The ICC Board on Tuesday decided to shift the 2024 men’s Under-19 World Cup from Sri Lanka to South Africa. The move, a unanimous decision by the board, was taken as a consequence of the ICC recently provisionally suspending the Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) due to extensive government interference in the board’s administration. The development
Month: November 2023
The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has appointed former internationals Umar Gul and Saeed Ajmal as bowling coaches for the men’s national team. While Gul has been assigned as the fast bowling coach, Ajmal will helm the spin unit. Gul has been actively involved in coaching stints since retiring from all forms of cricket in 2020
Josh Hazlewood: “I think this is bigger [than 2015]. Obviously we had won at home in front of our home fans, but the challenges we’ve been through in the last couple of months – coming here, and playing in those conditions against India, which is a pretty special team. Again, to win on a day
Dowrich, whose sole previous ODI cap came against Bangladesh in 2019, come back in after averaging 78.00 in the domestic Super50 Cup, while there was also a recall for opener Kjorn Ottley, the third-highest run-scorer in the competition. Rutherford, capped six times in T20Is, also impressed while recording a maiden List A hundred, while Forde’s
About 20-30 more runs while batting, a bigger partnership between KL Rahul and Virat Kohli, and ideally a score of 270-280 are among the things Rohit Sharma would have liked his batting line-up to have achieved to make the World Cup final more of a contest rather than the eventual six-wicket loss to Australia in
David Warner has been withdrawn from the T20I series against India following the ODI World Cup. Warner joins a group of multiformat players who will skip the five-match series ahead of the home summer which starts with the first Test against Pakistan on December 14. Warner had an outstanding World Cup where he scored 535
At his first press conference since being appointed to the role, Wahab announced Pakistan’s 18-member squad, but almost instantly, shifted focus towards Rauf’s non-selection, accusing the player of going back on his word. It is a claim that, a source close to Rauf told ESPNcricinfo, the player vehemently denies. “We spoke to Haris Rauf for
With Hardik Pandya yet to recover from his ankle injury, Suryakumar Yadav will lead India in the five-match T20I series against Australia, starting November 23. Ruturaj Gaikwad will be the vice-captain for the first three games before handing over the responsibility to Shreyas Iyer who will join the squad for the last two matches. The
Western Australia 282 for 6 (Whiteman 137*, Bancroft 51, Pope 3-59) beat South Australia 279 for 7 (Drew 84, McSweeney 53, Short 1-27) by four wickets Fast bowler Jhye Richardson recovered from a torrid start to complete a successful return from injury before stand-in captain Sam Whiteman‘s first List A century guided Western Australia past
File image of Suryakumar Yadav© AFP Suryakumar Yadav named India’s captain for five-match T20I series against Australia starting on November 23. India’s squad:Suryakumar Yadav (Captain), Ruturaj Gaikwad (vice-captain), Ishan Kishan, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Tilak Varma, Rinku Singh, Jitesh Sharma (wk), Washington Sundar, Axar Patel, Shivam Dubey, Ravi Bishnoi, Arshdeep Singh, Prasidh Krishna, Avesh Khan, Mukesh Kumar
Opening batter Saim Ayub and fast bowler Khurram Shahzad are in line for Test debuts after being included in Pakistan’s squad for their upcoming tour of Australia. Pakistan, under newly appointed red-ball captain Shan Masood, will play three Tests on the tour, in Perth (December 14-18), Melbourne (December 26-30) and Sydney (January 3-7). The 21-year-old
With the bat, he had made 304 runs at a strike rate of 75.62. It raised questions – did it make sense, especially since Australia had another anchor, Steven Smith, who they wanted in the XI. As it turned out, Australia kept the faith, and Labuschagne delivered in the final with a made-for-the-situation innings, an
Barishal were on the back foot right from the start when Mahedi’s 4 for 62 helped Khulna bowl them out for 239 in the first innings, that too after half-centuries from their Nos. 9 and 11, Kamrul Islam and Tanvir Islam respectively. Tanvir’s left-arm spin fetched him four wickets that helped restrict Khulna to 214,
Tasmania 493 (Hope 132, Doran 118, Webster 103) beat New South Wales 181 and 311 (Davies 62, Green 61, Neil-Smith 3-57) by and innings and one run Tasmania have maintained their dominant start to the Sheffield Shield season, thumping New South Wales by an innings and one run to stay top of the table after
India fell “30-40 runs short” of a good total in the final, but it wasn’t because of a fearful approach in the middle overs – that’s the line Rahul Dravid took in the wake of his team’s defeat to Australia in the 2023 World Cup title bout in Ahmedabad. “I won’t agree that we played
What began as a daunting year for Pat Cummins and Australia has ended in ultimate glory, the kind of year that might sit alongside some of the best years any Australian side has had this century. It started with an honourable Test series defeat in India and it ended with a spectacular World Cup triumph,
Australia 241 for 4 (Head 137, Labuschagne 58*, Bumrah 2-43) beat India 240 (Rahul 66, Kohli 54, Starc 3-55, Cummins 2-34, Hazlewood 2-60) by six wickets India may be where the heart of the game now resides, but the coolest Head in cricket has once again been shown to be Australian. Travis Head, to be
Australia weren’t the clear favourites heading into the 2023 ODI World Cup. They began their campaign with two big losses, had injury troubles and a number of out-of-form players, and most of their wins in the league stages were not convincing enough. But captain Pat Cummins was pleased his side “saved the best for our
The Rohit Sharma-led Indian cricket team won everything on its way to the final of the Cricket World Cup but failed in the final hurdle. A strong Australian cricket team clinched a record-extending sixth World Cup title by defeating India by six wickets. For India, their decade-long wait for a major ICC Trophy continued. After
New South Wales 181 and 46 for 3 trail Tasmania 493 (Hope 132, Doran 118, Webster 103) by 266 runs Jake Doran, Beau Webster and Bradley Hope scored centuries to put Tasmania within striking distance of victory just two days into their Sheffield Shield clash with New South Wales at Blundstone Arena. In reply to
Offspinner R Ashwin, who hasn’t played a game in the World Cup since India’s opening match against Australia on October 8, has emerged as an attractive option for the final against the same opponents on an Ahmedabad pitch that could assist spin. Ashwin, who was drafted into India’s World Cup squad as a late replacement
The 2023 ODI World Cup final between India and Australia will be played on pitch No. 5 at the Narendra Modi Stadium, the surface that was used for the India-Pakistan fixture. India won that game in 73 overs, but it was played on October 14, when the weather was hot and dry. A little over
Trent Boult is unlikely to feature for New Zealand during their home summer, but head coach Gary Stead is hopeful of having the left-arm seamer back next year. Boult had given up his New Zealand central contract in 2022 in order to become a freelancer, but reunited with the national team for the 2023 ODI
Calmness. Atmosphere. Mindset. Positivity. Expectation. These are words India captain Rohit Sharma used with regularity in his 36-minute pre-final press conference in Ahmedabad ahead of the big day against Australia. He didn’t say it, of course, but what he alluded to was this: while it’ll be nice to win, they aren’t weighed down by the
Big picture: The team of this tournament vs the team that tends to win these tournaments It feels a little like we are in the eye of the cyclone. Over the last few weeks, this World Cup had become a furious whirl of irresistible narratives. There was Virat Kohli’s tenacious run to 50 ODI hundreds,
There was an Instagram reel by a social media influencer that went viral last year, when the interviewee was asked to decipher an incomplete footage of a DRS call. Without having a look, he says “out hai sir” and then asks the interviewer to shift the focus of the photo and there stood Mahendra Singh
Najmul Hossain Shanto has been named Bangladesh Test captain for the two-match series at home against New Zealand starting later this month. Shanto was elevated after Litton Das, who was captain for the one-off Test against Afghanistan in Dhaka in June, was granted paternity leave for a month. Shakib Al Hasan, who Litton had replaced
When Yuvraj Singh walloped Brett Lee through the covers to hit the winning runs in the 2011 World Cup quarter-final in Ahmedabad, it brought an end to an era of domination that had spanned nearly 12 years and delivered three back-to-back World Cup wins. Now, 12 years later, Australia return to Ahmedabad to try and
Left-arm spinner Jess Jonassen has been studying master of the art Ravindra Jadeja closely ahead of Australia’s Test against India next month. India will host Australia from December 21 in Mumbai, for the first time in a Test on home soil since 1984, and the 31-year-old Jonassen is leaving no stone unturned in her quest
Wahab Riaz, the former Pakistan fast bowler, has been appointed the new chief selector of the senior men’s team. His appointment comes not long after Inzamam-ul-Haq stepped down from the position amid conflict-of-interest allegations and in the wake of widespread changes in the set-up at the end of a below-par ODI World Cup campaign. Wahab,
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