August 9, 2023
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The Netherlands team is scheduled to have a 12-day camp near Bengaluru in September. The pre-World Cup gathering of the Dutch men, the surprise qualifiers for the championship, has been organized by the Netherlands Cricket and the Karnataka State Cricket Association. The camp will take place from September 19 to October 1 at the Alur facility of the KSCA. A KSCA official confirmed the development to Cricbuzz after a couple of Dutch officials informed Cricbuzz about the plan. There are plans...

August 9, 2023
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Out of favor batter Fawad Alam has called time on his Pakistan career that spanned for 15 years. Alam, who turns 37 in October, will turn up as a 'local' player for the Chicago Kingsmen in Minor League Cricket T20, a tournament that underpins USA's just concluded flagship T20 tournament Major League Cricket (MLC). He joins a long list of Pakistan players like Sami Aslam, Hammad Azam, Saif Badar and Mohammad Mohsin who moved bases to USA to ply their...

August 9, 2023
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June 27 this year, a random not long ago Tuesday that feels an age away, wasn't special in the annals of Zimbabwean cricket. What mattered was what had gone before and what would happen in the coming days. The men's national team had beaten Nepal, the Netherlands, the West Indies and the United States in the World Cup qualifiers. They would play Oman two days later and surely win. Another victory over Sri Lanka or Scotland and a berth in the...

August 9, 2023
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Trent Boult and Kyle Jamieson have marked their return to New Zealand's One-Day International squad, for the series against England, New Zealand Cricket announced on Wednesday. This will be New Zealand's penultimate series before the 2023 50-over world cup, set to be played in India starting early October. Boult, who has featured in 99 ODIs and been a part of the team in the last two editions of the 50-over world cup in which New Zealand reached the finals, played his...

August 9, 2023
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On August 5, Bangladesh Cricket Board president Nazmul Hasan insisted that they need to know Shakib al Hasan's availability before appointing him as successor of Tamim Iqbal, who stepped down from the post of ODI captain recently. Seventy-two hours have passed since then, but the BCB president is yet to start negotiation with Shakib regarding his availability, likely due to the fact that he needs the board's mandate to make such a move. On Tuesday, August 8, the BCB president received the said mandate from the...

August 9, 2023
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The Netherlands team is scheduled to have a 12-day camp near Bengaluru in September. The pre-World Cup gathering of the Dutch men, the surprise qualifiers for the championship, has been organized by the Netherlands Cricket and the Karnataka State Cricket Association. The camp will take place from September 19 to October 1 at the Alur facility of the KSCA. A KSCA official confirmed the development to Cricbuzz after a couple of Dutch officials informed Cricbuzz about the plan. There are plans...

August 8, 2023
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The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has named former Pakistan captain and batting legend Inzamam-ul-Haq as the national chief selector of the Pakistan men's team. This will be the second stint in the role for the 53-year-old who previously held the position between 2016 and 2019. During his reign, Pakistan managed to get to no.1 in the Test rankings apart from winning the Champions Trophy title in 2017. The immediate task at hand for Inzamam will be the upcoming bilateral series against Afghanistan to...

August 8, 2023
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Former New Zealand captain Daniel Vettori has been named the new head coach of the Sunrisers Hyderabad, replacing Brian Lara who held the post last season. It remains unknown whether the rest of SRH's support staff, including Muttiah Muralitharan will stay on or be replaced. Vettori will be the fourth head coach appointed by SRH, after Tom Moody (2013-2019 and 2022), Trevor Bayliss (2020-2021) and Lara (2023). As previously reported by Cricbuzz, SRH were on the look out for a replacement for Lara...

August 8, 2023
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Tilak Varma, the Indian middle order batter, admitted that the team fell around 10 runs short with the bat following their second successive defeat in the ongoing T20I series against West Indies. The hosts chased down the 153-run target with two wickets in hand and seven balls to spare at the Providence Stadium in Guyana on Sunday. Electing to bat after winning the toss, India managed to post 152 for 7, largely courtesy Tilak's 41-ball 51 - his maiden half-century in international cricket....

August 8, 2023
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Former New Zealand captain Daniel Vettori has been named the new head coach of the Sunrisers Hyderabad, replacing Brian Lara who held the post last season. It remains unknown whether the rest of SRH's support staff, including Muttiah Muralitharan will stay on or be replaced. Vettori will be the fourth head coach appointed by SRH, after Tom Moody (2013-2019 and 2022), Trevor Bayliss (2020-2021) and Lara (2023). As previously reported by Cricbuzz, SRH were on the look out for a replacement for Lara...