“This is for DJ Bravo” Andre Russell summed up the overwhelming feeling in Trinidad as the crowd turned up in droves on Wednesday to celebrate one of its greatest T20 heroes in what was possibly his last official match in the Caribbean. Before the start of CPL 2024, Dwayne Bravo had announced he would retire from the league after the end of the ongoing season. But he has played just…
Sussex 311 (Carson 71, Simpson 61, Gohar 6-76) beat Gloucestershire 109 (Unadkat 4-32, Clark 3-17, Robinson 3-33) and 195 (Dent 61, Crocombe 4-22, Unadkat 3-39) by an innings and seven runs Jubilant Sussex needed less than a session of the third day to wrap up an innings victory over Gloucestershire at Bristol and clinch promotion from Division Two of the Vitality County Championship with a game to spare. Resuming on…
Middlesex 358 (Stoneman 115, De Caires 80, Holden 68) beat Derbyshire 173 (Came 66, Roland-Jones 5-34) and 119 (Roland-Jones 5-38, Hollman 2-10) by an innings and 66 runs Middlesex wrapped up their fifth win of the Division Two season to keep their Vitality County Championship promotion challenge mathematically alive after a dismal Derbyshire succumbed to a three-day defeat by an innings and 66 runs at the Incora County Ground. With…
Cricket South Africa has confirmed it will continue to engage Afghanistan in bilateral fixtures because it does not believe in punishing the men’s team for the Taliban’s actions in their home country. CSA’s statement comes in response to severe criticism including from activist organisation Lawyers for Human Rights, which said that by playing Afghanistan, South Africa were tacitly endorsing a repressive regime and called for CSA to boycott Afghanistan. The…
England won the toss and chose to bat first vs Australia Harry Brook won his first toss as England captain and chose to bat first in the first ODI at the Kia Oval, against an Australia team that has been struck down with a sickness bug over the past few days. “We have 11!” as Mitchell Marsh, Australia’s captain, put it at the toss, among them the New South Wales…
England allrounders Gus Atkinson and Tom Curran will return to the competition, having played for Desert Vipers in the first season. While Atkinson, who made his Test debut this year, will turn out for Sharjah Warriors, Curran will play for season-one winners Gulf Giants. Ferguson, the New Zealand fast bowler who recently knocked back his national contract, has been signed up by Vipers. Ferguson was snapped up by Sydney Thunder…
Lunch New Zealand 5 for 0 (Conway 4*, Latham 1*) trail Sri Lanka 305 (Kamindu 114, Kusal 50, O’Rourke 5-55) by 300 runs New Zealand needed little time to get the remaining three Sri Lanka wickets on the second morning in Galle, as the hosts were bowled out for 305, adding just three runs to their overnight total. Will O’Rourke got two of the three wickets to fall to add…
Former Sri Lanka international Dulip Samaraweera has received a 20-year ban from Cricket Australia for conduct that has been described as “utterly reprehensible” and will not be allowed to hold any position within CA, the state associations, BBL or WBBL clubs during that time. Samaraweera, 52, was found to have committed a series breach of CA’s Code of Conduct during his time as a Cricket Victoria employee with a CA…
Bangladesh chose to bowl vs India Bangladesh kickstarted India’s home season with a surprising decision of bowling first, the first time such a call has been made in India in five years and the first time in seven years in a series involving India in India. The last time a side chose to field first in a Test in India and involving India, it was in a rain-affected Test on…
Injury-prone Cricket Australia contracted pace duo Lance Morris and Jhye Richardson are set for domestic white-ball returns with both quicks named in Western Australia’s 14-man squad for their opening One-Day Cup matches against New South Wales and South Australia on Sunday and Tuesday respectively at Cricket Central in Sydney. Morris has not played cricket at any level since suffering a side strain in February in his second ODI which ended…