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England look set to rest players who were involved in the Indian Premier League for the Test series against New Zealand next month. The squad for the two-Test series will be named next week but Jos Buttler, Jonny Bairstow, Chris Woakes, Sam Curran and Moeen Ali won’t be included. The players who returned from India […]
Limerick manager John Kiely has hit out at ’embarrassing’ simulation and at hurling’s new rule changes after his team’s unbeaten run came to an end in Salthill on Sunday. The All-Ireland champions fell to Galway, in what was their first defeat since July 2019. Evan Niland scored 0-14 from frees for the Tribesmen, but Kiely […]
The Auditor-General will consider reviewing $40 million in federal government grants provided to Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp since 2017 to support coverage of women’s sport. A letter sent on Monday from Auditor-General Grant Hehir to Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young says he will look at adding an examination of the funding to News Corp’s sports pay-TV […]
Steve Smith, David Warner and Pat Cummins were brought back into Australia’s 23-man extended squad for the limited-overs tour of West Indies on Monday but Marnus Labuschagne missed out because of travel restrictions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Batsmen Smith and Warner and paceman Cummins were among seven players included in Monday’s squad who missed […]
Chris Rushworth has become Durham’s all-time leading wicket-taker in first-class cricket after taking his 528th scalp in the format. The seam bowler had Worcestershire’s Jack Haynes caught low at slip by David Bedingham on Sunday to overtake Graham Onions’ previous record of 527 red-ball wickets for the county. The 34-year-old was visibly emotional after taking […]
Cricket Australia (CA) has said it was open to hearing any new information regarding the 2018 ball-tampering scandal after Cameron Bancroft suggested the bowlers were aware of the tactics. Following an investigation, former Test opener Bancroft was banned for nine months for his role in the incident in Cape Town, while then-captain Steve Smith and […]
It’s Finals Day in the BBL and WBBL and both playoff finals feature London and Newcastle after they battled through a dramatic ‘May Madness’ series. https://youtube.com/watch?v=EAEp-zuEZL4%3Ffeature%3Doembed After two weeks of high-quality British basketball, it all comes down to this – a doubleheader at Leicester’s Morningside Arena to crown the end-of-season champions. How the BBL playoff […]
England fast bowler Jofra Archer will not bowl for the remainder of Sussex’s County Championship match against Kent due to a sore elbow, head coach Ian Salisbury has confirmed. Archer was making his first competitive appearance since England’s IT20 series against India in March having undergone surgery to remove a piece of glass from his […]
Inspirational former Kent and England seam bowler Alan Igglesden has continued his positive outlook on life after completing the Professional Cricketers’ Trust’s 5k May challenge. Joined by his wife Liz, daughter Beth and former Kent team-mate Laurie Potter, ‘Iggy’ travelled along a stretch of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, near their house in Keighley, West […]
Dan Lawrence helped his chances of claiming an England Test spot this summer as turned on the style with a jaw-dropping unbeaten 152, off just 133 balls, as Essex racked up the runs against Derbyshire on day two of their LV=Insurance County Championship meeting. Lawrence is aiming to maintain his place in the England Test side after […]