Bangladesh are banking on their tried-and-tested players of the last two years in their squad for the upcoming Under-19 World Cup. Azizul Hakim will lead the side that has played the most Youth ODIs since the last World Cup held in 2024. He has Zawad Abrar as his deputy, with the two the only batters…
South Africa will be led by regular T20 skipper Aiden Markram and will have only seven members of the squad that reached the final of the 2024 T20 World Cup. Quinton de Kock is back at the top of the order after making himself available for South Africa in October, while David Miller, Keshav Maharaj,…
Sudharsan sustained the injury while diving for a run during his half-century. He missed the next two games, against Karnataka and Jharkhand. It is understood that he reported at the Centre of Excellence (CoE) in Bengaluru on December 29, and a scan revealed “a slender, undisplaced fracture of the anterior cortex of the right seventh…
Ben Stokes says he cannot envisage a future as England men’s Test captain without Brendon McCullum at the helm, strengthening the head coach’s position after a botched Ashes campaign. Victory in Melbourne – a first Test victory in Australia since January 2011 – has given the England team and management some grace after spurning the…
The Bangladesh Cricket Board has announced a packed home international calendar for the 2026 season, during which Bangladesh will host four Tests, 12 ODIs and nine T20Is. The home season will begin in March, following the men’s T20 World Cup, with Pakistan visiting for a three-match ODI series. Pakistan will visit again in May for…
In a high-scoring match at a high-scoring ground at a high altitude, nobody wanted the ball more than Richard Gleeson, who stepped up to deliver the first Super Over in SA20 history for Joburg Super Kings (JSK) against Durban’s Super Giants (DSG) on Thursday. With scores tied at 205 after 40 overs, the new year’s…
Todd Murphy is firming to play his first home Test, after the SCG’s head curator declared the pitch’s green covering would be near-irrelevant come day one. With administrators still on edge after last week’s two-day debacle in Melbourne, an extremely green SCG surface raised eyebrows in Sydney on Thursday. But chief curator Adam Lewis insisted…
Usman Khawaja has said that the criticism he received at the start of the Ashes series for the back injury he suffered had racial undertones and that he had been frustrated and hurt by being treated differently to other Australian players across his entire career. Khawaja held a 50-minute press conference at the SCG on…
Usman Khawaja has announced that he will retire from Test cricket after the final match of the Ashes series in Sydney. Khawaja, 39, will enter his last Test with 87 caps and 6206 runs including 16 centuries. The SCG, where Khawaja’s Test career will draw to a close, is also where it began and where…
Connolly, the left-handed batter and left-arm spinner, did not feature in the series against South Africa, New Zealand or India last year and has only featured in six T20Is – batting just twice in those games and claiming one wicket – but has started the BBL for Perth Scorchers impressively with 170 runs at a…