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…
Suryakumar Yadav’s T20I side “wanted to win the [2026 T20] World Cup in India, and we wanted to win it in the same stadium in Ahmedabad, which was more important for us” after having ended up on the wrong side of the result in the ODI World Cup final against Australia in the same city…
South Africa opt to bowl vs New Zealand On a wicket Jess Kerr described as a “belter” after New Zealand women lost to South Africa by 18 runs, South Africa’s men’s team opted to chase in Hamilton. South Africa have a 1-nil lead in the five-match series. They made one change to the team that…
The series in New Zealand consists of five T20Is and three ODIs, which form part of the Women’s Championship. The T20Is are being played as double-headers with the men’s matches, where South Africa have another injury concern. Batter Jordan Hermann is out with a hamstring injury but no replacement has been named. Source link
Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) fast bowler Harshit Rana is set to miss a major part of IPL 2026 as he recovers from the knee surgery he underwent in February. ESPNcricinfo has learned that Rana, who suffered a knee strain during India’s T20 World Cup warm-up match against South Africa, is doing his rehab with no…