Having prioritised fitness, Prithvi Shaw is working his way back after he had performed poorly at a fitness test ahead of the IPL and then suffered from a bout of typhoid during the tournament. Playing only in his fourth competitive match since IPL 2022, Shaw hit 113 off 121 balls for West Zone against North-East Zone in the season-opening Duleep Trophy at Chepauk. Shaw’s 206-run opening stand with Yashasvi Jaiswal…
Lunch South Africa 69 for 6 (Zondo 21*, Jansen 17*, Robinson 4-21) vs England Ollie Robinson tore through South Africa on an opening that was emotionally stirring and physically scintillating in equal measure as cricket resumed following a day of respect to honour Her Majesty, the Queen, who died on Thursday. On what remains the third day of this third and final Test at The Oval but was actually the…
Day three of the third Test between England and South Africa began with a tribute to Queen Elizabeth II, who passed away on Thursday at the age of 96. In a moving 10 minutes before play got underway on Saturday, the Test match became the first sporting occasion in which God Save The King has been played since 1952, after rain had prevented the anthems being played on Thursday, prior…
Aaron Finch insists there should be no reason why Steven Smith or David Warner can’t replace him as Australia’s ODI skipper, adamant the scars of sandpaper-gate have long healed. Finch’s announcement of his retirement from the 50-over format has again put leadership back on the agenda, with Cricket Australia on the search for another captain before next year’s ODI World Cup. Officials opted to hand back some leadership responsibilities to…
Marcus Stoinis has been ruled out of the last ODI against New Zealand, and there will be no final outing for the prolific David-Warner-Aaron Finch opening combination after Warner was released from Australia’s squad to manage his workload. Stoinis will miss the final game in the Chappell-Hadlee series with a low-level side stride. He will return to Perth to try and recover in time for the brief T20I tour of…
As Aaron Finch brought the curtain down on his ODI career, with just one more match to play, he was able to reflect on some of the highlights. During his press conference at the team hotel in Cairns on Saturday, he touched on a number of the moments from a nine-year career in the format that will stay with him. MCG debutFinch made his ODI debut in January 2013, against…
Aaron Finch has announced he will retire from one-day internationals after the final match of the series against New Zealand in Cairns on Sunday. He will continue to captain the T20 side into their defence of the World Cup title next month. “It has been a fantastic ride with some incredible memories,” Finch said. “I have been extremely fortunate to be a part of some brilliant one-day sides. Equally, I…
The third Test between England and South Africa will resume on Saturday “to pay tribute” to Queen Elizabeth II. However, there will be no extension of the Test, with South Africa set to depart from the UK on Tuesday. Following the death of the Queen, day two at the Kia Oval was cancelled as a mark of respect, along with all scheduled matches in the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy. Following…
Toss: Sri Lanka opt to bowl vs Pakistan Sri Lanka won the toss for the third time in the Super Fours, and opted to bowl, having won their three last matches chasing. Dubai has also strongly favoured chasing sides over the past two years, with dew also potentially complicating the task of the side bowling second. Pakistan captain Babar Azam said he would have chased as well, and made two…
India captain Harmanpreet Kaur once again stressed on the need to have a sports psychologist travelling with the team on a more regular basis. She said that the presence of a psychologist allows players to be more comfortable in the team environment so as to ask for a break in the game due to mental fatigue instead of “pushing too hard in such times”. “We as a team discuss a…