Lord’s will host the final of the Women’s T20 World Cup on Sunday 5 July next year, organisers have announced. The 12-team tournament will be held across England with Headingley, Old Trafford, Edgbaston, The Oval, the Hampshire Bowl and Bristol’s County Ground also hosting matches. It will begin on Friday, 12 June with the full...
Cricket’s return to the Olympic Games in Los Angeles 2028 will be as a six-team T20 tournament for both genders, the International Olympic Committee has announced. Participating teams will be able to field squads of up to 15 players after the IOC allocated quotas of 90 athletes per gender for the event. The IOC has...
Pooran is regarded as one of the world’s best hitters of spin. Over the past two IPL seasons, playing for Lucknow Super Giants, he has scored 448 runs at an average of 89.6 and strike-rate of 184.4 against slow bowlers – again suggesting he can bat with severe aggression while not getting out. He stands...
Gary Stead will step down as New Zealand’s limited-overs head coach this summer – and is considering his position in charge of the Test team. Stead, 53, played five Tests for the Black Caps in 1999 before moving into coaching, taking charge of his country’s women’s team in 2008, and then the men’s team in...
Latest scorecard from the second women’s Twenty20 match between Australia A and England A at Sydney’s Hurstville Oval. Read article in full at source...
Although just the first of three T20s before three 50-over games and a four-day match, this is a promising victory for a young England side, especially given the turmoil around the senior XI. England are looking for a new coach and captain after Jon Lewis and Heather Knight were sacked following the humiliating 16-0 clean...
Latest scorecard from the first women’s Twenty20 match between Australia A and England A at Sydney’s Hurstville Oval. View original article...
Latest scorecard from the fifth Twenty20 international between New Zealand and Pakistan in Dunedin. Read article in full at source...
New Zealand thrashed Pakistan by 115 runs in the fourth T20 at Mount Maunganui to take an unassailable 3-1 lead in the five-match series. In a fine all-round performance, the Black Caps set Pakistan an imposing 221 to win, before bowling them out for just 105 in 16.2 overs. Seamers Jacob Duffy (4-20) and Zak...
Hassan Nawaz blazed Pakistan’s fastest T20 century as his side raced to a nine-wicket victory over New Zealand in Auckland. Chasing a challenging 205, the opener smashed an unbeaten 105 from 45 deliveries to take his side to victory in the third T20 and keep the five-match series alive. The 22-year-old, who was playing in...
Beth Mooney hit an unbeaten 75 as Australia thrashed New Zealand by eight wickets in the opening T20 in Auckland. Chasing 138, Mooney and opening partner Georgia Voll put on a stand of 123 to help the tourists reach their target inside the 14th over. The pair struck a national record of 77 inside the...
Wicketkeeper Adam Rossington will not play first-class cricket for Essex this summer after signing a new T20 only contract for the 2025 season. It replaces the final year of the 31-year-old’s previous deal with the club who he joined in 2022, initially on loan. Rossington has scored more than 3,500 runs in T20 competitions around...
Willey bowled Northants to their first T20 title in 2013 with a hat-trick in the final and the Steelbacks lifted the trophy again in 2016. And he believes the arrival of Australian Darren Lehmann as head coach will help them challenge again after reaching the quarter-finals last year. Willey previously played under Lehmann in The...
Latest scorecard from the second Twenty20 international between New Zealand and Pakistan in Dunedin. Read article in full at source...
New Zealand thrashed Pakistan by nine wickets in the opening T20 of the series in Christchurch. Pakistan were bowled out for 91 at the Hagley Oval – their lowest T20 total in New Zealand – before the hosts raced to their target with 9.5 overs to spare. In Pakistan’s first game under new captain Salman...