Cricket

News Experienced spinners Anisa Mohammed and Afy Fletcher among 15-player group Stafanie Taylor has been named captain of West Indies’ 15-player squad for the Women’s World Cup, which begins in New Zealand next month. Taylor recently missed the final match of West Indies’ ODI series in South Africa after sustaining a concussion. Anisa Mohammed, who

News He takes over from Lance Klusener, who decided to step away from the role on mutual agreement in September 2021 Stuart Law has been named interim head coach of Afghanistan men’s team for the upcoming limited-overs series against Bangladesh. The former Australia batter takes over from Lance Klusener, who decided to step away from

News “The franchise should be held responsible for this and it is totally unacceptable,” BCB chief Nazmul Hassan says The BCB has issued a show-cause notice to BPL 2022 runner-up Fortune Barishal after their captain Shakib Al Hasan broke the bio-bubble before the final for an ad shoot. Barishal initially said Shakib had stomach trouble

Report Hafeez’s 24-ball 33 was the closest a Qalandars player came to steering the chase as Kings had their first win in nine games Karachi Kings 149 all out (Babar 39, Zaman 4-16, Rashid 4-17) beat Lahore Qalandars 127 for 9 (Hafeez 33, Hamza 4-27) by 22 runs It wasn’t quite worth the wait, but

Report Sultans smash second-highest total in PSL history as Quetta suffer competition’s heaviest defeat Multan Sultans 245 for 3 (Rizwan 83*, Rossouw 71, Masood 57) beat Quetta Gladiators 128 (Akmal 50, Khushdil 2-17) by 117 runs Multan Sultans scorched their way to an eighth victory from nine, racking up the second-highest total and the biggest

Report They went to lunch on day two leading by 140 with six wickets in hand Lunch New Zealand 235 for 4 (Nicholls 86*, Mitchell 14*) lead South Africa 95 by 140 runs New Zealand added 119 runs for the loss of only one wicket to increase their lead to 140 on the second morning.

Report Sophie Devine was back to leading the hosts, who played Frankie Mackay, Lauren Down, Hannah Rowe and Lea Tahuhu Toss New Zealand opt to bowl vs India New Zealand captain Sophie Devine won the toss and inserted India in to bat in the third ODI at the John Davies Oval in Queenstown. While the

News Experienced Pakistan batter signs for full summer of County Championship Worcestershire have signed Pakistan batter Azhar Ali as one of their overseas players for the summer. Azhar will replace Matt Wade, who has withdrawn from his planned stint after being picked up in the IPL mega-auction. Azhar, 36, is a veteran of more than

News Cummins, Hazlewood and Starc will be rested for the final two T20Is in Melbourne as Australia continue to experiment with their line-up Aaron Finch‘s move away from opening might become more frequent but do not expect Australia’s white-ball captain to displace Mitch Marsh at No.3. Eyebrows were raised when Ashton Agar opened in place

Report Colin de Grandhomme and Matt Henry, meanwhile, returned to New Zealand’s XI New Zealand chose to bowl v South Africa The battle of the bowlers began at Hagley Oval with both XIs stacked with seamers as New Zealand opted to bowl first in Christchurch. The home team included four specialist quicks with Matt Henry