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Australia have steamrolled Bangladesh by nine wickets in Leeds to continue their winning start to the T20 World Cup, but they will have one eye on their injury ward following blows to two of their biggest stars. A superb bowling display led by Kim Garth (2-18), Sophie Molineux (2-14) and Ellyse Perry (2-14) restricted Bangladesh to 8-77 at Headingley, before Georgia Voll (45no from 32 balls) made short work of the chase, reeling in the target in 9.3 overs. Australia now have two wins from two games heading into a busy phase of the group stage, which will see them…

Cooper Connolly, Adam Zampa and Joel Davies helped Australia take a 1-0 against Bangladesh Adam Zampa and debutant Joel Davies have spun Australia to a four-wicket win over Bangladesh in the first T20I of their three-match series. After winning the toss and electing to bat, Bangladesh were bundled out for an under-par 131 in 19 overs, which the Aussies moved past with 10 deliveries to spare at Chattogram on Wednesday to take a 1-0 series lead. Cooper Connolly, the hero of Australia’s ODI victory in Dhaka on Sunday, continued his form surge, top scoring with 47 in tricky chase that…

Phoebe Litchfield is set to miss Australia’s next three games after injuring her quad while batting against South Africa Australia have been dealt a double injury blow ahead of their T20 World Cup match against Bangladesh, with Phoebe Litchfield and Ashleigh Gardner both ruled out of the match in Leeds. Australia are bowling first at Headingley after captain Sophie Molineux won the toss, with the Aussies making two changes for their second match of the tournament. Litchfield, who starred for Australia with a 24-ball 50 in the opener against South Africa, is expected to miss their next three matches after…

Nikhil Chaudhary and Joel Davies will make their international debuts in Australia’s T20 series opener against Bangladesh, with captain Mitch Marsh also making his return to the national side. Marsh lost the toss and Bangladesh opted to bat first in Chattogram on Wednesday, the first of three T20 matches in the southeastern port city, with the tourists seeking to rebound from their 1-2 ODI series loss to Bangladesh last week. Bangladesh XI: Soumya Sarkar, Tanzid Hasan Tamim, Saif Hassan, Parvez Hossain Emon (wk), Tawhid Hridoy (c), Shamim Hossain, Mahedi Hasan, Rishad Hossain, Mustafizur Rahman, Abdul Gaffar Saqlain, Shoriful Islam  …

Cooper Connolly could hardly have picked a worse day to announce his bona fides as an international cricketer. Ordinarily, a 22-year-old long tipped for stardom scoring a match-winning hundred in oppressive conditions would be headline news in Australia, even accounting for the third ODI against Bangladesh being a dead rubber. Only former captain Ricky Ponting and 1980s batter Steve B Smith (a namesake of the current player) have scored men’s ODI tons for Australia at a younger age. Connolly’s 149 in Dhaka was in fact the highest ODI score by an Aussie in Asia since Glenn Maxwell’s remarkable 201no against…

Juairiya Ferdous made a major statement on T20 World Cup debut, now she’s got the world’s top team in her sights Bangladesh young gun Juairiya Ferdous has vowed to continue her aggressive approach against Australia, as the Tigresses look to make history against their highly favoured opponents. Ferdous, who only made her international debut five months ago, stole the show in Bangladesh’s tournament opener against the Netherlands on Sunday.If the occasion at Edgbaston was playing on the 20-year-old opening batter’s nerves, it did not show as she dominated the Powerplay, riding her luck on her way to a 32-ball fifty…

Australia’s returning T20 captain Mitch Marsh hopes he can help turn around a difficult white-ball tour of the subcontinent by rekindling his opening partnership with Josh Inglis that lit up the back-end of the recent Indian Premier League. Having watched his side lose consecutive ODI series to Pakistan and Bangladesh as he recovered from an ankle injury, the fit-again Marsh confirmed his preference for Inglis to partner him at the top of the order for the three T20Is in Chattogram in the ongoing absence of opener Travis Head.The Lucknow Super Giants’ torrid recent IPL campaign received an almighty second wind…

Australia hopeful their two-time Belinda Clark Medalist is on the brink of translating her dominant ODI and Test form to the shortest format Annabel Sutherland is embracing her role as a T20 finisher as she returns to familiar territory in Leeds for Australia’s T20 World Cup showdown with Bangladesh. Sutherland, who has spent the last two seasons playing for the Headingley-based Northern Superchargers in The Hundred, has found herself playing a different role in the shortest format.While she is entrenched in Australia’s top five across Test and ODI cricket, averaging 89 and 40 in those formats respectively, the 24-year-old has…

England have backed up their easy opening victory over Sri Lanka at the Women’s T20 World Cup with a four-wicket win against Ireland Natalie Sciver-Brunt has stoked fears of an injury setback when she retired out after helping England beat Ireland by four wickets to make it two wins from two at the Women’s T20 World Cup. Sciver-Brunt only returned from a torn left calf last week, but after leading England’s recovery with 48 runs to leave them needing nine for victory on Tuesday (Wednesday AEST), she trudged off the field in Southampton. England reached a meagre 119 target with…

New Zealand’s semi-final hopes are hanging by a thread after a second straight loss in Southampton Sri Lanka have beaten New Zealand for the first time in a women’s T20 World Cup after a match-winning partnership between Nilakshi de Silva and Kaushini Nuthyangana sealed a thriller in Southampton.  De Silva (54no from 37) and Kaushini Nuthyangana (24no from 14) combined for an unbeaten six-wicket stand of 48 runs off 28 balls to reach their target of 151 with two balls remaining at the Rose Bowl. New Zealand have now lost their first two group matches. Only one team in tournament…