Month: October 2022

Captain Jordan SilkCoach Jeff Vaughan SquadR=Rookie, CA=Australia contractTom Andrews, Gabe Bell, Jackson Bird, Iain Carlisle, Jake Doran, Nathan Ellis, Brad Hope, Caleb Jewell, Ben McDermott, Riley Meredith, Lawrence Neil-Smith, Sam Rainbird, Peter Siddle, Jordan Silk, Billy Stanlake, Matthew Wade, Charlie Wakim, Tim Ward, Beau Webster, Mac Wright, Nick Davis (R), Jarrod Freeman (R), Mitch Owen (R), Nivethan Radhakrishnan (R) In Nick Davis, Billy Stanlake | Out Tim Paine Winter movesTim…

Captain Usman KhawajaCoach Wade Seccombe SquadR=Rookie, CA=Australia contractUsman Khawaja (CA), Marnus Labuschagne (CA), Mitchell Swepson (CA), Joe Burns, Michael Neser, Sam Heazlett, Jack Wildermuth, Matthew Renshaw, Mark Steketee, Jimmy Peirson, Xavier Bartlett, Bryce Street, James Bazley, Gurinder Sandhu, Matthew Kuhnemann, Jack Clayton, Kane Richardson, Max Bryant, Liam Guthrie, Sam Truloff, Connor Sully, Blake Edwards, Hugo Burdon (R), William Prestwidge (R), Jackson Sinfield (R), Matthew Willans (R) Winter movesBilly Stanlake was…

Tim Paine is in line to play his first professional match for more than 18 months after being named in Tasmania’s Sheffield Shield squad to face Queensland this week. Paine last played a first-class match in early 2021 but returned to club cricket at the weekend where he took the keeping gloves and made an unbeaten 20. Paine resigned the Australia Test captaincy last November amid a text-message scandal and…

West Indies have dropped Shimron Hetmyer from their World Cup squad after the batter missed a “rescheduled” flight to Australia. CWI said the decision was taken “unanimously” by the selection panel, which also decided to name Shamarh Brooks as Hetmyer’s replacement. Most of the West Indies squad had flown to Australia in different groups, following the conclusion of the CPL on Saturday. Hetmyer, who was captain of Guyana Amazon Warriors,…

Ben Stokes will be carded to bat at No. 4 in England’s T20 World Cup team after white-ball captain Jos Buttler insisted that he is wasted down the order as a finisher. Stokes was rested from England’s tour to Pakistan after a busy summer captaining the Test team and has not played a T20 international since March 2021 but left for Australia on Sunday and is seen as a key…

India’s T20 World Cup campaign has suffered a huge setback with spearhead Jasprit Bumrah ruled out of the tournament with a back injury. The first reports of the fast bowler’s injury emerged just before India’s T20I series against South Africa began on Wednesday. He was rushed from Thiruvananthapuram, the venue of the first match, to Bengaluru, where the National Cricket Academy is located, so that he could be assessed by…

The 2023 Women’s T20 World Cup will begin on February 10 with hosts South Africa taking on Sri Lanka in Cape Town. The final is scheduled for February 26 and a reserve day is available on the 27th. Bangladesh and Ireland, the finalists of the 2022 Women’s T20 World Cup Qualifier, take the last two spots in the ten-team tournament which will be played in Paarl, Gqeberha and Cape Town….

Saurashtra 98 and 368 for 8 (Unadkat 78*, Bhut 6*, Saurabh 3-80, Sen 3-85) lead Rest of India 374 (Sarfaraz 138, Vihari 82, Saurabh 55, Sakariya 5-93) by 92 runs Saurashtra’s middle and lower-order showed a lot of fight, adding 281 runs through their lower order, but Rest of India remained firm favourites to win the Irani Cup. At stumps on the third day, Saurashtra reached to 368 for 8,…

Big Picture From the far east in Guwahati, the caravan rolls to dead center in Indore. It’s a city that loves its cricket so much so that they packed the stands just to be able to watch Sachin Tendulkar and Yuvraj Singh roll the clock back at a net session during the Road Safety Exhibition series two weeks ago. It may be a dead rubber, but that doesn’t mean much…

There are only 100 days to go for the start of a new franchise T20 league, with Cricket South Africa’s SA20 scheduled to begin on January 10 next year. The league has six teams – MI Cape Town, Durban Super Giants, Johannesburg Super Kings, Paarl Royals, Pretoria Capitals and Sunrisers Eastern Cape, which represents the city of Gqeberha – in the fray. All of them are owned by groups that…