Western Australia batter Ashton Turner is headed back to Durham to play a third straight season in the Vitality Blast following his stint in the IPL with Lucknow Super Giants. Turner, 31, has not played since knee surgery during the BBL ended his Australian domestic season in December but he is currently with LSG in the IPL although he has not been called into the XI due to their strong…
Josh Philippe has moved from Western Australia to New South Wales in a bid to reignite his Sheffield Shield career while Nic Maddinson returns to the state where his career began in a pair of significant domestic signings. Philippe’s shift to NSW has long been on the cards having been courted as far back as 2019 following his successful BBL move to Sydney Sixers. But he had previously opted to…
Punjab Kings 200 for 7 (Shashank 61*, Noor 2-32) beat Gujarat Titans 199 for 4 (Gill 89, Rabada 2-44) by three wickets Punjab Kings had only a 9% chance of victory even as late as the 17th over of the chase. That too was the result of Shashank Singh being out there one short of a fifty. This was the guy whom his own team had tried to offload almost…
Surrey may not advertise for a direct replacement when Alec Stewart leaves his post as director of cricket, reflecting both Stewart’s stature and legacy at the club and the ongoing changes in the wider English game. Surrey will learn this month whether their bid to host and run a Tier 1 club in the new women’s domestic structure has been successful, and chairman Oli Slipper has made clear his desire…
Match details Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) vs Chennai Super Kings (CSK)Hyderabad, 1930 IST (1400 GMT) Big picture The euphoria of watching their Thala bat may have taken the sting out of their defeat to Delhi Capitals in Vizag three nights ago, but Chennai Super Kings will be the first to admit morale wins only count for so much. In Hyderabad, they will be up against one of the most explosive batting…
Cricket Australia have blocked Xavier Bartlett from playing in the County Championship for Kent, denying him a No-Objection Certificate (NOC) shortly after offering him his first national contract. Bartlett had a breakout season in the 2023-24 Australian summer, making his ODI and T20I debuts against West Indies in February and taking 20 wickets – the most in the competition – in Brisbane Heat’s Big Bash League season. His impressive performances…
Delhi Capitals coach Ricky Ponting said he felt “almost embarrassed” by the “unacceptable” bowling and fielding performance his side put in against Kolkata Knight Riders in Visakhapatnam, as they lost by 106 runs after conceding the second-highest total in IPL history. “It’s pretty hard to assess right now,” Ponting said. “I mean, I was almost embarrassed with our first half of the game today, to concede that many runs [272]….
Still bitter about the scheduling fiasco that forced him and other senior players to miss a two-Test series against New Zealand earlier this year, South Africa pace spearhead Kagiso Rabada says they were not given a say in the “unacceptable” botch-up. As many as seven uncapped players were named for the series which was a part of the World Test Championship, even as first-choice players were involved in the SA20…
Australia 155 for 6 (Healy 45, McGrath 43*, Nahida 3-31) beat Bangladesh 78 (Nigar 32, Vlaeminck 3-12, Wareham 2-1) by 77 runs Tayla Vlaeminck capped her comeback tour in impressive fashion as Australia wrapped up a successful visit to Bangladesh with a 77-run victory in the third T20I. Fast bowler Vlaeminck took a career-best 3 for 12 from her four overs as Bangladesh were dismissed for 78 after Australia had…
Glenn Maxwell has described the pace of Mayank Yadav as “pretty formidable” and believes the speeds he produced were the equivalent of former Australia quick Shaun Tait in his prime. Mayank’s stunning display earned him his second straight player of the match award and sent shockwaves to Australia given he bounced out Maxwell and castled Cameron Green with two deliveries above 150kph. Related Moody: Mayank ‘definitely in the conversation’ for…