Reuters) – Paceman Mohammad Amir has taken another step towards international re-integration following a ban for match-fixing after being included in a Pakistan training and fitness squad. Amir, former test captain Salman Butt and fast bowler Mohammad Asif served jail sentences in Britain after being found guilty in 2011 of various offences of corrupt behaviour. […]
(Reuters) – A Seddon Park pitch so green it was barely distinguishable from the outfield had dominated the buildup to the second test between New Zealand and Sri Lanka with many fearing the batsmen would suffer most on the volatile surface. The first day’s play on Friday, however, put paid to any theories that conditions […]
(Reuters) – Trent Boult took two wickets in one over and broke a partnership that had threatened to take the game out of New Zealand’s reach as Sri Lanka reached 264 for seven by the end of a rain-shortened first day of the second test on Friday. Captain Angelo Mathews was 63 not out when […]
(Reuters) – As if a pitch that can barely be distinguished from the outfield was not enough for New Zealand captain Brendon McCullum to worry about ahead of the second test against Sri Lanka, it turns out his top batsman may have a broken finger. Kane Williamson, who fronted the media on Thursday instead of […]
WELLINGTON (Reuters) - Uncapped Canterbury batsman Henry Nicholls has been called into New Zealand's one-day squad for the first three games of their five-m
REUTERS – Sri Lanka captain Angelo Mathews had cast a wistful eye over the green-tinged University Oval pitch when he won the toss in the first test against New Zealand and probably thought to himself, ‘what would Dhammika do on this’? Mathews, without his injured spearhead Dhammika Prasad, inserted Brendon McCullum’s side anyway and hoped […]
REUTERS – Trent Boult took two quick wickets after lunch to help New Zealand complete a 122-run victory over Sri Lanka on the fifth day of the first test at University Oval in Dunedin on Monday. The visitors were bowled out for 282 having been set 405 runs to win and while they were always […]
(Reuters) – A frenetic first innings set up New Zealand’s 122-run victory over Sri Lanka in the first test on Monday, but captain Brendon McCullum was pleased with the way his bowlers stuck to their task without tangible reward. New Zealand ended Sri Lanka’s stubborn resistance after lunch on the fifth day at University Oval […]
REUTERS – Kane Williamson became the second New Zealand batsman to score 1,000 test runs in a calendar year on Saturday when he collected the eight he needed on the third day of the first test against Sri Lanka at University Oval in Dunedin. Williamson, who has scored three centuries and a double century in […]
(Reuters) – Kane Williamson became the second New Zealand batsman to score 1000 test runs in a calendar year as the hosts built an imposing 308-run lead over Sri Lanka at the close of the third day’s play of the first test in Dunedin. Williamson, who achieved the milestone when he surpassed eight runs, was […]
REUTERS – Sri Lanka’s hopes of getting close to New Zealand’s first innings total on Saturday rest on the shoulders of Dinesh Chandimal after he and Dimuth Karunaratne obstinately defied the Kiwi bowlers for much of the second day of the first test at University Oval in Dunedin. Dismissed for 431 early in the first […]
