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During his tenure, England could only manage 2-2 home series draws against Australia (2023) and India (2025), while suffering heavy 4-1 defeats away from home against both sides. “I don’t think we got what we wanted really,” he added. “Fundamentally, you want to be winning the big series. India and Australia are the marquee series and if you don’t win those you haven’t quite been able to achieve what you wanted to. “I thought we had opportunities against both of those quality oppositions and we achieved some good stuff over the four years but, fundamentally, the results didn’t live up…
The release of the BBL|16 schedule brings the competition’s new designated batter rule a step closer to reality The Big Bash League’s Indian adventure won’t be the competition’s only innovation this summer with the new designated batter rule to come into effect with the first match in Chennai on December 12. Melbourne Renegades and the Perth Scorchers will be the first teams able to nominate a designated batter and fielder when they take the field in the landmark KFC BBL|16 season opener at MA Chidambaram Stadium – the league’s first match outside Australia.Announced in January, the new rule will be…
After plenty of offseason discussion and debate regarding the competition’s future, predominantly around privatisation, the schedule for KFC BBL|16 has been officially confirmed. With 44 matches set to take place from December 12 until January 26, take a look at the key storylines from today’s fixture reveal as BBL|16 fast approaches amid a jam-packed summer of cricket.Chennai season opener marks Big Bash first Leaders Albanese, Modi ‘delighted’ with BBL match in India From the very first ball of BBL|16, history will be made as the Renegades and Scorchers open the season at Chennai’s MA Chidambaram Stadium in India on Saturday,…
Melbourne to host Christmas Eve clash, more matches in Canberra and a January 26 final highlight BBL|16 schedule Christmas Eve cricket returns to the summer calendar in 2026-27 as the Big Bash League prepares to break new ground in its 16th season. Melbourne Renegades will the host Hobart Hurricanes under lights at Melbourne’s Junction Oval on December 24 in the first Christmas Eve BBL match in four years. Cricket Australia today released the full 44-game schedule for KFC BBL|16, which will begin with the league’s landmark first match in India between the Renegades and reigning champions Perth Scorchers on December…
Hosts comprehensively beaten in the Home of Cricket’s first ever women’s Test India beat England by 270 runs as the first women’s Test in the history of Lord’s concluded with the hosts dismissed for 186 while chasing a target of 457. Lord’s, cricket’s most iconic ground, has been hosting international matches since 1884. It staged its first women’s international in 1976, a 50-over match between England and Australia. It took another 50 years for a women’s Test, scheduled for four days from Friday, to be held at the ground owned by the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), which prohibited women members…
England suffered a 270-run defeat to India in the first women’s Test match to be played at Lord’s – here’s how the players rated…Maia Bouchier – 5Batting: 23 and 2 Bouchier batted quite nicely on the first evening to safely negotiate a tricky hour through to stumps, only to then fall in the third over of the second morning to spark England’s top-order collapse to 47-4 from which they failed to truly recover. She, like one or two others in this team, should be afforded a few more opportunities given a couple of notable retirements – she needs to grasp…
Afghan refugee women cricketer Firooza Afghan added: “Over the past year, the opportunities to come together as a group and tour India and England have provided us some of the most memorable experiences in our lives. “The support to train in our home locations with quality coaches plays a big role in our progress. “A long term view of participation in ICC qualification pathways gives us a clear goal to work towards, and we are determined to make the most of every opportunity along that journey.” Former Australia international-turned-commentator, Mel Jones, sees the initiative as an important and powerful one. …
Jacob Bethell will open the batting for England in their opening one-day international against India at Edgbaston on Tuesday.Bethell will partner Ben Duckett at the top of the order, who along with Joe Root are the only two new faces from the team that secured a 4-0 T20 series win over the same opponents on Saturday. Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player Highlights from the fifth T20 international between England and India in Southampton as the hosts romped to a 4-0 series win to top the world rankings Duckett comes in for Phil Salt while Root…
England would benefit from a change of captain, said Sky Sports Cricket’s Simon Doull after the Test side were ruthlessly put to the sword by India at Lord’s.England were thumped by 270 runs in the first women’s Test at the home of cricket, which marked the last game in the stellar international careers of Tammy Beaumont and former captain Heather Knight The absence of the two retirees leaves a significant gap in the top order – one that will increase the pressure on current captain and No 3 Nat Sciver-Brunt to score. Doull believes relieving Sciver-Brunt of the responsibility of…
England women would benefit from a change of captain, said Sky Sports Cricket’s Simon Doull after the Test side were ruthlessly put to the sword by India at Lord’s.England were thumped by 270 runs in the first women’s Test at the home of cricket, which marked the last game in the stellar international careers of Tammy Beaumont and former captain Heather Knight. The absence of the two retirees leaves a significant gap in the top order – one that will increase the pressure on current captain and No 3 Nat Sciver-Brunt to score. Doull believes relieving Sciver-Brunt of the responsibility…