Toss New Zealand opt to bowl v Australia New Zealand preferred Tim Southee’s swing and control to Lockie Ferguson’s pace in a must-win ODI © Getty Images New Zealand’s captain Kane Williamson won the toss and sent Australia in to bat in the second Chappell-Hadlee ODI at Manuka Oval. Needing to win to keep the series alive, New Zealand dropped Lockie Ferguson after his Sydney debut for the more experienced…
Trevor Bayliss said he will take a more active role in encouraging England to bat positively © Getty Images Trevor Bayliss has suggested he will take a more prominent role in the England dressing room over the final two Tests of the series against India. Bayliss, England’s head coach, has generally been happy to leave team talks to the captain, Alastair Cook. But he is concerned by what he sees…
Play 01:22 ‘Duckett will get his chance again’ Ben Duckett was “desperately unlucky” to be squeezed out of the England ODI squad by the return of Eoin Morgan, Alex Hales and Joe Root, according to the coach, Trevor Bayliss. Duckett batted at No. 3 in Bangladesh and scored two half-centuries in three innings. But although Bayliss said he had “shot up the pecking order” the selectors eventually decided to stick…
The Zimbabwe fans have a lot of cricket to look forward to in 2016-17 © Associated Press Zimbabwe have announced an extended domestic season, running from December until the end of August, incorporating both club and provincial cricket. The schedule consisted of the Logan Cup (first-class matches) for the four provinces, a forty-over Zimbabwe Premier League, fifty-over List A games for the provinces, two T20 tournament windows and opportunities for…
England Lions 223 for 8 (Clarke 42, S Curran 40, Qadeer 3-48) beat UAE 207 (Mufti 69, Mustafa 40, Rayner 3-27, C Overton 3-29) by 16 runsScorecard England Lions completed a clean sweep of their one-day series against the United Arab Emirates in Dubai today thanks to the depth of their batting and the quality of their bowling and fielding. The Lions top order failed to fire for the second…
Queensland 6 for 333 (Khawaja 147*, Neser 59*) v Western AustraliaScorecard Usman Khawaja followed his ton in the day-night Test against South Africa with an unbeaten 147 against South Australia © Getty Images Fresh off a match-winning 145 in the day-night Test against South Africa, Usman Khawaja struck another pink-ball ton to lead Queensland to 6 for 333 against Western Australia in their Sheffield Shield game in Perth. Khawaja finished…
‘That we haven’t played, since the 2015 World Cup, a single Full-Member ODI, that just makes me feel sick, really’ – Preston Mommsen © Cricket Scotland Preston Mommsen has said the dearth of fixtures in Scotland’s cricket calendar was a key factor in his retiring at the age of 29. The former captain also called for cricket administrators to create a more equitable schedule so that other players also don’t…
New South Wales 269 (Maddinson 80, Lyon 61, Hughes 52, Richardson 3-64, Sayers 3-66)Scorecard Nic Maddinson drives on his way to an 18th first-class fifty © Getty Images Last month, Nic Maddinson faced the pink ball at Adelaide Oval on Test debut and made a duck. But a return to the same venue, again in a day-night encounter, brought a much more encouraging innings of 80 as New South Wales…
Rubel Hossain proved his fitness by taking 15 wickets in 12 BPL matches © ICC Fast bowler Rubel Hossain has been named as a replacement for Mohammad Shahid in Bangladesh’s 22-man preliminary squad that will train in Sydney from December 11 in preparation for the tour to New Zealand. Rubel, who was dropped during the Afghanistan series in September for lacking bowling fitness, was picked ahead of pacemen Kamrul Islam…
Victoria 3 for 54 trail Tasmania 203 (Michael 54, Milenko 52, Holland 5-49) by 149 runsScorecard File photo – Jon Holland claimed his third five-wicket haul in first-class cricket © AFP Left-arm spinner Jon Holland ran through Tasmania with a five-wicket haul on the first day in Hobart, where the Tigers were dismissed for 203 after choosing to bat first. At stumps Victoria were 3 for 54 in reply, with…