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A hurricane warning has left the T20 World Cup-winning India team stranded in Barbados. Hurricane Beryl (Category 4) is expected to pass by Barbados on Sunday night local time with the centre of the storm approximately 80 miles off the south coast. India are currently staying at the Hilton Hotel. They were initially planning a

Hampshire 301 for 3 (Vince 149*, Brown 106*) vs Kent James Vince‘s prolific run continued with his second century in a week as the Hampshire skipper and Ben Brown dominated Kent in the Vitality County Championship. Vince had skirted around form with 305 runs in 11 innings before exploding with a sensational unbeaten 166 against

South Africa 232 for 2 (Luus 109, Wolvaardt 93*, Harmanpreet 1-24) and 266 (Kapp 74, Luus 65, Rana 8-77) trail India 603 for 6 dec by 105 runs For the second consecutive day, South Africa’s batters showed great grit to stay in the game after being put on the back foot by the India bowlers

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Just because of the desperation with which he coveted a world title, Rohit Sharma placed this T20 World Cup win as the greatest time of his career, the greatest achievement. “This has to be the greatest time, I can say that,” Rohit said

“This was my last [T20I] game as well,” Rohit said at the press conference after the final. “No better time to say goodbye to this format. I’ve loved every moment of this. I started my India career playing this format. This is what I wanted, I wanted to win the cup. “I wanted this badly.

South Africa236 for 4 (Kapp 69*, Luus 65, Rana 3-61) trail India 603 for 6 dec (Shafali 205, Mandhana 149, Ghosh 86, Harmanpreet 69, Tucker 2-141) by 367runs South Africa showed great fight to reach 236 for 4 on the second day of the one-off Test in Chennai after India declared their first innings at

The finalists of the men’s T20 World Cup 2024 have been decided; we are set for India and South Africa to scrap it out for the title on Saturday morning in Bridgetown, Barbados. Ahead of the big game, ESPNcricinfo is here to answer all the questions you might have about the final. So India and

Match details India vs South Africa, T20 World Cup 2024 finalBridgetown, June 29, 10.30am local time, 2.30pm GMT Big Picture – It’s just a cup… right? There are no fairytales in life, obviously, but sport does a great deal to make up for it, to the extent that it offers gifts like this Saturday, when,

Poor form from the batters was the primary reason for Bangladesh’s disappointing T20 World Cup 2024 campaign, according to vice captain Taskin Ahmed. He said that almost everything went according to plan except the batting during Bangladesh’s 47-day tour of the Americas. In a tough environment for batters across the tournament, Bangladesh’s batting unit had

Toss India opt to bat vs South Africa India captain Harmanpreet Kaur won the toss and elected to bat in the one-off Test against South Africa, in Chennai on Friday. With Yastika Bhatia out of the Test with injury, Richa Ghosh will take the gloves. Shubha Satheesh, who made Test debut against England last December

The final of the T20 World Cup 2024 in the USA and the West Indies, a tournament already affected by logistical challenges and ambitiously short turnarounds between matches, has not been spared from operational issues. A landing failure of a small private aircraft at the Grantley Adams airport in Barbados has resulted in the South

Matches at LPL 2024 will feature two additional powerplay overs at the death. The two “power-blast overs”, which will be the 16th and 17th overs of each completed innings, will have a maximum of four fielders outside the 30-yard circle. This is in addition to the usual powerplay in the first six, where only two

South Africa 60 for 1 (Hendricks 29*, Farooqi 1-11) beat Afghanistan 56 (Shamsi 3-6, Jansen 3-16) by nine wickets South Africa’s quicks ravaged Afghanistan’s top order, taking five wickets inside the first five overs, to send the opposition spiraling towards their eventual 56 all out in the first semi-final of the men’s T20 World Cup

Northamptonshire 279 and 472 for 8 dec (McManus 168, Vasconcelos 99, Procter 98) drew with Glamorgan 490 (Crane 56*, Procter 3-51) and 207 for 8 (Labuschagne 64, Patterson-White 3-101) Northamptonshire came close to pulling off a remarkable comeback win over Glamorgan in the Vitality County Championship match against Glamorgan thanks to a career best 168

India are going into the one-off Test against South Africa on the back of successive white-ball series sweeps – T20Is in Bangladesh and ODIs vs South Africa at home – but head coach Amol Muzumdar believes there’s scope for improvement in every department for the team. “We do have the momentum – we won in

At the risk of navel-gazing and giving too much importance to mainstream media, it is hard to contemplate team representatives outnumbering the press at a press conference before a World Cup semi-final. South Africa’s head coach Rob Walter arrived with their media officer and security officer to speak to a total of one member of

Leicestershire 275 and 139 for 5 (Carson 3-38) need a further 325 to beat Sussex 442 and 296 for 6 dec (Alsop 81*, Hunt 65) Sussex took four wickets in the final hour to put themselves in a strong position to beat Leicestershire at Hove and consolidate top place in the Vitality County Championship second

After restricting Afghanistan to 115 for 5 in the final Super Eight game, Bangladesh needed to win in 12.1 overs to go ahead of Afghanistan and Australia on net run rate and qualify for the semi-finals from Group 1 along with India. “The plan was to try (to win in 12.1 overs) if we get