Australian all-rounder Shane Watson has been hit on the helmet by a ball and was forced to cut short a nets session ahead of Australia’s Third Test against India on Boxing Day.
Watson was knocked to the ground during a training session in the Melbourne Cricket Ground when a short ball from James Pattinson hit him flush on the helmet.
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Kevin Pietersen remains determined to reclaim his place in the England set-up despite comments made by England officials over the weekend.
After Alastair Cook was replaced by Eoin Morgan as skipper of England’s ODI side on Saturday, Paul Downton and James Whitaker both made it clear that the change of captaincy did not pave the way for Pietersen to rejoin the team.
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Leicestershire’s former director of cricket Phil Whitticase has left the club, ending a 31-year association with the county.
The 49-year-old started out at Grace Road as a teenage wicketkeeper and made his debut in 1984, the start of a 12-year playing career, spanning 132 first-class matches.
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Murali Vijay said it was great feeling to score 144 – his fifth Test century and fourth against Australia – as India reached 311-4 on day one of the second Test.
Vijay – who hit two fifties in India’s defeat in Adelaide last week – made the Australian bowlers toil in the Brisbane heat, with humidity high and temperatures in the late 30s.
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Captain Kane Williamson hit an unbeaten 70 to lead New Zealand into a four-wicket triumph over Pakistan in Sharjah and level their one day series at 1-1.
Williamson stood firm in a Kiwi fall and was still in the crease with former skipper Daniel Vettori as four leg byes saw them past Pakistan’s goal of 253 for success with four overs to spare.
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Sean Abbott, the Australian bowler whose bouncer fatally injured Phillip Hughes, claimed career-best figures of 6-14 as New South Wales defeat Queensland in the Sheffield Shield.
There had been worries the 22-year old paceman may have been too traumatised to play again after Hughes died from being hit by one among his ascending balls in the Sydney Cricket Ground last month.
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Nathan Lyon believes Australia’s bowlers will fostered by the fact Virat Kohli shrugged off a hit to the helmet in Adelaide.
India batsman Kohli was hit by a Mitchell Johnson bouncer on day three of the initial Test, two weeks after Phillip Hughes got a fateful blow in a Sheffield Shield match.
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Prohibited spin pair Sachithra Senanayake and Kane Williamson happen to be cleared to bowl again the International Cricket Council (ICC) have said.
The Sri Lankan off-spinner as well as the New Zealand part time bowler were prohibited in July within the governing body’s clampdown on players with suspect bowling actions.
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Suspended away-spinner Sachithra Senanayake continues to be contained in Sri Lanka’s provisional 30-man squad for next year’s cricket World Cup.
Senanayake is serving a suspension after his bowling action was deemed illegal. He’s taken restorative work and is expecting results of a different test that will discover if he could be permitted to bowl again in international games.
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Alastair Cook might be hit with a one-match ban due to England’s slow over rate in their third one-day international triumph over Sri Lanka.
December 7, 2014, 4:15am
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Cricket Australia has amended the scorecard from Phillip Hughes’ closing innings in the aftermath of his terrible passing.
Bat for South Australia, Hughes was on 63 when he was hit on the neck by way of a ball in a Sheffield Shield match in the Sydney Cricket Ground and fell, using the scorecard saying he’d retired damage.
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Allrounder Wayne White is returning to his home county Derbyshire for a third bout.
White played 11 times for Derbyshire between 2005 and 2008 and has since had bouts with Leicestershire and Lancashire.
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Cricket Australia has pledged to supply Sean Abbott with the maximum amount of support as he wants after the terrible injury which stopped Phillip Hughes’ life.
Hughes died in a Sydney hospital on Thursday, two days after Abbott delivered the bouncer which hit the Australia opener in the neck and left him fighting for his life to the Sydney Cricket Ground pitch.
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Jason Gillespie says cricket “feels” for Sean Abbott following the terrible departure of Phillip Hughes.
Abbott bowled the ball which hit Hughes to the neck during a Sheffield Shield match between New South Wales and South Australia on Tuesday and set the batsman in a induced coma.
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Former England fast bowler David Lawrence worries Sean Abbott will never play cricket again after Phillip Hughes died from the injuries he endured confronting him in a Sheffield Shield match.
Hughes was struck in the neck with a short-pitched delivery in the 22-year old at the Sydney Cricket Ground, hit in a place unguarded by his helmet as he tried a hook shot.
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Jason Gillespie says cricket “feels” for Sean Abbott following the terrible departure of Phillip Hughes.
Abbott bowled the ball which hit Hughes to the neck during a Sheffield Shield match between New South Wales and South Australia on Tuesday and set the batsman in a induced coma.
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Shane Warne has paid homage to Phillip Hughes, who he says was ‘among the good guys’.
Hughes expired in age 25 on Thursday, two days after being hit with a short delivery from Sean Abbott during the Sheffield Shield match between New South Wales and South Australia in Sydney.
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Cricket Australia Chief Executive Officer James Sutherland says Phillip Hughes was a greatly-cherished figure that will be remembered eternally.
Sutherland was talking after it had been declared on Thursday that Australian international batsman Hughes had tragically died from injuries sustained when he was hit with a bouncer when playing for South Australia in Sydney on Tuesday.
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England and Wales Cricket Board chairman Giles Clarke has expressed his sympathy to the family of Phillip Hughes.
Hughes perished in a Sydney hospital on Thursday, two days after being hit in the neck with a bouncer through the Sheffield Shield match between New South Wales and South Australia.
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Phillip Hughes’ family have released a statement expressing their destruction in the passing of the Australia Test batsman in the age of only 25.
Hughes expired on Thursday after being hit in the head with a bouncer while bat for South Australia against New South Wales in a Sheffield Shield match on Tuesday.
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