MELBOURNE: David Warner has hinted he is keen for one last Ashes tour in 2023 to make amends for his failed campaign in England two years ago, drawing inspiration from veteran seamer Jimmy Anderson. The explosive Australian opener would be approaching 37 should he retain his place that long and in all likelihood would have … Read more
MELBOURNE: England lost the Ashes in humiliating style on Tuesday but for Joe Root, it has been an incredible 2021 with the bat, the skipper ending the calendar year with the third-most Test runs in history. His dismissal on day three of the third Test in Melbourne for 28 left him with 1,708 runs for … Read more
MELBOURNE: Skipper Pat Cummins said the way his team ripped England apart to retain the Ashes on Tuesday showed the strength of Australian cricket — and warned they were only just getting started. The Australian attack destroyed tourists England for 68 in their second innings of the third Test, with Scott Boland taking an incredible 6-7 off … Read more
MELBOURNE: England were nervously awaiting results of PCR tests after four Covid cases in the camp but veteran Jimmy Anderson said Monday they are keen to finish the Ashes series in Australia. Four members of the England party — two support staff and two family members — tested positive for coronavirus just hours before the … Read more
Australia’s sensational spinner Lloyd Pope is eager to learn from the Pakistani leg-spinner Shadab Khan, who has been signed up by the Sydney Sixers for the remaining Big Bash league. Pope bagged two wickets for 33 runs on Sunday night against Sydney Thunders, leading the Sixers to a 30-rn win despite the rain. Shadab was … Read more
MELBOURNE: England was rocked by a major Covid scare ahead of day two of the third Ashes Test Monday with four members of the team camp — two support staff and two family members — testing positive for coronavirus. The team and management were forced to undergo urgent rapid antigen tests just as they were … Read more
Since Narendra Modi began his second term as India’s prime minister in 2019, one of the defining features of India’s foreign strategy has been upgrading relations with the US, Japan and Australia as well as promoting the “Indo-Pacific” strategy to balance China. Due to excessively close relations between India and the US, the India-Russia relationship … Read more
Portugal next year could approve lithium mining that will reduce Europe’s dependence on outside sources for a key ingredient in the frenetic global race to decarbonise the auto industry. The southern European nation is thought to have the continent’s largest lithium reserves. Alongside nickel and cobalt, lithium has become a prized raw material as it … Read more
Three times KFC Big Bash League (BBL) champions Sydney Sixers have strengthened their spin attack with the prized signing of Pakistani leg-spinner Shadab Khan. On their official Twitter handle, Sixers tweeted, “We have signed Pakistani star spinner Shadab Khan for the remainder of #BBL11.” We've signed Pakistani star spinner Shadab Khan for the remainder of … Read more
MELBOURNE: Joe Root has backed himself to “bang out a hundred” as England face a must-win Boxing Day Test in Melbourne and says he expects a response from his team after successive Ashes defeats. The England captain has never reached three figures in Australia but he went close in the nine wicket-defeat in the first … Read more
MELBOURNE: Australia coach Justin Langer Thursday said struggling opener Marcus Harris will play in the Boxing Day Ashes Test at Melbourne, and backed fast bowler Mitchell Starc to recover from a rib niggle. Harris’s Test career appeared in doubt after another failure in the day-night second Test at Adelaide this week, where he made just … Read more
LONDON: Eoin Morgan will captain England’s five-match T20 tour to the West Indies next month under stand-in coach Paul Collingwood. With the Ashes Test series in Australia set to end just four days before the first clash between the sides in Barbados, Collingwood will take charge with Marcus Trescothick joining him as an assistant coach. … Read more
NEW DELHI: India’s third-highest Test wicket-taker Ravichandran Ashwin says that he nearly quit several times between 2018 and 2020 due to injury and because he did not “feel backed”. “I contemplated retirement for a lot of reasons,” the star spinner told ESPN Cricinfo. “I felt like people were not sensitive enough to my injuries. I felt like … Read more
The International Cricket Council has released the rankings of Test and T20I players in which Babar Azam has once again grabbed the number one spot in the ICC MRF Batsman ranking in the T20. Babar has moved up a notch in the ICC T20I Players Rankings, after which he has again become the number one … Read more
Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Chairman Ramiz Raja on Wednesday praised the national team but stressed that ‘more needed to be done’. Flanked by newly appointed CEO Faisal Hasnain in a news conference in Karachi, Ramiz acknowledged that Pakistan was not ranked well in Test cricket. The PCB chairman underscored the need to improve cricket standards … Read more
CANBERRA, Dec. 22 (Xinhua) — Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has urged people to “stay calm and get boosted” amid surging coronavirus infections. Morrison on Wednesday met with state and territory leaders at the national cabinet to discuss the rapid spread of the Omicron variant in Australia. Following the meeting, he announced that one-quarter of … Read more
Paul Collingwood will act as a stand-in coach in place of Chris Silverwood for England during the tour of West Indies next month. The English team is set to ply five T20Is against the Caribbean team scheduled to start on January 23 at the Kings Oval, Bridgetown, Barbados. Collingwood, being one of the assistant coaches, … Read more
LONDON: Already sidelined England fast bowler Jofra Archer is set to miss the tour of the West Indies after undergoing a second elbow operation, it was announced Tuesday. The Barbados-born quick has been out of international action since March and his absence from England duty will now extend to over a year after it was … Read more
