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England will begin their 2026 Men’s T20 World Cup campaign against Nepal in Mumbai on Sunday February 8 with the fixtures announced for the 10th edition of the tournament, which will be held in India and Sri Lanka.England, champions in 2010 and 2022 and beaten in the semi-finals by India at the previous edition in the Caribbean and the USA in 2024, have also been positioned with debutants Italy, two-time winners West Indies and Bangladesh in Group C. They will play West Indies in Mumbai (February 11) before games against Bangladesh (February 14) and Italy (February 16) in Kolkata. The…
PNG v Netherlands Papua New Guinea registered their second win of the tournament with a thrilling eight-run victory over Netherlands Papua New Guinea won the toss and chose to bat, but an early wicket gave the Netherlands a promising start. PNG, however, recovered strongly and lost only one more wicket for the rest of the innings as they got to 126. Naoani Vare anchored the innings with a well-crafted 45, while Hollan Doriga provided momentum with a quickfire 39 off 27 deliveries. Skipper Brenda Tau also contributed a steady run-a-ball 34. Iris Zwilling and Caroline de Lange picked up a…
The Adelaide Strikers were again involved in another game that went down to the wire, but game out the other side over the Brisbane Heat who slump to a 0-6 ledger Adelaide Strikers v Brisbane Heat | WBBL|11 South African powerhouse Laura Wolvaardt has smacked a half-century in Adelaide’s tense six-wicket WBBL win over battling Brisbane. After the Heat posted 5-169, the Strikers nudged two leg byes from the final ball in a thriller at Adelaide’s Karen Rolton Oval.Wolvaardt set an ominous early tone with 51 from 33 balls in a decisive Tuesday night knock, while Bridget Patterson (32no from…
Lancashire Cricket has confirmed that Lancashire Lightning and Lancashire Thunder will begin their 2026 T20 campaigns with an exciting doubleheader at The Kia Oval on Friday 22 May. Both sides will face Surrey as the new Vitality Blast season gets underway. The fixture marks the first time Lightning will meet Surrey in the group stage, following structural changes introduced to the Vitality Blast ahead of the 2026 season. The group stage of the 2026 Men’s Vitality Blast consists of three groups with Lancashire Lightning in Group 1 alongside Nottinghamshire Outlaws, Derbyshire Falcons, Lancashire Lightning, Durham, Yorkshire and Leicestershire Foxes -…
WA rising star led the resistance in a drawn Sheffield Shield game against South Australia South Australia v Western Australia | Sheffield Shield | Day 4 Emerging allrounder Cooper Connolly has top-scored with a fighting half-century to help Western Australia thwart South Australia in a Sheffield Shield draw. Connolly’s polished 70 and fifties from Hilton Cartwright and Jayden Goodwin led WA’s final-day resistance in the rain-marred day-nighter at Adelaide Oval. After day one was washed out, WA were bowled out for 188 and SA replied with 333, with Nathan McSweeney top-scoring with 68. The visitors posted 6-324 in their second…
The revamped Vitality Blast will launch with 16 double-headers over the Bank Holiday Weekend, marking the start of both the men’s and women’s competitions next season. Somerset open their defence of the Vitality Blast Men’s title at home in a repeat of last year’s final, taking on Hampshire Hawks under the Friday night lights. In the women’s competition, reigning champions Surrey host Lancashire Thunder, while elsewhere in London, Women’s League 2 winners Middlesex welcome Kent to Lord’s — all part of the opening day’s slate of double-headers. Vitality Blast Women’s Competition champions Surrey are at home to Lancashire Thunder while…
Check out the fixtures for the Vitality Blast men’s competition in 2026, which starts on Friday May 22 and concludes with Finals Day at Edgbaston on July 18. The new-look format will start with 16 double headers across the opening Bank Holiday Weekend of the men’s and women’s competitions, with Surrey beginning their title defence at home to last year’s finalists Hampshire Hawks on the Friday night. The teams have been split into three groups of six and each county will play 12 matches, six at home and six away. Counties will play the other five counties in their group…
Cricket is a game obsessed with numbers and Zak Crawley’s make for fascinating reading. They are not what you would expect from a Test opener to have played 60 games.An average below 31 – Crawley’s dipping to 30.96 after his loose drive-induced Perth pair – and 44 single-figure dismissals in 109 knocks. In 41 per cent of his innings, he has scored nine or less. But England don’t pick Crawley because of his numbers. They pick him for moments, for his aggression, for what he can do to world-class bowlers at his best. We believe he is a quality player,…
Check out the fixtures for the Vitality Blast women’s competition in 2026, which starts on Friday May 22 and concludes with Finals Day at the Kia Oval on July 17. Champions Surrey begin their defence at home to Lancashire Thunder and Vitality Blast Women’s League 2 champions Middlesex host Kent at Lord’s, with 16 double headers across the opening weekend of the men’s and women’s competitions. Yorkshire will play in the Vitality Blast Women’s Competition for the first time, paving the way for a first-ever Roses double header at Emirates Old Trafford on Friday 10 July, while the 18 counties…
A lack of game time heading into WBBL|11 has not stopped Heather Graham from making a serious impact for the Hurricanes After sitting on the sidelines throughout Australia’s ODI World Cup campaign, Heather Graham is making up for lost time in WBBL|11. The allrounder is sitting on top of the wickets table at the midway point of the regular season, having taken 14 wickets at 11.64 in six games to help lead the Hobart Hurricanes’ charge to the top of the table.Her rich run of form with the ball continued against Sydney Sixers on Saturday, where she captured a career-best…