England Women 131 for 8 (Dunkley 35, Brunt 24*, Fraser 3-20, Grimmond 3-33) beat West Indies Women 82 (Matthews 23, Bell 4-12, Ecclestone 2-13, Dean 2-16) by 49 runs For the fourth T20I in a row, West Indies were let down by their batting. And for a third straight game, they faltered while chasing. It means England lead the series 4-0 with one more game remaining on Sunday. The West…
Australia and South Africa players will all wear floppy hats during the national anthems at the Boxing Day Test in tribute to cricket icon Shane Warne. The first MCG Test since Warne’s tragic death in March, aged 52, was always going to be an emotional affair and Cricket Australia have revealed the tributes that will be rolled out for the legendary spin king. Warne made the Boxing Day Test his own…
Canterbury allrounder Henry Shipley has earned his maiden call-up to the New Zealand squad for the upcoming ODIs tours to Pakistan and India. Kane Williamson will lead the side in Pakistan, but will not be part of the following ODI series in India. Head coach Gary Stead, bowling coach Shane Jurgensen and newly appointed Test captain Tim Southee will return home after the Pakistan tour along with Williamson to prepare…
Melbourne Renegades 175 for 6 (Finch 70*, Sams 3-33) beat Sydney Thunder 174 for 6 (Rossouw 53, Ross 39) by four wickets Melbourne Renegades claimed a four-wicket victory over the Sydney Thunder after Aaron Finch steered them to their 175-run target with a vintage half-century. Renegades looked in control for much of the chase but it took an assured finish from Finch for them to reach 175 and claim the…
Shakib Al Hasan is likely to play the Dhaka Test as a pure batter after he was unable to bowl post the first day in Chattogram. Head coach Russell Domingo said that they would have difficulty in balancing the side if that was the case, but would be happy having Shakib as batter and captain as they try to level the series. “He could play as a batter [only],” Domingo…
The Gabba pitch could come under scrutiny after producing the second shortest Test match in Australia. South Africa captain Dean Elgar revealed he had approached the umpires in the closing stages to question when conditions would be deemed to have become dangerous although Pat Cummins had no qualms about the surface. “I did ask the umpires when KG [Rabada] got [Travis] Head out down leg, I said ‘how long does…
Dean Elgar believes South Africa could have defended a target of around 100 runs in a fast-forward contest in Brisbane, but maintained that the pitch did not facilitate a “fair contest” between bat and ball. In two days, 34 wickets fell in fewer than 145 overs, including 20 South African wickets in 86 overs and South Africa were only able to set Australia a target of 34. They took four…
Injured Australia fast bowler Josh Hazlewood is hoping to make himself available for selection for the Boxing Day Test against South Africa while admitting his repeated side injuries could be the cost of trying to be a three-format fast bowler. Hazlewood has missed Australia’s last two Test matches, including the first Test against South Africa in Brisbane, due to a side strain he suffered during the first Test against West…
After five days of hard-fought Test cricket in Chattogram, when India have a nice evening watching the football World Cup final and having a team dinner, the one thing they will experience for the first time since July is the oddly-satisfying soreness from five days of cricket. While the scorecard will show a comprehensive win – and it was one – it took India hard work to achieve. They had…
Lunch England 140 for 4 (Brook 38*, Stokes 25*) trail Pakistan 304 (Babar 78, Salman 56, Leach 4-140) by 164 runs Pakistan’s spinners prised the third Test open on the second morning, as Nauman Ali and Abrar Ahmed took three wickets between them to leave England’s middle order with work to do. England resumed on 7 for 1 after Abrar had trapped Zak Crawley lbw for a fifth-ball duck on…