Cricket

Middlesex 162 for 3 (Higgins 60*) vs Nottinghamshire Relegation-threatened Middlesex closed a truncated opening day of their LV= Insurance County Championship match against Nottinghamshire on 162 for three as they began the last round of the 2023 season with one eye on Kent’s progress against Lancashire in Canterbury. Middlesex have to better Kent’s result or

India won the first two ODIs against Australia, taking the series in the process. The first win, which took India to the No. 1 position in the ICC’s ODI team rankings, came by five wickets with eight balls in hand, after Australia fought back from a poor position. But in the second, India were as

Marcus Trescothick says he has been buoyed seeing Andrew Flintoff “grow back into Freddie” during his stint with the limited-overs squad, and hopes to see more of his former England team-mate in a coaching capacity in the future. Flintoff, 45, has been working as an unpaid assistant coach for England’s men during their one-day series

The PCB has expressed its strong displeasure to the ICC over the delay in visas being issued to the Pakistan team, and warned of the adverse impact on the team’s preparations for the World Cup. With the team scheduled to fly out of Pakistan early morning on Wednesday, visas had still not been issued to

Sachithra Senanayake, the former Sri Lanka offspinner, has been granted bail by the Colombo Chief Magistrate’s court, the police media division has confirmed. Senanayake had been arrested on September 6 on charges related to match-fixing. Bail was granted on two sureties of LKR 5,000,000 each, while the previously court-imposed travel ban is still in effect.

Charlotte Edwards‘ mum called it “a miracle” but in truth, Southern Vipers had it coming, even if it didn’t feel like it at times this season. The first team to claim the domestic double, with a convincing five-wicket win against Blaze in the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy Final at Northampton on Sunday, has been building

Toss Australia chose to bowl vs India In hot and humid Indore, it was Australia who won the toss and chose to bowl, with stand-in captain Steven Smith saying he’d “fancy chasing” with dew potentially playing a part. Smith also said that regular captain Pat Cummins was being rested, as were Mitchell Marsh and Marcus

Sri Lanka allrounder Wanindu Hasaranga may be out of the World Cup completely, and may even require surgery, after aggravating his Grade 3 hamstring tear over the past few days. Meanwhile, fast bowler Dushmantha Chameera, and spinner Maheesh Theekshana also still on the road back from injury. But there is greater hope those two can

Bangladesh captain Litton Das recalled batter Ish Sodhi after fast bowler Hasan Mahmud had run out the New Zealand player when he left the crease early at the non-striker’s end. It was the first time that a Bangladesh cricketer attempted one of the most controversial modes of dismissal. Sodhi was on 17 off 27 balls

Ireland won the toss and chose to bowl first vs England Paul Stirling won the toss and chose to bowl first at a sunny Trent Bridge, as Ireland’s ODI series against England prepared to get underway at the second attempt, following the frustrating washout at Headingley on Wednesday. With much of England’s attention already thrown

Toss New Zealand chose to bat vs Bangladesh After a heavy spell of rain in the morning, the weather cleared up around Mirpur in time for the toss, which Lockie Ferguson won and chose to bat. New Zealand remain unchanged, retaining the balance of five specialist batters at the top, two allrounders in Rachin Ravindra

The ECB has offered unprecedented three-year contracts in a bid to quell the threat of franchise teams co-opting England’s best and brightest cricketers. The deals are a revamp of the pre-existing central contract structure which solely featured year-long deals, and come at a time when IPL ownership has spread into other T20 competitions around the

Toss India won the toss and opted to field vs Australia India won the toss and asked Australia to bat in the first of three ODIs, being played in Mohali. KL Rahul, India’s captain for the series, called Mohali “historically a good chasing ground” when explaining his decision to field first. His counterpart, Pat Cummins,

Sri Lanka 84 for 2 (Sanjeewani 32, Putthawong 2-21) beat Thailand 78 for 7 (Sutthiruang 31, Priyadharshani 4-10) by eight wickets Inoshi Priyadharshani‘s career-best returns of 4 for 10 backed up by a quick 32 from Anushka Sanjeewani helped Sri Lanka brush aside Thailand by eight wickets and advance to the semi-finals of the Asian

Australia captain Meg Lanning is in line to make her long-awaited return to cricket in the WNCL after being included in Victoria’s squad for their opening two matches against Western Australia in Perth on September 26 and 28. Lanning will need a final tick of approval from Victoria’s medical staff before she is cleared to

A sodden Headingley outfield delayed its arrival by three days, but England’s latest white-ball opening partnership will stride out to the middle together at Trent Bridge on Saturday with an opportunity to show that they are not just a stop-gap, but a viable long-term option at the top of the order. Phil Salt and Will

Jason Roy has turned down the chance to play for England’s second-string side in their ODI series against Ireland, after the “hammer blow” of his last-minute omission from their final World Cup squad. With Joe Root opting to rest for the next week along with his colleagues in the World Cup squad, after his plan

The USA leg of the 2024 T20 World Cup will be hosted in New York, Texas and Florida, following inspections that were conducted earlier this year, the ICC has announced. While Grand Prairie (in Texas) and Broward County (Lauderhill, Florida) already have existing infrastructure to host games, the ICC will increase the stadium capacity at