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Nat Sciver-Brunt is expected to miss the upcoming WBBL|12 season after an injury interrupted English summer Hobart Hurricanes head coach Jude Coleman has revealed England captain Nat Sciver-Brunt will not feature for the reigning champions in Weber WBBL|12. The superstar allrounder helped the club claim their maiden women’s Big Bash title last summer as the organisation’s marquee international signing. But after an English summer forced to play as a specialist batter due to ongoing calf issues, Coleman confirmed Sciver-Brunt won’t be a part of the Hurricanes’ title defence. “We have already heard from Nat Sciver-Brunt that she’s not coming back…
Australia will not play a warm-up match on next year’s mammoth tour of India, but coach Andrew McDonald indicated some players’ subcontinental immersion will begin even before the home Test season concludes. While tour games against local opposition have been confirmed for upcoming overseas trips to South Africa and England, Australia are instead exploring venues for a pre-series camp to steel themselves for their longest tour of India in half a century. It is in keeping with how they have tuned up for their last two Test tours to Asia under McDonald’s leadership. They went to Dubai last year to…
More history awaits the left-armer this summer, who is on the verge of the top 10 Test wicket-takers of all time Mitchell Starc believes a clearer head and ability to let things go are the secrets behind him bowling as well as ever, with the left-armer on the verge of entering the top five wicket-taking quicks of all time. Starc will enter next week’s first Test against Bangladesh in Darwin on 433 wickets, one shy of Indian great Kapil Dev’s career haul.Seven scalps in this month’s series will also see him pass Dale Steyn’s mark of 439 and into fifth…
Aussie T20 skipper’s rapid half-century set up a record men’s Hundred total with Sunrisers Leeds making a massive 2-241 A brutal assault by Mitch Marsh has proved the launchpad for an enormous total by Sunrisers Leeds in the men’s Hundred at Headingley. Australia’s T20 skipper battered 76 off 37 balls with seven sixes to send the franchise on their way to 2-241 from their 100 balls, the highest score in the competition’s six years and 15 runs better than the previous record. Highest totals – Men’s Hundred Team Total Opponent Venue Year Sunrisers Leeds 2-241 London Spirit Headingley 2026 Oval…
Ben Stokes shocked that Harry Brook was overlooked as Test captain and says he would ‘do a pretty good job’ at coaching England Former England captain Ben Stokes has said he would like to coach the national team one day and believes he has the experience to be successful in the role. The 35-year-old allrounder retired from international cricket in June during England’s Test series against New Zealand, bringing an end to a career that included the country’s 2019 World Cup triumph and his match-winning Ashes innings at Headingley the same year. Stokes led England’s Test side from 2022. “I’m…
Grace Harris hit her first half-century of this year’s Hundred but finished on the losing side against Sunrisers Leeds In an unaccustomed English summer of heatwaves, Grace Harris could be forgiven for cursing her luck after a rare rain delay derailed her and London Spirit’s innings to all but end their chances of reaching the knockout stage of this year’s women’s Hundred. It was a welcome return to form for Harris who brought up a 25-ball half-century in powering the Spirit to 1-89 at the halfway mark against Sunrisers Leeds at Headingley. Then the rain arrived. After a lengthy break,…
SunRisers Leeds posted 241-2, the highest score in the history of The Hundred, before cruising to a comfortable victory over London Spirit.Having been put into bat by Spirit at Headingley, SunRisers openers Mitchell Marsh and Ryan Rickelton put on a record stand of 148 for the first wicket from just 65 balls. Harry Brook joined in on the fun once Marsh was out for 76 from 37 balls, with the England white-ball captain smashing 55 from just 18 deliveries. Brook struck a six to bring up his half-century and take SunRisers past the previous highest Hundred total, the 226-4 set…
SunRisers Leeds kept their faint hopes of progression from The Hundred group stage alive with a hard-fought five-wicket victory over London Spirit at Headingley.Spirit made 136-7 after being put in to bat, but Australian duo Phoebe Litchfield (30 from 17) and Annabel Sutherland (37 not out from 21) led the SunRisers home with two balls to spare. Spirit got off to a flying start with the bat, but SunRisers finally got their first wicket when Amy Jones hit Dani Gibson into the hands of Kate Cross at 68 for one. London continued to accelerate but their momentum was halted when…
Ben Stokes has said he would “absolutely” love to coach England one day, as he also suggested Brendon McCullum would still be in charge of the Test team had he not announced his own international retirement weeks beforehand.Stokes gave up the England Test captaincy and retired from international cricket following his side’s 2-1 series defeat to New Zealand in June, which followed a 4-1 Ashes loss to Australia over the winter. Speaking at length for the first time since his retirement on the For The Love of Cricket podcast hosted by former team-mates Stuart Broad and Jos Buttler, the 35-year-old…
While that tournament might be still some time away, Wilson wants his players to create their own history and chase lofty goals during his time in charge. “Irish cricket is really in its infancy in many ways and there’s been a lot of firsts within the last 20 years,” he said. “We’ve had Ed Joyce as the first player to play for England, we’ve had the first World Cup in 2007, we’ve had the first Test win, why can’t we go on and do something huge at a World Cup? If you’d said 30 or 40 years ago where the…