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Meanwhile, the runners-up will receive $2.24 million, an increase of 273 per cent in comparison to the $600,000 England won three years ago. The two losing semi-finalists will take home $1.12 million (up from $300,000 in 2022) each. Each group stage participant is guaranteed to earn $250,000 while each group-stage win will get the victors $34,314. In the second half of the final table, the teams finishing fifth and sixth will take home $700,000 each and those in seventh and eighth place will earn $280,000. “This announcement marks a defining milestone in the journey of women’s cricket,” ICC Chairman Jay…
Almost exactly a month since England completed a gripping Test series against India, they return to international action with six white-ball games versus South Africa, all live on Sky Sports.The three ODIs and as many T20s against the Proteas may struggle to generate the same intensity, drama and needle as the red-ball fixtures with India but they are still vital as England build for The Ashes and World Cups down the line. Here is why these matches matter ahead of the opening 50-over clash at Headingley on Tuesday (12.30pm on air, 1pm first ball)… England ODI squad to play South…
Almost exactly a month since England completed a gripping Test series against India, they return to international action with six white-ball games versus South Africa, all live on Sky Sports.The three ODIs and as many T20s against the Proteas may struggle to generate the same intensity, drama and needle as the red-ball fixtures with India but they are still vital as England build for The Ashes and World Cups down the line. Here is why these matches matter ahead of the opening 50-over clash at Headingley on Tuesday (12.30pm on air, 1pm first ball)… England ODI squad to play South…
Jitesh Sharma will hope his latest India odyssey is more productive. ©BCCI On a warm April night in 2023, as RCB and PBKS players drifted into post-match huddles along the boundary in Mohali, a promising relationship was initiated. Tamil Nadu batter Shahrukh Khan approached Dinesh Karthik, and beside him walked Jitesh Sharma, just short of turning 30, with questions to ask. It came right after Jitesh had hit 41 off 27, a knock that nearly won his team the match. Karthik spoke to him briefly about their shared vocation of finishing games, and that was that. A year later, in…
Teenager Davina Perrin’s record-breaking century in The Hundred has “life-changing importance,” says Sky Sports’ Nasser Hussain.Perrin, 18, broke multiple records during Northern Superchargers’ semi-final match against London Spirit at The Oval on Saturday, hitting the fastest ton in the women’s Hundred and the second fastest overall while also becoming only the second batter in the women’s competition to make triple figures after Tammy Beaumont in 2023. The teenager’s century also meant the Superchargers went past the 200 mark for the first time in the women’s competition, and went on to win the final, beating Southern Brave.”I thought that was one…
Teenager Davina Perrin’s record-breaking century in The Hundred has “life-changing importance,” says Sky Sports’ Nasser Hussain.Perrin, 18, broke multiple records during Northern Superchargers’ semi-final match against London Spirit at The Oval on Saturday, hitting the fastest ton in the women’s Hundred and the second fastest overall while also becoming only the second batter in the women’s competition to make triple figures after Tammy Beaumont in 2023. The teenager’s century also meant the Superchargers went past the 200 mark for the first time in the women’s competition, and went on to win the final, beating Southern Brave.”I thought that was one…
Oscar Piastri powered to victory at an incident-packed Dutch Formula One Grand Prix on Sunday, with home favourite Max Verstappen claiming second place as Piastri’s McLaren teammate Lando Norris suffered a dramatic breakdown late in the race. Piastri led from pole to chequered flag at the Zandvoort circuit in a race that saw the safety car deployed three times to stretch his lead over Norris to 34 points in the championship race. Racing Bulls’ 20-year-old French rookie Isack Hadjar finished third to become the fifth youngest podium finisher of all time. It was Piastri’s sixth Grand Prix victory of the…
Carlos Alcaraz and Novak Djokovic motored into the quarter-finals of the US Open on Sunday as reigning women’s champion Aryna Sabalenka kept her title defence firmly on track. Spanish second seed Alcaraz and tennis icon Djokovic — who are on course to meet in the semi-finals — both recorded straight-sets wins on the Arthur Ashe Stadium main court. Five-time Grand Slam champion Alcaraz overpowered France’s Arthur Rinderknech 7-6 (7/3), 6-3, 6-4 and has not dropped a set to date at the championships. “I think my style of tennis suits pretty well the energy here in New York,” the 22-year-old said.…
THREE PEAT Will Jacks (third from left) provided the winning kick with a blistering 72 in the final. © Getty Oval Invincibles have done the Hundred three-peat. On Sunday night, they wrapped up a hat-trick of Hundred titles with a 26-run victory over Trent Rockets, riding on Will Jacks’s blistering 72 and Nathan Sowter’s game-breaking spell (3-25). Having looked set to get close to 180, they stumbled at the death to finish on 168/5 and looked set to finish runners-up for the first time, but the bowlers stepped up to avoid that. Asked to bat, Invincibles got exactly the start…
BAN V NED, 2ND T20I Bangladesh want results, not trials before Asia Cup, says senior assistant coach © BCB Bangladesh’s senior assistant coach Mohammad Salahuddin said on Sunday that the team is not considering any experimentation as they prepare to face the Netherlands in the second game of the ongoing three-match T20I series, scheduled at the Sylhet International Cricket Stadium on September 1. Bangladesh came into the series high on confidence after wins against Sri Lanka and Pakistan, and carried that form into the opener against the Dutch, clinching a comfortable eight-wicket win to go 1-0 up. With the series…