News Analysis Australia and India will meet in a Test for the first time in 15 years with the added dimension of it being just the second day-night encounter in the women’s game Test match farewell? Unless India unexpectedly put another Test on their schedule in the next six months, this match could mark the final outing for two of their greats: captain Mithali Raj and pace bowler Jhulan Goswami….
News ECB chairman Ian Watmore says they have until the first week of November “to change things” England’s challenges could be exacerbated should they reach the final of the T20 World Cup Ian Watmore, the ECB chairman, has admitted that this winter’s Ashes campaign could remain in doubt right up until the moment that Joe Root and England’s Test team arrive in Australia on November 6. The ECB are…
News CA had said they would be forced to cancel the game due to the Taliban’s stance on female sport Cricket Australia will formally confirm this week that a one-off Test against Afghanistan is not going ahead, according to Cricket Tasmania. The match was scheduled to start in Hobart on November 27, providing captain Tim Paine a chance to finally play a Test at his home ground. The Taliban’s takeover…
Big Picture This has been a long time coming. It was 2006 when these two sides last met in a Test match. The one-day series has whetted the appetite for what could come on the Gold Coast, particularly with the added element of the day-night pink-ball factor – just the second such Test in the women’s game. It is India’s second Test of the year after their encounter against England…
News The top-order batter is yet to feature in India’s ongoing multi-format tour of Australia, but is expected to line up for the T20Is India batter Jemimah Rodrigues has signed with Melbourne Renegades for her maiden stint at the WBBL. She becomes the fifth Indian to be confirmed for the seventh season of the WBBL, with the recruitment of Smriti Mandhana and Deepti Sharma (Sydney Thunder) and Shafali Verma and…
Wasim Khan had begun his stint as PCB CEO in 2019 © Getty Images Wasim Khan, the PCB CEO, has resigned from his role four months before the end of the contract. Wasim had begun his stint as the board’s executive on a three-year contract in 2019, and in light of his abrupt departure, the PCB chairman Ramiz Raja has called in the board of directors for a meeting on…
News The match was called off shortly before the toss due to Covid-19 cases in Brisbane No play: an empty Ian Healy Oval after the Sheffield Shield match was called off Dispute and discontent over a Sheffield Shield “debacle” in Brisbane has highlighted the immense challenge confronting Cricket Australia (CA) this summer. Stunning details of Tuesday’s sudden postponement of a Shield match between Queensland and Tasmania, set to feature…
It won’t be long, you suspect, before international teams start needing to do their homework on Alice Capsey, the 17-year-old winner of the Professional Cricketers’ Association (PCA) Young Player of the Year award. Capsey’s dramatic rise to prominence was one of the stories of the summer – but for now she has homework of her own to focus on, settling back into school life and trying to balance studying for…
Play 01:09 Perry on Perth 2014: ‘The most incredible game of Test cricket I’ve ever played’ Star allrounder Ellyse Perry is likely to take the new ball for Australia in the pink-ball day-night Test against India starting on Thursday, despite disappointing outings during the ODIs. Perry went wicketless across the three matches conceding 103 from 14 overs including 26 wides. She did have a couple of edges fail to go…
News He said his visit to the hospital had been a “routine check-up” after experiencing discomfort in his stomach Former Pakistan captain Inzamam-ul-Haq has, in his first public comments since undergoing an angioplasty, clarified that he did not suffer a heart attack. He also thanked people who had wished him well around the world, and confirmed he was on the mend. In a video shot at his home and uploaded…