Andre Russell, Chris Gayle, Shakib al Hasan and Mohammad Rizwan are among some of the most prominent players drafted in for the third edition of the Global T20 Canada. The league, which returns for the first time in four seasons, will be played between July 20 and August 6 in Ontario. The league has gone
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Toss Afghanistan chose to bowl against Bangladesh Afghanistan captain Hashmatullah Shahidi decided to bowl against Bangladesh in the one-off Test in Dhaka. His opposite number, Litton Das, also on captaincy debut in long-form cricket, said he would have wanted to do the same on a pitch that looked decently green. Afghanistan are playing a Test
“Stokesy messaged me with a question,” said Moeen Ali. “‘Ashes?'” “I hadn’t heard the news on Leachy [Jack Leach] at the time. So I just said ‘LOL’, thinking he’s taking the mick.” Just a couple of things to unpack there. A 35-year-old man using “lol” is one of them, even if that’s more common than
Jon Lewis, the England Women’s head coach, has called for more opportunities to play red-ball cricket at domestic level as his England squad prepare for next week’s Ashes Test. England named a 15-strong squad on Monday for the five-day match at Trent Bridge and another group of 13 players to represent England A against Australia
Rohit Sharma would’ve liked “20-25 days to prepare” for the World Test Championship (WTC) final, but Ravi Shastri, the former India coach, was more pragmatic about the ground reality, putting the onus on the players instead, saying make a “choice” between missing parts of the IPL and preparing for a game of this magnitude. “See,
Moeen Ali‘s return to Test cricket as a late-notice injury replacement for Jack Leach will present England and Ben Stokes with “a challenge” in the Ashes, according to Australia’s coach Andrew McDonald. Leach’s lower-back stress fracture, diagnosed last Sunday, prompted England to ask Moeen if he would consider reversing his retirement from Test cricket. He
Bangladesh captain Litton Das believes their experience will give them the edge over Afghanistan in the one-off Test in Dhaka that begins on Wednesday. Litton is standing in for the regular captain Shakib Al Hasan who is out with a finger injury. His opposite number, Hashmatullah Shahidi, is also making his captaincy debut after being
Both in 2021 and 2023, India went into the final day of the World Test Championship final with hope of crossing the winning line. On both occasions they faltered as their batting succumbed to incisive spells of fast bowling, and could last barely more than a session. In the rain-hit 2021 final, played in front
There is surely nothing more Scott Boland can do to become one of the first-choice names in Australia’s attack. So far throughout his stellar eight-match career, which has brought 33 wickets at 14.57, Boland’s opportunities have all come because of the absence of others. However, in the aftermath of securing the World Test Championship final
Former England seamer and World Cup winner Anya Shrubsole has confirmed her retirement from professional cricket, signing off with the Player of the Match award in Southern Vipers’ Charlotte Edwards Cup success. Shrubsole, 31, called time with England at the start of the 2022 summer and has now decided that she has played her final