Mohammad Amir did not travel to Ireland with the rest of the Pakistan side because he did not receive a visa in time. Amir, who is a permanent resident of the United Kingdom, applied for an Ireland visa along with the rest of the Pakistan side, according to a PCB official. But while the rest of the squad received visas before their travel to Dublin on Tuesday, Amir did not…

Josh Little will stay at the IPL until Gujarat Titans’ final game, with Cricket Ireland allowing him to miss their T20I series against Pakistan and tri-series in the Netherlands which form the basis of their preparation for June’s T20 World Cup. Ireland’s selectors named a 15-man provisional squad for the World Cup on Tuesday, which is unchanged from the squad which faced Afghanistan in their most recent T20I series. The…

Match details Sunrisers Hyderabad (fourth) vs Lucknow Super Giants (fifth)Hyderabad, 7.30pm IST (2pm GMT) Big picture: Playoff contenders go head to head The stakes are high when SRH host LSG on Wednesday: both teams are on 12 points, separated by net run rate, and are trying to put some distance between them and the rest of the mid-table scrum to give their playoff chances a boost. SRH, however, will take…

Half of the overseas players in the men’s Hundred could arrive in the UK late this year after Major League Cricket (MLC) confirmed on Tuesday that the two leagues will overlap by six days in July. Last year, the inaugural season of MLC ended two days before the start of the Hundred but the leagues will clash this year. The Hundred’s group stage starts on July 23 while MLC will…

Bangladesh 165 for 5 (Hridoy 57, Jaker 44, Muzarabani 3-14) beat Zimbabwe 156 for 9 (Akram 34*, Marumani 31, Saifuddin 3-40) by nine runs Bangladesh saw off some late batting fightback from Zimbabwe’s tailenders Faraz Akram and Blessing Muzarabani to clinch the T20I series in the third game in Chattogram. They won by nine runs on Tuesday, with two matches left to play in Dhaka. Akram, playing only his fifth…

Toss Zimbabwe chose to field vs Bangladesh Zimbabwe captain Sikandar Raza chose to field first in the third T20I against Bangladesh in Chattogram. It was the same decision that his opposite number Najmul Hossain Shanto took in the first two matches, even though this is an afternoon affair at the Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium. The visitors were forced to leave Richard Ngarava out of the XI due to an injury….

Surrey have signed Australia fast bowler Spencer Johnson for their first eight matches of the Vitality Blast. The left-armer, who did not make the cut for Australia’s T20 World Cup squad, is no stranger to south London after turning out for Oval Invincibles last summer. He took five wickets for Invincibles in their successful 2023 campaign, including a remarkable 3 for 1 off 20 deliveries against Manchester Originals. He is…

A player found not guilty of rape will likely return to play for the Hobart Hurricanes in the BBL despite not informing the franchise about the criminal proceedings. In March, Nikhil Chaudhary was found not guilty by a jury of raping a 20-year-old woman in a car in Townsville in 2021. Cricket Tasmania says it was not informed of the charge or court action. Chaudhary, who joined the franchise in…

Skipper Mitchell Marsh will not be fit to bowl until the final week before Australia’s World Cup squad heads to the Caribbean, but coach Andrew McDonald is confident he will be fully fit for the opening game of the tournament. Marsh was ruled out of the IPL early last month due to a hamstring tear and the recovery has been much slower than initially was expected when he returned home…

The Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) contingent, travelling from Lucknow to Kolkata following their last IPL 2024 game against Lucknow Super Giants (LSG), had a harrowing time on Monday evening when the torrential rains in the east of the country prevented their flight from landing. Details provided by the KKR media team said that they left Lucknow at 5.45pm IST, and they were scheduled to land at 7.25pm. An update at…