India D 148 for 3 (Bhatia 80*, Akhter 47, Poonam 1-25) beat India A 144 for 5 (Deol 61, Parween 50, Renuka 3-24, Gayakwad 2-21) by seven wickets Put into bat, India A didn’t have a great start, with Renuka trapping Shivali Shinde lbw in the first over. Soon after, she dismissed Disha Kasat too, reducing India A to 25 for 2 in the fifth over. Wicketkeeper-opener Nuzhat Parween and…
Sindh 230 for 7 (Mehmood 56*, Alam 38*, Musa 2-53, Mubasir 2-59) vs Northern Cometh the hour, cometh the man – with some help. Fawad Alam has not had a bad season, certainly not poor enough to have been dropped from the Pakistan Test side. But it has not been as prolific, perhaps, as previous seasons; an average of 57 masking a series of starts that he has not cashed…
Tahlia McGrath has won a lot this year: an Ashes, an ODI World Cup and a Commonwealth Games gold medal. Now, after two painful near-misses, she can add a WBBL title to that list. Although the WBBL sides are distinct from the state teams, in reality they remain very close, particularly when it comes to playing squads. For McGrath, who was named Australia vice-captain last week, her whole career has…
Prime Minister’s XI 322 (Renshaw 81, Harris 73, Handscomb 55, Joseph 4-65) and 221 for 4 dec (Renshaw 101*, Handscomb 75) drew with West Indies 235 (Chanderpaul 119, Murphy 3-27, Paris 3-32, Steketee 3-33) and 277 for 8 (Chanderpaul 56, Thomas 55, Da Silva 52*, Steketee 3-56) Incapacitated Raymon Reifer and gritty Joshua Da Silva declined to chance their arm at notching the West Indies’ first first-class win on Australian…
Adelaide Strikers 5 for 147 (Dottin 52*, Mack 31, Ecclestone 2-19) beat Sydney Sixers 137 (Maitlan Brown 34, Perry 33, Bolton 32, Darcie Brown 2-15, Dottin 2-30) by 10 runs Adelaide Strikers wanted redemption. And they got it. Deandra Dottin produced a starring all-round performance and Darcie Brown‘s pace claimed two key wickets as Sydney Sixers’ record-breaking 11 wins in the regular season came up short as they suffered a…
Big picture With 16 matches, New Zealand have played the second-fewest ODIs of any team in the ongoing World Cup Super League. But just one more win, and they can topple India from the top of the table. Given that they’ve won each of their last 13 ODIs at home, the odds would favour them to do just that. Having seemingly moved on from Trent Boult and Martin Guptill, the…
As the build-up for Australia’s opening Test of the summer threatens to be mired in bloodletting, Mitchell Starc aptly fronted the media just metres from ‘Langer’s Loft’ – once an exclusive bar for members but now an eyesore amid a redevelopment at the WACA. The symbolism was striking with Australia arriving in Perth ahead of the first Test against West Indies on November 30 amid controversy after former coach Justin Langer‘s candid interview…
Tasmania 220 and 4 for 151 need 87 more runs to beat Victoria 121 and 336 (Elliott 80*, Harper 57, Holland 55, Bird 4-54) Victoria were back in the hunt for their first win of the Sheffield Shield season after a remarkable day-three fightback against Tasmania. Debutant Sam Elliott struck an unbeaten 80 at the MCG on Saturday to help set Tasmania a victory target of 238. The visitors stuttered…
Justin Langer has emphatically denied claims he has fallen out with the Australian cricket team, adamant he is still in contact with most players. Langer’s exit as Australia coach has returned to the headlines on the eve of the Test summer, following his controversial podcast released earlier this week. In it, he accused sources who had leaked to the media during his tenure of being cowards and complained over the…
England fast bowler Mark Wood is a doubt for the first Test against Pakistan. Wood has been in the UK recovering from a hip injury sustained during England’s successful T20 World Cup campaign and will join up with the Test squad in Rawalpindi this weekend. Though the injury ruled the 33-year-old out of the semi-final against India, he was considered fit to play in the final against Pakistan before it…