Peter Nevill brings curtain down on his 13-year lasting career

Former Australia wicketkeeper Peter Nevill has announced his retirement from all forms of professional cricket with immediate effect after 13 years.  At a press conference, he announced his retirement and confirmed that the 2021-22 Sheffield Shield season would be his last outing.

The-36-year old cricketer was Australia's 443rd men's Test cricketer. He represented his country in 17 Tests and nine T20Is after making his international debut in 2015. 

However, Nevill last played international cricket against South Africa in 2016 at home. Moreover, he hasn’t featured in any professional cricket since February 2022 with a shoulder injury ending his season early for New South Wales.

"I always knew that I was close to the end of my career," Nevill said. "It was a frustrating season for me, I think I've missed more games this season due to injury than the rest of my career combined. I'm very proud that I was able to play for Australia, and that I was able to play for such a long time for New South Wales.

Adding further, I'd like to think that I was able to squeeze as much juice out of my orange as I could. For a bloke with minimal talent and no shots, I leave the game pretty content."

Notably, Nevill captained the Blues in 43 Shield matches, more than any other player in history. Also, he is just four men to have played more than 100 Shield matches for NSW.

"What struck me is I was made to feel welcome by the group [in NSW]," Nevill said. "I was also impressed by how well the senior players communicated to the group what it means to play for NSW: the tradition, the history, and the pride people have in wearing the Baggy Blue.

Hence, Nevill will also be remembered as a loyal and long-standing member of the NSW team and is likely to begin a career as a financial advisor later this year.

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IPL 2022: 'Suryakumar Yadav Is Fit To Play The Next Game' - Zaheer Khan confirms availability vs RR

While addressing the pre-match press conference, Zaheer Khan, director of Mumbai Indians (MI), has said that their ace batter Suryakumar Yadav is fit and available for their next Indian Premier League (IPL) 2022 game against Rajasthan Royals (RR) at the DY Patil Stadium, scheduled to be played on Saturday. Suryakumar missed the first game for Mumbai against Delhi Capitals due to an injury he suffered in the third and final T20I against West Indies, back in February. Yadav was recovering at the National Cricket Academy (NCA) in Bengaluru before joining Mumbai Indians for the 15th edition of the cash-rich league. He joined the team a few days ago and underwent training sessions with the team. "Surya will be available for the next game. He has been practising well, and we are eagerly waiting for him to play," Zaheer Khan said in the pre-match conference. The 31-year-old is expected to replace Anmolpreet Singh and bat at number three for Mumbai. His inclusion in the team will provide stability to their middle order as Tilak Varma and Anmolpreet Singh failed to carry on the momentum given by the opener against Delhi Capitals (DC). Meanwhile, Zak also confirmed the availability of wicketkeeper-batter Ishan Kishan in their second game against Rajasthan after sustaining a hit on his toe while batting against a Shardul Thakur yorker. "Ishan is absolutely fine. He has been practising regularly. He's fully fit and available," Zak said ahead of MI's game against RR. The five-time champions started their IPL campaign with a loss, but Zaheer Khan said that his team has got some learning from DC's game, ahead of their second match. "We have had constructive chats about the options we can take. The first game is always and we usually have been slow starters." "The DC game was good learning for us. Of course, the Brabourne wicket is not easy for the bowlers. But, in terms of planning and prep, we are right on the money," he concluded.

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IPL 2022 | 'It's pretty hard fielding second at the moment,' says Stephen Fleming after CSK's second consecutive defeat

On Thursday, when Chennai Super Kings (CSK) put up a mammoth total of 210 after being invited by Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) to bat first, very few people thought that the defending champions would end up on the losing side in the end. But contrary to their beliefs, the Super Giants stunned CSK by chasing the target with three balls to spare, courtesy of a breath-taking half-century from Evin Lewis and a perfectly timed cameo from Ayush Badoni. Chasing a target of 211, requires an exhibition of extraordinary hitting skills, which were certainly demonstrated by the Lucknow batters. But apart from that, the dew factor also aided some favour to LSG by making it incredibly tough for the CSK bowlers to control the wet ball in the second half. CSK head coach Stephen Fleming opined the same thing post-defeat last night. Although he praised CSK's batting unit for getting 210, Fleming admitted being aware of the fact that even a target of 211 would prove to be unsafe in the wet conditions. According to the ex-Kiwi skipper, the ball skidding off the surface made it difficult for the men-in-yellow to stay competitive in the game, despite the CSK bowlers trying their best for the same. "We did well to get to a score above 200. But we were always realistic. It was going to get harder as the night went on. So, we worked very hard to stay in the game. But, that said, it's pretty hard fielding second at the moment", Fleming said in the post-match press conference. "At no stage did we feel comfortable and that showed in our fielding. In addition, the conditions were wet. So, the guys hung in there defensively, proud of the effort", he further added. Fleming said that the presence of dew took CSK's spinners out of the game as it was getting impossible to grip the wet ball and bowl in good channels. He also revealed that the decision to go with Shivam Dube to bowl the penultimate over was taken in the middle and appreciated the LSG batters for the way they dealt with the medium pacer. "If you looked earlier on, spinning options were taken out of play. It was very hard for one: to grip the ball for a spinner and two: to be effective", Fleming said. "Also, we were hoping to be able to create enough of a run rate towards the end so that we could squeeze someone in. So, the decision was made in the middle to use Dube, and they countered well", the CSK coach further added. On being asked whether CSK could have saved one more Over of Dwayne Bravo for the slog overs by giving Dube one over in the middle, the former New Zealand captain dismissed it by terming it a 'hypothetical situation' and insisted that he would like to back the decision-makers in the middle in this case. "It's hypothetical. You go back and do 20-30 of these scenarios. I'm no one to dissect the game like that. Therefore, I'll back the decision-makers in the middle, who did the best job they could", the CSK coach concluded. CSK will play their third match of the competition against the Punjab Kings on Sunday.