Toss India chose to bat vs West Indies Captain Harmanpreet Kaur returned for India after missing the women’s T20I tri-series opener and chose to bat after winning the toss against West Indies. Shikha Pandey was named in the XI, playing her first T20I since October 2021. Harmanpreet and Pandey came in for Sneh Rana and Anjali Sarvani, as India chose to field a spin-heavy combination at Buffalo Park, where the…

Australia vice-captain and wicketkeeper Alyssa Healy has said that the emergence of the Women’s IPL will put a lot of pressure on other global organisations and countries around the world to promote women’s cricket. “[The Women’s IPL] is going to change women’s cricket for the better,” Healy told ESPNcricinfo in long-ranging conversation during Australia’s five-match women’s T20I series against India in December. “It’s probably going to put a lot of…

Ireland will play their first Test match against Bangladesh during their tour of the country in March and April, a visit that also includes three ODIs and three T20Is. It is Ireland’s first bilateral tour of Bangladesh since 2008. Ireland are scheduled to arrive on March 12 and, after a practice match, they will play three ODIs in Sylhet on March 18, 20 and 23. The teams then move to…

Big picture: Will New Zealand’s top five please stand up? Six-eighty-six runs in the series opener and just 219 in the second game. Even if the total runs scored in the match reduced by nearly 70% from the first ODI to the second, the common and worrying theme for New Zealand was how their top five barely showed up. While chasing 350 in Hyderabad, their top five totalled 101 runs;…

Pakistan will not pull out of their upcoming bilateral series against Afghanistan, like Australia did, with PCB chairman Najam Sethi saying that “cricket and politics should be kept separate”. The series in March, however, will now comprise three T20Is and not ODIs and will be played at an offshore venue, with the Afghanistan and Pakistan boards sharing the revenue 50-50. On January 12, Cricket Australia had announced its decision to…

Saurashtra’s nets session on Monday gave a clear picture of Ravindra Jadeja’s determination to get back on the field. In a practice session that spanned over three hours and 20 minutes, Jadeja was one of only two players to have an extended hit at the nets. This was after he was done with his stretching and fielding drills at the MA Chidambaram Stadium and then a round of batting and…

Sydney Sixers 180 for 7 (Smith 66, Dwarshuis 30, Dooley 3-42) beat Hobart Hurricanes 156 for 8 (Crawley 49, Bird 2-26, Abbott 2-32, Kerr 2-34) by 24 runs Steven Smith‘s purple patch with the bat continued as Sydney Sixers seriously dented Hobart Hurricanes’ BBL playoffs hopes with a 24-run victory at Blundstone Arena. Sixers, meanwhile, tuned up for the playoffs with their sixth straight win. After being sent in, Sixers…

Related PCB appeals against demerit point decision Rawalpindi pitch earns second ‘below average’ rating of 2022 PCB chairman slams Rawalpindi pitch as ’embarrassing’ The fact that 37 out of 40 wickets were taken and that the match had a result were among the “redeeming features”, the ICC said. In the match, England scored 657 in the first innings at a run rate of 6.50, before Pakistan fought back with a…

Former Pakistan batter Haroon Rasheed has been named chief selector by PCB chairman Najam Sethi, who said that the rest of the selection panel would be named later. Rasheed, 69, has previously served as Pakistan’s chief selector between 2015 and 2016 and will take over from Shahid Afridi, who had been named interim chief selector by the new PCB regime under Sethi. Rasheed played 23 Tests and 12 ODIs for…

Grace Harris has been praised for having added “another dimension” to Australia’s T20I batting line-up since returning to the side last year as she shapes up as a key figure in the upcoming T20 World Cup. Harris, who made her international debut in 2015, was recalled for the T20 leg of the Ashes last January, but through a combination of rain and the dominance of Australia’s top order did not…