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WPL APPOINTMENT Mumbai Indians have won two of the three WPL seasons so far. © BCCI Mumbai Indians Women have appointed former Australian international cricketer Lisa Keightley as the head coach for the upcoming season of the Women’s Premier League (WPL). She will replace two-time WPL winning coach Charlotte Edwards who joined the England national team as head coach, earlier this year, in April. Keightley, 54, has represented Australia 92 times (9 WTests, 82 WODIs, 1 WT20I) in her career and was part of the women’s World Cup winning squads in 1997 and 2005. Having turned to coaching following her…
India skipper Suryakumar Yadav is facing controversy after the International Cricket Council (ICC) acknowledged remarks he made following India’s Asia Cup group-stage victory over Pakistan on September 14, saying that it is reviewing a complaint lodged by the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) and may proceed with a formal hearing, Hindustan Times reported on Thursday. The move comes after the PCB lodged an official complaint with the ICC against Yadav for dedicating its September 14 win over Pakistan to “the families of the victims of the Pahalgam terror attack”. At least 24 people had been killed in the April attack, which…
India skipper Suryakumar Yadav is facing controversy after the International Cricket Council (ICC) acknowledged remarks he made following India’s Asia Cup group-stage victory over Pakistan on September 14, saying that it is reviewing a complaint lodged by the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) and has had a formal hearing, Hindustan Times reported on Thursday. The move comes after the PCB lodged an official complaint with the ICC against Yadav for dedicating its September 14 win over Pakistan to “the families of the victims of the Pahalgam terror attack”. At least 24 people had been killed in the April attack, which led…
After leaving New South Wales to look for opportunities elsewhere in 2013, the opener is poised to finally earn a cap for the Breakers All it took was an off-hand comment to Maitlan Brown, and the wheels were in motion for Katie Mack’s New South Wales homecoming. Mack is set to be finally presented with her NSW Breakers cap on Friday morning, ahead of their WNCL season opener against Victoria, marking a full-circle moment in the 13-year career of the Sydney-born opening batter.The 32-year-old came up through the NSW pathways, during a period where the Breakers were a near-unstoppable force…
Incoming New South Wales coach Peter Clarke is taking a holistic approach to his new role, as he forms a fresh Breakers brains trust for season 2025-26 alongside newly appointed captain Lauren Cheatle. Clarke, who served as the longtime Australia women’s team psychologist before taking up the vacant head coaching role with the reigning Women’s National Cricket League champions earlier this year, is bringing his unique expertise to the Breakers as they pursue a second-straight WNCL title.While some pundits unfamiliar with Clarke’s background might have been surprised by his career pivot, he has long combined coaching with his work as…
Ravichandran Ashwin will be the first Indian cricketer to play in the BBL ©Getty Ravichandran Ashwin is all set to receive a grand welcome when he arrives in Australia in the new year. And it’s not just the top brass at Sydney Thunder who’ll be lining up to greet the superstar Indian spinner as he becomes the first Indian cricketer to play in the Big Bash League. Ashwin is instead likely to be sought by a number of stakeholders within and around Australian cricket as he makes his way here to pave an unprecedented path in January. While the final…
Get all the latest goss from inside the Aussie women’s camp with cricket.com.au’s brand new vodcast offering, ‘The Diary Room’ Aussie guns Annabel Sutherland and Sophie Molineux are the first duo to join ‘The Diary Room’, cricket.com.au’s brand new video series taking fans closer than ever before to the Aussie women’s team. The two Victorians join host Emily Collin to chat about life in India with the ICC Cricket World Cup rapidly approaching, before an entertaining game of ‘Never Have I Ever.’ EPISODE INDEX 01:20 – TLDR: Get to know the girls 06:15 – Cricket Adjacent: what’s the latest…
India endured another tough outing in the field against Bangladesh. ©Getty India booked their spot in the Asia Cup final, but did so while dropping five catches. The result was expected; the unforced errors were not. This wasn’t the kind of chaos they’ve been training for. All tournament, India have leaned into entropy. Batting positions have been shuffled, overs have been reallocated, players have been pushed into uncomfortable spots. The idea is clear: a World Cup is around the corner and they don’t want to be caught off guard on a big night. Better to test everything now, even if…
The first woman from Pakistan to score a T20I hundred, the southpaw opener heads into this month’s World Cup in good form. On a balmy February night at Cape Town two years ago, Ireland’s Leah Paul stood at her bowling mark in the 19th over of the innings; her side having had a tough day in the field — courtesy of the batter waiting for her at the other end. Pakistan’s Muneeba Ali shuffles in the crease and moves outside the leg stump. Paul follows, but the left-handed batter caresses the ball to the boundary from in between the legs…
With eight teams competing for four semi-final spots, the 33-year-old emphasised the value of banking early points, even if the performances aren’t perfect. “The group stages at World Cups are just about qualifying for the semis and so you don’t need to play your best cricket but you do need to win. So the key for the sides is to just be able to fight their way through.” Drawing on her own World Cup-winning experiences in 2013 and 2022, Lanning underlined that not every win needed to be ’pretty’ – just timely. “I think in every World Cup that I’ve…