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For the second season running Melbourne Stars will have pick one in the BBL overseas draft while local rivals Melbourne Renegades will follow as second. The weighted lottery – split between the four sides who missed finals and those who qualified – has Sydney Sixers, last season’s beaten finalists, coming out eighth while defending champions

England wicketkeeper-batter Sam Billings has become the first player to sign for the BBL under the new multi-year contract option with a three-season deal for Sydney Thunder, committing to the competition ahead of rival T20 leagues in the UAE and South Africa. The SA20 will again significantly overlap with the BBL when it starts in

While the exact sums won’t be known until England have played Oman and Namibia – a defeat against either will end their tournament – there is a good chance that a scenario emerges whereby Australia could win their final group match by a narrow-enough margin to ensure Scotland went through at England’s expense. “In this

Match details West Indies vs New ZealandTarouba, 8.30pm local Big picture – WI eye Super Eight spot Since 2015, New Zealand have been the most consistent side in World Cups, making it to the semi-final in all six editions – in 2015, 2019 and 2023 in the ODI World Cup, and in 2016, 2021 and

Twenty more runs, and who knows what Canada might have been able to achieve? And looking at the way Aaron Johnson started they threatened to go past the run-a-ball mark, which has been successfully defended in New York on the last two days. Canada now have only a remote chance to make it to the

Rocky Flintoff, the son of former England allrounder Andrew Flintoff, has been called up to England men’s Under-19 squad for their three-match youth ODI series against Sri Lanka later this month. Despite being just 16, Flintoff has impressed for Lancashire 2nd XI this season. He made his debut two days after his 16th birthday and

The number of upsets – Associate teams beating Full Members – and close finishes in the T20 World Cup 2024 have made Nepal captain Rohit Paudel confident that they can beat an under-pressure Sri Lanka in Lauderhill, Florida, on June 11. It will be the second game for Nepal but a more crucial fixture for

Australia have the opportunity to plot England’s downfall at the T20 World Cup 2024 and could jeopardise their rivals’ prospects of qualifying for the Super Eights by resting players in their final group-stage match against Scotland. Andrew McDonald, their coach, repeatedly insisted on Monday that his players are focused on their game against Namibia in

Canada vs PakistanNew York, 10.30am local Big picture: Can the 2022 finalists stay alive? The nature of the T20 World Cup 2024 scheduling means what cannot be forgotten must at least be shelved temporarily. Pakistan may have time to process their heartache after the defeat against India, which promises to leave scars well after this

Pakistan coach Gary Kirsten has put the team’s defeat down to poor decision-making, after they had “the game for 35 of 40 overs”, while Jasprit Bumrah commended the calmness shown by India’s bowling unit even though the conditions eased out for batting. “Disappointing loss, that’s for sure,” Kirsten said. “I knew 120 was not going

Scotland 153 for 3 (McMullen 61*, Munsey 41) beat Oman 150 for 7 (Athavale 54, Ayaan 41*) by seven wickets Are Scotland about to send them homeward, tae think again? All will be revealed in the final shake-down of a fascinating Group B, but if England thought their defenestration from last year’s 50-over World Cup

The Blaze 159 for 7 (K Bryce 54, Beaumont 45, Burns 3-19) beat Northern Diamonds 146 (Heath 59, Kalis 41, Glenn 3-33) by 13 runs Last year’s beaten finalists The Blaze have qualified for Finals Day again after winning their seventh successive Charlotte Edwards Cup match of the ongoing campaign, by 13 runs against struggling

Toss West Indies chose to bat vs Uganda West Indies captain Rovman Powell won the toss and chose to bat first in Guyana, expecting the Providence surface to be slow again, and therefore, easier to defend a score on. Uganda captain Brian Masaba said they would have batted first as well, on account of what

Australia 201 for 7 (Warner 39, Marsh 35, Head 34, Stoinis 30) beat England 165 for 6 (Buttler 42, Cummins 2-23, Zampa 2-28) by 36 runs Australia outplayed England in Barbados to leave the defending champions sweating on their qualification for the Super 8s. They posted the highest score of the T20 World Cup to

Pakistan will be forced into a late call over the inclusion of Imad Wasim ahead of Sunday’s group game against India. Ten days after the PCB said Imad missed the final game of the T20I series against England for “precautionary reasons” after a suspected rib injury, the allrounder remains a significant doubt for this game.

“It’s one of the greatest performances from us especially in T20s against a big team, New Zealand,” Rashid said at the presentation. “It is all great team effort. It’s not just about the bowling. It’s the batting, the way Ibrahim [Zadran] and [Rahmanullah] Gurbaz started. Again, the wicket wasn’t easy to score on. But the

A week ago, Canada fast bowler Jeremy Gordon was thrown the ball to rein in a surging USA side. The previous over had leaked 20, but Gordon had bowled a tight couple of overs, and with USA still needing just under ten an over, Canada entrusted him to tighten the screws. Instead, in a nightmarish

Barbados Royals have retained Sri Lanka mystery spinner Maheesh Theekshana for the 2024 edition of the Caribbean Premier League even though he was unable to play any of their matches last year. Theekshana, 23, is yet to play a single game in the CPL. Two years ago, he was selected by Trinbago Knight Riders but