Month: December 2023

Top-order batter Bouchier, 24, has been in the England set-up for the last few years but announced herself with 95 from 65 balls in her third ODI against Sri Lanka in September. Gibson, the seam-bowling allrounder, made her full debut in the summer’s Ashes and hit the winning runs to seal the T20I series against Australia at Lord’s. Their elevation comes following the retirement of Katherine Sciver-Brunt after a 19-year…

Fast bowlers Haris Rauf and Zaman Khan, and legspinner Usama Mir have all been granted No-Objection Certificates by the PCB to play in the upcoming BBL 2023-24. The PCB said that permission had been granted “considering the workload of players and the future tours programme of the national men’s team”. As things stand, Rauf and Mir have been given permission to play five matches each, and Zaman four matches. The…

Steven Mullaney has agreed a three-year player-coach contract with Nottinghamshire that will see him captain the 2nd XI while remaining available for the first team across all formats. Mullaney recently stepped down as club captain and has already begun to turn his focus to coaching, working at the Abu Dhabi T10 and on the Trent Rockets staff during the Hundred. His new Notts role will include one-to-one coaching and helping…

Australia’s World Test Championship and ODI World Cup defences will be shown exclusively on Amazon Prime Video. The streaming platform has secured the broadcast rights in Australia for all men’s and women’s International Cricket Council (ICC) tournaments. Foxtel/Kayo broadcast the entire recent ODI World Cup, while the Nine Network screened Australia’s games and a handful of others. But under this new deal there will be no free-to-air element. In Australia…

New Zealand legspinner Ish Sodhi has backed the “experienced heads” in their side to bounce back from the defeat in the opening Test against Bangladesh. New Zealand went down by 150 runs in Sylhet, after which their captain Tim Southee felt that they didn’t bowl consistently in the right areas for long enough. Sodhi, who was the last batter to be dismissed in Sylhet, said that the home side’s impressive…

South Africa’s ODI captain Temba Bavuma and fast bowler Kagiso Rabada have been rested from their white-ball series against India later this month in order to prepare for the two Tests which follow. Bavuma captained South Africa to the semi-final at the recently completed World Cup and remains the appointed fifty-over captain but T20I skipper Aiden Markram will lead in his absence for the India seires. Gerald Coetzee, Marco Jansen…

Johnson said Warner had not taken full responsibility for his role in the Sandpaper affair in South Africa in 2018 that earned him a 12-month ban. He questioned, “why a player at the centre of one of the biggest scandals in Australian cricket history warrants a hero’s send-off”. Related Johnson lashes out at Warner, asks if he ‘warrants a hero’s send-off’ Warner on track for Sydney farewell while Marsh and Green…

Shai Hope sealed a dramatic victory for his West Indies side over England with three sixes in four balls off Sam Curran in Antigua on Sunday, then called upon his players to back up their performances next week as they look to clinch a series win. Hope’s unbeaten 109 off 83 balls was his 16th ODI century and the fastest of his career. He brought it up with a flurry…

It’s not always that you score 160 at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium and feel you are 15 to 20 runs above par. But that’s what Arshdeep Singh said after India beat Australia by six runs in the fifth and T20I to take a 4-1 series win. After being sent in, India hobbled to 160 for 8. In response, Australia were 144 for 7 after 18 overs, needing 17 from 12…

Captain Deepak Hooda led Rajasthan from the front to confirm their quarter-final berth in the Vijay Hazare Trophy, with a 43-run win against Himachal Pradesh in Chandigarh. The teams that top each of the five groups will earn direct quarter-final qualification and Rajasthan did that by taking an unassailable lead at the top of Group D, with 20 points and a match to go for most teams, with second-placed Gujarat,…