Alyssa Healy is racing the clock to play in Australia’s looming ODIs against India after being ruled out of the remainder of the WBBL with a knee injury. Sydney Sixers on Saturday said Australia’s captain would not play for them again this tournament, after picking up an injury in her left knee. Australia’s three-match ODI […]
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Spencer Johnson is building some good memories of the SCG. For his second consecutive outing there he walked away as player of the match as a career-best 5 for 26 sealed the T20I series against Pakistan. They were the best figures by an Australia men’s quick in T20Is, moving above James Faulkner’s 5 for 27
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Alzarri Joseph has returned from suspension to rejoin the West Indies squad for the final three matches of their T20I series against England, but star allrounder Andre Russell has been ruled out of the series with a left ankle sprain. The pair are part of two changes to the hosts, who are 2-0 down heading
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KL Rahul’s is looking forward to playing with “freedom” in a “much more balanced” environment as he enters the mega auction ahead of the new IPL cycle. Rahul was released by Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) following their seventh-place finish at IPL 2024. At the time, franchise owner Sanjiv Goenka spoke of their keenness to hold
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Pace and bounce. Those are the words that come to mind when one thinks of cricket in South Africa. However, things have been completely different in the first two T20Is of the current series. There was so much help for spinners that India looked more at home than the hosts. South Africa’s batters had no
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Big picture – both teams have issues to address This series is a bit of an oddity, with two sides at below full strength, with a number of big names rested for more pressing engagements, facing off in a format that’s taken a bit of a back seat in terms of wider relevance, with no
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A professional county coach has been suspended from cricket for six months by the Cricket Discipline Commission (CDC) after engaging in inappropriate conduct with a player under his care. The incidents took place in March 2024, on a pre-season tour for the men’s and women’s teams from an unspecified county. It was regarded as serious
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Liam Norwell, the former Warwickshire seamer whose final-day heroics saved the club from relegation in 2022, has been advised to retire on medical grounds after failing to recover from a series of long-standing injuries. Norwell, 32, was released by Warwickshire in August, having not made a single senior appearance since taking a career-best 9 for
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Afghanistan allrounder Mohammad Nabi has said he wants to retire from the ODI format after the 2025 Champions Trophy. Nabi revealed his plans at the end of the ODI series against Bangladesh in the UAE, while claiming his Player-of-the-Series award in Afghanistan’s 2-1 series victory. “In my mind, from the last World Cup, I was
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India fast bowler Mohammed Shami is set to return to action after nearly a year after being named in Bengal’s squad for their next Ranji Trophy fixture starting November 13. Bengal will take on Madhya Pradesh in Indore, where Shami will play his first game since the ODI World Cup final against Australia in Ahmedabad
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