MI Cape Town, who haven't been at their best in a couple of seasons in the SA20 began their campaign on a thunderous note with a magnificent 97-run win against the two-time defending champions Sunrisers Eastern Cape. Against them on Saturday will be the Super Kings from Johannesburg.
The failed defence of both the World Cups, T20 and ODI, has meant that England have instilled fresh blood to the white-ball squads for the upcoming Australia series at home. Jonny Bairstow is a prominent name missing given he was part of the team across all three formats till a couple of months ago.
Welsh Fire with changes in their personnel last year came up with an improved show in the men's Hundred and will hope to go much better with the number of options they have available this time. Manchester Originals, on the other hand, are set to miss Jos Buttler this year in a huge blow.
England dropped experienced wicketkeepers Jonny Bairstow and Ben Foakes from their 14-member squad for a two-match Test series against West Indies. Uncapped Jamie Smith has scored over 3000 runs in first-class cricket with an average of 40.80 so far.
Harry Brook was adjudged the Player of the Match (POTM) for his blistering innings of 47* off just 20 balls and for taking two catches, including that of David Wiese. He paced his innings at a strike rate of 235.00.
Punjab Kings won their penultimate game of IPL 2024 against RR with the skipper Sam Curran standing up with both bat and ball. However, both he and Jonny Bairstow will leave for national duty now. Liam Livingstone, Will Jacks, Reece Topley, Phil Salt and skipper Jos Buttler have already left.
Punjab Kings scripted history in probably one of the best matches of the IPL history as they chased down 262 runs with eight balls to spare against the Kolkata Knight Riders at Eden Gardens. Jonny Bairstow smashed his second IPL century on return to the side with Shashank Singh hitting a fifty.
PBKS vs MI IPL 2024 Playing XIs: Stand-in skipper Sam Curran won the crucial toss and Punjab Kings elected to bowl first against Hardik Pandya's Mumbai Indians in Mullanpur. The star South African batter Rilee Rossouw replaced struggling Jonny Bairstow for the hosts.
After a flop show in the recent India vs England Test series, Jonny Bairstow is set to be available for the entire Indian Premier League season 2024. Bairstow missed the IPL 2023 due to injury and has struggled for form across formats in recent months.
Tempers flared as Jonny Bairstow and Shubman Gill exchanged a few words during the change of overs before Sarfaraz Khan joined in. The war of words continued even after Bairstow had gotten out as he and Gill said something to each other when he was leaving the field in the fifth Test in Dharamsala.
Like he did in 2017 against Australia, Kuldeep Yadav has spun a web around England batters in Dharamsala, as he ran through their top order single-handedly on day one of the Test match. In the process, he also achieved a a personal milestone levelling legendary Erapalli Prasanna.
R Ashwin and Jonny Bairstow became only the fourth pair of cricketers to play their 100th Test together in the series finale in Dharamsala on Thursday, March 7. England won the toss and elected to bat in the fifth and final Test match against India at the picturesque venue.
Ravichandran Ashwin and Jonny Bairstow will be playing their 100th Test match together and will mark a pretty rare record in Test cricket's 147-year-old history of the format. They are set to feature in the India vs England 5th Test in Dharamsala.
Axar Patel was picked over Kuldeep Yadav to strengthen India's potent spin-bowling attack. The Anand-born was fairly impressive with both the ball and the bat in hand when the last time the Three Lions toured India.
"India can produce different pitches: it doesn't have to turn. We've seen how potent their seam attack has been recently. I'm sure the pitches will turn: it's whether or not they'll turn from day one, which potentially negates a bit of their strength in their seam," Bairstow said.
"We (England) lost to Sri Lanka in 2019. We lost to Pakistan in 2019. We still went through it. There were similar things that I'm sure you guys [the press] wrote in 2019 at the home World Cup," Jonny Bairstow said while speaking to Cricinfo.
England registered a humongous victory that has done their net run rate (NRR) a world of good. The Jos Buttler-led side had got off to a poor start after getting comprehensively beaten by New Zealand in their World Cup opener. Dawid Malan was awarded the Player of the Match for his century.
Trent Boult made his comeback in this match and is featuring in the ODI format after almost an year having last played on September 11 in 2022. However, he got his first wicket of Bairstow courtesy of a stunning catch from Mitchell Santner.
Jonny Bairstow smashed a quickfire 99* in the first innings at Old Trafford as his quickfire knock helped England take a lead of 275 runs in the fourth Ashes Test.
Stumping dismissal in the Lord's Test is certainly playing on Jonny Bairstow's mind. On the flip side, he was also taunting Australia with his actions on Day 1 of Headingley Test.
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