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Durham Cricket can confirm that the men’s pre-season tour of Abu Dhabi has been cancelled due to the ongoing situation in the Middle East. The Club has remained in constant dialogue with relevant authorities and tour operators, and all parties have agreed that the appropriate course of action is not to travel to the United Arab Emirates at this time. The men’s squad had been scheduled to depart from Newcastle on Monday 9 March. The Durham women’s squad is currently due to travel to the UAE on Monday 23 March. The Club will provide further updates in due course regarding…
Star allrounder has no plans to retire but stopped short of declaring his intent to play 2028 tournaments Art of the run chase: Maxwell’s tactics for reaching the target Glenn Maxwell’s international playing future remains clouded as the star allrounder kept the door ajar on playing for Australia again despite expressing only lukewarm hope he can make the 2028 Olympics or World Cup. Maxwell insisted there was an element of bad luck to Australia’s rotten T20 World Cup campaign which marked their third straight failure to make the tournament’s semi-finals.The 37-year-old was the oldest member of the squad that dropped…
England captain Nat Sciver-Brunt hopes her side can “capture the nation” during the 2026 Women’s T20 World Cup on home soil this summer.Exactly 100 days from the start of the tournament on June 12, Sciver-Brunt spoke of her hope that England can follow in the footsteps of the Lionesses and Red Roses successes of the past few years. The England women’s football team won the Women’s Euros in both 2022 and 2025 – serving as tournament hosts for their first triumph – while the Red Roses won the Women’s Rugby World Cup last year, also on home soil. Please use…
A pink-ball bowl off looms at the WACA Ground with Australia’s fast bowlers to push their cases for selection at a training session under lights Australia will unleash a pink-ball pace barrage on India at the WACA Ground this week, but the exact make-up of that new-ball attack remains to be seen with a trio of quicks pushing for selection. The Australian squad will have their first training session in Perth on Wednesday evening under lights, where Darcie Brown, Lucy Hamilton and Maitlan Brown will be out to impress selectors.Express right-arm fast bowler Darcie Brown ran riot against South Africa…
Travis Head leads the star inclusions for round nine of the Sheffield Shield season as members of Australia’s T20 squad return to domestic cricket following their early exit from the T20 World Cup. Josh Inglis, Cooper Connolly (both Western Australia), Matthew Renshaw (Queensland), Matthew Kuhnemann (Tasmania) and Sean Abbott (NSW) will join Head in turning out for their respective states from Thursday this week.Head’s South Australia are locked in a tight tussle with Queensland in the race to face Victoria in the Shield final later this month. SA are (33.43) less than a point behind the second-placed Bulls (34.38) with…
Australia’s Test opener is set to bat at the top of the order for South Australia for the first time this Sheffield Shield season South Australia coach Ryan Harris has confirmed that Australian star Travis Head will open the batting for the state in their all-important Sheffield Shield clash with New South Wales at Karen Rolton Oval. The 32-year-old is set to replace Mackenzie Harvey at the top of SA’s batting order. While the Test opener batted at No.4 in his last Shield appearance for SA in November, Head hinted that he did have a preferred position in the batting…
KOLKATA: South African captain Aiden Markram on Tuesday said his team’s win over New Zealand in the group phase will count for nothing in the T20 World Cup semi-final, which will be a “completely fresh start”.The two teams clash at Kolkata’s Eden Gardens in the first semi-final on Wednesday, with both having never lifted a cricket World Cup. South Africa are the only unbeaten side in the last four and are trying to rid themselves of a reputation for choking in the final stages at World Cups. They have been the team to beat in this edition and got the…
GETAFE’S Martín Satriano (R) scores past Real Madrid goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois during their La Liga match at Santiago Bernabeu.—AFP MADRID: Real Madrid fell to a damaging 1-0 defeat by Getafe at home in La Liga on Monday, leaving them four points behind leaders Barcelona. Alvaro Arbeloa’s side, beaten by a superb volley from Martin Satriano, suffered a second consecutive loss in the Spanish top flight for the first time since 2020. Real forward Franco Mastantuono was sent off in stoppage time for apparent dissent to make a bad night worse for Los Blancos. “Obviously it’s a match where we could…
A global moment was held on Wednesday to coincide with the 100 days to go landmark, with England stars Nat Sciver-Brunt, Sophia Dunkley and Lauren Filer on hand at the ground that will host the opening game of the tournament in Birmingham to help mark the occasion. The iconic scoreboard at Edgbaston displayed the 100 days to go message, with other host cities across the United Kingdom – including Old Trafford Cricket Ground (Manchester), Headingley (Leeds), Hampshire Bowl (Southampton), Bristol County Ground (Bristol), The Oval (London), and Lord’s Cricket Ground (London) – joining in on the action. Well-known international grounds…
One of New Zealand and South Africa will take a big step to a first white-ball World Cup triumph when they meet in Kolkata tonight New Zealand captain Mitchell Santner wants his team to piece together their first “perfect game” of the T20 World Cup when they face in-form South Africa in the first semi-final at Eden Gardens. South Africa remain the tournament’s only unbeaten team and their seven wins in a row include a seven-wicket thumping of New Zealand in the group stage in Ahmedabad. But neither side are reading too much into that result with Proteas captain Aiden…