Bangladesh 149 for 2 (Murshida 62*, Nigar 34*) beat South Africa136 for 8 (Bosch 67, Brits 30, Shorna 5-28) Sixteen-year-old Shorna Akther added a glorious chapter in Bangladesh Women’s cricket as they stunned South Africa in the first T20I in Benoni. Defending 149, the legspin-bowling allrounder picked up her maiden five-for to trigger a middle-order collapse in the last five overs as South Africa slipped from 123 for 3 to…
Jofra Archer will not feature in the 2024 edition of the IPL at all as ECB looks to take control of his workload in the build-up to next year’s T20 World Cup. Archer has not played any professional cricket since May 2023, when he suffered a recurrence of an elbow stress fracture while playing for Mumbai Indians in the IPL. He briefly travelled to the World Cup in India as…
Samp Army 96 for 6 (Du Plessis 30, Najibullah 25*, Farooqi 2-17, Bravo 2-22) beat Delhi Bulls 95 for 8 (Vince 24, Irshad 3-14, Holder 3-15) by four wickets Morrisville Samp Army ended Delhi Bulls’ winning run with a four-wicket win in a match that became closer than anticipated for roughly three-fourths of its duration. Jason Holder and Salman Irshad returned economical three-wicket hauls to set up a 96-run chase…
Toss England chose to bat vs West Indies England won the toss and elected to bat against West Indies in the ODI series opener at the Sir Vivian Richards Stadium in Antigua. The 2019 50-over champions’ white-ball reboot begins with an XI featuring just six players who were on deck for the dismal World Cup campaign, supplemented by some fresh-yet-familiar faces. The majority of the latter can be found in…
Toss Australia chose to field vs India Australia captain Matthew Wade won the toss and elected to field against India in the T20I series finale in Bengaluru. Wade had no hesitation to bowl on a surface he described as “tacky” amid overcast conditions at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium with rain threatening to impact the contest. The fifth and final match is effectively a dead rubber after India took an unassailable…
The entire WBBL season, all 59 games of it, and the cherished trophy – came down to this. Brisbane needed five runs from two balls to win Saturday night’s final at Adelaide Oval. Heat tailender Mikayla Hinkley had just smashed her first ball for six. Then she went for glory. Hinkley cracked a Wellington legspinner high and long, towards the long-off boundary where Jemma Barsby was stationed. Wellington: “My heart stopped.”…
Pakistan 132 for 3 (Zulfiqar 41, Devine 2-23) beat New Zealand 127 for 6 (Green 43*, Sana 3-18) by seven wickets Fatima Sana‘s three-for and combined effort from batters helped Pakistan win the first T20I against New Zealand in Dunedin. It was also Pakistan’s first-ever win against New Zealand in the format. Having elected to bat first, New Zealand openers got off to a steady start but medium pacer Sana…
As anticipated, Warner was named in Australia’s 14-man squad for the first Test against Pakistan by Australia’s selectors on Sunday with Bailey, the chairman of selectors, stating he was in Australia’s best XI. Related Warner on track for Sydney farewell while Marsh and Green both named in Test squad Australia’s Test squad takeaways: Warner remains, Marsh vs Green, blooding new quicks In his Sunday column in The West Australian, Johnson…
Australia’s selectors pulled no surprises naming 10 of the 11 that played in the last Ashes Test back in July, with Nathan Lyon replacing Todd Murphy after recovering from his calf injury. Green has been selected as the extra batter/allrounder and two extra fast bowlers in Morris and Scott Boland have also been named in the squad for the first Test against Pakistan at Perth Stadium starting on December 14….
Will Jacks was not told by the ECB that he had missed out on a central contract, saying “I just ended up seeing it on Twitter like everyone else.” Jacks, 25, has played in all three formats for England over the past 12 months and was a surprise omission from the ECB’s list of 29 players to receive a contract offer. “It was a bit of a difficult one,” Jacks…