Match details Australia vs ScotlandSt Lucia, 8.30pm local time Big Picture England’s thumping win over Oman has ensured against any run-rate shenanigans in this match (and David Warner won’t be opening the bowling). Providing Namibia don’t pull off an upset against England in the hours leading into this game, the equation will be simple: Scotland
Toss New Zealand chose to bowl vs Uganda New Zealand won the toss and chose to bowl first against Uganda in Tarouba. With this match being played on a fresh pitch, New Zealand captain Kane Williamson said he was more comfortable chasing on a track he didn’t know what to expect on. New Zealand did
Mark Wood admitted England had been aware of “a few negatives flying around” in the lead-up to their crucial victory over Oman on Thursday, but said he had harnessed the “nervous energy” to help deliver a statement performance that has got the team’s T20 World Cup back on track. With nothing less than victory required,
For Pakistan, though, a torrid tournament culminated in a hasty exit under gloomy skies that epitomised the grim nature of their World Cup campaign. They arrived in the USA with no warm-up games scheduled, and most of their practice sessions were cancelled due to rain. Their unfamiliarity was punished by the home team in their
Mark Watt, the Scotland left-arm spinner, will continue to bowl his trademark variation from 24 yards in their must-win fixture against Australia on Saturday night, despite controversially being dead-balled when doing so against Oman last week. Watt regularly bowls from behind the bowling crease to throw batters off: “It’s just trying to rush [batters],” he
Teams still chasing spots in the Super Eight stage of the T20 World Cup 2024 have extra motivation to get the job done: a spot in the top eight guarantees direct qualification for the next T20 World Cup, in 2026. The next edition will also have 20 teams like this one, with 12 automatic qualifiers:
Six out of 20 teams have progressed so far to the Super Eight stage of the T20 World Cup 2024, with India (A1), Australia (B2), and Afghanistan (C1) in Group 1, and USA (A2), West Indies (C2) and South Africa (D1) in Group 2. The teams are assigned A1, B1 and so on not on
Canada vs IndiaJune 15, Lauderhill, Florida, 10.30am local time Big picture: Rain threat in Florida Canada are facing their toughest test of the T20 World Cup as India aim to go into the Super 8 stage with a clean sheet, but the fixture is at the mercy of the weather in Florida. Friday’s game between
Match details England vs NamibiaJune 15, Antigua, 1pm local time Big picture: England breathe easier after statement win Have the real England stood up at last? The jury, if truth be told, is probably still considering its verdict. For if one and a quarter matches was an insufficient sample size to assess their early-tournament woes
Virat Kohli after being dismissed for a golden duck vs USA.© AFP Former India cricketer Wasim Jaffer believes talismanic batter Virat Kohli will show his true colours and greatness in the business end of the Men’s T20 World Cup, especially after he ended the New York leg of India’s campaign with just five runs in
In his first two matches at the T20 World Cup, he was knocked off for 8 and 3. But in a vital group fixture against Netherlands, he broke the 19-match streak without a half-century with an unbeaten 46-ball 64 that helped Bangladesh post 159, which proved to be 25 too many for Netherlands. This puts
Trent Copeland, Sydney Thunder’s general manager, is confident that David Warner will return to the club for another season and hopes he and the team can benefit from him being part of a full campaign. Warner made two appearances last season – which included him landing in a helicopter at the SCG ahead of the
New Zealand vs UgandaProvidence, 8.30pm local For Uganda, for whom the T20 World Cup 2024 has been the biggest and most consequential outing in their many decades of playing senior men’s cricket, Friday’s match is one last chance to show what they’ve got at the top level. So far in this tournament, they’ve been brushed
Toss England chose to bowl vs Oman Jos Buttler won the toss and chose to bowl first against Oman, as England embarked on the first of two must-win contests in Antigua with their hopes of progression from Group B hanging very much in the balance. After a washout against Scotland and a heavy loss to
Chances for cricket in Florida received a boost after a dry first half of Thursday, a day before Lauderhill hosts three T20 World Cup Group A matches in three days, two of them pretty crucial for the hosts USA and Pakistan. Not to forget Ireland and Canada, who haven’t yet been knocked out of the
Toss Netherlands chose to bowl vs Bangladesh Netherlands captain Scott Edwards elected to field against Bangladesh in the first international fixture at the Arnos Vale Ground in Kingstown in nearly a decade. The toss was delayed by half an hour due to drizzle in the morning but the forecast is clear for the rest of
Former Australia white-ball captain Cameron White has been identified as the man to coach the Melbourne Renegades back into contention in the BBL. White has signed a three-year deal to replace David Saker, who moved on in May after a disappointing seventh-place finish in his third season at the helm. The 40-year-old White is taking
It takes at least 33 hours to fly from Port of Spain to Auckland. At least when New Zealand make the long journey home from the T20 World Cup next week, they will have plenty of time for reflection. They have had a bizarre few weeks. Players and support staff first arrived in the Caribbean
India 111 for 3 (Suryakumar 50*, Dube 31*, Netravalkar 2-18) beat USA 110 for 8 (Nitish 27, Taylor 24, Arshdeep 4-9, Hardik 2-14) by seven wickets USA had several things going against them. The conditions: Before today, they’d never played at Nassau County Stadium; this was India’s fourth game at the venue. Personnel: Monank Patel,
Pat Cummins has said Australia would never have contemplated manipulating their net run rate to knock England out of the T20 World Cup 2024 and believed any such tactics would be against the Spirit of Cricket. The scenario where Australia could have won against Scotland by a close enough margin to eliminate England is no
Big picture: Will spin play a role in Kingstown? A tournament of firsts has an addition: this is the first time South Africa and Nepal will meet on the international circuit. And they do so from opposite ends of the group’s points table. South Africa advanced to the Super Eight after the Nepal-Sri Lanka washout,
Shakib Al Hasan walks out for Bangladesh’s warm-up session ahead of the match against Netherlands in Kingstown wearing a neck brace. Has he hurt himself? But then he does his batting drills with the brace on. What’s this about? Turns out he is fine, he was just trying to keep his head in place while
Michael Jones has given an indication of Scotland’s relaxed state of mind as they prepare for their crucial Group B showdown in Antigua on Sunday, as he welcomed Josh Hazlewood’s suggestion that Australia might go easy on his team in a bid to engineer an early elimination for their arch-rivals England. Speaking after Australia’s emphatic
The weather may have a big part to play at the T20 World Cup 2024 over the coming days in Florida, where three Group A matches are scheduled over the next three days. A tropical disturbance has brought a rare flash flood emergency to much of southern Florida, including in Broward County where the venue
Bangladesh vs Netherlands, T20 World Cup 2024 LIVE Updates: Crucial tie for Super 8 Qualification© AFP Bangladesh vs Netherlands, T20 World Cup 2024, LIVE Updates: Rain has delayed the toss in the Bangladesh vs Netherlands T20 World Cup game at the Arnos Vale Ground in St. Vincent. Both the teams would be aiming to put
For the second season running Melbourne Stars will have pick one in the BBL overseas draft while local rivals Melbourne Renegades will follow as second. The weighted lottery – split between the four sides who missed finals and those who qualified – has Sydney Sixers, last season’s beaten finalists, coming out eighth while defending champions
Sherfane Rutherford‘s unbeaten 68 off 39 balls on a two-paced Trinidad pitch proved the difference between West Indies and New Zealand at the Brian Lara Cricket Academy. This was the assessment of both captains Rovman Powell and Kane Williamson after West Indies successfully defended 149 to progress to the Super Eight. Rutherford came into bat
Suryakumar Yadav‘s unbeaten 49-ball 50, which bailed India out from a precarious situation on a low-scoring New York surface against USA, wasn’t a typical 360-degree knock, but it impressed his captain. “He showed he’s got a different game as well, that is what you expect from experienced players,” Rohit Sharma said on the official broadcast
Matthew Mott, England’s head coach, says he hopes that Josh Hazlewood was joking about the prospect of Australia manipulating an early exit for the T20 World Cup defending champions, but admits his team can do little else but focus on victory against Oman on Thursday and hope the ongoing debate about run-rate calculations ends up
England wicketkeeper-batter Sam Billings has become the first player to sign for the BBL under the new multi-year contract option with a three-season deal for Sydney Thunder, committing to the competition ahead of rival T20 leagues in the UAE and South Africa. The SA20 will again significantly overlap with the BBL when it starts in