England registered a commanding eight-wicket win in their Super Eight match against West Indies at T20 World Cup 2024 in Gros Islet. Set a challenging 181 to win, England got home with Phil Salt finishing unbeaten on 87, with Bairstow in tow with a 26-ball 48 not out. The two added 97 off 44 balls
Month: June 2024
Marnus Labuschagne will have the chance to establish his credentials as a potential future Australia captain after he was named Queensland’s new leader for the 2024-25 season. Labuschagne will replace Usman Khawaja who will remain captain of Brisbane Heat in the BBL. They will join forces with new Queensland and Heat coach Johan Botha. Labuschagne
Kane Williamson has confirmed that the SA20 will be his destination in January, after he declined a New Zealand central contract for the 2024-25 season, but added it was no indication that his international career was nearing an end. Williamson stressed that it was NZC’s rules around player availability to be eligible for a contract
Match details Australia vs BangladeshAntigua, 8.30pm local time Big Picture Australia’s quest to unite ICC trophies across all three formats will now face an Asian challenge. First up it will be Bangladesh, a side they have never lost to in a global event which includes five meetings in the T20 World Cup. Australia’s progression to
Brandon King is a major doubt for the rest of the T20 World Cup after suffering a side strain in West Indies’ match against England in St Lucia on Wednesday night. King raced to 23 off 12 balls to get West Indies off to a flying start, including a towering 101-metre six off Reece Topley
Mitchell Marsh has declared himself ready to bowl in the Super Eight stage of the T20 World Cup 2024 to hand Australia another option ahead of their game against Bangladesh in Antigua, while Glenn Maxwell believes the captain is close to making a big impact with the bat. Marsh has not bowled since leaving the
Speaking to News Corp and cricket.com.au in Antigua ahead of Australia’s Super Eight stage of the T20 World Cup, Warner said “coming back since 2018 I’ve probably…been the only one that’s ever copped a lot of flak” although accepted it was inevitable he would always be remembered for what happened. Warner will finish his international
West Indies captain Hayley Matthews will miss the third and final ODI against Sri Lanka due to an illness, Cricket West Indies (CWI) has announced. Matthews missed the second ODI in Hambantota too, as West Indies were rolled over for 92 in 31 overs with Sri Lanka chasing down the target in 21.2 overs and
As this India leadership group starts its last two weeks at the helm, it is a good time to look back. Their biggest legacy will be dragging India towards modern limited-overs batting. Look at its biggest manifestation: Virat Kohli is a much better T20 batter while retaining qualities that made him an ODI great. In
The rest of the support staff for the Zimbabwe team will be appointed in consultation with Sammons, ZC said in a statement, while adding that Elton Chigumbura, the former captain of Zimbabwe, had been appointed head coach of the nation’s Under-19 team. Norbert Manyande, who played first-class cricket in Zimbabwe before going on to feature
South Africa 194 for 4 (de Kock 74, Netravalkar 2-21, Harmeet 2-24) beat United States of America 176 for 6 (Gous 80*, Rabada 3-18) by 18 runs Another game, another close one for South Africa and they seem to be making a habit of sneaking over the line at the T20 World Cup 2024. This
Match details Afghanistan vs IndiaBridgetown, 10.30am local, 8.00pm IST, 2.30pm GMT Big picture – India vs Rashid Khan This January, these two teams produced one of the greatest T20Is ever – one that needed two Super Overs to produce a result – and that was when they were playing less-than-full-strength teams after the series had
India 325 for 3 (Mandhana 136, Harmanpreet 103*, Mlaba 2-51) beat South Africa 321 for 6 (Wolvaardt 135*, Kapp 114, Vastrakar 2-54, Deepti 2-56) by four runs Four centuries, a first in women’s ODIs. A total of 646 runs. The spectators in Bengaluru were treated to as entertaining a game of 50-over cricket as they
Matthew Hayden feels that Virat Kohli‘s experience of assessing surfaces and adjusting to the variables in the Caribbean – India play at three different venues in the Super Eight – are more crucial than his lack of runs so far at the T20 World Cup 2024. Kohli has so far made scores of 1, 4
Kane Williamson, New Zealand’s current T20I and ODI captain, has declined a central contract for 2024-25. He will also step down from white-ball captaincy to prolong his international career. “Helping push the team forward across the formats is something I’m very passionate about and something I want to keep contributing towards,” Williamson said in a
If you include the warm-up game, Shivam Dube spent 60 legal deliveries in the USA to hit his first six on the tour. This is a batter who has been hitting a six every eight balls or so in the IPL over the last year. In his T20 career overall, which includes times when he
In the first round of the T20 World Cup 2024, when a lot of cricket was played in the USA, the fast bowlers held sway. Now, with the show moving fully to the West Indies, spin is more likely to be the dominant force, and Tim David is preparing for that: with bat, and with
Bangladesh fast bowler Tanzim Hasan Sakib has been fined 15% of his match fee for breaching Level 1 of the ICC Code of Conduct after an altercation with Nepal captain Rohit Paudel during the teams’ meeting in Kingstown on June 16. The incident took place just after the end of the third over of Nepal’s
Match details USA vs South AfricaSuper Eight, North Sound, June 19, 10.30am local time Big picture – Can USA slay another giant? It’s Super Eight time. Before the start of the T20 World Cup 2024, the ICC had allotted pre-decided seedings to the eight top teams. A2 was given to Pakistan. The match timings were
Match details West Indies vs EnglandJune 19, St Lucia, 8.30pm local time Big picture: After the angst they endured in the group stage, England have floated down to St Lucia on a wave of exhalation. Whatever happens in their T20 World Cup defence from hereon in, their avoidance of a humiliating first-round exit might yet
Haris Rauf, the Pakistan quick bowler, has responded to a video of a confrontation between him and some unidentified men, which has done the rounds on social media, saying he was open to “feedback from the public” but that he will “respond accordingly” if the feedback turned to abuse and his family was targeted. The
Sri Lanka 93 for 5 (Gunaratne 50, Dilhari 28, Ramharack 2-29) beat West Indies 92 (Williams 24, Dilhari 4-20, Athapaththu 2-8, Kulasuriya 2-16) Vishmi Gunaratne‘s half century and Kavisha Dilhari‘s star turn with bat and ball secured a five-wicket win for Sri Lanka in the second ODI against West Indies in Hambantota, and with it
Gautam Gambhir, the frontrunner to replace Rahul Dravid as India men’s head coach, has formally applied for the position and attended an interview on Tuesday, ESPNcricinfo has learned. Gambhir interacted with the Cricket Advisory Committee (CAC), which is the panel entrusted by the BCCI to shortlist applicants. The BCCI, which had set May 27 as
Cricket Australia’s review into the events of March 2018 painted Warner as the chief orchestrator of Sandpapergate, a scandal that cast a shadow over Australian cricket and led to wholesale changes within the national team’s culture and leadership. Cameron Bancroft received a nine-month ban from the sport for rubbing sandpaper on the ball in Cape
Toss Afghanistan chose to bowl vs West Indies In the final group game of the men’s T20 World Cup 2024, Rashid Khan won the toss and Afghanistan opted to chase against West Indies. While Afghanistan were unchanged, West Indies made a couple of tweaks in the teams’ last match ahead of the Super Eight. Romario
3.1: Azmatullah to Pooran, SIX runsGoes the distance. Off the outside edge. Length ball outside off from around the stumps, Pooran goes hard and looks to heave it across the line. But gets a thick outside edge that carries well over third. The six was into the breeze, says Roller 3.2: Azmatullah to Pooran, (no
Kane Williamson, New Zealand’s captain, said his team would need time to regroup after the disappointment of their group-stage exit from the T20 World Cup, but could not confirm whether he’d be back for another tilt at the title when the tournament returns in India and Sri Lanka in 2026. Williamson, who turns 34 in
New Zealand 79 for 3 (Conway 35, Mitchell 12*, Morea 2-4) beat Papua New Guinea 78 (Amini 17, Ferguson 3-0, Southee 2-11, Boult 2-14) by seven wickets New Zealand signed off a disappointing T20 World Cup 2024 campaign with a dominant win over Papua New Guinea, chasing down a paltry target of 79 with seven
New Zealand fast bowler Lockie Ferguson has become the second bowler in T20Is and the first at a men’s T20 World Cup to bowl four maiden overs in a spell. On Monday, he finished with magical figures of 4-4-0-3 against Papua New Guinea in New Zealand’s last group-stage match in the T20 World Cup 2024.
England are anticipating “a run-fest” in St Lucia as they resume their six-hitting battle with West Indies in a Super Eight fixture. The sides hit 120 sixes between them in a five-match T20I series in December – which West Indies won 3-2 – and are both expecting high scores at the Daren Sammy Cricket Ground.
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