Month: March 2023

New South Wales stalwart and Australia three-Test seamer Trent Copeland has announced his retirement from first-class cricket. Copeland has been a mainstay of Sheffield Shield cricket over the past 14 years having taken 410 first-class wickets at 25.65 including 21 five-wicket hauls and three 10-wicket hauls. The 195cm swing bowler has tormented Australian domestic batters across his career without possessing much pace. His unerring accuracy and skill to swing the…

Sam Curran has hailed the competition for places among England’s white-ball seam attack as Jos Buttler’s squad builds towards the defence of their 50-over World Cup title in India later this year. Curran took 4 for 29 in the second ODI against Bangladesh on Friday, including a devastating burst of 3 for 19 in five overs with the new ball, as England sealed the series with one game to play….

Lahore Qalandars 180 for 9 (Billings 54, Shafique 48, Ihsanullah 2-33) beat Multan Sultans 159 for 7 (Pollard 39, Rashid 3-15) by 21 runs A 69-run third-wicket partnership between Sam Billings and Abdullah Shafique combined with Rashid Khan‘s three-for pushed the defending champions Lahore Qalandars into the PSL play-offs once more, with victory over Multan Sultans. After opting to bat, Qalandars lost Fakhar Zaman for a duck in the first…

Mumbai Indians 207 for 5 (Harmanpreet 65, Matthews 47, Kerr 45*) beat Gujarat Giants 64 (Ishaque 4-11) by 143 runs Despite all the glitzy build-up, what the inaugural Women’s Premier League needed to truly blast-off was an I’m her performance. And it came from Harmanpreet Kaur. In many ways the Mumbai Indians captain’s 30-ball 65 could well be for the WPL what Brendon McCullum’s 158 was to the IPL. It…

Big Picture Smriti Mandhana vs Jemimah Rodrigues. Ellyse Perry vs Meg Lanning. Dane van Niekerk vs Marizanne Kapp. Brace yourselves. And it will all happen in front of a sold-out crowd at the Brabourne Stadium in Mumbai as Royal Challengers Bangalore take on Delhi Capitals on Sunday. Both sides have superstar captains. Mandhana, the most expensive player at the inaugural auction at INR 3.4 crore, will be leading Royal Challengers,…

Laura Wolvaardt, Lea Tahuhu, Danni Wyatt and Chamari Athapaththu are among the 10 overseas cricketers named to feature in three women’s exhibition games during ongoing PSL. They will help form two playing XIs, namely Amazons and Super Women, to compete next week in Rawalpindi. Bismah Maroof, who recently quit the national captaincy, will lead Amazons and Nida Dar will take the reins of Super Women. Three “women’s festival” games are…

Madhya Pradesh 294 and 81 for 2 (Mantri 51*, Gawli 15*, Mukesh 1-16) need another 356 runs to beat Rest of India 484 and 246 (Jaiswal 144, Shubham 2-9, Kushwah 2-44) Yashasvi Jaiswal followed up his double-century in the first innings with 144 in the second as Rest of India had one hand on the Irani Cup at the end of day four in Gwalior. Chasing a tall 437, Madhya…

Western Australia 336 & 82 for 1 (Bancroft 30*, Wyllie 20*) beat Tasmania 179 & 236 (Jewell 121, Stobo 4-57) by nine wickets Charles Stobo capped a superb all-round performance with a four-wicket haul as defending champions Western Australia secured a table-topping sixth win of the season and a home Sheffield Shield final after thrashing Tasmania at the WACA. Having bowled out Tasmania for 236 in their second innings, WA…

Queensland 290 (Peirson 90, Johnson 7-47) & 96 for 5 (Heazlett 26, Scott 2-20) beat South Australia 272 (Manenti 88, Lehmann 65, Neser 3-60, Bartlett 3-54) & 111 (Steketee 4-34, Neser 4-42) by five wickets Dynamic new ball duo Mark Steketee and Michael Neser have kept Queensland in the hunt for the Sheffield Shield final after taking four wickets apiece to rout South Australia and set up a critical five-wicket…

Australia head coach Andrew McDonald believes the team’s success in the Indore Test shows there is a core group of players who are learning what it takes to win in the subcontinent and can set the side up for greater success in the future. “One hour of chaos” in Delhi, as McDonald termed it, cost Australia the chance of regaining the Border-Gavaskar Trophy but having taken the opportunity to refresh…