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JOIN OUR WHATSAPP CHANNEL In-form Marnus Labuschagne was Friday added to Australia’s ODI squad to face India after all-rounder Cameron Green was ruled out of the series with a side strain. Labuschagne was initially omitted for the three matches starting in Perth on Sunday. But he has slammed four domestic centuries in five innings, including two in the 50-over game, to thrust himself back into contention for the Ashes series against England and earn a white-ball reprieve. Green’s injury was diagnosed as “low grade” but Australia are not taking any chances with him ahead of the Ashes, which start in…
MEN’S T20 WORLD CUP 2026 UAE booked their berth alongside Nepal and Oman as the last three qualifiers © AFP United Arab Emirates became the 20th and final side to seal their spot for the 2026 men’s T20 World Cup after an eight-wicket win over Japan in the Asia-EAP Qualifier in Al Amerat on Thursday. Haider Ali’s 3 for 20 and a 70-run opening stand between Alishan Sharafu and Muhammad Waseem engineered UAE’s chase of 117, booking their berth alongside Nepal and Oman as the last three qualifiers for next year’s tournament in India and Sri Lanka. The hosts will…
IN FORM AND PICKED Marnus Labuschagne has four 100s in his last five domestic games. © Getty Australia all-rounder Cameron Green has been ruled out of the India ODIs with a side soreness. Marnus Labuschagne has been roped in as his replacement. This fresh injury, however, has been diagnosed as ‘low grade’ and Cricket Australia has taken the precautionary route given his importance to Australia’s Ashes plans. Green will sit out of the ODIs on October 19, 23 and 25, but is expected to feature in Western Australia’s next Sheffield Shield game that begins on October 28. The all-rounder made…
Ten years, eight months and twenty-eight days. January 19, 2015 was the last time a Bangladeshi played in the BBL. His name? Shakib Al Hasan. Arguably Bangladesh’s greatest ever cricketer has been the one and only player to fly the green and red flag in the BBL – until now. Discovered in the city of Rangpur in northwestern Bangladesh, 23-year-old Rishad Hossain has established himself as one of T20 cricket’s foremost leg-spinners. Picked up by the Hobart Hurricanes in the BBL|14 Draft, Hossain withdrew from the tournament last summer due to commitments in the Bangladesh Premier League. A year on,…
NEW ZEALAND CRICKET The 61-year-old will partner head coach Rob Walter in selecting squads for all New Zealand, New Zealand A and New Zealand XI tours © Getty Former pacer Gavin Larsen has returned as New Zealand’s selection manager, taking over from Sam Wells. Larsen previously held the position between 2015 and 2023 before a stint as Performance Director at Warwickshire. The 61-year-old, who most recently worked with basketball side Nelson Giants, will partner head coach Rob Walter in selecting squads for all New Zealand, New Zealand A and New Zealand XI tours. “I feel absolutely honoured to be stepping…
Gilkes stunned as Harper pulls off remarkable stumping Cameron Green’s return to bowling has hit a speed bump with the star allrounder to miss Australia’s ODI series against India with side soreness. Green’s injury has been diagnosed as “low grade” and it’s understood his absence from the three-match series is precautionary, with the 26-year-old hoping to play in Western Australia’s next Sheffield Shield match on October 28 as previously planned. Australia’s hierarchy is understandably taking a cautious approach with Green given the significance of what lies ahead this summer, with the right-hander’s return to playing as a fully-fledged allrounder crucial…
Nine of her 20 ODI wickets to date have been bowled or LBW, all with inswing ©Getty When the Madhya Pradesh Under-16 girls’ squad was announced in 2018, there were celebrations in Chhatarpur’s Sai Sports Academy followed by total confusion. Coach Rajiv Bilthare scanned the list a few times before picking up the phone. He called people at the MPCA, seeking clarification on the “selection rumour” he’d heard – and the name he couldn’t find on it: his female trainee. The authorities sent him back a copy of the squad with the name underlined a few times to make it…
Former Test batter underwent chemotherapy after being diagnosed with cancer earlier this year Nic Maddinson has spent the majority of 2025 fighting a frightening battle with testicular cancer, with the former Test batter now looking towards a possible cricket comeback. Maddinson, who hasn’t played cricket since he was dropped from the Blues team at the back-end of last summer, underwent surgery to have a tumour removed a short time later. He then received news the cancer had spread. “Once I found out I had to have chemo, that was pretty hard to deal with,” he told Nine newspapers. “It had…
Matthew Renshaw’s previous stint in Australia’s ODI squad was so fleeting that even he couldn’t remember it at first. Called up as batting cover after several Aussie players contracted Covid during the Pakistan tour in 2022, Renshaw reckons he spent more time quarantining in the hotel in Lahore than with the actual squad.The upcoming home series against India wasn’t on his radar until recently either; he admitted he had to “Google” the three-match schedule when informed of his elevation by head selector George Bailey. But there will be no forgetting his involvement this time around, with several strong white-ball seasons…
With Georgia Wareham also on song, it was a leg-spinning masterclass against Bangladesh – which might spell trouble for England If any of England’s batters happened to flick on the World Cup action on Thursday afternoon, they may have been perturbed by what they saw. In Visakhapatnam, Australia leg-spinner Alana King – England’s tormentor throughout January’s 16-0 Ashes clean sweep – was putting on a clinic against Bangladesh, in ominous signs ahead of the fierce rivals’ showdown in Indore next Wednesday.While Alyssa Healy stole the limelight with her second century in as many matches as she led Australia to a…