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South Africa call up Glenton Stuurman for series against England


Cricket South Africa have announced a full strength to take on England in a home series after a long time away from the field. The Proteas have tried to fill in a perfect balance of experienced and young players in the white-ball squads to challenge the Eoin Morgan-led English side.


With an eye on future of South African cricket, selectors have backed a 28-year-old Glenton Stuurman with a place in the 21-member-squad for the series scheduled to kick off from November 27. Stuurman, a right-arm medium-pace bowler has taken 55 wickets from 43 matches in South Africa’s domestic circuit. He also has 178 First-Class wickets against his name from a 45-game long career.

Along with Stuurman, selectors have also backed Junior Dala to make a comeback into the Proteas squad after a long lay off due to injury.


The selection committee has also gone in with the group of players comprising former captain Faf du Plessis, Kagiso Rabada, David Miller, and Temba Bavuma along with the captain Quinton de Kock for an all-important series against England. Both de Kock and du Plessis have been in great form off late and the Proteas will hope for their longer streak of runs against England.

South Africa squad for England series

Quinton de Kock (c), Temba Bavuma, Junior Dala, Faf du Plessis, Bjorn Fortuin, Beuran Hendricks, Reeza Hendricks, Heinrich Klaasen, George Linde, Keshav Maharaj, Janneman Malan, David Miller, Lungi Ngidi, Anrich Nortje, Andile Phehlukwayo, Dwaine Pretorius, Kagiso Rabada, Tabraiz Shamsi, Lutho Sipamla, Jon-Jon Smuts, Glenton Stuurman, Pite van Biljon, Rassie van der Dussen, Kyle Verreynne.

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SRH vs RCB: Hits & Flops as Holder-Kane show leads Orange brigade into Qualifier

The Jason Holder show was on full display today as the Sunrisers Hyderabad defeated Royal Challengers Bangalore by six wickets at Abu Dhabi to enter the Qualifiers of the Indian Premier League’s 13th edition. In the Qualifiers the Orange brigade will face Delhi Capitals for a seat in the finals. For the Sunrisers Jason Holder, the West Indian Test captain played a decisive role and so did the Kiwi captain Kane Williamson. For the RCB, there wasn’t much positive apart from the two leggies in Adam Zampa and Yuzvendra Chahal and batting wise the veteran AB de Villiers was the only one showing some spark in the middle. On that note, let s look at the Hits and Flops from the game Hits #1 Jason Holder Originally the West Indian was not even a part of the Sunrisers set up as he was not picked by any team in the IPL auctions for 2020. But brought in as a replacement to Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Holder has probably been the best thing to happen to the Orange brigade. Continuously he has performed both with the bat and the ball and in this match too he showed what an asset he could be. The Test captain of the Caribbean team, Holder has established himself as one of the top all-rounders of the shortest format as well. He has now won two games for his team by batting till the end. The 29-year-old scored 24 off 20 deliveries and most importantly formed the much-required partnership with Kane Williamson. In batting, he might have got just three chances to showcase his skills and has got success on two occasions, but in bowling, the Barbadian has been phenomenal. In just six innings, he has taken 13 wickets including two three-wicket hauls. IN this game too, he ended up with the figures of 3/25 and accounted for the crucial wickets of RCB skipper Virat Kohli and in form Devdutt Padikkal. #2 Kane Williamson The Kiwi has been referred to as a bank by his skipper David Warner. Proving him right, Williamson pulled out one of the best innings for the pressure situation as he scored fifty and remained not out to see his team home. Although not able to perform in a great manner in every game, the importance of his presence was understood today. Before this game, he had only one fifty to his name this season. But as they say, you can’t buy experience, therefore the experience of the 30-year-old came in handy as in a tough situation, instead of getting bogged down, he was calmness personified. At 67/4, the Sunrisers were looking in all sorts of trouble chasing a small total of 132. But the Tauranga born Williamson remained unfazed and focused on his innings to get the team home. He built a partnership of 56 runs with Jason Holder. In his innings of 50* Williamson hit two fours and two sixes. #3 T. Natarajan Natarajan has probably been the best-uncapped bowler in this tournament so far. Unleashing yorkers at will, the Tamil Nadu born has impressed one and all with his bowling skills. In this game too, the ball he bowled to take de Villiers’ wicket is being termed by most as the ball of the tournament. Natarajan in total took 2 wickets in this match and finished with the figures of 2/33. But those two wickets were game changing in the scenarios that they were taken in. Flops #1 Virat Kohli This season has not the way Kohli or his fans would have wanted for him. Coming on the back of a failed New Zeland tour and six months lockdown, people had expected that Virat would be at his explosive best, looking to take this IPL as a challenge and win it for his team and himself. But that did not happen as he couldn’t come in-form in the entire tournament. In this game too, his decision to open the innings in place of Aaron Finch backfired as he himself got out for just six runs and on a delivery that did not deserve a wicket what so ever. #2 Aaron Finch For a crucial game, proven talent is always selected over someone new and Finch too was selected in place of his fellow Australian Josh Phillip for this game. But the Victorian couldn’t repay the faith shown in him. He was even shielded for the new ball (although unsuccessfully) by skipper Virat. Finch could only score 32 in this game and in the entire tournament; he has scored just 219 runs at an average of 21.9. He failed big time and was one of the prime reasons why the RCB couldn’t progress further in the series. Special Mention: Devdutt Padikkal Padikkal has been one of the finest young batsmen in this year’s IPL. He has scored 473 runs in 15 innings this season. The talent that he has needs temperament that he lacks. He threw away his wicket in this game when it was required the most for him to stay there and get his team a good score to defend. Still, he is young and therefore would improve by leaps and bounds. But for this game, he for sure was not a hit. While this would be it for the RCB in this year's IPLand they would go out with some positives for sure, but for SRH there is a whole lot of things coming their way. The next match hat 8 November promises to be a crackerjack.

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SRH vs RCB: What experts said as Bangalore's trophy-drought continue

Virat Kohli and his team fell in the same trap of not being able to decide what is a good total batting first and in an attempt to get too much, ended up getting nothing really and once again choked on a big day to give Sunrisers yet another victory over them in the Playoffs of the IPL. With this six-wicket loss to the Orange Army, the red and gold bowed out of the tournament in Abu Dhabi. For the Royal Challengers, nothing really went in their favour as they were forced to bat first on swinging and seeming track after losing the match. Even after coming on to bat, the intent shown by the team was a defensive one instead of being smart as they tried to shield an experienced batsman like Aaron Finch and the captain decided to come up himself. The move backfired as both the captain and the team were given a jolt by Jason Holder. After the initial wickets of Kohli and Padikkal, the RCB never actually recovered and kept on losing wickets at regular intervals ending up with a total that at best was non-defendable. AB de Villiers was the only one who tried to eke out some runs for the team, but he too was done in by a brilliant T. Natarajan yorker. While bowling, the RCB did try to assuage some kind of pressure by picking up the early wicket of Goswami nad then getting Manish Pandey and David Warner out as well. But Holder and Kane Williamson stood tall to see their t6eam through to what was a sweet victory. Captains’ Viewpoint Reacting to the four victories in a row, winning skipper David Warner said that he was finally off the pressure cooker and his nails are all intact. “As we knew we had to beat the top three teams to make it into the play-offs. My nails are ok for the moment,” he said. Talking about the fast bowlers, Warner said, “They have been of great impact for us. We like to bowl Sandy and Holder five overs at the top. Then we try to bowl Rashid and Natarajan in the middle overs.” Lauding Rashid Khan and Kane Williamson for always standing up to the task and helping the team at the crucial junctures, the 33-year-old said, “Rashid has a lot of pressure on him to perform. Kane is our banker. He manages to stick in there and plays the pressure innings. I am running out of superlatives for these two blokes ( Rashid and KW). The wicket was a bit two-paced and agreeing to that the Australian said, “With the class of the batting line up, you knew that wicket had something in it. The boys bowled fantastically well in the middle overs.” The next match of the Sunrisers would be aginst Delhi Capitals on 8th November and it would be in Abu Dhabi itself, where the Sunrisers have already played a game while the Capitals would be travelling from Dubai. Talking about theta, Warner said that it is going to be a competitive game. “It is too early to say. We obviously have Delhi to play. We have been talking about their world-class bowling side. With Shikhar in form, obviously, Shreyas is their lynchpin, they are a world-class side but I am excited,” concluded the SRH captain. Losing captain for the 5th match in a row, Virat Kohli said that the game has slipped away from, his team in the first inning itself but they did well to pull it back in the second innings. “If you talk about the first innings I don't think we had enough runs on the board. We made one helluva game in the second half, the positions we got ourselves into in the second half,” he said. Saying that cricket is a game of margins, especially T20 Virat said, “If Kane was taken there then it is a different ball game. Altogether they put us under a lot of pressure in the first innings. Few soft dismissals, few fortunate ones for them as well and we just didn't have enough runs on the board.” Sying that there is a need for the RCB batsmen to be more expressive with the bat, the 32-year-old said, “We didn't have any phases in the game where we got away from the opposition. We just allowed bowlers to bowl to the areas they wanted to and didn't put enough pressure on them.” Talking about the positives from the season, Virat Kohli said that Devdutt Padikkal has impressed him a lot. He also praised Mohammaed Siraj, AB de Villiers and Yuzvendra Chahal for their contributions to the team’s success. “Devdutt stepped up nicely and getting 400+ runs is not easy. He has played with a lot of class and efficiency for the team. Very happy for him. Siraj has had a good comeback. Yuzi has been solid as ever, AB has been solid as ever,” the skipper said. Talking about the competitive nature of this year’s tournament, Virat said that it has mostly been because the, matches were played at only three venues and thereby the factor of home advantage was negated, giving everybody the same situation to perform in. “No team is run away favourites as such and every team has strong players. Similar conditions for everyone was a reason this has been one of the competitive IPL this year,” said the Delhi born. Calling it as being more than just a league, Virat underscored the point as to how it has been ablet to play a pioneering role in reviving cricket post-covid-19. “It was amazing to have had this opportunity to come out and play. There's a bigger picture going around here and we are all contributing to that,” he said. “To all our fans who have supported us like every year, we just want to thank them,” he concluded. Expert Opinion The experts seemed really impressed by the way Hyderabad fought their way back from nowhere to now reaching the Qualifier-2 and maybe the finals. They were equally critical of how the Bangalore team just gave up in the latter phase of the tournament. Boria Majumdar, senior cricket analyst was of the opinion that RCB played good cricket this year and the only thing lacking for them was a good finisher. Harsha Bhogle, senior cricket commentator recounted how Hyderabad have always found a different person to win them the game and how it shows the strength of the team. He was particularly impressed by Kiwi captain Kane Williamson. Aakash Chopra called SRH a likeable entity mostly because they have found different match-winner in every game and termed Holder's the hero of this game signing as an important factor in the Orange Army's rise in the tournament. Ayaz Memon, veteran cricket analyst was impressed by the Sunrisers and especially the way their overseas stars performed. He also lauded their Indian players and called Nataran's yorker to AB de Villiers as the ball of the tournament. Sambit Bal, a senior cricket journalist pointed out how the RCB lost five of their last matches after winning seven of their first 10, suggesting that they peaked the wrong time, while SRH did exactly opposite of that and results have come in its favour. Now the Orange brigade will play the Capitals in a game that would take them to the finals and give them the opportunity to win the league for the second time since their first win in 2016.

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Gautam Gambhir urges media to stop comparing Rishabh Pant to MS Dhoni

Former Indian opener Gautam Gambhir has asked the media in whole to stop comparing Rishabh Pant and his qualities to MS Dhoni. Gambhir who has won two IPL titles as captain of the Kolkata Knight Riders said that the talks about his similarity with Dhoni put Pant under immense pressure and he started modeling his game with MS Dhoni. He suggested that Pant is no Dhoni and that he too should accept himself as a different player and stop thinking about it after listening from people. “First of all, you have to stop saying that Rishabh Pant is the next MS Dhoni. That is one thing which media needs to stop doing it. The more media talks about it, the more Rishabh Pant starts thinking on those chances. He can never be MS Dhoni. He has to be Rishabh Pant,” Gambhir said on ESPNcricinfo post-match show after another poor outing by Rishabh Pant in the Delhi Capitals’ loss against the Mumbai Indians in the first qualifier. Gambhir also went on to decipher the difference between MS Dhoni and Rishabh Pant in terms of the range of shots they had at the time of making an entry into international cricket. Gambhir said that Pant has a lot to work on both in keeping the wicket and batting if he has to do well in international cricket for a long period of time. “MS Dhoni probably had so much of range when he came on to international scenes. With Rishabh Pant, only because he could hit those big sixes and stuff, people started comparing him with someone like MS Dhoni. Rishabh Pant has a lot to improve, especially from the keeping point of views and from the batting point of view as well,” he added. Pant has had an abysmal season with the bat in the ongoing edition of the IPL as he could manage to accumulate only 285 runs from the 12 matches he has played so far.