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Iyer’s inclusion comes as a boost for Mumbai, who will be without Sarfaraz Khan, Shivam Dube or Prithvi Shaw

ESPNcricinfo staff10-Jan-2024Shreyas Iyer will be part of the Mumbai squad for their second round match of the Ranji Trophy 2023-24 against Andhra beginning January 12. It will mark his return to the Mumbai XI for the first time in the Ranji Trophy since the 2018-19 season.The home game at the Sharad Pawar Cricket Academy in BKC is an opportunity for Iyer to hit form prior to the home Tests against England beginning January 25 in Hyderabad. Iyer had a tough South Africa tour, where he managed scores of 31, 6, 0 and 4 not out. Earlier in the week, hewasn’t named in India’s T20I squad for the three-match series against Afghanistan.The two Tests in South Africa were Iyer’s first set of red-ball games in close to nine months since returning from a back injury he picked up during the Border-Gavaskar series at home against Australia last February-March.Related

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After missing the subsequent WTC Final and the Caribbean tour, Iyer made a comeback from surgery during the Asia Cup and played a key role in India’s run to the 2023 ODI World Cup final. He struck the third-most runs for India after Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma in the World Cup: 530 in 11 innings at 66.25 comprising two hundreds and three half-centuries. In December, he was named vice-captain for the last two T20Is at home against Australia.Iyer’s inclusion comes as a boost for Mumbai, who will be without Sarfaraz Khan and Shivam Dube. Sarfaraz is part of the India A squad for the two-day tour game against England Lions in Ahmedabad on January 12-13, while Dube has made a comeback to India’s T20I squad for the Afghanistan series.Opener Prithvi Shaw, who hasn’t played any competitive cricket since August 2023, continues to miss out as he rehabs for a knee injury, while Ajinkya Rahane, who sat out of the Ranji opener in Patna due to neck spasms, is believed to have recovered sufficiently. He is expected to lead Mumbai like he did during the previous season. Spin-bowling allrounder Shams Mulani had led the side in Rahane’s absence.Mumbai squad: Ajinkya Rahane (capt), Shreyas Iyer, Jay Bista, Bhupen Lalwani, Amogh Bhatkal, Suved Parkar, Prasad Pawar (wk), Hardik Tamore (wk), Shams Mulani, Tanush Kotian, Atharva Ankolekar, Mohit Avasthi, Dhaval Kulkarni, Royston Dias, Sylvester Dsouza.

This was India Women’s first Test win against Australia in 11 games since 1977

Srinidhi Ramanujam24-Dec-2023A drama-filled first 75 minutes on the fourth morning ended with Sneh Rana and Rajeshwari Gayakwad spinning Australia out of the only Test as India completed a historic win at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai. It was India Women’s first triumph against Australia in Tests, in 11 attempts since 1977.Most of the hard work done by the likes of Tahlia McGrath, Ellyse Perry and Alyssa Healy on the third day to take Australia to 233 for 5 – with an overnight lead of 46 runs – was undone by India’s bowlers who picked up five wickets for just 28 runs in the first session on the final day. On a pitch offering turn and low bounce, Rana’s two wickets in two balls to dismiss well-set Annabel Sutherland and Alana King left Australia reeling. Gayakwad’s two unplayable deliveries then wrapped Australia up for 261, setting India a target of just 75, which they chased in under 19 overs.Rana ended the match with overall figures of 7 for 119, the best for an Indian spinner against Australia, which also earned her the Player-of-the-Match title.Related

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The day began with Pooja Vastrakar, fresh off her four-wicket haul in the first innings, providing the early breakthrough by trapping Ashleigh Gardner lbw with a little help from the DRS. The start of the collapse also saw India becoming desperate as they had two unsuccessful reviews after Gardner’s dismissal.Amidst that, India’s spinners exploited the pitch better to move ahead. Sutherland, who seemed set to grind, fell to Rana for 27 playing the sweep shot when she gloved one behind, and India used a review to get the decision changed. The next delivery saw King getting an inside edge onto the stumps. At 251 for 8, the game was all but over for Australia with Rana scalping 4 for 63 in the third innings.Sneh Rana finished the match with figures 7 for 119•BCCI

Gayakwad then completed the formalities, first flummoxing Kim Garth with an excellent delivery that spun sharply past the outside edge to hit top of off stump. In her next over, she tossed the ball up outside off stump and got it to deviate into the batter sharply. Jess Jonassen, this time trying to hold the fort for Australia with the bat, missed an expansive drive and got cleaned up. Having been a bit unlucky on the third day when she bowled wicket-taking deliveries across her 27 overs that didn’t fetch her one, Gayakwad came back well to bowl out Australia on the final day.Chasing a small target, India lost Shafali Varma caught behind to Garth on the fourth ball of the innings and went to lunch at 29 for 1. Debutant Richa Ghosh threw her wicket away with 20 runs needed when she went for a wild heave across the line to hand Gardner her fifth wicket of the match.However, a steady Smriti Mandhana negated the spin threat with her unbeaten 38 and sealed victory ten overs after lunch with a lofted straight hit after charging down the pitch.The hosts, thus, completed back-to-back Test victories at home against two quality opponents in England and Australia, with clinical all-round dominance.

Torrens played 30 times for his country and was team manager during Ireland’s 2007 World Cup run

ESPNcricinfo staff23-Jan-2021Roy Torrens, the former Ireland player and team manager, has died aged 72. Torrens played 30 times for his country between 1966 and 1984, and was team manager during Ireland’s famous run to the Super Eights stage of the 2007 World Cup.A brisk medium-pace bowler who took 77 wickets in Ireland green at an average of 25.66, Torrens’ best performance came against Scotland in 1974, when he claimed figures of 7 for 40. He was also good enough with the bat to thrash 177 in an hour in a club game.After retiring, he served as a selector and president of the Irish Cricket Union (the forerunner to Cricket Ireland), before becoming Ireland men’s manager in 2004.”I am greatly saddened to learn of the loss of our great friend, Roy Torrens,” Ross McCollum, chair of Cricket Ireland, said. “Roy was a truly remarkable character, an immense presence in Irish cricket, and a truly great friend – not just personally, but to many people within and outside the cricket family.

ESPNcricinfo’s updates from the 41st game of IPL 2020

Matt Roller23-Oct-2020

A round-up of the Group B matches from the opening day of the Ranji Trophy season

ESPNcricinfo staff06-Oct-2017Cheteshwar Pujara contributed only 35 while Robin Uthappa, in his first match for Saurashtra, was dismissed for 7 as Haryana’s seamers dominated in Lahli. Fifties from Prerak Mankad and Sheldon Jackson helped Saurashtra recover to 271 for 7.Ashish Hooda was the most successful seamer for Haryana with 4 for 59, which included the wickets of Pujara and Uthappa. His strikes in the middle overs left Saurashtra at 104 for 4, after they were 76 for 1 at one stage. Jackson contributed 51 off 59 balls and his wicket left Saurashtra at 150 for 5, but Mankad combined with Chirag Jani (45) to add another 105 runs for the sixth wicket to help Saurashtra fight back. While Mankad was dismissed for a 115-ball 68, Jani fell on the last ball of the day for 45. Five Saurashtra batsmen scored more than 35, but none of them could convert their starts into bigger innings.Robin Bist anchored Rajasthan’s batting on the opening day of theGroup B match against Jammu & Kashmir in Jaipur with his 13th first-class hundred. He was assisted by fifties from opener Amitkumar Gautam and Ashok Menaria, who scored 51 and 69 respectively. Bist remained unbeaten on 105, smashing 17 fours on the day, at a strike rate of a little under 50.Bist came in to bat at the fall of Dishant Yagnik’s wicket in the 14th over and went on to add 73 runs for the second wicket with Gautam. The duo batted out more than 30 overs before Gautam was bowled by pacer Mohammed Mudhasir soon after reaching his fifty. Menaria then joined Bist to add a further 137 runs for the third wicket to set the side on track for a big first-innings total.Towards the end of the day, however, offspinner and J&K captain Parvez Rasool bowled Menaria for 69, and then held on to a catch to dismiss Mahipal Lomror, helping J&K finish the day with four wickets. Mudhasir had returns of 3 for 66 in his 25 overs.Allrounder Jalaj Saxena led Kerala’s charge against Jharkhand in Thiruvananthapuram, with his 13th first-class five-for to leave the visitors at a weak 200 for 9.Jharkhand opted to bat but their opener Babul Kumar was out for a duck in the day’s third over before Saxena’s left-arm spin cut through Jharkhand’s top order, taking three wickets in a nine-over period to leave Jharkhand at 48 for 4. Saurabh Tiwary (22) then added 52 runs for the fifth wicket with Ishan Kishan before ending up as Saxena’s fourth victim of the day, ensuring that Saxena had accounted for four of Jharkhand’s top five batsmen. Kaushal Singh (24) and Ashish Kumar (25) resisted briefly but Saxena removed both batsmen after they got useful starts.Sandeep Warrier and left-arm spinners Karaparambil Monish and Akshay Chandran shared the other three wickets.

New Zealand captain Brendon McCullum has admitted that the 2010 series defeat against Bangladesh was damaging to the players, and he sees this tour as a chance to set things right

Mohammad Isam in Chittagong08-Oct-2013New Zealand captain Brendon McCullum has admitted that the 2010 series defeat against Bangladesh was damaging and hurtful to the players and country. However, he sees this tour as a chance to set things right, and is looking for wins across all three formats.In that five-match ODI series in Dhaka three years ago, Bangladesh crushed the visitors 4-0, with Shakib Al Hasan leading the way with several match-winning performances.”The 2010 series was a good lesson of what not to do,” McCullum said. “We were ill-prepared leading up to that series. It still hurts. It was a damaging tour for many people. It hurt a lot of people’s career, and hurt our country as well.”The big challenge for us is to ensure we get the results which is obviously a series win across all three formats of the game. That’s the expectation of us, and we are better prepared for it.”Immediately after the loss in Bangladesh, New Zealand didn’t win a match in India out of eight games. They however did bounce back to make it to the 2011 World Cup semi-final, won a Test match in Australia and registered an ODI series win over South Africa in South Africa.But there were scars, as there have been changes in captaincy from Daniel Vettori to Ross Taylor and now McCullum. Coaches too have changed, with Mike Hesson now in charge.McCullum however has a few tricks up his sleeve ahead of this tour. Legspinner Ish Sodhi is highly rated in New Zealand, and has a big chance of making his Test debut.”He [Sodhi] has a big opportunity to make his debut. The conditions over here will suit spin bowlers, and his ability to bowl the variations will bring him in the reckoning,” McCullum said. “As Dan Vettori said, he is an incredible talent. He’s a rough diamond at this point in time. If he does get the nod, we want to let him express himself. I want to protect him by giving the right fields and encourage him.”McCullum is also mulling over whether it should be Dean Brownlie or Corey Anderson in the line-up, with the latter possessing a variation in his left-arm seam that could come in handy against Bangladesh’s batsmen. “If we do decide on an allrounder, he needs to bat in the top six. Corey’s performance has banged on the door. We have to work out between him and Dean, who we require in that middle-order, and who’s going to be most effective against the Bangladesh spin bowlers.”But McCullum also admitted that as far as some of the Bangladesh players are concerned, there are gaps in information in the New Zealand ranks. They’ve not faced the likes of Sohag Gazi, Anamul Haque and Robiul Islam, who have been impressive in their early foray in international cricket.”There are a few surprises [in the Bangladesh team]. It’s hard to get footage of these guys, but you get an idea of what they bowl and bat like. Few of us have played against these guys and talked to guys back home who have been involved in tournaments here. We are not 100% clear on them, but we are a fair way there.”

“We should appreciate the players for throwing themselves in the den without being exposed to these conditions,” Pakistan’s Test captain said

Danyal Rasool27-Jan-2025Pakistan captain Shan Masood said he expected the team to continue their recent experiment of heavily turning tracks at home, and that they would be replicated across domestic cricket as well. After falling to a 120-run defeat at home against West Indies that levelled the series 1-1 and confirmed Pakistan’s position at the bottom of the current World Test Championship cycle, Masood maintained there were “encouraging signs” that Pakistan would seek to build on.”Domestic cricket will be played like this,” he said. “We’ve already talked about this. The more we’ll play the better we’ll get at it. We’ve shown encouraging signs. After the four matches, we’ve won three in these conditions. We dominated the first hour of the first day which could have swung the match in our favour. It’s just about winning those key moments and ensuring we’re consistent with these conditions domestically and internationally.”Since Pakistan lost the first Test against England on a flat wicket in Multan, they have reverted to producing tracks that break up and spin from the first day, rendering fast bowling almost redundant. The last four home Tests have seen Pakistan take 80 wickets, with just one falling to a seam bowler. Fingerspinners Sajid Khan and Noman Ali have dominated the bowling attack, taking 70 of the 80 wickets, and frequently opening the bowling attack in each innings. It has turned around Pakistan’s straggling home form, allowing them to beat England 2-1 at home and easing to a victory in the first Test against West Indies. This Test, however, the visiting spinners turned the script around on them, with left-arm spinner Jomel Warrican of West Indies walking away with both the Player-of-the-Match and Series awards.Related

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“It’s a game of all stakeholders. We should appreciate the players for throwing themselves in the den without being exposed to these conditions. We know we haven’t played domestic cricket in these conditions. In some ways, it’s a kind of bravery to expose ourselves to these conditions. We practiced, but this is new for us. But we need to replicate this in domestic cricket, give our batters exposure so we play in these conditions and get runs in them. In the fourth innings, anything over 150 is a competitive score, where spinners will always have the edge.”An unavoidable outcome of such surfaces is the outsized role the toss plays. All four times, the side winning the toss has batted first, walking away with victory three times. While Pakistan were able to flip that script against England in the series-decider, West Indies’ win once more demonstrated the way these pitches can slant a game in favour of the side bowling last.Mohammad Rizwan was bowled by Jomel Warrican, who took the match and series honours•AFP/Getty Images

However, it didn’t appear that way when Pakistan bowled in the first hour, having reduced West Indies to 54 for 8, and letting that situation slip through their fingers frustrated Masood most of all. “We didn’t get the result we wanted. The positive thing was when you field first and you know the fourth innings will be difficult. So you try to restrict the opposition in the first innings. We bowled brilliantly for the first eight wickets. But we’ve talked about the first innings batting and bowling combining to do well, so you have the advantage in the third and fourth innings. If you look at our batting and bowling, and the mistakes we made collectively, that was a crucial time because their last two wickets cost us dear.”Then, with the bat, we went from 119 for 4 to 154 all out. When these collapses happen and the other side puts on partnerships, they can set you back. If we’d got them out early and got a 100-run lead, the Test match would be completely different. With Test matches on these pitches, you can’t wait to make a move, because things are decided on day one, and that is where you can win or lose matches.”This is the end of a cycle, an unhappy one for Pakistan, and for its leader. Pakistan have lost nine of their last 12 matches, all five away from home and four of seven at home. Despite starting off with a crushing away win in Sri Lanka, they have finished bottom of the WTC table, and do not play another Test for nearly nine months.Masood acknowledged Pakistan had fallen short of expectations, but did not believe the side required a complete overhaul, pointing out fine margins made the difference in this Test, and could be worked on.”The tail not getting wickets is an area of concern, and we need to finish off sides quicker,” Masood said, echoing his frustrations in South Africa, where the last two wickets adding too many runs cost them dear in the first Test at Centurion. “Against Australia, who have the best tail in the world, we got them out cheaply, but not here, or against Bangladesh or South Africa.”Batters have been proactive, but we need more contributions. You may not get hundreds here but 30s and 40s contribute to the winning conditions. Kraigg Brathwaite was an ideal example. He took the game on. One batter will need to step up in these conditions especially when the ball is new.”It’s not about holding someone responsible. This isn’t an accountability bureau. This is a team effort. Our mistake as a team was the first two innings. That was what set us back, and gave the opposition a degree of freedom. If we had a 100-run lead, I do not think they’d have been able to play in the way they did. We need to understand the direction of matches will be decided very quickly, as early as day one.”