News “Delhi Capitals have got a great squad. Now is the time to win their first title,” the former allrounder says Shane Watson (assistant coach) will join Ricky Ponting (head coach), Ajit Agarkar (assistant coach), Pravin Amre (assistant coach) and James Hopes (bowling coach) as part of the backroom staff at Delhi Capitals. This is
News Unchanged 13-man squad named for second Test in Barbados West Indies have been docked two World Test Championship points, and the players fined 40% of their match fee, after Kraigg Brathwaite’s team were penalised for a slow over rate during the drawn Antigua Test. The hosts were ruled to be two overs short, after
News He also defended Pakistan’s performance at the Women’s World Cup, and called for a stronger domestic women’s structure The Pakistan Super League could ditch the draft system, which it has operated under since its inception, as early as next year, with PCB chairman Ramiz Raja keen to replace it with an auction. At the
Report Shahbaz Nadeem scored 177 before also striking with the ball, as Nagaland ended day three 750 runs behind Nagaland 130 for 4 (Bist 46*, Mundhe 39, Nadeem 1-17) trail Jharkhand 880 (Nadeem 177, Shukla 85*, Lemtur 4-179) by 750 runs After two days of resolute batting, Jharkhand continued to pile the misery on a
News “Still an element of that that might be getting a little bit overlooked from people outside of the cricket environment” Kate Cross has warned that the difficulties of constantly being required to live in biosecure bubbles in order to play cricket “might be getting a little bit overlooked”, as England approach a critical juncture
Report Australia brought in Jonassen and Sutherland while West Indies replaced Anisa with Ramharack after 30-minute toss delay in Wellington Toss West Indies Women chose to bat vs Australia Women In-form allrounder Deandra Dottin overcame fitness concerns to start for West Indies, who opted to bat in the league-stage fixture against undefeated Australia in overcast
News Barbados Royals, Guyana Amazon Warriors and Trinbago Knight Riders will contest the first edition of the tournament The inaugural season of the Women’s CPL, featuring three teams, is set to run alongside the men’s event this year. Both the CPL and the WCPL are expected to take place within a month-long CPL window that
Report R Ashwin and Jasprit Bumrah shared seven between them to wrap up a dominant series sweep India 252 (Iyer 92, Jayawickrama 3-81, Embuldeniya 3-94) and 303 for 9 dec. (Iyer 67, Pant 50, Jayawickrama 4-78) beat Sri Lanka 109 (Mathews 43, Bumrah 5-24) and 208 (Karunaratne 107, Mendis 54, Ashwin 4-55, Bumrah 3-23) by
News She’s a “bit annoyed” with herself because she didn’t stay till the end to finish off things, but heaped praise on her side after beating England After a maiden career five-for and a game-changing cameo innings, the first word that passed Marizanne Kapp‘s lips is not what you might expect. “Sorry,” she told Trisha
News Pakistan batting coach was full of praise for Starc and Cummins’ bowling, but believes the hosts can “fight and try and take it to the end” They had been kept out in the heat for 189 overs. Twelve overs into the second innings, they still trailed by more than 530 runs. There were almost
News “His keeping was the best I’ve seen”, says India’s Test captain We know what Rishabh Pant can offer with the bat. And we have to let Rishabh Pant do Rishabh Pant things. But his keeping? His DRS calls? Those have been truly impressive. All that, at least, is what Rohit Sharma had to say
The ECB is set to launch a high-performance review into English cricket with the ambition of making the England men’s team “the best in the world in all formats”, according to Interim managing director Andrew Strauss. Speaking in Barbados where the second Test is due to start on Wednesday, Strauss laid out the plans for
News But she isn’t assured of a place in Australia’s starting XI with Meg Lanning likely to choose between her and a spinner at Basin Reserve Fresh from a stunning 3 for 22 that destroyed the New Zealand top order and led Australia to a third win on the spin, teenage quick Darcie Brown is
Mitchell Starc celebrates a wicket in 2nd Test vs Pakistan© AFP Australia pacer Mitchell Starc on Monday said the abrasive nature of the Karachi pitch helped him and Pat Cummins gain substantial reverse swing as the visitors bowled out Pakistan for 148 runs in the second Test. Asked in a media interaction why Australian bowlers didn’t get
News Poor fielding display condemns holders to third straight loss in robin-robin stage Lisa Keightley, England’s head coach, says that she shoulders the blame for the collapse in form that has left her team’s defence of the World Cup hanging by a thread, following their third straight loss of the tournament, and their sixth ODI
News Legspinner, Player of the Match in Bangladesh’s win over Pakistan, is hoping her team gets to play the likes of Australia, England and New Zealand more Legspinner Fahima Khatun was brought back for her second spell in the 40th over of the Pakistan run chase. At that stage, Pakistan needed 72 in 66 balls
Report Debutant Mitchell Swepson helped add an unbroken 51 for the last wicket Australia 556 for 9 dec (Khawaja 160, Carey 93, Smith 72) vs Pakistan Australia’s marathon first innings finally ended early on day three of the second Test, as a weary Pakistan brace for a challenging period with the bat before lunch. After
Report England made a tactical change in their XI and also tinkered with the batting order Toss South Africa Women chose to bowl vs England Women Sune Luus chose to chase as South Africa went in search of their first win at a World Cup over England in 20 years, since the last time the
Report Bangladesh have won three of their last four matches against Pakistan Toss Pakistan Women opt to bowl vs Bangladesh Women Pakistan captain Bismah Maroof won the toss and chose to chase in their Women’s World Cup clash against Bangladesh at Seddon Park in Hamilton. Pakistan go in unchanged while Bangladesh left out Lata Mondal
Some of the stars of Australian cricket look back on the career of Indian legend MS Dhoni and their memories of playing with and against him
Follow the latest from the England v Australia ODI series at: https://www.ecb.co.uk/england/men Jason Roy struck his second hundred of the series as England completed their second highest ODI run chase. Roy’s 101 off 84 balls was backed up by Jos Buttler who made an unbeaten 54 from just 29. The home side now lead the
Report Having set a target of 447, India made an early incision in the last half hour of day two It was so one-sided that there was talk of a third-innings declaration in the fifth session of the match. Jasprit Bumrah completed his first five-for at home, Rishabh Pant casually knocked off the fastest Test
News Paul Collingwood gives his players “ten out of ten” for effort after hard-fought draw in Antigua England hope to have Ollie Robinson available for the second Test against West Indies and will not be calling up extra bowling cover, despite interim head coach Paul Collingwood admitting that Mark Wood was “unlikely” to play in
News The pool incident is unlikely to leave him for a while, but on the pitch, he steered Australia into pole position Alex Carey had already left his mark on this tour before today. Unfortunately, it was for falling into the hotel swimming pool which went viral on social media courtesy of his captain recording
South Africa will look to make it three wins out of three on Monday.© AFP ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup, South Africa Women vs England Women, live cricket score, updates: South Africa take on defending champions England in a group stage match of the ongoing ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup at Bay Oval, Mount Maunganui on
Report Usman Khawaja’s marathon innings was finally ended on 160 as the spinners started to have an impact Tea Australia 407 for 7 (Carey 26*, Starc 1*) vs Pakistan Usman Khawaja‘s marathon knock finally ended on 160, but Australia moved past 400 in their first innings to remain in the driver’s seat against Pakistan on
News “You can’t just play very negatively on that wicket and just keep defending the ball,” he says after hitting 92 off 98 There wasn’t much point defending out there, because the pitch was going to get you some time. This, essentially, is what India batter Shreyas Iyer felt when he went out to bat
News New Zealand bowling coach Jacob Oram tags heavy loss against Australia their first “blip” of the tournament Ashleigh Gardner has revealed she was still feeling the effects of her recovery from Covid-19 during a stunning all-round performance that helped propel unbeaten Australia to the top of the Women’s World Cup table with a commanding
Rarely does the best performer in a game insist on a second Player-of-the-Match award for their team-mate. Rarer are the times they direct a demand of this sort at cricket’s governing body, at a world tournament at that. But Smriti Mandhana says she is aware her 123 would have mattered little against an undefeated West
Report Gardner smashed an unbeaten 18-ball 48 after Perry, McGrath added 101 together Innings break Australia Women 269 for 8 (Perry 68, McGrath 57, Gardner 48*, Tahuhu 3-53) vs New Zealand Women Half centuries from Ellyse Perry and Tahlia McGrath guided Australia to a respectable total after New Zealand had them stumbling in their World