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ICC WOMEN’S WORLD CUP 2025 Sophie Devine has been the star batter for New Zealand in the ongoing World Cup © Getty New Zealand began their 2025 Women’s World Cup campaign with fixtures against Australia and South Africa. They are also scheduled to finish the league stage with fixtures against India and England. These four opponents were primarily viewed as the challengers for a semifinal spot. The T20 World champions have already lost the first two fixtures and now next week, they will have to take on India and England in fixtures that would likely seal their fate in the…
Fast bowler Mark Wood is quietly confident England can do “something special” in Australia as he eyes a return to action in The Ashes.Wood was one of England’s standout bowlers in the 2021-22 Ashes, claiming 17 wickets, but this year’s tourists last won the Ashes in 2015, with their last series victory in Australia coming in 2011. Wood has not played since a Champions Trophy defeat by Afghanistan in February and had an operation on a left knee injury in March.The 35-year-old was ruled out for the Test summer but was included in England’s 16-man Ashes squad named last month.…
JOIN OUR WHATSAPP CHANNEL The Women’s World Cup has achieved record viewing figures with 60 million fans having already tuned in to watch the first 13 one-day matches, the International Cricket Council (ICC) said Thursday. This is the first women’s tournament where the prize money is more than the previous men’s ODI World Cup, boasting an overall purse of $13.88 million (11.9 million euros). The 13th edition of the women’s showpiece 50-over tournament, which started last month in India and Sri Lanka, has eight teams competing for the title to be awarded after the final on November 2. “According to…
Axar Patel believes Shubman Gill can replicate his stunning red-ball captaincy debut in his first ODI series at the helm with his development as a leader also set to be boosted by the return of veterans Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma. Champion batters Kohli and Rohit are set to play their final international matches on Australian soil over the next week as part of India’s squad for the three-match series in Perth, Adelaide and Sydney.The pair have retired from Test and T20 international cricket but appear determined to push on in the ODI format until the 2027 World Cup in…
Labuschagne has found his red- ball mojo again ©Getty In a way, the break in play owing to lightning being spotted within 10 km of the Adelaide Oval came at an opportune time for George Bailey. It’s not that he wasn’t keen to stay back till the end of the day’s play. But the chief selector had more or less already seen what he’d come to see. Or assessed the one player above everyone else he’d come to assess. With the overall verdict quite evidently an overwhelming tick in the right direction. For, only 10 or so minutes before the…
Test quick insists he is yet to hit his straps after fiery Sheffield Shield finish Boland brilliance inspires Vics to thrilling Shield victory Scott Boland got his competitive juices flowing in his penultimate Ashes tune-up, but the Test paceman laughed off suggestions he will be fodder for England this summer. Boland got reverse-ramped by Sam Konstas in a spicy Sheffield Shield contest on Friday but it was one of the opener’s New South Wales teammates that lit a flame under the Victorian at the Junction Oval. Ollie Davies, who threatened to rip the game away from the hosts in his…
Alyssa Healy’s second straight ton saw her join an exclusive club but the Aussie skipper has her sights set on bigger prizes Alyssa Healy’s red-hot World Cup form will have a trickle-down effect on her teammates, says Alana King, boosting the Australian squad heading into the business end of the tournament. Healy ticked off a cavalcade of milestones and records during her unbeaten 113 against Bangladesh, becoming the first woman to score back-to-back ODI World Cup centuries on two occasions.The 35-year-old also moved ahead of Australian legends Meg Lanning and Karen Rolton to outright hold the record for most ODI…
Test gloveman shapes as SA’s big wicket after Queensland took control on day three South Australia v Queensland | Sheffield Shield Only a massive Alex Carey knock can save South Australia on the final day of their Sheffield Shield match against Queensland. The Test wicketkeeper is the last realistic hope for SA, who lead by 68 runs with five wickets in hand at Adelaide Oval. The run out of Jake Lehmann in the last session was disastrous and the hosts went to stumps at 5-238. Carey is 37 and Liam Scott has made 20. Lehmann hesitated when he went for…
WHERE’S THE TROPHY? India beat Pakistan to win the Asia Cup but are yet to get the trophy © AFP So, what is the status of the Asia Cup Trophy, controversially withheld from the victorious Indian team on September 28 in Dubai? Several versions have surfaced, one rather inaccurately suggesting that Asian Cricket Council (ACC) president Mohsin Naqvi took the trophy to Pakistan after insisting that the Indian team would have to accept it from him personally. The reality, however, may be slightly different, although the narrative about his insistence that the trophy be received from him is authentic. Cricbuzz…
Collapses of 5-9 and 3-3 on day three have set up a close finish in Hobart Tasmania v Western Australia | Sheffield Shield Western Australia’s Sheffield Shield clash in Tasmania will go down to the wire on the final day after the Tigers took late wickets to roar back into favouritism. The visitors reached stumps at Bellerive Oval on Friday 8-215, needing 44 more for victory. After conceding a one-run first innings deficit, Tasmania lost their last five wickets for just nine runs to set the visitors 259 to win. Red-hot Kelly collects another Shield bag Cameron Bancroft (five) and…