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IRELAND TOUR OF BANGLADESH, 2025 Andrew Balbirnie will captain a side that will have only seven players from the squad that toured Bangladesh in 2023 © Getty Ireland have picked five uncapped players in their Test squad for the upcoming tour of Bangladesh. Andrew Balbirnie will captain a side that will have only seven players from the squad that toured Bangladesh in 2023 where they lost the one-off Test. Cade Carmichael, Liam McCarthy, Jordan Neill and Stephen Doheny have received their maiden callups whereas Gavin Hoey is the fifth uncapped player who has been picked in Ireland’s Test squad before.…
BANGLADESH CRICKET The newly elected BCB officially announced the members of its new standing committees. © BCB Bangladesh Cricket Board president Aminul Islam will lead the Bangladesh Premier League governing council. The decision was taken in the first board meeting where different committees have been distributed among the board directors who will run the show for the next four years after earning success in the just concluded BCB election. The newly elected BCB officially announced the members of its new standing committees that were not without a surprise considering there was no place for vice president Faruque Ahmed in it.…
England’s Heather Knight felt she “deserved a bit of luck” after seeing three potential dismissals overturned on review during a match-winning innings against Bangladesh in the Women’s World Cup.Knight hit an unbeaten 79 to see her side to a jittery four-wicket victory in Guwahati, but had to come through a rocky start that saw her given out by the on-field umpires on nought, eight and 13. She was convinced there was no bat in the initial caught behind, though DRS was far from conclusive, and rightly spared from an lbw soon after but appeared to accept her fate when she…
ASIA CUP 2025 Varun Chakaravarthy was speaking at the CEAT Awards Ceremony © Cricbuzz Varun Chakaravarthy said the Indian team remained confident of pulling things back even after Pakistan’s strong start in the Asia Cup final last Sunday. Pakistan were cruising along at 113 for one in the 13th over before India turned things around, eventually limiting their total to a below-par 146 all out in 19.1 overs. “So, that is how it is designed,” Chakaravarthy explained on the side-lines of the CEAT Cricket Rating Awards in Mumbai on Tuesday. “If you saw the trend in the Asia Cup, the…
JOIN OUR WHATSAPP CHANNEL Pakistan T20I captain Salman Ali Agha continues to enjoy the support of the selectors and coach, though the Pakistan Cricket Board appears concerned about his performance. Consultations are underway regarding his captaincy. According to details, although Pakistan reached the Asia Cup final held in the UAE, three defeats against India triggered severe criticism, especially directed at captain Salman Ali Agha. His batting performance was disappointing — 72 runs in seven matches at an average of 12 and a strike rate of just 80.89. Officials were reportedly unhappy with some of his decisions, particularly in the final.…
Heather Knight’s unbeaten 79 ensured a brilliant Bangladesh bowling display came up short as England claimed a nervy four-wicket victory in Guwahati.Successive victories at the Cricket World Cup put Charlotte Edwards’ side top of the standings but it could have been very different as they made heavy weather of chasing 179. In trouble at 78-5, England were bailed out by Knight’s gutsy 79 not out as she formed a crucial seventh-wicket stand with Charlie Dean (27no) to guide them to victory. Score summary – England beat Bangladesh by four wickets Bangladesh 178 all out in 49.4 overs: Sobhana Mostary (60…
ICC WOMEN’S WORLD CUP 2025 Australia, coming off a washout, will look to hit their stride again against a Pakistan unit desperate to turn their campaign around © Getty As tempting as it may be to assume, the result of no cricket match is a foregone conclusion – even when Australia play. There’s undeniably an inevitability to it, that’s just how good Australia are, but even the greatest giants have been taken down before. That’s what Pakistan will have to believe when they take on the mighty Aussies in their third World Cup game. On the surface, Australia might seem…
JOIN OUR WHATSAPP CHANNEL Australia batsman Matt Renshaw was given an international lifeline after more than two years in the wilderness Tuesday but Marnus Labuschagne was left out of both the ODI and T20 squads for the home series against India. Renshaw, who last played a Test match in February 2023 — also against India — is in line for his ODI debut at the age of 29. He has been in prolific form for Queensland and Australia A. He scored a century in the first match of the Sheffield Shield season and battered 248 runs in three one-day games…
Josh Hazlewood is set to play a Sheffield Shield match instead of T20s against India Josh Hazlewood says one Sheffield Shield game will be enough for him and Mitchell Starc before the Ashes, with the quick likely to skip three Twenty20s against India to play for NSW. Hazlewood and Starc were on Tuesday both named in Australia’s squad to face India in three ODIs later this month, which kicks off the main part of the home summer.Five T20s then follow, and while Starc has retired from that format, Hazlewood has been listed in the squad for the first two of…
Beth Mooney says Australia’s defeat in the T20 World Cup semi-finals last year was a line-in-the-sand moment Beth Mooney has predicted Australia’s new approach to ODI cricket will allow them to “break some records” in the World Cup, with a greater desire to take the game on. Australia will face Pakistan in their third round-robin game on Wednesday night in Colombo, after Saturday night’s match against Sri Lanka was washed out. Alyssa Healy’s side have made no secret of their plan to be more flexible with their batting approach, as they attempt to go back-to-back in an ODI World Cup…