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Australia captain Pat Cummins says it is “less likely than likely” that he will be fit for the Ashes series opener against England next month.The fast bowler is recovering from lumbar bone stress in his lower back and has not played since July, although he has resumed running in training. The 32-year-old faces a race to be fit for the first Test in Perth on November 21, but admits he may be prepared to gamble with his fitness given the significance of the series.Cummins, who said he planned to resume bowling drills next week, told Cricket Australia’s official website: “You’d want…
Joe Root feels better placed than ever to score his first Test hundred in Australia as he looks to help England regain The Ashes during a “mentally fatiguing” series.Root expects the spotlight to be on his lack of an Ashes ton overseas in the build-up to this winter’s contest, which begins in Perth on November 21, although his priority is team success. The Yorkshireman’s highest Test innings in Australia to date across three tours is the 89 he struck in the 2021/22 series opener at Brisbane, one of his nine fifties in the country. Please use Chrome browser for a…
BANGLADESH PREMIER LEAGUE Fortune Barishal players pose with the trophy after winning the BPL earlier this year © Cricbuzz Bangladesh Premier League’s defending champions Fortune Barishal have requested the BPL governing council to reschedule the tournament as they are struggling to prepare for the tournament on short notice. The league’s governing council had recently announced that the upcoming edition of the BPL will consist of only five teams and shall commence from mid-December. Following the announcement, the body also invited Expression of Interest for franchise ownership rights for BPLT20. “The Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) has officially opened the process for…
Ravi Shastri believes the ODI series in Australia will be an important challenge in the Indian veteran duo’s quest to play another World Cup Legendary Indian figure Ravi Shastri believes Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma aren’t certainties for the 2027 ODI World Cup and both need a big series against Australia to solidify their spots. With both Kohli and Sharma now retired from Tests and T20Is, ODI cricket is the only international format that remains for the Indian greats with the pair seeking the ultimate success at the 2027 showpiece tournament, which will be held in southern Africa. That World…
Opener Phoebe Litchfield’s 40 from 39 balls assisted Healy in getting Australia’s batting innings off to a belief-building start, before Ellyse Perry (47* off 52) and Ashleigh Gardner (45 off 46) also made valuable contributions. “Probably something we haven’t quite done thus far in this World Cup is to set a platform in the first 10,” Healy continued. “Phoebe and I were able to do that, which was cool. I think it needed somebody to make 100 to chase down that total. Obviously you’d probably like two to make 100 just to make it easy, but somebody needed to, if…
ICC WOMEN’S WORLD CUP, 2025 Alyssa Healy celebrates her century ©Getty It must not have been easy being Alyssa Healy walking into the 2025 World Cup game against India – her batting rhythm missing, frustration admittedly building in the nets and a personal rivalry simmering against an unlikely nemesis. But then, that’s the thing about big-match players: they don’t flinch, they rise. And rise she did – absorbing pressure around her, launching a calculated assault and meticulously taking down India’s weakened bowling to stretch Australia’s unbeaten run in World Cups to 12 games. Eight overs into their marquee World Cup…
West Indies batter John Campbell scored an unbeaten 87, showing fight after they’d been asked to follow on in the second Test against India West Indies batter John Campbell scored an unbeaten 87, showing fight after they’d been asked to follow on in the second Test against India. John Campbell scored a career-best 87 not out as West Indies battled on in their second innings of the second Test against India, despite the hosts enforcing the follow-on. Campbell’s previous Test best had been 68 against New Zealand in 2020, and on a slow-turning pitch at the Arun Jaitley Stadium on…
Australia’s Test captain has provided an update on his recovery from lumbar back stress ahead of the Ashes Pat Cummins concedes he’s “less likely than likely” to suit up for next month’s Ashes opener in Perth as he begins to ramp up his training schedule ahead of his return to bowling. While he admits he’s still “a couple of weeks away” from bowling on turf wickets, the Australian captain said he was feeling better with each session in his recovery from lumbar back stress. Cummins resumed running last week and plans to start bowling drills next week. While he hasn’t…
WEST INDIES TOUR OF INDIA 2025 Kuldeep Yadav bagged his fifth Test fifer ©BCCI Deception is essentially a skill and an art in cricket, and in his short Test career, he has mastered the art and skill of being a deceiver with the cricket ball. Kuldeep Yadav – the illusionist impresario – was in full view on Sunday morning at the Arun Jaitley Stadium. The left-arm wrist spinner, now a virtual veteran in white-ball cricket and trying to make a mark in the red-ball format, made a statement on how India may have missed a trick by not deploying him…
ENGLAND TOUR OF NEW ZEALAND, 2025 Santner will resume leadership duties now that he is back. © Getty Mitchell Santner and Rachin Ravindra have returned to the New Zealand squad for the upcoming three-match T20I series against England, beginning in Christchurch on Saturday (October 18). While Santner will resume leadership duties after recovering from abdominal surgery, Ravindra is back from the facial injury that kept him out of the recent series against Australia. Squad: Mitchell Santner (C), Michael Bracewell, Mark Chapman, Devon Conway, Jacob Duffy, Zak Foulkes, Matt Henry, Bevon Jacobs, Kyle Jamieson, Daryl Mitchell, Jimmy Neesham, Rachin Ravindra, Tim…