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About 20-30 more runs while batting, a bigger partnership between KL Rahul and Virat Kohli, and ideally a score of 270-280 are among the things Rohit Sharma would have liked his batting line-up to have achieved to make the World Cup final more of a contest rather than the eventual six-wicket loss to Australia in

Victoria 300 for 7 dec (Harris 73, Handscomb 66, Wildermuth 3-49) and 190 for 9 dec (Sutherland 66, Guthrie 6-60) beat Queensland 219 (Wildermuth 40, Boland 4-47) and 158 (Street 46, Sutherland 4-32, Boland 4-49) by 113 runs Will Sutherland and Scott Boland combined for eight wickets to lead Victoria to a pulsating 113-run Sheffield

Calmness. Atmosphere. Mindset. Positivity. Expectation. These are words India captain Rohit Sharma used with regularity in his 36-minute pre-final press conference in Ahmedabad ahead of the big day against Australia. He didn’t say it, of course, but what he alluded to was this: while it’ll be nice to win, they aren’t weighed down by the

Trent Boult is unlikely to feature for New Zealand during their home summer, but head coach Gary Stead is hopeful of having the left-arm seamer back next year. Boult had given up his New Zealand central contract in 2022 in order to become a freelancer, but reunited with the national team for the 2023 ODI

Tasmania 179 for 4 (Webster 69*, Doran 68*) trail New South Wales 181 (Davies 67, Henriques 50, Bell 4-29) by two runs An unbeaten century stand from Beau Webster and Jake Doran has given Tasmania control of their Sheffield Shield match against New South Wales in Hobart. Webster and Doran were unbeaten on 68 apiece

Melbourne Renegades 169 for 7 (Matthews 46, Hancock 4-20) beat Brisbane Heat 167 for 9 (Harris 65, Coyte 3-26) by two runs Melbourne Renegades have broken an eight-game losing streak in a thrilling two-run upset win over Brisbane Heat, with skipper Hayley Matthews proving the hero in the final over. The Heat needed six runs

Wahab Riaz, the former Pakistan fast bowler, has been appointed the new chief selector of the senior men’s team. His appointment comes not long after Inzamam-ul-Haq stepped down from the position amid conflict-of-interest allegations and in the wake of widespread changes in the set-up at the end of a below-par ODI World Cup campaign. Wahab,

Hobart Hurricanes 122 for 2 (Lee 77*, Carey 38*) beat Melbourne Stars 121 (Lanning 27, Strano 3-20, Carey 3-32) by eight wickets Lizelle Lee shone with the bat and the gloves to inspire Hobart Hurricanes to an eight-wicket win over Melbourne Stars and keep her side’s flickering WBBL finals hopes alive. The former South Africa

Australia’s new-ball bowling in unexpectedly helpful conditions, and the batting of their openers, made the difference in a tense semi-final. Mitchell Starc, who took the first wicket of the match, and finished with outstanding figures of 3 for 34, said this, having also been at the middle when the winning runs were hit. Though it’s

Even by the standards Pakistan cricket sets itself for chaos, yesterday was a high-water mark. A lengthy meeting at PCB headquarters at the Gaddafi Stadium was followed by a staccato reshuffle, kicked off by Babar Azam‘s reluctant resignation as Pakistan captain in all formats. Let’s take a look at what happened and what it all