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Continue reading...‘Never seen anything like this’: Investigation launched into potential match-fixing incident
The Bangladesh Cricket Board is investigating a potential match-fixing incident during Wednesday’s Dhaka Premier Division Cricket League match between Gulshan and Shinepukur at the Shere Bangla National Stadium.
Starc’s disastrous 30-run over as Aussie young gun flops again — IPL Wrap
KL Rahul smashed an unbeaten 93 as Delhi Capitals beat Royal Challengers Bengaluru by six wickets to maintain their winning streak in the Indian Premier League on Thursday.
Queensland rising star Charli Knott caps off breakout summer with Australia A captaincy
Fresh off her maiden national call-up, Queensland rising star Charli Knott will cap off a breakout summer by leading Australia A in this week’s four-day match against England A.
Veteran fast bowler Jackson Bird returns to Tasmania after two-year stint at NSW
Veteran fast bowler Jackson Bird will return to Tasmania next summer for his 13th season with the Tigers following his two-year stint at New South Wales.
Massive Big Bash change to attract world’s best cricketers as draft order revealed
The Big Bash Drafts have been brought forward more than two months in an attempt to help the Australian T20 competition attract the world’s best overseas talent.
Titans climb to top of the table after IPL thrashing in fourth consecutive win
Opener Sai Sudharsan struck his third half-century of this season to guide Gujarat Titans to the top of the IPL table with a 58-run thrashing of Rajasthan Royals on Wednesday.
‘He won’t give that’: Controversial umpiring call ends skipper’s heroic rearguard
Captain Brett D’Oliveira was controversially given out LBW while fighting for an unlikely draw during Worcestershire’s County Championship match against Somerset in Taunton.
Unstoppable Marsh fires yet again as newcomer clobbers rapid century – IPL Wrap
West Indies veteran Nicholas Pooran smashed an unbeaten 87 and Indian newcomer Priyansh Arya hit his first IPL century to lead Lucknow Super Giants and Punjab Kings to victories on Tuesday.
County cricket: spring is in the air as the Championship returns in style
Hampshire and Nottinghamshire stole a march on champions Surrey in a fine first round of matches
Walking through the warm, not even watery, sunshine of St John’s Wood with only the still leafless trees to betray the date, I suspected there would be runs in the first round of the County Championship – and so it proved.
Continue reading...‘There were no cricketers at it’: Sad Clarke reveal lifts lid on Aussie dressing room split
You’d think the Australian captain who helped orchestrate an Ashes whitewash, lifted the World Cup, became the only Aussie to score Test centuries on his home and away debuts and won the Allan Border Medal four times would be universally loved, but sadly for Michael Clarke that isn’t the case.
‘Things didn’t leave me’: Pucovski’s sad reveal as Aussie prodigy retires from cricket at 27
Will Pucovski has announced he is retiring from all cricket, effective immediately.
Kohli v Bumrah: Superstar quick’s return from injury spoiled in epic IPL showdown
Royal Challengers Bengaluru survived a batting blitz from Mumbai Indians skipper Hardik Pandya to win a thriller by 12 runs on Monday in the IPL and spoil Jasprit Bumrah’s return from an injury.
Harry Brook named England men’s white-ball captain for T20s and ODIs
- Yorkshire batter takes over from Jos Buttler
- Key says chance has come ‘slightly earlier than expected’
Harry Brook has been named as England’s new white-ball captain, with Rob Key, the director of men’s cricket, praising the Yorkshireman’s “excellent cricketing brain” but also admitting the opportunity has come “slightly earlier than expected”.
Brook, 26, will take charge of both the T20 and ODI teams despite Key admitting last month he was considering offering the latter to Ben Stokes. Instead, Stokes will remain focused on leading the Test side and next winter’s Ashes moonshot, as well as his own return to fitness after hamstring surgery at the start of the year.
Continue reading...Marcus Harris scores Lord’s century on Lancashire debut; Tom Banton’s record-breaking marathon: County Championship Wrap
Forgotten Test opener Marcus Harris has sent a timely reminder to the national selectors ahead of the World Test Championship final, cracking an unbeaten century on Lancashire debut in the County Championship.