Month: December 2023

Jos Buttler has stated his desire to take England white-ball cricket back to its previous heights, saying that he feels personal responsibility for “shaping the next period” of the format’s evolution. Speaking after England trained for the second consecutive day at the Sir Vivian Richards Stadium in Antigua, Buttler reflected on what has been a difficult two months, before throwing forward and highlighting the talent and excitement at the start…

Renuka Singh has made a comeback from a stress injury, while WPL breakout stars Shreyanka Patil and Saika Ishaque have earned maiden T20I call-ups for the three-match series against England beginning December 6 in Mumbai. There was also a maiden call-up for Karnataka’s 24-year-old left-handed batter Satheesh Shubha. Renuka and Ishaque are also in line to make their Test debuts later in the month alongside Jemimah Rodrigues, after being named…

India 174 for 9 (Rinku 46, Jitesh 35, Dwarshuis 3-40) beat Australia 154 for 7 (Wade 36*, Head 31, Axar 3-16, Chahar 2-44) by 20 runs India were limited to 174 for 9 by some accurate death bowling from Australia, but they still defended the target and wrapped up the series, with one game left. Ravi Bishnoi and Axar Patel were central to India’s successful defence, returning combined figures of…

New Zealand batting allrounder Rachin Ravindra, who scored 578 runs at a strike rate of 106 and took five wickets at the World Cup, has listed his base price at INR 50 lakhs (USD 60,000 approximately). Some of the other significant players in the highest base price band are fast bowler Gerald Coetzee, who was South Africa’s highest wicket-taker at the World Cup, and England batter Harry Brook, who was…

New York Strikers 92 for 7 (Waseen 23, Gurbaz 22) beat Northern Warriors 88 for 3 (Munro 44*) by three wickets New York Strikers beat Northern Warriors with five balls to spare despite losing five wickets in the space of 13 balls towards the end of their chase of 89. The result ended Warriors unbeaten run in the Abu Dhabi T10. After choosing to bowl, New York got off to…

New Zealand 317 and 113 for 7 (Mitchell 44*, Sodhi 7*, Taijul 4-40) need another 219 runs to beat Bangladesh 310 and 338 (Shanto 105, Mushfiqur 67, Ajaz 4-148) Taijul Islam led the Bangladesh spinners to take them on the verge of beating New Zealand in the Sylhet Test with three more wickets to take and an entire day left for it. New Zealand finished the day on 113 for…

The trio will take up their role in the selection panel with immediate effect. Their first assignment as consultant members begins with Pakistan’s five-match T20I series against New Zealand that gets underway from January 12 after the conclusion of their Test tour to Australia. The PCB said that when the trio are not engaged in selection duties, they might be given additional tasks such as conducting skill camps. Both Akmal…

Former Australia captain Tim Paine has slammed the SCG pitch produced for the Sheffield Shield match between New South Wales and Tasmania as an “absolute disgrace”, after 24 wickets tumbled on the third day with the visitors bowled out for 68, but there remains confidence in the quality of surfaces for upcoming matches including the New Year’s Test against Pakistan. The clatter of wickets came across just 63 overs on…

Queensland 274 for 8 dec (Khawaja 102*, Clayton 53, Richardson 4-36) and 137 for 3 (Burns 62*) drew with Western Australia 330 (Cartwright 132, Green 96, Sandhu 5-77, Steketee 4-50) Marnus Labuschagne missed the chance to spend extended time at the crease as the Sheffield Shield clash between Queensland and Western Australia ended in an unavoidable draw. Both captains shook hands at tea on day four at the Gabba with…

Victoria 278 (Harper 151, Agar 5-45, Doggett 4-73) and 231 (Pucovski 65, McAndrew 4-50) beat South Australia 252 (Fraser-McGurk 101, Manenti 51, Scott 50, O’Neill 5-28) and 231 (Carey 81, Agar 46, O’Neill 5-83) by 23 runs Alex Carey gave national selectors a timely reminder of his credentials but it wasn’t enough to stop Victoria defeating South Australia by 23 runs in the Sheffield Shield. Victoria came into day four…