Just over 12 months ago, Travis Head was a line-ball selection in Australia’s side at No. 5. Now, he has collected back-to-back Player-of-the-Match awards and has become one of the most destructive No. 5 batters in world cricket. But despite dominating in home conditions in both last summer’s Ashes and this summer so far, Head
South Africa’s pace spearhead, Kagiso Rabada has called for “patience and understanding,” for their misfiring batting line-up, while also admitting it is “frustrating as a team,” to accept their performances. Collectively, South Africa’s batters have had their worst Test year in 2022 and have been dismissed for under 200 eight times – the most in
England Women 131 for 8 (Dunkley 35, Brunt 24*, Fraser 3-20, Grimmond 3-33) beat West Indies Women 82 (Matthews 23, Bell 4-12, Ecclestone 2-13, Dean 2-16) by 49 runs For the fourth T20I in a row, West Indies were let down by their batting. And for a third straight game, they faltered while chasing. It
Australia and South Africa players will all wear floppy hats during the national anthems at the Boxing Day Test in tribute to cricket icon Shane Warne. The first MCG Test since Warne’s tragic death in March, aged 52, was always going to be an emotional affair and Cricket Australia have revealed the tributes that will be
Brisbane Heat’s Afghanistan spin whiz cleaned up the Hobart Hurricanes with a T20 career best 5-15 from his four overs, the best ever return by a Heat bowler in the BBL, including three in his final over
Find out more at ecb.co.uk Highlights from Surrey’s win over Middlesex Panthers in the NatWest T20 Blast at the Kia Oval. Hashim Amla hit a stylish 39 as Surrey cruised to a comfortable six-wicket win over their local rivals. Check out Gary Wilson’s freak dismissal – his edge gets caught between Adam Rossington’s legs!
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PAK vs ENG, 3rd Test, Day 2 Highlights: England took a first-innings lead of 50 runs© AFP PAK vs ENG, 3rd Test, Day 2 Highlights: Pakistan ended Day 2 of the ongoing third Test against England at 21/0 as the hosts trail by 29 runs. Earlier, England have been bundled out for 354 runs in their
Canterbury allrounder Henry Shipley has earned his maiden call-up to the New Zealand squad for the upcoming ODIs tours to Pakistan and India. Kane Williamson will lead the side in Pakistan, but will not be part of the following ODI series in India. Head coach Gary Stead, bowling coach Shane Jurgensen and newly appointed Test
India 404 (Pujara 90, Iyer 86, Miraz 4-112, Taijul 4-133) and 258 for 2 dec (Gill 110, Pujara 102*) beat Bangladesh 150 (Mushfiqur 28, Kuldeep 5-40) and 324 (Zakir 100, Shakib 84, Axar 4-77) by 188 runs It took India only 11.2 overs on the final morning of the Chattogram Test to pick up the
Injured Australia fast bowler Josh Hazlewood is hoping to make himself available for selection for the Boxing Day Test against South Africa while admitting his repeated side injuries could be the cost of trying to be a three-format fast bowler. Hazlewood has missed Australia’s last two Test matches, including the first Test against South Africa
Despite losing the Gabba Test in two days, Dean Elgar is confident South Africa still managed to fire a warning shot against Australia with their strong pace pack. South Africa’s four quicks took 14 Australian wickets in the match, including four in the successful second-innings chase of 34. Had South Africa scored “another 60 runs”,
After five days of hard-fought Test cricket in Chattogram, when India have a nice evening watching the football World Cup final and having a team dinner, the one thing they will experience for the first time since July is the oddly-satisfying soreness from five days of cricket. While the scorecard will show a comprehensive win
Innings break England 354 (Brook 111, Foakes 64, Pope 51, Nauman 4-126, Abrar 4-150) lead Pakistan 304 (Babar 78, Salman 56, Leach 4-140) by 50 runs Harry Brook made the third hundred of his extraordinary series as England took a 50-run first-innings lead on the second day of their third and final Test against Pakistan.
Shakib Al Hasan is likely to play the Dhaka Test as a pure batter after he was unable to bowl post the first day in Chattogram. Head coach Russell Domingo said that they would have difficulty in balancing the side if that was the case, but would be happy having Shakib as batter and captain
The Gabba pitch could come under scrutiny after producing the second shortest Test match in Australia. South Africa captain Dean Elgar revealed he had approached the umpires in the closing stages to question when conditions would be deemed to have become dangerous although Pat Cummins had no qualms about the surface. “I did ask the
England 157 for 6 (Dunkley 44, Knight 43, Matthews 1-19) beat West Indies 140 for 8 (Williams 38, Dean 4-19) by 17 runs Offspinner Charlie Dean followed up her 3 for 22 in the second T20I with her career-best figures of 4 for 19 in the third match against West Indies to help England seal
Lunch South Africa 3 for 2 (Erwee 1*, Bavuma 0* & 152 (Verreynne 64, Lyon 3-14) trail Australia 218 (Head 92, Rabada 4-76) trail by 63 runs Only four sessions of cricket have been played in this Test but South Africa are already in the process of setting Australia a fourth-innings target. In a fast-forward
Having been poised on 299 after South Africa’s first innings, Starc produced a magnificent delivery which swung back into van der Dussen shortly before lunch, zipping through a huge gap between bat and pad. The landmark came on the ground where Starc had made his Test debut, against New Zealand in 2011, and claimed Brendon
In just the second match of BBL ever, Sydney Thunder captain David Warner slammed 102no off 51 balls against the Melbourne Stars in a clinical display of T20 batting
Follow England Women at ecb.co.uk/england/women Ellyse Perry stars as Australia dominate Day 1. Find out more at ecb.co.uk This is the official channel of the ECB. Watch all the latest videos from the England Cricket Team and England and Wales Cricket Board. Including highlights, interviews, features getting you closer to the England team and county
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INDW vs AUSW: Australia women take 3-1 lead over India women© AFP Australia registered a series-clinching seven-run win over India in the fourth women’s T20I, at Brabourne Cricket Stadium in Mumbai on Saturday. Chasing 189 for a win, India ended at 181 all out in 20 overs with captain Harmanpreet Kaur top-scoring with 46 off
Australia 188 for 3 (Perry 72*, Gardner 42, Healy 30 retd hurt, Deepti 2-35) beat India 181 for 5 (Harmanpreet 46, Richa 40*, Vaidya 32, Gardner 2-20, King 2-23) by seven runs If her swashbuckling 47-ball 75 on Wednesday wasn’t proof enough that she is well and truly back, Ellyse Perry kicked it up a
Australia captain Alyssa Healy suffered a calf strain while batting in the fourth women’s T20I against India and was ruled out of the contest. A word on her availability for the final game of the tour was awaited. Healy, leading for the first time in place of Meg Lanning, who is on an indefinite break,
Bangladesh 150 and 272 for 6 (Zakir 100, Shanto 67, Shakib 40*, Axar 3-50) need another 241 runs to beat India 404 and 258 for 2 dec Axar Patel helped India inch closer towards clinching the first Test in Chattogram, striking twice with the second new ball on the fourth evening to get rid of
Tea Pakistan 204 for 5 (Babar 71*, Salman 1*) vs England England continued to chip away at Pakistan in the second session of the dead-rubber third Test in Karachi, as debutant Rehan Ahmed became the youngest man to take a Test wicket for them at 18 years and 126 days old. Pakistan lost two wickets
No result – New Zealand 123 for 2 (Bates 51, Devine 42) vs Bangladesh Suzie Bates and Sophie Devine helped New Zealand get off to a strong start in the third ODI in Hamilton before incessant rain forced another washout, after 26.5 overs of play. As a result, New Zealand took the series 1-0, having
Ricky Ponting has urged David Warner to think carefully about whether he should bring an end to his Test career but team-mate Nathan Lyon believes that all of Australia should be backing him. Warner was dismissed for a first-ball duck by Kagiso Rabada on the opening day at the Gabba when he fended a hostile
Big Picture England have already pulled off one race against the setting sun on this tour, thanks to their epic victory in the first Test in Rawalpindi, but this week they are back at the scene of the most iconic heist of them all. Twenty-two years, almost to the week, have elapsed since they last