India opener Shafali Verma has received firm backing from her captain Harmanpreet Kaur ahead of the T20 Asia Cup, as she looks to turn around her patchy form. Shafali ended the recent England tour without a half-century across formats; in fact, in six innings, she was dismissed in the single digits four times. Particularly under scrutiny was her lack of footwork, which England seamer Kate Cross exposed by castling her…
Josh Hazlewood believes that bowlers will be in the game during the upcoming T20 World Cup and not just at the mercy of the big-hitting batters. It will be the first time that Australia will host the men’s tournament which will take place at seven venues across the country. In terms of domestic T20 games played over the last two years – which gives a much broader sample than T20Is…
The winners of the 2022 T20 World Cup in Australia will take home a prize money of US $1.6 million, the same amount as the last year’s edition, the ICC announced on Friday. Similarly, the runners-up will collect $800,000 and the two losing semi-finalists $400,000 each. ESPNcricinfo Ltd The 16-team tournament, starting October 16, will be played in two rounds. The eight teams – Namibia, Sri Lanka, Netherlands, UAE in…
The grandstand at Riverway Stadium in Townsville has been officially named after Andrew Symonds. The Andrew ‘Roy’ Symonds Grandstand was unveiled by his children, Chloe and Will, and his mother Barbara on Friday. “It just feels like he’s going to be loved from every direction, like he’s going to be loved from everyone,” Chloe, 10, told reporters. “I know he didn’t like anything big, and it’s not a big grandstand…so…
Pat Cummins previously presented Cricket Australia one of their most important balancing acts in managing a young player and now the Test captain has a front row seat to another as Cameron Green‘s elevation into the higher echelons of the world’s stars continues. The flying visit to India for three T20Is last week may yet transpire to have been one of the most significant periods in Green’s career as he…
Mohammed Siraj has been named as Jasprit Bumrah‘s replacement in India’s T20I squad for the remainder of the series against South Africa. Siraj is expected to link up with the squad later today in Guwahati, ahead of the second T20I on Sunday. Siraj’s late call-up comes on the back of fresh injury concerns for Bumrah, who was required to undergo scans on his lower back in Bengaluru before the National…
It says a lot about Liam Norwell‘s drive that he hopes his 9 for 62, which dragged Warwickshire to safety with a five-run victory over Hampshire, will allow his team-mates and fans to forgive him for his absences this season. Norwell’s figures – the 12th best in first-class cricket for Warwickshire – saw a fourth-innings target of 133 defended on a remarkable final day of the 2022 County Championship season….
Warwickshire 272 for 4 dec (Yates 104, Sibley 54, Holland 3-85) and 177 (Sibley 77, Fuller 4-34) beat Hampshire 311 (Vince 98, Barker 76, Norwell 4-38) and 133 (Gubbins 46, Norwell 9-62) by five runs At a time when County Cricket is at its most paranoid, with the domestic game and all who reside in it trapped in their very own culture war, Liam Norwell produced the kind of one-man…
Dawid Malan has become the first England player to publicly declare his support for the proposals outlined in Andrew Strauss’ High Performance Review, suggesting that “less cricket at a higher intensity” would have a number of benefits for English cricket. Strauss’ review proposed a 15% reduction in the total volume of men’s domestic cricket played in England and Wales, which would be achieved by cutting the number of games in…
Sussex 258 (Haines 108*, Tear 56) and 554 for 8 dec (Orr 198, Haines 177, Ibrahim 100*, Salter 5-138) drew with Glamorgan 533 for 9 dec (Cooke 141, Gill 119, Lloyd 56, Patel 51*) Ali Orr just missed out on a double-hundred while Tom Haines made 177 and Dan Ibrahim an unbeaten century as Sussex batted through the final day to draw with Glamorgan in the LV= County Championship. Orr…