He wasn’t even going to be at the ground on Sunday, after his toes bore the brunt of a Mitchell Starc yorker on day three of the Gabba Test. But West Indies were in with a chance of winning a Test match in Australia for the first time since February 1997, and Shamar Joseph wasn’t going to miss the chance to be part of that effort. The team doctor worked…
Joseph acknowledges his five-wicket haul • Cricket Australia/Getty Images West Indies 311 and 193 beat Australia 289 for 9 dec and 207 (Smith 91*, Green 42, S Joseph 7-68) by 8 runs Shamar Joseph defied his injured toe and sprinted around the Gabba in jubilation after his remarkable seven-wicket haul powered West Indies to a monumental upset of Australia in a pulsating eight-run victory in the second Test. Shortly after dinner, Joseph…
There was no stopping Shamar Joseph after the historic win • Getty Images Joseph, starting to bowl towards the end of the first hour of day four, took seven wickets in a spell that saw him bowl 11.5 overs on the trot with only the dinner break offering him some respite. “I wasn’t even coming out to the ground this morning to be fair. I must give a shout-out to the doctor,”…
Steven Smith makes his first half-century as an opener, • Cricket Australia/Getty Images Joseph bowled unchanged for 11.5 overs despite injuring his toe while batting on Saturday and finished with 7 for 68 in only his second Test to level the two-match Test series 1-1. “[There is] disappointment after a loss [but] that was a fantastic Test match and a fantastic series,” Cummins said at the presentation. “In particular, Shamar, the way…
South Africa 144 for 4 (Wolvaardt 58*, Brits 41) beat Australia 142 for 6 (Harris 31*) by six wickets South Africa’s women beat Australia for the first time ever, claiming a six-wicket win in the second T20I in Canberra. Quality bowling on Sunday helped them hold the hosts to a below-par total of 142 for 6, a total they tracked down with six balls to spare thanks to captain Laura…
When Nitish Rana soaked in his team-mates’ applause after going from 99 to 100 on Saturday, he was experiencing a feeling both familiar and unfamiliar. It was his seventh first-class hundred in 47 games, but his first in more than four years. So much had happened between his sixth and seventh hundreds, a time during which he had averaged 27.07 in first-class cricket and passed 50 only twice in 17…
Pakistan 144 for 0 (Shahzaib 80*, Shamyl 54*) beat New Zealand 140 (Stackpole 42, Minhas 3-6, Ubaid 3-30, Naveed 2-26) by ten wickets Shahzaib Khan continued his stunning run of form, slamming an unbeaten 80 to take Pakistan past New Zealand by ten wickets in their men’s Under-19 World Cup match in East London, but the canter was really set up by the bowling unit. New Zealand, after electing to…
The reverse sweep was England’s second most profitable shot (48 off 30 balls, no dismissals) in the second innings that took them from 190 behind to 126 ahead. Ollie Pope and Ben Duckett in particular were using it repeatedly, throwing India’s spinners off the good length area where most of the danger lurked in this Hyderabad pitch. In all, England made 79 runs off 46 balls using various kinds of…
Nicholls had made an unbeaten 200 against Sri Lanka in Wellington in March 2023, but apart from that he hasn’t passed 40 in his last 11 Tests. All up, Nicholls has nine Test hundreds, level with former captain Stephen Fleming. Among active New Zealand players, only Tom Latham (13) and Kane Williamson (29) have more Test centuries than Nicholls. “His currency is weight of runs, isn’t it? To do that…
England 246 and 316 for 6 (Pope 148*, Bumrah 2-29, Ashwin 2-93) lead India 436 (Jadeja 87, Rahul 86, Jaiswal 80, Root 4-79, Rehan 2-105, Hartley 2-131) by 126 runs When the day began, we wondered if there would be a day four in the Hyderabad Test. Then Bazball arrived. After England lost four of their first five wickets in the first innings to defensive shots, you could almost imagine…