England players dominate the BBL list with 14 names, Ashes stars Harry Brook and Zak Crawley among them, while there are seven in the WBBL platinum group. South Africa provide six of the WBBL players and India five. The drafts will take place on September 3. The WBBL runs from October 19 to December 2 and the BBL goes from December 7 to January 24. BBL platinum players Gus Atkinson,…
Leicestershire 126 for 4 (Mulder 55*, Handscomb 49*) beat Gloucestershire 125 (Mulder 3-38, Scriven 3-19) by six wickets Leicestershire are through to their first one-day final for 22 years, surviving some early scares to see off Gloucestershire by six wickets with 21 and a half overs to spare as Wiaan Mulder starred with bat and ball in their Metro Bank One-Day Cup semi-final at Grace Road . The Foxes will…
Somerset batter George Bartlett will leave the club at the end of the season after agreeing a three-year contract with Northamptonshire. Bartlett, 25, came through Somerset’s academy and made his County Championship debut in 2017. In 55 first-class appearances he averages 29.44, with two of his eight hundreds coming this season. In List A, he averages 30.50 with one hundred, but he has been limited to just eight T20 career…
Big picture: Back to the 20-over format Roll up, roll up! We’ve had rollercoaster men’s and women’s Ashes, the Hundred has enjoyed its month in the spotlight… but there’s still room in the sardine can for a bilateral white-ball series or three! Astute followers of the game will be aware that New Zealand arrived in the country a few days ago, but the rest of you are forgiven if you…
Sidra Ameen and Muneeba Ali have earned promotions in the PCB’s new central contracts with Ameen promoted from Category C to A. She is one of just three women in the highest category of the PCB’s central contracts, with Nida Dar and Bismah Maroof retaining their places in Category A. Muneeba, who scored Pakistan women’s only T20 hundred at the World Cup earlier this year, jumps up a category to…
Tristan Stubbs will keep wicket for South Africa in the opening T20I against Australia in Durban as the hosts look to rotate the gloves in the absence of the rested Quinton de Kock. Stubbs is one of three options for the three-match series and has been chosen to start in the position ahead of Matthew Breetzke and Donovan Ferreira, who have both yet to play an international match. “He has…
“Experimentation.” It’s a word Rahul Dravid has perhaps read and heard so much that he wasn’t quite in the mood to let it go outside off one more time. Dravid was as measured as he could be, hearing out the question in full, before neatly leaning into his answer that formed the crux of his press conference at the conclusion of India’s six-day conditioning camp in Bengaluru. “To be very…
Hampshire 95 for 1 (Middleton 54*) beat Warwickshire 93 (Dawson 7-15, Barker 3-28) by nine wickets Liam Dawson eviscerated Warwickshire with 7 for 15 as Hampshire cruised into the Metro Bank One-Day Cup final with a nine-wicket win at Edgbaston. Left-arm spinner Dawson registered his best bowling performance in any format and sent an already faltering innings into freefall with three wickets in four balls as Warwickshire folded all out…
Seamers Binura Fernando and Pramod Madushan have been named in Sri Lanka’s Asia Cup squad, replacing the more experienced quicks who are out with injuries. Legspin-bowling allrounder Dushan Hemantha has also made the squad, essentially as a like-for-like replacement for Wanindu Hasaranga. Kusal Perera is in the squad as well. It has been more than two years since he last played an ODI, but this has mostly been because of…
KL Rahul, India’s first-choice wicketkeeper-batter for the Asia Cup, will not be available for the first two matches at the tournament, against Pakistan and Nepal, head coach Rahul Dravid confirmed at a press conference prior to the start of the tournament. Dravid said Rahul has been progressing “really well”, but won’t be ready in time for the group-stage fixtures against Pakistan (September 2) and Nepal (September 4), both of which…