Cricket

Richard Thompson, the ECB’s chair, has revealed a target to raise at least £350 million in the Hundred’s sales process – a target that he believes the board will surpass “comfortably” when deals are signed off early next year. The private equity group Bridgepoint made a lucrative offer to buy a majority stake in the

Speaking in the lead-up to Sunday’s first T20I against World Cup runners-up South Africa in East London, Wyatt-Hodge insisted that England had not “become a bad side in eight overs”, after an error-strewn performance in the field had allowed West Indies’ Hayley Matthews and Qiana Joseph to romp to fast-paced fifties, en route to a

New Zealand Cricket has elected former allrounder and national selector Dion Nash to its board. Nash fills the vacancy left by Martin Snedden, who had to step down by rotation following a lengthy service to the game as a player, chief executive, board member, chair of the board and ICC director. “It’s good to have

Left-arm spinner Lasith Embuldeniya has been named in Sri Lanka’s squad for the two Tests in South Africa, more than two years after he last played a Test. Offspinner Nishan Peiris, who made his Test debut against New Zealand in September, has also been included. Ramesh Mendis, the offspin-bowling allrounder, misses out on selection, though

The ball flew in the nets at Perth. There were four of them made available for training and even the one where R Ashwin was bowling his offspin gave a fair bit of kick. India’s XI for the first Test of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy, which begins here on Friday, might be made up of those

Kane Williamson returned to competitive cricket after nearly two months out with a groin injury, and scored 60 for Northern Districts on day one of their Plunket Shield game against Auckland in Hamilton. Auckland asked Northern Districts to bat after winning the toss, and Williamson walked out to the crease at the fall of the

Jos Buttler has said that Ben Stokes and Joe Root are not guaranteed to return to England’s white-ball set-up for the Champions Trophy, but hopes the pair retain ambitions in white-ball cricket. Neither Stokes nor Root have represented England in ODI cricket since their disastrous World Cup defence in 2023, with the Champions Trophy set

Batting first, Rajshahi were bowled out for 112 runs. Fahad took five wickets while Ashraful Hasan and Ifran Hossain took two each. Chattogram made 252 in reply, with Shamim Hossain top-scoring with an unbeaten 84. He struck four sixes and two fours in his 128-ball knock. Legspinner Wasi Siddiquee and medium pacer Sabbir Hossain took

Victoria 373 (Rogers 76, Crone 62, Handscomb 56) and 122 for 2 (Harris 56*, Handscomb 56*) beat Western Australia 167 (Murphy 4-37) and 325 (Curtis 119*, Cartwright 78, Elliott 4-47) Victoria raced to a crushing eight-wicket Sheffield Shield win despite a rare hat-trick to Western Australia spinner Corey Rocchiccioli. With the hosts chasing 120 for

Toss England chose to bowl vs West Indies England have won the toss and chosen to field in the fifth and final T20I of their West Indies tour in St Lucia. The hosts will be looking to back up their consolation victory less than 24 hours ago at the same venue while England, who already

Rohit Sharma will not be available to lead India in first Test of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy, which starts on November 22 at the Optus Stadium in Perth. ESPNcricinfo has learned that Rohit, who stayed back home for the birth of his second child, will join the India squad ahead of the second Test, which is

Alyssa Healy is racing the clock to play in Australia’s looming ODIs against India after being ruled out of the remainder of the WBBL with a knee injury. Sydney Sixers on Saturday said Australia’s captain would not play for them again this tournament, after picking up an injury in her left knee. Australia’s three-match ODI

Toss West Indies chose to bowl vs England West Indies finally won a toss and opted to bowl first in the fourth T20I against England in St Lucia. England have already sealed the series, having won the first three matches – and tosses. They handed a T20I debut to John Turner, the 23-year-old fast bowler

Former captain Nida Dar and Aliya Riaz have been omitted from the PCB’s new batch of central contracts announced on Saturday. Sixteen players were announced in the new contracts, with Fatima Sana, who took over from Dar as captain, moving up to Category A. Dar was in Category A in last year’s contracts, while Riaz

South Africa’s white-ball coach Rob Walter will make “no excuses,” for South Africa’s 3-1 defeat to India but explained the series as a “balancing act,” between fielding the best XI and exposing younger players to top-level competition. In particular, South Africa’s attack, who conceded over 200 three times in four matches, were in focus. They

India 283 for 1 (Tilak 120*, Samson 109*, Abhishek 36) beat South Africa 148 (Stubbs 43, Miller 36, Arshdeep 3-20, Axar 2-6, Varun 2-42) by 135 runs Bat like nobody’s business. That’s how Sanju Samson and Tilak Varma have approached this T20I series against South Africa. They scored a century each in Durban and Centurion

While playing for India C against India B during the Duleep Trophy in September, Kamboj picked up 8 for 69, his best first-class figures until the ten-wicket haul. That performance included the wickets of seasoned domestic batters like Sarfaraz Khan, Rinku Singh and N Jagadeesan. Last month, he was part of the India Emerging squad

Cricket Australia has handed former Sri Lanka Test player Dulip Samaraweera with another ban after allegations of inappropriate behaviour towards a second player while coaching. Already suspended from any involvement in Australian cricket for 20 years after being found to have behaved inappropriately towards a female player, Samaraweera has since been accused of further misconduct.