Cricket

Sit in the pub and pray for rain in Manchester. That, according to Matthew Wade, is Birmingham Phoenix’s plan for the rest of the Hundred, after they were left on the brink of elimination despite completing a one-wicket win against London Spirit at Lord’s on Tuesday night. Phoenix needed to chase their target of 140

Bangladesh chose to bat vs Afghanistan Bangladesh captain Shakib Al Hasan chose to bat in their opening game of the Asia Cup against Afghanistan on a well-rolled pitch in Sharjah. Shakib, who is playing his 100th T20I, said his team was well prepared to face the Afghanistan bowlers and was looking to post a challenging

Steven Smith feels the BBL’s priority should be to look after domestic Australian cricketers. The competition offered big sums of money to overseas players in the draft recently – in the end, five of the foreign platinum players, who will earn A$340,000 (US$234,180 approx.) regardless of how many matches they will be available for, were

Trent Rockets 172 for 4 (Malan 58) beat Welsh Fire 143 for 6 (Critchley 55*, Shamsi 2-12) by 29 runs Trent Rockets guaranteed themselves a qualification spot after a comfortable 29-run win against the Welsh Fire at Trent Bridge. Batting first, the home side made 172 thanks to an 89-run opening partnership between Alex Hales

Fabian Allen has made himself available for international selection again ahead of the T20 World Cup, six months since his last appearance in a West Indies shirt. Allen, the left-arm spin-bowling allrounder, declined a retainer contract with Cricket West Indies earlier this year and has been absent for “personal reasons” throughout West Indies’ home season.

“They are so heavily dependent on Rizwan and Babar that you would want to separate them, I feel, when they bat first,” Uthappa said on ESPNcricinfo’s T20 Time Out programme after Pakistan went down to India in the Asia Cup opener. “You’d want to probably send Fakhar Zaman up and have a left-right batting combination

Manchester Originals 154 for 6 (Salt 56, Howell 3-18) beat Birmingham Phoenix 75 (Smeed 31, Hartley 4-22) by 79 runs Manchester Originals won their fourth game in a row to set up a qualification decider against Oval Invincibles in the final fixture of the Hundred’s group stage, bowling Birmingham Phoenix out for 75 to silence

England’s injury crisis has deepened ahead of their seven-match T20I series in Pakistan and the T20 World Cup this winter, with Liam Livingstone becoming the latest to be ruled out of the final stages of the men’s Hundred. Livingstone was the MVP at the 2021 men’s Hundred as Birmingham Phoenix finished top of the table

Head coach Rahul Dravid has joined India’s Asia Cup tour party in Dubai after returning a negative result for Covid-19. He will take over the reins of the team from VVS Laxman, who had stepped in to oversee the preparatory phase of India’s campaign in Dravid’s absence. Dravid will be in the Indian dugout on

Ben Stokes wants England’s emphatic win in the second Test against South Africa to be the benchmark for his team. England’s reaction to a first defeat this summer was always going to be instructive of how much this group truly believes in themselves, as well as the wider ethos handed down from Stokes and reinforced

South Africa 151 and 88 for 3 (Petersen 20*, van der Dussen 14*) trail England 415 for 9 dec by 176 runs England’s bowlers established a chokehold on South Africa’s batting on the third morning at Emirates Old Trafford, ripping out three key wickets in the first 14 overs to move inexorably towards a series-levelling

Cameron Green will return to the BBL with Perth Scorchers after adding his name to the list of Australia Test players who will appear after the series against South Africa. Green last played in the tournament during the 2019-2020 season and could be available for six regular-season matches following the Sydney Test depending on how

Northern Superchargers 116 for 4 (Lyth 47, du Plessis 32) beat Welsh Fire 114 for 4 (Duckett 64*) by six wickets Adam Lyth continued his impressive form as Northern Superchargers imposed a seventh successive defeat on Welsh Fire at Sophia Gardens. Having been set just 115 to win, Lyth dispatched Fire’s bowlers with ease alongside

Lunch England 212 for 5 (Stokes 34*, Foakes 33*, Bairstow 49, Crawley 38, Nortje 3-41) lead South Africa 151 by 61 runs England overcame a challenging early onslaught from Anrich Nortje to tighten their grip on the second Test at Emirates Old Trafford on Friday. By lunch, Ben Stokes and Ben Foakes had stepped up

Shakib Al Hasan has signed with Bangla Tigers as an icon player and has been named as captain of the side for the fifth season of Abu Dhabi T10 League, slated for November this year. Tigers have also named former India fast bowler S Sreesanth as their team’s mentor, while former Bangladesh allrounder Aftab Ahmed

Kagiso Rabada has defended Dean Elgar’s decision to bat first in bowler-friendly conditions at Old Trafford, citing team selection as the reason for the approach. South Africa were shot out for 151, and Rabada, batting at No.9, was the top-scorer with 36 and shared in the highest-stand – 35 for the ninth-wicket with Anrich Nortje.

Lunch South Africa 77 for 5 (Verreynne 4*, Harmer 0*) vs England James Anderson struck early in his 100th home Test, before Stuart Broad and Ben Stokes added two apiece, as England seized the early initiative in the second Test at Emirates Old Trafford with five wickets before lunch in handy seam-bowling conditions. In a

Chris Lynn, the leading run-scorer in BBL history, has signed with Adelaide Strikers in a deal that will see him play 11 of the 14 group matches before heading to the UAE to take up his ILT20 stint with Gulf Giants. In what is a significant deal, a compromise has effectively been reached for Lynn