Mitchell Starc will be a key figure in Australia’s T20 World Cup campaign © Cricket Australia via Getty Images Mitchell Starc is prepared to improvise to give himself the best chance of being ready for Test cricket amid a schedule crunch which is further complicated by the quarantine requirements in Australia. Starc is one of
Month: July 2021
News “I don’t look to please people, I’m here to play the role that’s assigned to me accordingly, by the team management” Mithali Raj has said she doesn’t heed criticism around her strike rate and instead focuses on shouldering the responsibility bestowed by the team management in terms of playing the anchor role in the
News The HCA ombudsman temporarily disqualified five members of the HCA Apex Council that had suspended Azharuddin Former India captain Mohammad Azharuddin was on Sunday reinstated as president of the Hyderabad Cricket Association (HCA) by ombudsman Justice (retd) Deepak Verma. In an interim order, the HCA ombudsman temporarily disqualified five members of the HCA Apex
News Both players said they didn’t have to face any hospitalisations or restrictions Chinelle Henry and Chedean Nation, the two West Indies Women players who collapsed on the field during their team’s second T20I against Pakistan Women, have recovered and are back with the team ahead of the third and final T20I. Both players had
Sam Curran takes a brilliant 5-48 & half-centuries for Jason Roy, Joe Root, and Eoin Morgan as England win the series! Find out more at ecb.co.uk This is the official channel of the ECB. Watch all the latest videos from the England Cricket Team and England and Wales Cricket Board. Including highlights, interviews, features getting
Sadeera Samarawickrama 54 vs England in 5th ODI at RPICS
Tom Curran followed in brother Sam’s footsteps against Sri Lanka only for rain to deny England a series clean sweep in the third and final one-day international at Bristol on Sunday. Having won the preceding T20 series 3-0, England were on course to end the ODI campaign with a similar scoreline after dismissing Sri Lanka
Report Eoin Morgan keen to chase amid forecast for rain in Bristol England have won the toss and chosen to bowl first under grey skies in Bristol. The toss was delayed slightly on account of drizzle, and if the forecasts and rain radar are anything to go by, there are likely to be further weather
News South Africa coach confident of team’s showing after series win against West Indies Conditions at the T20 World Cup in the UAE will be similar to what South Africa experienced in Grenada, according to coach Mark Boucher, who expects the tournament to be tough for batters but successful for spinners. Although it was always
News She bettered Charlotte Edwards’ tally of 10273 during the third ODI against England in Worcester Mithali Raj, the India Test and ODI captain, surpassed former England captain Charlotte Edwards as the leading run-scorer in women’s international cricket on Saturday. Raj, 38, bettered Edwards’ tally of 10,273 in the 24th over of the Indian innings
Report Sciver’s 49 and Knight’s 42 lift England on a rain-affected, 47-overs-a-side contest England Women (Sciver 49, Knight 46, Sharma 3-47, Kaur 1-24) vs India Women Nat Sciver‘s 49 and Heather Knight‘s 46 lifted England to a total of 219 in a rain-affected, 47-overs-a-side contest. Deepti Sharma was the other star performer in the third
Report Anrich Nortje was rested as precaution, while Fabian Allen missed out through injury South Africa chose to bat vs West Indies West Indies have been asked to chase a series win – literally – after Temba Bavuma decided South Africa will defend in the decider. Blue skies greeted the teams on Saturday afternoon after
New Zealand pace ace Shane Bond certainly loved playing against Australia – particularly on this occasion where he picked up 5-25 in a 2002 ODI in Adelaide
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Coach Mickey Arthur Impressed by the facilities at the Side Net
Mithali Raj became the leading run scorer across format in women’s international cricket.© Twitter India captain Mithali Raj became the highest run-getter in women’s cricket across formats, overtaking former England skipper Charlotte Edwards on Saturday. Mithali achieved the feat during the third and final inconsequential ODI against hosts England while chasing 220 for a consolation
News England fast bowler will be eligible for selection for India series after panel issues verdict Ollie Robinson has been cleared for an immediate return to cricket in the wake of the publication of historic offensive tweets during his Test debut at Lord’s last month, after the cricket discipline commission chose to suspend him for
Preview With tougher tests ahead – Pakistan are up next – England will likely take the opportunity to test out fringe players Big Picture It’s hard to remember a time when Sri Lanka went into a match with so little expected of them (well apart from the previous two games of course). This, even in
News Tom Banton retained in squad after standing in for Dawid Malan during Sri Lanka ODIs England have named an unchanged 16-player squad for the three-match ODI series against Pakistan, which gets underway in Cardiff on July 8. England are already 2-0 up in their ODI series against Sri Lanka, with the final match taking
News He expects the wicketkeeper to bat in the top three of the T20 side even when all players are available Matthew Wade expects Australia’s wicketkeeper to bat in the top three for the T20I side as he looks to keep hold of the position that is currently his in the build-up to the World
Report There were five run-outs during Pakistan’s chase, before rain gave the home side a win by the DLS method West Indies Women 125 for 6 (Knight 30*, Nation 28, Sana 2-18, Amin 2-31) beat Pakistan Women 103 for 6 in 18 overs (Dar 29, Mathews 1-13) by 7 runs (DLS method) West Indies Women
News Ben Sawyer has joined the national set-up as full-time pace-bowling coach Matthew Mott, head coach of the Australia women’s team, has signed a two-year contract extension which means he will remain in charge until after the defence of the T20 World Cup title in 2023. The next two years includes a host of major
Big picture A grand finale will close the first series of West Indies’ home summer and they will be itching for silverware, especially after losing the Test series 2-0. West Indies have held the lead, then fallen behind and then drawn level to lock this five-match series at 2-2, and create the kind of pressure
News Bavuma, Khawaja and Pooran also part of the drafts ahead of the second season’s kick-off on July 30 Shakib al Hasan, Usman Khawaja, Sherfane Rutherford and Rilee Rossouw are among the leading names to have registered to compete in the Lankan Premier League, Sri Lanka’s premier T20 franchise competition. The LPL is scheduled to
‘Maybe we have been found wanting in that [pace-bowling] department [against West Indies]’ – Temba Bavuma © AFP/Getty Images South Africa have yet to make a firm decision on who will partner Quinton de Kock or who their sixth bowling option will be for the T20 World Cup later this year. With approximately seven fixtures
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Sam Curran picked up five wickets in the second ODI against Sri Lanka.© Twitter Stand-in England head coach Graham Thorpe feels playing in the Indian Premier League (IPL) has “enormously” helped Sam Curran to evolve his game. Sam Curran, who plays for MS Dhoni-led Chennai Super Kings (CSK) in the IPL, picked five wickets in
Graham Thorpe says that Sam Curran‘s composure in pressurised situations is the trait that has propelled him to the heart of England’s white-ball plans, following his series-sealing five-wicket haul in the second ODI against Sri Lanka at The Kia Oval. Curran, who has played ten ODIs in his young career compared to 21 Tests since
News ‘If anything we’ll be a bit vulnerable because we won’t have had a lot of cricket” Australia women’s head coach Matthew Mott is wary that India may be the better-prepared side when the two teams meet in September, with the home side coming off an extended period without playing and a chance that their
Nicholas Pooran, Alyssa Healy, Aaron Finch and Meg Lanning are among the latest overseas players to pull out of the inaugural season of the Hundred, with Faf du Plessis, Shabnim Ismail, Imran Tahir and Laura Wolvaardt signing up as replacements. A number of the competition’s leading overseas players have already withdrawn due to clashes with