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Tom Latham took the innings deep but couldn’t pull it off at the end © AFP/Getty Images Before the Bangladesh tour, Tom Latham had last played a T20I in November 2017. Before the Bangladesh trip, Latham had last played a T20 on January 19, 2019, when he cracked 110 off 60 balls for Canterbury against

News The captain for the T20I series will be named by the selection panel later Temba Bavuma, the South Africa limited-overs captain, has been ruled out of the remainder of the ongoing series in Sri Lanka after suffering a fracture in his right thumb during the first ODI on Thursday. In his absence, Keshav Maharaj

News The batter had been omitted from the Caribbean and Bangladesh tours because of failed fitness tests Avishka Fernando, long considered one of Sri Lanka’s finest limited-overs batting prospects, was left out of the squad entirely for Sri Lanka’s first two limited-overs assignments this year (in the Caribbean, and in Bangladesh). The omission wasn’t down

Report Chris Woakes leads England’s charge with ball, India under-par despite rapid fifty from Shardul Thakur England 53 for 3 (Malan 26*, Bumrah 2-15) trail India 191 (Thakur 57, Kohli 50, Woakes 4-55, Robinson 3-38) by 138 runs India were bowled out cheaply on the first day for the second Test in a row but

News “I know when to deliver a message that is serious and when we can be a little more relaxed” Usman Khawaja has been named new captain of Sydney Thunder replacing Callum Ferguson who was released at the end of the last season. Khawaja has played his entire BBL career with Thunder and is the

Mignon Du Preez heads to Hobart for the WBBL © Getty Images South Africa batter Mignon du Preez has been prized away from Melbourne Stars, signing with Hobart Hurricanes for the upcoming WBBL season. Du Preez, 32, has played in every edition of the WBBL for Stars sitting second on their all-time games list and

Report Needing to defend seven in the one-over shootout, Shepherd conceded only four to complete Amazon Warriors’ league double over the defending champions Match 11 of CPL 2021 belonged to Guyana Amazon Warriors’ Romario Shepherd. He first took 3 for 24 to restrict Trinbago Knight Riders to 138 for 9, then hit a nine-ball cameo

After three Tests, Joe Root is top of the England-India batting charts by a distance © Getty Images Joe Root‘s unstoppable run-making in the series against India has carried him to No. 1 in the ICC Test batting rankings, displacing Kane Williamson at the top. Root tops the Test batting rankings for the first time

News He has scored more than 1000 runs across the last two seasons in the BBL Alex Hales will link up with former England coach Trevor Bayliss for the first time since he was banished from the national side on the eve of the 2019 World Cup after securing a deal to return to Sydney

Kieron Pollard was named Player of the Match for his 29-ball 41 © Getty Images Trinbago Knight Riders 158 for 7 (Pollard 41, Seifert 37, Williams 4-24) beat St Lucia Kings 131 for 7 (Fletcher 81*, Rampaul 3-34, Udana 2-32) by 27 runs After a stuttering start, defending champions Trinbago Knight Riders got their CPL

Preview Opportunity for NZ’s young, inexperienced players to make a mark in tough conditions Big picture Like most Bangladesh-New Zealand bilateral contests, the one beginning on Wednesday in Dhaka has the familiar one-sided feel to it. Pitches and weather have often contributed to it here, where the visitors have won just one out of their

James Vince takes in the applause for his 95 in the BBL final © Getty Images England batter James Vince has re-signed with Sydney Sixers for the upcoming BBL season as he hopes to continue his extraordinary title-winning win run. Vince was a key part of Sixers’ back-to-back titles in the last two editions of

Report Georgia Elwiss and Tara Norris share six wickets to limit Lightning Southern Vipers 125 for 3 (Scholfield 41*) beat Lightning 124 for 9 (Elwiss 3-23, Norris 3-26) by seven wickets Southern Vipers claimed a place at Sunday’s Finals Day in the Charlotte Edwards Cup with a last-ball victory over Lightning at the Incora County

News The 21-year old, who left the hotel bubble without permission, will take no further part in this year’s tournament St Kitts & Nevis Patriots player Mikyle Louis has been forced to leave the CPL 2021 following a breach of the tournament’s operating protocols. The 21-year-old, who left the hotel bubble without permission, will take

Report Wahab defends 13 off the final over as St Lucia Kings register their first win of the season St Lucia Kings 157 for 5 (David 43, Chase 30*, Rampaul 3-29) beat Trinbago Knight Riders 152 for 3 (Seifert 40*, Munro 40*, Wahab 1-17, Chase 1-17) by five runs Two nights after conceding 255 in

News The 23-year-old is hoping to make a mark in the Ranji Trophy and be eligible to play in the IPL as a local player Anshuman Rath, the former Hong Kong captain, is set to play for Odisha in India’s upcoming 2021-22 domestic season. Holder of an Indian passport, Rath has completed the mandatory year-long

News Carrara to host one-off pink-ball Test and the T20Is, while Mackay will host the three-match ODI series The first match on the India women’s team’s tour of Australia is set to be delayed by two days – from September 19 to September 21 – and the entire series of three ODIs, one day-night Test,

News Division Two fixture cancelled with a number of Surrey squad going into isolation Surrey’s opening match in the divisional stage of the County Championship, against Durham at Chester-le-Street, has been cancelled following a positive Covid-19 test. The unnamed member of Surrey’s squad returned a positive result ahead of the Division Two match, which was