s) of a match or matches at the T10 League 2019.
Article 2.4.4 – Failing to disclose to the ACU full details of any approaches or invitations received to engage in corrupt conduct under the Code at the T10 League 2019.
Marshall expressed happiness that both have been given significant sanctions.
“I am pleased that the independent Tribunal has imposed significant bans from all forms of cricket and this should serve as a warning to any cricketer who considers taking the wrong path.”



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Afghanistan vs Zimbabwe, 2nd Test: Hashmatullah Shahidi becomes first Afghan player to smash Test double hundred | Cricket News – Times of India

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ABU DHABI: Hashmatullah Shahidi became the first Afghanistan player to smash a Test double hundred while his team notched up several batting records on a memorable day two of their second and final match against Zimbabwe in Abu Dhabi on Thursday.
Playing their sixth test match, the Afghans racked up 545-4, their highest total ever, before captain Asghar Afghan declared their first innings.
Their previous highest total was 342 when they beat Bangladesh in 2019 to register their first Test victory.
The skipper himself hit 164, which was briefly the highest Test total by an Afghan batsman until Shahidi eclipsed it.
The 307-run fourth-wicket stand between them was also the biggest partnership for Afghanistan who played their first test against India in 2018.
Shahidi took a single off Donald Tiripano to bring up his double hundred. He celebrated it with a roar, while team mates gave him a standing ovation and Zimbabwe players walked up to congratulate him.

Shahidi faced 443 balls for his 200 not out, which included 21 boundaries and a six.
At stumps on Day 2, Zimbabwe were 50 for no loss, trailing by 495 runs in their first innings.
Zimbabwe had won the opening Test at the same venue inside two days.



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Manu Sawhney: ICC asks CEO Manu Sawhney to go on leave after preliminary investigation by UK-based agency shows misconduct | Cricket News – Times of India

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MUMBAI: The International Cricket Council (ICC) has asked Chief Executive Manu Sawhney to go on “leave” after an investigation, outsourced to an international agency of global reputation, has preliminarily concluded that his conduct over the last 12 months has been unsavoury and against the federation’s way of leading its operations.
“Allegations ranging from very serious to as petty as arrogance and high-handedness, to as internally serious as hiring and sacking employees at whim are being held against this individual. Cricket administration has been in absolute disarray and ICC had to act,” sources in direct know of developments said.
The ICC, TOI understands, commissioned UK-based accounting firm PriceWaterHouseCoopers (PWC) earlier this year to investigate Sawhney’s “manner of conduct” within the organisation and its multiple stakeholders ever since coming on board a couple of years ago. The final report of the investigation is expected to be brought out anytime soon.
Well-placed sources confirmed to TOI this week that the results of the investigation – a forensic, interviewing, auditing and clinical assessment of employee-conduct – has been looking into several misdemeanours on the part of Sawhney, who’s been under the scanner for some time now. PWC UK is learnt to have interviewed ICC employees at all levels over the last one month to gather information on the individual and sources say the response has been “detrimental”.
From unilateral allotment of ICC events – or at least the promise of it – to dictating the upcoming media-rights cycle of the governing body to “employee harassment” and the proverbial “antagonising of the Big Three”, sources say “things were always under the scanner”.
“PWC UK was brought on board around January. The reports are due anytime soon. It’s been a horrible time for the ICC. It’s very unfortunate if what is being spoken of in whispers turns out to be true,” well-placed sources said.
TOI has written to the ICC on email about these developments and is waiting for an official response. TOI is in possession of further details on this investigation but is waiting for the ICC to come on record.

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Exclusive: ICC asks senior employee to go on leave after preliminary investigation by UK-based agency shows misconduct | Cricket News – Times of India

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MUMBAI: The International Cricket Council (ICC) has asked a senior employee to go on “leave” after an investigation, outsourced to an international agency of global reputation, has preliminarily concluded that the individual’s conduct over the last 12 months has been unsavoury and against the federation’s way of leading its operations.
“Allegations ranging from very serious to as petty as arrogance and high-handedness, to as internally serious as hiring and sacking employees at whim are being held against this individual. Cricket administration has been in absolute disarray and ICC had to act,” sources in direct know of developments said.
The ICC, TOI understands, commissioned UK-based accounting firm PriceWaterHouseCoopers (PWC) earlier this year to investigate the employee’s “manner of conduct” within the organisation and its multiple stakeholders ever since coming on board a couple of years ago. The final report of the investigation is expected to be brought out anytime soon.
Well-placed sources confirmed to TOI this week that the results of the investigation – a forensic, interviewing, auditing and clinical assessment of employee-conduct – has been looking into several misdemeanours on the part of this said individual, who’s been under the scanner for some time now. PWC UK is learnt to have interviewed ICC employees at all levels over the last one month to gather information on the individual and sources say the response has been “detrimental”.
From unilateral allotment of ICC events – or at least the promise of it – to dictating the upcoming media-rights cycle of the governing body to “employee harassment” and the proverbial “antagonising of the Big Three”, sources say “things were always under the scanner”.
“PWC UK was brought on board around January. The reports are due anytime soon. It’s been a horrible time for the ICC. It’s very unfortunate if what is being spoken of in whispers turns out to be true,” well-placed sources said.
TOI is in possession of further details on this investigation but is waiting for the ICC to come on record.

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ICC planning to move WTC final out of Lord’s | Cricket News – Times of India

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NEW DELHI: As world cricket gets excited to see India take on New Zealand in the inaugural World Test Championship final from June 18, it is learnt that the iconic Lord’s cricket ground could miss out on hosting the historic event.
Lord’s was slated to host the match when the International Cricket Council (ICC) had first announced the championship. TOI understands that the ongoing pandemic has got the ICC planning for an alternate venue in England for the final.

“The venue will be announced soon. Lord’s is not the venue the ICC is planning for. ICC will be advised by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) and its own medical health professionals to decide on the venue for the final. There could be a case of creating a similar bio-secure bubble as the ECB had for the last home summer,” an ICC source told TOI.

ECB had hosted West Indies, Pakistan and Australia in Southampton and Manchester last summer. The two stadiums have five-star lodging facilities in the premises. Interestingly, the ECB has announced five different venues for India’s Test series against England from August this year.
IPL to finish by May 30
It is also learnt that this year’s IPL is slated to start on April 9 and finish by May 30. This will give the Indian team a fortnight to prepare for the WTC final in England. Delhi is likely to be included in the list of six venues where the IPL will be played. TOIunderstands that the franchises have been given a tentative schedule for the IPL and the teams have already started planning for playing and setting up base at certain venues.

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ICC’s ‘WandaVision’ Wink Meme Sums Up Australia’s Dilemma to Support England Over India

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Cricket is a funny sport so much so that Australia doesn’t mind cheering on their arch-rivals England in the fourth and final Test against India. While England themselves have bid goodbye to the World Test Championship (WTC) after the 10-wicket loss in the extraordinary third Test, their victory in the ongoing clash at the Narendra Modi Stadium will ensure Australia get a pass to the finals against New Zealand, knocking India out of the running. However, Aussie cricketer David Warner has no plans on backing England, even if it comes at a price of losing their spot in the much-awaited finals.

“No, I won’t be barracking for England,” Warner was quoted as saying by Cricket Australia. “It’d be ideal for us to make the world Test championship final. If that happens, it’s a great result for us.” On the other hand, Australia coach Andrew McDonald, has a different take on this.

“Bit of self-interest there, isn’t it, for us following England for the first time in a long time,” McDonald told reporters in Wellington on Tuesday. “We’ll be hoping that they can do the job there.”

“We wish (England) well, see what unfolds. It’s out of our hands but we’ll be watching on with interest.”

So is Australia supporting England or not?

Jumping into the contrasting takes and bandwagon is the International Cricket Council (ICC), who, in a cheeky post, shared a meme that sums up the quandary that the Aussie camp is facing at the moment. The meme posted by the governing body came around the period when India were losing wickets on Friday.

The meme takes inspiration from Kathryn Hahn’s role in the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s WandaVision— a show that has been the talk of the town in the past few days.

Desis responded to ICC’s take with more Hahn memes.

(With agency inputs)

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