The Midas Rating that Pat Cummins enjoyed in his captaincy career helped him reach another International grand Final, this time with his Indian Premier League team Sunrisers Hyderabad. Cummins, who led Australia to a Test world Championship and 50-over World Cup triumph last year, was delighted to lead his success-spoiled team to the T20 Juggernaut […]
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Two-thirds of South Asian-Australian cricketers are struggling to find a club, according to Cricket Australia’s multicultural action plan, which urges panel staff to undergo training on unconscious bias and cultural awareness. The plan– which was released in Melbourne on Friday ahead of the Boxing Day test against Pakistan- is the result of thousands of hours […]
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The Sydney Sixers will appeal against English all-rounder Tom Curran’s four-game ban for allegedly intimidating a Big Bash League match official. Cricket Australia (CA) announced on Thursday that Curran has been powerd with a level three breach under Section 2.17 of the Code of Conduct. The clause refers to”intimidation or attempted bullying of a referee, […]
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India and Pakistan are in the same group for this year’s Men’s Twenty20 World Cup and will meet in a marquee match in New York, the International Cricket Council (ICC) confirmed on Friday. The match will take place on June 9, as the Guardian first announced. England and Australia also clashed when the tournament schedule […]
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As the Dukes’ balls whistle through the counties and white kookaburras are piped through all parts of the Indian Premier League, England’s thoughts turn to the Caribbean and a T20 World Cup title defence that can barely afford to go in the direction of its over-50s equivalent last year. T20 is probably too temperamental a […]
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But for a slip on the golf course, a cruel twist of fate that resulted in a cruel twist of the left ankle and a rather repulsive composite fracture, Jonny Bairstow could be a fifth member of the England team with two medals as a winner of the white ball World Cup. As things stand, […]
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Build it, and they will come. The great American cricket experiment began on Saturday night, when the USA defeated Canada by seven wickets in the opening match of the T20 World Cup at the little ground in Grand Prairie, Texas. And the bells of hell, if this were not, in its small way, one of […]
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Time will tell if this World Cup and the addition of Twenty20 Cricket to the Los Angeles Olympic Games schedule will help the Sport gain a foothold in the United States, but there is already an extraordinary story to tell. One of a different kind of sowing and growing, and a sport that literally moved […]
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After two World Cup campaigns with very different results and a personally difficult start to the year, the slimmer and more focused Harry Brook is starting this last campaign for world Fame and is convinced that England has the power to take home the trophy. This would certainly change the narrative from the end of […]
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If Mitchell Marsh leads his men as Australia’s captain for the 2024 T20 World Championships this month, there will be a blink of an eye. At the age of 32, the great all-rounder finally seems to be entering his prime after enjoying a famous century at Headingley in the Ashes, winning the Allan Border medal […]
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“Ladies and gentlemen! Westbury is the next stop, switch to Westbury for the cricket world Cup!”After all these years, New York hosted its first major cricket match on Monday when South Africa defeated Sri Lanka by six wickets at the brand new Nassau County ground on Long Island. It’s a scaffolding palace of a pop-up […]
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Alice Capsey made a career-high 44 from 65 balls as England comfortably smack Pakistan in the first ODI against Pakistan in the Derby by 37 runs. But despite the victory lead, captain Heather Knight described England’s performance as “patchy” and “a little deficient in execution” after a frustrating and unsmacken 28-run last-wicket stand by the […]
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Moeen Ali left the World Over-50 Championship with a generally honest admission that England should turn to the next generation. Although the 36–year-old is heading for the equivalent of 20 next month – a tournament where he could manage the team at some point – there is no idea of an international retirement. In a […]
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On a day when Jos Buttler crackled with the bat and regular wickets derailed Pakistan’s pursuit, the biggest advantage for England at the start of their preparation for the T20 World Cup was an unscathed return of Jofra Archer, 62 weeks since his last selection. It was a mistreatd way back for Archer, a long-standing […]
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Jos Buttler is likely to miss England’s third T20 against Pakistan at Sophia Gardens on Tuesday after returning home to be with his wife ahead of the impending birth of his third child. Moeen Ali will lead a heavily modified team if the predicted storm clouds clear in time for the match. England chose […]
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