Tickner to make New Zealand Test debut
Pace bowler Blair Tickner will win his first Test cap for New Zealand in the day-night match against England at Mount Maunganui, which starts on Thursday.
Pace bowler Blair Tickner will win his first Test cap for New Zealand in the day-night match against England at Mount Maunganui, which starts on Thursday.
England have recalled seam bowler Stuart Broad for the first Test against New Zealand in Mount Maunganui.
Gudakesh Motie took 13 wickets in the match as the West Indies beat Zimbabwe by an innings and four runs in the second Test in Bulawayo.
A depleted New Zealand under new captain Tim Southee face the daunting prospect of trying to halt in-form England when a two-Test series begins with a day-night encounter in Mount Maunganui on Thursday.
Eoin Morgan, who captained England to the 2019 World Cup title, has announced his retirement from all forms of cricket.
The third Test between India and Australia has been moved out of the northern town of Dharamsala because of the state of the outfield.
England seamer James Anderson admits a tropical storm battering New Zealand will affect preparations for this week’s first Test but is looking forward to an exciting series.
West Indies off-spinner Gudakesh Motie wreaked havoc in the second Test against depleted Zimbabwe on Sunday in Bulawayo.
Australia’s rout by India in the first Test at Nagpur was slammed as a “humiliation” and an “embarrassment” on Sunday, with calls for changes ahead of the second Test.
Spinners Ravichandran Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja eviscerated Australia in just over two hours to hand India a crushing innings-and-132-run victory inside three days of the opening Test.
Captain Rohit Sharma hit a brave 120 on a turning Nagpur pitch as India extended their lead to 144 despite Australian debutant Todd Murphy’s five wickets in the opening Test.
Spinner Ravindra Jadeja claimed a five-wicket haul on his international return as India ruled the opening day of the first Test against Australia on Thursday.
Zimbabwe clung on for a draw in the first Test against the West Indies in Bulawayo on Wednesday.
India captain Rohit Sharma and Australian counterpart Pat Cummins have brushed aside concerns about the pitch ahead of the first of four eagerly awaited Tests.
Australia’s Cameron Green and Josh Hazlewood have been ruled out of the first Test against India due to injuries.