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Attention quickly turns to the white ball following Australia’s first ever Test series sweep of West Indies in the Caribbean in a contest of three or more matches, with five T20 internationals across Jamaica and St Kitts. It begins a big block of matches for Australia’s T20 side, who last played against Pakistan last November, as the squad builds towards next year’s T20 World Cup in India and Sri Lanka, beginning in February. A three-match T20 series against South Africa in the Top End follows the Caribbean tour, before three games in New Zealand in October and five at home…
Tim David has more experience playing in the Caribbean than any of Australia’s T20 squad and believes Hobart Hurricanes teammate Mitch Owen’s style is well suited to playing in the West Indies. Owen is one of two potential T20 debutants alongside Matt Kuhnemann in Australia’s 16-man squad to face West Indies in five T20 internationals beginning Sunday night in Jamaica (10am Monday AEST). An Australian T20 cap would be the pinnacle of a remarkable six months following the Hurricanes opener’s breakout KFC BBL|14 campaign, which led to deals in South Africa’s SA20, the Pakistan Super League, Indian Premier League and…
INDIA WOMEN’S TOUR OF ENGLAND, 2025 Harmanpreet Kaur’s team have won four of the six games on this tour so far © Getty It has been less than a week since Lord’s witnessed a thriller of a Test that went down to the final session of the final day. International cricket returns to the iconic ground five days later as India and England will square off once again, but this time for the second women’s ODI of the three-match series. India had a lot of positives to take from the first ODI in Southampton. Despite the inexperience in their bowling…
BANGLADESH TOUR OF SRI LANKA, 2025 Naim scored an unbeaten 32 from 29 and was dropped for the next game [File photo] © AFP Bangladesh batter Mohammad Naim Sheikh has claimed that he was not mentally ready to bat at number four in the opening game of the recently concluded three-match T20I series against Sri Lanka . Naim, who returned to the national set-up after a gap of two years during the white-ball series against Sri Lanka on the back of solid domestic performance, failed to make the cut in any of the three ODIs. The left-handed opener was picked…
JOIN OUR WHATSAPP CHANNEL Pakistan Champions captain Mohammad Hafeez has expressed his excitement and determination ahead of the World Championship of Legends (WCL) 2025, which kicks off on Friday, July 18. Speaking at Birmingham Airport upon the team’s arrival, Hafeez said leading Pakistan Champions gives him a new kind of pride, adding that he hopes to deliver strong performances. “Always proud to represent Pakistan, and this time, a different feeling, but hopefully we will do the same things. We’ll do well,” Hafeez said. The squad was welcomed in Birmingham with head coach Arshad Khan, franchise owner Kamil Khan, and former…
ZIMBABWE T20I TRI-SERIES, 2025 Senuran Muthusamy has played only 8 games for South Africa out of the 193 international games since his debut in 2019 ©Cricket South Africa Graeme Smith came up with the idea, and it’s no less true today than it was then. The protea – the flower, not the cricketer – needs fire to disperse its seeds. Without the adversity caused by a blaze, it cannot regenerate. “Protea Fire” became South Africa’s method for making sense of the madness of the modern game. Happily, fire doesn’t often visit South Africa’s dressing rooms. But adversity does. Sometimes it…
JOIN OUR WHATSAPP CHANNEL Former Pakistan captain Shahid Afridi believes the Pakistan Champions are ready to go all the way in the upcoming World Championship of Legends (WCL) 2025 and clinch the title this year. The second edition of the tournament kicks off on Friday, July 18, at Edgbaston Stadium in Birmingham, with Pakistan Champions facing England Champions in the opening match. This season, Mohammad Hafeez takes over the captaincy from Younis Khan, who led Pakistan to the final in the previous edition. Speaking to a local news channel during a training session at Edgbaston, Afridi expressed faith in the…
Fresh but familiar needle has resurfaced between as England gear up for their crucial second ODI against India at Lord’s on Saturday. Indian opener Pratika Rawal has been fined 10 per cent of her match fee given one demerit point for making ‘avoidable physical contact’ during her side’s four-wicket victory on Tuesday. Rawal was pulled up regarding two incidents, the first of which she made contact with Lauren Filer while running to the non-striker’s end, and the second seeing her make contact with Sophie Ecclestone after being bowled out.”It [the incident with Filer] was not intentional, I was just running in…
ZIMBABWE T20I TRI-SERIES Devon Conway top-scored for New Zealand with an unbeaten 59 © Getty A clinical all-round performance helped New Zealand notch up their second straight win in the T20I tri-series, easing past Zimbabwe by eight wickets in Harare on Friday (July 18). Matt Henry’s 3 for 26, backed by a tight spell from the spinners, saw Zimbabwe restricted to 120/7 after New Zealand opted to bowl. Devon Conway then led the chase with a composed 59 not out off 40 and was involved in half-century stands with Rachin Ravindra and Daryl Mitchell as New Zealand got over the…
JOIN OUR WHATSAPP CHANNEL Australian cricketer Usman Khawaja has once again raised his voice in support of Palestine, highlighting the ongoing violence and its devastating impact on children. The Test cricket star shared a heart-wrenching video on social media showing injured Palestinian children, condemning the atrocities in Gaza. Known for his advocacy on humanitarian issues, Khawaja’s post stressed the continued suffering of innocent civilians, especially children. He urged people not to ignore the violence, sharing UNICEF’s description of the situation as “a graveyard for children.” “Hard to watch… Imagine living it,” Khawaja wrote, expressing his shock at the ongoing killings,…