News Papua New Guinea will play Oman, Scotland and Bangladesh as they bid to reach the Super 12 The 34-year old mainstay of Papua New Guinea Assad Vala will captain the team at their maiden ICC world tournament. PNG announced a 16-member squad for the T20 World Cup which starts next month. PNG are placed in Group B alongside Oman, Scotland and Bangladesh, with two of the four moving through…
News The 15-member squad has a host of other familiar names in Ben Cooper, Stephan Myburgh and Roelof van der Merwe Netherlands will have the services of a 41-year-old Ryan ten Doeschate at the T20 World Cup in October. Ten Doeschate was Netherlands’ second-highest scorer as they defended their title in the T20 World Cup qualifiers in 2019 and had then expressed to captain Pieter Seelaar that he would like…
News Dasun Shanaka leads the 15-member contingent Fresh after a glorious debut on Tuesday, Maheesh Theekshana received an even bigger boost when he was named as part of Sri Lanka’s T20 World Cup squad. The 21-year old offspinner is one of two surprise picks with Bhanuka Rajapaksa, a player on probation, also among the touring party who are headed to the UAE. The SLC have not yet officially announced this…
Alice Capsey flays through the off side © Getty Images South East Stars 293 for 9 (Smith 84, Capsey 78) beat Lightning (K Bryce 87, Smith 3-46) 254 by 28 runs Alice Capsey smashed her highest Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy score as South East Stars continued their perfect week to beat Lighting by 28 runs. The 17-year-old Capsey crashed 78 off 73 balls to accompany Bryony Smith‘s 84 from 73…
Report Smith takes List A career-best of 5 for 34 before Armitage sees hosts home with 68* Northern Diamonds 184 for 3 (Armitage 68*) beat Western Storm 183 (Luff 65, Smith 5-34) by seven wickets Northern Diamonds produced a clinical performance with bat and ball to defeat Western Storm by seven wickets in their Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy at Emirates Riverside. The Diamonds were on point with the ball as…
News ICC could adjudicate; if Test not rescheduled, ECB wants status to be “forfeited” to square the series and claim insurance payouts The match is off, but the fight for the result may just be starting. At present, as the ECB and BCCI sift through the fallout of the Test that never was, we know neither the result of the match or the series. We don’t know if the series…
Fall of wickets: 1-12 (Georgie Boyce, 2.3 ov), 2-12 (Seren Smale, 2.4 ov), 3-14 (Eleanor Threlkeld, 3.6 ov), 4-47 (Emma Lamb, 10.1 ov), 5-54 (Natalie Brown, 12.4 ov), 6-59 (Laura Marshall, 14.5 ov), 7-74 (Laura Jackson, 21.2 ov), 8-102 (Alice Dyson, 30.4 ov), 9-104 (Hannah Jones, 32.1 ov), 10-110 (Kate Cross, 32.5 ov) Source: ESPN Crickinfo
Yorkshire have admitted that Azeem Rafiq “was the victim of racial harassment” during his first spell at the club Charlie Crowhurst / © Getty Images Yorkshire have reiterated their stance that they are unable to publish the independent report into Azeem Rafiq‘s allegations of racism at the club, due to issues “in relation to privacy law and defamation”, following parliamentary pressure to release its findings. Yorkshire distributed a summary of…
News Former SA batter will share those responsibilities with Justin Sammons, who has been with the team on their tour of Sri Lanka JP Duminy, who retired at the end of the 2019 World Cup, has returned to the South African team as a support staff member Getty Images South Africa’s leading run-scorer in T20Is, JP Duminy, has been named as one of two specialist consultants for the upcoming World…
News Chief executive says club will need help from ECB after “unprecedented” loss of revenue Lancashire are facing “multimillion pound” losses and will require outside support to cope with the cancellation of the Emirates Old Trafford Test according to their chief executive, Daniel Gidney. Lancashire have promised to reimburse all those who bought tickets or hospitality for the match, while they are exploring their options having hired thousands of temporary…