Toss New Zealand chose to bowl vs India Mitchell Santner won the toss in the T20 World Cup final and elected to chase in Ahmedabad. Chasing in the night has been the way to go in matches between evenly-matched sides, but India have come to the final having launched a successful defence of a total…
For West Indies, there were reports on Thursday of a charter flight being arranged, but that plan didn’t come through either. A CWI statement the same day said the confirmation had come after “a high-level call” on Thursday involving CWI, ICC officials, a representative of the team management, and a representative of the players. Source…
Big picture: Is GOAT really the GOAT? Call it beauty, call it cruelty, but this is the reality. This Indian T20I unit is a GOAT team. They last lost a series or tournament in August 2023. Since the start of the previous T20 World Cup, they have won seven matches for every one they have…
Bosch has played just one game for South Africa – an ODI a year ago – and was in line to make his T20I debut. Mulder, meanwhile, has featured in 11 T20Is and last played one against Ireland in September 2024. His last outing for South Africa was in a Test match in India last…
The England, South Africa and West Indies teams are set to leave India over the weekend on a charter plane arranged by the ICC due to the disruption in air travel caused by the ongoing military conflict in West Asia. ESPNcricinfo has learned that England, after losing their second-final to India on Thursday, will depart…
Four days later, in India’s final group fixture, they beat Netherlands by 17 runs after posting 193 on opting to bat. On February 22, in the Super Eight match between India and South Africa played on a black-soil pitch, India suffered a 76-run defeat as South Africa successfully defended 187. Source link
A group of 30 England women’s players will head to South Africa to begin making their cases for selection ahead of a home T20 World Cup later this year, after plans to travel to Abu Dhabi had to be hastily rearranged because of the ongoing conflict in the region. The players will be split into…
Bangladesh have recalled Litton Das to their ODI squad among several changes for the upcoming three-match series against Pakistan starting next week in Mirpur. Nurul Hasan, Jaker Ali and Shamim Hossain, though, missed the cut. “We have provided opportunities to several players in the middle order, but unfortunately some have not done enough to secure…
Harry Brook leant half-forward, hands on knees, ferociously chewing gum and wearing the look of a man who could hardly believe what he had just done. Sanju Samson had scored 15 runs off his first six balls on a raucous night at the Wankhede, but lofted his seventh straight to mid-on. It was the sort…
Sanju Samson will play his maiden World Cup final on Sunday. That India are the first team as defending champions to make the final is because of Samson, who has now picked up the Player-of-the-Match award in successive games for his undefeated 97 against West Indies last Sunday and then, on Thursday evening, thrashing England’s…