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Somerset will start the 2020 County Championship season on minus 12 points after an ECB disciplinary panel ruled that the pitch prepared for their title decider against Essex at Taunton was ‘poor’. In a rain-affected game that Somerset had to win in order to overtake Essex, 21 wickets fell in 148 overs, of which 17

Sam Curran says that his objective during England’s Test series against New Zealand this month is to “stop being the one who is vulnerable”, after appearing to have kept his place in the side for Thursday’s first Test at Mount Maunganui ahead of his rival allrounder Chris Woakes. In a promising start to his Test

On the final day of the group stage, Maharashtra and Punjab (Group C), Delhi and Jharkhand (Group E) filled the last four spots for the Super League round of Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy 2019-20. They joined Karnataka and Baroda from Group A, Tamil Nadu and Rajasthan from Group B, and Mumbai and Haryana from Group

Australia batsman Chris Lynn came painfully close to becoming the first player to score an Abu Dhabi T10 century in the UAE capital on Monday night but believes there is ample opportunity to go nine runs better over the tournament’s remaining six days. The 29-year-old struck a blistering unbeaten 91 from a mere 30 balls,

Liam Livingstone has decided against entering the upcoming IPL auction in a bid to return to England’s Test squad by impressing in Division One of the County Championship. Livingstone, who is yet to win his Test cap but was part of the squad for the New Zealand series in 2017-18, played four games for Rajasthan

Bangladesh want to get as much practice as possible under the pink ball. This much has been evident from their training routine and intensity in the two days following their three-day defeat by India in the first Test in Indore. The focus has been specifically to train in the twilight zone, when the sun goes

Rory Burns has only played a dozen Tests but looks set to link-up with his fifth* opening partner later this week in Mount Maunganui. But this time, at least, there will be a familiar face at the other end when he takes strike. While Dominic Sibley may have left Burns’ county, Surrey, a couple of

Bangladesh fast bowler Shahadat Hossain was withdrawn midway through an NCL clash on Sunday against Khulna Division, effectively leaving Dhaka Division with just 10 players, after an incident of physical assault with a team-mate. The temperamental fast bowler, who has featured in 38 Tests, 51 ODIs and six T20Is, is alleged to have hit Arafat

Playing his first competitive cricket in six months following a ban for doping, Prithvi Shaw hit a match-winning 39-ball 63 for Mumbai in the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy. He felt down at one point during his time away from the big stage, Shaw said, but “got his act together” as the day of his return

Queensland 6 for 226 (Khawaja 86*, Wildermuth 48) beat Tasmania 223 (Sandhu 51, Steketee 3-33, Bartlett 3-59) by four wickets Usman Khawaja‘s season of two halves continued as his unbeaten 86 led Queensland to a home Marsh Cup final with a four-wicket victory over Tasmania in Hobart. Khawaja, who has struggled in first-class cricket this

Former Pakistan captain Imran Khan believes Sarfaraz Ahmed‘s axing does not necessarily spell the end of his international career. Imran, who is currently Pakistan’s prime minister, has almost completely stayed away from any public comment on the nation’s cricket team since he took over the top job. But, taking a weekend off from political duties,

Hobart Hurricanes wicketkeeper Emily Smith has been banned, in effect for three months, under Cricket Australia’s anti-corruption code after posting team news on social media before a WBBL game. Smith, 24, has been sanctioned for putting the Hurricanes’ team line-up on her Instagram account approximately an hour before it was due to be released for

Steven Smith believes his former CPL team-mate Nicholas Pooran will learn a lot from his recent suspension for ball tampering, while revealing how much the Newlands scandal had helped him to understand his own mental limits and the need for regular breaks to enhance his decision-making. Pooran became the latest player to be found guilty

Penalties as severe as a life ban for on-field slurs related to sexuality may soon be added to a broader and tougher Cricket Australia anti-discrimination code as the Test batsman Matthew Wade admitted he has needed to significantly “tame” his verbal tendencies on the field in the face of changing times and steeper standards of

Tamim Iqbal will once again work with coach Mohammad Salahuddin in this season’s Bangladesh Premier League (BPL), this time for the Dhaka Platoon team – the pair had played key roles in Comilla Victorians’ triumph last season. Tamim was the first pick in the draft on Sunday, and the Dhaka side later picked Mashrafe Mortaza

India women 50 for 7 (Vastrakar 10, Matthews 3-13) beat West Indies women 45 for 5 (Matthews 11, Patil 2-8) by five runs India continued their dominance against West Indies in the series, beating them by five runs in a nine-overs-a-side affair in Providence in the fourth T20I to make it 4-0. The hosts were

The Sydney Sixers face being without captain Ellyse Perry for the rest of the WBBL group stage after she sustained a shoulder injury against the Melbourne Renegades but are hopeful she will be fit for the finals if the Sixers secure their spot in the knockouts. Perry landed awkwardly while diving on the boundary during

Steven Smith is wary of the threat that could be posed by Mohammad Abbas but is keen to push the stamina of Pakistan’s young quicks as he prepares to return to Test cricket on home soil. Abbas, who has 66 wickets at 18.86 from 14 matches, is set to take the new ball and last