News They replace England’s Heather Knight and Tammy Beaumont who are unavailable as the Thunder chase back-to-back WBBL titles Defending WBBL champions Sydney Thunder have pulled off a coup signing India batter Smriti Mandhana and allrounder Deepti Sharma ahead of their title defence in October. Mandhana, coming off her highest ODI score of the year,
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Report Holder heroics not enough as Sunrisers horror season continues Punjab Kings 125 for 7 (Markram 27, Holder 3-19) beat Sunrisers Hyderabad 120 for 7 (Holder 46*, Bishnoi 3-24, Shami 2-14) by five runs Punjab Kings kept their slim hopes of making the playoffs alive after a tidy bowling performance helped them defeat Sunrisers Hyderabad
Preview Dhoni’s team has one foot in the playoffs but Morgan’s men are beginning to come together brilliantly Big picture These are two teams in red-hot form, and they come into the game having beaten Royal Challengers Bangalore and Mumbai Indians, respectively, in their last games. So, when Chennai Super Kings and Kolkata Knight Riders
News NSW and Victoria are still waiting to find out when their domestic season will begin Queensland Premier Cricket will provide a chance for some New South Wales players to gain valuable match time this weekend while confirmation is awaited over when their domestic season will start amid the ongoing Covid-19 restrictions. A number of
Warwickshire 367 and 294 for 3 dec (Yates 132*, Rhodes 62, Sibley 50) beat Somerset 389 (Gregory 68, Davies 52) and 154 (Miles 3-26) by 118 runs It was, as Mark Robinson put it, “one of those days you live for”. Certainly from a Warwickshire perspective. Robinson, the Warwickshire head coach, has been this way
News Ballance had appeared likely to leave club amid interest from elsewhere Adil Rashid and Gary Ballance have signed contract extensions with Yorkshire which will keep them at the club until the end of the 2023 and 2024 seasons respectively. Rashid, 33, has generally signed rolling one-year deals in recent seasons but has committed to
Report India Women made one change to the side that lost the first ODI, bringing in left-arm spinner Gayakwad for offspinner Rana Toss: Australia Women chose to bowl vs India Women Meg Lanning won the toss in the second ODI and opted to bowl first once again against India. Lanning said the new pitch at
News “There’s also no point in rushing him back to get injured and miss the rest of the tournament when we have a chance to win it.” With Hardik Pandya sitting out both of Mumbai Indians’ matches since the resumption of IPL 2021, there has been a lot of speculation around his fitness and whether
News The process to register overseas players will commence from September 24 The second edition of the Lanka Premier League, Sri Lanka’s domestic T20 tournament, will run from December 4 to 23, the SLC announced on Thursday. The process to register overseas players will commence from September 24. The tournament was originally set to run
News Analysis There isn’t much domestic cricket locked in yet, but should Covid-19 allow here’s some names with plenty to play for The Australia domestic season remains very piecemeal at the moment with only a handful of games confirmed and two states – Victoria and New South Wales – still unsure when they will start