It feels like there is something significant stirring in Australia’s middle order. On Tuesday in Cairns, they combined to turn what appeared a likely defeat into a gripping victory, putting on 158 for the sixth wicket after Australia had been in a mess at 44 for 5. They have now batted together twice in ODIs

Glamorgan 241 for 8 (Gill 92, Byrom 67) trail Worcestershire 454 for 9 dec (Roderick 172*, Leach 87, Barnard 75, Pollock 54, van der Gugten 4-81) by 213 runs India batter Shubman Gill was the star performer between the rain breaks at Sophia Gardens, despite falling eight runs short of a century on debut as

Pakistan and Afghanistan, two teams who are very familiar with the conditions in UAE, will be up against each other for the first time in the Asia Cup, on Wednesday, and only the third time in T20Is. Though Pakistan have a perfect record against Afghanistan – having won both the matches in 2013 and 2019

Two Super 4s losses. Two lost tosses. Two last-over defeats. Two death-overs mishaps. Two middle-order meltdowns. Two below-par totals. It can go on. All of these must mean a fair few concerns for any team, right? If Rohit Sharma is to be believed, these aren’t panic stations just yet. Perhaps not panic stations but definitely

Glamorgan 111 for 2 (Byrom 67, Gill 34*) trail Worcestershire 454 for 9 dec (Roderick 172*, Leach 87, Barnard 75, Pollock 54, van der Gugten 4-81) by 343 runs Gareth Roderick scored a career-best 172 not out to put Worcestershire in a commanding position against Glamorgan, on a day when rain meant only 68 overs

There will be two Irani Cups in the 2022-23 Indian domestic season. While it was already known that Saurashtra, the champions in 2019-20, would take on Rest of India in a belated edition of the Irani Cup this year – the fixture was called off because of the pandemic – there was some lack of

Big Picture This series has been a long time coming. Australia and New Zealand started a Chappell-Hadlee contest just days before the world was shut down by the pandemic, the opening game played behind closed doors at the SCG, before New Zealand had to make a hasty journey home with borders shutting. Matches were then

Virat Kohli is “excited” and “having fun” playing cricket, he said, but not long ago, he wasn’t getting any joy from the game. As he said recently, he was “faking his intensity a bit” and the fatigue and everything else added up and took a toll on him mentally. After top-scoring for India in the

Virat Kohli let his magical wrists take over, and a 150kph delivery from Mohammad Hasnain went sailing over deep midwicket. It was his half-century – his second in a row – off 36 balls, in the 18th over, and the Indian dressing room was on its feet. Only a week ago, in his 100th T20I,

Aware of the historical advantage for chasing sides in Dubai, India batted ultra-aggressively in the first half of their innings, but kept losing wickets, which meant Virat Kohli, who made significant moves towards his best with a 44-ball 60, had to play a little cautiously in the second half. On a belter, despite the good