“Are you going to have nightma…” “Yep!” The question wasn’t even fully formed and Meg Lanning had given her answer. No, she would not be sleeping well after dropping the catch that would have handed legspinner Alana King a hat-trick, just the second for her country in women’s T20Is. In fairness, Lanning, the Australia captain, was as good-natured as anyone could possibly be about the situation, from burying her face…
Australia 68 for 1 (Lanning 36*) beat Barbados 64 (King 4-8, McGrath 3-13) by nine wickets A career-best 4 for 8 – and a near hat-trick – for Australia legspinner Alana King led her side to an emphatic nine-wicket victory over Barbados and into the Commonwealth Games semi-finals. Meg Lanning, the Australia skipper, went a good way towards making up for dropping the catch that would have given King her…
16.4 to MA Jones, and there’s the wicket! After the first ball, there hasn’t been extravagant turn for Bracewell, but this time there is. Jones was looking it to let it go based on the line. It spun after pitching and it was too late for Jones to adjust. He is bowled! Jones wicket is a blow for Scotland as he was looking good. 73/3 20.3 to RD Berrington, on…
Bismah Maroof, the Pakistan captain, believes that India’s batters have benefitted greatly from playing regularly in overseas leagues, something her players have not been able to do. “Indian players and batters have developed and gained confidence because of opportunities to play in the leagues, which is not the case with our players,” Maroof said after Pakistan’s eight-wicket defeat which has put them on the brink of elimination in the Commonwealth…
Big picture India’s T20 machine is purring again. All the talk coming from within the team – from the coach to the captain to the players – is that they haven’t done much different. But it is fairly clear that the early exit from last year’s T20 World Cup has led to some sort of a revolution. From being a team that totally relied on their big bad top three…
Toss England chose to bowl vs South Africa Jos Buttler opted to chase in the deciding T20I against South Africa as his men seek a first white-ball trophy at home this summer. England have managed at least one limited-overs series win at home since 2013, and this match is their last opportunity to get their hands on a cup after losing the ODI and T20I series to India and sharing…
Toss Pakistan Women chose to bat vs India Women18 overs a side Bismah Maroof called right at the toss and Pakistan opted to bat against India, even as an on-and-off drizzle in Birmingham delayed the start by close to an hour-and-a-half and reduced the contest to 18 overs a side. Nida Dar, who took a blow to her head while batting against Barbados two days ago, missed this match with…
Like in the first T20I on Saturday, Zimbabwe captain Craig Ervine decided to bat first after winning the toss against Bangladesh in the second game in Harare. The visitors made two changes to the side which lost the first T20I – both in their bowling attack – as Mahedi Hasan and Hasan Mahmud replaced Nasum Ahmed and Taskin Ahmed. Both Nasum and Taskin had gone wicketless in the previous match,…
England had an eye-opening experience playing their first match of the Commonwealth Games and, Katherine Brunt reckons they will need to learn plenty from it. Their efforts restricted Sri Lanka to 106 for 9 but when it came to the chase on a slow, turning pitch, which was being used for the fourth time in two days, it fell to Alice Capsey to get them over the line. Capsey, the…
England 109 for 5 (Capsey 44, Ranaweera 3-29) beat Sri Lanka 106 for 9 (de Silva 25, Ecclestone 3-25) by five wickets England deployed the youth-and-experience formula they hope will carry them to a home Commonwealth Games medal to good effect against Sri Lanka to open their campaign with a five-wicket victory at Edgbaston. Between 37-year-old Katherine Brunt taking a wicket with the first ball of the match to Sophie…