Cricket

Pakistan chose to bat vs South Africa With the December holiday season about to kick off in South Africa, Mohammad Rizwan chose to bat in front of a growing and expectant SuperSport Park crowd. They will see a hometown debutant in Dayyan Galiem, who plays his domestic cricket for Titans and was brought into the

One of Australia’s T20I middle-order mainstays Marcus Stoinis says the BBL should revisit the rules around the shortened powerplay and power surge as he believes it is detrimental to developing middle-order T20 batters. The new Melbourne Stars captain is uniquely qualified on the subject having become an outstanding middle-order T20I batter for Australia and a

West Indies 325 for 6 (Jangoo 104*, Carty 95, Rishad 2-69) beat Bangladesh 321 for 5 (Mahmudullah 84*, Mehidy 77, Soumya 73, Jaker 62*, Joseph 2-43) by four wickets Jangoo added 132 runs for the fifth wicket with Carty, and when West Indies lost two wickets in quick succession, he combined with Gudakesh Motie for

G Trisha and Shabnam Shakil, members of India’s Under-19 World Cup winning team in January 2023, are both part of India’s squad for the women’s Under-19 Asia Cup that will be held in Malaysia later this month. Their presence in the squad, a majority of which will also play in the second edition of the

Adelaide Strikers (Tristan Lavalette) Squad* Fabian Allen, James Bazley, Cameron Boyce, Jordan Buckingham, Alex Carey, Brendan Doggett, Travis Head, Thomas Kelly, Chris Lynn, Harry Nielsen, Jamie Overton, Lloyd Pope, Ollie Pope, Alex Ross, D’Arcy Short, Matt Short, Henry Thornton, Jake Weatherald How they stack up Strikers struggled for consistency last season, but a stunning upset

Toss England chose to bowl vs South Africa South Africa responded to their six-wicket defeat to England by making four changes for Wednesday’s series decider in Potchefstroom. Tazmin Brits, Sune Luus, Sinalo Jafta and Ayanda Hlubi were all left out, and Lara Goodall, Anneke Bosch, Mieke de Ridder and Masabata Klaas came in to the

Having gone through what went wrong at the Women’s T20 World Cup 2024, Australia rebounded with a series clean sweep of India as they build towards a defence of their 50-over crown next year. Australia outplayed India after two comfortable victories in Brisbane before finishing the series with an 83-run win in a topsy-turvy contest

Toss India chose to bowl vs Australia India captain Harmanpreet Kaur elected to bowl in stifling conditions at the WACA as India seek a consolation win in the ODI series-finale against Australia. India were thoroughly outplayed across the opening two matches in Brisbane as their dreams of a first ODI series victory over Australia in

Marcus Stoinis has been confirmed as the new Melbourne Stars captain for the upcoming BBL season, replacing long-time skipper Glenn Maxwell who resigned at the end of last summer. Stoinis, 35, has led Stars once previously in Maxwell’s absence last season. He had been a candidate to be interim captain when Maxwell missed the entire

Nottinghamshire have signed Australian seamer Fergus O’Neill for the first four rounds of next year’s County Championship. O’Neill, who has an impressive first-class record of 94 wickets at 19.91, is only eligible for a short-term visa but he will cover for the absence of Dane Paterson for the start of the season, with the South

Bengal 159 for 9 (Karan 33, Shami 32*, Pramanik 30, Jagjit 4-21, Bawa 2-27) beat Chandigarh 156 for 6 (Bawa 32, Yadav 27, Ghosh 4-30, Seth 2-35) by 3 runs Bengal are through to the quarter-finals of the 2024-25 Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy (SMAT) after prevailing by three runs in a thriller against Chandigarh at

Jonathan Trott will continue as Afghanistan men’s head coach till the end of 2025. His next assignment will be the ODI leg of Afghanistan’s multi-format tour of Zimbabwe, but he will not take charge in the other formats for personal reasons. In his absence, Hamid Hassan will deputise as head coach and Nawroz Mangal as

With 10 Tests to go in the current World Test Championship (WTC) cycle, several teams are still in contention, and no team is assured of a place in the top two. Here is how the teams currently stack up. South AfricaPercent: 63.33, matches remaining: Pak (2 home) South Africa’s 2-0 series sweep against Sri Lanka

It was like Scott Boland had never been away. Against India in Adelaide, in his first home Test for two years, he could have had a wicket with his first delivery of the match if not for his heel being on the line rather than behind. Instead, Boland struck with his first ball of the

South Africa will “go back to old-fashioned Test cricket” as they look to take five wickets to complete a win on the final day at St George’s Park. This, after they “went searching” in the last 90 minutes of the fourth afternoon. A slightly frustrated Keshav Maharaj, who was the last to strike in the

Pink ball or red ball, first innings runs are vital in Test cricket and India have been lacking recently. Adelaide was the fourth time in the last five Tests that they were unable to reach the 200-run mark. Adelaide’s 180 followed a series of 150 against Australia in Perth, 156 against New Zealand in Pune

“It was a great battle going on (with Head) and he batted really well,” Siraj told Star Sports Hindi before the third day’s play. “When you get hit for a six on a good ball, it fires you up differently. And when I got him bowled, I only celebrated and he abused me and you

Sri Lanka fancy their chances chasing “anything around or below 300,” on a wicket that is “playing really well,” at St George’s Park, according to former captain Angelo Mathews. Though he acknowledged South Africa, at 221 ahead with seven wickets in hand, have the advantage, Mathews brought fighting talk to the third day’s post-play press