Cummins said no decision had been made on the composition of Australia’s XI as the selectors wait to see how Green and Starc recover later on Thursday. Related Cummins: ‘I don’t think we need to reinvent the wheel’ Should Australia risk Cameron Green in the XI? Is there room for a third spinner? Starc ‘still lacking a bit of strength’, touch and go to be ready for Delhi Test Matt…
The Ford Trophy final between Central Stags and the winner of Saturday’s elimination final has been postponed from Sunday because of the devastation caused in the Hawke’s Bay area by Cyclone Gabrielle. A lot of the Stags players are based in Hawke’s Bay and Central Districts chief executive Lance Hamilton said Sunday’s final, which was to be played in Queenstown, was the last thing on players’ minds. No alternative date…
New Zealand won the toss and chose to bowl first vs England After a build-up dominated by Cyclone Gabrielle – which wreaked havoc across the North Island and in acknowledgement of which the teams will be wearing black armbands – the weather is set fair across Bay Oval, a ground whose sand-based outfield, auspiciously, is among the fastest-draining grounds in the world. And given the green-tinged pitch has spent so…
Muneeba Ali knows that cricketers don’t get days like the one she had against Ireland very often. Only one of them will become the first woman from their country to score a T20I hundred. When more centurions come, they will join an elite club. It’s only once every couple of years that a cricketer can say they’ve scored a century at a World Cup. Before today, across seven editions of…
Barring an improbable set of results in the final few Super League fixtures, West Indies would have to earn their spot at the ODI World Cup in India later this year via the global qualifier in Zimbabwe, which is scheduled for June-July. They are currently eighth on the table, way behind seventh-placed Afghanistan Hope, who captained Barbados in the Regional Super50 last year, has an impressive career record in ODIs,…
Multan Sultans 111 for 1 (Rossouw 78*, Rizwan 28*, Ihsanullah 5-12) beat Quetta Gladiators 110 all out (Roy 27, Hasnain 22, Thushara 1-21) by 9 wickets With Josh Little and Shahnawaz Dahani out, Multan Sultans pace attack was supposed to be their Achilles heel. Step forward 20-year-old Ihsanullah, another one off the Pakistani pace bowling conveyor belt, whose sizzling figures of 4-1-12-5 skittled Quetta Gladiators out for 110. Sultans, led…
Toss Ireland chose to bowl vs Pakistan Ireland captain Laura Delany won the toss for the second time in two games but opted to bowl first on this occasion, against Pakistan at Newlands. The match is being played on the same pitch West Indies and India played on earlier in the day. Despite going down to England in their tournament opener, Ireland fielded an unchanged XI. They had the upper…
The Women’s Premier League (WPL) has been tipped to be “a gamechanger” for women’s cricket, and the player auction was all the talk a couple of days ago, but that isn’t the focus of Australia’s current T20 World Cup squad. They were training in Gqeberha as the bidding began on Monday, Ellyse Perry, who found out after the practice session that she had been picked up by Royal Challengers Bangalore…
Shreyas Iyer is set to return to India’s side for the second Test against Australia in Delhi, which begins on Friday, if he passes his fitness assessment on the eve of the match. Iyer missed the first Test in Nagpur with a back injury, and rejoined the squad in Delhi, where he had a long stint batting in the nets on Wednesday. India coach Rahul Dravid has said Iyer will…
England Lions 231 for 6 (Hain 52, Bethell 50, Cox 46, Hemantha 3-56, Jayawickrama 2-52) beat Sri Lanka A 230 all out (Samarawickrama 74, Arachchige 57, Chamika 52, Mahmood 3-27, Cook 2-35) by four wickets Saqib Mahmood marked his competitive comeback with three cheap wickets in England Lions’ four-wicket victory over Sri Lanka A in Colombo. Mahmood has not played a professional game in ten months after a back stress fracture but is…