News ‘If anything we’ll be a bit vulnerable because we won’t have had a lot of cricket” Australia women’s head coach Matthew Mott is wary that India may be the better-prepared side when the two teams meet in September, with the home side coming off an extended period without playing and a chance that their
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Nicholas Pooran, Alyssa Healy, Aaron Finch and Meg Lanning are among the latest overseas players to pull out of the inaugural season of the Hundred, with Faf du Plessis, Shabnim Ismail, Imran Tahir and Laura Wolvaardt signing up as replacements. A number of the competition’s leading overseas players have already withdrawn due to clashes with
News Hasan Ali, left out of last year’s list, rejoins it in the highest-earning Category A Senior players Mohammad Abbas, Asad Shafiq and Imad Wasim, and youngsters Haider Ali and Naseem Shah are among the players missing from the Pakistan men’s contracts list for 2021-22. Fast bowler Hasan Ali, meanwhile, has undergone a swift change
Adam Milne has signed as an overseas player at Birmingham Phoenix Milne, the New Zealand fast bowler, is currently playing for Kent in the T20 Blast. He replaces Shaheen Shah Afridi at Birmingham. Afridi is unavailable due to international duty. With experience in international and franchise cricket – he’s played in the IPL and BBL
News Storm Elsa is making its way north west through various parts of the Caribbean Australia’s preparations for the T20 series against West Indies are facing disruption with St Lucia bracing for the impact of a tropical storm over the next 48 hours. The island will go into a lockdown early on Friday morning with
News The 30-year old seamer last played for Zimbabwe in November 2020 but has been an active participant in domestic cricket this year Tendai Chatara, the Zimbabwe fast bowler who has been absent from the Test arena for nearly three years, has found his way back into the team for the one-off match against Bangladesh
Report South Africa are chasing their first T20I series win in over two years South Africa opt to bowl v West Indies Temba Bavuma won his first T20I toss and decided to put West Indies in to bat for the first time in this series. A win for South Africa here will give them a
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Kane Williamson has withdrawn from The Hundred to manage his elbow injury.© AFP New Zealand skipper Kane Williamson has withdrawn from the inaugural edition of The Hundred as he manages his elbow injury. Williamson was slated to play for Birmingham Phoenix and had previously missed the ODI series against Bangladesh and the start of the Indian
A disappointed Shubman Gill walks back Tertius Pickard / © Getty Images Shubman Gill has a stress related injury in one of his lower legs and could be in danger of missing the entire five-Test series against England, beginning in August. ESPNcricinfo has learned that as per the initial prognosis, the Indian medical staff suspects
News Somerset batter brought in for third ODI after finding form in Blast England have added Tom Banton to their squad for the third and final ODI against Sri Lanka in Bristol on Sunday. Banton, the 22-year-old Somerset top-order batter, hit a 47-ball century in the Vitality T20 Blast at the start of the week.
Report Changes on both sides as Eoin Morgan opted to chase once again Toss England chose to bowl vs Sri Lanka England have won the toss and chosen to bowl first in the second ODI against Sri Lanka at the Oval. Jason Roy returns at the top of the home batting order after a hamstring
News “Nida is an icon and inspiration to millions of young girls who are passionate about cricket and follow the game” Nida Dar has become the first Pakistan player – male or female – to 100 T20I wickets. The 34-year old reached the milestone when she had West Indies opener Deandra Dottin caught by Diana
News Fast bowler confirms his role will be promotional-only as he saves energies for red-ball While the rest of the country were glued to TV screens on Tuesday night, watching England’s 2-0 win against Germany at Euro 2020, James Anderson was bowling in the middle with Jon Lewis and Marcus Trescothick – England’s bowling and
Justin Langer has not gathered a full squad since early in the year © Getty Images Justin Langer addressed the “confronting” team reviews that led to talk of unrest in the Australia dressing room before the limited-overs squad departed for West Indies with a greater use of assistant coaches one of the key recommendations. Reports
Report She takes 3 for 21 to fashion WI Women’s first T20I victory after seven completed matches West Indies Women 136 for 6 (Matthews 32, Dottin 31, Dar 2-15) beat Pakistan Women 126 for 6 (Naseem 45*, Sana 24*, Connell 3-21) by 10 runs Nida Dar took 2 for 15, and during the process became
News Team management to take final call based on severity of injury About a month before they begin the England Test series, India have been dealt with a jolt with opening batter Shubman Gill in doubt for the first Test, which starts at Trent Bridge from August 4. ESPNcricinfo has learned Gill has injured his
News Test captain hasn’t given up hope of T20 World Cup involvement after starring role in ODI Joe Root hopes England’s controversial rest-and-rotation policy can be “put behind us” ahead of the Test series against India and in the Ashes that follows. While England have selected their strongest available T20I squad for two successive series
News Fully vaccinated fans should have taken the second dose 14 days prior to the match In a first since 2019, fully vaccinated cricket fans in Grenada will get a chance to watch the West Indies Women live in action against the touring Pakistan Women during their eight limited-over matches, starting with a three-match T20I
Preview Jason Roy in line to return on home ground as SL eye first win of tour Big picture In some ways, the shellacking they received at Chester-le-Street was an improvement for Sri Lanka. No one got injured, no one broke curfew (that we know of), and at 80 for 4 in England’s chase, it
Preview West Indies believe they aren’t too far away from putting a winning performance together Big picture If you’d given South Africa a 2-0 Test series sweep and an opportunity to win the T20I rubber with a game to spare before they’d set off for West Indies, they would have taken it in a heartbeat.
Lord’s will host a full-capacity ODI for the first time since the 2019 World Cup final © Getty Images England will play a home international in front of a full-capacity crowd for the first time since September 2019 next Saturday, after the second ODI against Pakistan at Lord’s was included in the UK government’s Event
News The New Zealand batter says he has no no plans of retiring, and that he “still want(s) to learn and still get better” New Zealand batter Ross Taylor has toasted New Zealand’s World Test Championship victory, saying it will “make up” for the 2019 World Cup heartbreak at Lord’s, where they lost without actually
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Beau Webster and Mackenzie Harvey rescued the Melbourne Renegades innings before Zak Evans ripped through the Hobart Hurricanes to end their season at the MCG
Shubman Gill has picked up an injury, according to sources.© AFP India opener Shubman Gill has been ruled out of the five-match Test series against England beginning in August, sources in the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) told NDTV on Wednesday. Gill will reportedly stay on with the Indian Test squad in
News Shikhar Dhawan, Jasprit Bumrah and KL Rahul have been recommended for Arjuna Award The BCCI has decided to recommend Mithali Raj and R Ashwin for the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award, India’s highest sporting honour. The board has also recommended the names of Shikhar Dhawan, KL Rahul and Jasprit Bumrah for the Arjuna Award,
News Only the MCG will not be sold to capacity for the Boxing Day Test, although the current lockdowns are a reminder of the challenging situation Cricket Australia will sell venues at 100% capacity for next season, with the exception of the Boxing Day Ashes Test at the MCG, in the hope of bumper crowds,
News Ross Taylor, Devon Conway, Kyle Jamieson and Trent Boult also move up after WTC final performances There were a number of key contributors in New Zealand’s eight-wicket win over India in the World Test Championship (WTC) final, and many of them, led by captain Kane Williamson, have made gains in the latest ICC Test