South Australia seal 10-wicket victory

October 28, 2016

South Australia 9 for 505 dec and 0 for 69 beat Western Australia 9 for 271 dec and 302 by 10 wicketsScorecard Shaun Marsh starred with the bat but it wasn’t enough to prevent a South Australia win © Getty Images South Australia cruised to a 10-wicket win over Western Australia on the fourth day at the WACA, where they began the morning needing only a further 37 runs for…

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Spare a thought for Joe, burned

Play 02:12 Brettig: Hard to completely justify Bird’s exclusion Shaun Marsh deserves this Test selection. Those are words that have not always been true. At his lowest, at home to India in 2011-12, Marsh was to Test batting what Eric Moussambani was to Olympic swimming. Yet chances kept coming, and now, at 33, Marsh is repaying that faith. When he replaced the injured Usman Khawaja last summer, he made 182…

October 28, 2016
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Bollinger bowls New South Wales to win

October 28, 2016

New South Wales 7 for 327 dec and 7 for 367 dec beat Queensland 6 for 330 dec and 139 (Bollinger 4-32) by 225 runsScorecard Doug Bollinger finished with 4 for 32 © Getty Images Doug Bollinger bowled New South Wales to a 225-run win on the fourth day at the Gabba, where Queensland folded with little fight in their chase of 365. Bollinger, who had been a mid-match replacement…

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Brisk Tamim fifty puts England on back foot

Lunch Bangladesh 118 for 1 (Tamim 68*, Mominul 44*) v EnglandLive scorecard and ball-by-ball details Play 01:08 Mushfiqur Rahim set to play in 50th Test Tamim Iqbal marched to an imperious half-century on the opening morning in Mirpur as Bangladesh reached the lunch break with just one wicket down and a few psychological blows already inflicted on England’s beleaguered spinners. Tamim’s eighth 50-plus score against England in 11 innings came…

October 28, 2016
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Bird's wings clipped for batting failures

Play 00:35 Joe Mennie is a surprise inclusion in Australia’s Test squad Joe Mennie has beaten Jackson Bird to the “into the wind” spot for Australia’s squad to face South Africa in the first Test of the summer at the WACA Ground. As expected, Shaun Marsh‘s return to fitness from a hamstring injury saw him retained in the batting order ahead of Joe Burns, while Peter Siddle returned to the…

October 28, 2016
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Shrubsole, Ecclestone miss Sri Lanka tour

October 28, 2016

Fran Wilson has recovered from injury to take her place in the England squad © Getty Images Anya Shrubsole has been ruled out of England’s tour of Sri Lanka with the neck injury that forced her to return early from the West Indies. Sophie Ecclestone, the 17-year-old left-arm spinner, is unavailable due to school commitments. There is a recall for batsman Fran Wilson after she recovered from a broken finger,…

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Bangladesh bat, Shuvagata replaces Shafiul

Toss Bangladesh won the toss and chose to bat v EnglandLive scorecard and ball-by-ball details Play 01:08 Mushfiqur Rahim set to play in 50th Test Mushfiqur Rahim won the toss in his 50th Test and decided to bat first against England in Mirpur. Bangladesh had already elected to go with four spinners for the second Test – Shuvagata Hom taking the place vacated by Shafiul Islam – on a dry…

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Mennie in Test squad, Khawaja recalled

October 28, 2016

Joe Mennie is a surprise inclusion in Australia’s Test squad © Getty Images Joe Mennie has beaten Jackson Bird to the “into the wind” spot for Australia’s squad to face South Africa in the first Test of the summer at the WACA Ground. As expected, Shaun Marsh‘s return to fitness from a hamstring injury saw him retained in the batting order ahead of Joe Burns, while Peter Siddle returned to…

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Hope, Powell help WI A surge to series win

October 27, 2016

File photo – Kyle Hope hit fours sixes and ten fours in his maiden List A century © WICB Media/Ashley Allen A maiden List A century from Kyle Hope and a strong all-round effort from Rovman Powell studded West Indies A’s 109-run victory over Sri Lanka A in Kurunegela. The win gave the visitors a 2-0 lead in the three-match series. Hope hit four sixes and ten fours in his…

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CA security chief in Dhaka to examine England tour arrangements

October 27, 2016

Australia cancelled their Test tour of Bangladesh in 2015 due to a security threat © STR/AFP Cricket Australia’s head of security Sean Carroll has arrived in Dhaka to observe the security measures in place for England’s ongoing tour of the country. Australia are due to arrive in Bangladesh in August 2017 to fulfil the two-Test tour of 2015 that was postponed due to security concerns. Nizamuddin Chowdhury, the BCB chief,…

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