
Rain spoils IPL restart, Kolkata exit playoff race
Rain forced a washout in IPL’s restart on Saturday with holders the Kolkata Knight Riders knocked out of the playoff race.
Rain forced a washout in IPL’s restart on Saturday with holders the Kolkata Knight Riders knocked out of the playoff race.
The IPL resumes on Saturday, but there are doubts over foreign players and the extended schedule has sparked a showdown with international cricket.
CSA director of national teams and high performance Enoch Nkwe says a decision on Heinrich Klaasen’s national contract will be made “sometime this month”.
The PSL is set to resume from Saturday after it was postponed following a series of attacks by India and Pakistan last week, with Australian David Warner vowing to return.
New Zealander Mike Hesson has been appointed as coach of Pakistan’s white-ball teams, their ninth in the past two years.
The BCCI has released an updated schedule for the remainder of the IPL season.
Coach Shukri Conrad says CSA-contracted Proteas will no longer be allowed to skip white-ball series to play T20 franchise cricket.
BCCI officials were reported to be meeting on Sunday to discuss a quick resumption of the IPL.
The Pakistan Super League has been postponed indefinitely, barely a day after it was relocated to the UAE.
The IPL has been suspended for one week because of the conflict between New Delhi and Pakistan.
Shukri Conrad will coach the Proteas in all formats, CSA announced on Friday.
Lhuan-dre Pretorius has been called up by the Rajasthan Royals as an injury replacement.
An IPL match was abandoned on Thursday after a floodlight malfunctioned at the stadium in Dharamsala because of a “technical failure”.
Dewald Brevis hit a 22-ball fifty as the Chennai Super Kings beat the Kolkata Knight Riders by two wickets on Wednesday.
The Gujarat Titans edged out the Mumbai Indians by three wickets from the final ball in a rain-hit IPL clash on Tuesday.