South Africa women 251 for 7 (du Preez 79, Tryon 47, Kubra 3-48) beat Bangladesh women 157 (Fargana 67, Khaka 3-34) by 94 runsScorecard File photo – Mignon du Preez anchored South Africa’s innings with 79 © ICC/Getty Images Mignon du Preez‘s 108-ball 79 and a disciplined bowling performance helped South Africa complete a series win after routing Bangladesh by 94 runs in the fourth ODI in Cox’s Bazar. After…
Adelaide Strikers 5 for 178 (Dunk 65, Pollard 47) beat Sydney Thunder 101 (Watson 39, Sodhi 6-11) by 77 runsScorecard and ball-by-ball details Ish Sodhi returned the second-best figures in the tournament’s history © Getty Images Sydney Thunder needed to win against Adelaide Strikers to keep their Big Bash League title defence – which, at one stage, had looked stillborn – alive, a fortnight after Eoin Morgan’s famous last-ball six….
AB de Villiers has ruled himself out of the Test series against England in July-August and is targeting a return to the longest format in the 2017-18 summer, in the series against India and Australia. He has opted out of the home Tests against Bangladesh. He has also made himself unavailable for any T20 leagues, except the IPL. “I’m just not ready yet,” de Villiers told reporters in Centurion, ahead…
Dean Elgar will fit his season with Somerset around South Africa’s Test series against England © AFP Dean Elgar has resisted the temptation to join the exodus from South African cricket with a Kolpak deal and has agreed instead to rejoin Somerset as an overseas player. Elgar, an opening batsman in the South Africa Test side, is understood to have rejected the opportunity to join other counties as a Kolpak…
Brendon McCullum sat out the Brisbane Heat’s match against the Melbourne Stars to serve an over-rate ban © Getty Images The Big Bash League will look to “innovate” with punishment for slow over-rates in order to avoid situations like the banning of the Brisbane Heat captain Brendon McCullum, one of the tournament’s biggest drawcards, for Tuesday’s win over the Melbourne Stars. At the MCG, Joe Burns stood in for McCullum,…
Luke Woodcock hit eight fours and a six in his unbeaten 63 © Getty Images Medium pacer Anurag Verma‘s career-best 5 for 44 helped Wellington beat Central Districts by four wickets in Napier and remain unbeaten after two rounds of the Ford Trophy, the domestic 50-over competition. Central Districts elected to bat, and made 212 for 9, thanks largely to Josh Clarkson’s 68. They began with a half-century stand between…
Taskin Ahmed had to bowl 29 overs in New Zealand’s first innings in Wellington, in what was his first first-class match in nearly four years © Getty Images Bangladesh coach Chandika Hathurusingha has said his team’s inexperienced pace attack has to overcome the physical test of playing back-to-back Tests if the team is to compete as hard as it did in Wellington. Taskin Ahmed, Subashis Roy and Kamrul Islam Rabbi…
Taskin Ahmed had to bowl 29 overs in New Zealand’s first innings in Wellington, in what was his first first-class match in nearly four years © Getty Images Bangladesh coach Chandika Hathurusingha has said his team’s inexperienced pace attack has to overcome the physical test of playing back-to-back Tests if the team is to compete as hard as it did in Wellington. Taskin Ahmed, Subashis Roy and Kamrul Islam Rabbi…
Neck scans revealed no damage but Mushfiqur Rahim has been advised not to take the field for a couple of weeks © AFP Mushfiqur Rahim has been kept under observation for multiple injuries but it is his thumb that’s more worrying than the blow to the neck he suffered on the fifth day of the first Test. According to team physio Dean Conway, he will need more time to recover…
Chris Lynn made his ODI debut in Brisbane and missed the second match at the MCG with an aggravation of his existing neck injury © Cricket Australia/Getty Images Batsman Chris Lynn has been ruled out of the remainder of Australia’s ODI series against Pakistan and the upcoming Chappell-Hadlee Series in New Zealand due to a neck injury. However, the Australians are hopeful that Lynn will recover in time to be…