World Cricket News and Events Thread - 2016

New Zealand with 3 wickets down trail South Africa by 444 runs at the end of Day 2 at Centurion
New Zealand 38 for 3 (Philander 1-10, Steyn 1-18) - South Africa 481 for 8 dec (du Plessis 112*, Duminy 88, Wagner 5-86)

 

New Zealand trail India by 166 runs at the end of the 2nd Day of the 1st Test in Kanpur
New Zealand 152 for 1 (Williamson 66*, Latham 56*) - India 318 (Vijay 65, Pujara 62, Jadeja 42*, Boult 3-67, Santner 3-94)

 

South Africa's captain AB de Villiers has been ruled out of the home ODI series and away Test series against Australia because of a persistent elbow injury. He will have surgery early next week and will need eight to ten weeks of recovery time.

 

South Africa beat Australia by six wickets in the 1st ODI at Centurion
South Africa 295 for 4 (de Kock 178, Boland 3-67) - Australia 294 for 9 (Bailey 74, Phehlukwayo 4-44)

 

Pakistan beat West Indies by 111 runs (D/L method) in the 1st ODI at Sharjah
Pakistan 284 for 9 in 49 overs (Azam 120, Sharjeel 54, Carlos Brathwaite 3-54) - West Indies 175 (Samuels 46, Nawaz 4-42)

 

South Africa beat Australia by 142 runs in the 2nd ODI in Johanessburg
South Africa 361 for 6 (du Plessis 111, Duminy 82, Rossouw 75) - Australia 219 (Head 51, Warner 50, Parnell 3-40)

 

South Africa beat Australia by four wickets in the 3rd ODI in Durban
South Africa 372 for 6 (Miller 118*, de Kock 70) - Australia 371 for 6 (Warner 117, Smith 108, Finch 53)

This was South Africa's 2nd highest successful run chase.

 

Pakistan beat West Indies by 59 runs in the 2nd ODI in Sharjah
Pakistan 337 for 5 (Azam 123, Malik 90, Sarfraz 60*) - West Indies 278 for 7 (Bravo 61, Samuels 57, Riaz 2-48)

 

India beat New Zealand by 178 runs in the 2nd test at Kolkata
India 316 (Pujara 87, Rahane 77, Saha 54*, Henry 3-46) and 263 (Rohit 82, Saha 58*, Boult 3-38, Henry 3-59, Santner 3-60) - New Zealand 204 (Bhuvneshwar 5-48) and 197 (Latham 74, Jadeja 3-41, Shami 3-46, Ashwin 3-82)

India lead 3 match series 2-0 and now top the test rankings table

 

Pakistan beat West Indies by 136 runs in the 3rd ODI in Abu Dhabi
Pakistan 308 for 6 (Azam 117, Azhar 101, Joseph 2-62) - West Indies 172 (Ramdin 37, Nawaz 3-40, Wahab 2-28)

Pakistan win series 3-0

 

Younis Khan has been ruled out of Pakistan's first Test against West Indies, with doctors advising him 10 days of rest to regain his strength after recovering from a bout of dengue fever. This will be the first test he has missed since 2011.

 

Dale Steyn has been ruled out of South Africa's Test series in Australia and could face up to six months out of the game with a fractured right shoulder. He did damage to the shoulder, which he had broken last season, while bowling on the second morning of the first Test in Perth.

 

Sri Lanka beat Zimbabwe by 225 runs in the 1st Test in Harare
Sri Lanka 537 (Kusal Perera 110, Tharanga 110, Cremer 4-142) and 247 for 6 dec. (Karunaratne 110, de Silva 64, Mumba 4-50) - Zimbabwe 373 (Cremer 102, Moor 79, Lakmal 3-69, Herath 3-97) and 186 (Cremer 43, Dilruwan 3-34, Herath 3-38)

 

West Indies beat Pakistan by 5 wickets in the 3rd Test in Sharjah
West Indies 337 (Brathwaite 142*, Chase 50, Wahab 5-88) and 154 for 5 (Brathwaite 60*, Dowrich 60*, Yasir 3-40) - Pakistan 281 (Aslam 74, Misbah 53, Bishoo 4-77) and 208 (Azhar 91, Sarfraz 42, Holder 5-30)

Pakistan win series 2-1

 

All seven franchises of BPL 2016-17 have agreed to rematches and have relinquished the shared points from the first four matches, which were washed out. This means that the points table will be wiped clean as the tournament is set for a restart from November 8.

 

Ex-South Africa batsman Alviro Petersen has been charged with match-fixing, following a lengthy investigation into the domestic Ram Slam T20 Challenge Series competition in 2015.
Petersen, 35, who has spent the last two years with Lancashire, is charged with multiple breaches of Cricket South Africa's (CSA) anti-corruption code.

 

Surrey and England batsman Jason Roy has agreed a short-term deal to play for Sydney Sixers in the forthcoming Big Bash tournament in Australia.
The 26-year-old is expected to play five games for the Sixers before joining up with England's limited-overs squad in India

 

Sri Lanka beat Zimbabwe by 257 runs in the 2nd Test in Harare
Sri Lanka 504 (De Silva 127, Gunaratne 116) and 258 for 9 dec (Karunaratne 88, Kusal Perera 62, Cremer 4-91, Mumba 3-67) - Zimbabwe 272 (Chari 80, Ervine 64, Herath 5-89) and 233 (Ervine 72, Herath 8-63)

Sri Lanka win series 2-0

 

The first Test between New Zealand and Pakistan at Hagley Oval is expected to go ahead as scheduled on November 17, despite Christchurch having suffered a 7.5 magnitude earthquake, just after midnight on Monday

 

The West Indies Cricket Board has sent a notice to Darren Bravo saying the batsman's match contract has been cancelled due to the "disparaging" remarks he made on Twitter about board president Dave Cameron earlier in the week