Kusal Perera has been ruled out of Sri Lanka’s T20I leg of their Bangladesh tour with a respiratory infection. Niroshan Dickwella will fly in as his replacement and will link up with the team on Saturday; the rest of the side flew to Bangladesh on 29 February. He has fifties in his two most recent List A games in the Men’s National Super League, including a Player-of-the-Match performance in his…
UP Warriorz chose to bowl vs Gujarat Giants With five out of seven chasing teams collecting wins in Bengaluru, Alyssa Healy opted to give her bowlers first use of conditions against winless Gujarat Giants. Warriorz are coming off a morale-boosting win over defending champions Mumbai Indians a couple of days ago. Kiran Navgire, their star from that match, may have to move to one-drop with Chamari Athapaththu being given her…
Ireland 263 (Stirling 52, Ur-Rahman 5-64) and 111 for 4 (Balbirnie 58*, Tucker 27*, Naveed 2-31) beat Afghanistan 155 (Ibrahim 53, Adair 5-39) and 218 (Shahidi 55, Young 3-24, McCarthy 3-48, Adair 3-56) by six wickets Six years and seven Test defeats later, Ireland earned their first victory in cricket’s longest format on Friday, beating Afghanistan by six wickets on the third day of the one-off Test in Abu Dhabi….
Mir Hamza, the Pakistan left-arm seamer, has signed to play for Glamorgan in the first half of the upcoming County Championship season. He will be joined in Cardiff by Mason Crane after Hampshire allowed the legspinner to join Glamorgan on a season-long loan. Mark Wallace, Glamorgan’s director of cricket, hailed the arrival of Crane, describing the 27-year-old as “a high-quality player who gives us an attacking skill set in all…
Western Australia 287 for 9 (Goodwin 115, Whiteman 79, Bartlett 5-45) vs Queensland Jayden Goodwin scored his maiden first-class century to anchor Western Australia’s first innings in their Sheffield Shield match against Queensland at the WACA Ground. On a day when Cameron Bancroft fell for a six-ball duck, Goodwin dug in his heels to help guide WA towards a competitive first-innings total. Related Adam Voges: Hope in 10 years coaching…
South Australia 257 for 8 (Kelly 54, McSweeney 53, Manenti 50*) vs New South Wales South Australia and NSW were both been left satisfied but not fully content following an even opening day of their Sheffield Shield clash in Sydney. But NSW hit back to limit the damage, ensuring their hunt for a spot in the Shield final remains alive. McSweeney’s innings was ended by a superb running catch from…
Victoria 81 for 7 trail Tasmania 240 (Doran 47, Jewell 40, Sutherland 5-73) by 159 runs Matthew Wade pulled off arguably the best catch of his glittering career as Victoria’s star-studded batting line-up imploded against Tasmania on a day of Sheffield Shield carnage at Blundstone Arena. A total of 17 wickets fell across the opening day in Hobart, with Victoria entering stumps in huge trouble at 81 for 7 in…
Red-ball cricket for women will make a return to India’s domestic calendar after four years when the BCCI conducts its Senior Women’s Inter-Zonal Multi-Day Trophy in Pune from March 28. It was in 2018 that a domestic red-ball tournament – of two-day matches – was last held in India for women. This comes not long after India played – and won – back-to-back one-off Tests against England and Australia in…
Quetta Gladiators 169 for 5 (Rutherford 58*, Roy 52, Mahmood 2-17) beat Karachi Kings 165 for 6 (Vince 37, Abrar 3-31, Tariq 2-16) by five wickets Sherfane Rutherford hit an unbeaten half-century and earned a five-wicket win for Quetta Gladiators over a depleted Karachi Kings in the Pakistan Super League on Thursday. Rutherford smashed 58 not out off 31 balls with six towering sixes and a match-winning boundary off the…
Cameron Green was sheepish on the evening of day one when he admitted he did not know how to bat with the lower order. “I’m still trying to work out how best to play with a tail,” he said. “It’s still a fine balance between still trying to score runs but then [not] making the guys down the bottom face too many balls.” It took him all of 16 hours…