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Melbourne Renegades and South Australia wicketkeeper-batter Josie Dooley is in hospital in Brisbane after suffering a stroke while on holiday to Hawaii. Dooley, 24, was on vacation on the Hawaiian island of Kauai in April when she suffered a stroke. The South Australia Cricket Association released a statement on Monday detailing Dooley’s condition. “On 15

Hampshire 276 and 84 for 5 need a further 85 runs to beat Nottinghamshire 235 and 209 (Haynes 59, Clarke 57, Organ 3-38, Abbott 3-41) Hampshire’s opportunity to notch a first win of the season is in the balance after a fast-moving third day of their Vitality County Championship match at Trent Bridge left them

And still it wasn’t enough. Not nearly enough to halt the batting juggernaut that SRH have been this season. They lost their best batter Travis Head first ball, but raced through the powerplay thanks to Abhishek Sharma and Rahul Tripathi, who hit 66 off 28 and 33 off 18 respectively, propelling the team to 84

Pat Cummins‘ key role in the controversial stumping of Jonny Bairstow at Lord’s which ignited last year’s Ashes series has been revealed while team-mates have admitted they were concerned for Alex Carey‘s well-being in the aftermath. The incident, on the fourth day of the second Test, is a major theme in season three of The

Two balls remaining, 10 runs to get. This was Chennai Super Kings’ equation, on Saturday night at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium, to get into the IPL 2024 playoffs by keeping their net run rate above that of Royal Challengers Bengaluru. Ten off two had been CSK’s equation during last year’s final too, and Ravindra Jadeja

Match details Sunrisers Hyderabad (third) vs Punjab Kings (ninth)Hyderabad, 1530 IST (1000 GMT) Big picture – SRH, rusty or rejuvenated? A washout in their last game against Gujarat Titans means SRH are no longer in control of their fate. Even if they win against PBKS on Sunday afternoon, a top-two finish is not guaranteed. For

Lucknow Super Giants’ win over Mumbai Indians in their last game of the season was not enough to take them to the playoffs, but it was the kind of performance their captain KL Rahul wanted more of throughout the season. LSG finished on 14 points and occupied sixth spot on table – level with fourth-placed

Somerset 440 for 7 (Banton 133, Rew 114, Lammonby 69) vs Kent Aggressive centuries from Tom Banton and James Rew helped Somerset pile up 440 for seven after losing the toss on the opening day of the Vitality County Championship First Division match with Kent at Taunton. Banton contributed a career-best 133, off 174 balls,

Former India batter Gautam Gambhir is on top of the BCCI’s wishlist take up the position of India men’s head coach after Rahul Dravid‘s term ends at the conclusion of the 2024 T20 World Cup in June. ESPNcricinfo has learned Gambhir, who is currently the mentor of Kolkata Knight Riders in the IPL, has been

Sunrisers Hyderabad vs Gujarat Titans Match abandoned without a ball bowled Sunrisers Hyderabad sealed a place in the playoffs of IPL 2024, with one point from their washed-out game against Gujarat Titans ensuring they will finish the league stage in the top four. They now have 15 points with one game remaining, against Punjab Kings

Pakistan’s new white-ball coach Gary Kirsten may not have joined the team in person yet but he appears to be preparing for the magnitude of the challenge already. Speaking to talkSPORT, Kirsten said there was little doubt about the talent in the Pakistan squad, but also hinted at problems he had already picked up on.

Lauren Bell has vowed to “attack the stumps” as a default approach, both against Pakistan for the remainder of England’s T20I series, and as a means to combat Bangladesh’s slow, low wickets in this winter’s T20 World Cup, after coming through a rusty first spell at Edgbaston on Saturday to help seal her side’s 53-run

After suffering their fourth consecutive defeat, against Punjab Kings in Guwahati, Rajasthan Royals captain Sanju Samson has admitted his team is “going through failures” that need to be rectified at the earliest. Royals set the pace early in the tournament by winning eight of their first nine matches, but had lost three on the bounce

Eisenhower Park in New York, the first modular stadium in international cricket, is ready for the T20 World Cup. The 34,000-seater venue, about 25 miles east of New York City, was formally launched on Wednesday by Usain Bolt, the world’s fastest man and a World Cup ambassador. The ICC will conduct test events at the

Kagiso Rabada has returned home from the IPL on Sunday evening with an infection in the soft tissue of a lower limb, but is expected to be available for the entire T20 World Cup. Rabada played 11 matches for the Punjab Kings and took 11 wickets at an economy of 8.85 but will not feature

Delhi Capitals assistant coach Pravin Amre said that Prithvi Shaw‘s exclusion from the last few games was justified seeing the way Abishek Porel grabbed his chances. Shaw, who played eight games, scored 198 runs at an average of 24.75 and a strike rate of 163.63, and struck one half-century. “He [Shaw] was our retained played,

Match details Rajasthan Royals vs Punjab KingsGuwahati, 7.30pm IST (2pm GMT) Big picture: Who will replace Buttler for RR? From being fairly well-placed to top the points table, Rajasthan Royals now run the risk of slipping out of the top two after suffering three successive defeats at the pointy end of the tournament. Lucknow Super

South Africa’s T20 World Cup squad has “failed to meet the [transformation] targets set by CSA”, resulting in the board’s admission that “various initiatives that have been pursued over the years have not yielded the desired results, especially in terms of producing Black African cricketers at the highest levels”. But this will not, according to