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Pat Cummins is among those who won’t be in West Indies or Bangladesh © Getty Images David Warner, Pat Cummins and Glenn Maxwell are among six players to have opted out of Australia’s tours of West Indies and Bangladesh while Steven Smith will miss the trips due to an elbow injury. Jhye Richardson, Kane Richardson

Report Malan, Hain set up 55-run win with pair of emphatic half-centuries Birmingham 170 for 3 (Hain 69*, Malan 62) beat Northamptonshire 115 (Lintott 4-20) by 55 runs Birmingham spinner Jake Lintott produced career-best Vitality Blast figures as the Bears hammered Northamptonshire Steelbacks by 55 runs to secure their third straight win. Lintott finished with

Play 00:52 Five batters and two spinners? Aakash Chopra’s India XI for WTC final VVS Laxman has offered two tips to Rohit Sharma ahead of the World Test Championship final against New Zealand starting Friday: know where your off stump is to leave the ball outside off and don’t take the left leg across too

News Daryl Mitchell, Doug Bracewell, Jacob Duffy and Rachin Ravindra also left out Ajaz Patel‘s impressive performance against England at Edgbaston has earned him the spin-bowling position ahead of Mitchell Santner in New Zealand’s final 15-player squad for the World Test Championship final. Daryl Mitchell, who also played in the second Test, is another to

Report Islamabad United two points clear of Lahore Qalandars at the top of the PSL standings Islamabad United 191 for 2 (Munro 88*, Iftikhar 71*) beat Karachi Kings 190 for 4 (Babar 81, Zadran 71*) by eight wickets Colin Munro and Iftikhar Ahmed pulled off a stunning turnaround in the second half of the innings

News Langer’s intensity as coach has led to murmurs of discontent in the Australian dressing room Tim Paine has insisted that Justin Langer has the full support of the Australian playing group, even as rumblings of dressing-room discontent continued. “We are all 100% behind JL and the job he is doing,” Paine told reporters in

Report Maqsood too chips in with bruising half-century as Sultans make it two in two in UAE leg Multan Sultans 167 for 1 (Rizwan 82*, Maqsood 61) beat Peshawar Zalmi 166 for 7 (Rutherford 56, Akmal 35, Dahani 4-31) by 9 wickets Mohammad Rizwan‘s adjective-defying T20 run shows no signs of abating. On Sunday night,

Report Qalandars surrendered from advantageous positions in both innings after dominating the first ten overs each time Islamabad United 152 for 7 (Asif 75, Iftikhar 49, Faulkner 3-19) beat Lahore Qalandars 124 (Zaman 44, Musa 3-18, Shadab 2-14) by 28 runs At first, the Islamabad United’s historic decision to bat first at the toss –

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Sussex 155 for 1 (Salt 72*, Bopara 56*) beat Hampshire 154 for 7 (Vince 36, Lenham 3-14) by nine wickets Over at Edgbaston, English cricket had descended into its periodic bout of unremitting gloom. But 170 miles away on the south coast the world was a bountiful place as Archie Lenham, a 16-year-old Sussex legspinner,

News The fast bowler will fly back to Pakistan for personal reasons Hasan Ali will not feature in the remainder of the PSL season. The Islamabad United fast bowler will leave the tournament bubble in the UAE and return to Pakistan “due to family concerns”. “I want to say to all Islamabad United fans, unfortunately

Play 01:44 ‘Frustated’ England ask if soft signal is necessary after Conway’s reprieve Stuart Broad has called for the ICC to “do away with” the soft signal following a controversial moment on the second day of the LV= Insurance Test against New Zealand at Edgbaston. Broad was convinced that Devon Conway had been caught at

News Wicketkeeper says three-finger gesture was salute to friend Quinton de Kock dedicated his sixth Test century, and highest score in the format, to a friend who lost his finger in Afghanistan and to rhino conservation in South Africa. de Kock celebrated both his fifty and his hundred by holding his bat lengthwise to show

News Gladiators allrounder stretchered off to an ambulance as second innings got underway Playing his first match of PSL 2021, Quetta Gladiators’ Andre Russell was struck on the helmet while batting and later replaced by fast bowler Naseem Shah under the concussion-sub rule at the innings break. The decision to replace the allrounder with Naseem

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Sydney Sixers are back-to-back BBL champions and hope to have a settled list © Getty Images Sydney Sixers coach Greg Shipperd is not in favour of the proposed BBL draft for overseas players and admitted the uncertainty over how it could work has added a layer of complexity to planning for next year’s competition where

Trent Boult celebrates with his team-mates after dismissing James Bracey © Getty Images New Zealand have never previously made six changes to their side within a series and that they did so at Edgbaston and still managed to take seven wickets after being asked to bowl on a flat pitch was evidence of two things:

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