David Warner is set to miss the T20I series against India, which will to begin on November 23, only four days after the Men's World Cup final of 2023, in which the two sides competed. Warner, who is set to retire from Test cricket after the Sydney Test against Pakistan next year, scored 535 runs at the World Cup at an average of nearly 50. The opening batter is among the host of multi-format players being rested for the series, alongside...
Sherfane Rutherford and Matthew Forde are the two uncapped all-rounders included in West Indies' squad for the ODI series against England. Wicketkeeper-batter Shane Dowrich, who played one ODI back in 2019, returns to the team while opener Kjorn Ottley has also been included in the 15-member squad for the 50-over games, having last played two ODIs for the West Indies in January 2021. Both Ottley and Dowrich fared well in the domestic Super50 Cup. Dowrich has an average of 78 from...
The all-powerful International Cricket Council (ICC) is set to make a decision on the ongoing issues within Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) on Tuesday. After suspending the Sri Lanka board due to alleged government interference, the ICC must now address the matter concerning the Under 19 World Cup scheduled to be played there in January 2024. The ICC Board meeting is taking place in Ahmedabad. While the ICC deliberates on the matter, in Sri Lanka, a court has postponed the SLC case...
Pakistan's recently-appointed chief selector Wahab Riaz has rung in the changes in his first assignment in the job as the 18-member squad picked for the upcoming three-Test tour of Australia including call-ups for 21-year-old batter Saim Ayub and 23-year-old pacer Khurram Shahzad. Ayub, a left-handed opener, has stormed into the national side reckoning with an incredible performance in the domestic tournament - Quaid-e-Azam trophy 2023-24, with 553 runs in four matches for Karachi Whites that includes a match-winning double hundred. He...
Suryakumar Yadav has been named the captain of the Indian team for the five-match Twenty 20 series against Australia starting in Visakhapatnam on November 23. VVS Laxman will be the head coach for the five-game series that will end in Bangalore on December 3. Most members of the squad that played in Ireland have been retained, barring of course, Jasprit Bumrah, who was the captain for that series. Bumrah has been rested. Prasidh Krishna, who was part of the World Cup...
It wouldn't have mattered if it wasn't the World Cup final. It wouldn't have mattered if it wasn't the most colossal stadium in world cricket. It wouldn't have mattered if it wasn't the most partisan crowd that the finale of a world event had been played in front of. It wouldn't have mattered if he wasn't up against the best white-ball attack in the world. It wouldn't have mattered if he wasn't playing one of the greatest knocks in the...
In the end India found a superior opponent here, a team with deeper gears and with a mania to run right to the end. As is their wont, Rohit Sharma's team stayed in the fight for as long as possible with the contrasting playing conditions in the two halves but the World Cup kept moving away, the craft and winning habits of Australia starting to intrude like a firm hand on the elbow as the game ticked down to the...
Suryakumar Yadav has been named the captain of the Indian team for the five-match Twenty 20 series against Australia starting in Visakhapatnam on November 23. VVS Laxman will be the head coach for the five-game series that will end in Bangalore on December 3. Most members of the squad that played in Ireland have been retained, barring of course, Jasprit Bumrah, who was the captain for that series. Bumrah has been rested. Prasidh Krishna, who was part of the World Cup...
Pakistan's recently-appointed chief selector Wahab Riaz has rung in the changes in his first assignment in the job as the 18-member squad picked for the upcoming three-Test tour of Australia including call-ups for 21-year-old batter Saim Ayub and 23-year-old pacer Khurram Shahzad. Ayub, a left-handed opener, has stormed into the national side reckoning with an incredible performance in the domestic tournament - Quaid-e-Azam trophy 2023-24, with 553 runs in four matches for Karachi Whites that includes a match-winning double hundred. He...
Pat Cummins termed winning the World Cup as the 'pinnacle of international cricket' after Australia emerged victorious in a rather one-sided affair at the Narendra Modi stadium in Ahmedabad on Sunday (November 19). A relentless performance with the ball helped them restrict India to 240 before Travis Head put on a show, scoring a fabulous century that helped Australia chase down the target in 43 overs to lift the trophy in the men's edition for the sixth time. "That's huge, I think that's the pinnacle of...
