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India got their ICC Women’s T20 World Cup campaign off to the perfect start with a 64-run victory over Pakistan at Edgbaston.Smriti Mandhana (64 off 44) starred with the bat as India set Pakistan a record chase of 171 for victory. Pakistan produced their best-ever T20 powerplay to give themselves hope, but collapsed to 106 all out in 17 overs, with Deepti Sharma (5-10) sealing the win – and her five-for – with three wickets in the final over. Both teams return to action on Wednesday, with India facing the Netherlands at Headingley before staying in Birmingham to play South…
Tigresses brush off T20 World Cup debutants to gain confidence ahead of their showdown with Australia Bangladesh have survived a scare in their opening match of the T20 World Cup, seeing off the Netherlands by six wickets in Birmingham. The Netherlands, who are featuring in a Women’s T20 World Cup for the first time, pushed the Tigers in their debut match with captain Babette de Leede scoring a half-century to help her team post 8-139 at Edgbaston.Sharmin Akhter then steered the Tigresses through a mid-innings wobble with 37 not out, to seal Bangladesh’s first points of the tournament. The Tigresses…
Free-flowing Connolly blazes maiden international ton Australia have survived a stunning late batting collapse as Cooper Connolly’s maiden international century steered his side to a nail-biting one-wicket consolation win in the third ODI against Bangladesh. Australia appeared to be cruising with young guns Connolly (149 off 134 balls) and Oliver Peake (27) closing in on their 275-run target in Dhaka on Sunday night. But with nine to get from 29 balls, Peake picked out cover trying to finish the job quickly, sparking a flurry of wickets that pushed the match into the final over with their last batting pair at…
Fifties from Tawhid Hridoy, Mosaddek Hossain and Litton Das have set the visitors a challenging target Australia are chasing 275 for a consolation win in the third ODI against Bangladesh in Dhaka. Bangladesh, who hold an unassailable 2-0 in the three-match series, elected to bat after winning their first toss of the series on Sunday, with half-centuries from Tawhid Hridoy, Mosaddek Hossain and Litton Das lifting the hosts to 5-274 from their 50-overs at Shere Bangla National Stadium. Paceman Xavier Bartlett (2-47) again struck in his first over of the match as left-hander Soumya Sarkar inside edged a seaming delivery…
Australia will bowl first as they seek to finish the ODI series on a positive note having already lost the series, with Marnus Labuschagne insisting the visitors did not underestimate Bangladesh’s firepower, particularly with the ball. Australia made two changes for the third ODI with Matt Short dropped after three successive ducks going back to the third ODI against Pakistan in Lahore, while Nathan Ellis has been managed after playing all five ODIs of the tour so far. Ben Dwarshuis comes in to the attack for his first game of the tour while young-gun Oliver Peake has been recalled to…
King and Litchfield celebrate statement win over South Africa A far-from-ideal preparation and a healthy dose of nerves failed to faze Phoebe Litchfield in Manchester, as she took down one of the game’s all-time great fast bowlers to make an early mark on the T20 World Cup. Having missed both of Australia’s warm-up games in Cardiff with a quad niggle, Litchfield was thrown into the action in the first over against South Africa at Old Trafford after opener Georgia Voll departed for a duck. Soon after, fiery Proteas quick Shabnim Ismail, their all-time leading wicket taker in women’s T20 World…
King and Litchfield celebrate statement win over South Africa Georgia Wareham underlined her quality as a T20 triple-threat on a day where Australia proved that they can, in fact, play all four of their spin stars in the same XI. Wareham produced one of the great all-round displays against South Africa at Old Trafford, taking three wickets, scoring 32 off 22, holding a clutch catch to dismiss Proteas captain Laura Wolvaardt and running out Marizanne Kapp. She lined up alongside fellow leg-spinner Alana King, left-armer Sophie Molineux and off-spinner Ashleigh Gardner, with Australia’s spin quartet taking six wickets between them…
Fergus O’Neill ripped through Somerset tail to finish with his first six-wicket haul for Nottinghamshire in County Championship clash Victoria seamer Fergus O’Neill completed career-best figures of 6-72 as Nottinghamshire battled to continue to set the pace at the top of the County Championship. Somerset had resumed on 7-295 and were all out for 310, with Archie Vaughan unbeaten on 66 as O’Neill, who had taken both openers on Friday, mowed through the visitors’ tail. The leaders also found batting difficult on their Trent Bridge wicket, their captain Haseeb Hameed removed for a four-ball duck and fellow opener Ben Slater…
Shemaine Campbelle’s incredible unbeaten 90 leads West Indies past World Cup holders New Zealand Shemaine Campbelle’s stunning 90 not out led the West Indies to a statement seven-wicket win over reigning T20 World Cup title holders New Zealand in Southampton. The wicketkeeper-batter’s career best T20I score spearheaded a pursuit of 163, the second-highest successful run chase in women’s T20 World Cup history, which was completed with one ball to spare. New Zealand, who had earlier been pegged back by Aaliyah Alleyne’s four wickets, were left to rue a string of dropped chances and missed stumpings as captain Melie Kerr’s landmark…
Jordan Cox struck a double century before Essex enforced the follow-on to take control of their Rothesay County Championship clash with Leicestershire at Grace Road.Essex resumed at 342-5, and Cox – who has been called into England’s squad for the second Test against New Zealand – added 20 to his overnight 184 before he was caught behind off Josh Davey, having hit 26 fours and two sixes from his 201-ball innings. Another England call-up, Rehan Ahmed, finished with four wickets as Essex were bowled out for 401 before then making a quick breakthrough with the ball. Simon Harmer and Charlie…