Month: August 2023

Nominations for the September 3 BBL overseas draft closed on Monday with 376 male players from 29 countries nominating for the draft. Cricket Australia released the entire list on Monday. Players that are eligible for a retention pick* have the club next to their name. Afghanistan: Noor Ahmad, Qais Ahmad, Zia Ur Rehman Akbar, Sharafuddin Ashraf, Fazalhaq Farooqi (Sydney Thunder), Shafiqullah Ghafari, Allah Mohammad Ghazanfar, Amir Hamza Hotak, Waqarullah Ishaq,…

Australia A 141 for 3 (Jewell 69*) trail New Zealand A 147 (Swepson 3-19, Buckingham 3-29) by six runs Young pace bowler Jordan Buckingham made another good impression for Australia A on the opening day of the first four-day match against New Zealand A in Brisbane. He collected three wickets in a 13-ball rush as the visitors were left in a hole they never really climbed out of. Buckingham’s burst…

Matthew Wade has been called up to Australia’s T20I squad in South Africa to replace Glenn Maxwell, who picked up an ankle injury during the team’s first training session in Durban. Maxwell’s injury has been termed “a minor aggravation to his left ankle”, and a conservative route has been taken with an eye on the ODI World Cup in India in October-November. He was already due to leave the tour…

The red card made its first appearance in the Caribbean Premier League 2023, Trinbago Knight Riders the team incurring the third – and final, and potentially crippling – penalty for maintaining a slow over-rate during their game against St Kitts & Nevis Patriots on Sunday in Basseterre. They were left with only ten men for the final over as a result, losing Sunil Narine from the field. And Patriots batter…

Texas Chargers 92 (Hafeez 46, Dunk 20, Sohail 5-15, Afridi 2-8, Asif 2-14) tied with New York Warriors 92 for 6 (Carter 39*, Adil 3-11). Texas Chargers won the One-over Eliminator. Despite playing the eliminator and a qualifier on the same day, Saturday, Texas Chargers had enough in the tank to come out on Sunday and beat New York Warriors in the final of the inaugural US Masters T10, which…

Kane Williamson has two weeks to prove his fitness for the ODI World Cup after he linked up with the New Zealand squad in England to continue his rehab from the ACL injury picked up at the IPL. When Williamson suffered the injury in April he was viewed as only a very slim chance of making the World Cup, but his progress in recent weeks has been encouraging and he…

Oval Invincibles 161 for 5 (Curran 67*, Neesham 57*) beat Manchester Originals 147 for 6 (Holden 37, Jacks 2-11) by 14 runs Tom Curran brought men’s Hundred glory to south London with a virtuoso all-round performance as Oval Invincibles fought back from the brink to secure their first men’s Hundred title with a 14-run victory over Manchester Originals. Curran struck 67 not out off 34 balls – his highest score…

Hampshire 306 for 9 (Donald 115, Brown 66) beat Worcestershire 296 for 9 (Libby 80, Jones 67, Roderick 64, Wheal 4-48) by 10 runs Aneurin Donald‘s spectacular second hundred in as many games has set up a Metro Bank semi-final for Hampshire at Warwickshire on Tuesday. Donald showcased the full range of his stroke repertoire during his magnificent 115, sharing in a fourth-wicket stand of 162 with Ben Brown as…

Southern Brave 139 for 6 (Wyatt 59, Kemp 31, Cross 3-21) beat Northern Superchargers 105 (Moore 3-15, Bell 3-21) by 34 runs Anya Shrubsole signed off from professional cricket by lifting the Hundred trophy at Lord’s, captaining Southern Brave to their first title in their third final. After successive defeats to Oval Invincibles, they comprehensively outplayed Northern Superchargers in front of a record 21,636 crowd at Lord’s. Brave’s batting let…

Shreyas Iyer, who is currently part of a six-day conditioning camp in Bengaluru for India’s Asia Cup-bound squad, admits to “panicking” about his back injury and that he “never imagined” he would recover so fast. Iyer’s injury flared up after the fourth Border-Gavaskar Test against Australia in March. Initially, he was understood to have been keen on exploring non-surgical options to manage the issue to try and be available for…