Tuesday, August 4, 2015

Trending Now: Shastri to miss India's warm-up match, Johnson enjoys taunts

  • Ravi Shastri will join the Indian team only four days before the first Test in Galle as he is currently serving as a television analyst with Sky Sports for the 2015 Ashes series
  • Shastri, who missed the Zimbabwe series for the same reason, would have been with the Indian team for their preparations for the three Tests against Sri Lanka, had the series not been advanced by ten days
  • Australia fast bowler Mitchell Johnson has insisted he is relishing the role of being the man English crowds love to hate
  • Now Johnson is bracing himself for more barracking from the crowd at Trent Bridge, where the fourth Test starts on Thursday
  • Morne van Wyk has been recalled to South Africa's limited overs squads in place of Quinton de Kock for both series against New Zealand later this month. AB de Villiers, Dale Steyn and Vernon Philander return to ODI duty after missing the series in Bangladesh
  • David Wiese is in line to win his first cap in the ODI format. South Africa will play two T20Is and three ODIs against New Zealand. JP Duminy and Morne Morkel have been given leave of absence for the ODI Series
  • Openers Martin Guptill and Tom Latham both struck centuries as New Zealand crushed Zimbabwe by 10 wickets in the second one-day international
  • Guptill finished unbeaten on 116 while Latham was 110 not out as New Zealand achieved the target with almost eight overs to spare
  • South Africa A chief coach Vincent Barnes felt that spinning conditions won't be an issue because they had prepared back home with the conditions in mind
  • The South Africans will play a couple of unofficial 'Tests' against India 'A ' in Wayanad after the tri-series, which also involves Australia A
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