South Africa are clearing the mental fog from their back-to-back series defeats in India and have begun their final preparations for the Men’s T20 World Cup with a nine-wicket win over New Zealand in the first of two warm-up matches. The team arrived in Australia last week, directly from India where they played six white-ball
There was no sign of Mohammed Shami till the last over of the Indians’ warm-up game against Australia. “This was always the plan,” Rohit Sharma said, explaining that the plan was to throw a challenge to Shami, who was returning after a long layoff. But when Shami came on, he made things happen. The Australians,
If the last year is anything to go by, Sri Lanka don’t mind doing things the hard way. In their most recent Test series at home against Australia, they lost the first Test comprehensively before bouncing back to take the second. In the ODI leg of the tour, too, there was a first-game defeat before
Colin Ingram, the former South Africa batter, has signed a two-year contract extension with Glamorgan. Ingram, 37, will feature as one of the club’s overseas players in 2023, alongside Marnus Labuschagne and Michael Neser. Ingram topped Glamorgan’s averages in the County Championship, scoring three centuries in a haul of 596 runs at 66.22, as well
Sachin Tendulkar has stressed on the importance of having a left-hand batter in India’s playing XI at the men’s T20 World Cup, saying that they “add in value” and offer variety. Speaking to PTI after the Indians’ six-run win over the Australians in a warm-up game in Brisbane, Tendulkar said, “Left-handers without any doubt add
England 163 for 4 (Brook 45*, Stokes 36) beat Pakistan 160 for 8 (Masood 39) by six wickets Liam Livingstone signalled his World Cup readiness with a comeback cameo of 28 from 16 balls – including one massive six that sailed clean out of the stadium – as England capped their tournament build-up by thrashing
Download our app: https://app.cricket.com.au/ Mitch Marsh and Tim David both compiled quickfire innings but it wasn’t enough for Australia to chase down England’s 178 in Canberra, as the tourists took an unassailable series lead 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 on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/cricketcomau
Follow the 2019 Vitality Blast at: https://www.ecb.co.uk/t20-blast Alex Hales and Chris Nash thundered Notts into Vitality Blast Finals Day, as they chased down the Middlesex total with ease. 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,
Mohammed Shami picked 3 wickets in 20th over vs Australia© Twitter Veteran India pacer Mohammed Shami put on a bowling spectacle in his first and only over of the T20 World Cup 2022 warm-up match against Australia on Monday. India skipper Rohit Sharma handed the ball to Shami in the 20th over of the match
West Indies were disappointing and “unprofessional” with their batting, but shouldn’t go down the rabbit hole of misery by thinking of the prospects of non-qualification to the Super 12s just yet. Those were the views of head coach Phil Simmons after his side was given a reality check by Scotland on their opening night at
Toss Ireland chose to bowl vs Zimbabwe Zimbabwe were asked to bat first in what Samuel Badree called “frigid” weather on their comeback to the big time. They have not played in an ICC event since 2016, missing out on two T20 World Cups and the fifty-over event in the interim, but won the qualifying
Indians 186 for 7 (Rahul 57, Suryakumar 50, Richardson 4-30) beat Australians 180 (Finch 76, Marsh 35, Shami 3-4, Bhuvneshwar 2-20) by six runs It took till the final over of the Australians vs Indians warm-up game for Mohammed Shami to get into action, and what a return it was for him. Virat Kohli helped,
Toss West Indies opt to bowl vs Scotland Group B action at the T20 World Cup started off with West Indies captain Nicholas Pooran choosing to bowl first against Richie Berrington’s Scotland in Hobart’s Bellerive Oval. Both captains were of the opinion that bowling first was advantageous at the venue with a fresh pitch on
Sean Abbott is eyeing the chance to prove his red-ball game is up to Test standard in a long-awaited stretch of Sheffield Shield as the silver lining to missing Australia’s T20 World Cup squad. Abbott will play his first red-ball game in close to a year on Tuesday, when NSW take on Queensland at Drummoyne.
Dilshan Madushanka, the left-arm seamer, has been ruled out of the T20 World Cup, after sustaining a quadriceps tear on the eve of Sri Lanka’s first match of the tournament. The ICC’s Event Technical Committee has approved Binura Fernando as Madushanka’s replacement in the squad for the remainder of the tournament. Madushanka was seen hobbling
The IPL has started the process for the upcoming mini-auction by asking the ten franchises to submit their list of retained players by November 15. While a date for the auction has not yet been finalised, it is expected to be held in the third week of December. Unlike the mega auction last year, when
Former Australia captain Steve Waugh looks back on the brilliant career of feisty Indian spinner Harbhajan Singh, who destroyed the Aussies on their 2001 tour
Follow England v West Indies at ecb.co.uk With less than a week until the start of the Windies test, we take a look back at when England ran rampant in an amazing Day 2 bowling attack. #WIvENG #EnglandCricket This is the official channel of the ECB. Watch all the latest videos from the England Cricket
Team India will take on Australia in their first practice match of the T20 World Cup at the Gabba in Brisbane. With Jasprit Bumrah out injured due to a back issue, the Board of Control for Cricket in India named Mohammed Shami in the squad to replace the star pacer. Mohammed Siraj and Shardul Thakur,
“I think it should be a balance with experience and younger players,” Pooran said on the eve of West Indies’ opening game against Scotland in Hobart. “If you look at it, there were a lot of big names when we won those two World Cups [2012 and 2016], but we also had a lot of
Namibia, meanwhile, had pulled off perhaps the biggest upset in the history of their men’s side. In the last T20 World Cup, they’d beaten Full Member Ireland to make it into the main draw. This time, they’ve taken down the freshly-crowned Asia Cup champions, and a side that had won their last five successive T20Is.
Two weeks ago, within hours of finishing a T20I series against England at home, Babar Azam and the other Pakistan players flew out to New Zealand for the last leg of their 2022 men’s T20 World Cup preparation. On Friday, within hours of winning the tri-series final in Christchurch, they were on the flight to
New Zealand head coach Gary Stead has said allrounder Daryl Mitchell, who sustained a fracture in his finger, is unlikely to be available for their T20 World Cup opener against Australia in Sydney on October 22. Stead, however, is hopeful that Mitchell will be available for their second match against Afghanistan. Mitchell had suffered a
“Disappointed” at not being picked in India’s ODI squad for the South Africa series that finished last week, Prithvi Shaw smashed his maiden T20 century – a 61-ball 134 – against Assam at the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy on Friday. Shaw, who is captaining the side in Rajkot with Ajinkya Rahane absent, hit 13 fours
Sri Lanka Cricket has officially confirmed that the postponed third edition of the Lanka Premier League will run from December 6 to 23 – roughly the same window it occupied last year. In August, LPL tournament organiser Samantha Dodanwela had confirmed the start date, but now the duration of the tournament is also set in
Earlier this year, Azam skipped the National T20 Cup to play for Barbados Royals in the Caribbean Premier League. He was, at first, not provided an NOC to travel to the West Indies but eventually got it. Azam did quite well in the CPL, scoring 257 runs including back-to-back fifties in qualifier one and the
Saving Jasprit Bumrah‘s career was far more important than risking him at the 2022 T20 World Cup, India captain Rohit Sharma said at the pre-tournament press conference in Melbourne. Bumrah is out of the tournament due to a back injury that potentially rules him out of action for at least six more weeks. It’s the
Sourav Ganguly, the outgoing BCCI president, will contest the upcoming elections at Cricket Association of Bengal with the aim of returning as the president of the body, a post he had held for four years between 2015 to 2019. “Yes, I will be contesting the CAB polls,” Ganguly told PTI. “I plan to file my
Download our app: https://app.cricket.com.au/ After Australia slumped to 5-58 chasing the West Indies’ 145, it was skipper Aaron Finch and the in-form Matthew Wade that would ensure the home side prevailed in the first Dettol T20I at Metricon Stadium More #AUSvWI 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