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WI vs SA | 1st Test: Nkrumah Bonner concussed, Kieran Powell replaces him as like for like substitute

West Indian batter Nkrumah Bonner has been concussed out of the first test against West Indies. He suffered a blow to the helmet in the fifth over when Anrich Nortje bowled a bouncer and after hitting Bonner’s head the ball was caught by the short leg fielder and a huge appeal followed which was turned down by the umpire. 

After a concussion check, Bonner continued to play, eventually getting out for 10 off a Kagiso Rabada delivery 31 balls later. It was after the West Indian innings ended on a paltry 97 that Bonner did not take the field and Kieran Powell was announced his like for like concussion substitute for the rest of the game, as permitted by the ICC rules. 

Powell, 31, has so far played in 40 Tests for the Windies and in them, he has scored 2011 runs with the help of three centuries and six half-centuries. 

The South Africa team in reply to West Indies 97 were 128-4 at the end of the day, leading by 22 runs. Aiden Markram top-scored with 60 before he became the third scalp of debutant Jayden Seales. The other wicket was taken by Kemar Roach. For South Africa, Lungi Ngidi took his second five-wicket haul in Test cricket as he alongside Nortje wreaked havoc at the Daren Sammy National Cricket Stadum.

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The Hundred 2021: Warner, Stoinis pull out; India’s Shafali Verma replaces Kiwi Sophie Devine

The Hundred is seeing an exodus even before the first season of the marquee tournament of the England and Wales Cricket Board begins. Australia’s David Warner and Marcus Stoinis of the Southern Brave have pulled out of the tournament, slated to begin on July 21. The two were on deals worth £100,000 and £80,000 respectively, "It is obviously disappointing to lose players with the ability of David and Marcus, but the realities of Covid mean there are practicalities that are difficult for some overseas players to overcome," the ECB was quoted as saying to ESPNCricinfo. "Replacement overseas players will be signed by Southern Brave, and we look forward to the Hundred showcasing world-class cricket this summer," it added. However, the problems might increase for The Hundred teams as seven other Australian men's players contracted by many of the eight sides might also pull out. The reason is Australia’s tour to the Caribbean and Bangladesh in the period of July 21 to August 21. Glenn Maxwell, Jhye Richardson, Adam Zampa, Aaron Finch, Chris Lynn, D'Arcy Short and Nathan Coulter-Nile - are all contracted for the tournament. But all these pullouts also give an opportunity to some other foreign players like New Zealand’s Finn Allen who is currently representing Lancashire in the T20 Blast. "Hopefully I can slide in as a replacement player. I've heard a few players might potentially be pulling out from different countries, so hopefully, an opportunity pops up," said the 22-year-old who hit a fantabulous 73 off 51 balls against Leicestershire in his last game in the Blast. India’s teenage sensation Shafali Verma was also confirmed to represent Birmingham Phoenix as a replacement for New Zealand all-rounder Sophie Devine. Devine pulled out ‘in order to be in the best position to prepare for international cricket, particularly with the ICC Women's World Cup due to be held in her native New Zealand in February 20211’. The 17-year-old Verma would be the fifth Indian Women’s player alongside Deepti Sharma (London Spirit), Harmanpreet Kaur (Manchester Originals), Smriti Mandhana (Southern Brave) and Jemimah Rodrigues (Northern Superchargers) to play in The Hundred Women.

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PSL 2021 | KRK vs MS: Bizarre thinking from Babar, brilliant team effort give Sultans a winning start

When the most set, experienced and talented batsman on the pitch doesn’t take the strike in the last over when his team requires 23 runs to win the match, there could be no other explanation to it than calling it Bizzare! Kings needed 38 from the last two overs, having not been able to get on with the chase earlier on. But instead of taking the strike in the last over, Babar tried to run a double on the last ball, and run got Chadwick Walton, his partner for the last 77 runs, most importantly of just 45 balls. With that run out two things happened, Walton, a set man was out and Babar the other set man was off strike in the last over with the team requiring 23 to win. What happened next was even worse. Thisara Perera, the new man, slogged the second ball of the last over, after missing the first one, and was caught on the boundary, but Babar didn’t even bother to change ends. In fact, shocking as it might be, Babar didn’t play even a single ball in the last over. In the end, Babar’s 63 ball 85 could do no good to his Karachi Kings as they couldn’t get to the target of 177 set up by Multan Sultans in the first game of the doubleheaders day in the Abu Dhabi leg of Pakistan super League’s sixth edition. Even after a brilliant knock such as this, Babar cannot run away from the blame for not taking the responsibility of finishing the game. However, even after such dismal planning and execution by his senior pro, Babar, Imad Wasim, the Karachi skipper wasn’t ready to put the blame on him. “There was nothing wrong with the way we played, Babar is a class player and he usually does well for us,” he said in the post-match presentation. However, Babar must be credited for his instrumental knock in the sense that he was able to take the team close to the target even after a disastrous start to the chase. Chasing 177, Sharjeel Khan, supposed to be the go-getter of the two among him and Babar was run out at the team score of 14. After that Martin Guptill and Babar tried to get the team back, but it took a lot of time and a lot of balls for that. Just when Guptill started to get bat on the ball, he was tricked by a googly from Imran Tahir. The 40-year-old mad celebrator had another chance to dance wildly as he removed Afghan Najibullah Zadran to put Karachi in all sorts of trouble. But after that came Walton and he paired up with Babar to keep the Kings in the hunt. Earlier in the day, Multan Sultans, after being asked to bat first, got going from the very beginning. Even after Rahmunullah Gurbaz got out early, Sohaib Maqsood and Rilee Rossouw kept powering on with their big shots and skipper Mohammad Rizwan held one end up. The Sultans reached 100 in just the 10th over. The 33-year-old South African was awarded man of the match for his 24 ball 44. But soon after that, both Rizwan and Rossouw got out in the 11th over, putting the Sultans in a spot of bother. Shimron Hetmyer followed suit as well. From 107-2 in 10 overs, Sultans were suddenly 130 /5 after 15 with all-rounder Khushdil Shah and more bowler than batter Sohail Tanvir at the crease. Instead of getting bogged down by the pressure, the two rather counter attacked the opposition, gathering 45 from the last five, with 19 coming off a Mohammad Amir last over. Perera was the pick of the bowlers for Karachi with two wickets for 13 runs in his three overs. Surprisingly, the Sri Lankan didn’t bowl his full quota of overs. This was only the second win for the Sultans in six games and skipper Rizwan was chuffed about it. “We didn't think about the uncontrollable, so we just gave our best and ended up on the winning side. We tried deciding according to the conditions - 4 pacers, and 1 spinner, and we'll keep deciding according to the conditions in the future matches,” he said in the post-match interview. In their next game, the Sultans will be up against Peshawar Zalmi while Karachi Kings would have a three-day rest and would come back at Sheikh Zayed Stadium in Abu Dhabi to face Islamabad United on June 14.

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ENG vs NZ | 2nd Test: Defiant Rory Burns-Dan Lawrence help hosts survive Boult, Henry's swing storm

Fighting half-centuries from Rory Burns and Daniel Lawrence saved the day for England on the first day of the second Test at Edgbaston after even a New Zealand attack without Tim Southee and Kyle Jamieson put the hosts under enormous pressure. The new-ball pair of Matt Henry and a returning man Trent Boult found a considerable amount of swing in the first session after Joe Root won the toss and elected to bat first. The swing was on offer due to overcast conditions but both the English openers Rory Burns and Dominic Sibley bated with immense control to defy all the Blackcaps bowlers in the first session. The tourists, however, never went away and came back strongly right after the lunch interval when Henry got Sibley to edge on behind the wicket for Tom Blundell with the gloves. There was no let-up for the hosts since then as a skilful Neil Wagner played with the mind of an out-of-knick Zak Crawley and sent him back to the pavilion edging to third slip. England hopes were on the shoulders of skipper Root and an in-form batsman in the form of Rory Burns. Henry was getting a lot of movement in the air and an indecisive Joe Root was sent before he could get his eyes in. With three down under 100, Burns and Ollie Pope started batting freely and put the balls into gaps to keep the scoreboard going. Pope, in particular, was very proactive in his strokes and got England on a roll. However, his eagerness to go for runs cost him his wicket when he attempted to hit a short delivery off Aizaj Patel a little too hard. Rory Burns and Lawrence took England to the tea interval but Trent Boult was hungry for success and he got the biggest scalp for his side by luring Burns into a drive on the up. Burns was caught intelligently by skipper Tom Latham but Boult had in him something extra and he repeated the modus operandi to send James Bracey for another duck in his two-match long Test career. Both those dismissals have been the hallmark of the New Zealand bowling attack over the years and Latham was lucky to have at least Boult while Southee was rested for the bigger clash of the World Test Championship final against India. Lawrence, too, was tested on all accounts by all New Zealand pacers but after a stuttering start, he settled into his role perfectly. He led the England fight back, first in the company of Olly Stone and followed it up with another unbeaten partnership with Mark Wood to prevent England from getting bundled out at a sub-par score. For New Zealand, it was a near-perfect day apart from the first session where bowlers were a bit short and wide that allowed English openers to leave alone a lot of deliveries. However, they more than made up for it in the afternoon session. However, they would be a tad disappointed letting England off the hook once again and back the bowlers to wrap up things quickly on the second morning of the Test.

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SL vs IND: Sakariya, Gaikwad, Rana, Padikkal earn maiden call-ups; Dhawan to lead

The Indian Premier League performers have been rewarded as the All-India Senior Selection Committee announced the Indian squad for the 3-match ODI series and the 3-match T20I series against Sri Lanka. Shikhar Dhawan will lead the side in absence of all senior players, who are on a tour of England. Fast bowler Bhuvaneshwar Kumar has been named his deputy. Rajasthan Royals’ Chetan Skariya, who impressed with his brilliant bowling in the curtailed season of the cash-rich league has received his maiden call up. Along with him, RCB’s Devdutt Padikkal, Kolkata Knight Rider’s Nitish Rana, Chennai Super Kings’ Krishnappa Gowtham and KKR’s Varun Chakravarthy, who earlier missed being part of an Indian squad due to his injury before the Australian tour in 2019, have also been named in the Blue brigade for the first time ever in their careers. Making a comeback in India’s ODI squad are Manish Pandey, Sanju Samson and Navdeep Saini, all of whom missed out in the recent England series. Along with the team, the BCCI also announced the schedule for the series which will begin with the first ODI on July 13th at the R Premadasa International Cricket Stadium, Colombo. All matches will be played over there only. The T20I series would begin on July 21. India’s squad: Shikhar Dhawan (Captain), Prithvi Shaw, Devdutt Padikkal, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Suryakumar Yadav, Manish Pandey, Hardik Pandya, Nitish Rana, Ishan Kishan (Wicket-keeper), Sanju Samson (Wicket-keeper), Yuzvendra Chahal, Rahul Chahar, K Gowtham, Krunal Pandya, Kuldeep Yadav, Varun Chakravarthy, Bhuvneshwar Kumar (Vice-captain), Deepak Chahar, Navdeep Saini, Chetan Sakariya Net Bowlers: Ishan Porel, Sandeep Warrier, Arshdeep Singh, Sai Kishore, Simarjeet Singh