Edgbaston, 1st innings3.5 NOW THAT’S OUT!! Full and fast, pinned in front of middle and leg! Warner is gone, no attempt even to review – Broad has burst through in the fourth over of the morning, and Edgbaston is all over this! “Cheerio, cheerio!” they crow, as Warner grits his teeth and heads for the
Australia 20 for 0 trail England 393 for 8 dec (Root 118*, Bairstow 78, Crawley 61, Lyon 4-149) by 373 runs The first day of the 2023 Ashes started with Zak Crawley lacing Pat Cummins through cover for four, ended with Australia’s openers seeing out four overs following an opportunistic declaration, and hardly paused for
Jonny Bairstow admitted that the occasion and atmosphere at Edgbaston are “what we live for” as professional cricketers, after marking his first innings for England in nearly ten months with a run-a-ball 78 on a frenetic opening day of the 2023 Ashes. Though Bairstow made his return to the Test team against Ireland at Lord’s
Pakistan’s involvement at the 50-over World Cup in India later this year remains subject to their government’s approval. According to PCB chairman Najam Sethi, the board has written to the ICC following the release of a draft schedule of this year’s ODI World Cup to stress that they cannot unilaterally approve the fixture list. “We
Lunch Bangladesh 382 and 255 for 2 (Shanto 112*, Zakir 71, Hamza 1-33) lead Afghanistan 146 (Zazai 36, Jamal 35, Ebadot 4-47) by 491 runs The third morning was all about Najmul Hossain Shanto reaching his second century in the Dhaka Test against Afghanistan. He became the second Bangladeshi to reach this milestone. The man
Ben Stokes‘ decision to declare England’s first innings at 393 for 8 after 78 overs, with Joe Root unbeaten on 118, “came as no surprise” to their players. That is according to Jonny Bairstow, who said that forcing Australia’s openers to survive four overs on the first evening represented “a shot to nothing” for them.
1st Ashes Test Live: England will look to avenge their 4-0 defeat last year.© AFP ENG vs AUS, 1st Ashes Test, Day 1 Live Updates: England captain Ben Stokes won the toss and opted to bat against Australia in the first Test of the five-match series at Edgbaston in Birmingham. With their ultra-aggressive brand of cricket,
England middle-order power-hitter Harry Brook isn’t gun shy about his plan against Aussie spin maestro Nathan Lyon, while Steve Smith says Australia’s play against England spinner Moeen Ali will be dictated by the game situation. 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
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BCCI’s season-opening 2023 Duleep Trophy, the inter-zonal first-class competition, is set to be hosted across multiple venues in Bengaluru from June 28 to July 16. Six teams across zones – North, South, East, West, Central and North-East – will participate in the tournament. The winners of Central Zone vs East Zone and North-East Zone vs
The Bangladesh Cricket Board [BCB] has apologised after their security personnel assaulted a journalist during the third day of the one-off Test between Bangladesh and Afghanistan in Dhaka. BCB director Ismail Haider Mallick came to the press box within the hour of the incident, and assured that the people involved would be withdrawn from duty
For DeFreitas to Slater in 1994-95, will we one day be reading Cummins to Crawley 2023? The first ball of an Ashes series has long held a degree of mystique, and today’s long-awaited opener was no exception. Here’s how ESPNcricinfo’s ball-by-ball commentary has covered those moments since the start of the epic summer of 2005
Pant is believed to be largely pain-free, and while skill work is still “quite some time away”, he is currently increasing his lower-body and upper-body mobility exercises under the guidance of physio S Rajnikanth, who has previously worked with several India age-group teams and has also been part of the Delhi Capitals support staff. Rajnikanth
Big picture: Enter the Ashes paradox At what stage will it all begin to matter? Will it come when the teams line up for the national anthem, when the passion of the Hollies Stand seeps through the implacable demeanours of an England team that has been trained in the art of un-think? Will it come
Dan Lawrence will leave his home club Essex at the end of the season after agreeing a shock move to Surrey on a three-year contract. Lawrence, the spare batter in England’s Ashes squad, grew up in Chingford and has played for Essex’s first team since the age of 17, having previously represented the county’s age-group
Isabella Gaze and Rosemary Mair return to the New Zealand women’s team as they embark on their first bilateral series in Sri Lanka. The tour begins on June 27 with the first of three ODIs in Galle, and then moves to Colombo for three T20Is. Gaze, the 19-year-old wicketkeeper, and Mair, the 24-year-old fast bowler,
Having been left out of India’s XI for the WTC final against Australia despite being the No. 1 Test bowler in the world, R Ashwin looks at it as a “stumbling block” in his career and not a “setback”. Ashwin’s omission by India, who chose to play four quick bowlers and a spinner in Ravindra
Yorkshire have brought in Australia A seamer Mark Steketee on an initial four-game deal to bolster their LV= Insurance County Championship attack. Steketee, 29, will be available for Yorkshire’s next game in Division Two, against Gloucestershire at Headingley starting on June 25, and three other fixtures during July – although the club have said there
Warwickshire have ramped up security levels to mitigate the threat of activists running onto the Edgbaston pitch and disrupting the first Ashes Test, and have also prepared a spare pitch that will be used in the event that the playing surface is damaged. Just Stop Oil, a coalition of environmental action groups, have disrupted a
The Lanka Premier League held its inaugural auction on Wednesday evening, with Dilshan Madushanka coming away as the tournament’s most expensive signing, when he was bought by Jaffna Kings for US$ 92,000. While the 22-year-old might not have been the pre-auction pick to land such a lucrative contract, it made sense in the end owing
Sourav Ganguly (L) and Ricky Ponting© BCCI Former Australia captain Ricky Ponting is all set to be retained as the head coach of Delhi Capitals despite the franchise’s embarrassing ninth-place finish in the last edition of Indian Premier League (IPL), hinted co-owner Parth Jindal. Speculations were rife that Ponting might not continue after a poor
Australian players spoke to us recently about how intimidating it is to face fast bowler Mitchell Starc in the nets during training
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Afghanistan 35 for 3 (Malik 17, Ebadot 2-15, Shoriful 1-6) trail Bangladesh 382 (Shanto 146, Joy 76, Masood 5-79) by 347 runs In an eight-wicket morning session, Afghanistan’s fast bowlers triggered a Bangladesh collapse before the home side hit back with three quick strikes. Bangladesh lost their last five wickets for nine runs as they
Nahida Khan, the only female cricketer from Balochistan to have represented Pakistan, has called time on her 14-year international career. Nahida, 36, made her Pakistan debut at the age of 23 in 2009 against Sri Lanka and went on to play 66 ODIs and 54 T20Is, scoring 1410 runs at 23.50 and 604 runs at
Raising concerns over fast bowler Trent Boult‘s “flexi” deal with New Zealand Cricket [NZC], Mike Hesson said that his contract is “untidy” and is likely to “open a can of worms”. Boult gave up his New Zealand contract last August to spend more time with family and continue playing franchise cricket around the world. He
The dates and venues for the 2023 Asia Cup have finally been officially confirmed, with the tournament set to take place in Pakistan and Sri Lanka between August 31 and September 17. A detailed schedule, however, has not yet been released. The tournament was originally meant to be held entirely in Pakistan but a hybrid
Ben Stokes has declared himself fit to bowl in the first Ashes Test at Edgbaston after training with a heavily-strapped knee on each of England’s three training days. Stokes was due to bat at the start of England’s nets session on Thursday but pushed his slot back in order to bowl around four overs on