Mitchell Santner has been named captain of New Zealand’s T20I squad for the series in India that begins later this month. Kane Williamson and Tim Southee will both be absent, having chosen not to travel after the ongoing series in Pakistan. Ben Lister, the 27-year-old Auckland fast bowler, is a first time inclusion in the
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Melbourne Stars 109 for 1 (Rogers 51*) beat Adelaide Strikers 108 (Nielsen 40, Coulter-Nile 3-17) by nine wickets Melbourne Stars made light work of their 109-run chase in a nine-wicket thumping of Adelaide Strikers that keeps their slim BBL finals hopes alive. Strikers’ high-powered batting line-up crumbled at the MCG on Thursday night as they
Kemar Roach, the West Indies fast bowler, will be returning to Surrey for the first six games of the LV=Insurance County Championship season. Roach, 34, is coming back to the club for a third season after successful spells in 2021 and in the title-winning 2022 season. In his time at Surrey so far, he has
Perth Scorchers 157 for 2 (Inglis 67*, Hardie 65*, Bartlett 1-31) beat Brisbane Heat 155 for 6 (Bryant 36, Behrendorff 3-21) by eight wickets Veteran quick Jason Behrendorff took three wickets then Josh Inglis and Aaron Hardie blasted half-centuries as Perth Scorchers continued their stranglehold over lowly Brisbane Heat with an eight-wicket victory in Brisbane.
Toss: New Zealand opt to bat vs Pakistan New Zealand won the toss in the second ODI and opted to bat first in their quest to square the three-match series after losing the first ODI on Monday. The visitors beefed up their spin attack, bringing in legspinner Ish Sodhi and pairing him up with fingerspinners
Mitchell Starc has been officially ruled out of the first Test against India in Nagpur but has still been named Australia’s 18-man touring squad for the four-Test series on Wednesday which features four spin options including uncapped Victoria offspinner Todd Murphy. Starc suffered a finger tendon injury during the Boxing Day Test against South Africa
Play every game like it’s your last game, and be happy about it. That’s what Virat Kohli learned during his lean phase with the bat. Between November 2019 and September 2022, Kohli didn’t score a single international hundred. He ended the drought with his first T20I hundred during the Asia Cup last year, and now
Toss Sri Lanka chose to bowl vs India Sri Lanka won the toss and chose to bowl first in the first ODI, in Guwahati. Rohit Sharma said India would have chased too, largely because substantial dew tends to form in the evening at this ground, which makes gripping the ball more difficult for bowlers. Sri
Shane Burger will step down from his role as Scotland head coach at the end of next month, in order to take up the role of assistant coach at Somerset. Burger, 40, joined the Scottish set-up in 2019, succeeding Grant Bradbury in the job. He oversaw one of the greatest successes in Scotland’s history as
There has been a debate going around if Hardik Pandya should replace Rohit Sharma as India’s T20I captain but Rohit said he has no plans to give up T20Is as things stand. After the 2022 T20 World Cup, both Rohit and Virat Kohli missed India’s next two T20I series, away against New Zealand and at
South Africa’s head coach role will be split in two, with one person taking over the Test team and keeping involved in the country’s first-class cricket and the other heading up the ODI and T20I sides. Klusener, who played 49 Tests and 179 ODIs, had applied for the latter post. The 51-year old former allrounder was
Pat Cummins says there has to be a better way for the third umpire to adjudicate on catches after Richard Kettleborough was forced to make three contentious decisions during the third Test. Sydney match umpires lodged reviews for three catches taken low to the ground in the slips at the SCG. On each occasion, third
Big picture: Pakistan, NZ build for ODI World Cup Very little seems to ride on the ODI series these days, something especially true for this three-match rubber between Pakistan and New Zealand. Both sides have qualified for the World Cup later this year, and hosting the limited-overs matches as the dessert rather than hors d’oeuvre
It was a pair of spinners who played the decisive hand on the final day at the SCG, but not the two Australia had hoped for. The defiance shown by Keshav Maharaj and Simon Harmer, while not saving the follow-on, took enough time out of the game that Australia could not force a result with
Lunch South Africa 244 for 7 (Maharaj 49*, Harmer 45*, Cummins 3-53, Hazlewood 2-45) trail Australia 475 for 4 dec by 231 runs Simon Harmer and Keshav Maharaj combined for an outstanding partnership as South Africa mustered belated fight on day five to thwart Australia’s push for an improbable third Test victory at a sunny
New Zealand fast bowler Matt Henry has been sidelined from the upcoming ODIs in Pakistan and India with an abdominal strain. He will return home with the other members of the Test squad who are not in the white-ball mix. New Zealand are yet to name a replacement for Henry. Henry’s absence could potentially open
South Africa’s Khaya Zondo has questioned whether the light was suitable for play to be continuing at the time of his dismissal in the Sydney Test and also believed he got an inside edge on the yorker from Pat Cummins. Zondo, who fought hard for his 39 after coming in with South Africa 37 for
Lunch Australia 475 for 4 (Khawaja 195*, Smith 104, Nortje 2-55) vs South Africa Rain continues to thwart Australia’s push for a series sweep over South Africa after the first session on day four was washed out at a gloomy SCG. The third Test has frustratingly ground to a halt on the back of day