News Uncapped Molly Penfold comes into the squad that will depart at the end of the week New Zealand pace bowler Rosemary Mair has been ruled out of the upcoming tour of England due to a stress reaction in her left shin. Mair will be replaced in the 16-player squad by uncapped Auckland quick Molly
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News Tournament’s leading run-scorer credits ignoring criticism for her upturn in form India and Northern Superchargers batter Jemimah Rodrigues says she handled criticism by “ignoring it” as she overcame a few “tough months” in international cricket this year to emerge as the Hundred’s leading scorer after nearly 80% of the tournament’s league matches had been
News With the impact of the pandemic making it a challenge for the series to go ahead, here’s where things stand as of now The men’s Ashes series is due to get underway in just under four months in Brisbane but the ongoing impact of the pandemic is making it a challenging process to pull
News It will feature all 15 provincial teams as well as the national Under-19 side South Africa’s domestic season is set to get underway in September with a T20 knockout tournament featuring all 15 provincial teams and the national Under-19 side. The teams have been divided into four pools of four and will play each
News Bumrah returns to top 10 in Test bowlers list after his 9 for 110 in the first Test England captain Joe Root has overtaken his Indian counterpart Virat Kohli in the latest ICC Test rankings for batters, while Jasprit Bumrah has returned to the top 10 among Test bowlers, and Bangladesh’s Shakib Al Hasan
News The stand-in coach for the tours of Bangladesh and Pakistan will be joined in the backroom by former Sri Lanka batter Thilan Samaraweera New Zealand’s stand-in coach Glenn Pocknall believes ”there is a huge amount of growth” the team can look forward to from the uncapped pace bowler Ben Sears, who is among the
News Both teams were also fined 40% of their match fee by match referee Chris Broad England and India have been fined two World Test Championship points each for their slow over-rates during the first Test in Nottingham, which ended as a rain-affected draw on Sunday. Both teams were also fined 40% of their match
News Captain says Hameed will take the opportunity with “both hands”, if he plays Joe Root, England’s captain, hopes that Moeen Ali can transform the confidence and fluency of his recent table-topping exploits with Birmingham Phoenix into the Test arena, as he prepares to make only his second Test appearance in two years, and his
News de Grandhomme and Finn Allen also didn’t find a place Mark Chapman, who represented Hong Kong at the T20 World Cup in 2014 and 2016, has been named in New Zealand’s 15-member squad for the 2021 edition to be played in the UAE and Oman this October-November. There was no place for Ross Taylor,
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England vs India: All-rounder Moeen Ali has recalled by the hosts.© AFP England Test skipper Joe Root on Tuesday said that all-rounder Moeen Ali has the ability to win games for his side with both the bat and ball in hand. Root’s comments came as Moeen Ali was drafted into the England squad for the
Andrew Strauss believes that a compromise can still be reached whereby England’s cricketers will be allowed to bring their families with them on this winter’s Ashes tour of Australia, but says it would be “unrealistic” to expect the players to embark on such an arduous campaign without being able to see their loved ones for
News The former New Zealand allrounder is being treated in Canberra and is in serious condition, as per media reports Former New Zealand allrounder Chris Cairns is on life support at a Canberra hospital after recently collapsing with a health problem in Australia, New Zealand media reported on Tuesday. Cairns, 51, had undergone several operations
A trimmed, final squad for the Australia tour would be selected from the pool of 35 players in the camp © Getty Images A group of 30 India players would be assembling in Bengaluru on Tuesday evening for a camp ahead of the multi-format tour of Australia that kicks off next month. The five India
News Antigua to host three T20Is and five ODIs starting August 31 South Africa Women will tour the Caribbean for three T20Is and five ODIs starting August 31. The tour serves as preparation for both teams, with just seven months to go for the 50-over World Cup in New Zealand. All the matches will be
News Spinning allrounder recalled to balance side in wake of England’s struggles at Trent Bridge Moeen Ali has been recalled to the England squad and looks set to play in the second LV= Insurance Test at Lord’s. Moeen, the off-spinning all-rounder, is expected to join up with the squad at training today (Tuesday) as England
News He was also not impressed by the lack of preparation from the players ahead of the first Test against Pakistan West Indies head coach Phil Simmons acknowledged that the hosts were the underdogs in the upcoming two-match Test series against Pakistan. The Tests – both of which will be played in Jamaica – herald
News Coach Gary Stead said that he had spoken to the opening batter about where he stands A “gutted” Colin Munro believes he has played his last international cricket after being left out of New Zealand’s T20 World Cup squad. “Extremely gutted to miss out on this, was definitely a goal of mine that I
News Rahul Dravid has held this position till now and he can apply again if he chooses to The BCCI has advertised for the position of head of cricket at the National Cricket Academy (NCA) in Bangalore. The position was till now held by former India captain Rahul Dravid, whose two-year term has come to
News Allrounder says they were excited at playing ‘a bigger team – normally those which don’t visit our country that often’ Bangladesh beat Australia in a series for the first time in their history, and then put the exclamation point on it with a 4-1 scoreline. The star of the show in the final game
Finn Allen missed the T20 World Cup shortlist, but made all squads for the tour of Asia © Getty Images Tom Latham – and not Kane Williamson – will lead New Zealand on their white-ball tours of Pakistan and Bangladesh starting September. The opener will stand in as leader on both tours across white-ball formats.
News His first assignment will be the bilateral ODIs against Pakistan next month followed by the T20 World Cup Former Australia fast bowler Shaun Tait has been appointed Afghanistan’s bowling coach with immediate effect. He will be working alongside head coach Lance Klusener. Tait’s first assignment will be a three-match ODI series against Pakistan, set
Two days after he hit the third fastest ODI century by an Aussie man, Steve Smith replicated the feat by hitting yet another 62-ball hundred in the second Dettol one-dayer against India. Stream all the ODI action via Kayo Sports: https://watch.cricket.com.au/ Fixtures, news, videos for the #AUSvIND ODIS: https://cricketa.us/AUSvIND20-ODI Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cricketcomau Follow
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England skipper Joe Root scored a century in the second innings of the first Test match against India.© AFP England head coach Chris Silverwood on Monday admitted that batsmen apart from Joe Root also need to start contributing more to ease off the pressure on the Three Lions skipper. The first Test between India and
News Coach says Pope, Hameed, Moeen all in contention ahead of second Test against India Chris Silverwood has called on England’s top-order to “step up” and support Joe Root ahead of the second LV= Insurance Test at Lord’s. Root’s 21st Test century – and the rain – helped England escape from Trent Bridge with a
News Gabriel has been given time to complete his injury recovery while Bravo takes a break after spending a prolonged period in the national team’s bio-bubble Fast bowler Chemar Holder and middle-order batter Shamarh Brooks have returned to the West Indies squad for the two-Test series against Pakistan beginning August 12 in Kingston. Holder has
Report Australia are playing an extra spinner in Zampa while Bangladesh finally changed their combination after a record four games with the same XI Toss Bangladesh opt to bat vs Australia Bangladesh chose to bat first in the fifth and final T20I of their series against Australia, having made two changes to their XI from
News Captain does “not blame the young players one bit” and expected the senior batters to do the scoring Australia captain Matthew Wade called his side’s capitulation in the final T20I against Bangladesh “not good enough for an Australian cricket team” and said it was down to the batters to find ways to score runs
News He believes Nathan Lyon, Mitchell Swepson and Ashton Agar should be considered in the same XI Steve O’Keefe believes Australia are building a group of spinners that could help the Test side pose a challenge in the subcontinent next year in a run of series that will define their World Test Championship chances. Australia