England 211 for 6 (Armitage 44, Cross 38*) beat Ireland 210 (Prendergast 76, Cross 6-30) by four wickets Kate Cross claimed career-best figures with bat and ball on her captaincy debut to lead England to a four-wicket win over Ireland in the first ODI at Stormont. Cross, leading a side featuring five ODI debutants in the absence of most of England’s T20 World Cup squad, was largely responsible for limiting…
Thunder 216 for 9 (Threlkeld 69*, Clarke 41) beat Western Storm 69 for 2 by two runs (DLS) Eleanor Threlkeld staged a superbly-judged knock of 69 not out as Thunder beat Western Storm by two runs on the Duckworth/Lewis/Stern Method in a rain-shortened Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy contest at Taunton’s Cooper Associates Ground. Thunder’s captain won the toss, elected to bat first and then led by example as the visitors…
After an opening day dominated by a lengthy delay for bad light, the third Test between England and Sri Lanka at the Kia Oval plumbed farcical new depths on the second afternoon, when Chris Woakes was forced to bowl spin midway through an over, due to the on-field umpires’ concerns about the deteriorating conditions. The incident occurred two balls into the seventh over of Sri Lanka’s innings, moments after they…
Australia chose to bowl vs Scotland Australia made one change and opted to field after winning the toss in the third T20I at Edinburgh. Having sealed the series with a win on Friday, Australia handed a debut to 21-year-old batting allrounder Cooper Connolly, who came in for fast bowler Xavier Bartlett. Connolly makes his debut having played just 20 matches at the domestic level. While that was Australia’s only change,…
India B 321 and 150 for 6 (Pant 61, Sarfaraz 46, Akash 2-36, Khaleel 2-56) lead India A 231 (Rahul 37, Kotian 32, Saini 3-60, Mukesh 3-62) by 240 runs Sarfaraz Khan and Rishabh Pant, batters who bring daredevilry to the crease, brought a small but festive Saturday crowd to life after tea on the third day in Bengaluru. The trigger for this thrilling counter was an instinctive response to…
Lunch Sri Lanka 0 for 1 trail England 325 (Pope 154, Duckett 86, Rathnayake 3-56, Dhananjaya 2-18) by 324 runs Sri Lanka’s fast-bowling coach, Aaqib Javed, had suggested his charges would “rest and come up with something better than this” when reflecting on a dire opening day at The Oval. So it proved on the second morning when the tourists staged a remarkable turnaround to bowl England out for 325…
Andrew Flintoff’s rise through the coaching ranks continues after he was announced as the new England men’s Lions head coach. Flintoff, who played 79 Tests for England, will begin his new role in October, leading the Lions to South Africa before Christmas, then to Australia in January for a red-ball tour that will act as a fact-finding mission ahead of the 2025-26 Ashes. Next summer, the Lions will also host…
Pakistan have been handed a much-needed fitness boost, with Khurram Shahzad looking like he has avoided another serious injury. Shahzad, 24, who was the second highest wicket-taker in the series, was earlier instrumental in triggering a first-innings collapse that saw Bangladesh reduced to 26 for 6. He took career-best figures of 6 for 90 in the innings, but was significantly less effective in the second innings, taking 1 for 40…
New Zealand are about to embark on a period where they will play six Tests in two months. That’s rare, on two counts. First, it’s almost a whole year’s work for them – like in 2020 and 2021, when they went on to become the inaugural World Test Champions. And second, all of those matches are in Asia. In the last decade, they have never played more than three subcontinent…
India C 168 (Indrajith 72, Harshit 4-33, Saransh 2-16) and 233 for 6 (Juyal 47, Gaikwad 46, Saransh 4-92) beat India D 164 (Axar 86, Vyshak 3-19, Kamboj 2-47) and 236 (Padikkal 56, Shreyas 54, Suthar 7-49) by four wickets Left-arm spinner Manav Suthar first bagged 7 for 49 with the ball in the third innings, before smashing a six and a four during his contribution of 19 with the…