Hampshire have signed Australian batter Chris Lynn for their remaining T20 Blast group matches. The Hawks have six more games in the group stage and Lynn’s arrival comes after South African pair Lhuan-dre Pretorius and Dewald Brevis earned international call-ups. South Africa are scheduled to play in a two-Test series against Zimbabwe from 28 June....
Hampshire have signed India white-ball batter Tilak Varma on a short-term deal for four County Championship matches. Varma has made an outstanding start to his international T20 career, hitting 749 runs in 25 games with an average of 49.93 and a strike rate of 155. The 22-year-old left-hander has two centuries and three half-centuries in...
Australia batter Steve Smith has been taken to hospital for an X-ray on a compound dislocation of the little finger on his right hand, sustained on day three of the World Test Championship final. The 36-year-old suffered the injury when he dropped a catch off the bowling of left-arm quick Mitchell Starc while fielding in...
Yorkshire have signed India batter Ruturaj Gaikwad for the latter part of the County Championship season. Gaikwad will be available for the final five games of the Division One campaign, beginning with the match against Surrey in Scarborough on 22 July. The 28-year-old will also be able to play in the One-Day Cup, which takes...
Nicholas Pooran, one of the world’s leading T20 batters, has retired from international duty with West Indies aged 29. The Trinidadian has played 167 times for West Indies, but the decision will allow him to concentrate on playing in lucrative franchise leagues. He had already skipped the ongoing T20 series against England to rest following...
South Africa batter Heinrich Klaasen has retired from the international game. The 33-year-old is one of the world’s most destructive middle-order batters and will continue to play franchise cricket around the world. He last played for South Africa in their defeat against New Zealand in the semi-final of the Champions Trophy in March. The wicketkeeper-batter...
The Windies series is followed by a further three T20s and three one-day internationals against India, who are then hosting the 50-over World Cup in September. The ECB have not given a timeframe for Knight’s return but are hopeful she will be available for selection for September’s tournament. Knight led England for nine years before...
Australia batter D’Arcy Short has joined Gloucestershire for the defending champions’ 2025 T20 Blast campaign. The left-hander, who can also bowl spin, has played for his country in both white-ball formats and has twice been named ‘Player of the Tournament’ in Australia’s Big Bash. He averages just over 30 with the bat for Australia in...
England top-order batter Ben Duckett has signed an extended contract with Nottinghamshire until the end of the 2027 season. Duckett has scored more than 5,500 runs in all formats for Notts since joining in August 2018 from Northamptonshire. His runs have helped the county win the 2020 Vitality Blast final and the County Championship Division...
A serious diagnosis would be a cruel blow to Cox, who was set to make his Test debut last year against New Zealand only to break a thumb in the build-up to the first Test. “Jordan doesn’t seem to have much luck when it comes to England call-ups, but his century here on a testing...
Surrey have signed former Australia international batter Kurtis Patterson for three County Championship matches in May. The 31-year-old scored 743 runs for New South Wales in the Sheffield Shield over the winter, the fourth highest total, at an average of 57.15. He will join up with Surrey ahead of next week’s trip to Edgbaston to...
“That’s part of being a cricketer in this country – how to handle this. “It’s impossible to distance yourself 100% but neither do you want to get sucked into it completely as well. “So finding that happy medium is probably the answer in this situation.” Suryavanshi was signed for £103,789 (1.1 crore rupees) at last...
Essex Women have signed England-capped opening batter Lauren Winfield-Hill on loan from Yorkshire ahead of the 2025 Vitality Blast. Winfield-Hill, 34, has played over 100 matches for England across Test, One Day International and Twenty20 cricket, wining the 2017 ODI World Cup. She has scored almost 4,000 T20 runs, playing in Australia’s Big Bash and...
Nicholls, who played the most recent of his 56 Tests for the Black Caps against Bangladesh 16 months ago, was also part of the New Zealand side that lost to England in the epic 2019 World Cup final at Lord’s. “I’m really looking forward to this opportunity with Worcestershire,” he said. “I’ve always been a...
Mumbai’s most recent IPL title came in 2020, having also won the previous year, and Rohit was replaced as skipper by Hardik Pandya in 2024 – but in the all-rounder’s first edition in charge, they finished bottom of the table. Rohit’s legendary status with the side is likely to earn him a longer run in...