Latest Updates Around The World
The 2021 Australian champions were dumped out of the T20 World Cup at the group stages with a match to play after Zimbabwe’s failed encounter with Ireland in Pallakelle sealed their fate. Resounding defeats by Zimbabwe – to whom they also lost in the inaugural 2007 edition – and co-hosts Sri Lanka meant wins over […]
England suffered a major scare at the start of their T20 World Cup campaign but Sam Curran held his nerve to complete a four-run win over minnows Nepal at a raucous Wankhede Stadium. With Nepal needing ten from the final to secure a famous win in the first ever meeting between the two sides, Curran […]
What anyone associated with English cricket would give for some tournament success after a miserable winter, especially Harry Brook and Brendon McCullum, both of whom are facing intense media scrutiny. An impressive win in the whitewash series in Sri Lanka has given some reason for optimism as England now prepare to take on Nepal in […]
Sam Curran took a hat-trick as England began their T20 World Cup preparations by easing to an 11-run DLS win in the series opener against Sri Lanka. Curran became only the second England bowler to score an international T20 hat-trick after Chris Jordan when he blew away Sri Lanka’s lower order to help restrict the […]
Jofra Archer has been named in the England squad that will play Sri Lanka in the first T20 on Friday after recovering from injury. The 30-year-old fast bowler missed the last two Tests of England’s 4-1 Ashes defeat after suffering a side strain and was initially left out of the squad for the three-match T20 […]
Test captain Ben Stokes will join the England Lions coaching team in the United Arab Emirates next month. Stokes is currently recovering from an adductor injury he suffered during the fifth Ashes Test in Australia earlier this month. But the 34-year-old will be part of Andrew Flintoff’s coaching staff for T20 and 50-over white-ball series […]
Liam Dawson insists he is not considering taking up the challenge of becoming England’s regular Test spinner as he focuses on his first T20 World Cup at the age of 35. England took Shoaib Bashir to the Ashes as their main spinner, but the 22-year-old was left out of all five Tests as all-rounder Will […]
England won their first away ODI under Brendon McCullum as Joe Root guided them to a five-wicket win over Sri Lanka in Colombo to level the three-match series. Since adding the white-ball position to his Test role in January 2025, McCullum had overseen ten consecutive ODI losses during his tours to England. The tourists knew […]
Harry Brook admits he made a ‘terrible mistake’ by getting involved in an altercation with a nightclub bouncer and accepts he is lucky to still be England captain. The 26-year-old was fined and warned about his future conduct by the England and Wales Cricket Board after the incident the night before an ODI in New […]
