Cricket

Phoebe Litchfield is one of the rising stars of Australian women’s cricket and the teenager revealed she had recently modelled her game on national team-mate Beth Mooney. Fellow left-hander Mooney, one of the world’s best batters, presented Litchfield with her ODI debut cap before the 19-year-old made an unbeaten 78 off 92 balls in the

South Africa allrounder Madison Landsman claimed the first hat-trick of the inaugural Under-19 Women’s T20 World Cup, in Benoni in their Group D clash against Scotland. Landsman, who bowls legspin, finished with 4 for 16 as Scotland were skittled for 68 in their chase of 113. With Scotland 43 for 5 at the ten-over mark,

Former under-19 coach Shukri Conrad, who was in charge of the age-group team at the 2022 World Cup, where Brevis was the top-scorer, and former Central Stags coach Rob Walter, were announced as South Africa’s new red and white-ball coaches respectively and both are keen to fast-track young talent with Brevis top of mind. He

Pakistan 160 for 8 vs Australia Australia’s spinners papered over a patchy bowling effort to restrict Pakistan as captain Meg Lanning made her long-awaited return in the truncated women’s ODI series opener at a gloomy Allan Border Field. After being sent in, veteran Nida Dar notched her 11th ODI half-century to anchor Pakistan with late

All the major Indian broadcasters, including Disney Star*, Viacom 18, Sony and Zee, will be bidding for the Women’s Indian Premier League (WIPL) media rights at an auction on Monday. The BCCI has adopted a closed bid auction method for the day-long event, and will announce the winner on the same day. ESPNcricinfo has learned

Sydney Sixers 151 for 5 (Philippe 54) beat Perth Scorchers 145 for 7 (Eskinazi 66*, Abbott 3-18) by six runs Sean Abbott produced another clutch BBL performance and Dan Christian delivered a vital single-over spell as Sydney Sixers kept themselves in touch with top spot in the BBL table by overcoming leaders Perth Scorchers. Stephen

In a boost for India, premier allrounder Ravindra Jadeja is likely to resume playing and will feature in Saurashtra’s final round of Ranji Trophy starting January 24. The match will be against Tamil Nadu in Chennai. Jadeja had to abort the Asia Cup last September to undergo surgery on his right knee. Currently at the

Ireland 150 for 4 (Adair 65, Burl 2-26) beat Zimbabwe 144 all out (Ervine 42, Hume 3-17) by six wickets Ross Adair, playing only his second international game, stroked a 47-ball 65 to help Ireland to a six-wicket victory against Zimbabwe, and level the three-match series going into the decider in Harare on Sunday. Chasing

Rishabh Pant is unlikely to play any cricket for most of 2023 and is set to miss a slew of marquee tournaments including the IPL. ESPNcricinfo has learned that the medical update given to the BCCI on Pant, who survived a car crash on December 30, says the wicket-keeper batter has torn all three key

Adam Zampa will reassess his future in red-ball cricket after being left “flat” by his omission from the Australia Test squad to tour India next month. Zampa had been told he was a strong chance of making the trip but the selectors opted to retain Mitchell Swepson as the legspinner after he toured Pakistan and

India have left Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli out of their T20I squad for the upcoming home series against New Zealand. KL Rahul is also not in the squad, and while the BCCI put his absence – and that of Axar Patel, from both the ODI and T20I legs of the series – down to

Graves, 74, made his fortune as the founder of the Costcutter supermarket chain, and stepped in to rescue Yorkshire from bankruptcy in 2002. He served as chair between 2012 and 2015 before moving onto a five-year term as ECB chair. Now, he has told the Yorkshire Post that he is ready to “ride to the

Peter Handscomb is in a race against the clock to go on his first Australian Test tour in four years after scans confirmed a hip injury. Handscomb was hurt on Tuesday night while playing club cricket in Victoria, when he was hit attempting to play a pull shot. He continued batting, but collapsed in pain

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

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