Cricket News
Updates from the final group match in Lahore
Sign up for the Spin | And mail Tanya
1st over: England 0-0 (Banton 0, Duckett 0) Banton almost edges Asitha’s very first ball to slip, but it falls short. The ground is full only with empty green seats, as the call to prayer rings out. A maiden to start.
The sun is out, Asitha Fernando has the ball, the drums are rolling.
Continue reading...Western Australia and South Australia have played out the most action-packed day of the Sheffield Shield season so far, with 18 wickets falling across three innings in chaotic scenes at the Adelaide Oval.
Creating a masterpiece from a potential crisis, Josh Inglis has given Australia some assuredness that there will be life after Steve Smith in coming years when making a superb century in Cape Town on Thursday morning.
A brilliant all-round display from Georgia Voll has powered the Sydney Thunder to an impressive six-wicket win over the Renegades to open the new WBBL season.
Josh Inglis scored his second Test century, but South Africa fought back as Australia lost four wickets in the first session of day three of the third Test in Cape Town. Live updates below!
The WBBL is back for the twelfth season of the marquee tournament, with the Hobart Hurricanes looking to defend their maiden title.
Matt Renshaw declared after Australia’s strongest batting performance on this South African tour that he is neither a doctor nor a curator. But he confirmed his status as Australia’s incumbent opener and clearly remains a very loyal mate.
The mystery neck problem that forced Steve Smith out of the Cape Town Test has been revealed as what Cricket Australia is calling a cervical facet joint injury.
The International Cricket Council reprimanded and fined Pakistan fast bowler Haris Rauf on Wednesday, while also fining England for a slow over rate during a tri-series match in Lahore.
Keepers rebuild the innings to reach 330-4 at the close
Green sparkles but Labuschagne duck must be the end
If Cape Town’s first day was a rollercoaster, the second was some more sedate form of transport, though it continued with ups and downs fitting its mountainous backdrop. Twice, South Africa produced double strikes to stall promising Australian positions; twice the Australians rebuilt. Finally, Josh Inglis and Alex Carey pushed Australia in front, 330 for four to South Africa’s all out 329, ready to surge on through day three with those six wickets left in hand.
While Travis Head was there, Australia’s first session threatened to match South Africa’s the day before, when Aiden Markram and Marques Ackerman had piled on 140 against a bewildered attack. Head threw his hands at width, mixing luck with skill for seven boundaries. His new foil Matthew Renshaw showed contrasting temperament for the opening role, leaving and defending the new ball with the clarity he had shown in the middle order in Durban, underlining why he was the original candidate to replace Jake Weatherald at the top before the selectors’ brief and ill-fated Nic Maddinson excursion.
Continue reading...Australia is in the lead at stumps on day two after a superb batting day in Cape Town where four of the visitors’ top six struck half-centuries.
Australia enjoyed a fruitful day with the bat as half-centuries from Matt Renshaw, Cameron Green, Josh Inglis and Alex Carey put the tourists ahead of the game in the deciding third Test in Cape Town.
Lancashire have moved on without him, but the 44-year-old England stalwart wants to keep going as long as his body allows
Jimmy Anderson could teach Philip Marlowe a thing or two about The Long Goodbye. England’s leading wicket-taker in Tests is of that sporting breed who have no interest in bowing out at the top. Like Andy Murray before him, he has shown little enthusiasm to bow out at all, as long as his body allows him to keep doing the thing he loves: getting opposition batsmen out.
It was little surprise, then, that when Lancashire announced this week they would not be renewing his contract after 25 years, there was no immediate retirement announcement. Instead there was an irked Instagram post, then silence, as the one-club man considered his options. One of those, apparently, was a T10 cricket tournament in Rome. And lo, it is now confirmed that Anderson will lead (and even “co-own”) the Napoli Knights for 12 days next month.
Continue reading...Cameron Bancroft ended a 364-day drought with an emotional century to put Western Australia in a dominant position after Day 1 of their Sheffield Shield clash with South Australia.
A fresh report has ramped up speculation that Pat Cummins’ shock decision to bowl first in the Cape Town Test was one fuelled by emotion after Steve Smith’s withdrawal at the eleventh hour.