Cricket South Africa’s withdrawal of its men’s team from three ODIs in Australia has spotlighted the schism that’s stalked world cricket for the best part of the last decade. That schism may become more evident at the ICC’s AGM at the end of this month, where a new Future Tours Programme is expected to be
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Chatara, who bowled only three overs in that game, which Zimbabwe won by 23 runs, sustained the injury when he landed on his right shoulder while fielding. According to a Zimbabwe Cricket release, Chatara is expected to be out of action for at least two months. This means he could also miss Zimbabwe’s home series
R Ashwin, the India offspinner, has said that he “switches off the telly” while watching 50-over cricket and has advocated a return to the use of one ball per innings in ODI cricket to bring bowlers back into the game. Since 2011, two new balls have been used per innings in ODI cricket (one from
Big picture Happy anniversary, England! Yes, by the time the second ODI against India gets underway at Lord’s on Thursday, it will be three years to the day since the hosts’ crowning glory in the 2019 World Cup final. Three turbulent years, it has to be said, given the onset of the pandemic and the
CSA has said that it has taken a risk with an eye on “securing the long-term sustainability of the game” by forfeiting three ODIs in Australia, which form part of the direct-qualification pathway for the next 50-over World Cup. The reason for the decision is to launch its own T20 franchise league, but there is
South Africa have withdrawn from their ODI series in Australia scheduled for January 2023 with the hosts set to be awarded the ODI Super League points from the three matches. With South Africa effectively losing the series 3-0, it pushes them even closer to missing direct qualification for the 2023 World Cup in India. They
With 108 rating points, India need to win or draw the three-ODI series against England to stay ahead of Pakistan, who have 106. New Zealand lead the ODI rankings with 127 points, while England are second with 122. Pakistan had pushed India down to fourth place last month by beating West Indies 3-0 at home.
Suryakumar Yadav, meanwhile, jumped a whopping 44 spots to achieve his career-best No. 5 ranking in T20Is following his century against England in the third T20I. Suryakumar, who also achieved a career-high rating of 732, is now India’s highest-ranked T20I batter. Having made his T20I debut only last year, Suryakumar has quickly become an important
Indian paceman Ajit Agarkar found the MCG pitch to his liking in 2004, removing the Australian top order and taking 6-42, the best figures in an ODI between the sides on Australian soil
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South Africa have cancelled their men’s one-day international series scheduled for Australia in January, it was confirmed Wednesday. Matches on January 12, 14 and 17 in Hobart, Sydney and Perth have been scrapped said Cricket Australia, after South Africa’s request for new dates to avoid a clash with their domestic T20 league could not be
Reigning champions Jaffna Kings will take on Galle Gladiators in the curtain raiser for the third edition of the LPL, set to begin on August 1 in Colombo. The final will take place on August 21 in Hambantota. SLC, in a media release, revealed that the first 14 matches – a majority of the first
Chamari Athapaththu rose to her joint-career-best spot at No. 8, which she last reached after her mammoth 178 against Australia in the 2017 World Cup. Harmanpreet Kaur, who scored 119 runs and picked up two wickets in a Player-of-the-Series performance moved up four spots in the allrounders’ rankings to No. 20. A couple of spots
England Lions 321 for 4 (Smeed 90, Duckett 85, Banton 57, Eskinazi 52*) beat South Africa 318 for 9 (Malan 103, Miller 55*, Klaasen 51, Payne 4-39, Ahmed 3-54) by six wickets Was this a case of mistaken identity? As England’s full-strength 50-over side capitulated to a ten-wicket defeat in south London, bowled out for
Big picture A bit of competitiveness has finally arrived in the West Indies-Bangladesh series after the visitors registered their first win on tour in the first ODI. Many could have predicted that it would be the ODIs where the visitors would excel, after the ruinous Tests and T20Is of the last four weeks. Tamim Iqbal
48 overs Ireland 216 (Dockrell 74, McBrine 28, Bracewell 2-26, Santner 2-32, Henry 2-40) vs New Zealand A dominant bowling performance from New Zealand pinned down Ireland to 216 in Malahide and gave the visitors a shot at wrapping up the three-match ODI series, with one game to go. Matt Henry, Jacob Duffy, Michael Bracewell,
Toss India chose to bowl vs England Rohit Sharma chose to bowl in the first ODI at The Kia Oval, as England welcomed back their Test-match big guns of Joe Root, Ben Stokes and Jonny Bairstow, just as India prepared to make do without their own grandest name. Virat Kohli will sit out this match
Head coachAndrew McDonald insists Travis Head‘s game has improved in Asia as Australia look to adopt a horses-for-courses approach on future tours of the subcontinent. Australia’s capitulation to an innings loss in Galle on Monday marked a poor end to two tours on the road, where they won 1-0 in Pakistan and drew 1-1 in
Jos Buttler implored his England team to be “braver” after “timid” performances with the bat in their first two T20 internationals against India, Matthew Mott has revealed. England were bowled out for 148 and 121 in Buttler’s first two matches as their full-time limited-overs captain on Thursday and Saturday, losing by 50 and 49 runs
With Shaun and Mitch Marsh on opposing sides in the KFC BBL after years playing together, we asked some of their teammates for an insight into their recent battles against each other
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David Warner bats during the second Test against Sri Lanka.© AFP Sri Lanka’s memorable win over Australia in the second Test in Galle to draw the series 1-1 marked the end of the visitors’ tour of the country amid a national crisis. While Australia won the T20I series 2-1, the home team gave their country
Toss South Africa chose to bat vs England South Africa have won the toss and opted to bat first in the opening match in the ODI leg of their multi-format series against England in Northampton. With both sides tied on two points apiece following the drawn Test in Taunton, this is their first meeting in
If England had sent Emma Lamb in to bat at any position, she reckons she would have tried to grab her chance with both hands. That the opportunity came knocking in her favoured opener’s role and resulted in a century as England swept South Africa aside by five wickets in their opening ODI made it
Umesh Yadav has begun a maiden stint in county cricket in England, with Middlesex signing him for the remainder of the 2022 season in place of Shaheen Shah Afridi. The Pakistan fast bowler returned home to prepare for the national team’s two-Test tour of Sri Lanka, which is already underway with a warm-up fixture in
Mark Boucher, South Africa’s head coach, believes that other teams will try to play Test cricket using England’s new ultra-attacking approach after seeing their success under Brendon McCullum, but has cautioned that ‘Bazball’ may only work in favourable batting conditions. England have chased fourth-innings targets in excess of 250 in each of their first four
Big picture If the three T20Is were any indication, the ODI series promises to be a thrill-a-minute ride. England have built a reputation of going hard from the get-go in both white-ball formats, and India, who have traditionally been known to build their innings methodically before going big in the death overs, also took the
They won an attritional series in Pakistan, and dominated Sri Lanka in what was essentially a two-day win last week. But this loss in Galle, by an innings and 39 runs, might be a “reality check” for an Australia team intent on improving their long-form cricket in Asia. So said captain Pat Cummins, after the
Offspinning allrounder Sneh Rana has made a comeback to the national side, finding a place in India’s 15-member squad for the Commonwealth Games starting July 29 in Birmingham. Rana had been left out of the white-ball tour of Sri Lanka that concluded last week. In another surprise move, the selectors included Taniya Bhatia as one