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Context After their win against Sri Lanka last month, England’s test cricketers face a tougher task away against India, with the first of a four match test series starting tomorrow in Chennai It promises to be an exciting series with England fresh of their 2-0 win over Sri Lanka and India high on confidence after […]
The Perth Scorchers beat the Brisbane Heat by 49 runs to reach the Big Bash Final thanks to a brilliant batting display. England’s Liam Livingstone smashed 77 off 39 balls including five fours and six sixes and put on a 114 run opening partnership with Cameron Bancroft who made an unbeaten 58. One of Livingstone’s […]
Live updates in the Big Bash as the Perth Scorchers take on the Brisbane Heat with the winner taking on the Sydney Sixers on Sunday.
Steve Smith headlined a busy day for IPL owners on Wednesday. All eight franchises announced their list of players retained and released ahead of the auction next month. The IPL isn’t due a mega auction until 2022, when two new franchises will be added to the league, but the players released from each team always […]
England’s record wicket taker Jimmy Anderson will come in to replace Stuart Broad as England announced their team for the second test against Sri Lanka in Galle. It is the only change made by England after their seven wicket victory in the first test as they look to wrap up the series 2-0. Embed from […]
Embed from Getty Images Tim Paine V Ravi Ashwin India’s victory over Australia is without doubt going to go down in history as one of the best test series of all time. It was full of iconic moments, sadly for Australia captain Tim Paine there’s one in particular that he won’t remember fondly. It happened […]
Embed from Getty Images What happened? India managed to score 329 runs to inflict Australia’s first loss in Brisbane for 33 years and win the Border-Gavaskar Trophy in one of the greatest test cricket series of all time. An Indian victory looked unlikely but big contributions from Shubman Gill (91) and Rishabh Pant (89 not […]
New Zealand kicked off their home summer with a T20 series win against West Indies. They take on The Windies in 2 tests before hosting Pakistan for 3 T20s and 2 tests. They are also scheduled to host Australia and Bangladesh for a T20 and ODI series.With a long summer ahead, who are the players […]
Embed from Getty Images Jonny Bairstow has pulled out of Big Bash League franchise Melbourne Stars after being called back to England’s test squad for January’s tour to Sri Lanka. The-31-year old last played a test in December 2019 against South Africa. England were supposed to tour Sri Lanka in March of this year, but […]
Australia beat India 2-1 in a 3-match ODI series to kick off the summer. Here’s five things we learned from the series. Steve Smith’s brilliance resumes Embed from Getty Images Steve Smith smashed back to back hundreds to start his summer in the perfect way possible. His two innings at the SCG felt like a […]