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Australia will wait to make a call on their XI for their T20 World Cup opener against South Africa, after their only training session at Old Trafford was washed out on Friday. Sophie Molineux’s squad was forced into the indoor nets on Friday morning as steady rain fell over Manchester, and when she addressed reporters following the session, she had yet to lay eyes on the Old Trafford pitch.Australia could also be forgiven for feeling a degree of frustration at the weather gods; no sooner had they had boarded their bus back to their Manchester lodgings, the clouds parted and…
Australia fans to be denied one last tour from arguably New Zealand’s greatest ever batter, who has called time on international cricket one Test into their England tour Williamson defies gun Aussie attack with ‘classy’ Gabba ton New Zealand’s record run-scorer Kane Williamson has announced his immediate retirement from international cricket, just days before the Black Caps’ must-win second Test against England. Williamson, 35, has been an all-format great across a 16-year career with his country, amassing 9,515 Test runs and another 9,831 in white-ball cricket. He featured in the standalone Test against Ireland in Belfast last month, as well…
Jordan Cox celebrated his elevation to the England squad with an unbeaten 184 in Essex’s Rothesay County Championship clash with Leicestershire.The 25-year-old, who has been added to the party for the second Test against New Zealand, raced to three figures off just 73 balls at Grace Road as the visitors finished day one 342-5 with Matt Critchley falling just three runs short of a century of his own. Cox will resume tomorrow morning having struck 24 fours and two sixes so far in the 177 deliveries he has faced. Opener Jordan Hermann’s century helped Somerset reach 295-7 against Division One…
Danni Wyatt-Hodge lit up the opening game of the Women’s T20 World Cup with a magnificent hundred as England posted a tournament-record total in a dominant win over Sri Lanka at Edgbaston.Wyatt-Hodge (105no off 62 balls) scored just a seventh century in tournament history – and her third in T20 internationals – as a huge roar from the packed home crowd greeted her reaching the milestone off the penultimate ball of England’s innings. After the 2026 Women’s T20 World Cup got under way with a gravity-defying performance from the cast of the West End’s Wicked, England themselves reached new heights…
New Zealand’s all-time leading run scorer Kane Williamson has retired from international cricket, effective immediately.The shock announcement comes after he played in the first Test against England at Lord’s, bringing to an end a career spanning 16 years and including a staggering 19,346 international runs. Williamson captained his country for eight years between 2016 and 2024, with his side winning the World Test Championship in 2021 and reaching two ICC World Cup finals in that period. Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player Highlights from the fourth day of the first Test between England and New Zealand…
Who will win the 2026 Women’s T20 World Cup? How will England fare? And who will finish as the leading wicket-taker and top run-scorer?We’ve asked Sky Sports’ Nasser Hussain, Michael Atherton, Mark Butcher and Tash Farrant all of this and more as they give their tournament predictions ahead of the opening game. Watch the opening game of the Women’s T20 World Cup – England versus Sri Lanka at Edgbaston – live on Sky Sports Cricket on Friday from 6pm (first ball at 6.30pm). Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player Daisy May Cooper has helped rally the…
And Athapaththu enters the opening contest quietly confident her side can cause an upset, with the Sri Lanka captain embracing the tag of underdogs given all the pressure and focus will be on their opponents. “The game is very important game for both the teams, but we are coming with underdog tag because we need to earn something,” Athapaththu said. “But I know England have a little bit pressure because they’re playing in their home condition and first game and with a lot of expectation. “And most of the England people are coming here for cheering for them. “I feel…
Last time England hosted the women’s T20 World Cup, it was the inaugural tournament in 2009, arriving two years after the first men’s event in 2007. Ellyse Perry was 18 years old at the time, just two years into her international career and playing as a specialist quick – and as a Matilda – with her emergence as the game’s greatest ever allrounder still some years away. Then named the ‘World T20’, the men’s and women’s World Cups were held concurrently in 2009, with the eight women’s teams playing all of their group matches at Taunton’s county ground before venturing…
Match facts Who: Australia v South Africa What: Match 3, ICC Women’s T20 World Cup 2026, Group 1 When: Saturday, June 13. First ball 2:30pm local time (11:30pm AEST) Where: Old Trafford, Manchester Live scores: Match Centre How to watch: Prime Video Officials: Nimali Perera, Janani N (on-field), Candace la Borde (TV), Shathira Jakir Jessy (fourth), Michell Pereira (referee) News and reactions post-play: cricket.com.au and the CA Live app Broadcast info All 33 matches will again be shown exclusively live on Prime Video in Australia, which holds the Aussie broadcast rights for all…
Australia must be be prepared to be adaptable as they face a crunch T20 World Cup opener at a venue that’s not hosted the team for half a century The last time the Australian women’s cricket team played at Old Trafford, Australia was navigating the aftermath of the Whitlam dismissal, ABBA’s Fernando was topping the charts and Evonne Goolagong won a third-straight Australian open title. That year was 1976, and Aussie skipper Margaret Jennings led her country in a drawn Test at the iconic Manchester venue. The first ODI World Cup had been held just three years prior, and the…