Laura Wolvaardt, Lea Tahuhu, Danni Wyatt and Chamari Athapaththu are among the 10 overseas cricketers named to feature in three women’s exhibition games during ongoing PSL. They will help form two playing XIs, namely Amazons and Super Women, to compete next week in Rawalpindi. Bismah Maroof, who recently quit the national captaincy, will lead Amazons
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Australia head coach Andrew McDonald believes the team’s success in the Indore Test shows there is a core group of players who are learning what it takes to win in the subcontinent and can set the side up for greater success in the future. “One hour of chaos” in Delhi, as McDonald termed it, cost
Islamabad United 204 for 4 (Azam 72*, Faheem 41, Amir 1-40, Shamsi 1-40) beat Karachi Kings 201 for 5 (Imad 92*, Irfan 30, Curran 2-43) by six wickets A remarkable counter-attacking knock from Azam Khan ambushed Karachi Kings, snatching a win away from them in a game they had been dominating from the start. Islamabad
The ICC rates a pitch as poor if any of the following criteria apply The pitch offers excessive seam movement at any stage of the match The pitch displays excessive unevenness of bounce for any bowler at any stage of the match The pitch offers excessive assistance to spin bowlers, especially early in the match
Bangladesh won the toss and chose to bowl first vs England Tamim Iqbal, Bangladesh’s captain, won the toss and chose to bowl first, in a bid for the victory that could extend their proud unbeaten run on home soil, in the second ODI against England at Mirpur. No visiting 50-over side has won a series
Adil Rashid has denied being pressurised into supporting Azeem Rafiq’s claims that their former team-mate, the ex-England captain Michael Vaughan, made racist remarks to a group of Asian players ahead of a Yorkshire T20 match in 2009. Rashid, who is currently on tour with England’s white-ball squad in Bangladesh, joined the Cricket Discipline Commission hearing
India have come agonisingly close to beating world champions Australia in two thrilling knockout games in the last seven months and captain Harmanpreet Kaur believes a tournament like WPL will help bridge the gap between the two teams in the future. India lost out on a gold medal at the Commonwealth Games last year when
Big picture – Can the likes of Mushfiqur and Shakib stand up? England would know all too well the importance of taking a 1-0 lead against Bangladesh in Dhaka. The last time it happened, in 2016, England ended up winning the series 2-1 despite the home side bouncing back with a win in the second
Karachi’s dream start turned into a full on nightmare when Rovman Powell joined in on the fun, scoring 64 off just 34 balls. He hit six fours and four sixes during his stay; basically, he was able to hit a boundary once every three or four balls. Sixty-five runs – 33% of the total –
Australia 156 for 4 (Khawaja 60, Jadeja 4-63) lead India 109 (Kuhnemann 5-16, Lyon 3-35) by 47 runs On a pitch that was bare at both ends with a green patch in the middle, Rohit Sharma had no hesitation in batting after winning a toss for the first time in the series. However, with plenty