Mitchell Santner has been named captain of New Zealand’s T20I squad for the series in India that begins later this month. Kane Williamson and Tim Southee will both be absent, having chosen not to travel after the ongoing series in Pakistan. Ben Lister, the 27-year-old Auckland fast bowler, is a first time inclusion in the
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Sri Lanka chose to bat in the second ODI, at Eden Gardens. Captain Dasun Shanaka said he expected the pitch to be good for batting, on top of which the ground favours teams setting scores. Sri Lanka must win this match to stay in the series. Rohit Sharma, however, said he “was in two minds”
Kemar Roach, the West Indies fast bowler, will be returning to Surrey for the first six games of the LV=Insurance County Championship season. Roach, 34, is coming back to the club for a third season after successful spells in 2021 and in the title-winning 2022 season. In his time at Surrey so far, he has
Perth Scorchers 157 for 2 (Inglis 67*, Hardie 65*, Bartlett 1-31) beat Brisbane Heat 155 for 6 (Bryant 36, Behrendorff 3-21) by eight wickets Veteran quick Jason Behrendorff took three wickets then Josh Inglis and Aaron Hardie blasted half-centuries as Perth Scorchers continued their stranglehold over lowly Brisbane Heat with an eight-wicket victory in Brisbane.
Prithvi Shaw has made the second-highest Ranji Trophy score of all time. The opener, resuming on an overnight score of 240, began the second day of Mumbai’s Group B match against Assam in ominous manner, scoring 139 runs off 99 balls before he was out for 379. Bhausaheb Nimbalkar, who scored an unbeaten 443 for
Mitchell Starc has been officially ruled out of the first Test against India in Nagpur but has still been named Australia’s 18-man touring squad for the four-Test series on Wednesday which features four spin options including uncapped Victoria offspinner Todd Murphy. Starc suffered a finger tendon injury during the Boxing Day Test against South Africa
Arthur was Pakistan’s head coach from 2016 to 2019. Under his coaching, Pakistan won the 2017 Champions Trophy and also reached the No. 1 position on ICC’s T20I rankings. However, he lost the job after Pakistan’s fifth-place finish at the 2019 ODI World Cup. On December 27, ESPNcricinfo reported that PCB chairman Najam Sethi was
An emotive Jess Jonassen has explained what “the second coming” of Meg Lanning has done to the spirit of the Australian squad ahead of the T20 World Cup defence in South Africa next month. The 30-year-old Lanning took a break from cricket after winning gold at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham with the team she
Shane Burger will step down from his role as Scotland head coach at the end of next month, in order to take up the role of assistant coach at Somerset. Burger, 40, joined the Scottish set-up in 2019, succeeding Grant Bradbury in the job. He oversaw one of the greatest successes in Scotland’s history as
There has been a debate going around if Hardik Pandya should replace Rohit Sharma as India’s T20I captain but Rohit has asserted he has no plans to give up T20Is as things stand. After the 2022 T20 World Cup, both Rohit and Virat Kohli missed India’s next two T20I series, away against New Zealand and