Speaking after the last-over defeat against England, Santner said New Zealand would feel the pressure while looking on from afar. “Pretty nervous”, Santner said. “There’ll be some nerves watching tomorrow, just to see what happens. But it’s out of our control, we can’t really do much. We are just going to wait and see, and…
Buttler has scored 62 runs in seven innings at this tournament, registering five single-figure scores in a row after innings of 26 and 21 in England’s first two games. He was caught behind off Lockie Ferguson in England’s win in Colombo on Friday night, trying to steer a ball through the off side that bounced…
The Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA) has decided to name the Level 1 stand below the press box at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai after Ravi Shastri. It was one of the decisions taken in the Apex Council meeting on Friday. “Mumbai cricket is built on the foundation laid by our stalwarts,” MCA president Ajinkya Naik…
Laura Wolvaardt will lead the side of 15 that will fly to New Zealand for almost a three-week long tour of five T20Is and three ODIs, which will count towards the ICC Women’s Championship. Twenty-year-old Reyneke is an offspin-bowling allrounder and made her T20I debut earlier this month against Pakistan and shone with figures of…
IPL 2026 will start on March 28, two days after what the BCCI had originally planned. The IPL had informed the franchises on December 15 2025, a day before the last auction, that the 2026 edition would start on March 26, but ESPNcricinfo has learned that the IPL has internally decided to change the start…
Sophie Molineux is in doubt to be fit for Australia’s upcoming tour of the West Indies, where she was set to take charge of the captaincy across formats for the first time. In news that rocked Australia ahead of the second ODI against India in Hobart, Molineux was ruled out of the remainder of the…
There’s the way they like to bat these days. “If a wicket falls, I will hit a six next ball. And then I will see for a four,” Tilak Varma said. And there’s how they spent Thursday afternoon, watching Shai Hope’s men lose to South Africa, which makes life a little less complicated for India…
While South Africa are unbeaten after six games at the 2026 T20 World Cup, it hasn’t all gone their way and one person remembers the one near-miss more vividly than anyone else. “I’m glad we won that game against Afghanistan. Otherwise, I would have blamed myself for sure,” Kagiso Rabada said after the win against…
England have marched into the semi-final with a game to spare, but bowling coach Tim Southee is quietly intrigued by the prospect of a “perfect game,” something the side is yet to achieve at this year’s tournament. Despite a dominant run in the subcontinent, including a T20 series win over Sri Lanka and a near-flawless…
Zimbabwe opt to bowl vs India Zimbabwe won the toss and asked India to bat first in what was practically a must-win match for both sides. Thanks to South Africa’s win over West Indies minutes before the toss, India now need to just win. Zimbabwe, though, need to win big. Sikandar Raza, the Zimbabwe captain,…