Cricket news roundup – 28th February 2019: Maxwell breaks India’s home streak, women’s cricket recognised in Lord’s Honours Board

Maxwell helps break Kohli’s unbeaten streak at home, Chris Gayle enters 10,000-run ODI club

Glenn Maxwell’s century helped Australia dish out India’s first series loss at home under Virat Kohli’s captaincy. Elsewhere, England pulled off a 29-run win, despite Chris Gayle entering the 10,000-run club in ODI cricket with another century, and Kane Richardson has been ruled out of the remainder of the tour of India.

Maxwell-led Australia break India’s streak

Glenn Maxwell’s belligerent century helped Australia ease to a seven-wicket win in Bengaluru as the visitors sealed the two-match series 2-0.

India seemed well set when they posted 190/4 after being asked to bat, with Virat Kohli leading this with a 38-ball 72*, with good support from KL Rahul (47 off 26) and MS Dhoni (40 off 23).

However, Maxwell bettered all their efforts, scoring his third T20I century – a brilliant 55-ball 113* – to almost single-handedly take Australia through to victory.

It was Virat Kohli’s first series loss at home as captain.

Refurbished Lord’s Honours Board recognises women’s cricket

Sarah Taylor, Claire Taylor, Caroline Atkins, Katherine Brunt and Anya Shrubsole will be among those featuring in the Lord’s Honours Board after the MCC’s decision to recognise centuries and five-wicket hauls at Lord’s in ODIs too.

That snaps a 135-year tradition where the Honours Board featured achievements only in Test cricket. The change is part of the MCC’s drive to refurbish ‘Home of Cricket’.

That also meant the likes of Ricky Ponting, Michael Atherton and Muttiah Muralitharan, all now feature prominently on the board, having scored a century and claim a five-for in ODIs, but not in Tests.

However, Sachin Tendulkar still misses out – his only century at Lord’s came in an exhibition match for Rest of the World.

Gayle joins 10,000-run club but Morgan says England were ‘fortunate’ to beat West Indies

A 77-ball 150 from Jos Buttler, a century from captain Eoin Morgan, and half-centuries from Jonny Bairstow and Alex Hales helped England to a record 418/6 in the fourth ODI at St George’s.

However, Morgan eventually had to concede his side were ‘fortunate’ to beat the hosts – after Chris Gayle’s typically powerful 97-ball 162 – a knock that took him five figures in overall ODI run charts –  West Indies came close and were favourites to seal it before Adil Rashid turned things around sharply, taking four wickets in five balls in the 48th over.

It meant England won by 29 runs.

“It was a hell of a game,” Morgan later said. “We really did go toe-to-toe with West Indies today. We were very fortunate, particularly with that spell that Adil came back with, to get over the line because we were probably sitting in second position for the last 15 overs of the game. We needed something special and Adil produced that in his final over.”

Kane Richardson ruled out of India tour

The Australian paceman, Kane Richardson, has been done in by an injury shortly into his comeback to the international team. He has been ruled out of the India tour, and Australia have called up Andrew Tye as replacement. Tye will join the Australia squad on Thursday, along with Shaun Marsh.

David Beakley, Australia’s physiotherapist, said: “Kane reported some left side pain at training prior to the opening T20I in Vizag. Unfortunately, he has not recovered well enough in order to play a further part in the tour. “Kane will return home to continue his rehabilitation, and we monitor his progress over the coming weeks.”

Goswami credits coach Raman for batting resurgence

India all-round Jhulan Goswami has hailed the influence of WV Raman, the new women’s head coach, after her 37-ball 30 in the first IWC ODI against England helped India post 202 in difficult circumstances.

The veteran also had plenty of praise for Raman’s style of coaching, and reveal that apart from technical adjustments to her game, Raman had helped her make mental refinements as well.

“The credit goes to Raman sir,” Goswami said on the eve of the third ODI. “He’s the one who kept on telling me to work hard on my batting, and that the runs [lower down the order] are important. And that it’ll be difficult if I am not serious about batting. He has given me batting every day – [there is] not even one session when I haven’t batted since he arrived. He believed in my batting and I am thankful.”