Vernon Philander and Lhuan-dre Pretorius TimesofIndia.com in Gqeberha: Lhuan-dre Pretorius is 18 and has played for the South Africa U19s. He’s scored 338 runs this SA20 season.Ryan Rickelton is 28 and cracked 303 runs in this third edition of the T20 league.Kwena Maphaka is 18 and is early into his Proteas career while notching five … Read more
Joe Root will make his return to one-day cricket on England’s tour of India and the ICC Champions Trophy in 2025, but Ben Stokes has been ruled out through injury. Brendan McCullum’s first squads as England white-ball coach have been named ahead of next month’s tour of India – which includes three ODIs, five IT20s … Read more
NEW DELHI: Former Australia cricketer Greg Chappell thinks that the modern cricket greats, such as Virat Kohli, Steve Smith, and Joe Root, would know when their time is up, not when others tell them.Chappell also considered how the careers of contemporary greats like Smith, Root, and Kohli illustrate the unavoidable fall of exceptional batsmen. Why … Read more
Joe Root has labelled England team-mate Harry Brook “by far and away the best player in the world”, while Sky Sports’ Michael Atherton believes it is “unquestionably” Root – so who is it? Brook hit 123 off 115 balls against New Zealand in England’s series-clinching 323-run win inside three days at Wellington, rescuing the team … Read more
Sachin Tendulkar and Joe Root. (Getty Images) One batter who has defied any notion of slump in the last four years in the world of cricket is England’s run-machine Joe Root. The 33-years-old is riding on the form of his lifetime for quite some time now.Root is so confident about his batting that he played … Read more