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South Australia’s top order fired in their season opener against Tasmania Twin tons to Courtney Webb and Maddie Penna set South Australia’s 36-run win in a high-scoring clash against Tasmania. SA posted a massive 5-330 after Penna (109) and then Webb (123no) raised the bat on a glorious pitch at Karen Rolton Oval in Adelaide. The pair put on 197 runs for the third wicket after both openers Emma de Broughe (23) and Bridget Patterson (37) had both got starts following captain Jemma Barsby’s decision to bat first at the toss. Webb crashes 78-ball ton in career-high knock Penna hit…
It was far from easy by the Breakers are on the board in 2025-26 New South Wales’ English star Georgia Adams, with help from a next-gen star, has guided the Breakers to a season-opening three-wicket victory against Victoria in Melbourne. The reigning WNCL champions found themselves in a bit of strife at 5-80 in pursuit of the Vics’ 181, but Adams showed composure on a pitch that proved hard to score on all day to finish on 45 not out. Her unbroken 53-run partnership for the eighth wicket with 15-year-old Caoimhe Bray (27no) was the largest of the match and…
Pakistan have at least upheld the status of being second best team in the continent. FOR all the talk about their apparent mediocrity after their twin thrashings against India in the Asia Cup, Pakistan have at least upheld the status of being the second best team in the continent. The status was sealed on Thursday, when Pakistan edged Bangladesh by 11 runs in a tense, low-scoring Super Four encounter. The win meant Pakistan have beaten all their opponents in the campaign apart from India, and that the archrivals will meet for the third time in three weeks in the Asia…
ICC WOMEN’S WORLD CUP, 2025 The series decider in Delhi could have foreshadowed what’s to come. ©Getty If the 2017 World Cup put the women’s game on the global cricket map, the 2025 edition in India promises to be a game-changer. As the first ICC event to be hosted in India in almost a decade, its influence will be seismic. Australia and England have traditionally traded the silverware in the 21st century, but co-hosts India enter the tournament brimming with confidence. They’re one of just three teams with a positive win-loss record in the current cycle, alongside the traditional powerhouses,…
NEW ROLE Stead’s term with the Black Caps was highly successful. © Getty Gary Stead, New Zealand’s former head coach, has accepted a high performance coaching role with New Zealand Cricket (NZC) where he will be tasked with developing supporting players and coaches, along with the high performance programmes. Stead had recently completed an eight-year stint as head coach of New Zealand earlier this year. In a successful period for the team, he guided New Zealand to the World Test Championship in 2021 and also oversaw the team’s historic whitewash of India last year. Notably, New Zealand also reached the…
Ravichandran Ashwin could bat up the order for the Sydney Thunder with the David Warner-led side banking on bulk allrounders to balance their XI in KFC BBL|15. Ashwin, who will become the first capped Indian men’s player to feature in the Big Bash after signing to play for the Thunder in January, is the fifth spinner on the club’s list for this season. The Indian superstar joins fellow offie Chris Green, leg-spinners Tanveer Sangha and Shadab Khan and left-arm finger spinner Tom Andrews. Every Ravichandran Ashwin Test wicket on Australian soil But Thunder boss Trent Copeland says Ashwin’s batting –…
LAHORE: The Athletics Federation of Pakistan (AFP) has written a letter to Salman Butt, the coach of star javelin thrower Arshad Nadeem, seeking the reasons behind a sharp decline in the athlete’s performance including his below-par show in the World Athletics Championship held in Tokyo last week. The 28-year-old Arshad, who made entire Pakistan feel proud by winning gold medal with a record 92.97-metre throw at the 2024 Paris Olympics, finished a poor 10th in the world championship. In the letter, a copy of which is available with Dawn, the AFP has asked several questions from Salman and directed him…
ASIA CUP 2025 Pakistan managed to recover from 49/5 to 135/8 © Getty Led by a clinical bowling performance on a surface where run-making wasn’t easy, Pakistan defended their joint-lowest total against Bangladesh and booked a place in the final of the 2025 Asia Cup, where they will face India on Sunday. Led by a late blitz from Mohammad Haris and Mohammad Nawaz, Pakistan posted 135 for 8, a total handy to beat Bangladesh by 11 runs on Friday, at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium Where was the game won? Death overs: Heading into the death overs, even if marginally,…
ASIA CUP 2025 India have dropped 12 catches in the tournament, eight of them in the last two games alone © Getty This meeting could have been an email. India have already qualified, Sri Lanka are already out and there’s really not much riding on this Asia Cup fixture. Yes, there’s a T20 World Cup in a few months time and while that will also be played in Asia, the conditions are going to be very different from what Dubai offers. But still, it’s a match that both teams would try and look to use. India have spent this Asia…
England captain Nat Sciver-Brunt hit 122 as the visitors secured a morale-boosting 152-run over tournament co-hosts India in their first of two warm-up matches for the Women’s World Cup.Setting their opponents the impressive target of 339-9 after batting first to productive effect in Bengaluru, England got India all out for 187 after just 34 overs, with Linsey Smith and Sophie Ecclestone taking two wickets apiece. Sciver-Brunt’s total, which included 13 fours and two sixes, came from 105 balls before she retired out.Emma Lamb dovetailed with 81 off 59 balls, with Amy Jones (39) and Heather Knight (37) also contributing solid…