Month: June 2024

Trudy Lindblade, Cricket Scotland’s CEO, has described public comments made by John Blain at the formal conclusion of independent investigations into allegations of racist behaviour as “very disappointing”. On Tuesday, Blain issued a subsequent statement, pre-empting Cricket Scotland’s formal conclusion of the independent investigations process that had stemmed from the ‘Changing the Boundaries’ report in 2022 (which had found Cricket Scotland to be institutionally racist). In it, Blain threatened legal…

Sophia Dunkley has been recalled to England’s T20I squad less than a week after earning an ODI return for the upcoming series against New Zealand, where Freya Kemp is set to feature as an allrounder as she continues her return from a back injury. England’s 16-strong squad for the five-match T20 series is otherwise unchanged to the one which defeated Pakistan 3-0 last month. Mahika Gaur, the 18-year-old fast bowler…

Heinrich Klaasen believes that South Africa are battle-hardened for the business end of the T20 World Cup 2024 after winning a series of “scrappy games” in the early weeks of the competition. In the group stages, South Africa scraped past Sri Lanka and Netherlands in nervy run chases before defending scores of 113 and 115 against Bangladesh and Nepal respectively. Wednesday’s 18-run win over USA in Antigua was their most…

Daren Sammy told his West Indies team to put their eight-wicket loss to England “in the garbage” and insisted that they can still win an unprecedented third men’s T20 World Cup. West Indies set England 181 to win in St Lucia – at the ground bearing Sammy’s name – but only took two wickets as the defending champions cruised home with 15 balls to spare, thanks primarily to Phil Salt…

Big picture: Who will give way at the top of Group 2? What direction is the drama following these two teams going to go in next? On the face of it, things are going smoothly for South Africa. They are unbeaten at the tournament and have won matches when both setting targets and chasing but, and this is a big but, none of it has been easy. It’s not just…

India will host Bangladesh, New Zealand and England during their 2024-25 home season. Things will kick off on September 19 with a two-match Test series against Bangladesh. Chennai will host the first Test and Kanpur will host the second Test from September 27. This will be Bangladesh’s only third Test tour to India. They played a one-off Test in 2017 and a two-match series in 2019. After the Test series,…

The seven-member PCB selection committee is likely to undergo changes in the wake of Pakistan’s dismal T20 World Cup campaign. While the PCB will undertake a review to assess what went wrong for Pakistan, it is understood streamlining the operations of the selection committee is a top priority for the board. ESPNcricinfo understands the number of people on the selection committee will be reduced, with the PCB also considering ditching…

Former India fast bowler David Johnson has died at the age of 52. Known for his pace, Johnson came into the Indian side on the basis of some fine performances for Karnataka in the domestic circuit. He recorded figures of 10 for 152 against Kerala in the 1995-96 Ranji Trophy season. He made his Test debut in the Delhi Test against Australia in 1996. With Javagal Srinath injured, Johnson bowled…

To get close to chasing India’s 325 and fall short just by four runs is a massive confidence booster for South Africa, according to Marizanne Kapp, one of the four centurions in the second ODI in Bengaluru. She said this was the brand of cricket they wanted to play, looking ahead to next year’s 50-over World Cup in India. This was after South Africa were reduced to 67 for 3…

England registered a commanding eight-wicket win in their Super Eight match against West Indies at T20 World Cup 2024 in Gros Islet. Set a challenging 181 to win, England got home with Phil Salt finishing unbeaten on 87, with Bairstow in tow with a 26-ball 48 not out. The two added 97 off 44 balls to see England home with eight wickets and 2.3 overs to spare. “That was a…