Cricket

Big picture – India, West Indies look at the long term After losing the first two T20Is, India kept the five-match series alive with a thumping win in the third. While, in the long run, the result of this series will matter little, India are looking to try out personnel for the 2024 T20 World

Essex 298 for 9 (Westley 80, Allison 70) beat Middlesex 295 (Stoneman 93) by three runs Charlie Allison struck a maiden half-century in only his third first-team innings to help Essex pull off an extraordinary first victory of the season in the Metro Bank One-Day Cup. The 18-year-old younger brother of seamer Ben lived up

Ambati Rayudu could become the second Indian to play in the men’s Caribbean Premier League (CPL) after St Kitts & Nevis Patriots signed him as their marquee player for the upcoming season. Rayudu, 37, retired from international – and Indian – cricket after helping Chennai Super Kings to their fifth IPL title in May this

Australia cricket superstar Ellyse Perry could easily have found herself playing alongside Sam Kerr and the other Matildas at the Women’s World Cup. An equally gifted footballer, Perry made her international debut at 16 – playing her first match for Australia against Hong Kong in 2007. The brilliant cricket allrounder made her first World Cup appearance

Worcestershire 375 for 7 (Roderick 137, Libby 86) beat Gloucestershire 290 (Taylor 121, van Beek 4-58) by 85 runs Worcestershire Rapids keeper-batter Gareth Roderick marked his return from illness with a superb century against his former club to help secure an 85-run success in the Metro Bank One-Day Cup at New Road. Roderick had missed

Gus Atkinson, the Surrey fast bowler, is in contention to win his first call-up to an England squad and could make his international debut in the four-match T20I series against New Zealand which starts later this month. He was scooped for six by Buttler early on and later bowled him a beamer that had him

Oval Invincibles 186 for 5 (Klaasen 60, Roy 59) beat Manchester Originals 92 (Overton 37, Johnson 3-1, Narine 3-12) by 94 runs Heinrich Klaasen‘s belligerent half-century led the way as Oval Invincibles thrashed the Manchester Originals by a record margin of 94 runs in the Hundred. The South African international thrashed 60 from 27 balls

Northamptonshire 415 for 8 (Shaw 244, Whiteman 54, Brooks 3-75) beat Somerset 328 (Umeed 77, Dickson 52, Keogh 4-49) by 87 runs Prithvi Shaw secured his place in the record books with a magnificent 244 off just 153 balls to set up an 87-run victory over Somerset in the Metro Bank One Day Cup at

Suryakumar Yadav feels there is “no shame” in admitting that his performance in ODIs has been “really bad” and that he wanted to find a way to succeed in the 50-over format. He has played 26 ODIs so far and averages only 24.33, though his strike rate is 101.38. Suryakumar made scores of 19, 24

Mitchell Marsh, Australia captain. It’s a phrase that would have appeared very unlikely a couple of years ago, but now the allrounder is preparing to lead the team in the T20I series in South Africa and will be a frontrunner for the role permanently heading into next year’s World Cup, and perhaps both white-ball jobs

Toss West Indies chose to bat vs India It was West Indies who had the luck of the draw at the toss in the third T20I, with home captain Rovman Powell choosing to bat. Both captains said batting first was the preferred option on this used Providence surface, but Hardik Pandya said he “wouldn’t mind”

Zak Crawley will consider entering the next IPL auction and is lining up a return to the Big Bash League this winter. Fresh from an Ashes series in which he finished as England’s leading run-scorer, he is plotting a route into their white-ball set-up. Crawley’s opportunities in white-ball cricket have been sporadic since his Test

Marnus Labuschagne‘s hopes of featuring in the ODI World Cup appear to be over after his omission from the squads to play in South Africa and India next month, but he will have a chance to push the selectors by lining up for Australia A against New Zealand A. Australia will narrow their list down

Manchester Originals 91 for 5 (Wolvaardt 38, Levick 2-12) beat Birmingham Phoenix 87 (Devine 27, Morris 5-7, Ecclestone 4-11) by five wickets Fi Morris picked up the best figures in the Hundred outright as Manchester Originals triumphed over Birmingham Phoenix at Emirates Old Trafford in their first outing of the season. A remarkable 5 for

Daniel Vettori has replaced Brian Lara as the head coach of Sunrisers Hyderabad in the IPL. Vettori was previously head coach at Royal Challengers Bangalore, from 2014 to 2018, and is currently working as the assistant coach with the Australia men’s team. The latest update means Sunrisers will have a fourth head coach in six

Toss India chose to bat vs West Indies Hardik Pandya won the toss and opted to bat in the second T20I against West Indies in Georgetown. India were forced to make a change to the side that lost the first T20I on Thursday, with left-arm wristspinner Kuldeep Yadav missing out as a precautionary measure after

Northern Superchargers 201 for 3 (Short 73, Brook 63) beat Southern Brave 141 for 5 (David 40, Vince 33, Topley 3-30) by 60 runs Quick half-centuries from Harry Brook and Matthew Short guided Northern Superchargers to a 60-run victory over Southern Brave as the visitors piled up a record score. Brook smashed 63 off 27

The Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB) has requested the BCCI to move the England vs Pakistan ODI World Cup game, scheduled to be played at Kolkata’s Eden Gardens on November 12, to another date, suggesting November 11 as an alternative. The development came after the city police informed CAB that they are expecting enhanced security