Mahli Beardman, a 19-year-old seamer from Western Australia, has been added to Australia’s ODI squad as a reserve for the five-match series against England that begins at Trent Bridge on Thursday. The addition of the pacer comes in response to their growing fast-bowling injury list. 19-year-old 6′ 2″ Beardman was a star performer in the Under-19 World Cup earlier this year, especially when Australia defeated India in the final in Benoni thanks to his Player-of-the-Match winning statistics of 3 for 15. Even though he has only participated in one List A match thus far in his career, the Perth Scorchers selected…
Author: Devansh Poddar
Ishan Kishan, the wicket-keeper batter has been in the news for the past year or so. Kishan was removed from the BCCI’s Central contract after he ignored BCCI’s repeated directives to prioritize domestic cricket. Despite the notifications from the BCCI during the previous domestic season (2023-24), Kishan chose not to play for his state side in the Ranji Trophy and was seen training in Mumbai along with some of his mates. The batter from Jharkhand as a result was excluded from the Central contracts, which became the headlines, and rightly so, as it was the first big step by the…
Sri Lanka has announced their squad for the 2-match test series against New Zealand at home. Oshada Fernando makes a return to Sri Lanka’s red ball squad, taking the place of opening batter Nishan Madushka who finds himself out of the side. Fernando makes a comeback post 1.5 years of absence from the national side. Oshada is back after a strong performance with the A squad, which is presently on a tour of South Africa. After scoring 122 and 80 to earn Player of the Match honors, the 32-year-old batsman—who has participated in 21 Test matches—saw Sri Lanka A win…
Harry Brook has been appointed captain for the forthcoming ODI series against Australia, and he is going to lead England for the first time in his career. Following Jos Buttler’s injury, which has prevented him from playing in the five-match series, Brook was picked as the captain. Not only was Buttler left off of the T20I squad, but he is still recovering from his earlier calf injury. Liam Livingstone, who was previously ignored, can now return to the ODI lineup thanks to Buttler’s injury. Aside from scoring 87 off just 47 balls in the second T20I, the dashing all-rounder has been rewarded for taking…
Nathan Ellis’s chance to secure a position in Australia’s Twenty20 International team has been ruined by a hamstring injury he suffered in the Hundred. He will miss the remaining matches in their series against Scotland as well as the eight white-ball matches that follow in England. Ellis saw the Scotland series as a unique opportunity to spearhead Australia’s attack, since Josh Hazlewood was sidelined due to a calf niggle and Mitchell Starc and Pat Cummins were rested. However, Cricket Australia declared on Friday that he would be returning home soon after realizing he had not fully healed from his hamstring tendon injury…
India’s World Cup-winning coach and former Rajasthan Royals player and coach Rahul Dravid has been officially announced as the head coach of Rajasthan Royals once again. Dravid recently ended his stint as the head coach of the Indian national cricket team with a T20 World Cup under his belt. The Indian side gave a perfect farewell to their coach and a sweet revenge for the early exit from the 2007 Cricket World Cup which also happened to be in the Caribbean. As a player and coach, Dravid has had a close relationship with the Royals organization. Between 2011 and 2013,…
The former all-rounder from New Zealand, Sarah Tsukigawa, has been named their next national selector for women’s cricket. Tsukigawa featured in a five-year international career, from 2006 to 2011, playing 42 One-Day Internationals and 19 Twenty20 Internationals. Ben Sawyer, the head coach of New Zealand, will collaborate with Tsukigawa. She will be responsible for choosing players for the women’s cricket route, both for the national team and for teams slightly below it. In two weeks, New Zealand will host Australia before traveling to the United Arab Emirates for the Women’s T20 World Cup. The teams for the two assignments will be revealed on September 10…
India’s former batting coach Vikram Rathour and Sri Lanka’s legendary left-arm orthodox Rangana Herath have been included in New Zealand’s support staff ahead of their tests against Afghanistan and Sri Lanka. Rathour will be a part of the side for the one-off tests against Afghanistan, while Herath will be associated with their setup for the Sri Lanka series as well. Rathour was a member of the coaching team under Rahul Dravid, whose term came to an end with India winning the T20 World Cup. Prior to joining the national selectorate, he had participated in six Test matches for India throughout…
The much-anticipated round 1 of the Duleep Trophy got underway on Thursday (September 5) in Bengaluru and Anantapur. The young 19-year-old sensation from Mumbai Musheer Khan stole all the spotlight, shining bright among the big names present for the start of India’s domestic season. Musheer scored a wonderful century in his Duleep Trophy debut to rescue India B out of deep trouble on Day 1 of the competition. Coming into bat when his team was under pressure, Musheer seemed to be a bit nervous initially but eventually built his confidence ball-by-ball and dragged his team’s score to 202/7 single-handedly at…
The Sydney Sixers have hired former England men’s and Australia women’s head coach Matthew Mott as an assistant coach. He has signed a three-year contract with the team. He has taken over for Cameron White, who was appointed head coach of the Melbourne Renegades earlier in June and will work closely with head coach Greg Shipperd. Thus far, Mott has had an impressive career as a coach. He led the Australian women’s team to victory in the ODI World Cup in 2022 as well as the T20 World Cup in 2018 and 2020 while serving as head coach. Additionally, he…