Category: Cricket

Forgotten Australian all-rounder Mitchell Owen has sent a timely reminder to the national selectors of his T20 prowess by smacking the highest individual score in Major League Cricket history on Sunday AEST.

Kyle Jamieson took three wickets as New Zealand pressed for a series-levelling win, despite another landmark day for Joe Root, after leaving England with a record-breaking run-chase at the Oval.

Henry Nicholls’ superb unbeaten century saw New Zealand into an utterly dominant position against England in the second Test at the Oval on Friday.

Matt Renshaw’s all-round show with an unbeaten 89 and a wicket helped Australia with a seven-run win over Bangladesh in the second T20 in Chattogram on Friday to seal the three-match series.

England captain Ben Stokes could return to Test duty as soon as next week’s series finale against New Zealand, several British media outlets reported Thursday.

Tom Blundell hit New Zealand’s first fifty of the series and Glenn Phillips posted an unbeaten 49 as the tourists fought back against England on an intriguing opening day of the second Test at the Oval on Wednesday.

Georgia Voll starred as Australia eased to a nine-wicket win over Bangladesh in their T20 World Cup clash at Headingley on Wednesday.

Cooper Connolly continued his impressive form with the bat as two Australian debutants impressed in a four-wicket win over Bangladesh in the opening T20 international on Wednesday.

Joe Root says he is taking the England captaincy on a “game-by-game basis” after replacing the exiled Ben Stokes for this week’s second Test against New Zealand.

Fifteen-year-old cricket sensation Vaibhav Sooryavanshi blew his fuse in an India A game in Sri Lanka and pushed an opposition player after a heated on-field exchange.

England coach Brendon McCullum said he felt “bewildered, on to angry, on to kind of gutted” upon finding out about Ben Stokes and Gus Atkinson’s nightclub incident.