File photo – Aaron Phangiso provided the important breakthroughs in the middle © Getty Images A dominant bowling display followed by brisk fifties from Dominic Hendricks and Rassie van der Dussen carried Lions to the finals of the Momentum One Day Cup competition, with a comfortable eight-wicket D/L win against Warriors in Johannesburg. After opting to bowl, Lions scythed through Warriors’ top order, leaving them at 61 for 4. Rain…
Siddle's future uncertain after stress factures
Amid Australia’s fast-bowling depth, Peter Siddle will have the challenge of regaining fitness and form to press for selection © Getty Images Fast bowler Peter Siddle faces an uncertain future after being diagnosed with stress fractures in his back that will require “a significant amount of time away from the game”. Siddle played the first Test against New Zealand in Wellington and was an important figure in the first innings,…
Australia won't tone down aggression
“We’ve got a passionate brand, where if you look back at the history of Australian cricket we play an aggressive style”. © Getty Images Australia’s vice-captain David Warner is adamant the new No. 1 Test team will not divert from the hard-edged playing style intrinsic to the game down under, though he concedes that with better understanding of the DRS the ugly scenes glimpsed in Christchurch may not have happened…
Boult, Southee fail to meet expectations
Neil Wagner is one of several players putting pressure on Tim Southee’s place © AFP At the start of this summer, New Zealand had two bowlers inside the top ten in the Test rankings: Trent Boult and Tim Southee. Australia had one, Mitchell Johnson, and unbeknownst to them he was about to retire. But the inability of New Zealand’s attack to take 20 wickets in any of the five Tests…
Top five moments from South Africa tour
England have returned home following a long tour of South Africa, consisting of four Tests, five one-day internationals and two Twenty20s, that produced some special memories. Here ecb.co.uk takes a look at the top-five moments from the trip. [embedded content] 1. Stuart Broad’s series-clinching spell in Johannesburg Broad produced another one of his outstanding spells of bowling to lead England to a Test series-clinching victory at a sold-out Wanderers last month….
Dhoni praises Rohit's adaptability under duress
Rohit Sharma and Hardik Pandya put on 61 for the fifth wicket in just 27 balls © AFP/Getty Images A top-order batsman scored big, which led to a comfortable victory in limited-overs cricket in the subcontinent. Seems just another Wednesday for the Indian team. Except the pitch in Mirpur had a considerable amount of live grass on it, India were invited to bat first and were afforded very few bad…
Bangladesh bolder, but falter through errors
Sabbir Rahman scored 44 but struggled to find partners to pursue India’s 166 © AFP/Getty Images Bangladesh made enough mistakes to lose the Asia Cup opener to India by 45 runs and they will have to duly improve in those areas quickly. But their general approach was fresh towards the format and opponent. The home side, perhaps influenced by India’s recent troubles on a similar pitch in Pune against Sri…
The best of Shahid Afridi
Shahid Afridi is ready for another chapter in his stellar career, after the Pakistan international was announced as a Hampshire player for the 2016 NatWest T20 Blast season. The 35-year-old will be available for the entire T20 Blast campaign, and is sure to thrill crowds in his usual swashbuckling style. Here ecb.co.uk charts the all-rounder’s best career moments to date. 1. A dazzling debut In October 1996, a 16-year-old Afridi…
Rohit, Nehra hand Bangladesh a thrashing
India 166 for 6 (Rohit 83, Pandya 31, Al-Amin 3-37) beat Bangladesh 121 for 7 (Sabbir 44, Nehra 3-23) by 45 runsScorecard and ball-by-ball details Rohit Sharma’s counterattacking fifty lifted India to a competitive total © AFP/Getty Images Rohit Sharma is a one-day nerd. He takes his time at the start, gets accustomed to conditions and cashes in only once he is set. India were sent in on a noticeably…
Dottin five-for derails South Africa Women
West Indies Women 214 for 7 (Matthews 56, Cooper 55*, van Niekerk 2-25) beat South Africa Women 198 (Kapp 69*, Dottin 5-34) by 16 runsScorecard File photo: Hayley Matthews scored 56 off 68 balls, with eight fours © Cricket Australia Fifties from Hayley Matthews and Britney Cooper, followed by a five-wicket haul from fast bowler Deandra Dottin set up West Indies Women’s 16-run win against South Africa Women in East…