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Australia’s batters have scored more centuries at this ODI World Cup than they have at any previous edition, with a chance to enter unchartered territory in their final round game against South Africa on Saturday. Ashleigh Gardner’s unbeaten 104 was Australia’s fifth hundred in as many matches this tournament – and they almost had a sixth, with Annabel Sutherland falling just short of triple figures on 98 not out.It means with at least two games to go – the showdown with the in-form Proteas in Indore plus a semi-final next week – Australia have already equalled the record for most…
There are two Sheffield Shield matches scheduled in Australia prior to the opening Test of the summer against England in Perth from November 21, with selectors keeping a close eye on the five-match series that is part of the ongoing ICC World Test Championship cycle. Australia T20I squad: Mitchell Marsh (c), Sean Abbott (games 1-3), Xavier Bartlett, Mahli Beardman (games 3-5), Tim David, Ben Dwarshuis (games 4-5), Nathan Ellis, Josh Hazlewood (games 1-2), Travis Head, Josh Inglis, Matthew Kuhnemann, Glenn Maxwell (games 3-5), Mitchell Owen, Josh Philippe, Matthew Short, Marcus Stoinis, Adam Zampa. Australia ODI squad (third game): Mitchell Marsh…
20-year-old WA speedster Mahli Beardman a surprise pick to face India as selectors detail Shield preparation for Ashes candidates Australia v India | Second ODI Glenn Maxwell will return from a fractured wrist to feature in T20 series against India while Mahli Beardman is in line for an international debut as Australia made a host of changes ahead of the looming Ashes series. Marnus Labuschagne, Josh Hazlewood and Sean Abbott have all been tasked with time in the Sheffield Shield with all three in the mix to play England in the Test series that begins November 21. Maxwell was struck…
As Cooper Connolly cooly carried his country to a series-clinching ODI victory, his mind couldn’t help but flash back to first time he got his side home in a run chase on the big stage. Connolly’s match-winning cameo in the BBL|12 Final was the then 19-year-old’s coming-of-age moment, leading Perth Scorchers back from the dead to a record fifth Big Bash triumph. Composed Connolly makes chase a cakewalk with 61no Two-and-a-half years on and Thursday night in Adelaide could prove an equally defining moment in the young left-hander’s career, this time rising to the occasion on the international stage with…
Centuries to Pratika Rawal and Smriti Mandhana help hosts snap three-game losing streak to book semi-final showdown with Australia or South Africa India have been left relieved to at last book a semi-final spot at their home Women’s World Cup, where a blockbuster last-four rematch against champions Australia could well be on the cards. Superb centuries from openers Smriti Mandhana and Pratika Rawal provided the base for their rain-affected 53-run win on DLS over New Zealand in Navi Mumbai, finally nailing their place in the knockout matches after three successive defeats. India will now finish fourth in the group table,…
Marie Kelly pictured at Old Trafford Football Ground after winning the University Campus of Football Business Sports Entrepreneur Competition©UCFB Professional cricketer and founder of Versatail, Marie Kelly, has won the UCFB Sports Entrepreneur Competition, securing a first prize investment of up to £50,000. Nine finalists pitched their business ventures to an expert judging panel at Old Trafford Football Stadium on Wednesday, where Kelly emerged as the unanimous winner. The competition, launched by UCFB to mark ten years since opening its Manchester campus, celebrates innovation and entrepreneurship within sport. Kelly, 29, who plays for The Blaze and the Northern Superchargers in…
Openers Smriti Mandhana and Pratika Rawal scored centuries as India beat New Zealand by 53 runs (DLS) to reach the semi-finals of the Women’s Cricket World Cup on Thursday.Rawal top-scored with 122 runs – her maiden Cricket World Cup hundred – while Mandhana scored 109 runs, as the duo led India’s batting charge in Mumbai. Jemimah Rodrigues then hit 76 not out off 55 balls as India finished with 340-3 in 49 overs before rain interruptions reduced the game to a 44-over affair.New Zealand, chasing 325, failed to get going despite Brooke Halliday’s 81 runs. The White Ferns now cannot…
As ever, Australia are setting the benchmark in women’s cricket.The seven-time 50-over World Cup champions are very much on course for an eighth title, with England, beaten by six wickets in Indore on Wednesday, their latest victims. Australia were not wobble-free against Nat Sciver-Brint’s side at Holkar Stadium, faltering at the start of both innings.First, they conceded 55 runs across the opening eight overs after bowling a lot of filth and then they tumbled to 68-4 inside 16 overs of the chase. Around that, though, normal service took hold. Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player Former…
Xavier Bartlett has spoiled Virat Kohli’s Adelaide Oval swansong as Australia’s next generation fired them to a series-clinching win against India in the second ODI. Kohli was dismissed for his second straight duck of the series – the first time he has failed to score in consecutive ODI innings – as Bartlett did the early damage in India’s 9-264 on Thursday. Kohli bags another duck after Bartlett’s new-ball blitz Matt Short (74) and Cooper Connolly (61 not out from 53 balls) then produced career-best knocks as Mitch Owen (36 off 23) clobbered three sixes in his maiden ODI innings to…
England endured more frustration at the hands of New Zealand’s weather as the third and final T20 international was washed out after just 22 balls were bowled in Auckland.Chasing a series-clinching victory, England elected to bowl and watched Tim Seifert crunch two fours off the first three deliveries before the heavens opened, forcing a 90-minute rain delay at Eden Park. Play resumed in a reduced 14-overs-a-side contest, during which Seifert (23 off 11 balls) continued his big-hitting innings and Brydon Carse claimed the only wicket, Tim Robinson holing out to Jacob Bethell on the boundary.New Zealand reached 38-1 after 3.4…