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Joe Root claimed career-best figures © BCCI Joe Root says England’s 10-wicket defeat to India inside two days of the third Test won’t define his team, who also fell out of contention for a place in the WTC final as a result. On a day when 17 wickets fell in a match described by his

Report This is his second century in the ongoing Vijay Hazare Trophy Dropped from the Test team to sort out his technique, Prithvi Shaw, leading the Mumbai senior team for the first time in place of the rested Shreyas Iyer, struck form in the 50-over Vijay Hazare Trophy. On Thursday, he converted his fifth List

News Batsman insists a lead of 100-150 could be defendable in fourth innings on tricky pitch Zak Crawley has insisted the third Test is “nowhere near over” despite England being bowled out cheaply in their first innings. Crawley, the one England batsman to shine amid another grim performance, believes batting last on this Ahmedabad surface

News CSA director of cricket wants to “ask some hard questions of Australia and challenge them” for postponed tour South Africa are hopeful of playing against India “a number of times” in the next cycle of bilateral series, and several exchanges between the two sides are on the verge of being signed off, according to

News Scans revealed a rare stress fracture in his C6 vertebrae meaning an extended period on the sidelines for the legspinner Queensland and Australia legspinner Mitchell Swepson looks set to miss the remainder of Australia’s domestic summer after being diagnosed with a stress fracture in his neck. Swepson missed Queensland’s Sheffield Shield and Marsh Cup

News The pace bowler’s memorable season continued with a first Australia call-up to follow WBBL success New Zealand has already played a significant part in Hannah Darlington‘s cricket journey. Two years ago she toured with the Australia Under-19 squad and last season played for Otago in the Super Smash, her performances helping her secure a

News Jonathan Batty replaces Lydia Greenway as Oval Invincibles coach in women’s Hundred Stephen Fleming has stepped back from his role as Trent Rockets’ coach in the Hundred, with Andy Flower confirmed as his replacement. Fleming, the long-term head coach of IPL side Chennai Super Kings, took part in the competition’s inaugural draft in October

Ellyse Perry, Meg Lanning, Rachael Haynes, Alyssa Healy, Jess Jonassen and Megan Schutt are the core of one of the greatest Australian Women’s sides yet to take the field. Their quality has helped the national team to victories at each of the past two T20 World Cups and dominant runs of victories in bilateral series,

Joe Root believes a seam-orientated third Test could prove to be to England’s advantage and leaves them in “a great position” at the halfway stage of the series. While Root, England’s captain, was adamant the pitch in Ahmedabad would provide assistance to spin bowlers at some stage, he also suggested the fact that the game

News Robin Uthappa and Sachin Baby makes fifties as Kerala go to eight points Fast bowler S Sreesanth was among the heroes for Kerala as they beat Uttar Pradesh by three wickets to register their second win in two games in the Vijay Hazare Trophy. The fast bowler took 5 for 65 as Kerala bowled

Report Tasmania bowled out for 237 after Stanlake picked up a career-best 4 for 24 Queensland 6 for 238 (Khawaja 93, Ellis 3-39) defeated Tasmania 237 (Silk 77, Stanlake 4-24) by four wickets A blistering Billy Stanlake spell and another Usman Khawaja masterclass guided Queensland to a four-wicket Marsh Cup win over Tasmania at Bellerive

Islamabad United 151 for 7 (Gregory 49*, Brathwaite 2-23) beat Multan Sultans 150 for 8 (Rizwan 71, Wasim 3-29) by three wickets Lewis Gregory dragged Islamabad United across the line in their season opener against Multan Sultans in Karachi with 49 not out from 31 balls to seal a three-wicket win with six balls to

News The India batsman also touched on how the team is managing the pressure of trying to make the WTC final Rohit Sharma, the India opener, spoke to the media on Sunday, three days ahead of the third Test against England in Motera. He touched upon the “twilight period” during pink-ball Tests, World Test Championship

News “We’re waiting for the final dates, but the ideal scenario is to be available and around for all that cricket” New Zealand captain Kane Williamson has admitted that potentially missing the Test matches against England in early June due to complete the IPL is not his preferred option but that it’s another case of

Report Iqbal picked up 3 for 16 before Clarke’s 23-ball 46 reduced the chase to a formality Karachi Kings 126 for 3 (Clarke 46, Nabi 30*, Hasnain 2-18) beat Quetta Gladiators 121 (Gayle 39, Iqbal 3-16, Maqsood 2-21) by seven wickets Last year’s win was no fluke, and this year’s title defence is no surrender.

Cheteshwar Pujara isn’t ruling out the possibility of a short county stint this summer, as preparation for India’s tour of England in August, while also insisting he’s keen to prove himself in the shortest format after finding an IPL team in Chennai Super Kings after a gap of seven years. Pujara was picked up at

Report Marnus Labuschagne helped form the key partnership of the day as the visitors ran down 310 in Hobart Queensland 275 (Burns 171, Webster 4-50) and 7 for 310 (Khawaja 115*, Labuschagne 78) beat Tasmania 332 (Jewell 140, Doggett 4-88) and 252 (Doran 55, Silk 51, Bartlett 4-59) by three wickets Usman Khawaja made a

Alex Hales says that his axing from England’s World Cup squad on the eve of their triumphant campaign in 2019 was a “sickening” experience, but insists he is in a better headspace two years on from the incident, and is still determined to earn a shot at international redemption after establishing himself as one of