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During the toss, Rohit Sharma explained why Rishabh Pant had to sit out the series decider© AFP India captain Rohit Sharma won the toss and elected to bowl first against Australia in the third and final T20I at the Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket in Hyderabad. With the series levelled at 1-1, India made just one

Harmanpreet Kaur contended that no “crime” had been committed. England were “not fans”. The two opposing views summed up the divide that inevitably follows the dismissal of a batter who is run out while backing up. So when Deepti Sharma held the ball as she started her action with Charlie Dean out of her ground

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South Zone 318 for 7 (Indrajith 118, Pandey 48, Gowtham 43, Sheth 3-51, Unadkat 3-52) lead North Zone 270 (Het Patel 98, Unadkat 47*, Sai Kishore 5-86) by 48 runs B Indrajith‘s scintillating hundred and K Gowtham’s rearguard 43 took South Zone past West Zone’s first-innings total on an interesting second day of the Duleep

2nd ODI: Dominant India clinch series with a game to go.© BCCI IND-W vs ENG-W, 2nd ODI Highlights: India took an unassailable 2-0 in the three-match series after beating England by 88 runs in the second ODI at the  St Lawrence Ground in Canterbury. Chasing a total of 334, England were bowled out for a

Hosts and defending champions Bangladesh will kick off the 2022 Women’s T20 Asia Cup against Thailand on October 1, with India taking on Sri Lanka in the second match of the day, in Sylhet on October 1, Jay Shah, the president of ACC, announced on Twitter on Tuesday. The semi-finals will be played on October

SA20, the brand new franchise T20 league in South Africa conducted its players’ auction on Monday. South African batting sensation Tristan Stubbs triggered a bidding frenzy with Sunrisers Eastern Cape getting his services for a staggering 9.2 million rand (USD 500,000 plus) at the inaugural auction of the SA T20 league on Monday. The six teams

Western Storm 239 for 8 (Gibson 56, Jackson 3-50) beat Thunder 242 for 5 (Smale 57, Filer 3-46) by two wickets (DLS method) Western Storm ended their season on a high with a narrow two-wicket victory over Thunder in the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy at Emirates Old Trafford. An 81-run partnership between Danielle Gibson and

File photo of Mohammed Shami.© AFP Mohammed Shami’s T20I comeback will be delayed as the veteran pace bowler has tested positive for COVID 19 and will be out of the Australia series startingg in Mohali from September 20. Veteran pacer Umesh Yadav, who played last of his seven T20Is in 2019 against Australia is back

Nottinghamshire will take over the hosting of the East Midlands team in the ECB’s women’s regional structure, replacing Loughborough University. Lightning have been based at Loughborough since the new regional set-up was implemented in 2019, with eight hubs superseding the previous county-based structure for women’s cricket. The university, which is also home to the ECB’s

Ruturaj Gaikwad struck a fine 108 off 127 balls before New Zealand A fought back to dismiss India A for 293 on day one of the third and final unofficial Test in Bengaluru on Thursday. Gaikwad, who has hardly played red ball cricket over the past 24 months, gave a good account of himself during

It has been four years since Ollie Pope made his Test debut as a No.6 doing an impression of a No.4. As the 2022 summer comes to an end, he looks settled in his new dwellings at No.3. On the face of it, a season average of 38.00 might seem modest. It is, however, the

BCCI is an autonomous body and it cannot micro-manage its functioning, observed the Supreme Court on Tuesday. It also asked the apex cricket body of the country the reason behind wanting people above 70 years to represent the nation in the ICC. The remarks by the apex court were made during the hearing on the

Middlesex132 for 4 (Stoneman 72*, Harris 3-47) trail Glamorgan 214 (Cooke 52, Higgins 4-59, Murtagh 3-58) by 82 runs London in the second week of September: a Lord’s final, the Last Night of the Proms and wistfully relaxed afternoons at the cricket. Not this September, though; this year the one-day final has been moved to

Zak Crawley‘s dynamic unbeaten fifty took England to the brink of a series-clinching win over South Africa in the third Test at the Oval on Sunday. England were 97-0 at stumps, needing just 33 more runs to reach a modest target of 130 on Monday’s final day to take the three-match contest 2-1. The often

On the day cricket took the sporting lead at the Kia Oval in paying respects to Queen Elizabeth II and honouring the new King Charles III, it was Ollie Robinson who led England some way to victory in this match and the series. On day three of the third Test, the first of any play

Star all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja‘s knee injury has disturbed the team combination and the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) is not happy about it. “We are not happy with Jadeja’s injury. He should have kept the World Cup in mind while doing adventurous activities. But he was not responsible and did not think

Mondli Khumalo, the former South Africa Under-19 and Kwa-Zulu Natal Inland bowler, has had a final, successful surgery after being assaulted in Somerset in May. He is now able to move around without a protective helmet and hopes to be able to return to professional cricket by early next year. “That was the final piece