Month: August 2024

England will consider Joe Root and Ben Stokes for their 2025 Champions Trophy squad despite neither playing a 50-over match since last year’s World Cup. Root (rested) and Stokes (injured) are not involved in September’s five-match ODI series against Australia, and will both miss November’s tour to West Indies due to England’s Test tours to Pakistan and New Zealand. The Champions Trophy will begin in mid-February in Pakistan, with England…

England have named Freya Kemp and Bess Heath in their 15-player squad for the Women’s T20 World Cup. Danielle Gibson is also selected for her first World Cup, to be played in the UAE in October, but there was no room was fast bowler Lauren Filer. Allrounder Kemp and back-up wicketkeeper Heath will also take part in next month’s white-ball trip to Ireland, where Kate Cross will captain a team…

Fast bowlers Mohammed Siraj and Umran Malik have been ruled out of the first round of the Duleep Trophy that begins next month with illness. While Navdeep Saini replaces Siraj in the India B squad, Gaurav Yadav comes in for Malik in the India C squad. Allrounder Ravindra Jadeja has also been released from the India B squad but there was no replacement name for him. Nitish Kumar Reddy’s participation…

India have named a familiar-looking squad for the women’s T20 World Cup 2024 retaining the bulk of the side that qualified for the final of the women’s T20 Asia Cup in July this year. Fourteen of the 15 players in the World Cup squad were also part of the Asia Cup side, with only Uma Chetry missing out. India have instead picked Yastika Bhatia, but her inclusion is subject to…

New Zealand’s women’s domestic teams have completed the contracted players’ roster for the 2024-25 season. Here is the complete list with the latest additions in the respective teams. Central Districts Uncapped right-arm seamer Grace Foreman has been awarded her maiden contract. Foreman, who hails from New Plymouth, has impressed through Taranaki and Central Districts’ pathway systems in recent years. She represented the team at the Under-15 and Under-19 levels and…

Suryakumar Yadav, India’s T20I captain, wants to have some “red-ball fun” but is aware the road back to the Test side will not be all that straightforward. As things stand, there are at least four others, including his Mumbai team-mates Sarfaraz Khan and Shreyas Iyer, along with KL Rahul and Rajat Patidar, ahead of him in the pecking order. But he wants to give the long-form cricket another proper crack…

Defending champions Adelaide Strikers have signed India opener Smriti Mandhana for the upcoming WBBL. Related Chamari Athapaththu signs three-season WBBL deal with Sydney Thunder Shamar Joseph nominates for BBL draft; Harmanpreet confirmed for WBBL draft Lizelle Lee locks in two-year deal with Hobart Hurricanes Earlier this year, Mandhana captained Royal Challengers Bengaluru to the WPL title with the side coached by Luke Williams who holds the same role with Strikers….

PCB chairman Mohsin Naqvi has struck a bleak tone about the perceived absence of depth within the Pakistan set-up, saying there are no players in the feeder system to replace any underperforming members of the team. A day after Pakistan succumbed to their first-ever Test defeat against Bangladesh, Naqvi announced the mentors for the newly created Champions Cup, expressing confidence that the players it churns out would be capable of…

Defending champions Australia will play in UAE for the first time ever on October 5, when they open their Women’s T20 World Cup campaign against Sri Lanka, the current Asia Cup champions. India, meanwhile, will open their tournament a day earlier, against New Zealand, in Dubai. Apart from India and Australia, two other sides – England and West Indies – will be featuring in a T20I on UAE shores for…

The Blaze 208 (Kelly 40, Lee 4-51) beat Southern Vipers 188 (Southby 36, Prendergast 3-38) beat by 20 runs A stunning team bowling performance kept The Blaze in the hunt to secure a place in the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy knockout stage – while Southern Vipers botched their first chance to confirm progression. Marie Kelly‘s 40 headlined a hard-working batting effort to reach 208 on a tough pitch to force…