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Harmanpreet Kaur contended that no “crime” had been committed. England were “not fans”. The two opposing views summed up the divide that inevitably follows the dismissal of a batter who is run out while backing up. So when Deepti Sharma held the ball as she started her action with Charlie Dean out of her ground

Sport isn’t built for fond farewells. But the sequence of events in Jhulan Goswami‘s final international were as close to perfect as can be. An inspired bowling show from India, led by a four-wicket haul from the woman who now takes over as attack leader, Renuka Singh, saw them skittle England out for 153 in

After nearly seven months on the sidelines, Mark Wood marked his return to international cricket with a searing display of matchwinning fast bowling in the third T20I at Karachi, but said that workload management remains his priority as England build towards the winter’s main event, next month’s T20 World Cup in Australia. England’s need for

Toss Pakistan chose to bowl vs England Babar Azam won the toss and chose to bowl in the third T20I between Pakistan and England in Karachi, with the seven-match series currently level at 1-1. Pakistan were unchanged while England handed out a maiden cap to their second debutant of the tour, with Surrey allrounder Will

England are set to make “a couple of changes” in Friday night’s third T20I against Pakistan in Karachi, as they look to manage their squad through a hectic schedule of seven games in 13 days. They made one forced change for Thursday’s ten-wicket defeat as Liam Dawson replaced Richard Gleeson, who left the field in

A new-look County Championship comprising a first division of six teams, trials of the Kookaburra red ball, and a reduction of T20 Blast fixtures from 14 to 10, are among the 17 recommendations made in the men’s High-Performance Review, published by the ECB on Thursday. The review, colloquially described as the “red-ball reset”, was commissioned

Toss England won the toss and chose to bat against Pakistan England won the toss in the second T20I in Karachi, and will bat first. Two days after chasing a target of 169 fairly comfortably, Moeen Ali opted to set one this time. They made just the one change, with Richard Gleeson replaced by Liam

England Women will play a five-day Test match against Australia as part of an Ashes campaign in 2023 in which they will return to the country’s major venues. It will be only the second scheduled women’s Test of that length, after Australia hosted England at North Sydney Oval in 1992. The Test will take place

India 333 for 5 (Harmanpreet 143*, Deol 58) beat England 245 (Wyatt 65, Renuka 4-57) by 88 runs Harmanpreet Kaur‘s towering unbeaten century delivered India a resounding victory over England at Canterbury and an unassailable 2-0 ODI series lead. India’s 88-run win, built on Harmanpreet’s 143 not out off 111 balls, means Saturday’s finale at

Now that the first game is out of the way, England will feel a whole lot better about themselves. Not simply because they put in a clinical performance to go up 1-0, but also because the reputational damage of last year’s pullout has begun to be undone. After Pakistan helped prop England Cricket up financially

England have been forced to make a late change to their coaching staff for the T20 World Cup after Richard Dawson, one of their assistant coaches, sustained a groin injury during their tour to Pakistan. Dawson was carried off the pitch at Karachi’s National Stadium after pulling up during a fielding drill in England’s training

Toss England chose to bowl vs Pakistan England won the toss and chose to bowl in the opening match of seven T20Is against Pakistan, on their return to the country for the first time since 2005. Moeen Ali called correctly, captaining the side in the land of his grandfather with Jos Buttler missing due to

The sense of occasion will not be lost on Moeen Ali when he walks out for the toss at Karachi’s National Stadium on Tuesday night. Jos Buttler’s calf injury means that he will captain England against Pakistan, the country from which his grandfather emigrated after the second world war, on their first tour of the

Big picture Seventeen long years ago, in the cold of a misty December night, England’s cricketers made their way off the field at Rawalpindi after a consolation victory in the fifth and final ODI. It was the final act of a tour in which little had gone right for England in either red- or white-ball

Sam Curran was ruled out of last year’s T20 World Cup through injury two weeks before the tournament began, and he is not taking his involvement in the 2022 edition in Australia for granted. Curran was only a peripheral member of the limited-overs set-up when England picked their 50-over squad in 2019 and suffered a

50 overs England 227 for 7 (Davidson-Richards 50*, Wyatt 43, Deepti 2-33) vs India India’s disciplined quicks and spinners struck regularly through the stop-start England innings on a slow pitch to restrict the hosts to 227 for 7 in the first ODI in Hove on Sunday. Opting to bowl, India’s opening bowlers swung the ball,

Alex Hales‘ strained relationship with Ben Stokes will not throw England off course in their bid to win the T20 World Cup in Australia, according to Matthew Mott. Hales and Stokes were involved in the infamous brawl outside a Bristol nightclub in 2017 that saw Stokes charged with affray – he denied the charge and

England are in a transition phase in T20 international cricket and their historic seven-match series in Pakistan will require them to juggle a number of competing demands. Their selection meeting ahead of the tour lasted nearly four hours as Jos Buttler, Matthew Mott and Rob Key weighed up the importance of fine-tuning ahead of this

Alec Stewart has emerged as the frontrunner to become the new England national selector. Stewart, who has been director of cricket at Surrey for the past eight years, is believed to be highly rated by Rob Key, the England team’s managing director, given his detailed knowledge of the county circuit and the talent therein, and

Alex Hales‘ success in Australia made him “the obvious pick” to replace the injured Jonny Bairstow in England’s T20 World Cup according to Jos Buttler, who suggested that Hales is “a different person” after three-and-a-half years out of international cricket. Hales was back in England training gear for the first time since a camp before

England’s men arrived in Karachi on Thursday morning for their first tour to Pakistan in 17 years and were immediately escorted off the upper deck of their Emirates flight from Dubai into bulletproof buses to take them to the team hotel. The team have been granted VVIP (very, very important person) status throughout their three-week

England will arrive in Karachi early on Thursday morning for their first tour of Pakistan in 17 years, a historic visit that will see them play seven T20 internationals while under presidential-level security conditions. The length of their absence is illustrated by the fact that their 20-man squad had made a single professional appearance between

It has been four years since Ollie Pope made his Test debut as a No.6 doing an impression of a No.4. As the 2022 summer comes to an end, he looks settled in his new dwellings at No.3. On the face of it, a season average of 38.00 might seem modest. It is, however, the

Michael Hussey and David Saker have been added to England men’s coaching set-up for the T20 World Cup in Australia next month. Hussey, the former Australia international who currently works as batting coach for Chennai Super Kings, and fellow Australian Saker, who was England’s Test bowling coach from 2010 to 2015, have been enlisted by

Not only did he agree that they were, he was able to pinpoint a specific moment too, when a format that he has spent more than a decade playing, watching and analysing made his jaw drop. It was during the second of their six Tests wins this summer, as Jonny Bairstow (136) and Stokes (75

Ben Stokes said that he felt “blessed” to be able to call upon the enduring class and experience of James Anderson and Stuart Broad, while thanking his entire team for their collective buy-in to his new proactive approach to Test cricket – one that has culminated in a remarkable run of six Test wins out

James Anderson and Stuart Broad admitted to a mixture of frustration and sympathy for the umpires at the close of another captivating day’s play in the third and final Test against South Africa, after a capacity crowd was denied the prospect of witnessing an England victory march by the onset of bad light. After being

Lunch South Africa 118 and 70 for 1 (Elgar 35*, Petersen 7*, Stokes 1-6) lead England 158 (Pope 67, Jansen 5-35, Rabada 4-81) by 30 runs South Africa, led by Dean Elgar, carried a 30-run lead into lunch following a successful morning session on Sunday after Marco Jansen and Kagiso Rabada ran through England’s tail.

On the day cricket took the sporting lead at the Kia Oval in paying respects to Queen Elizabeth II and honouring the new King Charles III, it was Ollie Robinson who led England some way to victory in this match and the series. On day three of the third Test, the first of any play

Lunch South Africa 69 for 6 (Zondo 21*, Jansen 17*, Robinson 4-21) vs England Ollie Robinson tore through South Africa on an opening that was emotionally stirring and physically scintillating in equal measure as cricket resumed following a day of respect to honour Her Majesty, the Queen, who died on Thursday. On what remains the