Cricket

The owner of Dukes has pledged to investigate the controversial ball change in Australia’s second innings during their 49-run defeat in the fifth men’s Ashes Test at The Oval, while casting doubt on a theory that a five-year-old replacement ball might have been used. The ball was changed in the 37th over of Australia’s chase,

Manchester Originals 138 for 5 (Buttler 62) vs London Spirit – no result Manchester Originals skipper Jos Buttler smacked five sixes in an entertaining 36-ball 62 but his side’s match in the Hundred against London Spirit eventually fell victim to the Manchester weather. The home side had reached 138 for 5 after 80 balls in

Former Pakistan captain Imran Khan, who served as the country’s Prime Minister between 2018 and 2022, has been arrested and sentenced to three years in jail on charges of corruption. A Reuters report said Imran, 70, had been sentenced by a Pakistan trial court for not declaring the proceeds of state gifts to the Election

Southern Brave 147 for 8 (Jordan 70*, Rauf 3-23) beat Welsh Fire 145 for 7 (Wiley 31, Mills 2-23) by two runs Chris Jordan smashed an exhilarating 70 off 32 balls to give Southern Brave their first Hundred victory of 2023 in a two-run nail-biter over Welsh Fire. England star Jordan dragged Brave from 76

Durham 427 for 9 (Lees 144, Bedingham 102, Clark 72) beat Sussex 295 (Haines 65, Hudson-Prentice 65, Trevaskis 3-38) by 132 runs Memorable hitting from Alex Lees, David Bedingham and Graham Clark propelled Durham to a record List A total of 427 for 9 at Hove, setting up a crushing 132-run win against shell-shocked Sussex

Royal Challengers Bangalore have appointed Andy Flower as their new head coach, after deciding against renewing the contracts of director of cricket operations Mike Hesson and head coach Sanjay Bangar following a sixth-place finish in IPL 2023. ESPNcricinfo had reported earlier in July that the RCB management was deliberating changes to its coaching staff, with

The SA20 mini-auction ahead of the 2024 season will take place in Johannesburg on September 27. On the day of the auction, a total of 21 slots are to be filled, six of those reserved for rookie players. A rookie player is someone who is a South African under the age of 22 and has

A five-match series in India presents England with “an amazing opportunity” to test themselves – and their swashbuckling approach with the bat – in different conditions, according to Zak Crawley. England have a six-month break until their next Test match, which starts in Hyderabad on January 25. They struggled badly against India’s spinners on their

Former India batter Manoj Tiwary has retired from all forms of cricket to end a 19-year domestic career. Tiwary played all his domestic cricket for Bengal and also won the IPL with Kolkata Knight Riders in 2012, when he hit the winning runs in the last over of the chase. He played 12 ODIs and

Oval Invincibles 132 for 7 (S Curran 34) beat London Spirit 131 (Rossington 39, Wade 37, Sowter 3-34) by three wickets Sunil Narine starred with bat and ball as Oval Invincibles won a thriller against their rivals London Spirt by three wickets at Lord’s. Narine was at his eccentric batting best to pummel 12 runs

England coach Brendon McCullum asked Moeen Ali if he would consider playing the five-match series in India in early 2024 during their win at The Oval but was told: “That’s me done”. Moeen retired from Test cricket in September 2021 but made himself available for the Ashes after Jack Leach was diagnosed with a stress

Four of the five players have been regulars in the WBBL with Devine and Harmanpreet both winning Player of the Tournament awards. Devine is the only player in WBBL history to have been named Player of the Tournament twice doing it in back-to-back seasons in 2019-20 and 2020-21 for two different clubs in Adelaide Strikers

Toss West Indies chose to bowl vs India Shai Hope has won the toss and opted to bowl in the third ODI in Tarouba as West Indies eye their first ODI series win against India since 2006. The hosts fielded an unchanged XI. India, meanwhile, continued resting Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli, and made two

Mickey Arthur was appointed Pakistan team director in April, with Grant Bradburn, who previously served as Pakistan’s fielding coach, becoming head coach the following month. Rehan-ul-Haq, who was general manager of Islamabad United for all eight seasons in the Pakistan Super League, was appointed team manager of the national side. Each of those appointments took

Shai Hope and Shimron Hetmyer, as well as Oshane Thomas, have been recalled to the West Indies T20I squad for the five-match series against India as they look for the “right combinations” ahead of the 2024 T20 World Cup, to be played at home in the Caribbean and the USA. The provisional 15-man squad, which

Moeen was sent an SOS message by Ben Stokes – which read ‘Ashes?’ – when Jack Leach England’s first-choice spinner, was ruled out of the summer with a lower-back stress fracture in the days before the series. After initially thinking it was a joke, he decided to reverse his retirement from Test cricket, having initially

A fully-fit Jasprit Bumrah is finally back in the India squad – as captain as well – for the T20Is in Ireland in August. In another boost to India’s fast-bowling stocks, Prasidh Krishna was also picked in the squad for the three games in Dublin. Bumrah hasn’t played any cricket since the T20I series at

Romario Shepherd was named after the Brazilian footballer, one the greatest strikers in that sport. Shepherd was born in Linden, where football – or track and field – is arguably more popular than cricket, but he took to cricket. Tall, strong and muscular, Shepherd towered over other boys during age-group and regional cricket. He has