Heather Knight says she is not surprised by the findings of a damning report into inequality in cricket, recounting her own experience of sexism in the sport. Responding to the report and recommendations of the Independent Commission for Equity in Cricket (ICEC) released this week, Knight, the England Women’s captain, said that while much progress had been made, there was still a “long way to go”. She also recalled how…
Australia 416 and 130 for 2 (Khawaja 58*) lead England 325 (Duckett 98, Brook 50, Starc 3-88, Head 2-17, Hazlewood 2-71) by 221 runs A day which began with the second Test evenly balanced ended with Australia holding a firm grip on this contest, and perhaps with it the Ashes. England folded during the morning session to a myriad of wild shots, conceding a lead of 91, before Usman Khawaja…
Sri Lanka 213 (de Silva 93, van Beek 3-26, de Leede 3-42) beat Netherlands 192 (Edwards 67, Barresi 52, Theekshana 3-31) by 21 runs Sri Lanka survived an almighty scare as they scraped past Netherlands by 21 runs to kickstart their Super Six campaign on a nervy but winning note. It was a victory built on the back of a career-best 93 from Dhananjaya de Silva and a backs-against-the-wall bowling…
Saurabh four-for shakes East up East Zone 69 for 6 (Shantanu 18, Shahbaz 18, Saurabh 4-33, Mavi 1-7) and 122 need another 231 runs to beat Central Zone 182 and 239 (Mantri 68, Porel 3-15, Shahbaz 3-66) Saurabh Kumar‘s four wickets helped Central Zone take a big step towards the Duleep Trophy semi-final ahead of the final day’s play against East Zone in Alur. Saurabh’s wickets included the Bengal trio…
Allan Border, the former Australia captain, has revealed he has Parkinson’s disease, a progressive disorder of the nervous system that affects movement. Border, who turns 68 in July, was diagnosed with Parkinson’s in 2016. “I’m a pretty private person and I didn’t want people to feel sorry for me sort of thing,” he told Newscorp. “Whether people care you don’t know. But I know there’ll come a day when people…
New Zealand 329 for 7 (Devine 137, Kerr 108, Ranasinghe 3-68) beat Sri Lanka 218 (Dilhari 84, Tahuhu 4-31) by 111 runs After a loss in the first ODI, New Zealand fought back with vengeance in the second via centuries from Amelia Kerr and Sophie Devine to beat Sri Lanka by 111 runs and draw level in the three-match series in Galle. Kerr and Devine added 229 for the third…
Former India bowler Ajit Agarkar has applied for the vacant spot in India’s senior men’s selection committee. The BCCI advertised on June 22 for the vacancy that has not been filled since February when the last chairman of selectors, Chetan Sharma, resigned following a news channel sting operation on him. Agarkar applied on June 29 evening, a day before the deadline. If selected, the 45-year-old Agarkar, who played 26 Tests…
Madushanka comes on the back of his impressive form, picking up nine wickets with his left-arm pace against a visiting South Africa A side across three 50-over games and then another four in a four-day encounter, this month. Two weeks ago, he became the Lanka Premier League’s most expensive signing, when he was bought by Jaffna Kings for US$ 92,000. Overall in ODIs, he has 50 wickets in 44 matches…
England arrived at Lord’s as outsiders on Thursday morning, and left the ground 10 hours later as favourites. Not bad, for a team derided in several quarters as “brainless” and forced to defend their approach on a day where they gained a foothold in an Ashes series that had threatened to slip away from them. After 61 overs, England are 278 for 4 against a team whose spinner looks highly…
At around 4.30pm, Nathan Lyon, playing his 100th consecutive Test, set off to chase a ball towards the Grand Stand boundary. He pulled up and started to limp, a few moments later he was hobbling towards the dressing room. England were 182 for 1 and Australia had, at least for the day, likely the match and maybe even the series, lost a specialist bowler, one with 496 Test wickets to…