Toss New Zealand chose to bat vs India New Zealand captain Sophie Devine opted to bat first in the second ODI against India in Ahmedabad. The visitors made two changes to the side which had lost the first ODI on Thursday, although one of them was forced. Spin-bowling allrounder Amelia Kerr, who was ruled out of the remaining two matches of the series and most of the upcoming WBBL due…
Brisbane Heat 134 for 6 (Knott 44*) beat Adelaide Strikers 133 for 5 (McGrath 51*) by four wickets Brisbane Heat earned a modicum of revenge for their defeat in last season’s WBBL final by toppling defending champions Adelaide Strikers by four wickets in the opening game of the season. Having restricted Strikers to 133 for 5, Charli Knott controlled the chase with a crisp 44 off 30 balls although there…
Andrew McDonald, the Australia head coach, has said 19-year-old Sam Konstas would not be held back from a Test debut against India due to his lack of first-class experience if the selectors believe he is the best option. Konstas, who will play for Australia A against India A in Mackay from Thursday, is in the mix to open in the Test series after making back-to-back hundreds in the first Sheffield…
Before 2024, New Zealand visited India 12 times across 69 years from 1955 to play Test cricket, but they had never managed to win a series. On Saturday, in his first stint as full-time New Zealand captain, Tom Latham did an Edmund Hillary, leading New Zealand to their first-ever Test series win in India. Latham was part of the New Zealand team that won the inaugural World Test Championship after…
India are unfazed by the recent form of their senior spinners R Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja, their captain Rohit Sharma has said. On a slow, dry Pune pitch, India’s spin trio, which included Washington Sundar, was outbowled by New Zealand’s as India suffered their first Test series defeat at home since 2012. “I mean, see look, there is too much expectation on those two guys,” Rohit said of Ashwin and…
Months after they’d hit the reset button, Pakistan were ready to burn it all down again. Aleem Dar, freshly announced as a member on Pakistan’s latest selection panel, glowered at the Multan surface. It had played host to a game where England racked up the fourth-highest total in Test history before dispensing swiftly with Pakistan. The curators believed it would have started taking spin sometime on day four. Pakistan’s specialist…
England are unlikely to change their batting line-up ahead of their tour to New Zealand next month despite two heavy defeats to Pakistan. They were bowled out for 112 in Rawalpindi on Saturday, but their captain Ben Stokes insisted: “There’s no doubt in my mind that we have got the best top six batsmen in England.” After they racked up 823 for 7 in the first Test in Multan, England…
“Felt a bit harder this time,” Santner said when it was his turn to speak, after he had collected the Player-of-the-Match award. “Credit to India the way they came out. We knew they were going to fire some shots; that was probably the best play on that wicket. [Yashasvi] Jaiswal played extremely well. But we were just trying to hang in there and hopefully one had their name on it….
In the immediate aftermath of the 113-run defeat to New Zealand in the Pune Test, which consigned India to their first home-series defeat in 12 years, Rohit Sharma has suggested that the main reason for the loss was the batters’ failure to get close to the visitors’ first-innings total of 259. With Mitchell Santner taking 7 for 53 – which he would follow up with 6 for 104 in the…
Najmul Hossain Shanto has expressed his wish to step down as the Bangladesh captain, according to BCB. Shanto, Bangladesh’s captain in all three formats, has informed the board that he wants the ongoing Test series at home against South Africa to be his last as the captain. ESPNcricinfo has learned that Shanto sent the message to senior board officials following the first Test against South Africa in Dhaka, which Bangladesh…