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Travis Head could ramp up his T20 World Cup prep in the Big Bash this summer after re-signing with Adelaide Strikers Australian batting star Travis Head has signed with Adelaide Strikers for a 14th straight season. Head, the world’s No.6 ranked T20 batter, has penned a new one-year deal, filling the 17th spot on the Strikers’ 18-man playing roster for KFC BBL|15. The 31-year-old hasn’t played for his hometown club in the past two seasons due to his international commitments, but the back-end of this summer’s BBL campaign shapes as a perfect lead in to next year’s T20 World Cup…
Australia captain Pat Cummins has been ruled out of the first Ashes Test against England next month.Fast bowler Cummins will not be fit to play when the series starts in Perth with Steve Smith replacing him as the team’s captain, Cricket Australia said. An issue with his lower back has kept Cummins on the sidelines, making him a doubt for the first Ashes Test, which starts on November 21.While he can run, Cummins has not been able to resume bowling due to the back stress injury and there is now less than a month to go as the countdown continues…
England have been dealt an Ashes boost with Australia captain Pat Cummins ruled out of the first Test in Perth from November 21 due to a back injury.Steve Smith will lead the hosts at Optus Stadium in Cummins’ absence. Cummins had said earlier this month that he was “less than likely” to feature in Perth after being diagnosed with a lumbar stress problem in September.The 32-year-old has not played since the third Test in the West Indies in July. Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player Nasser Hussain and Michael Atherton looked at Cummins’ injury concerns on…
New Zealand’s Sophie Devine, one of the stars of international women’s cricket, has played her last ODI, suffering defeat to England at the World Cup An emotional Sophie Devine has been given a guard of honour as the New Zealand captain played her last one-day international in the eight-wicket loss to England at the Women’s World Cup in Visakhapatnam, ending a distinguished ODI career spanning 19 years and 159 matches. The 36-year-old allrounder made her debut in October 2006 and is one of three women to complete the double of scoring 4000 runs and taking 100 wickets in the 50-over…
Zampa: ‘Feels like a new era’ as Aussies celebrate series win Australia could hardly have asked for more from one of the more experienced ODI squads they have rolled out in recent summers. But the 50-over world champions now face several challenges in their preparation for their title defence beginning in 24 months’ time. Of the 14 players the hosts used in their 2-1 BKT Tyres series win over top-ranked India, six had played five or fewer ODIs leading into the campaign. Others like Nathan Ellis (15 ODIs) and Matthew Short (14) are also relative newcomers. The Aussies had won…
England’s Heather Knight praised New Zealand captain Sophie Devine in her final one-day international match, saying “she can hit the ball better than anyone in the women’s game”.New Zealand were already eliminated from the Women’s Cricket World Cup but their game against England was significant as their captain was playing her 159th and final ODI match. Devine made her ODI debut in 2006 against Australia and has scored 4,279 runs in the format including nine centuries, with her latest coming during the ongoing World Cup tournament against Australia where she made 112.”Sophie has been a stalwart of New Zealand cricket.…
Sophie Ecclestone suffered an injury scare ahead of the Women’s Cricket World Cup semi-finals as England ended their league campaign with an eight-wicket win over New Zealand following an erratic bowling display and clinical batting performance.Left-arm spinner Ecclestone jarred her bowling shoulder trying to prevent a boundary in the opening over of Sunday’s fixture in Vizag and soon left the field for assessment. The 26-year-old returned to the park and even came on to bowl the 23rd over, only to head off again as soon as she had Brooke Halliday (4) caught at deep midwicket from her fourth legal delivery…
Harry Brook’s astonishing hundred came in vain as England paid the price for an abject batting display overall as well as dropped catches with a four-wicket defeat to New Zealand in the first one-day international at Mount Maunganui.England captain Brook (135 off 101 balls; 11 sixes and nine fours) accounted for 60.53 per cent of the runs in his side’s 223 all out in 35.2 overs, with Jamie Overton (46) the only other player to make double figures and Sam Curran the third highest scorer with six. The extras tally (17) was greater than the combined innings of six of…
Matt Renshaw is ready to return to the Sheffield Shield on Tuesday after missing the previous round to play his maiden ODI series Matt Renshaw believes his one-day foray for Australia will prove beneficial, even if it meant missing a chance for more red-ball cricket in the Ashes selection battle. Renshaw capped a reasonably successful maiden ODI series for Australia on Saturday, top scoring for his team with 56 in their nine-wicket loss to India. Considered an outside shot to open the batting in the first Ashes Test next month, Renshaw has begun the summer with a century in his…
Behind the scenes of Rohit, Virat’s Aussie farewell If Todd Greenberg needed any more convincing of the potential value in bringing India’s biggest stars to the Big Bash, Saturday night’s final BKT Tyres ODI might have done it. Hours before Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli pulled off vintage hands in front of a sold-out Sydney crowd, Greenberg was asked whether it was plausible that Cricket Australia could bring a player of their ilk to the BBL, especially in light of Sydney Thunder’s recent Ravichandran Ashwin coup. “I think in the short to medium term, I think it is realistic,” CA’s…