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
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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
There was but one member of this New Zealand squad on tour in Pakistan to have ever played cricket in the country, and that was their batting coach. Even so, they were “one ball away from series victory” and the captain Tim Southee took a lot of heart from that. Karachi provided conditions that made
Alice Capsey has been included in England’s Women’s T20 World Cup squad as she continues her recovery from a broken collarbone suffered on the tour of the Caribbean before Christmas. England head coach, Jon Lewis, said they wanted to “give her every chance” of being available for the tournament, with the 18-year-old potentially a key
Lunch Australia 475 for 4 (Khawaja 195*, Smith 104, Nortje 2-55) vs South Africa Rain might have thwarted Usman Khawaja’s bid for a maiden Test double-century after the first session of day three was washed out at the SCG. Khawaja remains stuck on his highest Test score of 195, while Matthew Renshaw is five not
Jafer Chohan, a 20-year-old legspinner, has joined Yorkshire on a rookie contract until the end of the 2023 season. Chohan, who came through the ranks at Middlesex and played in the Berkshire side that won last season’s National Counties 50-over competition, has since impressed at the South Asian Cricket Academy (SACA) and will link up
Australia allrounder Cameron Green has revealed he is “touch and go” for the first Test in India following finger surgery but he has allayed any doubts over his bowling availability in the IPL. Green broke his right index finger during the Boxing Day Test against South Africa in Melbourne. He was able to bat in