“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…
Big picture: A great rivalry in the making In its fourth season, the WPL now feels part of the system, shaping careers and standards in increasingly visible ways. Most notably, it played a part in India winning their first ODI World Cup last year. How ’bout that. Almost silly that there was a time when…
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…
Stand-in captain Steven Smith says Australia’s ageing group is keen to win an away Ashes in 2027 but was unsure whether he would get there given he will be 38 by the time the series starts. Australia wrapped up the Ashes 4-1 with a five-wicket victory in Sydney but they did so with one of…
Aside from the fielding, everything looked more or less in order, thought Mike Hesson. Pakistan are in Sri Lanka to get a taste of the conditions they will play their entire T20 World Cup in. Dambulla is not one of the World Cup venues. But it does not offer conditions that vary hugely with the…
Ellyse Perry will return to Birmingham Phoenix for a fifth season in this year’s Women’s Hundred after the franchise announced her retention on Wednesday. Star Australia allrounder Perry has featured for Phoenix since 2022, accumulating 545 runs and striking at 127.03, as well as contributing with the ball when called upon. “I’m delighted to be…
Jacob Bethell will do all he can to carry England to a lead of 175 on the final day at the SCG, which he believes could be enough to give Australia a nervous chase, but whatever the visitors have to defend they’ll have to do it without Ben Stokes. Bethell’s magnificent maiden first-class century meant…
Jacob Bethell bristled at the idea that he had given away his England spot by playing in last season’s IPL, after scoring his maiden Test (and first-class) hundred to take the fifth Ashes Test into a final day at the SCG. Bethell was a surprise selection for England’s Test tour to New Zealand in late…