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Tim David has done a finishing job for RCB but played second fiddle to Virat Kohli in an emotional IPL opener Australian finisher Tim David has enjoyed the best view in the house as the imperious Virat Kohli inspired champions Royal Challengers Bengaluru to an emotion-filled victory in IPL 2026’s opening fixture. After a full-house at Bengaluru’s Chinnaswamy Stadium paid silent tribute to the 11 fans who died amid a stampede at the celebrations for their 2025 triumph outside the ground last June, RCB’s hero Kohli then honoured their memory on Saturday with another of his masterly match-winning knocks. Chasing…
England Test captain Ben Stokes is poised to miss the first month of the County Championship season with Durham as he continues to recover from facial surgery.The 34-year-old suffered a broken cheekbone as well as gruesome cuts and bruising after being struck by a ball in the nets at Chester-le-Street in February. Stokes deemed his operation a success but his hopes of playing in Durham’s Division Two opener at home to Kent from Good Friday have been dashed. Image: Stokes suffered significant injuries after being hit by a cricket ball in training earlier this year Durham coach Ryan Campbell said…
Victoria v South Australia | Sheffield Shield Final | Day Three Victoria’s super-sub Mitch Perry stole the show with an iconic Sheffield Shield final moment as Fergus O’Neill’s all-round heroics put Victoria on the brink of glory on a bizarre and eventful third day at the Junction Oval. Sam Elliott, who won a tight selection battle over Perry leading into the five-day decider, suffered a hamstring injury and was able to be replaced by Perry only minutes before South Australia commenced their second innings under a Cricket Australia injury-substitute rule trial. It triggered a chaotic sequence of events with the…
This three-match series is a crucial part of the qualification process for the ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup 2029. South Africa currently sit in third place on the IWC table, having secured two wins and suffered one loss against Pakistan last month. “The points are super important. Obviously, those points are for the Championship. We want to get into a position early where we can qualify and not have to scramble at the end of the cycle, so every game is super important,” Wolvaardt added. “It just gives that little bit of something extra to play for, makes it a…
Just minutes after Australia sealed victory over West Indies on Friday night in St Kitts, Tahlia Wilson’s phone was blowing up. While most of her friends and family had been peacefully sleeping in the early hours of Saturday morning, Sydney time, the wicketkeeper-batter had become the 152nd woman to play ODI cricket for Australia. It was a last-minute call made when Beth Mooney failed to pass a fitness test one hour before the start of play, as Australia took the cautious route with a tight quad and instead looked to their back-up ‘keeper.Wilson had been given a heads up that…
Sophie Molineux’s tenure as Australia ODI captain has started on a winning note, leading her team to an emphatic 103-run win in the opening match against West Indies in St Kitts. Opener Phoebe Litchfield’s 72-ball 77 led the way as Australia posted 341 all out from 49.5 overs at Warner Park, a record score in women’s one-dayers in the region, supported by a cluster of 40-plus scores including career-best contributions from Nicola Carey (49 from 39) and Molineux (47 from 66). Former West Indies skipper Stafanie Taylor anchored her team’s innings with an unbeaten 105 from 129 deliveries, but the…
Ben Duckett wasn’t proud of his off-field behaviour during the Ashes but is determined to make amends England batter Ben Duckett has admitted his behaviour during the team’s humbling 4-1 Ashes defeat in Australia was inappropriate. The 31-year-old was caught on camera under the influence of alcohol following the second Test in December, when England were 2-0 down in the series. “I’ve held my hands up since then,” Duckett told reporters on Friday. “It’s not something any professional sportsman should be doing. We were having a break that was planned before the series and if we were winning it probably…
Pat Cummins and Josh Hazlewood won’t play in the IPL opener but hopes are high for the pace duo Encouraging fitness updates on Australian pace bowling champions Pat Cummins and Josh Hazlewood have been delivered by their teams on the eve of the Indian Premier League launch in Bengaluru. Neither Cummins, captain of Sunrisers Hyderabad, nor Hazlewood, the key strike bowler for champions Royal Challengers Bengaluru, will play in the 2026 edition’s opener on Saturday as their recovery from injury is being carefully managed. But both will attend the opener at the M.Chinnaswamy Stadium and look set to play a…
Australia batting first in Sophie Molineux’s ODI captaincy debut, after the tourists made five changes to begin their new 50-over era Beth Mooney has been ruled out of the opening one-dayer against West Indies in St Kitts, with NSW wicketkeeper-batter Tahlia Wilson making her international debut. Australia are batting first at Warner Park after Sophie Molineux won her first toss as Australian one-day captain, with the tourists making a raft of changes from their most recent ODI XI. Mooney failed to pass a fitness test on the ground in the lead-up to the coin toss and was subsequently ruled out…
Eleven wickets fall on extended day two as Victoria reach stumps four down and still 88 behind South Australia Victoria v South Australia | Sheffield Shield Final | Day Two Victoria’s trusty pace brigade has them in prime position to seize the Sheffield Shield, though the losses of their three main run-scoring weapons has left the door ajar for South Australia in the five-day final at the Junction Oval. The home side just need a draw now to clinch the silverware after SA failed to secure any batting bonus points. Only captain Nathan McSweeney (52 off 127) passed fifty for…