News Australia captain also excited at the prospect of playing both Tayla Vlaeminck and Darcie Brown in the same XI Australia captain Meg Lanning has endorsed the view that if Test cricket is to grow as a viable format in the women’s game, then multi-day matches need to be played at domestic level as her team prepares for a home season that will include games against India and England. Lanning…
News “Our batting has to be up if we’re aiming for the World Cup,” says the India Women head coach Ramesh Powar, the India Women head coach, has echoed team captain Mithali Raj‘s thoughts, calling Sneh Rana the “find of the England series”. Rana, in as an injury replacement for Rajeshwari Gaekwad, has sparkled with bat and ball so far, and has “played her role to the core”, Powar said….
News Six Associate nations – Malaysia, Namibia, Oman, Scotland, the UAE and the USA – have also submitted proposals Security concerns forced Pakistan to miss out on hosting the 2008 Champions Trophy and the 2011 World Cup Seventeen member nations have put themselves forward as potential hosts for eight men’s white-ball ICC events – two ODI World Cups, two T20 World Cups and two Champions Trophies – to be…
Abu Dhabi’s Sheikh Zayed Stadium has hosted 81 ICC-approved matches in the last 11 months Abu Dhabi’s Sheikh Zayed Stadium has been busier than usual since the resumption of cricket after the Covid-19 hiatus around the middle of last year. It has hosted 81 ICC-approved games in the last 11 months, including franchise T10s and T20s, and there is a lot more lined up. It’s a lot of pressure…
Report WI captain turns in dominant all-round performance to hand Pakistan six-wicket defeat File photo: Stafanie Taylor became the second West Indies Women’s player to bag a hat-trick West Indies Women 106 for 4 (Taylor 43*, Kycia Knight 24*, Baig 2-17) beat Pakistan Women 102 (Riaz 29, Taylor 4-17, Mohammed 3-24) by six wickets Stafanie Taylor became the second West Indies Women player to claim a T20I hat-trick as…
Mitchell Starc will be a key figure in Australia’s T20 World Cup campaign © Cricket Australia via Getty Images Mitchell Starc is prepared to improvise to give himself the best chance of being ready for Test cricket amid a schedule crunch which is further complicated by the quarantine requirements in Australia. Starc is one of Australia’s multi-format players who could be impacted by the very tight turnaround between the T20…
George Hill made his maiden first-class fifty © Getty Images Northamptonshire 61 for 2 trail Yorkshire 158 (Hill 71) by 97 runs George Hill has already had one brush with stardom, not that many will have cottoned on. He was an England sub fielder who carried out a replacement bat for Ben Stokes before he won the Ashes Test at Headingley in 2019 in one of the most inspirational innings…
Report De Grandhomme resists for Hampshire after Ian Holland top-scores with 58 Hampshire 229 for 7 (Holland 58, de Grandhomme 48*, Clark 4-59) vs Surrey Jordan Clark and Rikki Clarke stepped up in impressive fashion as Surrey’s undermanned bowling attack reduced Hampshire to 229 for 7 on day one of the LV= Insurance County Championship clash at the Ageas Bowl. The duo grabbed three wickets apiece after Kyle Jamieson was…
Report Century opening stand lays base but visitors fight back following rain interruptions Somerset 242 for 7 (Conway 88, Davies 65) vs Leicestershire Devon Conway marked his first-class debut for Somerset with 88 on a rain-affected opening day of the LV= Insurance County Championship match with Leicestershire at Taunton. The New Zealander faced 146 balls and hit 15 fours, sharing an opening stand of 143 with Steven Davies before Will…
Sussex’s 16-year-old batter Danial Ibrahim continued to make a good impression © Getty Images Sussex 161 for 7 (Head 47, Ibrahim 41*) vs Glamorgan Sussex teenager Danial Ibrahim defied Glamorgan’s dominant bowlers at the 1st Central County Ground. In just his second LV=Insurance County Championship match – he scored 55 on debut against Yorkshire a month ago – Ibrahim made 41 not out in two hours. Sussex were in deep…