The ICC Board will convene next week for an emergency meeting to discuss the fate of the 2025 Champions Trophy. ESPNcricinfo has learned that the single-point agenda for the meeting, which is likely to be held on November 26, is to reach a consensus on whether a hybrid model should be adopted for the tournament with matches being spread between Pakistan, the host country, and a second overseas venue, which…
The current international schedule is about as logical and rational as you would expect from a process run under the auspices of the ICC. Sri Lanka finished a home ODI series against New Zealand on Tuesday and will start a Test in Durban on Wednesday. Bangladesh went from facing Afghanistan in the UAE to a playing tour match in the West Indies inside a week (and then starting a Test…
Temba Bavuma has opened up about battling “mental demons” as he has recovered from a second elbow injury, and a fourth major niggle, in the last two years – all of which kept him out of crucial international games. “It’s definitely has played in my mind. When you’re injured and you start in a rehab process, it’s always tough,” he said in Pretoria, where South Africa are involved in a…
Former Pakistan captain Azhar Ali has been appointed head of youth development at the PCB. The newly created role was filled, according to the PCB, after a recruitment process and Azhar will perform it in addition to his current role as a member of the selection committee for the men’s national team. While light on specific details of what the role entails, a PCB statement said Azhar would be “tasked…
Brisbane Heat 47 for 1 beat Melbourne Stars 46 for 6 (Jonassen 3-8) by nine wickets Brisbane Heat secured a WBBL finals spot with a nine-wicket win over the Melbourne Stars in a rain-affected fixture. Heat’s bowlers ripped through Stars’ top-order batters in a match reduced to seven overs a side at Brisbane’s Allan Border Field. Stars made just 46 for 6 after losing their initial four wickets in a…
Adam Zampa could play his first red-ball cricket since the 2022-23 season after being named in New South Wales’ Sheffield Shield squad to face Tasmania while Australia white-ball quick Xavier Bartlett is set for a first-class return after injury. Zampa last played a first-class match in February 2023 but has a window in his schedule before the BBL to make a rare Sheffield Shield outing. He has previously spoken of…
Australia 67 for 7 (Carey 19*, Bumrah 4-17, Siraj 2-17) trail India 150 (Reddy 41, Pant 37, Hazlewood 4-29, Marsh 2-12, Starc 2-14) by 83 runs Befitting the rivalry between Australia and India, the latest tussle for the Border-Gavaskar Trophy started in eventful fashion with wild momentum swings and a DRS controversy as pace bowlers from both attacks thoroughly dominated in favourable conditions at Optus Stadium. By the end of…
The one-off Test between Australia and England to celebrate 150 years of Test cricket will be played from March 11 to 15 in 2027. The dates were mentioned by IPL in an email to franchises on Thursday informing them about the window for the tournament for the next three seasons (2025-27) along with the availability of overseas players each year. The fixture, which was announced by Cricket Australia (CA) earlier…
India opener KL Rahul fell to a debatable DRS decision before lunch of the first day of the first Border-Gavaskar Trophy Test in Perth, with Sanjay Manjrekar saying such an “important decision” should have been made with more visual evidence. Rahul, batting on 26, had been given not out by on-field umpire Richard Kettleborough, after the bowler Mitchell Starc and the other Australian players appealed for an edge to wicketkeeper…
Cricket Australia will fly flags at half-mast and black armbands will return to players’ uniforms as the sport prepares to mark the 10-year anniversary of Phillip Hughes‘ death. Saturday’s Sheffield Shield round will begin two weeks of commemorations for Hughes, whose life was tragically cut short days before his 26th birthday in 2014. Officials have adopted a uniform approach across the board, with Hughes’ former team South Australia to face…