Toss Australia chose to bowl vs South Africa Injury concerns have hit the hosts, who are without Anrich Nortje, Sisanda Magala and Temba Bavuma as they look to keep the Australia ODI series alive. Nortje is struggling with a lower-back injury that kept him out of the first and third matches and will rule him
Month: September 2023
Nat Sciver-Brunt expects to return to England’s bowling attack for their winter tour of India after playing a curtailed role with the ball through the summer. The world’s top-ranked allrounder and batter in ODIs, Sciver-Brunt returned to England’s 50-over side against Sri Lanka purely as a batter having sat out the T20s to rest. After
Australia A 229 for 8 (Short 52, Davies 48, O’Rourke 3-44) beat New Zealand A 228 (Seifert 100, Carter 41, Thornton 4-32) by two wickets Will Sutherland returned to bowling for the first time since the end of last season then played an important hand with the bat to help Australia A to a narrow
Josh Inglis knows that his chance to feature in the ODI World Cup might come with a last-minute tap on the shoulder. It’s a situation he’s getting used to as a regular back-up player in Australian squads. The ongoing tour of South Africa has seen him offered more opportunity than has often been the case:
Babar Azam has raised the possibility that Naseem Shah may not recover in time to take part in Pakistan’s opening games at the World Cup in India. While the PCB has not made public any timeline for Naseem’s recovery from a right should injury, Babar appeared unsure as to whether Naseem would be fit for
Asia Cup 2023: Sri Lanka will now face India in final© AFP Sri Lanka defeated Pakistan by two wickets via DLS method in a super four match to secure their place in the final of the Asia Cup in Colombo on Thursday. Mohammad Rizwan (86 not out) and Iftikhar Ahmed (47) put up a 108-run
Sri Lanka 252 for 8 (Mendis 91, Asalanka 49*, Ifthikar 3-50) beat Pakistan 252 for 7 (Rizwan 86*, Shafique 52, Pathirana 3-65) by two wickets via DLS method In a game of multiple compelling storylines, it was Charith Asalanka who stood tall in the end as Sri Lanka edged Pakistan out by two wickets in
England are not overly concerned about the fitness of two key bowlers ahead of the World Cup, despite Adil Rashid and Mark Wood making a single appearance between them in their first three ODIs against New Zealand. With the opening game of the World Cup – coincidentally, against the same opponents – three weeks away,
Pakistan Women 186 for 2 (Ameen 68, Maroof 60*) beat South Africa Women 185 (de Klerk 60, Brits 32, Iqbal 2-26, Dar 2-31, Sandhu 2-37) by eight wickets Half-centuries from Sidra Ameen and Bismah Maroof led Pakistan to an eight-wicket win in the final ODI and prevented South Africa from sealing a 3-0 series sweep.
India batter Prithvi Shaw faces at least three months on the sidelines as he battles a knee injury. This means he will most definitely miss a big chunk of India’s 2023-24 domestic season that resumes with the Irani Cup in Rajkot on October 1. After initially consulting a surgeon in London, Shaw returned to the
Toss Sri Lanka chose to bowl vs England Sri Lanka won a rain-delayed toss and opted to bowl first in the third and final ODI against England in Leicester. In scenes bearing a striking resemblance to those that greeted the start of play in Tuesday’s washed-out second match in Northampton, steady morning drizzle pushed back
It was as if the eyes – and the cameras – of everybody gathered were set on auto-focus mode. India had scheduled an optional training session on a sultry Colombo morning. It was the eve of their last league game against Bangladesh, who were already knocked out of the men’s Asia Cup. The eyes were
Big picture: A chance to test bench strength India have already qualified for the final of Asia Cup 2023. Bangladesh are no longer in contention. And that means Friday’s match between these two sides is a dead rubber. However, with the ODI World Cup less than a month away, it’s a chance for both teams
Mitchell Santner is expected to be fit and available for the start of the World Cup after scans cleared him of serious damage to his knee. Santner jarred his knee while fielding during New Zealand’s defeat to England at the Ageas Bowl on Sunday and did not feature in the third ODI at The Oval
Cricket Australia will make neck guards mandatory for Australia and domestic players from October 1 meaning the likes of Steven Smith and David Warner, among others, will be forced to wear them on their helmets having resisted doing so since their introduction in 2015. Mandatory neck guards are one of a number of changes made
Asia Cup: Salman Butt said Jasprit Bumrah has “looked on a different level”.© AFP Former Pakistan captain Salman Butt feels that the Indian cricket team has ticked all the boxes after the Rohit Sharma-led side qualified for the Asia Cup 2023 final. With two wins in two days, against Pakistan and Sri Lanka, Butt feels
Stokes insisted ahead of the fifth Test at The Oval in July that he would use his time off to manage his chronic left knee injury, which he wanted to “get sorted” as soon as possible. But two weeks later, he was named in England’s squad for their four-match series against New Zealand and in
Harry Dixon is 18 years old, has been blazing runs for Australia Under-19s, idolises David Warner, and has just been handed a two-year deal with Melbourne Renegades. Dixon, a left-handed opener, has been highly regarded around the Victoria grade system – he hit his maiden hundred for St Kilda in the final round of last
Neither Rauf nor Naseem batted in Pakistan’s chase against India, which ended on 128 for a 228-run defeat, which affected Pakistan’s chances of qualifying for the Asia Cup final. They must now beat Sri Lanka in their final Super Four game. In case the weather forces an abandonment, Sri Lanka will go through to the
Big picture It is, once more, that time of the Asia Cup again. One match away from the match that never happens. For years, decades, even, the prospect of an India-Pakistan final has teased and tantalised, but remained just out of grasp, leaving the two giants of the subcontinent sportingly and commercially unsatiated. And for
New Zealand won the toss and chose to bowl first vs England Jason Roy suffered a second back spasm in six days on Wednesday morning, ruling him out of England’s third ODI against New Zealand. Roy missed the first two games of the series after sustaining the same injury on the morning of the series
After skipping the Pakistan tour, Chloe Tryon is back in the South Africa squad that will play three ODIs and five T20Is against New Zealand at home. Laura Wolvaardt will continue to lead the side, having taken over in an interim capacity for the tour of Pakistan after Sune Luus stepped down from the position
Mushfiqur Rahim will miss Bangladesh’s Asia Cup Super Four match against India, scheduled for Friday in Colombo, after being “granted an extension of leave” by the BCB to be with his family. He had returned to Dhaka after Bangladesh’s last match, against Sri Lanka on September 9, to be with his wife for the birth
“It’s been over one and a half years since I had surgery,” Kuldeep said after India’s biggest win against Pakistan in the format. “The run-up has become straighter. The rhythm has become aggressive. The approach is nice. Maybe my hand used to fall over but that is well in control and faces the batter more.
Australia A 243 (McDermott 70, O’Rourke 4-29) beat New Zealand A 135 (Seifert 44, Thornton 7-39) by 108 runs Henry Thornton has capped a whirlwind 48 hours by claiming a career-best 7 for 39 on debut for Australia A in a thumping victory over New Zealand A in Brisbane just two days after an unexpected
KL Rahul wasn’t in India’s first XI for their Asia Cup Super Four fixture against Pakistan. But just prior to the toss in Colombo, when he was asked by head coach Rahul Dravid to get ready, there was a slight problem. Knowing he was going to carry drinks, Rahul had left his batting gear and
Australia’s stand-in captain Mitchell Marsh says his side will learn a lot from being exposed by South Africa’s spinners in helpful conditions in Potchefstroom while the fitness of their own spinner Ashton Agar is a worry after he was unavailable due to soreness with his next opportunity to play before the World Cup unknown because
South Africa beat Australia by 111 runs© AFP South Africa’s spin bowlers backed up a century by Aiden Markram as the hosts ended Australia’s winning streak with a 111-run victory in the third one-day international at the JB Marks Oval in Potchefstroom on Tuesday. Markram hit 102 not out in a South African total of
It was a hospital pass. On the day that Jofra Archer linked up with England’s white-ball squad, training at the Kia Oval as he continues his rehabilitation from an elbow injury, David Willey found himself sitting in the indoor school, fielding questions from the media. Four years ago, Archer was fast-tracked into England’s ODI squad
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