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The 100-gamer led the way with bat and ball in the Fire’s nine-wicket trouncing of the Vics Queensland Fire v Victoria | WNCL Queensland have hammered Victoria in Jess Jonassen’s milestone match to claim a bonus point victory and return to second place on the WNCL table. After bowling out the Vics for 104, the Fire raced to their target in 14.5 overs to complete a comprehensive nine-wicket win. It now leaves the Fire with a nervous 24 hours as they wait for the result of the Western Australia-ACT clash on Sunday, which will determine whether or not Queensland feature…
Incoming Western Australia head coach Beau Casson has vowed to “be aggressive” in producing international cricketers and believes it can help the state return to the top of Australia’s domestic competitions. Former Test representative Casson was unveiled as WA’s next men’s coach earlier this week and is set to take over from decorated mentor Adam Voges when he steps down from the role at the end of the season.Voges will lead WA for the final time in their round 10 Sheffield Shield fixture against NSW, which got underway in Sydney on Saturday. Under Voges, WA won a historic dual three-peat…
SHANGHAI: Formula One championship leader George Russell put Mercedes on pole position for the first sprint race of the season in China on Friday in a front-row lockout with team-mate Kimi Antonelli. Russell led every phase of the session at the Shanghai circuit to take his first career sprint pole in a time of one minute 31.520 seconds. Antonelli was 0.289 slower. McLaren’s Lando Norris will start third after the reigning champion told stewards he had not been on a proper “push” lap when Antonelli, who had risked a grid drop, impeded him during the second phase. Ferrari’s Lewis Hamilton,…
LONDON: Nottingham Forest suffered a shock 1-0 defeat against Midtjylland in the Europa League last-16 first leg, while Ollie Watkins ended his goal drought as the Aston Villa striker sealed a 1-0 win at Lille on Thursday. Vitor Pereira’s side were rocked by Cho Gue-sung’s late strike at the City Ground as Forest succumbed to the Danish underdogs for the second time this season. Beaten 3-2 at home by Midtjylland in the group stage in October when Ange Postecoglou was the second of Forest’s four managers this term, the Premier League strugglers must secure the first away win against the…
When it came to the Hundred auction, it paid to be an all-rounder. Literally.New Zealand women’s Sophie Devine went for £210,000, with England’s Danielle Gibson sold for a whopping £190,000. In the men’s auction, meanwhile, Tom Curran was signed by MI London – formerly Oval Invincibles – for £260,000, joining younger brother Sam at that franchise. However, the heftiest sum was the £390,000 London Spirit paid to bring uncapped Englishman James Coles, 21, to Lord’s, beating off competition from Sunrisers Leeds, Trent Rockets, Manchester Super Giants and Birmingham Phoenix before the gavel came down.Here is the lowdown on the Sussex…
Pakistan defeated Bangladesh by 128 runs via the Duckworth-Lewis-Stern (DLS) method in the rain-affected second ODI at the Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium on Friday. Maaz Sadaqat was the stand-out performer of the game, blasting a rapid 75 for Pakistan before picking up three wickets. Chasing a revised target of 243 in 32 overs after a two-hour rain and hailstorm delay, Bangladesh collapsed for 114 in 23.3 overs despite a brief counterattack from Litton Das. Bangladesh had already been in trouble before the weather halted play. Tanzid Hasan fell early for one, caught at backward square leg off Shaheen Shah Afridi,…
Bowlers, Chloe Piparo’s captain’s knock have helped WA keep their chances in their own hands in a heating finals race Western Australia v ACT Meteors | WNCL Western Australia have given their WNCL finals hopes a mighty push with a bonus point win over the ACT Meteors at the WACA Ground. Locked in a three-way fight with Queensland and South Australia for the rights to join the NSW Breakers in next Sunday’s final, WA did exactly what they needed to do in the first of the two games against the Meteors, trouncing them by eight wickets in 35 overs to…
Sunrisers Leeds are facing a fierce social media backlash after the Indian-owned Hundred franchise signed spinner Abrar Ahmed this week. A longstanding political stand-off between India and Pakistan means the two nations only play each other in major global cricket tournaments. Cricketers from Pakistan have not featured in the Indian Premier League (IPL) since 2009 because of diplomatic tensions between the two nations. There was speculation that the players from Pakistan involved in this week’s inaugural Hundred auction in London would be subject to a “shadow ban”, with the IPL-affiliated teams refusing to bid for them. Four of the franchises…
Check out all the ins and outs for the last home-and-away round of the Sheffield Shield season, where one spot in the final is still up for grabs Cameron Green’s return to the WA squad is the big headline for the final round of this season’s Sheffield Shield, but all eyes will be on South Australia and Queensland who are locked in a battle to claim the second spot in the final that Victoria will host at the CitiPower Centre.While South Australia will miss the services of Travis Head in the all-important game as he departs for the IPL, Queensland…
Check out all the ins and outs for the last home-and-away round of the Sheffield Shield season, where one spot in the final is still up for grabs Victoria v South Australia, CitiPower Centre, March 14-17 Click here for the Match Centre Victoria squad: Will Sutherland (c), Scott Boland, Dylan Brasher, Sam Elliott, Peter Handscomb, Sam Harper, Marcus Harris, Campbell Kellaway, Todd Murphy, Fergus O’Neill, Oliver Peake, Mitch Perry. In: Scott Boland, Oliver Peake. Outs: Blake Macdonald, Matt Short. No talk of resting the big guns before the Shield Final for ladder-leaders Victoria, with Scott Boland back in for the…