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Dawid Malan, Marnus Labuschagne and Alex Hales, among others, also register for the auction

Saurabh Somani05-Feb-2021Mitchell Starc will not be part of IPL 2021, as the left-arm fast bowler has not registered for the auctions that are slated for February 18 in Chennai.A total of 1097 players – 814 from India and 283 from overseas – registered for the auction by the deadline of February 4, and Starc’s is the most prominent name missing. He last featured in the IPL in 2015 – for the Royal Challengers Bangalore – after his inaugural season the year before. He had a standout year then, taking 20 wickets in 13 games at an average of 14.55 and an economy rate of 6.76.A combination of injuries and the decision to manage his workload has meant Starc hasn’t been part of the IPL since. The T20 World Cup is set to take place in India later in 2021, and that was expected to be a factor for Starc to register. However, that tournament will be followed by a home Ashes series, and Starc may have chosen to manage his workload considering he would be expected to take part in both for Australia.However, Shakib Al Hasan and Sreesanth will both be a part of the auctions this year, having served out suspensions or bans earlier. While Shakib is one of 11 players to be listed at the highest base price of INR 2 crore (approx. US $274,000), Sreesanth has set his base price at INR 75 lakh (approx. US $103,000).The others who have listed their base price at INR 2 crore are Kedar Jadhav, Harbhajan Singh, Glenn Maxwell, Steven Smith, Moeen Ali, Sam Billings, Liam Plunkett, Jason Roy, Mark Wood and Colin Ingram.ESPNcricinfo Ltd

Joe Root, who scored a century in his 100th Test on the first day of the series against India, did not register for the second IPL in a row, and among England players who previously featured in the competition, Harry Gurney and Tom Banton also did not register. Gurney has had a year out with injury – which included missing IPL 2020 – while Banton had previously indicated he would play the County Championship for Somerset during the IPL window.James Pattinson, part of the Mumbai Indians’ title-winning squad in 2020, also opted out. ESPNcricinfo understands he is taking a break after a long summer spent in lockdown bubbles.Dawid Malan, the world’s top-ranked T20I batsman but who is yet to feature in the IPL, set his base price at INR 1.5 crore (approx. US $206,000), as have Mujeeb Ur Rahman, Alex Carey, Nathan Coulter-Nile, Jhye Richardson, Mitchell Swepson, Tom Curran, Lewis Gregory, Alex Hales, Adam Lyth, Adil Rashid and David Willey.With Starc absent, Richardson could attract interest from franchises, being the highest wicket-taker in the ongoing BBL 2020-21 where his franchise, the Perth Scorchers, have qualified for the final. One of the other pacers likely to be on everyone’s radar is Chris Morris, who has set his base price at just INR 75 lakh. Released by the Royal Challengers Bangalore since they had bought him at an expensive INR 10 crore, Morris could be in for another big payday.Among others, Aaron Finch, Umesh Yadav, Hanuma Vihari, Marnus Labuschagne and Sheldon Cottrell have all listed their base prices at INR 1 crore (approx. US $137,000).Other capped Indian players who have registered are Cheteshwar Pujara, Karun Nair, Shivam Dube and Varun Aaron, all at INR 50 lakh (approx. US $68,600). Meanwhile, Arjun Tendulkar, who played two matches for Mumbai in the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy this season, also registered for the auction at a base price of INR 20 lakh (approx. US $27,400).The youngest player to register is Afghanistan’s Noor Ahmad Lakanwal, a 16-year-old left-arm wristspinner who has his price at INR 20 lakh. Nayan Doshi, a left-arm spinner like his father Dilip, is the oldest in the auction, aged 42. Doshi played four matches across IPL 2010 and 2011 for the Royal Challengers and the Rajasthan Royals, respectively.Two other players aged 40-plus registered for the auctions. S Santhamoorthy, the Pondicherry medium-pacer who took 5 for 20 against Mumbai in the recently concluded Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy is 41, while Harbhajan is 40.The long list of 1097 players will be pruned before the auctions to those players in whom franchises indicate an interest.

Smith said there had been conversations with the coach in the weeks since the end of the India series

Daniel Brettig06-Feb-2021Steven Smith has paralleled his evolving tale as a Test batsman, in which he emerged from a brief run of low scores against India to make the runs in Sydney and Brisbane that clinched his third Allan Border Medal, with the need for Australia’s coach Justin Langer to keep continually improving as a mentor and man manager.As the world’s pre-eminent Test batsman for most of the past six years, it’s unsurprising that Smith revealed Langer gave him very little coaching whatsoever, aside from an occasional reminder to stay energetic on his feet at the crease. But he credited Langer for maintaining an attitude of learning and seeking feedback, though acknowledging that unvarnished opinions would not always be easy to find.”I think even if you speak to Justin, you want to be improving all the time as a coach or as a player, so of course there’s things you can always get better at,” Smith said. “One thing that hasn’t been spoken a lot about is how tough a job it is to coach an international team, particularly in the circumstances we’ve been in when we’ve been in bubbles for long periods of time.”But Justin’s always working hard, trying to improve and get better and we’ve had conversations over the last two weeks since we’ve finished and he’s always trying to get better and better and that’s all you can ask from a coach.”Langer and Smith’s earliest interactions took place in 2010, when Smith was playing his first Tests for Australia and the coach was a batting assistant seeking to smooth the rough edges of players including him, David Warner and the late Phillip Hughes. Since Smith’s return to Test cricket for the 2019 Ashes, their relationship has been largely a case of the coach keeping out of the way of a batsman in command of himself and his game.Related

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“Justin’s actually said about me before he doesn’t try and coach me too much,” Smith said. “Only every now and again he’ll say something particularly about the energy in my legs and tell me to have a bit more energy and that helps me move my feet a bit better and get going. He just lets me go about my business and do what I need to do. But he’s great around the group, he’s always improving and wants to get better and wants the feedback from the players, and I think that’s really important as a coach.”Sometimes it can be difficult to get that feedback, you always want to get better, you always want to learn on the job and I think he does that as well as anyone.”While it would be well beyond the realm of possibility for a player to give his frankest thoughts on the national team’s senior coach and selector during an open media call, Smith responded in the affirmative when asked directly whether Langer had his full support to keep coaching the team in all formats.”Absolutely, I think he’s done a terrific job over the last couple of years, I wasn’t there the first year, but since I’ve been back I think he’s done a great job,” Smith said. “He always wants to get better and that’s all you can ask of anyone in the setup, whether it be a player or a coach, as long as you’re striving to improve every day, then that’s all you can ask.”That kind of thing [split coaching] has been floated for a while for different formats and different teams and things like that around the world, not just Australia, so I think it’d be interesting. But Justin’s got my full support at the moment, I think he’s doing a terrific job and he has done for a few years, and I can’t see it changing anytime soon.”Steven Smith said he had enjoyed the battle of overcoming new tactics against him•Getty Images and Cricket Australia

As for Smith’s own evolution, he said the past two summers had been refreshing in their challenges, as New Zealand and then India provided new angles of attack and filed placings that restricted him from some of his usual areas to rotate strike. After two slim Test matches in Adelaide and Melbourne, Smith resorted to a more aggressive mindset in Sydney and Brisbane, running up his first century since 2019 in England in the process.”Teams are starting to attack me a little bit differently or bowl to me a little bit differently, so I’ve had to make small adjustments,” he said. “At times I’ve had to be perhaps a little more aggressive than I have been in the past. I think I did that pretty well in the last two Test matches here and just coming up with some different plans and different scoring options but continuing to also play the game in front of me.”There’s times in Test cricket where you’ve got to absorb pressure, time when you’ve got to put the pressure back on the bowlers and try and get on top of them, and I did that well in the last two games, perhaps not as well in the first two of the summer. I felt I learned a bit out of the first two games that I could improve on at the back end. Teams have different plans to me and I’ve got to keep working on my game and I love doing that, I love working hard and finding new ways to do things and getting better.”It was a great challenge and that’s what Test cricket’s all about, people come with different plans to you and you’ve got to try to counter-act them. It’s been a great learning curve. I’ve loved the last two years of developing and learning and absorbing pressure putting pressure on when I need to, and just continuing to grow as a player.”

“If I am not selected, I will take BCB’s advice,” says pacer who was picked up by Rajasthan Royals in the 2021 auction

ESPNcricinfo staff23-Feb-2021Mustafizur Rahman has said that he will be available for Bangladesh’s two-match Test series against Sri Lanka in April, if selected. Rahman had been picked up by the Rajasthan Royals in the IPL 2021 auction for his base price of INR 1 crore, and the tournament is expected to clash with the Sri Lanka series.Both Tests that the two teams are scheduled to play are part of the World Test Championship, and they will also play an ODI Super League series in May.Related

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With the Bangladesh Cricket Board having allowed Shakib Al Hasan to miss the Tests against Sri Lanka after he had requested to be allowed to do so, there was speculation about whether Rahman, too, would follow suit. However, Rahman said he was putting his Bangladesh commitments ahead of his IPL ones.”Country comes first for me. I will play Tests if the team management selects me,” Rahman told reporters on Tuesday, shortly before Bangladesh were to depart for New Zealand for a white-ball tour.”If I am not selected, I will take BCB’s advice. I spoke to the BCB president, who has left the decision to me. If they let me play the IPL I will, otherwise I am choosing to play for the country.”Shakib’s decision also led to the BCB saying they would add clauses in central contracts where players would have to specify their availability.Rahman was part of the XI for the first Test of Bangladesh’s recent series against West Indies and not the second. He has played only 14 Tests in all since making his debut in mid-2015 – less than half of the 30 Tests Bangladesh have played in the same period. Consequently, his selection for the Test squad is not a given, unlike Shakib’s.However, the BCB hadn’t given Rahman an NOC for last year’s IPL. Two years before that, he was reprimanded by the board for not reporting an injury he picked up in IPL 2018, while playing for Mumbai Indians.”There’s no pressure to play in the IPL or for Bangladesh,” Rahman said. “It is not new for me. I have forgone IPL in the past to play for the country. I am thinking along similar lines this time too.”.In his last IPL stint, Rahman played for Mumbai in 2018, taking seven wickets in seven matches at an average of 32.85 and an economy rate of 8.36. He had much more success with Sunrisers Hyderabad in the previous two seasons, although he featured in just one game in 2017. In 17 matches for Sunrisers overall, he collected 17 wickets at 26.16 and an economy rate of 7.14 – his figures somewhat spoiled by his solitary outing in 2017 in which he bowled 2.4 overs for 34 runs without picking up a wicket.

Coach Bob Carter said “cricket must come second” to the importance of Devine’s health

ESPNcricinfo staff31-Mar-2021New Zealand will make a late decision on the availability of captain Sophie Devine for the T20I decider against Australia after she withdrew from the game in Napier suffering from fatigue at the end of a long season.Ahead of yesterday’s game it was announced Devine would not be playing due to waking up feeling ill and in a statement on Wednesday NZC said Devine did not think “she could do justice to the team or herself”. Amy Satterthwaite took over the captaincy in a contest New Zealand won off the last ball to level the series.Related

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Devine has been playing regular cricket since the end of September when New Zealand toured Australia for T20Is and ODIs. That was followed by the WBBL with Perth Scorchers before returning home for the New Zealand domestic season – which involved two weeks in managed isolation – then this visit by Australia.”After an extensive season that started back in September 2020, Sophie will look at how she can best balance her cricket commitments with the need to rest and recover over the coming days,” an NZC statement said.New Zealand coach Bob Carter added: “Simply put, at times like this we always need to focus on what our people need to be at their best and cricket must come second.””She’s traveling with the side to Auckland and we won’t be making any decisions on her availability for the third T20 until late in the piece.”Devine’s last seven international scores against England and Australia have been 16, 6, 15, 2, 8, 0 and 17 although between the two series she struck 97 and 74 on return to domestic action for Wellington. Her form for New Zealand was enough for Kirsty Bond, the former player and selector, to suggest it could be time for a change of captaincy.

Hosts collapse after lunch at Canterbury, leaving them bottom of the table

ECB Reporters Network25-Apr-2021Lancashire 525 (Lamb 125, Wood 119, Bohannon 87, Vilas 53) beat Kent 169 (Crawley 60, Bailey 4-46) and 351 (Bell-Drummond 114, Cox 80, Parkinson 7-126) by an innings and five runs Lancashire moved top of Group Three after thrashing Kent by an innings and five runs in their LV= Insurance County Championship match at Canterbury.Matt Parkinson helped spin the visitors to 22 points, claiming 7 for 126 as Kent were all out for 351 in their second innings, while Danny Lamb, who scored 125 on the second day, claimed 2 for 57.Daniel Bell-Drummond made 114, but the hosts lost three wickets in the morning session and collapsed from 305 for 4 after lunch, leaving them bottom of the table, having picked up just two bonus points.Related

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With the St Lawrence ground under cloud for the first time this season and buffeted by a north-easterly wind strong enough to blow over advertising hoardings, Kent began the final day on 209 for 1 following on, still 147 in arrears.Bell-Drummond added just six to his overnight score when he played on to Josh Bohannon and Parkinson then hit Kent with a gut punch, taking two wickets from successive balls. Zak Crawley was lbw for 36 to a full toss that landed on his toe and Jack Leaning was caught and bowled for a golden duck, lingering for several seconds before the umpires agreed the ball hadn’t bounced.Joe Denly and Heino Kuhn steered Kent to 280 for 4 at lunch, but just as the hosts began to harbour plausible hopes of at least forcing Lancashire to bat again, both were removed by Lamb. Kuhn was lbw for 32 in the 53rd over and in the 55th Denly’s middle stump was sent flying as he was bowled for 31.Darren Stevens went for a duck in the next over, caught by Rob Jones as he tried to drive Parkinson through extra cover and Matt Milnes was unable to recreate last week’s rearguard against Yorkshire, lasting 27 balls before he was lbw to Parkinson for 14, leaving Kent on 345 for 8 at tea.Fred Klaassen was on three when he steered a Lamb delivery into his stumps and although he was reprieved when the ball failed to dislodge the bails, Parkinson had him caught by Steven Croft at silly point before he could add to his score. Lancashire sealed the win when Parkinson drew an inside edge from Miguel Cummins and he was caught by Keaton Jennings at short leg.Having bowled 52 overs, Parkinson described the result as “probably the best four-day win I’ve had”.”It was a long stint, I think last week got me ready and to bowl 50 was awesome,” he said. “I think I bowled two full sessions, so for Dane to trust me for that length of time and for me to perform in those overs was amazing, so I’m just pleased to get the win.”It was nice to get two wickets in the first innings, I think that probably calmed me down a bit. Coming into this game I was a bit nervous, about going from Old Trafford – which I’m used to – to a very flat surface, but I relaxed into a long spell.”They played well, [Jordan] Cox and Bell-Drummond, but it’s testimony to the energy that we’ve got at the minute, it’s a massive change from what I’m used to in this Lancashire side for us to have that belief. From 200 for one, I don’t think many teams in the country would have won from there.”

“When everyone left and I was the only overseas player left in India, that’s when it got real for me”

Sruthi Ravindranath25-May-20217:07

Tim Seifert breaks down as he talks about his battle with Covid

“The world stops a little bit,” a visibly emotional Tim Seifert said as he recounted his experience of testing positive and then being treated for Covid-19 in India earlier this month.Seifert, the only overseas player to test positive during IPL 2021, has since recovered and is currently serving his isolation period at a hotel in Auckland after flying back from Chennai, where he was for around two weeks.”That was the toughest time, getting told that I have Covid,” Seifert said during a media interaction on Tuesday. “The world stops a little bit. I couldn’t think what was next. That’s the scary part. You hear about the bad things, I thought it was going to happen to me. It was tough.”Related

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With the IPL postponed indefinitely after 29 matches in early May following a number of positive cases in some of the team bubbles, Seifert was all set to return home with the other members of the New Zealand contingent. They were flown to Delhi on a chartered flight after returning negative tests on May 6. But Seifert tested positive when another test was done the next day, prior to their flight to New Zealand.”I had a tiny cough, at the time I thought it was just a bit of asthma,” he said. “My heart sank straightaway, really (when the test came out positive). I just went up to my room while everything kind of got sorted out, what were the processes next.”Reality hit him hard when the rest of the New Zealanders, who had cleared their tests, left India. But, the fact that he had an exciting few months to look forward to after his recovery, helped him cope with the situation.”You only really hear about the bad things – watching the media or talking to people”•AFP/Getty Images

“That was kind of when it sunk in, when everyone left and I was the only overseas player left in India, that’s when it got real for me,” he said. “Once a few days had gone by, everything had kind of calmed down a little bit, the New Zealand boys had gone, then I just knew it was a time of getting through it, looking at the positives – getting married in two months, so that’s exciting.”And I think my fiancée is quite happy that I’m back a bit earlier so I can help planning for that. So you had to look at the positives, it was just the tough time of the unknown really.”India has been hit by a massive second wave of the virus, with the surge in cases leading to a shortage of beds and oxygen in hospitals across the country. The depressing updates made it worse for Seifert, but opening up to people about it helped him, he said. As did not having to actually spend time in a hospital.”The news is all about a lack of oxygen, you don’t know if you’re going to be in that situation,” he said. “It’s just the whole unknown of what Covid is, how you’re going to react to it. I was healthy. I had the energy to get out of bed. I was happy with the situations and plans.”One of the toughest bits on being told I had Covid was you only really hear about the bad things – watching the media or talking to people. It’s always the negative side of it. But a lot of people that have got over it, talking to people that have had it helped me as well.”I’m feeling good. Lucky enough through the few weeks now, feeling good the whole way through. On the whole, physically and mentally feeling good. It’s been tough some days being in quarantine. Been in a hotel room about 25 days straight, that has had its toll sometimes mentally.”Seifert could barely hold back his tears as he thanked Knight Riders coach Brendon McCullum and the Chennai Super Kings coach Stephen Fleming, both New Zealanders, for staying in touch with him and helping him through their network of friends in India.”It was the first time being involved for me in IPL in India. They [McCullum and Fleming] had all the connections. They were the closest guys other than the players that I felt comfortable talking to about the situation. They were there for me,” he said. “It definitely was hard and I couldn’t thank Brendon and Fleming enough, they made everything a lot easier.”Making sure things would be put in place and the KKR, the CSK support staff, management, CEO of KKR, they made life easy for me to know that everything would be alright and when that time was to come home, they would do everything to get me home safely and on time.”

Mustafizur Rahman also breaks into the top ten, while Mushfiqur Rahim climbs to No.14 among batters

ESPNcricinfo staff26-May-2021Bangladesh offspinner Mehidy Hasan Miraz has risen to second place in the ICC’s rankings for bowlers in ODIs, becoming only the third bowler from his country to be ranked in the top two in the format.Miraz rose three spots, having returned figures of 4 for 30 and 3 for 28 in the first two ODIs against Sri Lanka.Before Miraz, only allrounder Shakib Al Hasan and left-arm spinner Abdur Razzak have been placed inside the top two from Bangladesh, with Hasan achieving the No. 1 rank in 2009 and Razzak climbing up to No. 2 the following year.Related

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Left-arm seamer Mustafizur Rahman also had a steep rise, breaking into the top ten after going up eight spots to be ranked No.9. Rahman played a crucial hand in both ODIs against Sri Lanka, taking 3 for 34 in a 33-run victory in the first match and following up with 3 for 16 in the second, in a 103-run triumph via the DLS method. The wins have given Bangladesh an unassailable 2-0 lead in the three-match series.Among the batters, Mushfiqur Rahim’s back-to-back Player of the Match performances with scores of 84 and 125 have seen him rise four places to be 14th. Mahmudullah, too, advanced by two steps to sit at No. 38 following innings of 54 and 41.Despite the series loss, the visitors too had their share of gains among the bowlers as Dushmantha Chameera’s 3 for 44 in the second ODI helped lift him 11 spots to be joint-61st along with his team-mate and legspinner Wanindu Hasasranga, who also jumped eight places. Meanwhile, allrounder Dhananjaya de Silva and left-arm wristspinner Lakshan Sandakan both gained nine spots to be placed 83rd and 94th, respectively.

Veteran allrounder becomes first Englishman to 250 wickets and 5000 runs in T20

ECB Reporters' Network18-Jun-2021Veteran allrounder Samit Patel took the starring role as Nottinghamshire Outlaws beat Derbyshire by two runs to go second in the North Group after a Vitality Blast match shortened by rain to 15 overs a side.The 36-year-old hit three sixes and six fours in an unbeaten 62 – his first half-century in the format for three years in his 110th consecutive appearance – and in taking 2 for 14 from three overs of his left-arm spin entered the record books as the first English player to complete the double of 250 wickets and 5000 runs in Twenty20 cricket.Luis Reece hit 56 from 26 balls and Leus Du Plooy an unbeaten 58 including a six off the last ball but Derbyshire fell two runs short of their target of 153.Ben Duckett supported Patel with 38 off 25 balls as the Outlaws totalled 152 for 6, the wickets shared equally between seamers Logan van Beek and George Scrimshaw.Asked to bat first, the Outlaws lost top-scorers Alex Hales and Joe Clarke in the opening over, Hales leg before for a duck after van Beek’s opening delivery was called wide, Clarke well caught by Billy Godleman on the run from mid-off.Debutant Sol Budinger confidently cut his first ball for four off Conor McKerr but was dropped at mid-off in the same over and miscued van Beek to be caught by the wicketkeeper in the next.The Outlaws were restricted to 40 for 3 from a 4.3 over Powerplay before Scrimshaw removed Tom Moores. Duckett pulled Reece for the first six of the night but fell when Scrimshaw found some extra bounce and had him caught at backward point. Scrimshaw claimed his third wicket as Mullaney holed out to midwicket but Patel lifted Fynn Hudson-Prentice and Matt Critchley’s legspin over the rope in a 23-ball half-century and did the same to McKerr.Derbyshire were 19 without loss after an untidy first over by spinner Matt Carter. They were checked by Jake Ball taking wickets with his first two balls as Harry Came looped to deep gully and Godleman hit straight to mid-off but Reece hit Luke Fletcher for 18 and there were sixes for both Reece and du Plooy in Ball’s second over as Derbyshire posted 61 for 2 in the powerplay.Reece fell when he picked out Hales on the long-on boundary before Patel took his place in the record books by pinning Critchley leg before as the left-arm spinner teamed up with skipper Mullaney in stemming the flow of runs, Patel bowling Hudson-Prentice, before holding a tricky catch as Carter dismissed Brooke Guest.du Plooy hit three sixes to take the Falcons close but ultimately not close enough.

Uncapped Molly Penfold comes into the squad that will depart at the end of the week

ESPNcricinfo staff11-Aug-2021New Zealand pace bowler Rosemary Mair has been ruled out of the upcoming tour of England due to a stress reaction in her left shin.Mair will be replaced in the 16-player squad by uncapped Auckland quick Molly Penfold for the tour that includes three T20Is and five ODIs.Mair has taken four wickets in 11 ODIs but has enjoyed more success in T20Is with 13 wickets at 24.69Related

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“It’s very unfortunate news for Rosemary who’s started to form a key part of our bowling attack in recent times,” New Zealand head coach Bob Carter said. “Rosemary is naturally gutted she can’t tour but we wish her well with the injury and look forward to having her back on the park soon.”Bowling coach Jacob Oram was looking forward to working with 20-year-old Penfold on what is hoped will be a valuable learning experience.”Molly has raw, fast bowling talent,” he said. “She brings a desire to learn about her game and a willingness to work hard and absorb new information. She will benefit a lot from touring and training day in, day out with our best bowlers in the country.”New Zealand are hosts of next year’s ODI World Cup but have only won one of their last one of their last 15 matches in the format.