Toss Australia chose to bowl vs India Australia ramped up the funk in Mohali when they went in with a line-up that had Cameron Green – a player not part of their T20 World Cup squad – opening the batting. The focus will not, immediately, be on him with Aaron Finch choosing to bowl first but it appears this experiment has been brewing for a while. Green is untested as…
Panchal and Sarfaraz are joining the camp from Bengaluru, where they were part of the India A squad that beat New Zealand A 1-0 in a series of three unofficial Tests. Their addition comes on the back of Prithvi Shaw and Rahul Tripathi being called up to join the A team for the white-ball leg of the same tour in Chennai starting Thursday. Iyer, meanwhile, is returning from a short…
Ireland have dropped offspinner Andy McBrine from their T20 World Cup squad, and brought in Simi Singh in place of him. While the rest of the 15-member squad wears a largely familiar look, there are also some new and inexperienced names. These include opening batter Stephen Doheny, who is yet to play a T20I; pace-bowling allrounder Fionn Hand, who made his T20I debut last month against Afghanistan; and medium-pace bowler…
The Australia women’s team is a supremely successful side with enviable depth to pick from, but that does not mean new head coach Shelley Nitschke, who had the role in an interim capacity during the Commonwealth Games, will not have some tricky situations to navigate over the coming months. Here’s a look at some of the areas that will need to be dealt with. Replacement for Haynes When Nitschke and…
England have been forced to make a late change to their coaching staff for the T20 World Cup after Richard Dawson, one of their assistant coaches, sustained a groin injury during their tour to Pakistan. Dawson was carried off the pitch at Karachi’s National Stadium after pulling up during a fielding drill in England’s training session on Saturday night and returned to the team hotel in a wheelchair later that…
Somerset have announced the signing of top-order batter Sean Dickson from Durham. The 31-year-old joins on a three-year deal. Dickson, who was born in South Africa but holds a UK passport, has scored 824 runs at 54.93 in this season’s County Championship, with four centuries. He signed for Durham, initially on loan, from Kent in 2020 but recently informed the club that he wanted to return south for family reasons….
It is billed as one of the new frontiers for female cricket. Who will be the first bowler to break 130kph? There needs to be a few caveats here in that it might have already happened, but until reasonably recently, speed data in the women’s game had not been widely collated and is still not uniform across competitions. However, from currently available numbers, South Africa’s Shabnim Ismail, who is regarded…
After introducing a penalty for slow over rates in T20Is, the ICC has decided to bring the in-match penalty into play in ODIs too. For each over the fielding team falls short by at the scheduled cessation time of the innings, after taking time allowances into play, they must have an additional fielder inside the ring. For example, if a team completes only 48 overs when their stipulated time runs…
Smriti Mandhana has made big gains in both ODI and T20I rankings for batters following her recent match-winning performances in England. Mandhana, who had risen to the third spot in T20Is in August, has now moved past Meg Lanning. Beth Mooney, who took back the No. 1 position after topping the CWG 2022 run-scorers’ chart, has retained the top spot with a total of 743 rating points, 12 ahead of…
The player auction ahead of the inaugural edition of the SA20 league took place on Monday in Cape Town, and the six teams now have the 17 men they needed to form their squads. Here is a look at how they stack up and, courtesy Gaurav Sundararaman, what their likely first XIs are. Durban Super Giants South Africa internationals: Quinton de Kock, Dwaine Pretorius, Heinrich Klaasen, Keshav Maharaj, Kyle Abbott,…