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England captain Ben Stokes and Gus Atkinson have been dropped for the second Test against New Zealand after breaching team protocols, with Joe Root taking over as skipper.The ECB said the pair had “not been made available for selection” after breaching England’s new midnight curfew, as they were present at a nightclub when an altercation took place with a Saracens rugby player. The squad announcement, for the clash at The Kia Oval, which begins on Wednesday 17 June, live on Sky Sports, comes with Stokes understood to be considering his future in international cricket. Root was replaced by Stokes as…
England survived a late fightback from India as Nat Sciver-Brunt and Amy Jones struck half-centuries to lead Charlotte Edwards’ side to a five-run victory in their second and final ICC Women’s T20 World Cup warm-up match against India.After suffering a five-wicket defeat to Australia in their first warm-up match on Monday, England’s batters impressed, with Jones, who was pushed up the order to open alongside Danni Wyatt-Hodge, making 64 off 45 deliveries before she was dismissed. Sciver-Brunt followed suit and looked much more fluid at the crease compared to her performance earlier in the week, bringing up a half-century off…
Warwickshire County Cricket Club are delighted to announce the signing of Manav Suthar on a short-term contract. The Indian international will be available for selection for the next two rounds of the Rothesay County Championship. Suthar, a left arm finger spinning all-rounder, made his Test Match debut for India last week in a one-off Test against Afghanistan, and announced himself on the international stage by taking six for 33 in the first innings and one for 29 in the second. The exciting 23-year-old joins up with the Bears having taken 129 wickets in 29 first-class matches prior to his Test…
Carey likes ‘athlete’ Rana for Strikers after first ODI fireworks Alex Carey has downplayed Nahid Rana’s almighty send-off of Australia captain Josh Inglis, suggesting the fired-up Bangladesh paceman had merely added “a bit of spice” to the first ODI and even offered him a spot to play at the Adelaide Strikers. Carey and Inglis both indicated the tourists’ “sloppy” fielding was the main factor in their 86-run DLS defeat in Dhaka, the Aussies’ first to Bangladesh since an infamous slip-up in Cardiff in a tri-series before the 2005 Ashes. It is a measure of Bangladesh’s vast improvement in the two…
A little over three months ago, Steven Hogan was sitting in the Stuart Law Stand at Allan Border Field, ready to watch day one of a Sheffield Shield match, when he was approached by a member of Queensland’s coaching staff. “He just said, ‘Mate, we need you to field’,” Hogan tells cricket.com.au. “I thought he was cracking a joke at first. I’d come that day as a spectator.” Sitting beside Hogan for the Bulls’ clash with Western Australia was fellow 18-year-old Charles Lachmund and 19-year-old Victorian Ollie Peake – three of the country’s most highly regarded teen prospects. The trio…
Ellyse Perry (Australia) Titles: 6 | Matches: 47 | Runs: 503| HS: 42 | Ave: 27.94 | SR: 113.8 | 50s: 0 Wkts: 40 | Ave: 17.67 | Econ: 5.79 | BBI: 3-12 | 4w: 0 No woman has played more T20 World Cup matches than Ellyse Perry, who has helped raise the trophy six times. Perry was primarily a bowler through her first three campaigns, before flourishing into a key allrounder in Bangladesh in 2014. One of her most famous performances came in the 2010 final in Barbados, against New Zealand. The White Ferns needed five runs to win,…
Surface for series-deciding ODI at Gaddafi Stadium given second-lowest rating by ICC, as has Home of Cricket, meaning England’s last two Test wins have come on ‘unsatisfactory’ pitches The pitch for Australia’s series-deciding ODI against Pakistan in Lahore has officially been rated as substandard, with the International Cricket Council slapping both the Gaddafi Stadium and Lord’s with “unsatisfactory” ratings for recent matches. The so-called Home of Cricket in London was handed that label for the first Test between England and New Zealand after the hosts sealed a 115-run win inside four days of a rain-hit, bowler-dominated match. One demerit point,…
England Test captain Ben Stokes is considering his future after he and Gus Atkinson breached the England team’s new midnight curfew and were at a nightclub when an altercation took place with a Saracens rugby player.Saracens players were out celebrating their end-of-season party at Rex Rooms nightclub in Chelsea, where Stokes and Atkinson were also present in the early hours of Monday morning following England’s first Test win over New Zealand. Sky Sports News understands a Saracens player threw a punch at Atkinson but hit a security guard who was supervising the players. It’s not clear at this stage whether…
Bangladesh tearaway Nahid Rana has ripped through Australia’s middle order as the hosts drew first blood with a comfortable 86-run win in the ODI series opener in Dhaka on Tuesday. Rana (4-41) provided a salivating preview as to what could await cricket fans during August’s Top End Test series, hitting speeds above 150kph as he dismantled Australia with four wickets in the first ODI. Rana rattles Australia with serious heat in four-wicket burst Despite Cameron Green’s defiant half-century, the tourists were one wicket away from a heavy defeat when lightning strikes abruptly halted play with 7.4 overs remaining in the…
It was only some big hitting by Canning in the final over that took Ireland beyond 140. Canning struck back-to-back sixes, and a four to help her team garner 21 runs in the last over. Six of the seven bowlers they employed on the day returned with wickets. Left-arm spinner Sanjida Akter Meghla was the pick of the lot, claiming three for 26 in her four overs. In reply, Maguire gave Ireland the perfect start, as she bowled Dilara Akter on the third ball of the innings, with Bangladesh still to get off the mark. However, the Asian side soon…