Report Series locked at 1-1 after high-scoring contests at Trent Bridge and Headingley Toss Pakistan chose to bat vs England Pakistan will bat first after winning the toss in the series-deciding third T20I at Old Trafford. Babar Azam called correctly, as he did at Headingley, but this time, opted to set England a target instead
Virat Kohli is likely to be available for the Test series opener against England © ICC/Getty Images India’s Test captain Virat Kohli and his deputy Ajinkya Rahane missed the three-day warm-up against County Select XI in Chester-le-Street because of a stiff back and swelling in the left hamstring respectively. The niggles, the BCCI said in
News Finch’s knee injury will be assessed on a day to day basis during the series Alex Carey has been named Australia captain for the first ODI against West Indies in Barbados with Aaron Finch ruled out due to the knee injury he aggravated during the last T20I. Finch’s injury will be assessed on a
Report Zimbabwe brought in Ryan Burl and Donald Tiripano in place of Richard Ngarava and Tinashe Kamunhukamwe Toss Bangladesh chose to bowl vs Zimbabwe Bangladesh captain Tamim Iqbal decided to field first in the third ODI against Zimbabwe in Harare. It’s the first time that Iqbal has won the toss in the series. The visitors
Report India named an unchanged XI Toss Sri Lanka chose to bat vs India Sri Lanka won the toss and have chosen to bat first at the R Premadasa Stadium in Colombo, just as they had done in the first ODI. They made one change, bringing in Kasun Rajitha for Isuru Udana in a pacer-for-pacer
News Bangladesh batter to miss T20Is in Zimbabwe as well as home fixtures against Australia and New Zealand Tamim Iqbal will miss competitive cricket for at least two months because of a knee injury. He will return home from Harare after the ongoing ODI series against Zimbabwe – the third game is taking place today
News There has been a push to expand the WNCL but the tournament will remain 29 games for next season Female state cricketers will have to wait for an expansion to their domestic playing schedule although those on the fringes of national selection will have more opportunity in the coming season with an Australia A-England
News Legspinner hopes performances against Pakistan prove he can play alongside Adil Rashid at T20 World Cup Matt Parkinson has admitted he was “gutted” to be left out of England’s white-ball squads at the start of the summer and that he hopes his performances throughout Pakistan’s tour can prove he can play in the same
News India batter continuing his recovery from shoulder injury suffered in March India batter Shreyas Iyer has been ruled out of appearing for Lancashire in the upcoming Royal London Cup. Iyer had signed as an overseas player for the 50-over tournament but required surgery on a shoulder injury suffered during India’s home ODI series against
News The allrounder reined himself in during an unbroken 69-run stand with Shakib to help Bangladesh seal the series Mohammad Saifuddin has said that he had to rein himself in during the unbroken 69-run partnership for the eighth wicket with Shakib Al Hasan in the second ODI against Zimbabwe on Sunday. Saifuddin contributed 28 not
Play 00:56 Phil Simmons: West Indies’ sense of unity comes from a hunger to win Big Picture As for a number of sides, one-day series have been few and far between for these two teams since Covid-19 struck. For both it will be just their third series under the World Cup Super League and in
Ricky Ponting reflects on ‘the quickest bowling I’ve ever faced’, a blistering spell from Pakistan’s Shoaib Akhtar in Perth in 1999, before the Aussie star posted a score of 197
Mayank Agarwal’s fight to reclaim his place in Indian Test eleven starts on Tuesday when he walks out to open in a three-day game against ‘County Select XI’, starting in Durham tomorrow as best friend KL Rahul gears up to keep wickets in Rishabh Pant’s absence. The match has been accorded first-class status, a first
News Tributes paid to ‘doyen’ of profession, who wrote on cricket for the Times for 65 years John Woodcock, the doyen of English cricket writing, has died at the age of 94. Woodcock, who lived almost his entire life in the village of Longparish in Hampshire, was cricket correspondent of The Times from 1954 to
Preview Sri Lanka have lost all but one of their nine completed ODIs this year Big picture Less than 48 hours after India put the finishing touches on their thumping of Sri Lanka in the first ODI, the teams have to go again. If you’re a Sri Lanka fan, hold on tight. This might not
Big picture Happy Freedom Day one and all! Yes, the time has come for the UK to throw off its shackles, fling caution to the wind, dive headlong into the moshpit of civil society and rejoice in the restoration of liberty to its people. (Give or take a chorus of pings from the NHS Test-and-Trace
News Pant’s quarantine was supposed to get over on July 18, and he should be available for the first Test in England KL Rahul is likely to keep wicket for the Indians in their three-day warm-up match against a Select County XI starting July 20 at Chester-le-Street, with Rishabh Pant yet to link up the
It is understood that the Zimbabwe vs Bangladesh T20I schedule was changed to address logistical issues © AFP The final leg of Bangladesh’s tour of Zimbabwe will take place sooner than expected with both boards agreeing to bring the T20I series forward by a few days. The original schedule had the three matches set for
Report Kevin O’Brien, who has now retired from ODIs, will be looking to overturn a period of poor form in T20Is Ireland choose to bowl vs South Africa Kevin O’Brien was included in the Irish team to face South Africa in the first T20I meeting between the two sides. O’Brien had announced his retirement from
Report She scored an unbeaten 19-ball 28 before claiming her maiden five-wicket haul 34-over match: Pakistan Women 190 for 8 (Ali 39, Sohail 34, Sana 28*) beat West Indies 171 (Cooper 40, Dottin 37, Sana 5-39) by 22 runs (DLS method) A sparkling all-round display from Fatima Sana helped Pakistan Women finish their tour of
Preview Captain Tamim Iqbal’s knee injury remains a concern for Bangladesh Big picture Zimbabwe would be hoping they can take away at least 10 points from the ODI series against Bangladesh, while the visitors wouldn’t want to slip up like they did against Sri Lanka in May. This is a critical time in the ICC
News The coach is eager for hundreds to become bigger so the team is able to post 300-plus scores frequently Coach Phil Simmons is targeting another uplift in West Indies’ ODI batting returns when they face Australia in a three-match series in Barbados this week. They put in three consistent displays batting second to beat
News Karunaratne, who top-scored in the first ODI, said the fact that most of the batting order had got starts was encouraging Although none of Sri Lanka’s batters hit a half-century in the first ODI, the team has the ability to put up scores that will challenge India – something beyond 300. This was what
News The return of his pairing with Yuzvendra Chahal paid dividends for India Among the eleven Indians who took the field against Sri Lanka in the first ODI, perhaps none had a greater point to prove than Kuldeep Yadav. The left-arm wristspinner has not been part of India’s first-choice XI in limited-overs formats recently, and
News ‘Mindset over physical preparation’ for the allrounder as he makes a match-winning 96 There is something maddening about playing against Shakib Al Hasan in a high-pressure game. He gives you nothing. No reactions. No window into his thoughts. No hope. Shakib’s stony façade is his first line of defense, and then the rest of
Melbourne Stars skipper Glenn Maxwell had another fine Big Bash campaign, clearing the ropes 17 times in BBL|10.
Go to ecb.co.uk to join We Are England Cricket Supporters for free and get priority access to tickets and much more! Check out highlights of an impressive batting display from Babar Azam and Pakistan, before Liam Livingstone hit England’s fastest IT20 hundred in an amazing night at Trent Bridge. Watch match highlights from the 1st
India captain Shikhar Dhawan on Sunday said he thoroughly enjoyed watching from the non-striker’s end his younger partners toying with the Sri Lankan bowlers in the first ODI, saying they “finished the game” in the first 15 overs only. India mauled the hosts by seven wickets with plenty of overs to spare to take a
Report England bring in Adil Rashid and Chris Jordan, asked to bat first at Headingley Toss Pakistan chose to bowl vs England Jos Buttler has been named as England’s captain for the second T20I of the series against Pakistan in Leeds. Buttler, who has not played since sustaining a calf injury in the victory over
Report Sanju Samson was ruled out with sprained ligament in his knee Toss Sri Lanka chose to bat vs India Sri Lanka won the toss and chose to bat in the first ODI against India – new captain Dasun Shanaka citing the Khettarama ground’s history of favouring teams that batted first. Both teams handed debuts