CSA Invitational XI 285 for 8 (Senokwane 79, Akhter 3-51) vs England Lions Zaman Akhter’s pace and bounce was the feature as the Gloucestershire quick claimed three wickets on the opening day of the England Lions’ four-day match against a Cricket South Africa Invitational XI in Cape Town. After Tom Lawes struck twice with the
Month: December 2024
Batter Keacy Carty has received a maiden T20I call-up for West Indies home T20Is against Bangladesh. Carty has been part of the ODIs and Tests against Bangladesh, and also played the ODIs against England and Sri Lanka earlier this season. West Indies will also have the services of the fit-again Johnson Charles for the T20Is.
Nortje last played in the Abu Dhabi T10 earlier this month, but has not played an international match since the T20 World Cup final in June. He was expected to be part of white-ball coach Rob Walter’s ODI plans, with an eye on next year’s Champions Trophy, but is unlikely to be part of the
Jason Gillespie‘s departure from his role as Pakistan Test head coach is inching closer, with him unlikely to board his flight to join the team on their tour of South Africa as things stand. Gillespie’s scheduled flight to South Africa is for 6am Adelaide time on Friday, but he appears to have no intention of
West Indies 325 for 6 (Jangoo 104*, Carty 95, Rishad 2-69) beat Bangladesh 321 for 5 (Mahmudullah 84*, Mehidy 77, Soumya 73, Jaker 62*, Joseph 2-43) by four wickets Jangoo added 132 runs for the fifth wicket with Carty, and when West Indies lost two wickets in quick succession, he combined with Gudakesh Motie for
Top salaries in the men’s Hundred have been boosted by 60 percent for 2025 as the ECB pushes to attract the world’s best players to the competition in its transitional season. The board mooted even bigger hikes to prospective investors earlier this year, with further increases expected once the ongoing sales process is fully complete.
South Africa have selected their strongest available squad for the upcoming three-match ODI series against Pakistan in order to make full use of their last opportunity to play together ahead of next year’s Champions Trophy. Though South Africa will play a tri-series in Pakistan, which also includes New Zealand, in February next year, those matches
Adelaide Strikers (Tristan Lavalette) Squad* Fabian Allen, James Bazley, Cameron Boyce, Jordan Buckingham, Alex Carey, Brendan Doggett, Travis Head, Thomas Kelly, Chris Lynn, Harry Nielsen, Jamie Overton, Lloyd Pope, Ollie Pope, Alex Ross, D’Arcy Short, Matt Short, Henry Thornton, Jake Weatherald How they stack up Strikers struggled for consistency last season, but a stunning upset
Fast bowler Anrich Nortje has been ruled out of the remainder of South Africa’s ongoing T20I series against Pakistan and the subsequent three-match ODI series due to a left toe injury. Cricket South Africa (CSA) said on Thursday that Nortje, 31, was initially ruled out of the first T20I between South Africa and Pakistan at
The ECB has pledged to avoid an “IPL takeover” of English cricket after the latest deadline in the Hundred’s sales process arrived with significant American interest. Prospective investors were given until Monday to submit bids in the second round of the process, with each host county or club now preparing to choose their two preferred
Pakistan Test head coach Jason Gillespie is considering his options after the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) decided not to renew his assistant coach Tim Nielsen‘s contract for Pakistan’s upcoming Test tour of South Africa. Nielsen, who was appointed in August this year, officially designated as the “high-performance red-ball coach”, had seen his contract run out;
Mitchell Marsh has insisted there is no limit to the number of overs he can send down against India, having put his trust in the coaching and medical staff amid a cautious build-up to the series and then careful management ahead of the Adelaide Test. Marsh has been nursing periodic back stiffness since the white-ball
Having gone through what went wrong at the Women’s T20 World Cup 2024, Australia rebounded with a series clean sweep of India as they build towards a defence of their 50-over crown next year. Australia outplayed India after two comfortable victories in Brisbane before finishing the series with an 83-run win in a topsy-turvy contest
Player of the Match Venkatesh ended on 38 not out off 33 deliveries with the bat, after taking 2 for 23 from three overs with the ball. Harpreet, on the other end, batted more aggressively in his nine-ball cameo to finish on 22 not out to seal the game for MP. But before they added
Toss Afghanistan won the toss and chose to bat vs Zimbabwe Rashid Khan won the toss and elected to bat to begin Afghanistan’s multi-format tour to Zimbabwe. Mujeeb Ur Rahman, who played his last T20I in June, is returning post-injury and will form the visitors’ spin attack along with Rashid and Mohammad Nabi. Zimbabwe captain
Toss England chose to bowl vs South Africa South Africa responded to their six-wicket defeat to England by making four changes for Wednesday’s series decider in Potchefstroom. Tazmin Brits, Sune Luus, Sinalo Jafta and Ayanda Hlubi were all left out, and Lara Goodall, Anneke Bosch, Mieke de Ridder and Masabata Klaas came in to the
Only weeks after both pushed ultimately unsuccessful cases for the Test opening vacancy, Bancroft and Konstas are set for more internal competition at Thunder. Nic Maddinson’s finger surgery has left the pair as the two clearest options to partner new captain Warner at the top to start the BBL, which the pair enters with varying
The form of India’s batting stalwarts Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli have been massively discussed in recent months, with both batters suffering from inconsistency and getting out cheaply. While Kohli managed a hundred in good batting conditions in the first Test between India and Australia at Perth, the duo failed to contribute in the second
Joe Root isn’t the No. 1 Test batter in the world anymore. The man he said was “far and away the best player in the world at the minute”, Harry Brook, has gone to the top of the pile following his 123 and 55 in the second Test in New Zealand, which came on the
The draft for the tenth edition of the PSL will take place on January 11. The date for the draft is later than PSL drafts have historically taken place, though that is partially down to the window for the tournament being pushed back by a month; it will now take place in a four-week slot
Litton Das has been appointed Bangladesh captain for an entire T20I series for the first time – he filled in once for Mahmudullah on the tour of New Zealand in April 2021 – for the three-match series to round off the ongoing all-format tour of the West Indies. There is a return for batting allrounder
Toss India chose to bowl vs Australia India captain Harmanpreet Kaur elected to bowl in stifling conditions at the WACA as India seek a consolation win in the ODI series-finale against Australia. India were thoroughly outplayed across the opening two matches in Brisbane as their dreams of a first ODI series victory over Australia in
South Africa 183 for 9 (Miller 82, Linde 48, Shaheen 3-22, Abrar 3-37) beat Pakistan 172 for 8 (Rizwan 74, Ayub 31, Linde 4-21) by 11 runs Having not played for South Africa for three years, George Linde made up for lost time on one electric Kingsmead evening with a stunning all-round performance. A 24-ball
West Indies 230 for 3 (King 82, Lewis 49, Carty 45) beat Bangladesh 227 (Mahmudullah 62, Tanzid 46, Seales 4-22) by seven wickets West Indies coasted to a seven-wicket win against Bangladesh in St Kitts to claim the three-match ODI series. It was West Indies’ first ODI series win against Bangladesh in ten years. They
Nottinghamshire have signed Australian seamer Fergus O’Neill for the first four rounds of next year’s County Championship. O’Neill, who has an impressive first-class record of 94 wickets at 19.91, is only eligible for a short-term visa but he will cover for the absence of Dane Paterson for the start of the season, with the South
B Sai Sudharsan has undergone surgery in London for a sports hernia, and put out a social-media post on Tuesday saying, “Will be back stronger in no time.” Sudharsan, the 23-year-old Tamil Nadu and Gujarat Titans (GT) batter who is understood to be on the fringes of the India Test team – he has already
Back in the line of fire over his poor show in India’s defeat in the pink-ball Test against Australia, Virat Kohli has dug deeper in his pursuit of success ahead of the third Test. The veteran batter continues to practice in Adelaide, along with the other members of the team, after the second Test ended
Bengal 159 for 9 (Karan 33, Shami 32*, Pramanik 30, Jagjit 4-21, Bawa 2-27) beat Chandigarh 156 for 6 (Bawa 32, Yadav 27, Ghosh 4-30, Seth 2-35) by 3 runs Bengal are through to the quarter-finals of the 2024-25 Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy (SMAT) after prevailing by three runs in a thriller against Chandigarh at
Saikia, who hails from Assam, is a former first-class cricketer. He is currently the BCCI joint-secretary. Binny used his constitutional powers to appoint Saikia as acting secretary in a stop-gap arrangement till a permanent secretary is appointed under the BCCI rules and regulations. In a letter addressed to Saikia, which is in possession of PTI,
Joe Root has hailed Harry Brook as “far and away the best player in the world” after Brook powered England to their first series victory in New Zealand since 2008. Both Root and Brook registered centuries in an emphatic 323-run win in the second Test against the Black Caps that confirmed an unassailable 2-0 scoreline
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