Match details Sunrisers Hyderabad (fifth) vs Rajasthan Royals (first)Hyderabad, 1930 IST (1400 GMT) Big picture – Best bowling team vs best batting team Rajasthan Royals have given up only one 200-plus total in a season where such totals are being scored every other day. Sunrisers Hyderabad have set and then reset the record for the highest total in IPL history. This contest between the best bowling side of the IPL…

Stobo, 29, has taken 55 first-class wickets at 24.98 and has signed a deal from May 20 until September 16 that covers all formats of the game. The ECB changed its regulations last year to allow counties to register up to four overseas players simultaneously, with two permitted in the playing XI in each of the County Championship, Metro Bank Cup and Vitality Blast. While Stobo is uncapped at international…

Pakistan have selected a near-identical squad to the one playing the ongoing white-ball series against West Indies for the upcoming tour of England, with Nida Dar the captain of the side. The only omissions are Bismah Maroof, who retired from the game last week after an international career that spanned 18 years, and Sidra Nawaz, who was part of the ODI squad but did not play a game. The official…

Ben Wells, the Gloucestershire wicketkeeper-batter, has been forced to retire from professional cricket at the age of 23 after being diagnosed with a rare heart condition. Wells, who made his Gloucestershire debut in 2021, scored 40 from 94 balls in his only first-class innings, against Glamorgan at Cardiff in September that year. His most recent performance was a matchwinning 108 not out – his only professional hundred – against Durham…

Shivam Dube had a “lot of butterflies” and “sleepless nights” in the lead up to India’s squad selection for the T20 World Cup 2024, but he had more than an inkling that he was in the team management’s plans. Last August, after more than three years away, Dube earned a T20I recall on the back of a stellar run at IPL 2023. Dube had reinvented himself as a spin-hitter and…

Australia’s brightest young T20 batting talent Jake Fraser-McGurk and one of their finest three-format batters of the generation Steven Smith have both been left out of Australia’s provisional 15-member T20 World Cup squad with selectors opting to take a second specialist spinner in Ashton Agar and a spare allrounder in Cameron Green to give them more flexibility throughout the tournament. As expected, Mitchell Marsh will captain the side after Cricket…

West Indies women 132 for 5 (Matthews 68, Campbelle 31, Sana 2-22) beat Pakistan women 130 for 8 (Ameen 63, Fletcher 2-20, Matthews 2-22) by two runs A stunning death-overs implosion from Pakistan amidst nore all-round heroics from Hayley Matthews helped West Indies take an unassailable 3-0 series lead over Pakistan in the T20I series. Another commanding half-century from Matthews – 68 off 49 balls – guided West Indies to…

Lucknow Super Giants 145 for 6 (Stoinis 62, Hardik 2-26) beat Mumbai Indians 144 for 7 (Wadhera 46, Mohsin 2-36) by four wickets Having lost more wickets (4) than they hit boundaries (3) in the powerplay, Mumbai Indians were always going to struggle. Four of the first six overs cost a run a ball or less. Two of the last four suffered the same fate. A total of 144 did…

Rashid Khan will lead an experienced 15-man Afghanistan squad for the 2024 T20 World Cup, the ACB announced on Tuesday. Of the 15 players, eight are currently involved in the IPL. This will be the first time that Noor, Janat and, Ishaq – who featured in the last two men’s U-19 World Cups – will play at the T20 World Cup. Hashmatullah Shahidi, who captained Afghanistan in the 2023 ODI…

Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) express pace bowler Mayank Yadav had another injury scare in IPL 2024 when he walked off the field while playing against Mumbai Indians, after bowling an incomplete fourth over. He finished his night after sending down 3.1 overs for figures of 1 for 31. Mayank had bowled his first three overs – while cranking up the pace – for 31 runs before he was given the…