Glenn Maxwell had one of his worst IPL’s ever to the point where he dropped himself midway through the tournament to save coach Andy Flower and captain Faf du Plessis having to make a difficult call that they ultimately might have made anyway. He was later recalled and dropped again having registered scores of 0,
Brandon King will lead West Indies in the T20I series against South Africa which acts as preparation for the World Cup in the absence of full-time captain Rovman Powell who remains at the IPL with Rajasthan Royals. Powell is one of a group of players who will miss the three matches on May 23, 25
Sunrisers Hyderabad vs Punjab Kings IPL 2024 LIVE Updates© BCCI SRH vs PBKS Live Updates, IPL 2024: Sunrisers Hyderabad will be squaring off against Punjab Kings in their final league stage match of IPL 2024 on Sunday in Hyderabad. As all the England players have left for national duty, PBKS will be led by wicketkeeper
Toss England chose to bat vs Pakistan Heather Knight won the toss and challenged her players to “put on a show” with the bat in the third T20I at Headingley. England, who have already won the series after going 2-0 up on Friday, made one change, bringing in the extra pace of Lauren Filer for
Pat Cummins‘ key role in the controversial stumping of Jonny Bairstow at Lord’s which ignited last year’s Ashes series has been revealed while team-mates have admitted they were concerned for Alex Carey‘s well-being in the aftermath. The incident, on the fourth day of the second Test, is a major theme in season three of The
Yorkshire have signed Sri Lanka quick Vishwa Fernando for their next three County Championship matches. The left-arm seamer, who has 64 Test wickets at 33.09 in 23 caps, is due to be available for fixtures against Northamptonshire, Gloucestershire and Derbyshire. Fernando played two matches for Durham last season, taking seven wickets at 22.42 for the
Mumbai Indians and Lucknow Super Giants’ IPL 2024 campaign ended on Friday. Both teams could not qualify for the playoffs. For Mumbai Indians, the removal of Rohit Sharma became a news and its impact hounded them till the last match. Current captain Hardik Pandya was booed and clearly he didn’t enjoy the support of the
The PSL will get two new franchises from 2026, making it an eight-team league. This was officially confirmed in a media release by the PCB, who called the upcoming season in 2025 – the tenth edition – the “last six-team event”. While this had been likely from the day the PCB and the PSL franchises
England allrounder Nat Sciver-Brunt has revealed that she missed the first T20I against Pakistan after having her eggs frozen with a view to having a family. “In the period between getting back from New Zealand [where England toured in April] and this [series], I thought it was a great time to go through the egg-freezing
Toss England chose to bat vs Pakistan England have won the toss in Northampton and will bat first on a surface with a tinge of grass. After comfortably defending a total in the first T20I in Birmingham, England captain Heather Knight said she expected the ball “to skid on nicely”, but had opted to bat
Greater challenges lie in store, ideally in the Caribbean next month, but Jofra Archer gave the impression that he’ll be ready to make his England comeback against Pakistan next week with a lively six-over display for Sussex’s second XI against Kent in Beckenham. It was a low-key outing, overseen by a handful of spectators and
Former India batter Gautam Gambhir is on top of the BCCI’s wishlist take up the position of India men’s head coach after Rahul Dravid‘s term ends at the conclusion of the 2024 T20 World Cup in June. ESPNcricinfo has learned Gambhir, who is currently the mentor of Kolkata Knight Riders in the IPL, has been
With the Indian Premier League (IPL) nearing its conclusion, Indian cricketers are set to shift gears and start preparations for the T20 World Cup 2024. With Rohit Sharma leading the side, the Indian team would hope to go all the way in the marquee event, unlike the ODI World Cup last year where a defeat
Pakistan’s new white-ball coach Gary Kirsten may not have joined the team in person yet but he appears to be preparing for the magnitude of the challenge already. Speaking to talkSPORT, Kirsten said there was little doubt about the talent in the Pakistan squad, but also hinted at problems he had already picked up on.
Lauren Bell has vowed to “attack the stumps” as a default approach, both against Pakistan for the remainder of England’s T20I series, and as a means to combat Bangladesh’s slow, low wickets in this winter’s T20 World Cup, after coming through a rusty first spell at Edgbaston on Saturday to help seal her side’s 53-run
The Indian Premier League (IPL) 2024 will see an important clash between SunRisers Hyderabad and Gujarat Titans in Hyderabad on Thursday. The IPL 2024 playoff race will be hugely impacted by the result of this match. So far, Kolkata Knight Riders (19 points in 13 matches) and Rajasthan Royals (16 points in 13 matches) are
New Zealand are banking on mixed fortunes from the IPL, their recent tour of Pakistan and experience of the Caribbean Premier League (CPL) to ensure they are prepared for their T20 World Cup campaign in the absence of official warm-up matches. Warm-up matches were offered by ICC, but amid the logistical challenges of getting the
Sophia Dunkley will have to wait in line for a return to international action, according to England Women’s assistant coach Gareth Breese, despite an impressive return to form for South East Stars in the opening rounds of the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy. Dunkley, who is currently leading the tournament run-charts with 293 at 97.66 in
After suffering their fourth consecutive defeat, against Punjab Kings in Guwahati, Rajasthan Royals captain Sanju Samson has admitted his team is “going through failures” that need to be rectified at the earliest. Royals set the pace early in the tournament by winning eight of their first nine matches, but had lost three on the bounce
Litton’s T20I form had dipped so much that he lost his place in the side after scoring 1, 23 and 12 in the first three T20Is of the five-match series against Zimbabwe. His last innings ended when he missed with three consecutive attempts at scooping Blessing Muzarabani, dragging the ball on to the stumps off
Sandeep Lamichhane (C) in action© X (formerly Twitter) The Patan High Court on Wednesday acquitted Nepal cricketer Sandeep Lamichhane in the rape case after the Kathmandu District Court sentenced him eight years in jail in January, reports stated. Sandeep is now available for the T20 World Cup squad after he was found innocent. However, Nepal
Gary Kirsten will start his two-year stint as the head coach of the Pakistan men’s national side on May 19 in Leeds, the PCB announced in Lahore on Tuesday. This will give him three days with the players and other members of the coaching staff before the first game of the four-match T20I series against
South Africa’s T20 World Cup squad has “failed to meet the [transformation] targets set by CSA”, resulting in the board’s admission that “various initiatives that have been pursued over the years have not yielded the desired results, especially in terms of producing Black African cricketers at the highest levels”. But this will not, according to
Ben Stokes will make his first appearance for Durham in the County Championship since May 2022 against Lancashire this week as he steps up his return as an allrounder. The England Test captain’s last competitive match came in the final match of the tour of India at the start of March. Having pulled out of
Match details Rajasthan Royals vs Punjab KingsGuwahati, 7.30pm IST (2pm GMT) Big picture: Who will replace Buttler for RR? From being fairly well-placed to top the points table, Rajasthan Royals now run the risk of slipping out of the top two after suffering three successive defeats at the pointy end of the tournament. Lucknow Super
Pakistan 181 for 4 (Babar 75, Rizwan 56, Mark Adair 3-28) beat Ireland 178 for 7 (Tucker 73, Balbirnie 35, Tector 30*, Shaheen 3-14, Abbas 2-43) by six wickets An imperiously accurate bowling spell from Shaheen Shah Afridi and quick half-centuries from Mohammad Rizwan and Babar Azam took Pakistan to a six-wicket win over Ireland
South Africa’s all-format women’s tour of India will begin with a three-match ODI series, then move to the one-off Test, and end with the three T20Is. The ODIs, as well as a one-day warm-up game for the visiting side against a Board President’s XI side, will be played in Bengaluru, while the rest of the
Key, the managing director of the England men’s teams, regularly meets players for appraisals and told Anderson that they should meet in person. “When we made the decision and we thought, ‘OK, we need to go and meet Jimmy and discuss the future’, Brendon came to the conclusion that the right thing to do was
India will play the second semi-final of the men’s T20 World Cup on June 27 in Providence, Guyana, if they qualify for the knockouts stage. The ICC’s playing conditions for the tournament, accessed by ESPNcricinfo, confirms this. India have likely been allotted the Guyana semi-final because of the match timings. The first semi-final in Tarouba,
Ireland vs Pakistan 3rd T20I, Live© X (Twitter) Ireland vs Pakistan 3rd T20I, Live Updates: Ireland will be squaring off against Pakistan in the third T20I of the three-match series on Tuesday at the Clontarf Cricket Club Ground, Dublin. The series is currently levelled at 1-1 after Pakistan bounced back and won the second T20I by