Hampshire have confirmed that Ben McDermott and Nathan Ellis, their T20 Blast-winning overseas pairing, will return to the club to help their bid to defend the title in 2023. McDermott scored 494 runs in the Blast last season including five centuries, second only to his opening partner and captain James Vince among Hampshire players. He

Nepal won the only game they have played so far in Dubai – without Lamichhane – beating PNG by four wickets. With Lamichhane in the side, Nepal had emerged victorious in a CWC tri-series in Nepal last week. Lamichhane was instrumental in Nepal going through that series unbeaten, taking 13 wickets in four games, all

Karachi’s dream start turned into a full on nightmare when Rovman Powell joined in on the fun, scoring 64 off just 34 balls. He hit six fours and four sixes during his stay; basically, he was able to hit a boundary once every three or four balls. Sixty-five runs – 33% of the total –

Innings break Bangladesh 209 (Shanto 58, Wood 2-34, Archer 2-37) vs England England bowled Bangladesh out for 209 on a slowish pitch offering appreciable turn in the first ODI at the Sher-e-Bangla Stadium in Mirpur, barely 24 hours after the remarkable climax of their Test against New Zealand, 7,000 miles away. Najmul Hossain Shanto, who

The eight teams announced which players they had retained ahead of the draft earlier this month. Their squads for this summer’s 100-ball tournament – which runs from August 1-27 – will be fleshed out at the draft next month, which will be televised live on Sky Sports for the first time since 2019. In the

South Africa 314 for 8 (Markram 115, Elgar 71, Joseph 3-60) vs West Indies Aiden Markram celebrated his return to Test cricket in style notching up his sixth century but Alzarri Joseph‘s pacy three-wicket burst helped West Indies storm back into the contest late in the day. South Africa ended day one of the first

Big picture: A ‘proper contest’ awaits Long gone is the “little brother vs big brother” equation in Bangladesh-England matches. The 2015 World Cup game brought a bit of edge into the contests, and then came the pushing and shoving between players in the end-of-game beeline during the last bilateral series back in 2016. Since then,

Lunch England 435 for 8 dec and 168 for 5 (Root 74*, Stokes 20*) need a further 90 to beat New Zealand 209 and 483 An unbroken stand between Joe Root and Ben Stokes, worth 88 at the lunch interval, helped resurrect England’s chances of pulling off a series-sealing win in the second Test, after

Sandeep Lamichhane, who had originally been left out of Nepal’s squad for the ongoing Cricket World Cup League 2 tri-series in Dubai, has now been given permission to travel, but his participation is the tournament is subject to an approval from the ICC. Lamichhane, 22, is currently out on bail, facing charges of the sexual

“As many as there is out there,” Beth Mooney said when asked how many more titles Australia had left in them. And that is the key to this side’s remarkable success. After claiming their third straight T20 World Cup title with a 19-run victory over hosts South Africa on Sunday, their sixth in the format