South Africa wicketkeeper-batter Kyle Verreynne has been named Western Province’s captain for CSA’s upcoming domestic One-Day Cup which starts on September 16, replacing allrounder Wayne Parnell in the position. Verreynne had led the team in seven first-class games and three T20s during the 2022-23 season. Western Province head coach Salieg Nackerdien cited Parnell’s “high workload
Anamul, 30, last played an ODI for Bangladesh in December 2022 against India. In all, he has represented Bangladesh in 44 ODIs, in which he has scored 1254 runs at an average of 30.58, which includes five fifties and three centuries. In all those matches, he has either opened or come in at No.3. Anamul
Shorey, the 31-year-old top-order batter, played 42 games for Delhi in a 52-match first-class career that has brought him 3841 runs at an average of 54.87, including 11 hundreds. He also has 1945 List A runs at 36.01, and 866 T20 runs at a strike rate of 116.39. He was part of the Chennai Super
Tim David has been added to Australia’s ODI squad in South Africa to provide them with an extra middle-order option. David has only played 16 List A matches in his career but averages 82.77 with a strike-rate of 123.14. Just one of those games has come in the Australian domestic scene with the others for
Lizelle Lee, the former South Africa batter, has signed to play for the Blaze in the final rounds of this season’s Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy. Lee, 31, who retired from international duty last year, will replace South Africa allrounder Nadine de Klerk after she was called up for the tour of Pakistan. An experienced opener
Bangladesh fast bowler Ebadot Hossain will have to undergo a knee surgery, which puts him in doubt for the ODI World Cup in October-November in India. The procedure will take place at Cromwell Hospital in London later today, which gives Ebadot just over a month to fully recover from the left ACL injury that forced
England vs New Zealand 1st T20I Live Cricket Score And Live Updates© AFP England vs New Zealand 1st T20I Live: Harry Brook was included in the England team for the first Twenty20 international against New Zealand at Chester-le-Street on Wednesday after being controversially omitted from the reigning 50-over champions’ World Cup squad. England captain Jos
Prioritising Test cricket and ensuring that New Zealand’s best players want to keep playing for the country are on top of the agenda for NZC’s new chief executive Scott Weenink, who took over from David White on August 30. Weenink, 50, is a businessman and a former first-class cricketer from Wellington, and he was the
Heather Knight says that England’s T20I series against Sri Lanka marks the start of the team’s new cycle, in the wake of a transformative Ashes campaign this summer, and that the aim of the coming weeks will be to create competition for places ahead of next year’s T20 Women’s World Cup in Bangladesh. Speaking on
England won the toss and chose to bowl vs New Zealand Brydon Carse has been handed his England T20I debut on his home ground at Chester-le-Street, and will get an early outing with the ball after Jos Buttler won the toss and chose to bowl first in his team’s first white-ball fixture since the tour
South Africa opt to bowl v Australia Dewald Brevis made a much anticipated international debut for South Africa as one of two new caps in their T20I XI. Apart from Brevis, who was the leading run-scorer at the 2022 Under-19 World Cup, Gerald Coetzee made a first T20I appearance, to add to his Test and
Bangladesh-Sri Lanka fixtures might have had a little more tension over the last few years, than they used to. And perhaps this match will add to the emotions. Speaking ahead of their group match, Sri Lanka’s captain Dasun Shanaka let slip that he thought Bangladesh’s players might be hasty in their decision-making. The question had
Ashton Agar is fit and raring to play a key role in Australia’s ODI World Cup tilt in India after recovering from a recent calf injury that was the latest chapter of a rollercoaster year which included an aborted return to the Test side. Agar suffered a minor calf tear in an innocuous incident while
Toss Pakistan chose to bat vs Nepal Babar Azam won the toss in the opening match of the 2023 Asia Cup and opted to bat first on what he called a “dry and shiny” Multan pitch that looked full of runs. Nepal are making their Asia Cup debut and their captain Rohit Paudel said it
England’s women cricketers are to receive equal match fees to their male counterparts, beginning with Friday’s first T20I against Sri Lanka, following an explosion of interest in the format this summer, including record-breaking crowds of 110,000 over the course of seven Ashes matches in June and July. The increase, which was recommended as an immediate
Big picture – SL, Bangladesh grapple with player absences Okay, cards on the table, Sri Lanka aren’t in good shape. Sure, they haven’t been consistently great in quite some time, but these are the defending Asia Cup champions at the end of the day, not to forget that they clean-swept the World Cup Qualifier a
Australia A 263 and 31 for 1 need 322 more runs to beat New Zealand A 147 and 468 (Kuggeleijn 101, Solia 91, Abbas 55, Bruce 51, Perry 4-77, Steketee 4-100) Scott Kuggeleijn struck a rollicking 85-ball century at No. 8 to leave Australia A an imposing target of 353 in the first four-day game
The pre-sale window for the first lot of tickets for the high-voltage ICC World Cup 2023 match between Indian cricket team and Pakistan saw huge interest from fans on Tuesday. The ICC’s ticketing partner ‘Book My Show’ opened its exclusive pre-sale window for the October 14 clash in Ahmedabad, but it was sold out within an
KL Rahul, India’s first-choice wicketkeeper-batter for the Asia Cup, will not be available for the first two matches at the tournament, against Pakistan and Nepal, head coach Rahul Dravid confirmed at a press conference prior to the start of the tournament. Dravid said Rahul has been “progressing really well”, but won’t be ready in time
Sidra Ameen and Muneeba Ali have earned promotions in the PCB’s new central contracts with Ameen promoted from Category C to A. She is one of just three women in the highest category of the PCB’s central contracts, with Nida Dar and Bismah Maroof retaining their places in Category A. Muneeba, who scored Pakistan women’s
Big picture: Back to the 20-over format Roll up, roll up! We’ve had rollercoaster men’s and women’s Ashes, the Hundred has enjoyed its month in the spotlight… but there’s still room in the sardine can for a bilateral white-ball series or three! Astute followers of the game will be aware that New Zealand arrived in
Seamers Binura Fernando and Pramod Madushan have been named in Sri Lanka’s Asia Cup squad, replacing the more experienced quicks who are out with injuries. Legspin-bowling allrounder Dushan Hemantha has also made the squad, essentially as a like-for-like replacement for Wanindu Hasaranga. Kusal Perera is in the squad as well. It has been more than
Tristan Stubbs will keep wicket for South Africa in the opening T20I against Australia in Durban as the hosts look to rotate the gloves in the absence of the rested Quinton de Kock. Stubbs is one of three options for the three-match series and has been chosen to start in the position ahead of Matthew
“Experimentation.” It’s a word Rahul Dravid has perhaps read and heard so much that he wasn’t quite in the mood to let it go outside off one more time. Dravid was as measured as he could be, hearing out the question in full, before neatly leaning into his answer that formed the crux of his
Australia have confirmed three debutants for the opening T20I against South Africa in Durban with Spencer Johnson, Aaron Hardie and Matt Short all set to play their first international match under new captain Mitchell Marsh. Australia named their XI for the first of three T20Is on Wednesday with Johnson, Hardie and Short headlining a completely
Big picture – a massive occasion for Nepal Nepal are making their Asia Cup debut. They are meeting Pakistan for the first time in any format. It’s a massive occasion for them, a day of celebration no matter how things pan out on the field. Nepal’s very presence at this Asia Cup is validation of
New Zealand A 147 and 191 for 2 (Solia 62*) lead Australia A 263 (Jewell 78, Kuggeleijn 5-74) by 75 runs New Zealand A fought back strongly on the second day at Allan Border Field, firstly through Scott Kuggeleijn‘s five-wicket haul and then with a solid display by their top order, led by Sean Solia,
You probably already know this name but if you don’t, remember it: Dewald Brevis. Tipped to become South Africa’s next big batting thing since finishing as the leading run-scorer at the 2022 Under-19 World Cup, Brevis has had to wait 18 months to crack the senior side and has racked up a host of domestic
England are prepared to play Ben Stokes as a batsman only when they defend their 50-over men’s World Cup title in India after the Test captain reversed his decision to retire from one-day internationals. The all-rounder, troubled by a longstanding left knee injury that restricted his bowling during the recent drawn Ashes Test series at
India vice-captain Smriti Mandhana has opted out of the WBBL for the second year in a row, as she could play in the upcoming domestic season. She had skipped the 2022-23 WBBL as well to manage her workload and focus on her India commitments during a busy international year. This time, Mandhana did not put