Pakistan have selected a near-identical squad to the one playing the ongoing white-ball series against West Indies for the upcoming tour of England, with Nida Dar the captain of the side. The only omissions are Bismah Maroof, who retired from the game last week after an international career that spanned 18 years, and Sidra Nawaz, who was part of the ODI squad but did not play a game. The official…
Ben Wells, the Gloucestershire wicketkeeper-batter, has been forced to retire from professional cricket at the age of 23 after being diagnosed with a rare heart condition. Wells, who made his Gloucestershire debut in 2021, scored 40 from 94 balls in his only first-class innings, against Glamorgan at Cardiff in September that year. His most recent performance was a matchwinning 108 not out – his only professional hundred – against Durham…
Shivam Dube had a “lot of butterflies” and “sleepless nights” in the lead up to India’s squad selection for the T20 World Cup 2024, but he had more than an inkling that he was in the team management’s plans. Last August, after more than three years away, Dube earned a T20I recall on the back of a stellar run at IPL 2023. Dube had reinvented himself as a spin-hitter and…
Australia’s brightest young T20 batting talent Jake Fraser-McGurk and one of their finest three-format batters of the generation Steven Smith have both been left out of Australia’s provisional 15-member T20 World Cup squad with selectors opting to take a second specialist spinner in Ashton Agar and a spare allrounder in Cameron Green to give them more flexibility throughout the tournament. As expected, Mitchell Marsh will captain the side after Cricket…