Month: September 2021

News South Africa’s Lizelle Lee moves up to eighth position and Laura Wolvaardt enters the top 20 for batters New Zealand captain Sophie Devine has joined England’s Nat Sciver at the top of the ICC rankings for women’s allrounders in T20Is. India opener Shafali Verma and England spinner Sophie Ecclestone retained the No. 1 spot for batters and bowlers respectively in the format. Devine’s all-round dominance in the second T20I…

News Stand-in coach prepared to bombard Bangladesh with spin Rachin Ravindra has five wickets in the series so far, with Ajaz Patel leading the charts with six   Glenn Pocknall is used to winning T20s. His side, the Wellington Firebirds, has won the Super Smash the last two seasons. But in his first two games as New Zealand coach, he oversaw two contrasting defeats. Then, in the third T20I, a…

News The 37-year-old will work with the PCA full-time from October Daryl Mitchell, the Worcestershire opener, will retire at the end of this season after nearly two decades at New Road. The 37-year-old Mitchell will call time on his career after his side’s final Championship match of the year against Leicestershire, beginning at New Road on September 21. Mitchell has made more than 500 appearances across all formats for Worcestershire…

News Heat expect the batter to be available for the entire tournament, which begins on December 5 at the SCG Ben Duckett: I’m looking forward to getting out to Brisbane and hopefully helping the team have a great season   Brisbane Heat have signed England top-order batter Ben Duckett for the upcoming Big Bash League season. This will be the 26-year old’s first experience of the BBL, although he did…

News “I had the chance to speak to him at length, he was really humble and helped me on some skills where he thought I could improve on” Rajasthan Royals batter Yashasvi Jaiswal has said that he was “really fortunate” to have picked the brains of his idol Sachin Tendulkar, whom he met before Mumbai’s limited-overs series against Oman last month. According to Jaiswal, what made the interaction even better…

Report Dinesh Chandimal slots into the hosts’ XI in the third ODI; Akila Dananjaya, Minod Bhanuka and Bhanuka Rajapaksa left out Dasun Shanaka, the Sri Lanka captain, will have have a vital all-round role to play in Colombo on Tuesday   Sri Lanka chose to bat vs South Africa Sri Lanka won the toss and, unsurprisingly, chose to bat first on a Khettarama surface that tends to become more difficult…