News Changes to the Marsh Cup, Sheffield Shield, and WNCL fixtures due to state lockdowns and border closures Cricket Australia has confirmed changes to the domestic schedule with this weekend’s opening round to the 50-over Marsh Cup competition delayed as Covid-19 lockdowns in New South Wales and Victoria and border closures between states continue to
Report Zimbabwe have pulled out the big guns for this match, with Brendan Taylor, Sean Williams and Sikandar Raza all included in the team Ireland chose to bowl v Zimbabwe In muggy conditions, Andy Balbirnie put Zimbabwe in to bat as both Ireland and Zimbabwe seek to gain important points in the World Cup Super
Report South Africa’s disciplined bowling performance helped bowl West Indies out for 153 South Africa 157 for 2 (Lee 91*, Joseph 1-26) beat West Indies 153 all out (Knight 39, van Niekerk 2-23, Khaka 2-17) by eight wickets Opening batter Lizelle Lee continued her fine run of form with an unbeaten 91 to help South
Report Scott Kuggeleijn and Jacob Duffy miss out, Bangladesh remain unchanged Toss New Zealand chose to bat vs Bangladesh New Zealand captain Tom Latham decided to bat first, predictably, against Bangladesh, in the fourth T20I in Dhaka. Both sides have only chosen to bat first in this series after winning the toss. New Zealand made
Kane Williamson gets his hands on the Test Mace © Getty Images New Zealand and South Africa will be England’s Test opponents in the 2022 home season, while India will return for a six-match white-ball tour, as the ECB confirmed the dates and venues for next summer’s men’s international fixtures. New Zealand, the current holders
News The balance of South Africa’s side came into focus with results suggesting they were a batter short South Africa’s narrow defeat by 14 runs in the first ODI, rather than their loss by 78 runs in the third game, is to blame for their failure to win the one-day series in Sri Lanka, according
News Stand-in coach prepared to bombard Bangladesh with spin Glenn Pocknall is used to winning T20s. His side, the Wellington Firebirds, has won the Super Smash the last two seasons. But in his first two games as New Zealand coach, he oversaw two contrasting defeats. Then, in the third T20I, a second-string New Zealand stunned
News “I had the chance to speak to him at length, he was really humble and helped me on some skills where he thought I could improve on” Rajasthan Royals batter Yashasvi Jaiswal has said he was “really fortunate” to have picked the brains of his idol Sachin Tendulkar, whom he met before Mumbai’s limited-overs
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News David’s Hobart Hurricanes coach Adam Griffith will work with him at RCB and sees a player who could go a long way Tim David has had a meteoric rise over the past two years. He went from a fringe player in Western Australia and with Perth Scorchers to an Associate star with Singapore and
News Anisa Mohammed to lead the team again in the absence of regular captain Stafanie Taylor Qiana Joseph, the 20-year-old left-arm seamer, returned to West Indies Women’s ODI squad that will face South Africa in a five-match series starting September 7. Joseph had broken into the side as a teenage tearaway back in 2017. She
Sophie Devine also moved up to the fifth spot on the batters’ rankings © Getty Images New Zealand captain Sophie Devine has joined England’s Nat Sciver at the top of the ICC rankings for women’s allrounders in T20Is. India opener Shafali Verma and England spinner Sophie Ecclestone retained the No. 1 spot for batters and
News Bangladesh had been skittled for just 76 in the third T20I Bangladesh’s batting coach Ashwell Prince found the batters to be “too aggressive” when chasing New Zealand’s 129 target in the third T20I in Dhaka. He said that they could have chased down the total had they been a bit more circumspect, rather than
News Buttler back from paternity leave, Wood in line to bolster weary seam stocks Jos Buttler and Jack Leach have been recalled to England’s squad for the fifth and final Test at Old Trafford. Buttler returns after missing the fourth Test while on paternity leave, while Leach is in line to play his first Test
Ben Stokes is likely to miss the initial cut for the T20 World Cup © Getty Images Ben Stokes is set to be omitted from England’s initial 15-man squad for the T20 World Cup in October and November, and may yet miss the tournament entirely, after Chris Silverwood said that the selectors would “leave it
England recalled left-arm spinner Jack Leach and wicketkeeper-batsman Jos Buttler to the squad for the final Test against India as they seek to level the five-match series. The hosts trail 2-1 after their 157-run defeat at The Oval ahead of Friday’s decider at Old Trafford but head coach Chris Silverwood has made only minor alterations
News Heat expect the batter to be available for the entire tournament, which begins on December 5 at the SCG Brisbane Heat have signed England top-order batter Ben Duckett for the upcoming Big Bash League season. This will be the 26-year old’s first experience of the BBL, although he did spend some time with the
Report Dinesh Chandimal slots into the hosts’ XI in the third ODI; Akila Dananjaya, Minod Bhanuka and Bhanuka Rajapaksa left out Sri Lanka chose to bat vs South Africa Sri Lanka won the toss and, unsurprisingly, chose to bat first on a Khettarama surface that tends to become more difficult to bat on as the
Preview New Zealand have improved as the tour has gone on, but they still face a massive challenge Big Picture Bangladesh will look to close out the T20I series on Wednesday, even though New Zealand showed that they can level it up. Mahmudullah’s men have a proud record at home, coincidentally dating back to 2010
News The South Africa allrounder of the 1940s and 1950s was the oldest living Test cricketer in the world Former South Africa allrounder John Watkins died in Durban on Friday after being infected with Covid-19 ten days ago, CSA said in a statement, adding that “he had been in failing health for some time”. He
News Nitin Patel, the team physiotherapist who also went into isolation on Saturday, has returned a negative RT-PCR test Ravi Shastri, Bharat Arun and R Sridhar, the head coach, bowling coach and fielding coach of the Indian team respectively, have returned positive RT-PCR tests for Covid-19 on Sunday. This will prevent them from travelling to
Report Ravindra Jadeja, Shardul Thakur and Umesh Yadav all contributed too, as England lost 4 for 6 on the final afternoon to decisively swing the match India 191 (Thakur 57, Kohli 50, Woakes 4-55) and 466 (Rohit 127, Pujara 61, Thakur 60, Pant 50, Woakes 3-83) beat England 290 (Pope 81, Woakes 50, Umesh 3-76)
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News Sri Lanka coach calls on bowling unit to stick to the basics more consistently It’s not often that a young Sri Lanka batter walks into the national team and begins to perform almost immediately, but seven innings into his career, this is what Charith Asalanka has been doing. A former Sri Lanka Under-19 captain,
News Pakistan’s T20I assignments will begin on September 25 with a five-match series against New Zealand, in Lahore Asif Ali and Khushdil Shah have both been included in Pakistan’s T20I squad for the upcoming home series against New Zealand and England, as well as the 2021 T20 World Cup which begins in October. In a
News “If you’re able to stick in there, then it is actually tough for them as well,” Nicholls says about the tough Dhaka tracks In the T20I series opener, New Zealand combusted to 60 all out – their joint-lowest total in the format. In the second match, they came within one hit of toppling Bangladesh.
News “We have everything that we need to win: we have the belief, we have the team,” says India captain India won the fourth Test by 157 runs at The Oval, taking a 2-1 series lead with one match to go. After the match, India captain Virat Kohli spoke to Michael Atherton, and said On