The BCCI shared a sneak peek of the Indian team’s celebrations in Sylhet.© Twitter India hammered Sri Lanka by 8 wickets in Sylhet to clinch a seventh Women’s Asia Cup title on Saturday. After restricting Sri Lanka to a total of 65/9, India chased down the total inside nine overs. After the Harmanpreet Kaur-led side
Australia are still managing the bowling loads of allrounders Marcus Stoinis and Mitchell Marsh to avoid any injury recurrence just a week out from their first match of the T20 World Cup while David Warner could be rested from the final warm-up game against India on Monday due to his neck issue. Stoinis suffered a
Toss Sri Lanka chose to bat against India Sri Lanka captain Chamari Athapaththu decided to bat first in the Women’s Asia Cup final against India in Sylhet. They have gone with the same XI that beat Pakistan in the semi-final on Thursday. India have brought in top-order batter Dayalan Hemalatha in place of left-arm spinner
Mohammed Shami has replaced Jasprit Bumrah in India’s T20 World Cup squad. According to a BCCI release, Shami has touched down in Australia and will link up with the squad in Brisbane ahead of India’s two official warm-ups against the hosts and New Zealand on October 17 and 19 respectively. As reported by ESPNcricinfo earlier,
England 112 for 2 (Buttler 65*, Malan 23, Cummins 1-23) vs Australia 30 for 3 (Stoinis 8*, Woakes 3-4) – Match abandoned Under pressure Aaron Finch and Glenn Maxwell fell cheaply, but Australia avoided a clean sweep against England after the T20I series finale in Canberra was abandoned due to rain. After two rain delays
Bangladesh have brought in Soumya Sarkar and Shoriful Islam to replace Mohammad Saifuddin and Sabbir Rahman in their T20 World Cup squad. Soumya and Shoriful’s inclusions in the T20 World Cup squad seemed on the cards given their performance was marginally better than the other two who will now make their way back home from
Aaron Finch stopped short of confirming if he would endorse one of his bowlers running out a batter backing up, after Mitchell Starc appeared to warn Jos Buttler during the rain-interrupted third T20I in Canberra. After sending down the fourth ball of the over to Dawid Malan, which was jabbed back towards him, Starc turned
Download our app: https://app.cricket.com.au/ A classy 75 from David Warner and a brutal late innings from Tim David set Australia up before Mitchell Starc cleaned up with the ball, as the home side sealed a comfortable 31-run win over the West Indies at the Gabba More #AUSvWI videos: https://www.cricket.com.au/video Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cricketcomau Follow
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Cricket South Africa is hoping to put bums on seats by throwing open doors to the CSA T20 Challenge, their domestic T20 competition, for free – almost. Tickets for the tournament – which features the eight Division 1 provincial sides, and will include 31 matches from October 17 to November 6 – have gone on
Fakhar Zaman, who had earlier been named in the reserves’ list, has been moved into Pakistan’s squad of 15 for the T20 World Cup. Usman Qadir, meanwhile, is now one of three travelling reserves – alongside Mohammad Haris and Shahnawaz Dahani – after failing to recover from a hairline fracture on his right thumb. Both
Bracewell, who is more of a batting allrounder for his domestic side Wellington, emerged as the joint-highest wicket-taker in the T20I tri-series in Christchurch, with eight strikes in five games at a scarcely believable economy rate of 4.94. Those returns fetched him the Player-of-the-Series award, though New Zealand lost the final to Pakistan on Friday.
India will take on Sri Lanka in the Women’s Asia Cup final on Saturday, and Harmanpreet Kaur talked up her players’ strength of character for the quick switch from pleasant England to steaming Sylhet, hitting their stride after just one training session. “Conditions and wickets were totally different [in England], and it is totally different
Aaron Finch has admitted there is some fatigue in the Australia squad but remains confident that they can peak at the right time in their T20 World Cup title defence. Australia were seemingly heading for another defeat in Canberra before the rain returned which meant the series against England finished at 2-0 to the visitors.
In a hard-fought game in Chattogram, Sylhet Division captain Zakir made a crucial 87 to ensure they led the home side by 171 runs after the first-innings exchanges. Zakir added 154 runs with Amite Hasan, who made 79, for the third wicket. He struck seven fours and a six in his four-hour stay, but as
File photo of Indian cricket team© BCCI Asia Cup 2023 is slated to be hosted by Pakistan and one question on everyone’s minds is whether the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) would be sending Team India to participate in the tournament. Now, it has been confirmed that the board is open to
David Warner is on the verge of being granted leave to appeal against his lifetime leadership ban, with Cricket Australia proposing a change to its code of conduct. Warner is currently unable to hold a captaincy position in Australian cricket after copping a lifetime ban as a result of 2018’s ball-tampering scandal. The 35-year-old has
Pakistan 168 for 5 (Nawaz 38*, Rizwan 34, Bracewell 2-14) beat New Zealand 163 for 7 (Williamson 59, Rauf 2-22, Naseem 2-38) by five wickets An audacious assault from Haider Ali and Mohammad Nawaz blindsided New Zealand and gave Pakistan the tri-series title in Christchurch. Their stand included smashing 33 in eight balls starting from
The long-awaited women’s IPL is set to become a reality next year with the BCCI planning a five-team tournament for March 2023, immediately after the Women’s T20 World Cup ends in South Africa on February 26. The BCCI’s proposed plan involves a total of 22 matches, with each squad comprising 18 players with a maximum
The traditional Prime Minister’s XI fixture will return this summer after a two-season gap due to Covid-19, but in a new guise as a four-day pink-ball match against West Indies ahead of their two-Test series. The match will be played under lights at Manuka Oval from November 23-26. While the exact makeup of the squad
The BCCI stands to lose between US$58-116 million from its share of the ICC’s central revenue pool as a result of the tax imposed by the Indian government on the global cricket body for hosting the 2023 Men’s ODI World Cup in India. The marquee event is scheduled to be played in India in October-November
Bangladesh have learned a lot from the tri-series in New Zealand despite losing all four games, according to their technical consultant Sridharan Sriram. The key takeaway was that they had tried and tested the different combinations they could use during the upcoming T20 World Cup in Australia. Bangladesh produced their best batting performance of the
Download our app: https://app.cricket.com.au/ Australia fell just short of England’s mammoth 208 in Perth despite brilliant efforts from both Nathan Ellis (3-20) and David Warner (73 off 44 balls) in an entertaining clash to kick off the three-game series More #AUSvENG videos: https://www.cricket.com.au/video Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cricketcomau Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cricketcomau Follow us
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Sri Lanka Women 122 for 6 (Samarawickrama 35, Sanjeewani 26, Sandhu 3-17) beat Pakistan Women 121 for 6 (Maroof 42, Dar 26, Ranaweera 2-17) by one run Achini Kulasuriya bowled a stunning final over to help Sri Lanka beat Pakistan in the second semi-final and march into the final of the Asia Cup. Kulasuriya bowled
Western Australia XI 168 for 8 (Hobson 64, Short 52, Ashwin 3-32) beat Indians 132 for 8 (Rahul 74, Lance Morris 2-23, Kelly 2-26) by 36 runs KL Rahul made a patient 74, but India struggled on a fast WACA pitch against a strong WA XI attack in a 36-run defeat ahead of the T20
Nida Dar goes down on her haunches after getting run-out off the last ball. The Sri Lanka players are running towards each other from all directions, arms aloft, screaming loud, smiling. The big screen at the Sylhet International Stadium flashes the result. Those in the stands are open-mouthed. Some have their hands on their head.
As the 2022 T20 World Cup approaches, there is a clear trend that is visible in the Pakistan cricket team’s performance. The side is increasingly looking over-reliant on openers Babar Azam and Mohammed Rizwan. The same was visible in Tuesday’s tri-nation series match against New Zealand in which Pakistan lost by nine wickets. Babar Azam
Cricket Australia is contemplating lifting David Warner‘s lifetime leadership ban as soon as Friday, with directors looking at rewriting the organisation’s code of ethics. Warner has had a leadership ban hanging over his head since the 2018 ball-tampering scandal, with him keen to have the punishment reversed. The 35-year-old has been mentioned as a candidate