It was on a downward slope leading into the guts of the SCG that Brendon McCullum was giving his most solemn yet forthright press briefing with the UK media. No more than 50 yards away, on a specially constructed stage, Australia had just lifted the MCC Waterford crystal trophy after claiming a 4-1 win. Under…
Paul Stirling will lead Ireland’s 15-member squad for the Men’s T20 World Cup 2026. All members of the squad that toured Bangladesh in November last year have been selected barring Jordan Neill. Neill, uncapped in T20Is, had replaced fellow opener Ross Adair, who had been withdrawn from that squad due to a knee injury. Adair…
Toss Royal Challengers Bengaluru chose to bowl vs Mumbai Indians The Ellyse Perry-less RCB handed as many as six debuts – three of those being their new overseas recruits: allrounder Grace Harris, fast bowler Lauren Bell and left-arm spinner Linsey Smith. The fourth overseas player, Nadine de Klerk, played one game in their title-winning campaign…
Mahboob Khan, who turned 19 on New Year’s day, will lead Afghanistan in the 50-over Under-19 World Cup due to begin on January 15 in Zimbabwe and Namibia. He already has significant leadership experience at youth ODI level, having captained his country at the 2024 and 2025 Asia Cup tournaments and has been placed in…
Age is just a number if you are Mitchell Starc, and a few others in the Australia side. It became a close-run contest alongside Travis Head, but Starc was a worthy winner of the Compton-Miller medal after his Ironman performances in the Ashes. The man who started England’s problems in the first over at Perth…
Brendon McCullum has accepted that he will need to make “tweaks” to his methods if he wants to continue in his role as head coach, as the ECB launched a “thorough review” of England’s 4-1 Ashes series defeat. McCullum is under contract for another two years but his role has come under significant scrutiny in…
“Winning the T20 World Cup would be great,” Mandhana said. “We won the [ODI] World Cup but there are a lot of things in the team we need to work on. We really want to sit back and say, ‘yeah we are the best team in the world and world’s No. 1 team’. I feel…
Hyderabad and Sialkot will enter the PSL as the seventh and eighth teams from this season onwards. After an auction which saw bids significantly exceed expectations, FKS, an aviation and healthcare conglomerate based in the US who also run the Chicago Kingsmen, and OZ Developers, a real estate consortium, won out at the auction. Both…
The appointment is “with a primary focus on the team’s preparation for the ICC Men’s T20I World Cup 2026,” Sri Lanka Cricket said in a statement on Thursday. Rathour will join the squad on January 18, four days before the start of Sri Lanka’s white-ball series at home against England, and remain with the team…
Ben Stokes has conceded that England have become predictable and pledged to oversee a “recalibration” as he blamed their heavy series defeat in Australia on “damage” that they had inflicted on themselves and warned underperforming players that he has a “ruthless side”. England were beaten by five wickets at the SCG to lose the series…