New South Wales 140 for 2 (Maddinson 69, Patterson 32*) lead South Australia 110 (Bird 7-46) by 30 runs Jackson Bird has turned back the clock, claiming seven wickets as he ripped through South Australia, paving the way for New South Wales to secure a 30-run first-innings lead by stumps on day one of their Sheffield Shield match. Bird finished with figures of 7 for 46 at Adelaide’s Karen Rolton…
Brisbane Heat 139 for 9 (Harris 39, Kerr 4-23) beat Sydney Sixers 127 for 8 (Bryce 30, Jonassen 3-24) by 12 runs Brisbane Heat have continued to breathe life back into their WBBL campaign, landing a mega blow to the Sydney Sixers’ campaign after beating the hosts by 12 runs. In a crucial match for both teams, the Heat’s bowlers delivered to restrict the Sixers to 127 for 8 at…
Big picture: Settled England scent the series It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. England’s T20 World Cup defence didn’t exactly go to plan in the Caribbean five months ago, but at least, in reaching the semi-finals, they can say they fared better than the hosts. West Indies had been infused with rare hope and expectation going into the tournament, but they failed to emerge…
Warwickshire wicketkeeper Michael Burgess has made a sudden retirement from professional cricket. Burgess had been at Warwickshire since 2019 having initially joined from Sussex on a two-year deal. With his current contract due to run until the end of the 2025 season, the 30-year-old has decided to step away from the game altogether and will pursue other career options in London. Having come through the age-group set-up at Surrey, Burgess…
Richard Whittam KC has been appointed chair of the Cricket Discipline Panel (CDP), a new independent tribunal which will take over from the Cricket Discipline Commission as the body to hear and adjudicate on regulatory breaches in English professional cricket and subsequent sanctions handed out. Whittam’s appointment, made by the ECB board for a four-year term, comes after an open recruitment process. The 64-year-old is a specialist regulatory and criminal…
West Indies and Ireland women are set for white-ball tours to India in December and January. The series, part of the 2022-2025 Future Tours Programme (FTP), will see India play West Indies in three T20Is in Navi Mumbai and three ODIs in Vadodara next month, followed by three ODIs against Ireland in Rajkot in January 2025. It will be Ireland women’s first-ever bilateral tour of India, and the teams’ first…
South Africa won the toss and chose to bowl vs India Aiden Markam won a third successive toss and decided to chase for the third successive time with the series locked at 1-1. Suryakumar Yadav was happy with the decision and would have batted first anyway on a Centurion pitch that looked loaded with runs. Both teams made one change to their XI from the coastal venues. South Africa opted…
Imrul Kayes has announced his retirement from Test and first-class cricket. He said in a video message on his Facebook page that his last red-ball match will be Khulna Division’s National Cricket League (NCL) match against Dhaka Division at the Shere Bangla National Stadium in Dhaka next week. He will, however, continue to play white-ball cricket. “On November 16, I will retire from Test and first-class cricket. It is the…
Worcestershire have signed Nottinghamshire spinning allrounder Fateh Singh on a three-year deal after the 20-year-old impressed during a loan spell at the club over the summer. The slow left-arm spinner impressed at New Road during the One-Day Cup, taking 15 wickets at 24.13 – the second-most for the county, with a career-best 4 for 52 against Somerset. He went on to make his first-class debut at the end of the…
The World Cricketers’ Association (WCA, formerly FICA) has expressed its “concern” after receiving reports of certain cricket boards not paying the “prize money in full” to their players, who participated at the last men’s T20 World Cup, earlier this year in the USA and the West Indies. “In some cases the failure to pay in full has been paired with threatening and intimidatory behaviour by National Governing Bodies to player…