All the stats and records from Bangladesh’s biggest win in T20Is

Sampath Bandarupalli21-Oct-202139 – Wickets for Shakib Al Hasan in T20 World Cups. These are the joint-most for a bowler in this competition. Shahid Afridi, who last played in 2016, also has 39 wickets.2 – Shakib is just the second player with the double of 40-plus runs and over four wickets in a T20 World Cup game. Dwayne Bravo became the first player when he backed up his four-wicket haul with an unbeaten 66 against India in 2009 at Lord’s.2 – Previous instances of Shakib scoring 40-plus runs and taking four or more wickets in the same T20I – against Zimbabwe in 2013 and West Indies in 2018. While Shakib now has three such all-round efforts, no other player has achieved it more than once in men’s T20Is.<!–#cricinfo_insert
type: sidebar
title: Watch highlights on ESPN+
nonbulleted_text: If you're in the USA, watch the Bangladesh vs PNG highlights in English here and in Hindi here6 Four-plus wicket hauls in T20Is for Shakib, the joint-most by any player in men’s T20Is alongside Umar Gul. Three of those by Shakib came in the T20 World Cup, joint-most for a bowler with Saeed Ajmal.4 for 9 – Shakib’s bowling figures in this match are the second-best for Bangladesh in T20 World Cups. Only Mustafizur Rahman recorded better figures when he took 5 for 22 against New Zealand in 2016.84 Bangladesh’s win margin against Papua New Guinea on Thursday is their biggest in terms of runs in T20Is. Their previous biggest win was by 71 runs against Ireland in 2012 while defending 191.29 – Runs scored by PNG at the fall of the seventh wicket against Bangladesh. Only one team lost their seventh wicket at a lower total in Men’s T20 World Cup – Afghanistan, at 25 against South Africa in 2010 and 26 runs against England in 2012. Afghanistan were 80 all-out on both occasions.46 – Kiplin Doriga’s unbeaten score is now the highest individual score by any player in the men’s T20 World Cup while batting at No. 8 or lower. The previous highest was 44 by Gulbadin Naib for Afghanistan in 2012 against England.

Also, India’s rare loss after taking a 1-0 lead, and a very dry series for spin

Sampath Bandarupalli14-Jan-2022Comebacks after starting with a defeat
Losing a Test series after winning the first match is rare for India. This defeat to South Africa is only the fourth time, out of 45 such instances in Test cricket, when they have lost a series after winning the first match. India lost home series against England twice after taking a 1-0 lead in the first match – in 1984-85 and 2012. The other instance also came in South Africa, in 2006-07.For South Africa, this win is only the fifth time they have won a series after losing the opener across 42 such instances.

England’s white-ball captain on current power vacuum, planning for the next World Cup, and missing Shane Warne

Matt Roller11-Apr-2022″There’s no coach, no managing director of cricket, no selector.” Eoin Morgan succinctly sums up the power vacuum in English cricket, one which means the start of the 2022 season arrives with a sense of unease.Morgan rarely spends the opening months of the season at home and despite going unsold at February’s IPL mega-auction, he is overseas as Middlesex start their County Championship season against Derbyshire at Lord’s. This time, he is back in Abu Dhabi, the scene of England’s T20 World Cup semi-final defeat to New Zealand in November, coaching young players alongside his “best mate” Paul Stirling as part of a week-long camp.”We played a lot of good cricket during that period,” Morgan tells ESPNcricinfo, reflecting on the World Cup. “But we didn’t produce our best when we needed it and we’ve been honest enough to realise we weren’t good enough on the day against New Zealand.Related

Building 'deeper, stronger squad' part of T20 World Cup planning – Morgan

Morgan ruled out of T20I series after sustaining quad injury

Morgan's endgame approaches as England prepare to do without him

“Our guys want to be at the business end of tournaments. They look at sides that missed out even of getting through the group stages – like India, who went in as favourites – and it happens, but we want to be competing against the best at the latter stages.”England were without a number of first-choice players come the semi-final, including Jofra Archer, Ben Stokes, Sam Curran, Jason Roy and Tymal Mills, but Morgan insists his side had the quality to win the tournament. “The guys that we missed does give it context. But the team and squad we had at that World Cup had the skill to be able to go on and win it.”We just didn’t produce it when we needed it the most at big moments in the game, particularly during that chase. New Zealand built and built and built and we didn’t find a way of stopping them doing that.”After spending 18 months in near-constant biosecure bubbles, the time since that defeat has been a welcome break for Morgan. He stayed in the Emirates briefly for the Abu Dhabi T10 and played two of England’s five T20Is in Barbados before a quad injury ruled him out of the rest of the series, but otherwise has had the chance to spend some time with his family and getting away from the pressures of the game – not least with his own form disappearing over the last 12 months.”[I looked at the IPL] as a win-win, to be honest,” Morgan says of his non-involvement, barely six months after captaining Kolkata Knight Riders to the final. “Being there at the biggest tournament in the world is an experience that I’ve used to my advantage over the years and I’ve had some great memories and experiences along the way. But looking to the rest of the year for us, once I start playing again, it doesn’t stop until after the World Cup. I’ve had a lovely period at home: good family time.”With interviews for the managing director vacancy ongoing, Morgan is yet to be approached about his vision for English cricket’s direction of travel but insists he doesn’t have “a massive view” on whether or not the head coach’s role should be split across format lines, though notes that expectations for the white-ball teams were significantly lower the last time England went down that route.Morgan chats to Shane Warne during the first season of the Hundred•Getty Images”A lot of people have jumped to conclusions about appointing a coach but the first point of call is to get a director of cricket in place and then the recruitment process starts after that,” he says. “The last time we had a split coaching role, things were very different. It was Ashley Giles and Andy Flower under a different managing director of cricket.”If you are going to change something, the level of expectation around different series and different formats needs to be communicated really well and completely understood by both coaches and both teams. I don’t have a massive view on it but obviously whoever comes in needs to do a good job. We have a huge amount of talent in all three formats of the game and it’s about trying to utilise that.”You’re talking about working with the No. 1 or No. 2 ranked sides in the world in two formats – working at the pointy end of things, dealing with the level of expectation that brings with it. Our players have dealt with that really well, but they’re hungry to get better and better and be at that pointy end as long as they can.”Morgan’s own name regularly comes up in discussions around coaching but he is coy about his ambitions. “Down the line, I always want to have some sort of role within cricket,” he says, “but what that looks like, at the moment I still don’t know. I haven’t identified a role that I’m dead set on wanting to do, but I certainly believe, having been the more experienced player that I have been in the last handful of years, that I have something to offer in that capacity.”As well as a new England coach, he will work with an old one this summer, following Trevor Bayliss’ appointment at London Spirit. Morgan’s relationship with Bayliss – which he describes as “fantastic” – is well-known but the circumstances are unhappy, with the position only vacant due to Shane Warne’s sudden death last month at the age of 52.

“He’s an unbelievable player who adds value everywhere. We’d like to see him back on the park and we still know that’s a little bit of time away yet, but it sounds and looks like he’s building nicely”Eoin Morgan on Jofra Archer

“It was devastating news,” Morgan says. “To be quite frank, it still hasn’t really sunk in. Alongside many other people around the world, I’ll miss the hell out of him. He’s a guy I was very fortunate to spend a lot of time with – a hugely charismatic, inspirational human being that I shared some memories with.”He’s a very infectious guy and probably the thing he was most passionate about was talking about cricket. When he was in charge of the London Spirit, hearing him talk about cricket and learning from him by listening to him was as close as I got to him. We’re going to miss him.”Spirit were among the teams to sign a domestic player with a top-bracket pick in this week’s draft, bringing in Liam Dawson on a £125,000 contract. Morgan explains the move with a nod to the limited availability of leading international players in this year’s competition, spinning their absences as a positive which will allow him to assess how players like Joe Clarke, Tom Kohler-Cadmore and Tom Banton cope with the pressure of a price tag.”With the availability of overseas players, the value and stock of our local guys goes up quite significantly,” he says. “Watching the reaction of how they play under those circumstances should give us a nice insight into them. It presents a brilliant opportunity for those guys, but it also adds another type of pressure that we didn’t have previously to this.”In an open draft, where everybody knows your value and worth and there’s a number beside your name, it adds a different dynamic. For me as England captain, that’s a good insight as to how a guy will deal with the pressure of having the tag of being ranked ahead of somebody else, or picked at a certain position.”There may be opportunities for some of those fringe players even before the Hundred, with England’s next white-ball series – three ODIs against the Netherlands at Amstelveen in June – sandwiched between the second and third Tests against New Zealand, effectively ruling any multi-format players out of contention.Morgan is in Abu Dhabi for a week-long coaching masterclass•Abu Dhabi Cricket”Across every country I think we’re seeing different names on teamsheets and a bigger divide between red and white-ball cricket,” Morgan says. “That surmises quite nicely where the game is at, and the demands that being an international cricketer takes out of you. It does take a lot of time to work on your game in all three formats. To do that while continuing to play a full schedule of games is proving difficult for everybody. We’ve actually managed it outstandingly well over the last five or six years – and since Covid, even more so.”We have a huge identity within white-ball cricket, which shows that our leaders are standing up and playing the way that they said they wanted everyone to play. When the whole team got wiped out before the Pakistan series with Covid, our second-string side led by Ben Stokes came in and replicated how we play and what we do. For everybody involved in building the last five years, that was a huge compliment – probably the biggest compliment that you could pay any white-ball player in that period.”That process continued in Barbados, with Banton, Phil Salt and Reece Topley among those who showed glimpses of their quality having missed out on the T20 World Cup (Topley was a travelled reserve and replaced the injured Mills in the squad, but did not play a game). Archer, who has not played international cricket for over a year due to his elbow injury, was also with the squad and his return later this summer will provide a major boost to England’s hopes of achieving their long-term ambition: holding both World Cups simultaneously.”Being injured for a prolonged period of time, you can become quite distant with the squad but Jofra’s stayed close and it’s great to have him around,” Morgan says. “He’s obviously an unbelievable player who adds value everywhere. First and foremost, we’d like to see him back on the park and we still know that’s a little bit of time away yet, but it sounds and looks like he’s building nicely.”It’s been one of our strongest attributes over the last six years – having the ability to look down the line, not necessarily around the corner. When you look down the line and strategise what you need and when you need it, it gives you an ability to take more risks and develop in different areas. We proved that in the World Cup when we had guys continuously coming in that could replicate what other guys could do, so going through exercises like that [the Barbados series] are extremely important to us.”Having gone through the process of the 2019 World Cup, we always said that it’s not necessarily specific players that we need going in. It’s about having as many players in good form as possible. Going into picking that squad of 15 three years ago, we genuinely could have picked 19 guys. That’s the position we want to be in heading into selection meetings before the World Cup in Australia.”

The challenges for Test cricket in the region are huge, but this team is taking the fight to England

Cameron Ponsonby25-Mar-2022The best ability is availability. And as the West Indies middle-order fell from 50 for 0 to 95 for 6 in the heat of Grenada, another West Indian excelled in the heat of Rajasthan as Shimron Hetmyer hit 70 off 39 balls in a IPL warm-up fixture.The selection of the West Indian side is fraught with politics and difficulties. No first-class cricket was played over the previous two years; pitches have been loaded in favour of bowlers; the top players are being enticed away by franchise cash, and inter-island bias and politics are points of regular discussion.The result is a team that can at times feel like the best players available as opposed to the best players in the region, with the icons of West Indian cricket often not being those we see out in whites on the pitch. On the flip side, such events have transpired to give us a Windies team full of players with incredible back-stories, both personal and professional.In 2018 Nkrumah Bonner briefly gave up the sport and took up a job in construction in the USA. As a teenager, Shamarh Brooks was considered the next Bajan prodigy but scored just one fifty in the first six years of his career. He was dropped and didn’t play a first-class game for three years between 2012 and 2015. Joshua Da Silva, who shone on the second day with an unbeaten 54 off 152 balls, didn’t have a professional contract as recently as 2018. Kyle Mayers was caught up in Hurricane Maria in 2017, as it devastated the island of Dominica.The West Indies of old were everyone’s second-favourite team because they won all the time. The West Indies of new are everyone’s second-favourite team because they are full of people you want to succeed.But that mentality leads you perilously close to the worst emotion you can have of all towards professional athletes: that of pity. And that isn’t fair either. Because this team contains genuine world-class performers as well: Jason Holder, Kemar Roach, Jayden Seales, Kraigg Brathwaite.
John Campbell takes evasive action as Craig Overton fires in a bouncer•Getty ImagesBut where Brathwaite paints masterpieces with his bat and forces everyone to watch them dry, his team-mates show flashes of brilliance that lead to wise heads nodding sagely that “there’s a Test player in there somewhere”.It is a notion that is best encapsulated by Brathwaite’s opening partner, John Campbell, who frustrated again today as he fell for a well-compiled 35. It was his highest score this series despite reaching double figures in four of his five innings. It is a trait of Campbell’s that he often gets in but doesn’t go on, capable of doing the hardest part of the sport but not the easiest. Like a pianist being able to play Beethoven but not Baa Baa Black Sheep.Hailing from Jamaica, the same island as Chris Gayle, Campbell was dubbed “Little Chris” early in his career. Along with Brooks, he is another player who had the weight of expectation thrust on him from an early age. But it has never really happened for him, and another failure in the next innings could lead to him being dropped from the side once more.Bar a ludicrous couple of hours yesterday where Saqib Mahmood and Jack Leach brought out their frustrations, anywhere you look with this Windies team, there are people putting in absolute effort and pride in representing their region. Whether it be Brathwaite batting for days, Holder or Da Silva leading the team in mid-game, on-field group exercises, or Seales celebrating every wicket as if it were the matchwinner, this is a team who work incredibly hard for one another.And that is rather the point. While this team has been toiling against England, Hetmyer – who failed the required fitness tests to be eligible for selection – has been preparing for the IPL on a deal worth US$1.13m. A contract that is worth two-hundred-and-thirty-six million dollars when converted into his home currency.Much, if not all, of this is caused by messy and overflowing schedules that lead to the likes of Nicholas Pooran, one of the most talented batters in the world, feeling as if he simply doesn’t have time to play red-ball cricket despite the five-day game being an aim of his. Some may say that the prioritisation of cash is immoral. But watch the video of fellow West Indian Rovman Powell, who scored a century against England in the T20s in January, explaining how the sole motivation in his career is that his mum never experiences poverty again, and that argument rather falls apart.So too is the idea of blind patriotism that places the pride in representing your country above all. Because while that same pride does exist in the West Indies in the same way it does all over the world, it’s different here. You’re representing your region, not your island. Does that make that affiliation any less intense? Perhaps, for some. Maybe not, for others.This is a vast area home to more cultures and political landscapes than you can really fathom. Jamaica is closer in distance to Texas than it is to Guyana. And for all the talk of island culture, Guyana isn’t even one of those either. It’s a South American landmass that borders Brazil.Related

• Leach, Mahmood find tenth-wicket fight to halt West Indies rampage

• Root praises England progress as Kraigg Brathwaite takes pride in resilience

• Tenth-wicket tenacity makes a mockery of England's familiar failings

• West Indies name unchanged squad for third Test against England

• West Indies keep it real on not-quite-perfect day

It has long been said that cricket in the West Indies is a fading light. And compared to the glory days of yesteryear there is without doubt some truth to that. But that is not to say that the talent pool is not still deep, as evidenced by Da Silva’s innings today. Da Silva himself is a player who, if Pooran was available, may well not be playing. That’s not a slight on him, but instead a credit to the strength of the region.So perhaps rather than the talent pool shrinking, there’s an argument that it has rather been diluted when in need of concentration, with talent escaping – be it to England, in the shape of Chris Jordan, Jofra Archer and now Jacob Bethell, or the white-ball leagues in Andre Russell and Kieron Pollard then, and Pooran now.West Indies’ administrators know and realise this, and launched the CWI Emerging Players Academy two weeks ago. The aim of which is to select 30 players, male and female, between the age of 19 and 25 to bridge the gap between U19 cricket and the first-class game. Hopefully, it will be the first step towards keeping talent in the game, and on the pitch, for the region. But closing out this contest, and sealing another gutsy home series win against England, will go a long way towards proving that these guys are Test cricketers after all.

With Tim David joining Pollard and Tymal Mills joining Bumrah, they have the end overs covered with bat and ball

Vishal Dikshit24-Mar-2022

Where they finished in 2021

Defending champions in 2021, Mumbai missed the playoffs race by just one spot, losing out on net run rate. They left things a bit too late in the season to have a decent chance of qualifying.

Potential first XI

1 Ishan Kishan (wk), 2 Rohit Sharma (capt), 3 Suryakumar Yadav, 4 Tilak Varma, 5 Kieron Pollard, 6 Tim David, 7 Daniel Sams/Fabian Allen, 8 Tymal Mills, 9 Jaydev Unadkat, 10 M Ashwin, 11 Jasprit Bumrah

Player availability

From the players signed at the recent auction, only Jofra Archer is unavailable for the upcoming season, which leaves the Mumbai squad well-stacked.

Batting

At the auction, Mumbai did a pretty good job of covering the holes that Quinton de Kock and the Pandya brothers had left. Their top three of Rohit Sharma, Ishan Kishan and Suryakumar Yadav looks solid, and Kishan can also move to No. 3 or 4 if they decide to open with Anmolpreet Singh, whom they tried at the top once last season, against Chennai Super Kings.Related

• Absence of overseas players could hurt Capitals in opener against Mumbai Indians

• Rohit: Need to approach IPL 2022 as 'neutral tournament'

• Red soil vs black: Expect ample bounce at Wankhede

• IPL 2022 FAQs: Seven-day isolation for positive tests, 25% stadium attendance, two reviews per team

The finishing job will be in the destructive hands of Kieron Pollard and Tim David at Nos. 5 and 6, with an allrounder in Daniel Sams or Fabian Allen to follow. Among their overseas options, they also have “Baby AB” Dewald Brevis, the Player of the Tournament in the recent Under-19 World Cup, who finished with an average of 84.33 and strike rate of 90.19 while dispatching the ball to all parts of the ground.The only question they need to answer is whom to bat at No. 4 if Suryakumar slots in at No. 3. Their options are either the newly acquired Tilak Varma, who has shown his potential for Hyderabad in the domestic circuit, or Anmolpreet. Mumbai may also feel the lack of Indian options if any of the first-choice batters is injured or out of form.

Bowling

Jasprit Bumrah will continue to spearhead the attack, and along with a rejuvenated Tymal Mills could well give Mumbai the league’s best death-overs attack. But in the absence of Trent Boult, who set the powerplay on fire in IPL 2020 and the first half of IPL 2021, Mumbai will have to think about their new-ball options. Bumrah usually bowls just one over in the powerplay, so the onus may fall on Jaydev Unadkat and Sams, who have T20 economy rates of 7.22 and 7.10 in that phase since IPL 2019.Tilak Varma could be a handy left-handed option in the middle order•ICC via GettyFor the middle overs, Mumbai lack, like before, a top-quality spinner. With M Ashwin and Mayank Markande as their only Indian options and Allen as an allrounder, Mumbai might miss the experienced big-name spinner they would have wanted for the second half of the tournament when pitches are likely to turn more because of the constant use of the four grounds hosting the league stage.

Young players to watch out for

Among Indian names, Mumbai signed 19-year-old Hyderabad batter Tilak Varma, whom head coach Mahela Jayawardene called a “massive talent” on Wednesday, for his hard-hitting strokeplay. A left-hand batter, Varma could bat at No. 3 if Kishan’s is the first wicket to fall, to maintain the right-left combination. Varma struck 139 off 123 against Delhi in the recent Vijay Hazare Trophy and finished the 2020-21 season of the 50-overs competition with an impressive tally of 391 at an average of 97.75 and a strike rate of 97.26. In the 2021-22 Syed Mushtaq Ali (T20) Trophy, he struck his 215 runs at 147.26.

Coaching staff

Mahela Jayawardene (head coach), Zaheer Khan (director of cricket operations), Shane Bond (bowling coach), Robin Singh (batting coach), James Pamment (fielding coach)

Poll

Also, who are Mumbai Indians’ first choice overseas players? Here’s ESPNcricinfo’s analysis of the puzzles teams face ahead of IPL 2022

Nagraj Gollapudi and Gaurav Sundararaman17-Mar-20228:52

Runorder: Who will take Deepak Chahar’s place at Chennai Super Kings?

Chennai Super Kings: How to plug the Deepak Chahar hole?
Defending champions Chennai Super Kings have lost their pace spearhead Deepak Chahar for a big chunk of the tournament, if not more. How do they ensure this does not affect the team’s balance? Since 2018, Chahar has been the most prolific powerplay bowler in the IPL, with 42 wickets in the phase. The next best is Trent Boult with 27 wickets. So it would be very difficult to find a replacement who could have a similar impact with the ball. Even so, it would still be better to look to strengthen the bowling as pitches are likely to favour the batters early in the tournament.One option is to have Robin Uthappa open the batting with Ruturaj Gaikwad while playing two overseas fast bowlers in Chris Jordan and Adam Milne. The other option is to bring in uncapped Indian fast bowler Rajvardhan Hangargekar and have Devon Conway opening with Gaikwad.Other than Hangargekar, who was part of India’s recent Under-19 World Cup win, Super Kings have a rich stable of Indian fast bowlers in Mukesh Choudhary, Tushar Deshpande, Simarjeet Singh and KM Asif.Royal Challengers Bangalore: Where does Virat Kohli bat?
Let’s start with the numbers. Virat Kohli’s powerplay strike rate in the IPL over the last three seasons is 130.16 – that is eighth-best among the 19 players who have played a minimum of 250 balls in that phase. He averages 37.40 in this period.Related

Punjab Kings boast batting muscle but bowling lacks international experience

Delhi Capitals have solid first XI but player availability a concern

IPL regulations: New man on strike if batters cross during catch

Faf du Plessis unveiled as RCB's captain for IPL 2022

Hales opts out of IPL 2022, KKR bring in Finch as replacement

In the middle overs in the last three years, Kohli strikes at 110.16, which is 23rd among 25 players who have played a minimum of 300 balls. Also, over the last two seasons, Kohli’s scoring rate against spin has been below par – just 105.35, though he averages 70. Read: he does not get out to spin, but he does not score quickly either. Among 20 batters who have played a minimum of 200 balls against spin in these seasons, Kohli is ranked 19th in terms of strike rate.So, the numbers point towards Kohli being better off as an opener, rather than coming lower down and potentially facing more spin post-powerplay. However, given Royal Challengers’ middle-order options, and taking into account Kohli’s No. 3 role with India, it might be feasible for the team to have him at one-down with Indian uncapped batter Anuj Rawat partnering new captain Faf du Plessis at the top. That could prove particularly beneficial early in the tournament in terms of spreading the experience around, with Glenn Maxwell joining at least a week late as he is getting married. If Kohli ends up opening with du Plessis, then Rawat is likely to be No. 3.David Willey is another potential opening option, with Kohli, Maxwell, Mahipal Lomror and Dinesh Karthik completing the middle order.Venkatesh Iyer: top of the order for KKR, finisher for India•BCCIKolkata Knight Riders: Should Venkatesh Iyer open, and who keeps wicket?
Venkatesh Iyer shot to fame with his fearless approach as an opener last IPL, when Kolkata Knight Riders reversed a horrendous start to the season to make the final. Since then Iyer has debuted for India in white-ball cricket, where he is being nurtured as a finisher. However, there is no obligation for the franchises to allow players to mirror their roles at the international level, so Knight Riders, you’d expect, will want Iyer to open. But that is only half the challenge resolved. Who will be Iyer’s opening partner? The answer to that could be linked to the second key question confronting the franchise: who keeps wicket?Knight Riders’ gameplan has seemingly been hit by the late pullout of Alex Hales, who was a prime contender for the opening slot. But there are other options: Englishman Sam Billings, who can both keep and float in the batting order, Saurashtra wicketkeeper-batter Sheldon Jackson, and Tamil Nadu batter B Indrajith who also keeps wicket.Or Knight Riders can make Hales’ replacement, Australia white-ball captain Aaron Finch, open with Iyer. That in turn would mean Jackson would bat in the middle order and keep wicket.Of course, Knight Riders’ squad also includes Ajinkya Rahane, who has vast experience opening in the IPL, and Sunil Narine. Ideally, though, they would want Narine following Andre Russell to provide batting depth.Do Mumbai Indians bank on Riley Meredith’s pace?•Getty ImagesMumbai Indians: Who takes the four overseas slots?
Five-time champions Mumbai Indians have a strong core, but a lot of their overseas players and uncapped Indians are new to the franchise. The first challenge for them is to pick their four overseas players. While Kieron Pollard and the big-hitting Tim David pick themselves, the other two slots are less clear-cut. Conditions are likely to favour batters and so, in Jofra Archer’s absence, Mumbai might want to strengthen their death bowling with the inclusion of Tymal Mills.The fourth slot should be a toss-up between the fast-bowling pair of Riley Meredith and Daniel Sams. Meredith’s pace could be a tempting option to start with, but Sams offers some batting depth with his robust hitting.As for the uncapped Indians likely to make the XI, as it stands Hyderabad youngster Tilak Varma is likely to start at No. 3 and Tamil Nadu allrounder Sanjay Yadav could be utilised as a floater, performing a similar role to Krunal Pandya over the last five seasons.Who’s going to fill Delhi Capitals’ Anrich-Nortje-sized hole?•BCCIDelhi Capitals: What if Anrich Nortje is out?
Anrich Nortje, the South Africa fast bowler, has been sidelined since the T20 World Cup in November 2021 due to a hip injury, and, as per Cricket South Africa, there is no definitive date of return yet. Nortje was arguably Capitals’ most impactful bowler – and second-highest wicket-taker – in the last two IPLs, which was enough for them to retain him. But their failure to pick a like-for-like back-up for Nortje at the auction could come back to haunt them. Lungi Ngidi and Mustafizur Rahman are the other two overseas fast bowlers in the squad, but neither has performed on the same level as Nortje in terms of striking ability upfront nor do they possess the same pace.The Indian left-arm fast-bowling pair of Chetan Sakariya and Khaleel Ahmed could be other options in Nortje’s place, with Capitals perhaps going in with only three overseas players.The other challenge Capitals face is the late arrival of Australia’s David Warner and Mitchell Marsh, who are set to miss at least the first two matches. They are expected to join Capitals’ squad around April 6; Capitals’ third game is on April 7. Their absence is bound to make Capitals’ batting thin, at least on paper. Till they are good to go, New Zealand wicketkeeper-batter Tim Seifert could open with Prithvi Shaw, while West Indies’ Rovman Powell could bat in the middle order.

And how many players have made 199 and a duck in the same Test?

Steven Lynch24-May-2022I know Quinton de Kock and KL Rahul’s stand of 210 is an IPL record. But was it the best in all T20 cricket? And how about 50 overs? asked Lalith Ahluwalia from India
That unbroken opening stand of 210 by Quinton de Kock and KL Rahul for Lucknow Super Giants in what turned out to be a nerve-shredding match against Kolkata Knight Riders in Navi Mumbai last week broke the previous record for the highest first-wicket partnership in the IPL, the 185 of Jonny Bairstow and David Warner for Sunrisers Hyderabad against Royal Challengers Bangalore in Hyderabad in 2019; only two second-wicket stands between Virat Kohli and AB de Villiers for RCB lie ahead on the overall IPL list.There have been four higher opening partnerships in all senior T20 matches, the highest being 236 by Hazratullah Zazai and Usman Ghani for Afghanistan against Ireland in Dehradun in 2018-19. The List A first-wicket record remains an unbroken stand of 367, by Morne van Wyk and Cameron Delport for the Dolphins against the Knights in South Africa’s One-Day Cup in Bloemfontein in 2014-15.Angelo Mathews was out for 199 and then a duck in the recent Test in Bangladesh. Has anyone completed this particular double before? asked Ajit Silva from Sri Lanka
In the first innings of the first Test in Chattogram last week, Sri Lanka’s Angelo Mathews became the 12th man to be dismissed for 199 in a Test. However, his second-innings duck made him the first to do this particular double.Six men have made 99 and 0 in the same Test: India’s Pankaj Roy (vs Australia in Delhi in 1959-60), Geoff Boycott (England vs Australia in Perth in 1979-80, Andrew Hall of South Africa (vs England at Headingley in 2003, and the Pakistan trio of Mushtaq Mohammad (vs England in Karachi in 1972-73), Misbah-ul-Haq (vs West Indies in Bridgetown in 2017), and Babar Azam (vs Australia in Abu Dhabi in 2018-19). Boycott and Hall both made 99 not out.Mohammed Shami played in all of Gujarat Titans’ games in the IPL round-robin, but didn’t bat – has anyone else managed this? asked Sheik Nazeeb via Facebook
It’s true that Mohammed Shami played in all 14 of Gujarat Titans’ matches in the league phase of this season’s IPL, without being required to bat. In doing so he reprised the feat of fellow seamers Mustafizur Rahman and Mohit Sharma. The “Fizz” played 16 matches for Sunrisers in 2016 – 14 of them in the group stage – without batting at all, while Mohit appeared in all 14 of Chennai Super Kings’ league games in 2014 without batting, but finally got to the crease in one of the playoffs.Dirk Nannes (2009), Ishwar Pandey (2014) and Yuzvendra Chahal (2016) all played 13 matches in an IPL season without batting.Dwayne Bravo and Ravindra Jadeja have 20 dismissals together in the IPL, the most for a bowler-fielder combo•BCCISurrey totalled 671 last week, with no one making a century. Was this a record? asked Brian Norton from England
The highest score in Surrey’s 671 for 9 against Kent in Beckenham last week was Ollie Pope’s 96; Ben Foakes and Jamie Overton were also out in the nineties. It was indeed the highest first-class total without an individual century, surpassing Namibia’s 609 against Uganda in Windhoek in 2010-11, when the highest score was Ewald Steenkamp’s 87.Madhya Pradesh made 605 against Haryana in Rajnandgaon in 1998-99, with Jai Prakash Yadav scoring 90, while the previous County Championship record was also set by Surrey, in amassing 603 against Gloucestershire in Bristol in 2005; Azhar Mahmood hit 89 and Harbhajan Singh 84.In the recent Surrey innings everyone reached double figures, with seven of them reaching 50. This was the 26th instance of seven half-centuries in a first-class innings – but there has been one case of eight, by the 1893 Australian tourists against Cambridge University Past & Present in Portsmouth. The Australians’ total of 843 was the highest in first-class cricket at the time, being achieved against what Wisden called “a team so far from representative that over a dozen cricketers might be mentioned, any one of whom had better qualifications than those who took the field against the Colonials”. Alec Bannerman, Billy Bruce and Hugh Trumble all scored centuries; Bannerman, a noted stonewaller, batted for more than six hours for 133, with Wisden observing that he showed “a steadiness of defence which might, perhaps, have been necessary had the bowling been that of first-class professionals instead of moderate amateurs”.Which bowler/fielder and bowler/wicketkeeper combinations have recorded most dismissals together in IPL? asked Aniket Chiniwalla from India
There’s a tie at the top here between these two categories. There have been 20 instances of batters being caught by wicketkeeper Rishabh Pant off Kagiso Rabada for the Delhi team, while in the field there have also been 20 cases of caught Ravindra Jadeja bowled Dwayne Bravo for Chennai Super Kings. Bravo is the leading wicket-taker overall in the IPL, while Rabada is currently just one short of becoming the 19th bowler to take 100 wickets.Shiva Jayaraman of ESPNcricinfo’s stats team helped with some of the above answers.Use our feedback form, or the Ask Steven Facebook page to ask your stats and trivia questions

Titans and Knights aggregated 501 runs in Potchefstroom, the most in any T20 so far

Sampath Bandarupalli31-Oct-2022162 – Dewald Brevis’ score is the highest by a South African batter in men’s T20s. The previous highest was 140*, jointly shared by Pieter Malan vs Easterns in 2014, and Quinton de Kock vs Kolkata Knight Riders in 2022. Brevis’ 162 is also the highest T20 score in South Africa; Malan’s 140* was the previous highest, which he scored in Cape Town.2 – Number of individual scores in men’s T20s higher than Brevis’ 162 against Knights. Chris Gayle smashed 175* for Royal Challengers Bangalore against Pune Warriors India in the IPL in 2013, while Aaron Finch hit 172 against Zimbabwe in 2018.ESPNcricinfo Ltd52 – Number of balls taken by Brevis to reach 150, the fastest by any batter in T20 cricket. The previous quickest was 53 deliveries by Gayle during his 175* in the 2013 IPL.19y 185d – Brevis’ age on Monday, making him the youngest South African to score a century in men’s T20s. De Kock was the previous youngest at 20 years and 62 days old when he scored 126* against Cape Cobras in 2013. Brevis is also the sixth-youngest batter to score a century in men’s T20s.ESPNcricinfo Ltd284.21 – Brevis’ strike rate during his knock, the fifth-highest strike rate during a century in men’s T20s and the highest for any T20 hundred in South Africa. The previous highest was 283.33 by Wihan Lubbe, who scored 102 off 36 balls for North West against Limpopo in 2018.35 – Number of balls Brevis needed to complete his century, the joint fifth-fastest in T20 cricket (where recorded). It is also the joint second-fastest T20 hundred by a South African, behind Lubbe’s 33-ball ton against Limpopo in 2018. David Miller also had a hundred off 35 balls against Bangladesh in a T20I in 2017.13 – Sixes by Brevis in his 162, the most by any batter in a T20 innings in South Africa. His 13 sixes are also the joint-second most for a South African, behind Cameron Delport’s 14 sixes against Surrey in the 2019 T20 Blast. Richard Levi also hit 13 sixes during his century against New Zealand in 2012.ESPNcricinfo Ltd179 – Partnership between Brevis and Jiveshan Pillay, the highest stand for any wicket in South Africa domestic T20. It is also the second-highest T20 partnership in South Africa, behind the 197-run opening stand by Pakistan’s Babar Azam and Mohammad Rizwan in 2021.501 – Runs aggregated by Titans and Knights, the most runs ever scored in a T20 match. The previous highest was 497 by Central Districts and Otago in the Super Smash in 2016-17. The 36 sixes by both teams in Potchefstroom are also the third most in a T20.271 – Titans’ total against Knights on Monday is the highest T20 total in South Africa, and the fourth highest by any team in men’s T20s. The previous highest in South Africa was 262 by North West against Limpopo in 2018.