Big Picture: Two teams on a high face off The 2019 World Cup champions have been taken down. Time for the runners-up next? Afghanistan players have time and again called India their second home. At various points, they have had their base set up at Indian venues like Dehradun, Lucknow and Greater Noida, where they
Ashutosh took the crease at the score of 131 for 4 with just five overs to go. He then went on to smash 53 off 12 studded with eight sixes and just one four, which came through the covers. Ashutosh fell the next ball after reaching his record-breaking half-century and walked back with a stunning
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
Queensland 501 for 9 (Renshaw 135, Clayton 109, Neser 90) beat Victoria 253 and 144 (Swepson 5-39) by a innings and 104 runs Queensland spinner Mitchell Swepson has snared career-best figures of 5 for 39 to consign Victoria to back-to-back innings defeats to start their Sheffield Shield season. Victoria entered the final day in Mackay
Cricket World Cup: File image of Sachin Tendulkar and Virat Kohli© AFP The ICC ODI Cricket World Cup 2023 is one big opportunity for Virat Kohli to reaffirm his status as an all-time great. The former Indian cricket team has already made an impact at the Cricket World Cup with two half-centuries in India’s first
Sri Lanka’s batting has been lopsided in all their three World Cup games so far but it was only against Australia that it was truly exposed. After racking up a 125-run opening stand, they lost 10 wickets for just 84 runs. While it’s easy to say it was just a bad day, it would be
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
Australia captain Meg Lanning is confident she has more good cricket in her but has refused to be drawn on her availability for the upcoming tour of India. After missing the Ashes in England earlier this year over health concerns, Lanning is back in action ahead of the Melbourne Stars’ WBBL campaign. The 31-year-old declined
Australia 215 for 5 (Inglis 58, Marsh 52, Labuschagne 40, Maxwell 31*, Stoinis 20*, Madushanka 3-38) beat Sri Lanka 209 (Perera 78, Nissanka 61, Zampa 4-47, Cummins 2-32, Starc 2-43) by five wickets Australia chased down Sri Lanka’s sub-par 209 with some ease, cantering to a five-wicket win in Lucknow to revive their flagging World
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
The Men’s 2023 ODI World Cup is underway in India and runs from October 5 until November 19. Each morning we will round up the latest action and news from the event and bring you the insights from our reporters on the ground. — Top Story: Australia put World Cup campaign back on track Australia
“The only thing the past gives us is learning.” South Africa head coach Rob Walter was talking about his side’s defeat to Netherlands at the 2022 T20 World Cup when he shared this aphorism. South Africa were not only stunned but knocked out of the tournament. But, Walter said, they have learnt their lesson. So
Arthur admitted after his side’s seven-wicket loss that with barely any Pakistan presence at the packed Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad, the team was affected by the partisan crowd. Pakistani fans were conspicuous by their absence at the ground, with no fans having received visas to travel across the border. Only a handful of Pakistani
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
Bangladesh captain Shakib Al Hasan remains in contention for Bangladesh’s next World Cup match, against India on October 19, after he suffered a left quad injury in their last outing against New Zealand in Chennai. Team director Khaled Mahmud said that all signs point towards Shakib feeling well, but they will monitor him closely during
Stumps Western Australia 146 for 0 (Whiteman 67*, Bancroft 63*) trail Tasmania 439 (Silk 181, Webster 64, Wade 51, Rocchiccioli 3-144, Stobo 3-87) by 293 runs Cameron Bancroft continued his early dominance of the Sheffield Shield season as Western Australia made a strong start in response to Tasmania’s formidable first-innings 439 on a lifeless WACA
The much-hyped India vs Pakistan clash at the Cricket World Cup 2023 was pretty much an one-sided affair with the Rohit Sharma-led hosts coming out victorious in Ahmedabad on Saturday. India were the dominant side both with the bowling and batting as Babar Azam‘s Pakistan showed no gumption to fight. Batting first, Pakistan were all
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
South Australia 293 (McSweeney 64, Tremain 4-57) and 57 for 3 lead New South Wales 183 (Gilkes 57, McAndrew 5-42) by 167 runs New South Wales-born quick Nathan McAndrew ripped the heart out of the Blues’ batting to hand South Australia a big lead in their Sheffield Shield clash in Adelaide. McAndrew claimed figures of
South Africa 155 for 5 (Brits 45, Luus 36*, Tahuhu 2-20, Penfold 2-27) beat New Zealand 144 for 8 (Kerr 61, Bates 45, de Klerk 3-24, Klaas 3-26) by 11 runs South Africa bounced back from the defeat in the fourth T20I with an 11-run win in the fifth and final game to square the
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
The Men’s 2023 ODI World Cup is underway in India and runs from October 5 until November 19. Each morning we will round up the latest action and news from the event and bring you the insights from our reporters on the ground. — Top Story: The Great Upset – Afghanistan bring World Cup to
Tasmania 281 for 6 (Silk 99*, Webster 64, Wade 51, Rocchiccioli 3-94) vs Western Australia Western Australia quick Lance Morris dismissed opener Caleb Jewell with his first ball of the Sheffield Shield season, but Tasmania recovered on day one at the WACA. After electing to bat in hot conditions, Tasmania were rocked by the dismissal
England vs Afghanistan, ODI World Cup 2023, Live: England aim for another win© AFP England vs Afghanistan, ODI World Cup 2023, Live Updates:Defending champions will be taking on Afghanistan in their ODI World Cup 2023 match on Sunday in New Delhi. The Jos Buttler-led side faced a seven-wicket defeat in the opening match against New
Big Picture Even in a tournament with nine group-stage matches which allows room for a slip up or two, you don’t want to be 0-3 early in the competition but that’s the situation which will confront one of these teams after they face off in Lucknow in what already shapes as a contest to retain
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
Travis Head has returned to the nets for the first time since he suffered a fractured hand in South Africa and is hopeful of being able to fly out to join the World Cup squad in India on Thursday. Head had the cast removed late last week and is now facing throwdowns. Scans have shown
Sri Lanka’s team management confirmed to ESPNcricinfo that Kusal Mendis will lead in Shanaka’s stead, as he has served as the team’s vice-captain for the past few months, and in fact led them in one of Sri Lanka’s warm-up matches, which Shanaka had missed. Team manager Mahinda Halangoda also said that despite Shanaka exiting the
“I think they’ve [India] got all bases covered and I’m looking forward to meeting them in the final again.” But he was frank in his assessment of where Pakistan fell short in Ahmedabad: timid with the bat, and possibly a little intimidated by the occasion that made them retreat “into their shells just a little
How many people were in the crowd on Saturday in Ahmedabad was not made public, but you wouldn’t have struggled to count the number of green shirts in the stands. That number possibly stood at three, all Pakistani-Americans from the United States. The crowd could’ve been anywhere between 115,000 to 125,000, so it was a