Wicketkeeper-batter Bernadine Bezuidenhout, who last played for New Zealand in January 2020, has been included in the squad for next month’s Women’s T20 World Cup. Bezuidenhout, 29, is on a comeback trail after two years out of the game to recover from a health issue after being diagnosed with Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport (RED-S).
India 147 for 6 (Amanjot 41*, Bhatia 35, Deepti 33, Mlaba 2-15) beat South Africa 120 for 9 (Luus 29, Tryon 26, Vaidya 2-19) by 27 runs It was a day when the young and seasoned combined to kickstart India’s final run to the Women’s T20 World Cup in South Africa on a positive note.
West Indies cricket will “cease to exist as an entity” if the best players in the region represent it only on an “optional” basis while featuring in all T20 leagues. This was one of the conclusions drawn by the review group that Cricket West Indies recently appointed to probe West Indies’ failure to get past
Sussex have confirmed the signing of Australia’s Steven Smith on a short-term deal that will see him play three LV= Insurance County Championship matches in May. The move, as previously reported by ESPNcricinfo, will give Smith a chance to prepare for Australia’s likely appearance in the World Test Championship final, as well as the Ashes
Jamie Overton, the Surrey and England fast bowler, has effectively been ruled out of this summer’s Ashes after being diagnosed with a stress fracture of the back. Overton, who starred with the bat on his Test debut against New Zealand last summer with a match-turning 97, has returned home from the UAE, where he was
Fast bowler Sisanda Magala has made a comeback to South Africa’s ODI team after a year when he was named in the 16-man squad for the upcoming three-match series against England at home in January. There was no room in the squad for the hard-hitting 19-year old Dewald Brevis, who is currently third on the
The KFC Big Bash League was just 13 deliveries old when Brett Lee sent a vicious bouncer cannoning into the face of Brendon McCullum, drawing blood and breaking the Kiwi’s nose
Find out more at ecb.co.uk Ben Stokes stood tall against a much improved West Indies bowling attack, to score an excellent hundred and push England up to 258 on day one. This is the official channel of the ECB. Watch all the latest videos from the England Cricket Team and England and Wales Cricket Board.
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Spin trio of Mannat Kashyap, Archana Devi and Sonam Yadav produced sensational bowling display as India thrashed Scotland by 83 runs to storm into the Super Six of the inaugural Women’s U-19 T20 World Cup in Benoni on Wednesday. Opting to bat, India lost their star opener and skipper Shafali Verma (1) in the second
To many, the decision to cast Alex Lees aside and keep faith with Zak Crawley for the tour of Pakistan was a surprise. The opening pair had very similar 2022 summers, though Lees shaded it on every metric: runs, average, half-centuries and double-figure scores. Except, ultimately, on talent ceiling. The three wise men of England’s
Zimbabe 214 for 7 (Burl 53, Raza 43, Adair 2-40, Hume 2-41) beat Ireland 288 for 4 (Balbirnie 121, Tector 101*, Nyauchi 2-65) by three wickets via DLS method Zimbabwe beat Ireland by three wickets in a thrilling final-ball finish in Harare. Needing four to win off the final ball, Clive Madande swiped Graham Hume
Dane van Niekerk remains in contention for South Africa’s T20 World Cup squad and will undergo a final fitness test on January 27 in a bid to prove her eligibility for selection. Since recovering from the broken ankle she sustained last January, which kept her out of the 50-over World Cup and the Commonwealth Games,
India middle-order batter Shreyas Iyer has been ruled out of the ODI series against New Zealand because of a back injury. He has been replaced in the squad by Madhya Pradesh and RCB batter Rajat Patidar. It is learned that Iyer reported a stiff back immediately after the final ODI of the series against Sri
Moore was the general manager and head coach development of Cricket NSW, before which he was a senior coach at Cricket Australia’s Centre of Excellence. He has worked as an assistant coach of West Indies and became the side’s head coach for the England tour in 2007. He has coached the Bermuda national team as
Hashim Amla, one of South Africa’s greatest batters, has announced his retirement from all forms of cricket, after confirming to Surrey that he will not be returning to help defend the County Championship title that the club secured in his final season as a player in 2022. In the course of a two-decade career, Amla,
His place in India’s ODI side was questioned because the batter who replaced him when he was resting scored a double-hundred. Shubman Gill has now scored one of his own, after making 70, 21 and 116 in his first three innings since his return. This wasn’t the easiest of tracks for batting: the next-best score
Ravi Shastri, who was on commentary at the time, wasn’t convinced. “Oh, it’s been given out! Daryl Mitchell should be happy,” Shastri said. “Should really be happy, because that, if you take a look again as to where the keeper’s gloves are, where the ball is as it passes the stumps, it looked as if
The Pakistan women’s T20 league, meant to run alongside the PSL next month, will not go ahead as planned. The new PCB management committee, headed by Najam Sethi, decided to shelve the league, with the aim of holding it in September. The new league – which will bear a different name – will be a
It’s the new word doing the rounds in the cricket circuit these days: Sarfarazesque. It doesn’t roll off the tongue as easily as Bradmanesque does, but Sarfaraz Khan will take it. After all, his job, as spelt out by his father Naushad Khan, is “to keep scoring runs, for whichever team, all the time”. Since
Shannon Gabriel could play his first Test in over a year after being recalled for West Indies’ Test squad to tour Zimbabwe later this month. Spinners Jomel Warrican and Gudakesh Motie will also come back into contention after being included in the 15-man party. Gabriel, 34, last featured in the Test side in Sri Lanka
Australian livewire David Warner has described in detail his amazing run out of Ian Bell in last season’s Carlton Mid One-Day International at the Sydney Cricket Ground.
Australia took a 4-0 lead in the multi-format Women’s Ashes with a four-wicket win in the second one-day international against England, despite a century from Tammy Beaumont in Leicester. Follow England Women at ecb.co.uk/england/women Find out more at ecb.co.uk This is the official channel of the ECB. Watch all the latest videos from the England
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India will be looking to continue their winning run when they take on New Zealand in the first ODI encounter in Hyderabad on Wednesday. The Rohit Sharma-led side will be high on confidence after defeating Sri Lanka comprehensively in the recently concluded series. Virat Kohli was the wrecker-in-chief for India with two brilliant centuries. On the
England have appointed Freddie Wilde as their new men’s white-ball analyst, ahead of next month’s tour of Bangladesh, as a replacement for long-term incumbent Nathan Leamon. The move comes as part of a reshuffle within the ECB’s analysis department. Leamon, who has worked closely with England across all three formats and founded the data analytics
Dane van Niekerk has been left out of South Africa’s 17-member squad, led by legspinning allrounder Sune Luus, for the women’s T20I tri-series featuring India and West Indies. Experienced wicketkeeper-batter Trisha Chetty is also absent from the squad that has two uncapped players in Annerie Dercksen and Tebogo Macheke. Van Niekerk, who last played for
Shadab Khan, the Pakistan allrounder, has signed to play for Sussex in this year’s Vitality T20 Blast As previously reported by ESPNcricinfo, Sussex have been working to land a number of overseas signings, with Shadab expected to be available for the duration of the Blast. Sussex will be the 24-year-old’s second county, having turned out
Trent Boult is currently in action for MI Emirates in the ILT20 in the UAE, having turned down his New Zealand central contract. And Tim Southee has been wrapped in cotton wool ahead of the home Test series against England in February. The last time New Zealand played an ODI without both Boult and Southee
Ishan Kishan is known for his big shots. He loves them so much he went to hit boundaries with the very first balls he played in ODI and T20I cricket. But now, having been brought into India’s Test squad, he knows the importance of playing within himself and not succumbing to what he called “youngsters’