Adam Milne has become the latest New Zealander to sign a county deal after joining Essex Eagles for the NatWest T20 Blast.   The fast bowler, who has made 43 limited-overs appearances for the Black Caps, will arrive at the Essex County Ground at the end of June and be available for seven South Group fixtures. Milne will link up with compatriots Jesse Ryder and Matthew Quinn at Essex while…

Hampshire Cricket has announced Nick Denning as the head coach of their new Women’s Cricket Super League team. Denning will lead the club into the inaugural season of the six-team competition, which begins this summer. “It’s very exciting, new challenges get me out of bed in the morning so I’m really looking forward to getting started,” he said. “The biggest challenge will be getting a group of players who are…

Sam Curran was the second-youngest debutant for Surrey last season, when he was plucked out of the Second Eleven Championship to play T20s Clint Hughes / © Getty Images Sam Curran is living the dream of every young cricketer: suddenly picked out of nondescript cricket to play in the big leagues with a great of the game, and now touring abroad to represent his country at an international tournament. It’s…

Sam Curran was the second-youngest debutant for Surrey last season, when he was plucked out of the Second Eleven Championship to play T20s Clint Hughes / © Getty Images Sam Curran is living the dream of every young cricketer: suddenly picked out of nondescript cricket to play in the big leagues with a great of the game, and now touring abroad to represent his country at an international tournament. It’s…

Sarfaraz Khan says that batting at No. 4 has pushed him to look at adapt and take on more responsibility © ICC India Under-19s batsman Sarfaraz Khan, who scored 74 in India’s 79-run win against Ireland in Mirpur, has expressed disappointment at not being able to convert his fifty into a bigger knock. Sarfaraz’s 70-ball effort was the top score in India’s win but the batsman said he would have…

Ben Stokes’ exploits in South Africa have seen him top this winter’s Test MVP after he scored 499 runs and took 17 wickets against the Proteas. The Durham all-rounder blasted 258 from 198 balls in Cape Town and backed up that performance with bat and ball throughout the series as England emerged 2-1 winners. That took Stokes’ MVP tally to 161 across seven Tests, with most of his scoring unsurprisingly…

Nepal Under-19s coach ‎Jagat Bahadur Tamata worked hard on the side’s fielding, evident in the three run-outs against New Zealand Under-19s © BCB Dipendra Singh Airee‘s throw from the deep-extra cover boundary struck the stumps on the full, running Dale Phillips out and ending New Zealand’s chase against Nepal. In the previous over, Airee had swung the match for Nepal, dismissing Nigel Smith and Talor Scott. Near the boundary line,…

Pakistan A 182 for 4 (Asif Zakir 68*) beat England Lions 181 (Malan 56) by six wicketsScorecard Dawid Malan’s impressive form continued but England’s batting slumped © Chris Whiteoak Pakistan A set up a series decider against England Lions with a six-wicket victory in the fourth one-dayer in Dubai. They cut off a promising England start to dismiss them for 181 then survived a batting wobble of their own to…

Ryan Campbell retired from domestic cricket in Australia in 2006. © Getty Images Hong Kong have included 43-year-old former Australia wicketkeeper-batsman Ryan Campbell in their squad for the upcoming World Twenty20, which starts from March 8 in India. Campbell, who has a Hong Kong-Chinese lineage, played two ODIs for Australia in 2002 and has been a part of Hong Kong’s domestic set-up since 2012. He is also the national team’s…