Pakistan Women 132 for 4 (Mubeeba 61, Maroof 48, Trisna 2-21) beat Bangladesh Women 101 for 9 (Shamima Sultana 26, Sadia 2-19, Aliya 2-24) by 31 runs Muneeba Ali‘s 49-ball 61, and her 106-run partnership with Bismah Maroof for the second wicket, laid the platform for Pakistan to end the T20I leg of their tour of Bangladesh with a consolation win. The partnership – Pakistan’s highest for the second wicket…
Big picture – Teams look to capitalise on momentum While this World Cup has only belatedly started offering up some nail-biters, it’s been rather more generous in terms of unexpected results. As a result, despite the sides currently occupying the top-four spots in the points table being the likeliest to make it through to the knockouts, there’s a cluster of teams just below them ready to capitalise on any potential…
Bangladesh came into the World Cup hoping to make the semi-finals but, mathemtics aside, they are out of contention with three league-stage matches left to play. An hour after the loss to Netherlands, the players waited in a queue outside Eden Gardens to get on the team bus. They stood still in the middle of a crowd of onlookers, mostly looking down. The day after, the quiet at the team…
Adelaide Strikers 148 for 4 (Patterson 70, Penna 36*) beat Brisbane Heat 89 (Wellington 3-14, Schutt 3-16) by 59 runs A bizarre run out helped Adelaide Strikers hand Brisbane Heat their first defeat of the WBBL season, downing the visitors by 59 runs to go second on the ladder. On the same night that the Melbourne Stars got their season back on track with a seven-run over Perth Scorchers, Strikers…
The top seven sides at the end of the league stage of the ongoing 2023 ODI World Cup will qualify for the 2025 ICC Champions Trophy, along with hosts Pakistan, to compete in the eight-team event. An ICC spokesperson confirmed to ESPNcricinfo that the qualification system for the 2025 Champions Trophy was approved by the ICC Board in 2021, when the competition was brought back as one of the eight…
Tasmania 150 (Webster 59, Steketee 4-42) and 432 for 7 (Wade 105, Webster 70, Wakim 56) beat Queensland 379 (Burns 133, Clayton 96, Peirson 52, Neser 51) and 202 for 6 dec (Renshaw 57, Burns 55) by three wickets Tasmania pulled off the highest successful run chase in their Sheffield Shield history in a memorable three-wicket triumph over Queensland. Set 432 to win, they secured the victory with just 10…
Lahiru Kumara has been ruled out of the World Cup after hurting his left thigh during training in Pune, where Sri Lanka play their next game of the tournament, against Afghanistan on Monday. He has been replaced in the Sri Lanka squad by Dushmantha Chameera, who becomes the third player to come in as an injury replacement for Sri Lanka since the tournament started. Chameera was one of the key…
Melbourne Stars 154 for 7 (Sutherland 49) beat Perth Scorchers 147 for 9 (Darke 45, Day 4-27) by seven runs Annabel Sutherland‘s late power hitting and smarts with the ball helped take the Melbourne Stars to a crucial seven-run WBBL win over Perth Scorchers. After Stars lost 3-0 midway through their innings at Junction Oval, Sutherland smashed 49 off 27 to help her side recover to 154 for 7. Sutherland…
Western Australia 241 (Bancroft 57, Cartwright 56, Agar 6-42) and 377 for 8 dec (Bancroft 100, Hardie 99) beat South Australia 264 (Manenti 86, Paris 6-74) and 154 (Paris 5-39, Haskett 3-31) by 200 runs Joel Paris ripped through South Australia’s batting to take a career-best 11 wickets for the match, bowling Western Australia to a 200-run Sheffield Shield win in Adelaide. After WA declared overnight and set South Australia…
Victoria 196 (Tremain 4-32) and 284 (Handscomb 90, O’Neill 70*, Tremain 4-50) beat New South Wales 102 (O’Neill 4-23) and 173 (Sangha 78, Sutherland 3-21, Murphy 3-34) by 205 runs New South Wales slumped to a 15th-straight match without a Sheffield Shield win after going down to Victoria by 205 runs at the MCG. They were rolled for 173 midway through the first session of day four to extend the…