Western Australia 162 and 2 for 139 (Bancroft 79*) need 329 more runs to beat South Australia 7 for 438 dec and 6 for 191 dec (McSweeney 104*, Kelly 3-38) South Australia remained well placed for a rare win over Sheffield Shield holders Western Australia despite a half-century from Cameron Bancroft keeping alive the visitors’ hopes of chasing down a massive victory target at Adelaide Oval. WA ended the penultimate…
Tasmania 5 for 89 trail New South Wales 8 for 417 dec (Hughes 178, Green 59*, Patterson 56, Sangha 54) by 328 runs Sean Abbott led the way as New South Wales secured a massive advantage over Tasmania at the midway point of their must-win Sheffield Shield match against Tasmania at the SCG. Tasmania slumped to 5 for 89 at stumps, trailing by 328 runs. Daniel Hughes starred for NSW…
Victoria 307 (Harris 100, Chandrasinghe 67, Neser 4-71) and 217 (Perry 75, Short 58, Bartlett 4-32) beat Queensland 175 (Sutherland 4-35) and 185 (Clayton 66, Holland 3-24) by 164 runs Will Sutherland‘s appointment as Victoria captain may have raised eyebrows in some circles but the 23-year-old allrounder has sailed through his first test as skipper with flying colours. Victoria romped to a massive 164-run win over Queensland at the MCG…
Left-arm spinner Matthew Kuhnemann has been called up to Australia’s squad in India and could make his Test debut in Delhi on Friday. Related Dazed Australia search for answers after first-round knockout Australia need to forget the pitch-doctoring allegations and adapt asap Cummins: ‘I don’t think we need to reinvent the wheel’ The chances of Kuhnemann coming straight into contention are reasonably high with Australia desperate to find an option…
Gardner, the Indigenous Australian allrounder, took a career-best 5 for 12 from three overs – her maiden international five-for – to help bowl New Zealand out for just 76 as her side won their opening T20 World Cup match by a massive 97 runs in Paarl on Saturday. A Muruwari woman, Gardner had last month criticised Cricket Australia for scheduling a T20I against Pakistan on January 26, saying it was…
The pair would play the next match in Napier, too, going on split 16 wickets between them as England secured what remains their last series victory in these parts. A month shy of 15 years on, and 1,225 more dismissals between them later, they return to the country where it all truly began. It’s tempting to fawn over such Origin Story shtick with Anderson and Broad, as per their three…
Toss: New Zealand opt to bowl vs Australia Five-time T20 World Cup champions Australia will begin their title defense by batting first after New Zealand captain Sophie Devine won the toss and chose to bowl in Paarl. Australia captain Meg Lanning said she wouldn’t have minded either decision at the toss. The two teams last met at the 2022 Commonwealth Games semi-final where Australia won the knockout in the final…
Karnataka 407 and 123 for 4 (Agarwal 55, Jose 54*) lead Saurashtra 527 (Vasavada 202, Jackson 160, Kaverappa 5-83) by three runs Saurashtra are all but through to the 2022-23 Ranji Trophy final, after having taken a 120-run first-innings lead on the fourth day of their semi-final against Karnataka in Bengaluru. Saurashtra batted out 174.4 overs and ate into the time that Karnataka needed to wipe out the deficit and…
Toss West Indies chose to bat vs England Hayley Matthews won the toss and was able to name Stafanie Taylor in her XI, as West Indies chose to bat on a baking hot day in Paarl. Taylor did not bat or bowl in either of West Indies’ warm-up games, and last played a T20I in July 2021. West Indies, the 2016 champions, were beaten 5-0 in their T20I series against…
Bengal 438 and 279 for 9 (Majumdar 80, Pramanik 60*, Jain 6-103) lead Madhya Pradesh 170 (Jain 65, Akash Deep 5-42) by 547 runs It’s fair to assume Madhya Pradesh will not have a chance to defend their Ranji title in 2022-23. That’s because Bengal, the team they beat in the semi-final during their victorious run last year, have now batted them out of the contest at Holkar Stadium, in…