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David Warner insists Stuart Broad has not got inside his head, despite admitting he has Barmy Army taunts over the English seamer’s record against him stuck on the mind. The decision came after speculation over whether Warner could be squeezed out, after a double failure at Headingley last week took his series average to 23.5.

Heather Knight, England’s captain, hailed her team’s success in taking two white-ball trophies off the double World Champions, Australia, even though the overall Ashes trophy slipped through their grasp on account of their loss in the one-off Test match at the start of the series – an upshot that her team-mate Kate Cross admitted “didn’t

The Independent Commission for Equity in Cricket’s (ICEC) report on discrimination in the game in England and Wales is 317 pages long. ‘Holding Up a Mirror to Cricket’, as it is titled, was released last month and is built on the evidence of the lived experiences of more than 4000 people across the game, interviews

New Zealand will host Australia for a Test series for the first time in eight years in the upcoming summer, right after attempting to secure a maiden Test series victory against South Africa, according to the fixtures released by New Zealand Cricket (NZC) for the 2023-24 home season. The New Zealand men’s team begin their

What England say will likely be low down the information Australia take on board when deciding their XI for Old Trafford, but Moeen Ali believes they have to play Todd Murphy as a frontline spinner. Murphy sent down only 9.3 overs at Headingley and just two one-over spells during England’s successful chase after having come

In a new documentary ‘Is Cricket Racist?’, to be aired on Channel 4 in the UK, Moeen was asked by the presenter Adil Ray what he thought of Vaughan’s tweets from 2017, in which Vaughan first endorsed a Daily Mail column by Piers Morgan arguing Muslims need to root out extremist elements from their communities

This Australian side isn’t going away any time soon. That was the message from Alana King after helping her side to an Ashes-retaining victory with three crucial wickets in the second ODI in Southampton. The nail-biting win, by three runs off the final ball, broke a three-game losing streak in the series which had allowed

Yuzvendra Chahal has revealed his anger and disappointment at the manner of his parting with Royal Challengers Bangalore ahead of the IPL 2022 season, saying he did not even “receive any phone call” from the franchise. Ahead of that auction, Chahal had said, “Obviously, I want to go to RCB again” in an interview with

Toss India chose to bowl vs Bangladesh Harmanpreet Kaur continues her winning streak with the toss and opted to bowl first in the opening ODI against Bangladesh in Mirpur. India handed out ODI debuts to allrounder Amanjot Kaur and left-arm spinner B Anusha. They also left Shafali Verma out of their XI and brought back

Somerset 145 (Dickson 53, Snater 3-13) beat Essex 131 (Sams 45, Henry 4-24, Sodhi 3-22) by 14 runs Somerset ended an 18-year wait for a second T20 title as they put their Finals Day heartache behind them, concluding a record-breaking season with another ruthless bowling performance under the Edgbaston lights. Somerset had won 14 games

Somerset 142 for 7 (Abbott 4-23) beat Surrey 118 (Henry 3-19, Overton 3-24, Green 3-25) by 24 runs Craig Overton, Matt Henry and Ben Green claimed three wickets apiece in a stunning defence of a sub-par target of 143, as Somerset overcame Surrey by 24 runs to book their place in the Vitality Blast final,

Alex Carey has stood by his controversial stumping of Jonny Bairstow at Lord’s which ignited the biggest uproar of the Ashes and led to what he termed some “pretty nasty stuff” being said about him and the team. Speaking for the first time since the dismissal on the final day at Lord’s, Carey reinforced that

Jaiswal’s innings, lasting 501 minutes and 387 balls, was the longest by an India Test debutant, and Rohit watched a large part of it from the other end during an opening stand of 229. “He’s got the talent,” Rohit said of Jaiswal. “We knew about it. He’s shown us in the past couple of years

After being left out of the tour to Bangladesh, Richa Ghosh has returned to India’s 15-member squad for the women’s cricket competition at the 19th Asian Games. Fast bowler Titas Sadhu and allrounder Kanika Ahuja earned maiden call-ups while experienced allrounder Pooja Vastrakar was named among the five reserves. Left-arm spinner Rajeshwari Gayakwad, who was

West Zone 129 for 7 (Shaw 65, Kaverappa 4-44, Vyshak 2-29) trail South Zone 213 (Vihari 63, Mulani 3-29, Gaja 2-27) by 84 runs Vidwath Kaverappa is 24 years old. He isn’t what you’d define as a tearaway quick. But he’s lively and can certainly leave batters in a daze with his quick arm-speed, zip

The Sheffield Shield season will run from October 3, 2023, until the final on March 21-25, 2024. There will be six Shield rounds before the first Test however the last of those six games begins on November 28 to accommodate the BBL starting earlier on December 7. That may mean that Australia’s multi-format players are

Derbyshire 407 (Guest 105, du Plooy 52, Karvelas 4-64, Shipley 4-124) and 361 for 8 (du Plooy 128, Ali 73) drew with Sussex 402 (Hudson-Prentice 63*, Scrimshaw 5-49) and 384 for 9 dec (Coles 180, Thomson 5-110) Skipper Leus du Plooy made a magnificent 128 but Derbyshire came up just short in their pursuit of

Richa Ghosh, the 19-year-old wicketkeeper-batter, has become the third Indian player to sign a contract in the Hundred for 2023, replacing the injured Georgia Redmayne at London Spirit. Ghosh will join Smriti Mandhana (Southern Brave) and Harmanpreet Kaur (Trent Rockets) in the competition next month, who were retained from last year’s squad and signed in