England quick bowler Issy Wong has been ruled out of her WBBL season with Hobart Hurricanes due to injury. Wong, who has previously played for Sydney Thunder, will be replaced by New Zealand allrounder Hayley Jensen who was a replacement player for Hurricanes in the 2020-21 season. Wong’s injury removes what could have been a
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Big picture The good news is that this series is not without context. South Africa will be playing for World Cup Super League points. And they are desperate to get them. The better news – for them – is that they are doing it against a second-string Indian side that doesn’t have too much riding
The women’s T20 cricket competition will feature in the Commonwealth Games 2026 to be held in Australia. It was among the 20 sports included in the next iteration to be played in Victoria, ICC said in a release. It follows the success of women’s cricket, which made its debut in the Birmingham edition earlier this
India won the toss and chose to bowl vs South Africa India won the toss and opted to bowl on a small Holkar Stadium ground, in the third and final T20I against South Africa in Indore. Captain Rohit Sharma didn’t expect the pitch “to change a lot”, and announced three changes from the side that
The top T20I teams are “one step ahead” of Pakistan in terms of their approach, particularly with the bat, according to chief selector Mohammad Wasim. He also feels that the top order, Mohammad Rizwan and Babar Azam specifically, needs to “show more faith” in the middle order for the team to achieve the sort of
Toss India Women chose to bat vs UAE Women India captain Smriti Mandhana won the toss and opted to bat against United Arab Emirates in their Women’s T20 Asia Cup clash at the Academy Ground, Sylhet International Cricket Stadium. Mandhana was standing in for Harmanpreet Kaur, who was rested alongside Shafali Verma, Radha Yadav and
West Indies have dropped Shimron Hetmyer from their World Cup squad after the batter missed a “rescheduled” flight to Australia. CWI said the decision was taken “unanimously” by the selection panel, which also decided to name Shamarh Brooks as Hetmyer’s replacement. Most of the West Indies squad had flown to Australia in different groups, following
Saurashtra 98 and 368 for 8 (Unadkat 78*, Bhut 6*, Saurabh 3-80, Sen 3-85) lead Rest of India 374 (Sarfaraz 138, Vihari 82, Saurabh 55, Sakariya 5-93) by 92 runs Saurashtra’s middle and lower-order showed a lot of fight, adding 281 runs through their lower order, but Rest of India remained firm favourites to win
Toss Malaysia chose to bowl vs India Malaysia won the toss and asked India to bat first in the sixth match of the Women’s T20 Asia Cup at the Sylhet International Cricket Stadium on Monday. India made four changes to the XI that played in their opening game, against Sri Lanka, with opener Smriti Mandhana, allrounders Pooja Vastrakar
New Zealand 94 for 5 (Green 49*, Matthews 4-12) beat West Indies 93 for 9 (Jonas 3-16) by five wickets Maddy Green guided New Zealand to a series lead in Antigua in a game dominated by the spinners. Fran Jonas led the way for the visitors before West Indies captain Hayley Matthews responded with four