Later this week or early next week, India’s selectors will pick the squad for the Asia Cup – their last selection before having to put together the 15 for the T20 World Cup in October. While there are home T20I series against Australia and South Africa after the Asia Cup in September, it is likely
Big picture Zimbabwe have enjoyed a month of rare success. After dominating the T20 World Cup qualification tournament, they registered a maiden T20I series win over Bangladesh. There was a lot of fun and partying at the Harare Sports Club. The focus though now has to quickly shift to the ODIs, a format in which
David Warner is unlikely to play in the UAE’s inaugural International League T20 (ILT20) in January, and looks set to remain in Australia with negotiations ongoing to have him play in the Big Bash League (BBL) for the first time since 2013. Warner, who is contracted to Cricket Australia but doesn’t hold a BBL deal,
South Africa veteran Mignon du Preez is returning to the WBBL after re-signing with Hobart Hurricanes. The right-hander was the leading runscorer for Hurricanes last season amassing 414 runs at 31.84, striking at 115 with four half-centuries. She is returning to Hurricanes alongside her close friend and former South Africa teammate Lizelle Lee who has
The T20I leg has been hit by a series of logistical hitches. The second T20I in St Kitts was delayed by three hours after a late arrival of team kits from Trinidad, which hosted the series opener. As a result, the third T20I the following day was also delayed, with the start time pushed back
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Asia Cup 2022 will be played in the UAE after the tournament was moved out of Sri Lanka due to ongoing economic crisis in the country. Sri Lanka will be the hosts of the competition this year, but the tournament will go ahead in the UAE. The schedule has been announced for the tournament, and
Toss South Africachose to bat vs Ireland Less than 10 days handing over the captaincy armband to David Miller, Keshav Maharaj has it back after Miller was ruled out of the opening T20I against Ireland with a lower-back spasm. Miller joins Kagiso Rabada on the sick bed, though Rabada has been ruled out of both
After having started his international career as a back-up bowling option, Hardik Pandya now believes that he can do the job as a frontline seamer. Apart from Arshdeep Singh, Hardik is the only India seamer to have bowled his full quota of four overs in each of the three T20Is so far in the Caribbean.
Khaled Mahmud, the Bangladesh team director, has called the side’s defeat to Zimbabwe in the three-match T20I series as “a disgrace”. Mahmud’s words are the first public reaction from any of the senior figures within the team management after the visitors lost their first ever T20I series against Zimbabwe. Bangladesh lost the first game by
Difficulties procuring insurance, as well as logistical and security concerns, were some of the issues raised by sponsors and broadcasters that led to the Asia Cup being shifted from Sri Lanka to the United Arab Emirates, Sri Lanka Cricket has revealed. “They felt that the situation in Sri Lanka was not conducive to garner the
Toss Barbados chose to bowl vs India Hayley Matthews called correctly as Barbados elected to bowl first against India in a knockout game at CWG 2022. The winner of this Group A clash will join Australia, England and New Zealand in the semi-finals. India made two changes, with Pooja Vastrakar and Taniya Bhatia coming in
In an ideal, and somewhat fairer cricketing world, series like this would take place more often. An established Full Member would play a more recently anointed one every few years, not just before a World Cup and not only to fill in a gap between series and it’d be a standalone, big-deal event. Almost like
Hasan Ali has been dropped from both Pakistan’s squad for the ODI series in the Netherlands as well for the Asia Cup T20Is later this month. Naseem Shah has been named in both squads. Shaheen Shah Afridi, who missed the second Test in Sri Lanka last month because of a knee injury, has been included
Babar, meanwhile, is the only batter in the top three in all international formats at the moment: No. 1 in ODIs and T20Is, and No. 3 in Tests. That might not change immediately, but he might end up losing the top spot in T20Is to Suryakumar, with two games left for India to play in
Won Hampshire the Blast title twice, holding his nerve in extraordinary scenes after being called for a no-ball, to cap a tournament where his death bowling stood out. Making a strong push for the T20 World Cup squad, which he has spoken about after his late call to the Hundred to replace Riley Meredith.
Daniel Sams, Shreyas Iyer, Hardik Pandya and Matthew Wade all took terrific grabs as India snared a 2-1 series win the Dettol T20I campaign
All-rounder Hardik Pandya became first India men’s player to scalp 50 wickets and score 500 runs in T20Is. Hardik achieved this feat during the third T20I against West Indies, at Warner Park, Basseterre, St Kitts on Tuesday. He dismissed Brandon King after a fifty-run opening stand between him and Kyle Mayers to become the sixth
Aiden Markram won’t say it quite yet, but in spite of the bottleneck of top-order batters in South Africa’s T20I squad, he is fairly sure of his place to Australia for the World Cup. And you would think he should be. Markram is ranked third on the ICC’s T20I batting rankings, averages 42.60 in T20Is,
India captain Rohit Sharma retired hurt on 11 after suffering a back spasm in their chase of 165 in the third T20I against West Indies in Basseterre. According to an update from the BCCI, their medical team is “monitoring his progress”. Rohit felt some discomfort after he advanced at fast bowler Alzarri Joseph in the
England have handed a recall to Ollie Robinson for the upcoming home Test series with South Africa. Robinson, the right-arm seamer whose last Test appearance was against Australia in Hobart in January this year, has made the squad of 14 for the first two matches of the three-match series after a battle with an array
After 39 overs of the second T20I in St Kitts, West Indies needed 10 runs off six balls to complete a series-levelling victory, with five wickets in hand. Bhuvneshwar Kumar, India’s most experienced fast bowler, had only bowled two overs, and had only conceded 12 runs. He may have seemed the natural choice to bowl
Zimbabwe 156 for 8 (Burl 54, Jongwe 35, Mahedi 2-28) beat Bangladesh 146 for 8 (Afif 39*, Mahmudullah 27, Nyauchi 3-29) by 10 runs Zimbabwe clinched their maiden T20I series win over a higher-ranked side when they beat Bangladesh by 10 runs in the third game in Harare. The home side roused a full-house crowd
England 167 for 5 (Capsey 50, Brunt 38*, Jones 36*, Ismail 2-27) beat South Africa 141 for 4 (Wolvaardt 41*, Brunt 1-16) by 26 runs A half-century to 17-year-old Alice Capsey helped England to two wins from as many matches at the Commonwealth Games as they beat South Africa by 26 runs at Edgbaston. Capsey
The PCB is refusing to provide no-objection certificates (NOCs) to Pakistani players – contracted or not contracted – who want to participate in the upcoming BBL season. The board has also not clarified whether it will allow players to take part in the ILT20 in the UAE early next year. The reason for the stance,
Toss India chose to bowl vs West Indies India asked West Indies to bat in the third T20I in Basseterre, on the pitch used for a low-scoring match in the first of the double-header in St Kitts. In the second game of the series on Monday, West Indies bowled India out for 138 to level
Jonny Bairstow has pulled out of the opening stages of the Hundred, ESPNcricinfo understands. Bairstow had been due to play for Welsh Fire, and was expected to be available for the first two or three games – including Wednesday’s season opener against defending champions Southern Brave – before linking up with England’s Test squad to
India and Pakistan will play each other for the first time since the 2021 T20 World Cup when they face off in the Asia Cup on August 28 in Dubai, a day after the tournament begins with Sri Lanka taking on Afghanistan. Bangladesh open their campaign against Afghanistan on August 30 in Sharjah. The fixtures