Michael Atherton News

Ravichandran Ashwin finished his 14-year-long glittering international career with 765 international wickets across all three formats of the game.   

Bazball is a aggressive style of play in Tests that England have adopted under head coach Brendon McCullum and captain Ben Stokes. Atherton saw a funny side to it when Brook, a part-timer, was given the ball on Day 2 of the match.

The Pakistan captain Babar Azam surpassed the great Don Bradman, Virat Kohli, Ricky Ponting and Brian Lara en route to scoring an epic 196 against Australia.

Over the past few years, the Black Caps have proved themselves to be a force in all three formats. They reached the final of the ODI World Cup in 2019, losing to England on boundary count and are the holders of the inaugural World Test Championship title.

Atherton's comments came after England set West Indies a mammoth target of 418 in the fourth ODI in Grenada, with the hosts falling just short in a thrilling chase with 389. 

South Africa are already missing paceman Dale Steyn for the whole series with a shoulder injury and on Saturday fellow seamer Vernon Philander was taken to hospital for an x-ray after being hit on the hand during his innings of 52. The x-ray showed no bones were broken.

During India's match against Sri Lanka in ICC Champions Trophy, Sourav Ganguly found himself in an embarrassing situation as Mike Atherton recalled his shirt-waving celebration.

When Hasan ended the match by having last man Steven Finn lbw for a duck it meant England, 100 without loss at tea on the third day, had collapsed to 164 all out.

In the practice match against Somerset, Amir was back to his usual best as he bamboozled the batsmen with his late swing on a green pitch.