Lanning, 30, arrived in Mumbai on Thursday for the WPL. She has played 132 T20Is, scoring 3405 runs with two centuries and 15 half-centuries at an average of 36.61 and strike rate of 116.37. She has led Australia in 100 T20Is, the most by any women’s player to captain a side in the format. Source: ESPN Crickinfo
There were no surprises in the 13 New Zealand named for their two-Test series against Sri Lanka that begins on March 9. All 13 players who featured in their recent 1-1 draw with England were named, with the omissions from that squad being the uncapped seamer Jacob Duffy, legspinner Ish Sodhi, and the injured Kyle Jamieson. Tim Southee will lead the squad that is coming off the high of becoming…
Sandeep Lamichhane will fly out to join Nepal for their remaining games in the Cricket World Cup (CWC) League 2 series in Dubai. Lamichhane has been called up as a replacement for Mousom Dhakal, who picked up an injury in the nets. Nepal are playing Papua New Guinea (PNG) and the hosts UAE in this leg of the series and have been trying to find ways to bring Lamichhane in….
Peshawar Zalmi 197 for 5 (Powell 64, Kohler-Cadmore 56*, Haseebullah 50, Amir 4-26) beat Karachi Kings 173 for 8 (Imad 57*, Wade 53, Omarzai 3-28) by 24 runs Peshawar Zalmi went from one extreme to the other, slumping to 2 for 3 in the first 2.2 overs and then smashing 195 for 2 in the remaining 17.4 to seal a comfortable victory over Karachi Kings in Rawalpindi. It all began…
Jason Holder became the second West Indies player after Sir Garry Sobers to take 150 Test wickets and score 2500 runs but does not think he will be able to break Sobers’ record because of the dearth of Test cricket facing teams like West Indies. “The way world cricket is going now, apart from the big three, every team is barely playing any Test cricket,” Holder said after the second…
The ECB opened the long-awaited, much-delayed Cricket Discipline Commission’s racism hearings by laying out its case against, among others, former fast bowlers Matthew Hoggard and Tim Bresnan. On the opening day of hearings at the International Arbitration Centre in London, the ECB accused Hoggard, Bresnan and John Blain of repeatedly making racist remarks while at Yorkshire. The trio were accused of directing words and phrases such as p**, “you lot”,…
Rest of India 381 for 3 (Jaiswal 213, Abhimanyu 154) vs Madhya Pradesh Yashasvi Jaiswal and Abhimanyu Easwaran put on a massive stand of 371 for the second wicket to flatten last season’s Ranji Trophy champions Madhya Pradesh on the first day of the Irani Cup in Gwalior. Jaiswal smashed his third first-class double-century studded with 30 fours and three sixes whereas Abhimanyu scored his fourth 150-plus knock of the…
Bangladesh have made five changes to their T20I squad for the first two matches against England later this month. Rony Talukdar returns to the set-up after eight years, Shamim Hossain makes comeback after a two-year absence, while Towhid Hridoy, Rejaur Rahman and Tanvir Islam have received their maiden call-ups to Bangladesh’s T20I squad. After the ongoing ODI series, Bangladesh play three T20Is against England in Chattogram ( March 9) and…
Brendon McCullum is confident that Ben Stokes’ involvement in the Indian Premier League will not jeopardise his participation in the Ashes this summer. Stokes, England’s Test captain, has found himself in the middle of a franchise versus country dilemma: insistent on fulfilling his £1.6million contract for Chennai Super Kings despite a left knee that requires constant management and rest ahead of the 2023 English season. The issue has progressively worsened…
Australia 156 for 4 (Khawaja 60, Jadeja 4-63) lead India 109 (Kuhnemann 5-16, Lyon 3-35) by 47 runs Matthew Kuhnemann’s maiden five-wicket haul and Usman Khawaja’s hard fought half-century gave Australia their best day of the tour, as they finished the first day in Indore 47 ahead of India’s 109 with six wickets in hand. On a pitch that was bare at both ends with a green patch in the…