Ishan Kishan will lead Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) in the early part of IPL 2026. ESPNcricinfo has learned that the franchise has decided to appoint Kishan as interim captain with Pat Cummins recuperating from the lumbar stress issue that ruled him out of Australia’s T20 World Cup campaign. It is understood that Cummins will join SRH…
Jos Buttler is hopeful that England’s T20 World Cup semi-final defeat to India was not the final appearance of his international career but has acknowledged that there are no guarantees he will be picked for their next white-ball series in July. “I hope so,” Buttler said on his podcast, For the Love of Cricket. “I…
Bangladesh’s sports minister Aminul Haque will consult the ICC before taking a final decision on the future of the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB). He also plans to appoint a second committee to investigate why Bangladesh could not participate at this year’s men’s T20 World Cup in India and Sri Lanka. On March 11, the sports…
From being bowled out for 91 in Mount Maunganui to putting up 175 for 6 on a Hamilton pitch that wasn’t easy to bat on, and then giving South Africa a taste of their own medicine by clocking a 68-run win, New Zealand have bounced back exactly the way everyone expects them to, and Lockie…
Alex Carey admits he does has some mental and physical fatigue after a massive summer where he was one of the stars of Australia’s Ashes triumph but he is highly motivated to help South Australia to back-to-back Sheffield Shield titles in the final against Victoria next week. While many of his Ashes teammates have opted…
However, they finished fifth in the Sheffield Shield after a final-round draw against Western Australia who ended nine wickets down on Tuesday. It is success in that competition, which NSW have not won since the Covid-interrupted 2019-2020 season, which the state is most desperate for. There have also been concerns that the state is not…
Players never enjoy being dropped and it would be easy to dismiss Liam Livingstone’s comments about his experience with England’s management over the past 12 months along those lines. Put simply, Livingstone would still be playing international cricket if he had scored more runs, and he had plenty of chances to nail his place down…
Ollie Pope says the perception that England “weren’t fussed” during the winter’s Ashes was hard to take, but admits they gave fans little reason to believe otherwise given the manner of their 4-1 defeat. Pope was speaking at Surrey’s county media day after the ECB lifted a gagging order they had put in place to…
Gareth Batty, Surrey’s head coach, believes that the pathway from domestic cricket to the England Test team has become “misted over”, and defended the County Championship as “the best breeding ground in the world” ahead of the start of the 2026 season. Batty coached Surrey to three consecutive Championship titles before their second-placed finish last…
Marnus Labuschagne has been appointed captain of the Hyderabad Kingsmen franchise in the Pakistan Super League. Labuschagne was a direct signing for Kingsmen, and becomes the third Australian to be appointed captain of a PSL side this year, after David Warner for the Karachi Kings and Ashton Turner for Multan Sultans. Labuschagne has never captained…