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Ben Stokes has declared himself fit for selection ahead of England’s World Cup fixture against South Africa in Mumbai on Saturday, having missed their opening three matches with a left hip injury. Stokes came out of ODI retirement to make himself available for this World Cup but his injury has not enabled him to feature.

England have not become a bad team overnight and their players remain confident that they can win the World Cup, despite early defeats to New Zealand and Afghanistan. That was the message put forward on Wednesday by Jonny Bairstow, who also pushed back against criticism of the squad’s focus. With two points from their first

Ben Stokes has encouraged his England team-mates to play more aggressively after their 69-run defeat to Afghanistan in Delhi on Sunday night, and looks set to make his first appearance of the tournament against South Africa in Mumbai this weekend. Stokes has missed England’s first three games of the World Cup because of a hip

England’s players are desperate to win a second consecutive World Cup – so desperate that they have reverted to playing risk-averse cricket during their first three matches. That is the view of their coach Matthew Mott, who also hopes that his players will gain “perspective” from the arrival of their families in Mumbai this week.

The ECB has announced a spin-heavy England Lions training squad for a winter training camp in the UAE next month. Ten players have been drafted into the second-tier set-up for the first time. With the England men’s Test side travelling to India for a five-match series in January, eight spinners have been selected for this

Afghanistan’s fixture list sees them play New Zealand in Chennai less than 72 hours after they pulled off the most famous win in the country’s sporting history by beating England in Delhi on Sunday night. But their coach Jonathan Trott‘s message to his players was simple: “It’s important that you celebrate your victories.” Despite having

England travelled to Mumbai on Monday, licking their wounds from a shock 69-run defeat to Afghanistan in Delhi, which leaves them needing not only to beat South Africa on Saturday night, but to deliver the sort of performance which can reinvigorate a dejected squad. Jos Buttler, England’s captain, addressed his players in the dressing room

Somerset have signed Jake Ball, the former England seamer, on a two-year contract after his release from Nottinghamshire at the end of the 2023 season. Ball, 32, departed Trent Bridge after a 15-year career in which he took more than 400 wickets for the county, as well as winning caps for England in all three

Jos Buttler says that England must “let this defeat hurt” after their faltering World Cup campaign hit another shocking setback with a 69-run loss to Afghanistan in Delhi. The result was set in motion by Afghanistan’s opener, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, who made 80 from 57 balls, before their senior spinner Rashid Khan sealed the win with

Afghanistan 284 (Gurbaz 80, Alikhil 58, Adil Rashid 3-42, Wood 2-50) beat England 215 (Brook 66, Malan 32, Rashid Khan 3-37, Mujeeb 3-51, Nabi 2-16) by 69 runs Afghanistan claimed the most famous scalp of their international history, and in the process provided the first big shock of the 2023 World Cup, by routing England’s

Big Picture Much like gap year students, England left Dharamsala having found themselves, arriving in the sprawling metropolis of Delhi on Wednesday with a self-regard more in step with their white-ball dominance over the last eight years. Their “crisis” lasted all of five days. A nine-wicket battering at the hands of New Zealand led to

Joe Root has slipped back into the rhythms of ODI cricket during the last 10 days. A month ago, he finished a series against New Zealand with 39 runs in four innings but has started this tournament with scores of 77 and 82, becoming England’s leading World Cup run-scorer in the process. Root looked badly

Alastair Cook, England’s leading Test run-scorer and one of the foremost batters of his generation, has announced his retirement from the professional game. Speculation had swirled around the final rounds of this season’s LV= Insurance County Championship that Cook, 38, could be set to call time on his playing career. Essex played down the reports,

Chris Woakes made an inauspicious start to this World Cup. After leaking 45 runs in six wicketless overs against New Zealand in Ahmedabad, he had figures of 0 for 34 after four against Bangladesh in Dharamsala, conceding six early boundaries as Reece Topley got on a roll at the other end. No wonder Woakes looked

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Sam Curran admitted that England’s players were relieved to have escaped their fixture against Bangladesh in Dharamsala without any injuries, after fielding for 48.2 overs on an outfield which their captain Jos Buttler described as “poor”. The outfield was cleared by the ICC’s independent pitch consultant Andy Atkinson and match referee Javagal Srinath before this

Ben Stokes is highly unlikely to play England’s second World Cup game, against Bangladesh, in Dharamsala on Tuesday as he continues to nurse a sore left hip. Stokes came out of ODI retirement to make himself available as a specialist batter for the World Cup, despite his chronic left-knee injury. But he missed their heavy

Eoin Morgan believes it is “naive” to think that England could parachute Jofra Archer into a World Cup match if they were “desperate”, as Archer continues his comeback from an elbow stress fracture. Archer is due to arrive in India next week, linking up with England’s squad in Mumbai, and is their only designated travelling

Mark Wood refused to blame England’s limited preparations for their chastening nine-wicket defeat to New Zealand in Ahmedabad, and said they will show their “resilience” when they play Bangladesh in Dharamsala next week. England arrived in India a week before the tournament’s opening game, flying to Guwahati via Dubai and Mumbai after nearly two weeks

The sanctions were handed out more than three months after the incidents on the final day of the second Test, on July 2, which Australia eventually won by 43 runs to take a 2-0 series lead. The flashpoint occurred as the players left the field for lunch, shortly after Bairstow had been dismissed by Alex

New Zealand 283 for 1 (Conway 152*, Ravindra 123*) beat England 282 for 9 (Root 77, Henry 3-48, Santner 2-37) by nine wickets Revenge for the final of the 2019 World Cup was never going to come in the first match of the 2023 edition. But a nine-wicket demolition of England in the Ahmedabad curtain-raiser

Asked to bat first, England stuttered along to a total of 282 for 9, losing wickets at regular intervals, and Buttler said afterwards he thought they were 50 below par with the bat. Although Sam Curran took a wicket with the first ball of the second over, that was as good as it got for

For the first time in a men’s 50-over World Cup, England are heading into the tournament as defending champions. But don’t let Jos Buttler hear you say that. After his England side clinched a 3-1 series win over New Zealand at Lord’s last month, Buttler was asked how well positioned his side were to defend

Ben Stokes has emerged as an injury doubt for the opening match of the World Cup between England and New Zealand in Ahmedabad on Thursday. Stokes, the Player of the Match in the 2019 final between the same teams, came out of ODI retirement in August despite a long-standing knee injury and is not expected

Liam Dawson says that accepting a call-up for England’s Test tour of India at the start of 2024 would not be straightforward, due to his lucrative deal in the SA20, which clashes with the five-match series. Dawson made his Test debut on the 2016 tour of India, adding just two further appearances against South Africa

Warm-up games carry an unwelcome sense of jeopardy for Reece Topley. On the eve of last year’s T20 World Cup, he trod on a boundary toblerone ahead of a game against Pakistan at an empty Gabba and ruptured ligaments in his left ankle, ruling him out of the tournament. There was a sense of relief,

England have enlisted an Indian sidearm specialist to help them prepare to face left-arm fast bowling in the World Cup. The sidearm, the device that resembles a dog-thrower, has become ubiquitous in the professional game over the last decade and is used extensively by coaches in England’s training sessions. England’s core coaching staff in India

Beaumont, winner of the women’s award in 2016, collected the accolade for a second time after a stellar summer in which she broke the record for the highest individual international score for England Women with her double-hundred in the Ashes Test at Trent Bridge, as well as finishing as the second-leading run-scorer in the women’s

Mark Nicholas, the incoming president of MCC, has called for 50-over cricket to be played exclusively at World Cups, in a bid to preserve the ODI format from what he describes as the “supernatural” power of T20. Nicholas, who succeeded Stephen Fry this weekend as president of cricket’s oldest and most prestigious members’ club, added

The Pavilion End at Trent Bridge is to be renamed The Stuart Broad End, in recognition of the former Nottinghamshire and England seamer who retired from professional cricket after this summer’s Ashes. Broad, 37, bowed out in style at The Oval this summer, claiming the 604th and final wicket of his 16-year Test career to