Report South Africa grappling with the unavailability of their experienced Test stars away at the IPL Big picture 362 caps v 206 caps. For the first time since they got Test status in 2000, Bangladesh are in South Africa with an opportunity to challenge the home team. They have already won the ODI series, they have
News Says India is “such an untapped market” and “they’re going to be unbeatable in a 10-year time” with launch of Women’s IPL Australia wicketkeeper-batter Alyssa Healy has welcomed the BCCI’s and the PCB’s plans of launching a Women’s IPL (WIPL) in 2023 and a Women’s PSL (WPSL) in the near future, respectively. Though the
News Son of the legendary India allrounder Vinoo Mankad, Rahul played first-class cricket for Mumbai Former Mumbai player Rahul Mankad, son of the legendary India allrounder Vinoo Mankad, has died after a brief ailment. He was 66. Mankad is survived by his wife and two daughters. He died in London. A right-hand batter, Mankad played
News Surrey director of cricket says gulf in standards is due to unavailability of international players Alec Stewart, Surrey’s director of cricket, insists that county cricket remains the primary “breeding ground” for England’s Test cricketers, but acknowledges that the gulf between the domestic and international game has widened in recent years, due in a large
News Captain says if team follows the blueprint that led them to victory in New Zealand in January, they will be fine Over three tours to South Africa, Bangladesh’s batters have averaged 18.05 and their bowlers 77.97. Even five years ago when they arrived fresh from drawing a home Test series against Australia, the results
Preview Only Zimbabwe and Netherlands have won fewer ODIs in this World Cup cycle than Babar Azam’s men Big picture If there were optimists who believed the ODI series would gradually pick up interest once the ball was rolling, what the first game threw up will have done plenty to extinguish that kind of positive
Say what you like about the World Test Championship table, but it doesn’t half concentrate the mind. There England are, rooted to the foot of the standings having won a miserable 12.5% of the available points in their three series to date for the 2021-23 cycle, and not even the asterisk attached to the incomplete
News He will continue his recovery with Patrick Farhart in the Capitals squad in India Former Australia and current New South Wales physiotherapist Patrick Farhart, who has been with Capitals since the 2020 IPL season, will manage Marsh’s recovery after the allrounder finishes his quarantine on arrival in India. Marsh will be the second Capitals
News Sri Lanka-born spinner escaped Boxing Day tsunami before moving to England as child Thilan Walallawita, Middlesex’s Sri Lanka-born left-arm spinner, will be able to compete during the 2022 county season as a home-registered player, after finally being granted British Citizenship. As a child Walallawita, now 23, escaped the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami, which decimated
Report The match has been shortened to a 45-overs-a-side contest because of a rain-delayed start in misty Wellington Toss West Indies Women chose to bowl vs Australia Women West Indies won the toss and sent Australia in to bat in a World Cup semi-final reduced to 45 overs per side because of a rain-delayed start
What a man Jack leach is! Who remembers his stellar performance v Ireland at Lord’s last summer? 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
Women’s World Cup Semifinal Live: Australia face West Indies at the Basin Reserve.© AFP Australia and West Indies will square off in the first semi-final of the Women’s World Cup at Basin Reserve in Wellington on Wednesday. Heading into the contest, Meg Lanning and Co are the clear favourites after being unbeaten in the competition
News Mithali Raj and Smriti Mandhana the only Indians in the top ten list of batters India’s Mithali Raj climbed two placed to be at the sixth spot, thanks to her 68 against South Africa, while opener Smriti Mandhana occupied the tenth position. Veteran Jhulan Goswami is the only bowler from India in the top
News Rapid return to international coaching for former England assistant in wake of Ashes Graham Thorpe has been named as the new head coach of the Afghanistan men’s team, following his departure from the England Test set-up in the wake of this winter’s Ashes. Thorpe, who played 100 Tests for England between 1993 and 2005,
Report Hosts hand ODI debuts to Mahmood and Wasim; Swepson and Ellis debutants for Australia Pakistan chose to bowl vs Australia Pakistan won the toss and elected to bowl against a shorthanded Australia in the series-opening ODI in Lahore, as both teams return to the 50-over format after lengthy absences. Missing a host of stars
Preview Australia will be keen to experiment, with Green and Labuschagne coming in for Marsh and Smith; Pakistan will miss injured Shadab Big picture After a historic and much-hyped three-Test series, comprising 15 gruelling and emotionally charged days, the limited-overs leg of Australia’s tour of Pakistan can feel somewhat neglected by comparison. The anti-climax is
Report Pacer picks four wickets on debut while the opener scored his maiden ODI ton New Zealand 204 for 3 (Young 103*, Nicholls 57, Rippon 2-32) beat Netherlands 202 all out (Rippon 67, Seelaar 43, Tickner 4-50) by seven wickets New Zealand hadn’t played an ODI for just over a year, had as many as
News Australia’s team physio also tests positive on the morning of the opening ODI; rest of the players test negative Spinner Ashton Agar has become the second Australia player to test positive for Covid-19 in 24 hours, and has been ruled out of the entire ODI series against Pakistan in Lahore. Cricket Australia (CA) confirmed
News Pakistan are set to host SL, tour Australia, and play Ireland home and away as well as feature in the Commonwealth and Asian Games The PCB has chalked out a year-long calendar for women’s cricket, comprising extensive international and domestic cricket including home series against Sri Lanka and Ireland and Pakistan’s participation in the
News Who’s this 22-year-old who comes in and slog-sweeps Rashid for a six and hooks Ferguson for another? The first thing Harsha Bhogle asked him in the mid-match interview was, “where have you been hiding?”. It was, of course, a valid question. Just eight runs to his name in T20 cricket and no List A
News Fast bowler expected to be out of action until May at the earliest after successful procedure Mark Wood, the England fast bowler, has undergone elbow surgery in London to address an “impingement issue” that caused him to pull out of both the ongoing West Indies tour and the IPL. Wood pulled up injured midway
News The allrounder suffered back spasms last Tuesday and “ran out of time to prove her fitness” for Wednesday’s knockout game against West Indies Ellyse Perry has been ruled out of Australia’s 2022 ODI World Cup semi-final against West Indies scheduled for Wednesday in Wellington. Meg Lanning, the Australia captain, confirmed Perry’s unavailability for the
Australia batting star Marnus Labuschagne talks about moving to Brisbane from South Africa as a youngster, his early introduction to cricket and his hobbies away from the game (spoiler: it’s more cricket)
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News “We have to make do with our next best that we have in the country, who I’m still very confident in.” South Africa’s IPL-contracted players were “put in a bit of a situation” when asked to choose between staying to play in the two-Test series against Bangladesj or going to the T20 tournament, according
News PCB said West Indies have agreed to play three T20Is in Pakistan “in early 2023” West Indies will tour Pakistan for a three-match ODI series in June, the PCB announced. All three matches, which are part of the 2023 World Cup Super League, will take place in Rawalpindi. They will take place on June
News “I couldn’t be more positive of what we’ve done over these past three-and-a-half weeks,” says interim coach Interim head coach Paul Collingwood has said that despite England’s loss to West Indies he believes the team is making progress and that he “couldn’t be more positive of what we’ve done over these past three-and-a-half weeks”.
News A round-up of the second week of matches, which included a very dodgy umpiring decision which is under BCB review Key takeaways Prime Bank Cricket Club and Sheikh Jamal Dhanmondi Club continue to lead the Dhaka Premier League points table with four wins each but both clubs also dropped their first points during the
News Interim appointment expected in wake of Shane Warne’s death Trevor Bayliss is set to be appointed as London Spirit’s men’s head coach in the Hundred, linking back up with Eoin Morgan after four successful years together with England’s white-ball sides. Bayliss, who was England’s coach during the white-ball revolution from 2015 to 2019 that
News Claims England made “big improvements” and played some “brilliant cricket” despite defeat to West Indies Joe Root has insisted that he retains the backing of England’s Test players and wants to continue in the job as captain, despite defeat in the Caribbean extending their run without a series victory to five – a sequence