The BCCI has shortlisted Bengaluru and Delhi as venues to host the 2024 Women’s Premier League (WPL). The BCCI has also tentatively pencilled in a window between February 22 and March 17 for the second season of the tournament. ESPNcricinfo has learned the first part of WPL 2024 will be played in Bengaluru while Delhi
Month: January 2024
Sydney Sixers 151 for 7 (Philippe 47, Silk 35, McAndrew 2-17) beat Sydney Thunder 132 (Warner 37, O’Keefe 3-13) by 19 runs David Warner helicoptered into the SCG but he couldn’t pilot Sydney Thunder to victory as their BBL campaign came to end as Sydney Sixers overcame Steven Smith‘s first ball-duck to remain on course
Shami was included in India’s Test squad for the two matches in South Africa, subject to fitness. He did not travel with the team and was subsequently withdrawn from the series, which India drew 1-1 by winning the second Test in Cape Town, after not recovering in time. He was not named in India’s T20I
Legspinner Alana King continues to be squeezed out of Australia’s T20I squad in what remains a settled group for the limited-overs legs of South Africa’s multiformat visit which begins at the end of January. King will return for the three-match ODI series with Grace Harris, who is part of the T20I squad, dropping out. King,
The T20 World Cup 2024 will be starting in less than five months from now. Team India will be facing Afghanistan in a three-match T20I series starting January 11, which will be the Rohit Sharma-led side’s last international assignment in the shortest format before the T20 mega event in USA and West Indies. As the
Mitchell McClenaghan, a four-time IPL champion with Mumbai Indians, has been appointed bowling coach of MI Emirates, their ILT20 affiliate. It will be McClenaghan’s first major role as a coach, having last played professionally in 2021. He represented New Zealand in 48 ODIs and 29 T20Is picking up 82 and 30 wickets respectively. McClenaghan will
ICC CEO Geoff Allardice has met with Sri Lanka’s new sports minister, as well as the country’s President Ranil Wickremesinghe, during a brief visit undertaken to gain a better understanding of the political situation in the country as it relates to cricket administration. In November, the ICC imposed a suspension on Sri Lanka Cricket’s membership,
Toss: India opt to bowl vs Afghanistan India captain Rohit Sharma won the toss and opted to bowl in his first T20I in more than a year. Rohit last featured in T20Is during the 2022 T20 World Cup in Australia. India picked just two frontline quicks in Arshdeep Singh and Mukesh Kumar on a greenish
Australia allrounder Marcus Stoinis has signed to play in the SA20 for Durban’s Super Giants, the affiliate of his IPL club Lucknow. He is comfortable with being left out of Australia’s ODI squad to face West Indies after speaking regularly to the selectors for six months, but still hopes to be part of the T20
West Indies 251 for 8 dec and 137 for 3 (da Silva 55*, Hodge 44*, Haskett 2-39) lead Cricket Australia XI 174 (Ward 50, Hope 24, Roach 2-23, Shamar Joseph 2-28) by 214 runs West Indies showed they are determined to put up a fight during their Australia tour with a spirited effort on day
Toss Zimbabwe chose to bat vs Sri Lanka Zimbabwe have chosen to bat first in the third ODI against Sri Lanka, having won the toss under cloudy skies at Kettarama. The visitors made three changes to their XI, strengthening their bowling by bringing in left-arm spinner Wellington Masakadza in place of offspinner Tapiwa Mufudza, swapping
Virat Kohli will miss the first T20I against Afghanistan in Mohali on Friday. India coach Rahul Dravid confirmed on the eve of the match that Kohli would be unavailable for personal reasons, and would be back for the second and third games of the series in Indore and Bengaluru. “Virat Kohli will miss the first
Adelaide Strikers 169 for 2 (Weatherald 80*) beat Hobart Hurricanes 167 for 6 (Wright 37, Boyce 2-17) by eight wickets Jake Weatherald has come from the clouds, hitting 80 from 32 balls to keep Adelaide Strikers’ Big Bash League final hopes alive and end the top-four quest of Hobart Hurricanes. Weatherald, in at No. 3
Shimron Hetmyer has been left out of both the ODI and a full-strength West Indies T20I squad for their series against Australia next month after he was dropped against England late last year. Jason Holder and Kyle Mayers have been included for the T20Is after they had made themselves unavailable for the Test tour to
There will be no helicopter for Steve O’Keefe at the SCG on Friday, but his evening in the BBL Sydney derby could be a much more significant than David Warner’s hasty flight from his brother’s wedding. There’s a chance that the game will be O’Keefe’s final outing at the SCG with this season very likely
“As of now, we will be certainly opening with Rohit and Jaiswal,” Dravid said. “But when you have a squad, you have to have that flexibility to do whatever is required if that is in the best interest of the team, and gives us the best chance to succeed. So nothing is closed. But certainly,
The spotlight will be only on the returning Rohit Sharma as his long-time colleague Virat Kohli pulled out of the opening T20I against Afghanistan due to “personal reasons” ahead of the first ever white-ball series between the two teams, beginning in Mohali on Thursday. Kohli, though, will be available for the second and third T20
Usman Khawaja has displayed the dove and olive branch symbol, which the ICC banned, on his shoes and bat during the BBL match against Perth Scorchers in Brisbane. The image was approved by the Cricket Australia board prior to the Boxing Day Test against Pakistan, but despite Khawaja’s submission to the ICC the governing body
Big picture: Final rehearsal for India In less than five months, India will face Ireland in their opening game at the 2024 T20 World Cup. While there is the IPL before that, the three-match series against Afghanistan, starting in Mohali on Thursday, is India’s only T20I assignment in between. Incidentally, this is the first time
Dinesh Karthik, the former India wicketkeeper-batter, will assist England Lions’ preparations in India later this week, after being included in the squad’s coaching set-up for the first nine days of the tour. Karthik, whose international career included roles on two tours of England in 2007 and 2018, as well as the 2019 World Cup, has
West Indies 251 for 8 (Greaves 65, Hodge 52, Brathwaite 52, Haskett 3-57) vs Cricket Australia XI West Indies’ batting frailties were exposed after stumbling against an inexperienced Cricket Australia XI in Adelaide. One week out from the first Test against Australia, the tourists’ batters made several starts but all failed to go on with
Australia’s chair of selectors George Bailey has shut down conspiracy talk around Cameron Bancroft being overlooked for the Test side as having anything to do with the 2018 ball-tampering scandal. Bancroft has played Test cricket since his ban, featuring in two games against England in 2019, but comments he made in a 2021 interview about
Shreyas Iyer will be part of the Mumbai squad for their second round match of the Ranji Trophy 2023-24 against Andhra beginning January 12. It will mark his return to the Mumbai XI for the first time in the Ranji Trophy since the 2018-19 season. The home game at the Sharad Pawar Cricket Academy in
Grant Bradburn will join Glamorgan as head coach next month after signing a three-year deal, which formally brings his brief tenure as Pakistan men’s head coach to an end. Bradburn took over from Saqlain Mushtaq last year and oversaw Test series against New Zealand and Sri Lanka, as well as the 50-over World Cup in
New Zealand Cricket [NZC] has appointed former allrounder Andre Adams as the bowling coach of the men’s national side for their five-match T20I series against Pakistan at home. The 48-year-old will be part of head coach Gary Stead‘s group which also has former New Zealand wicketkeeper-batter Luke Ronchi in the mix as batting coach. Adams’
Steven Smith will captain Australia in the ODI series against West Indies next month while fast bowler Lance Morris has been handed his first call-up in the format and Marcus Stoinis has been dropped. Pat Cummins, having led the side to the World Cup title in November, has been rested alongside Mitchell Marsh who captained
Ravi Bishnoi‘s four-wicket haul in the first innings helped Gujarat overcome a 14-run deficit to clinch a thrilling win over Tamil Nadu in Valsad. Gujarat’s 236 seemed quite massive when TN were tottering on 119 for 8 in the first innings. M Mohammed and Sandeep Warrier then put on 116 for the ninth wicket to
Former Indian opener Aakash Chopra raised concerns over middle-order batter KL Rahul’s omission from the squad against Afghanistan, especially when he and skipper Rohit Sharma both put up disappointing numbers during ICC T20 World Cup 2022 in Australia, but the ‘Hitman’ got a chance to return to the national T20I side. Star opener Rohit Sharma
Former Australia captain Michael Clarke believes that Steven Smith would become the best opening batter in the world if he was given the task of replacing David Warner, but still sees Cameron Green as the likelier route the selectors will take. The squad for the first Test against West Indies will be named on Wednesday
This will be Wanindu Hasaranga’s first series as captain. There is still a spot in the squad for previous captain Dasun Shanaka. Among the omissions from this squad are of opener Avishka Fernando and top order batters Nuwanidu Fernando and Janith Liyanage, who was Player of the Match in the second ODI against Zimbabwe. Also
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