Mark Coles is back as head coach of the Pakistan women’s team, and will join the squad on their ongoing tour of Australia. The New Zealander takes over the responsibility from interim head coach Saleem Jaffar, who was originally working as the team’s bowling coach with fellow former Pakistan men’s international Taufeeq Umar as batting coach. The PCB, under a new management committee headed by Najam Sethi, has roped Coles…
Legspinner Georgia Wareham has been recalled to Australia’s squad for their T20 World Cup title defence in South Africa next month. The squad will be captained by Meg Lanning who will make her international comeback against Pakistan next week following her break from the game. Alyssa Healy is expected to be fit for the World Cup after suffering a calf strain in India as is Jess Jonassen who returned early…
Shane Burger will step down from his role as Scotland head coach at the end of next month, in order to take up the role of assistant coach at Somerset. Burger, 40, joined the Scottish set-up in 2019, succeeding Grant Bradbury in the job. He oversaw one of the greatest successes in Scotland’s history as they reached the Super 12s stage of the 2021 T20 World Cup, beating Bangladesh in…
There has been a debate going around if Hardik Pandya should replace Rohit Sharma as India’s T20I captain but Rohit has asserted he has no plans to give up T20Is as things stand. After the 2022 T20 World Cup, both Rohit and Virat Kohli missed India’s next two T20I series, away against New Zealand and at home against Sri Lanka. Rohit said that was more to manage the workload, further…
Team captains – for the very first time in a premier T20 competition – can select their playing XIs after the toss is conducted. On the day before the inaugural SA20 competition begins in Cape Town, the organisers said that this possibly revolutionary tweak, among a few other additions, has been included to “improve the quality of the product” while “preserving the sanctity” of the game. Essentially, captains must nominate…
Hobart Hurricanes 133 for 8 (Jewell 70, Crawley 30, Hatcher 3-25, Coulter-Nile 2-22) beat Melbourne Stars 131 for 7 (Cartwright 57, Webster 27, Ellis 2-12, Meredith 2-25) by two wickets A career-best T20 score of 70 from in-form Caleb Jewell helped Hobart Hurricanes overcome a late meltdown to beat Melbourne Stars by two wickets and keep their hopes of making the BBL finals alive. Hurricanes, 94 for 1 at one…
Big picture: India overwhelming favourites A few years ago, Sri Lanka were truly pathetic in the ODI format, but look, they’re a little better now. Or this is at least what we’re hoping. In the last year, they’ve won six of their 10 completed ODIs. Full disclosure, six of those matches were against Zimbabwe and Afghanistan. But then there was a glorious home series victory over Australia as well. In…
Lance Klusener has withdrawn his application to become South Africa’s next white-ball coach. ESPNcricinfo has confirmed that Klusener was among the six candidates interviewed by Cricket South Africa three weeks ago but has chosen to pull out of the process and concentrate on T20 franchise roles instead. Klusener is currently the coach of the Durban Super Giants in the SA20 tournament, which starts tomorrow. Source: ESPN Crickinfo
Toss Pakistan opt to bowl vs New Zealand Pakistan captain Babar Azam won the toss and opted to bowl in the first ODI against New Zealand in Karachi. Legspinner Usama Mir was handed a debut for Pakistan while New Zealand opted to unleash fast bowler Henry Shipley, handing him his maiden international cap. Mir was rewarded with a call-up thanks to his strong show in the Pakistan Cup, where he…
Bumrah has been out of action since September last year because of a stress reaction in his back and has been rehabilitating at the BCCI’s National Cricket Academy in Bengaluru. His addition to the ODI squad came after he had amped up his training and bowling routines in the last week of 2022. “The pacer has undergone rehabilitation and has been declared fit by the NCA,” the BCCI had said…