Australia look for a way to stop Babar Azam in tour-ending T20I

Big picture A one-off T20I at the end of the tour does not come with a huge amount of context, but if the last two ODIs are anything to go by, the atmosphere in Lahore should at least be terrific with the game starting after the heat of the day has passed. What either team can take from the match is debatable, but it’s another game on the road to…

April 4, 2022
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Adam Rossington joins Essex on loan after losing Northants captaincy

Adam Rossington has left Northamptonshire following his removal from the club captaincy, signing for Essex on an initial season-long loan. Rossington, who is in the final year of his Northants contract, was replaced as their County Championship captain by new head coach John Sadler following the club’s pre-season tour to Potchefstroom last month. A club statement confirming Ricardo Vasconcelos had been appointed to lead the four-day team made no mention…

April 4, 2022
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Finn Allen signs up for Yorkshire T20 Blast stint

Finn Allen, the explosive New Zealand batter, has signed to play for Yorkshire in this year’s Vitality Blast. Allen, who appeared for Lancashire in the competition last year and is currently at the IPL with Royal Challengers Bangalore, will come in to the Yorkshire set-up after the departure of Pakistan seamer Haris Rauf, who is available for the first five games of the Blast. “I’m really looking forward to returning…

April 4, 2022
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Young, Guptil tons, Henry four-for propel New Zealand to 3-0 sweep against Netherlands

New Zealand 333 for 8 (Young 120, Guptill 106, Floyd 2-41) beat Netherlands 218 (Myburgh 64, Henry 4-36, D Bracewell 2-23) by 115 runs New Zealand gave the departing Ross Taylor a perfect send-off by comprehensively beating the Netherlands to seal a 3-0 sweep of the ODI series. Fittingly, it was him who took the winning catch, as centuries from Will Young, who bettered his career-best tally with 120, and…

April 4, 2022
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Sweet Shield relief for Shaun Marsh

The tears said it all. Shaun Marsh has had countless triumphs over a 21-year professional career. He’s made 13 international centuries for Australia, won Ashes series, Border-Gavaskar trophies, been the leading runscorer in an IPL, won multiple BBL and Australia domestic 50-over titles. But raising the Sheffield Shield aloft as Western Australia captain, something his father Geoff Marsh had done, something no WA captain had done in 23 years, could…

April 4, 2022
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Keshav Maharaj seven-for spins South Africa to first Test win in Durban since 2013

South Africa 367 & 204 beat Bangladesh 298 & 53 by 220 runs Keshav Maharaj bowled South Africa to an emphatic win in 13 overs and 55 minutes on the fifth morning of the first Test, dismissing Bangladesh for the lowest total in an innings at Kingsmead. It was Maharaj’s eighth Test five-for and best figures at home, which helped South Africa win just their second of the last ten…

April 4, 2022
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McDonald backs Finch to regain form heading towards T20 World Cup

Australia interim coach Andrew McDonald is in no doubt that captain Aaron Finch will lead Australia’s T20 World Cup title defence later this year on home soil despite Finch’s current lengthy form slump. Since the start of the last T20 World Cup in the UAE in October 2021, Finch has played 12 T20Is and three ODIs without making a half-century. Across 15 innings, including both formats, he averages 15.73 with…

April 4, 2022
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Mott lauds Australia's 'perfect storm' before planning for next challenges

Golf and family time are top of Matthew Mott‘s agenda once he returns home, but it won’t be long before the planning starts for the next challenges in front of Australia’s latest invincibles after their five-year mission to rule the game was crowned with the ODI World Cup title. The summit was reached with what Mott termed the “perfect storm” of a batting performance headlined by Alyssa Healy‘s record-breaking 170…

April 4, 2022
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Western Australia break 23-year Sheffield Shield drought as final ends in a draw

Western Australia 386 (Bancroft 141, Whiteman 85, Sutherland 5-78) & 7 for 400 dec (Hardie 174*, Whiteman 123) drew with Victoria 306 (Handscomb 80, Perry 74, Pucovski 59, Hardie 3-54, Paris 3-95) Western Australia claimed their first Sheffield Shield title in 23 years after a brilliant 174 not out from Aaron Hardie batted Victoria out of the match with the final called off as a draw at lunch on the…

April 4, 2022
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Fantasy Pick: Rahul and Bishnoi should do well against Sunrisers

Fantasy Tips Fantasy XI recommendations for the IPL 2022 game between Sunrisers Hyderabad and Lucknow Super Giants Apr 4: Sunrisers Hyderabad v Lucknow Super Giants, 12th Match, DY Patil Stadium Safe XI: KL Rahul (capt), Nicholas Pooran, Kane Williamson, Evin Lewis, Rahul Tripathi, Deepak Hooda, Jason Holder, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Avesh Khan, Ravi Bishnoi (vice-capt), Umran Malik IPL’s leading run-scorer since the 2019 season, Rahul has made 1929 runs in 43…

April 3, 2022
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