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MANCHESTER: England captain Ben Stokes says he is ready to put his injury-ravaged body on the line again if it helps his side seal a Test series win over India.All-rounder Stokes took five wickets, scored 77 runs and ran out Rishabh Pant across two innings of relentless effort during a 22-run win over India in the third Test at Lord’s. The victory gave England a 2-1 lead in a five-match series, with fast-medium paceman Stokes bowling 44 overs in total, including gruelling spells on the decisive final day. “I’m not going to lie, I cannot wait to just lie on…
Matthew Kuhnemann makes his T20I debut while Josh Inglis has been listed at the top of the order as Australia make two changes Australia have named another debutant with Matthew Kuhnemann included to face West Indies in today’s second T20 international in Jamaica. Tim David returns at No.5 after fully recovering from a hamstring injury, replacing Jake Fraser-McGurk who struggled for his two off seven balls in Sunday’s series-opening three-wicket win having earned a late call-up for the five-match series in the West Indies. Josh Inglis is listed to open alongside his skipper Mitch Marsh with Fraser-McGurk omitted. West Indies…
Victoria’s Peter Handscomb is one run away from marking his 200th first-class match with a century for his promotion-chasing English county Leicestershire Former Australian Test batter Peter Handscomb was left on 99 not out as play closed on the first day of the local derby promotion battle between English midlands counties Leicestershire and Derbyshire. The Victorian is Leicestershire captain and he has led the unfashionable county to the summit of the County Championship’s second division – with neighbours Derbyshire second. Hosts Derbyshire made a superb start, dismissing their visitors to 2-0 with Kiwi quick Blair Tickner picking up one of the…
Charlotte Edwards is adamant she is “seeing improvement” from her England side and “doesn’t care what anyone thinks” as she builds towards the World Cup starting in late September.India captain Harmanpreet Kaur smashed a century as India claimed a 13-run victory over England to win the one-day international series at Chester-Le-Street. Nat Sciver-Brunt and Emma Lamb led the recovery effort for the hosts with a mammoth 162-run partnership and the England skipper continued to shine before falling just short of a ton on 98.The hosts lost four wickets in the final five overs and Kranti Goud proved to be the…
Charlotte Edwards is adamant she is “seeing improvement” from her England side and “doesn’t care what anyone thinks” as she builds towards the World Cup starting in late September.India captain Harmanpreet Kaur smashed a century as India claimed a 13-run victory over England to win the one-day international series at Chester-Le-Street. Nat Sciver-Brunt and Emma Lamb led the recovery effort for the hosts with a mammoth 162-run partnership and the England skipper continued to shine before falling just short of a ton on 98.The hosts lost four wickets in the final five overs and Kranti Goud proved to be the…
Tensions continue to flare ahead of fourth Test as India captain Shubman Gill doubles down on criticism of England captain while counterpart Ben Stokes bemoans over-rate penalties India captain Shubman Gill has accused England of acting against the “spirit of the game” as tensions between the teams rumble on following last week’s heated third Test at Lord’s. The teams will meet again at Old Trafford on Wednesday for the fourth Test with India, 2-1 down in the five-match series, forced to make changes. The flashpoint that led to ill-feeling at Lord’s occurred on the third evening, when England’s openers had…
INDIA WOMEN TOUR OF ENGLAND, 2025 Harmanpreet Kaur registered the second fastest hundred by an Indian in Women’s ODIs © Getty A blistering 84-ball 102 from Harmanpreet Kaur set the platform for India’s series-clinching 13-run win in the third ODI against England in Chester-le-Street. This was Harmanpreet’s first century since June 2024 and the second-fastest by an Indian Woman in ODIs as the visitors posted 318/5 – their eighth 300-plus total since January 2024. Harmanpreet was involved in an 81-run stand with Harleen Deol and 110 with Jemimah Rodrigues, after the openers added 64, with India riding on a collective…
England briefly threatened a record run-chase in women’s ODI cricket before falling to a 13-run defeat in their series decider against India in Durham.Chasing 319, skipper Nat Sciver-Brunt (98) led from the front, sharing in a 162-run partnership for the third wicket with Emma Lamb (68) after England got off to a disastrous start when stumbling to 8-2 in the opening three overs. The key dismissal came to end the 35th over, DRS showing Sciver-Brunt gloved an attempted sweep behind off Deepti Sharma (1-55), with England still needing a further 124 from the final 90 balls. Please use Chrome browser…
ZIMBABWE T20I TRI-SERIES, 2025 Tim Seifert’s unbeaten 66 helped New Zealand to a comfortable win over South Africa © AFP In a precursor to the tri-series final, New Zealand beat South Africa for the second time in a week, by seven wickets and 25 balls to spare. Once again, the core of the New Zealand bowlers were amongst the wickets with the trio of Jacob Duffy, Adam Milne and Mitchell Santner picking a brace. Chasing 135, Tim Seifert’s 66* heralded New Zealand to their third straight win of the tri-series. South Africa were sent in to bat, and Rassie van…
INDIA TOUR OF ENGLAND, 2025 Gill’s form with the bat has allowed him take a more assertive approach as captain ©Getty At Lord’s, Shubman Gill told Zak Crawley to “grow some ba**s.” The words were sharp, but more telling was the fact that they came from him. Until that moment, no one quite knew what kind of Test captain Gill would be, or if he even wanted to leave any early stamp on the role just yet. His first two matches had been steady, if a little unremarkable. At times, he seemed content to play the part without entirely owning…