Big Picture You run into fast bowlers everywhere in Perth. One of them was walking down Plain Street, which is a five-minute walk from the WACA, with a bag of groceries. Mitchell Starc will be a little less chill once the clock hits 10.20am on Friday. This Border-Gavaskar Trophy has been on simmer for a fair while. Rohit Sharma faced questions about it at the start of the India home…
Melbourne Renegades 150 for 5 (Wareham 69, Stalenberg 36*, Carey 3-26) beat Hobart Hurricanes 128 for 8 (Villani 36) by 22 runs Melbourne Renegades locked in a WBBL finals berth and left Hobart Hurricane’s top-four hopes hanging in the balance after comfortably beating them by 22 runs. Georgia Wareham‘s career-best 69 helped the Renegades to 150 for 5 and the home side never threatened. Related Alana King back doing what…
Big picture: Bangladesh return to dreaded Antigua Bangladesh will get their usual Caribbean welcome. They will play the first Test at the Sir Vivian Richards Stadium in Antigua, where they have opened the two previous tours with scores of 103 and 43 all out. This time, the visitors are also without two of their best batters, Mushfiqur Rahim and Najmul Hossain Shanto, so the job to tackle West Indies’ pace…
The Professional Cricketers Association (PCA) remain at loggerheads with the ECB over the men’s T20 Blast’s schedule. The union, which represents all professional players in England and Wales, has reiterated concerns about player welfare after only a small reduction in the number of back-to-back matchdays in the schedule for 2025 unveiled by the ECB on Thursday. The ECB heralded a reduction by “almost a third” in the number of back-to-back…
Perth Scorchers 126 (Mooney 44, Halliday 41, Gardner 4-21) tied with Sydney Sixers 126 for 7 (Perry 67, King 3-21)Super over Sydney Sixers 15 for 0 tied with Perth Scorchers 15 for 1 Perth Scorchers edged into the WBBL finals frame with a dramatic Super Over tie against Sydney Sixers with Mikayla Hinkley hitting Ashleigh Gardner‘s last ball for four to again tie scores Gardner had taken four wickets as…
Australia contracted fast bowlers Lance Morris and Jhye Richardson are in line for their first Sheffield Shield appearances in a year after being named in Western Australia’s squad to face South Australia for the day-night game at Adelaide Oval. The pair have been carefully managed in the early stages of this season – Richardson has played four domestic one-day games and Morris three alongside the final ODI against Pakistan –…
The wait is finally over, and Pat Cummins might feel a sense of relief that the Border-Gavaskar series has arrived. He stood on the outfield at the MCG three weeks ago, the day before the start of an ODI series against Pakistan and fielded more questions about the Test side than he did about the one-day team. Related ‘Welcome to Test cricket’ – McSweeney prepares for baptism of fire Kohli…
Jasprit Bumrah and Pat Cummins kinda sorta sparkled in their freshly pressed Test whites on Thursday morning. Swap the green grass for a catwalk and Perth for Paris – the picture would’ve been complete. A photo op with the Border-Gavaskar trophy brought two of the world’s leading fast bowlers together and over the next few days they will determine the course of the cricket. Captaincy has usually been the domain…
On the eve of the first Test, as he went about various media duties, Australia captain Pat Cummins appeared extremely relaxed and seemingly sported a permanent smile. He seems to have good reason to feel at ease. While much of the focus ahead of the series has been on the uncertainty over India’s line-up, Australia’s XI has been settled ever since uncapped Nathan McSweeney won the race to partner Usman…
Richard Thompson, the ECB’s chair, has revealed a target to raise at least £350 million in the Hundred’s sales process – a target that he believes the board will surpass “comfortably” when deals are signed off early next year. The private equity group Bridgepoint made a lucrative offer to buy a majority stake in the whole competition two years ago, which was turned down due to the ECB’s desire to…