Michael Leask helped Scotland to a stunning 31-run victory over Zimbabwe on Tuesday to set up a winner-takes-all clash with the Netherlands for a place at the World Cup. Sri Lanka became the first of the top two teams in the Super Six table to have qualified for the October-November World Cup in India when
Sound up as Australia’s in-form opener Usman Khawaja wears a microphone for his batting session at the Lord’s Nursery ahead of this week’s second Ashes Test Download our app: https://app.cricket.com.au/ More #Ashes 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 on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/cricketcomau
Jos Buttler walked to the crease with England hanging by a thread at 111-5 against Sri Lanka. What followed shows why Buttler is likely to go down as one of England’s greatest ever white ball cricketers. Find out more at ecb.co.uk This is the official channel of the ECB. Watch all the latest videos from
Sri Lanka captain Chamari Athapaththu shot up to the top of the women’s ODI rankings for batters after her two unbeaten centuries in the series against New Zealand. She has thus become the first woman from Sri Lanka to top the ODI rankings. Athapaththu climbed six places to displace Australia’s Beth Mooney as the top-ranked
Todd Murphy is expecting to face aggression on two fronts at Headingley this week: from the England batters and the crowd. That game concluded in front of a hostile crowd who had been angered by Alex Carey’s stumping of Jonny Bairstow, which extended into ugly scenes inside the Long Room when Australian players were confronted
The England men’s and women’s teams will play concurrent series against Pakistan to kick off the start of the 2024 home international season. Heather Knight’s team will begin with a three-match T20I series starting at Edgbaston on May 11, which will be followed by three ODIs. Jos Buttler will lead his side out in four
Finn Allen‘s return to Auckland after three seasons with Wellington, and Kyle Jamieson‘s move back to Canterbury after four seasons at Auckland, are some of the major talking points as New Zealand’s six major associations released their first list of contracted players for the 2023-24 season. Cam Fletcher also returned to Auckland after almost ten
James Anderson insists his age is not to blame for his off-colour performances in the first two Ashes Tests, and says that he’ll be looking no further into the future than the start of the third Test at Headingley on Thursday. Anderson turns 41 later this month, but speculation is mounting about his role for
Her 61 off 41 balls against India set Australia up for a narrow nine-run victory last August before Ashleigh Gardner turned the screw with two wickets in as many balls and three for the match. On Saturday night, opener Mooney expertly marshalled Australia’s pursuit of 154 with an identical score – this time unbeaten and
Stuart Broad was “amazed that not one senior player” in the Australian team “questioned what they had done” during or after the hotly-debated dismissal of Jonny Bairstow in the Lord’s Test. “What amazed me, and what I told the Australians I could not believe as we left the field at lunch, was that not one
The incident has dominated the news cycle following Australia’s 43-run victory in the second Test at Lord’s, which gave them a 2-0 lead over England. With the third Test starting on Thursday, captain Ben Stokes said he expected the ill-feeling to spill over into Headingley, a ground famed for its febrile atmosphere. It was here
Yorkshire will ramp up security levels for the third men’s Ashes Test at Headingley this week, following a pitch invasion by Just Stop Oil protesters during the second Test at Lord’s. Three people were charged with aggravated trespass on the first day of the Lord’s Test. Two of them – Daniel Knorr, 21 and Jacob
Netherlands beat Oman in ICC World Cup 2023 Qualifiers© Twitter The Netherlands kept their bid to qualify for the Cricket World Cup alive as Vikramjit Singh‘s hundred set up a comfortable victory over Oman on Monday. The Dutch, who have not played at the global one-day showpiece since 2011, needed to win to stay in
Former Socceroos manager Ange Postecoglou made his first visit to Lord’s for day three of the Ashes Test before officially starting at Tottenham Hotspur, and revealed his childhood love of cricket fostered growing up in Melbourne Download our app: https://app.cricket.com.au/ More #Ashes 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
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Chasing a revised target of 196 in 29 overs, Sri Lanka seemed to be in a spot of bother at 6 for 2, with both Vishmi Gunaratne and Harshitha Samarawickrama falling early. However, Athapaththu, who had scored a century at the same venue against the same opponents last week, launched a counterattack, racing to the
Ollie Pope has been retained in England’s squad for the third men’s Ashes Test at Headingley on Thursday despite sustaining shoulder injuries in both of Australia’s innings at Lord’s. Pope will undergo scans on his right shoulder on Monday after England’s 43-run defeat in the second Test, ESPNcricinfo understands. England are due to travel to
Australia coach Andrew McDonald was “disappointed” with his counterpart Brendon McCullum saying the teams wouldn’t be sharing a beer following the controversial stumping of Jonny Bairstow on the final day at Lord’s. McDonald reinforced Pat Cummins’ comments that it was a dismissal they had been watching for when it came to Bairstow and added he
Ben Stokes says he would have withdrawn the appeal if his side had dismissed a player in the manner that Alex Carey stumped Jonny Bairstow on the final day of a thrilling Test at Lord’s. Australia won a see-sawing Test by 43 runs, surviving a Stokes scare along the way, but a pivotal moment came
West Indies have failed to qualify for the 2023 ODI World Cup after losing to Scotland in the Super Six stage of the ongoing World Cup Qualifiers in Zimbabwe. Only the two finalists of that tournament make it to the World Cup in India later this year, and West Indies now can’t reach the final.
Ben Stokes and Pat Cummins expect that the febrile atmosphere on the final day of the second men’s Ashes Test at Lord’s will continue in Leeds next week, with the third Test starting at Headingley on Thursday. Australia’s players were booed throughout the second session after Jonny Bairstow was controversially stumped by Alex Carey, and
Sri Lanka’s batting may be shaky, their reviewing dodgy and the standard of their fielding changes from game to game. But in this tournament, there can be little question. Their bowling is the best on show. After five matches, no team has yet made 200 against them in the World Cup Qualifier. Maheesth Theekshana, Sri
Australia 416 (Smith 110, Head 77, Warner 66, Root 3-19, Tongue 3-98) and 279 (Khawaja 77, Broad 4-65) beat England 325 (Duckett 98, Brook 50, Starc 3-88) and 327 (Stokes 155, Duckett 88, Cummins 3-69, Starc 3-29, Hazlewood 3-80) by 43 runs What was a hard-fought but reasonably sedate final day, erupted into controversy and
West Indies, two-time former champions, are going to be absent from an ODI World Cup for the first time when the tournament takes place in India later this year. The issues for West Indies start from the foundation of the game back home, captain Shai Hope said after the defeat to Scotland ended their qualification
The BCCI’s media statement, which was released less than four days prior to the team’s scheduled departure for Dhaka, didn’t mention the reasons for the omissions. Among these names, Pandey was the only player who was not awarded a central contract for the 2022-23 season. Ghosh’s absence opened the doors for Assam’s Uma Chetry, who
MCC has issued an unreserved apology to Australia after some of their players were abused when walking through the Long Room on day five of the second Ashes Test at Lord’s, following the controversial dismissal of Jonny Bairstow, with Usman Khawaja describing what was said as “pretty disrespectful”. Khawaja and David Warner were shown on
The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has written to Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, seeking official clearance to travel to India for the ODI World Cup in October-November, according to a report. In the letter, also addressed to the interior and the foreign ministry, the PCB has asked for advice on whether the national team is allowed
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