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Pat Cummins has been named Australia’s new men’s ODI captain, replacing Aaron Finch who stepped down last month. Cummins, who is also the Test captain, will now lead in two formats although it remains to be seen how frequently he takes charge of the one-day side in the lead-in to the 2023 World Cup given

England 163 for 4 (Brook 45*, Stokes 36) beat Pakistan 160 for 8 (Masood 39) by six wickets Liam Livingstone signalled his World Cup readiness with a comeback cameo of 28 from 16 balls – including one massive six that sailed clean out of the stadium – as England capped their tournament build-up by thrashing

Western Australia 5 for 290 (Bancroft 100, Whiteman 82) vs Victoria A Cameron Bancroft century underpinned Western Australia’s early dominance before a Victorian fightback on day one of their Sheffield Shield match at Junction Oval Bancroft was dismissed by Victoria’s latest Shield debutant – 31-year-old Sri Lankan legspinner Ruwantha Kellepotha – after featuring in a 146-run

Tim Pringle, son of former New Zealand player Chris Pringle, knows a thing or two about playing in the cold, having grown up in the Bay of Plenty. On a cold Geelong evening, when he mistimed the second ball he faced towards extra cover, he briefly gave his Netherlands team-mates the chills. Netherlands were tottering

The IPL has started the process for the upcoming mini-auction by asking the ten franchises to submit their list of retained players by November 15. While a date for the auction has not yet been finalised, it is expected to be held in the third week of December. Unlike the mega auction last year, when

New Zealand head coach Gary Stead has said allrounder Daryl Mitchell, who sustained a fracture in his finger, is unlikely to be available for their T20 World Cup opener against Australia in Sydney on October 22. Stead, however, is hopeful that Mitchell will be available for their second match against Afghanistan. Mitchell had suffered a

Earlier this year, Azam skipped the National T20 Cup to play for Barbados Royals in the Caribbean Premier League. He was, at first, not provided an NOC to travel to the West Indies but eventually got it. Azam did quite well in the CPL, scoring 257 runs including back-to-back fifties in qualifier one and the

Krish Reddy, the pre-eminent record-keeper of black and non-racial cricket in South Africa, has died. Reddy was involved in the game as a player, administrator, selector and historian, and was best-known for his dedication to collating and preserving the records of players who were otherwise unrecognised in segregated South Africa, and for telling their stories.

Australia are still managing the bowling loads of allrounders Marcus Stoinis and Mitchell Marsh to avoid any injury recurrence just a week out from their first match of the T20 World Cup while David Warner could be rested from the final warm-up game against India on Monday due to his neck issue. Stoinis suffered a

Bangladesh have brought in Soumya Sarkar and Shoriful Islam to replace Mohammad Saifuddin and Sabbir Rahman in their T20 World Cup squad. Soumya and Shoriful’s inclusions in the T20 World Cup squad seemed on the cards given their performance was marginally better than the other two who will now make their way back home from

Alex Gidman has stepped down as Worcestershire’s head coach after four years in the role, and will leave the club with immediate effect. Gidman joined Worcestershire, initially as 2nd XI coach, in early 2018. He was involved with the side that won the T20 Blast that summer, before taking over as head coach after Kevin

Pakistan168 for 5 (Nawaz 38*, Rizwan 34, Bracewell 2-14) beat New Zealand 163 for 7 (Williamson 59, Rauf 2-22, Naseem 2-38) by five wickets An audacious assault from Haider Ali and Mohammad Nawaz blindsided New Zealand and gave Pakistan the tri-series title in Christchurch. Their stand included smashing 33 in eight balls starting from the

The BCCI stands to lose between US$58-116 million from its share of the ICC’s central revenue pool as a result of the tax imposed by the Indian government on the global cricket body for hosting the 2023 Men’s ODI World Cup in India. The marquee event is scheduled to be played in India in October-November

Nida Dar goes down on her haunches after getting run-out off the last ball. The Sri Lanka players are running towards each other from all directions, arms aloft, screaming loud, smiling. The big screen at the Sylhet International Stadium flashes the result. Those in the stands are open-mouthed. Some have their hands on their head.

Cricket Australia is contemplating lifting David Warner‘s lifetime leadership ban as soon as Friday, with directors looking at rewriting the organisation’s code of ethics. Warner has had a leadership ban hanging over his head since the 2018 ball-tampering scandal, with him keen to have the punishment reversed. The 35-year-old has been mentioned as a candidate

West Indies have already visited Pakistan twice in the last 10 months, albeit because the Covid-19 pandemic split one white-ball series in December 2021 into two. The two sides played three T20Is that month, before a Covid outbreak in the West Indies camp meant the subsequent ODIs had to be postponed to June this year.

The Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB) is staring at a financial crisis, with ICC funds not able to reach the board after July 2021. Since the Taliban’s return to political power in August 2021, international sanctions have made it increasingly difficult to send money into the country. ESPNcricinfo understands that while the ACB has completed pending

Mehar Chhayakar, the man linked to the corruption cases involving UAE cricketers in 2019, has been banned from all cricket for 14 years after an ICC tribunal found him guilty of seven breaches of the ICC and Cricket Canada anti-corruption codes. The offences for which Chhayakar was banned relate to matches during the Zimbabwe vs