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On a “gut call”, Buttler chucked the ball to Will Jacks to bowl the second over of England’s World Cup match against Australia. With a gale blowing to the short leg-side boundary, Travis Head and David Warner took Jacks apart with glee. Twenty-two runs came off the over. Australia won by 36. It was the

Coming off three limited overs series wins in a row, men’s captain Charith Asalanka has serious aspirations for this team: let’s be as good as Sri Lanka had been before 2014. That 2007-2014 side had arguably been Sri Lanka’s greatest ever outfit, getting to no fewer than five World Cup finals (three in T20Is and

Australia 163 (Smith 35, Rauf 5-29, Afridi 3-26) vs Pakistan Haris Rauf caused Australia a whole heap of problems once again with a fiery 5 for 29 as they were skittled for 163 in the second ODI at the Adelaide Oval to give Pakistan a terrific chance of leveling the series. Rauf ran through the

During the fourth over of the innings in Bridgetown, Joseph was unhappy with a field placement and could be seen remonstrating with Hope. Off the fourth ball, Joseph removed Jordan Cox caught behind, but did not celebrate with his team, instead immediately returning to his mark. At the end of the over, Joseph left the

Big picture: Rematch of T20 World Cup final In one way, Friday’s T20I between South Africa and India is a grudge match. The last time these two sides met was in Barbados, in the 2024 T20 World Cup final. India had no business winning that match when South Africa needed 30 off 30 balls with

India A 65 for 5 (Padikkal 26, Jurel 24*, Neser 4-16, Boland 1-22) vs Australia A KL Rahul‘s hopes of a Test recall as an opener took a blow, as did the hopes of several other India A candidates, as Australia’s Test back-up seamer Michael Neser tore through their line-up on the opening morning of

Toss West Indies chose to bowl vs England Shai Hope chose to bowl after winning the toss at Kensington Oval, with West Indies and England both eyeing a rare ODI series win in the deciding third match. The sides made two changes apiece, with West Indies bringing in Romario Shepherd and Alzarri Joseph for Jayden

Wriddhiman Saha had already made up his mind to retire from cricket when he casually went to the Eden Gardens this June. But after he returned from a meeting meant to amicably resolve differences with certain factions within the Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB), which had led to his departure to Tripura for two seasons,

Kusal Perera has not played an ODI in almost a year, but has made this squad on the strength of his 55 not out in a T20I against West Indies. Shiraz, 29, has been an excellent domestic performer, taking 84 wickets at 18.75 in List A cricket, but has so far bowled only four overs

Nathan McSweeney will open for Australia A in the second four-day match against India A at the MCG in the clearest indication yet that he is a strong contender for the vacant role in the Test side. McSweeney, the Australia A captain, will go in first alongside Marcus Harris which confirms they are the two

Gus Atkinson has been awarded the Bob Willis Trophy for England’s Player of the Year after a debut Test summer in which he collected 34 wickets as well as scoring his maiden hundred. Atkinson collected the award, voted for by members of the Cricket Writers’ Club, at the Kia Oval on Tuesday. The annual awards

Pakistan’s insistence on bowling short on a fast and bouncy MCG pitch almost produced a famous heist, but the tactic may not be as successful in the second ODI at the Adelaide Oval. In a low-scoring thriller that evoked the heyday of the 50-over format, Pakistan’s pace attack led by speedster Haris Rauf troubled Australia

Phil Salt will keep wicket for England’s T20I series against the West Indies, despite the return of Jos Buttler to the team. White-ball captain Buttler has kept in 106 of his past 108 T20 internationals, fielding only in the two matches that took place in Trinidad during England’s previous tour of the Caribbean in December

Shakib Al Hasan, the Bangladesh allrounder, has been asked to undergo analysis of his bowling action by the England and Wales Cricket Board, after being reported by the umpires during his one-off appearance for Surrey in this season’s County Championship. Shakib, 37, claimed nine wickets for Surrey in a thrilling Championship clash with Somerset at

Toss Australia chose to bowl vs Pakistan Australia have opted to bowl on a cool MCG day after Pakistan handed ODI debuts to opening batter Saim Ayub and middle-order batter Irfan Khan. Ayub and Abdullah Shafique will form a new opening combination in Pakistan’s ODI side despite a terrible record as the Test opening pair.

India will go from their 0-3 defeat to New Zealand to Australia in a couple of weeks’ time and they will face that challenge without the aid of any practice matches. This was their choice. They’ve scrapped a game they were supposed to play against India A at the WACA in favour of centre-wicket training

New Zealand 235 (Mitchell 82, Young 71, Jadeja 5-65, Washington 4-81) and 174 (Young 51, Jadeja 5-55, Ashwin 3-63) beat India 263 (Gill 90, Pant 60, Ajaz 5-103) and 121 (Pant 64, Ajaz 6-57, Phillips 3-42) by 25 runs New Zealand withstood the sublime genius of Rishabh Pant to enter unchartered territory: a whitewash of

Big picture: Pakistan’s year-long gap amid chaos Australia’s top-order bat-off in Tests is front and centre. But before India arrive for the much-anticipated Border-Gavaskar Trophy, the men’s international season begins with a white-ball tour by Pakistan. That includes three ODIs and T20Is each, and starts in Melbourne on Monday. For the hosts, this provides the