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Ellyse Perry is aiming to prove her fitness to play India, while Alyssa Healy could return to the top of the order Australia remain hopeful Ellyse Perry will be fit to play as a specialist batter in the day-night Test against India, after she returned to training at the WACA Ground on Wednesday. Perry missed the ODI leg of the multi-format series with a quad strain and has already been ruled out of bowling if she does feature in the four-day game.The 35-year-old put in a solid stint batting in the nets alongside a running session on Wednesday evening, as…

Jake Lehmann signed a two-year deal with Hampshire in a quest to win more trophies before his career finishes Lehmann’s Shield final century claim over ‘old man’ Darren Jake Lehmann says the decision to sign a full-time contract with English side Hampshire was driven by a desire for more team success and the chance to spread his cricket knowledge to the next generation. County Championship side Hampshire announced they’d signed Lehmann as a local player in December, tying the veteran batter to the club for the 2026 and 2027 seasons. Lehmann qualifies as a local player due to his British…

Finn Allen has unleashed one of the great T20 knocks to power New Zealand into the T20 World Cup final Finn Allen has uncorked one of the great knocks in the history of white-ball cricket to power New Zealand into the T20 World Cup final and in sight of their long-awaited first men’s global white-ball crown. After restricting unbeaten South Africa to a manageable 8-169 in their semi-final, New Zealand motored to a nine-wicket wicket victory off the back of a remarkable unbeaten century off just 33 balls from Allen — the quickest ton in the tournament’s history — at…

Finishing batting innings has not been a problem for England at this T20 World Cup and that is largely down to Will Jacks.The No 7 has been his side’s MVP with four player-of-the-match awards and 191 runs in seven innings at a strike-rate of 176.85. Without Jacks’ 39 not out off 20 balls against Nepal and unbeaten 53 from 22 versus another Associate nation in Italy, England could conceivably have lost those games and been eliminated with a whimper. Head coach Brendon McCullum, already under the pump after the Ashes debacle earlier in the winter, would surely not have survived…

New Zealand skipper Mitchell Santner hailed Finn Allen’s “special”, match-winning century in their T20 World Cup semi-final against South Africa, while the Proteas captain cursed another “bad night” in a knockout match at a major tournament.Allen tonked exactly 100 not out off 33 balls, with both New Zealand’s victory target of 170 and his own ton ticked off in the 13th over as he plundered 24 from the first five balls of Marco Jansen’s set. Jansen had earlier cracked an unbeaten 55 off 30 balls to rescue South Africa somewhat from 77-5 just after the halfway point of their innings…

Finn Allen smashed the fastest T20 World Cup hundred, from just 33 balls, as New Zealand cruised into the final after ending South Africa’s unbeaten run in the tournament with an astonishing nine-wicket thrashing in Kolkata.South Africa had won their first seven matches at this year’s competition, including a seven-wicket rout of New Zealand in their first-round meeting on Valentine’s Day as they extended their head-to-head against the Kiwis to 5-0 in T20 World Cups at that point. But Aiden Markram’s side missed out on successive finals – they finished runners-up to India in the Caribbean in 2024 – after…

Durham Cricket can confirm that the men’s pre-season tour of Abu Dhabi has been cancelled due to the ongoing situation in the Middle East. The Club has remained in constant dialogue with relevant authorities and tour operators, and all parties have agreed that the appropriate course of action is not to travel to the United Arab Emirates at this time. The men’s squad had been scheduled to depart from Newcastle on Monday 9 March. The Durham women’s squad is currently due to travel to the UAE on Monday 23 March. The Club will provide further updates in due course regarding…

Star allrounder has no plans to retire but stopped short of declaring his intent to play 2028 tournaments Art of the run chase: Maxwell’s tactics for reaching the target Glenn Maxwell’s international playing future remains clouded as the star allrounder kept the door ajar on playing for Australia again despite expressing only lukewarm hope he can make the 2028 Olympics or World Cup. Maxwell insisted there was an element of bad luck to Australia’s rotten T20 World Cup campaign which marked their third straight failure to make the tournament’s semi-finals.The 37-year-old was the oldest member of the squad that dropped…

England captain Nat Sciver-Brunt hopes her side can “capture the nation” during the 2026 Women’s T20 World Cup on home soil this summer.Exactly 100 days from the start of the tournament on June 12, Sciver-Brunt spoke of her hope that England can follow in the footsteps of the Lionesses and Red Roses successes of the past few years. The England women’s football team won the Women’s Euros in both 2022 and 2025 – serving as tournament hosts for their first triumph – while the Red Roses won the Women’s Rugby World Cup last year, also on home soil. Please use…

A pink-ball bowl off looms at the WACA Ground with Australia’s fast bowlers to push their cases for selection at a training session under lights Australia will unleash a pink-ball pace barrage on India at the WACA Ground this week, but the exact make-up of that new-ball attack remains to be seen with a trio of quicks pushing for selection. The Australian squad will have their first training session in Perth on Wednesday evening under lights, where Darcie Brown, Lucy Hamilton and Maitlan Brown will be out to impress selectors.Express right-arm fast bowler Darcie Brown ran riot against South Africa…