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Pakistan’s tour of the West Indies this year will comprise five ODIs and two Twenty20 internationals but no Tests, because of the difficulty in finding a window for a full tour

ESPNcricinfo staff29-Apr-2013Pakistan’s tour of the West Indies this year will comprise five ODIs and two Twenty20 internationals but no Tests, because of the difficulty in finding a window for a full tour. The dates for the tour have not yet been finalised.”The Pakistan issue, it’s fair to say that we haven’t completely concluded negotiations or the final dates, but we’re confident that will be done shortly,” WICB chief executive Michael Muirhead said in Port-of-Spain. “It won’t be a Test series anymore; we’re going to be focussing on five ODIs and two T20s. We have just not finalised with Pakistan, them signing off on the schedule we have been provided.”The WICB president Dave Cameron said he was not happy about the absence of Tests but there was little that could be done. “I don’t think we are satisfied,” Cameron said. “But circumstances have dictated for this year that that’s what we’re able to put in, and hopefully we’re going to able to build on that next year.”Pakistan were originally scheduled to play two Tests, five ODIs and two Twenty20s in the Caribbean in June and July, but West Indies planned a tri-series involving India and Sri Lanka, which shortened the window. The WICB had asked the PCB if their tour could be rescheduled to August. That, however, interfered with Pakistan’s plan to host India and to play out the Zimbabwe series that was postponed last year.

Peter Siddle has flown home from Australia’s tour of the West Indies and James Pattinson will follow him at the conclusion of the second Test

Daniel Brettig in Port-of-Spain19-Apr-2012Peter Siddle has flown home from Australia’s tour of the West Indies and James Pattinson will follow him at the conclusion of the second Test in Trinidad after both were ruled out of the third Test, due to begin in Dominica on Monday.Pattinson and Siddle, team-mates for club, state and country, have both complained of back trouble in the past week. Siddle’s was at first described as “back stiffness” and emerged as he played in the first Test in Barbados, quickly ruling him out of the second.He and the rested Ryan Harris were replaced as fast bowlers for the second match by Pattinson, who was playing his first Test since he suffered a foot stress injury during the second Test against India at the SCG in January. However Pattinson struggled for rhythm and left the field on the third afternoon following a throw from the outfield.Siddle was not considered for Australia’s ODI team following his Test match success against India as the national selectors wished to retain his full and aggressive style for the game’s longest form, while also keeping him fresher physically. Australia’s captain Michael Clarke said the loss of Siddle and Pattinson would be difficult to cover, but was glad Harris had been left in reserve alongside Mitchell Starc.”Disappointing we lose two very good bowlers,” Clarke said. “But Mitchell Starc comes into contention now as one of our fast bowlers or we have the option to play two spinners again. Ryan Harris freshens up, doesn’t play this Test and he’s fresh and ready to go for the next Test. We’ve still got some options, it’s just about looking at conditions when we get there and see what our best attack is.”Clarke said Pattinson had shown no signs of discomfort until he threw while off balance in the field and immediately complained of back stiffness. “No back issues until he did that,” Clarke said. “I walked up to him and asked how you going and he said ‘I’m a little bit stiff’, told him to go and see the physio and it didn’t get much better from there. He was still stiff the next morning, had a scan and we didn’t get the results until late last night.”Got those results and the decision was made this morning on what his plans were because it’s more positive than negative. Obviously it’s disappointing that he’s not going to be available for the third Test but the reality is, if he’s not going to be fit for the third Test, our best option for both him and Peter is to put them on a plane and get them home and get them stuck into treatment ASAP so they’re fit for our next tour.”Australia’s physio on tour, Kevin Sims, said Siddle’s scans had shown a “low back bone stress injury” while Pattinson’s “acute low back pain” will require further diagnosis on his return to Australia.”Peter Siddle developed some back soreness late in the first Test against the West Indies and scans conducted in Trinidad showed the early signs of a low back bone stress injury,” Sims said. “He was subsequently ruled out of the second Test.”After further consultation we feel that to prevent this injury developing any further it is in Peter’s best interest for him to return to Australia to rest and for appropriate physiotherapy to ensure he is fully fit when next selected for Australian duties.”James Pattinson had an episode of acute low back pain after fielding and throwing awkwardly late on day three of the second Test. We have since monitored his condition over the last couple of days and the initial investigations suggest that while the injury is not serious there is insufficient time for him to recover to play in the third Test match.”As such, we have today made the decision for James to return to Australia to prevent this injury developing any further and for him to receive the appropriate medical and physiotherapy management.”Neither bowler will be replaced on tour, leaving Ben Hilfenhaus, Harris and Starc as Australia’s only available pacemen for the third Test.

Brett Lee believes he is now a craftier bowler than at any time in his career, but despite being 34 he is not willing to compromise his speed

Brydon Coverdale in Bangalore10-Mar-2011Brett Lee believes he is now a craftier bowler than at any time in his career, but despite being 34 he is not willing to compromise his speed. Australia’s captain, Ricky Ponting, last week described Lee as the glue that held Australia’s World Cup attack together, although he has only three wickets from three games, while the spoils have been greater for Shaun Tait and Mitchell Johnson.But that is no reflection on how Lee has bowled. He has been accurate and miserly, and is enjoying being the leader of the attack, having spent more than a year out of Australia’s side due to injuries throughout 2009 and 2010. He could have been forgiven for reducing his pace in an effort to prolong his career, but Lee is confident he has plenty of speed left in his armoury.”I’m still out to bowl fast,” Lee said. “I said about six months ago that if I couldn’t hit that 150kph mark I wouldn’t want to be playing cricket, which is the truth. I do thrive on speed. I enjoy the pace, I enjoy seeing the stumps fly. That’s the exciting part of cricket.”However, on the slower pitches of the subcontinent, which Lee knows well, having made “40 or 50″ trips to India over the years, he has found some variations that help him when the pace off the pitch doesn’t. And it has worked – Ponting believes Lee is bowling as well as he ever has, even if the wickets have gone to the other fast men.”[I’m] more likely to be a bit more cagey as a bowler now, a bit smarter,” Lee said. “As batsmen are working on new shots, lap sweeps, reverse lap sweeps, we as bowlers have to be evolving as well – slower-ball bumpers, wide-line yorkers, those type of things. It’s just about fine-tuning your trade and being a bit smarter when you bowl.”Lee has given up first-class cricket to concentrate on lengthening his career in the shorter formats and since his return to the ODI side in January, he has taken 14 wickets at 25.28. His role in the World Cup attack is to be the steadiest of the three pace bowlers, and he said although all three of them could hit 150kph, they each offered Ponting something different.”If you look at the way we’ve bowled collectively as a group, we’ve bowled very well as a pace unit,” Lee said. “What we’ve got is we actually complement each other. People might think that we’re three guys that can bowl 150kph and we’re all playing the same role, but we’re completely different.”We’ve got Mitch that does what he does first change, we’ve got Taity that can fire the ball in in the first couple of overs. I try and do what I do at the top and try and lead from example. It might look as though we’ve got three guys that are bowling similar stuff but it is quite different. We’ve got a great balance in the side with Shane Watson as well, he’s been bowling well, and Jason Krejza.”The Australians have two wins and a no-result from their three games so far, but could jump to the top of the Group A table if they beat Kenya and Canada as expected in Bangalore this Sunday and Wednesday. Michael Hussey has joined the squad and will be available for the Kenya game, while the standby fast bowler Dirk Nannes is expected to fly in early next week.

MCC have departed for their seven-match tour of the USA.

Cricinfo staff15-Mar-2010MCC have departed for their seven-match tour of the USA. The tour starts in California on March 17 before heading east to Florida, culminating in two matches at Central Broward – the new national cricket stadium – against USA and a West Indies XI.The 16-man squad is captained by Michael Foster, the former Australia Under-19 batsman, and includes Matthew Friedlander, who has played for both Northamptonshire in England and Boland in South Africa, and actor Torquil Deacon.MCC’s first match is against the Southern Californian Cricket Association (SCCA) at Woodley CC in Los Angeles. They play two more games at Woodley – against the South West Region of the SCCA, and the Hollywood All-Stars on March 19 and 20 – before moving on to San Jose to play the North West Region and North West Region Under-19s. They then travel to Cupertino, just outside San Jose, to run a coaching session, before flying east to Miami.”North America has great cricket history – USA and Canada played the first ever international match back in the 1840s – and we hope it’s got a bright future too,” said John Stephenson, MCC’s head of cricket. “MCC believes the USA is a massive potential growth area for the game and we’re delighted to do our part to encourage interest in California and Florida.”MCC teams have been regular visitors to the USA, having toured five times in the past twenty years, most recently in 2004.

Abhimanyu Easwaran has been named captain, replacing Anustup Majumdar

ESPNcricinfo staff10-Oct-2025Mohammed Shami has been named in a strong Bengal squad for the start of the 2025-26 Ranji Trophy season. Shami will be partnered by Akash Deep, Mukesh Kumar and Ishan Porel in the pace department, with the squad captained by opener Abhimanyu Easwaran.Bengal had earlier named Anustup Majumdar as captain. But the late change is understood to have been made in consultation with Sourav Ganguly, the former India captain who recently took charge as president of the Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB).Shami hasn’t played for India since featuring in the Champions Trophy in early March. Asked of his omission from the squad for the West Indies Tests, chief selector Ajit Agarkar had highlighted Shami’s lack of match time as one of the reasons.Related

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So far, since the end of IPL 2025 in June, Shami has featured in just one first-class game, for East Zone in the Duleep Trophy. In that game, he sent down 34 overs across the two innings, picking up one wicket. In the second innings of that match, Shami didn’t bowl much on the final day in a game East Zone lost after conceding a big first-innings lead.The Ranji season is also an opportunity for Akash Deep and Mukesh to get back on the Test selection radar ahead of the South Africa series starting November 14.Akash Deep was part of the England tour in the summer, where he featured in three of the five Tests and starred with a ten-wicket haul in India’s win in Birmingham. However, since his return from England, Akash Deep has had to undergo rehab for a back injury that ruled him out of the Duleep Trophy. He has since passed a fitness test but was not picked in the squad for the ongoing series against West Indies.Mukesh was part of the India A tour of England in the summer, where he picked up three wickets in his only outing. He bowled in just one innings in the Duleep Trophy opener for East Zone before being examined for a hamstring injury. He has since cleared his fitness tests at the BCCI’s Centre of Excellence.Bengal open their campaign against Uttarakhand at Eden Gardens on October 15. They are placed in Group C, with Assam, Services, Tripura, Railways, Haryana and Gujarat as the other teams.

She will be replaced by wicketkeeper-batter Dilara Akter for the three-match series

Mohammad Isam27-Mar-2024Fargana Hoque has been left out from Bangladesh’s T20I squad for the three-match series against Australia. Fargana was among three changes from the ODI series which the visitors won 3-0 quite convincingly.Fargana had scores of 0, 7 and 5 in the three ODIs although the rest of the Bangladesh team couldn’t even cross 100 runs in any of the matches.Dilara Akter has replaced Fargana while Fariha Trisna and Shorifa Khatun have come in place of Disha Biswas and Nishita Akter. All three of those replacements have some T20I experience.”Trisna got the nod ahead of Disha as she is a left-arm pacer and adds variety to the bowling,” chief selector Sajjad Ahmed said. “Dola has been picked over Fargana. She is a wicketkeeper-batter who we believe, has the talent to succeed in the T20 format. Shorifa Khatun is an allrounder who bowls off-spin and bats in the late order. She can also develop into a T20 specialist.”The three T20Is will also be held at the Shere Bangla National Cricket Stadium in Dhaka on March 31 and April 2 and 4. All three matches will start at 12:00pm local time.Bangladesh T20I squad: Nigar Sultana Joty (capt), Nahida Akter, Murshida Khatun, Sobhana Mostary, Sumaya Akter, Shorna Akter, Ritu Moni, Rabeya, Sultana Khatun, Fahima Khatun, Marufa Akter, Farzana Akter Lisa, Fariha Islam Trisna, Shorifa Khatun, Dilara Akter Dola.

Cricket Australia XI were bowled out for 226 despite Kellaway’s ton

AAP10-Dec-2022Two of the brightest young stars on either side had productive days with South Africa quick Gerald Coetzee claiming a hat-trick and Cricket Australia XI batter Campbell Kellaway scoring a century in the four-day clash at Allan Border Field.The 22-year-old Coetzee has genuine speed and had Jordan Buckingham caught in the gully and then dismissed Chris Tremain and Liam Hatcher for ducks.In shattering Hatcher’s stumps he also ensured CA XI were bowled out for 226 in reply to South Africa’s first innings of 347.Unbeaten on 105 for the CA XI was former Australian Under-19s representative Kellaway. The stylish 20-year-old left-hander made his first-class debut for Victoria last month and came to the crease at 4 for 24 with the CA XI under assault from Lungi Ngidi.Jake Doran (78) and Kellaway added 143 for the fifth wicket and went after Coetzee initially in a superb counter-attacking partnership. Kellaway was strong all around the ground and showcased power, touch and concentration in his innings.Ngidi took his early wickets in five fiery and fast overs. He dismissed three of the top four Sheffield Shield run-scorers this season, with Tim Ward caught down the leg side by wicketkeeper Kyle Verreynne with the first ball of his opening spell before he accounted for Sam Whiteman and captain Peter Handscomb.South Africa earlier resumed at 335 for 7 but soon lost Kagiso Rabada and Verreynne. Fast bowler Marco Jansen was then dismissed for a duck.Middle-order batter Temba Bavuma did not feature in the first innings as he is nursing an elbow injury. Captain Dean Elgar, who top-scored with 109 on day one, said after the close of play on Friday he hoped Bavuma would recover and get some valuable time in the middle before the first Test against Australia which starts on December 17 at the Gabba.

Eve Jones top-scored for the home side but a total of 128 was never quite enough

Andrew Miller23-Jul-2021London Spirit overcame a late clatter of wickets to scramble to a three-wicket win with four balls to spare at Edgbaston, as a crowd of 6,317 – a record for a domestic women’s game outside of London in the professional era – were treated to another tense encounter in which Birmingham Phoenix did their utmost to defend a sub-par total of 128.In the end, they fell short, but not before giving their visitors an almighty scare – primarily through the efforts of Emily Arlott, whose two wickets in three balls were followed by a third in four moments later, as the well-set Deepti Sharma slapped an Erin Burns full-toss to deep midwicket, to reduce Spirit to a rocky 108 for 6, with exactly 20 from 20 required.That equation had been chipped down to six from seven by Amara Carr and Charlotte Dean, when Katie Mack swept round from deep midwicket with a bullet return to run out Dean as she raced back for the second. However, Danielle Gibson settled the nerves with a first-ball reverse-sweep to level the scores, and the game too one ball later, as Georgia Elwiss was picked off through backward square for Gibson’s matchwinning boundary.Dattani seizes her stage

Spirit had been streaking away with the game in the early exchanges of their chase, thanks largely to Naomi Dattani, an unheralded allrounder who seized an unlikely chance to set the tempo at the top of the order.Had Tammy Beaumont not been a surprise absentee – she is quarantining for Spirit’s first two games after being given permission to attend a family wedding last week – Dattani may not have played at all. Instead she romped to 34 from 19, outgunning her more vaunted opening partner Deandra Dottin in the process. Dottin made a run-a-ball 9 before falling to the up-and-coming speedster, Issy Wong, who pinned her on the crease for a plumb lbw.Devious Davies does for Verma

After winning the toss and bowling, London Spirit’s early objective was a simple one – get rid of Shafali Verma as soon as feasibly possible. A brace of fours in Dattani’s opening spell served early warning of her power and poise, even as Dottin prised an early opening by luring Mack in a cramped hack at a surprise full toss.But Freya Davies, whose lanky, languid action so had so nearly speared a first-ball yorker into Mack’s off stump, returned for a second set with a stupendous piece of trickery. An outstanding slower ball floated down through Verma’s advances to slap her leg stump and send her on her way for a run-a-ball 13, and when the captain, Heather Knight, popped up with a golden-arm first delivery that Arlott could only flash to short cover, Phoenix’s top order were in ashes.The Jones and Jones show

And yet, from 37 for 3 after 36 balls, Phoenix produced an admirable attempt to live up to their own name, as the Joneses – Eve and Amy – came together in a stand of 64 from the next 31.Complementing one another with their left-and-right combination, just as surely as they confounded Spirit’s lines of attack, the pair took it in turns to propel the score forward – 14 fours and a six between them, the latter a fumble over the rope at square leg as Davies failed to cling on to a crashing pull from Amy Jones.The return of Dean brought an end to their stand, as Amy gave herself room for a wipe over the off-side and had her stumps rearranged, while Eve missed out on a well-deserved fifty when she over-reached on a wide one from Dottin and toe-ended a looping chance to short cover.

Rory Burns scores 90 as England declare before taking two quick wickets before close

The Report by Valkerie Baynes26-Jul-2020You know those times – hopefully they’re rare – when someone says or does something to offend you and you walk away, seething and speechless. You play it over in your mind and then, much later, you think of the perfect comeback: “I should have said this. If only I’d said that. I wish I’d shown ’em.”Stuart Broad had the chance few of us get to set that person we think has wronged us straight and he took it, more than once.Left out of the England side for the first Test, won by West Indies at the Ageas Bowl, Broad made it clear in an interview during the game that he wasn’t happy about it. It probably wasn’t to everyone’s liking, almost certainly not the selectors, but it was decent PR for Broad – he was hungry, driven and eloquent. But he wasn’t done there.”And another thing…” Broad may as well have said has he backed up words with action, his new-ball burst of 3 for 1 from 14 balls helping set up England’s victory in the second Test.”And another thing…” Broad may as well have said as he whacked West Indies’ bowlers round Emirates Old Trafford en route to the equal third-fastest fifty in England Test history on the second day of the deciding match of the series. His 62 from 45 balls batting at No. 9 lifted England’s first-innings total to 369 after a mini-collapse on the second morning had left the hosts 280 for 8.”And another thing…” Broad only went and took 6 for 31 to help bowl West Indies out for 197 in reply before lunch on Sunday, still 172 runs adrift.England’s batsmen rallied round their mate to ensure Broad’s retorts were rammed home, Rory Burns, Joe Root and Dom Sibley all adding their own “take thats” as they each passed 50 in guiding their side to a 398-run lead.Burns fell short of a hundred, caught sweeping for 90 to go with his first-innings 57, before England declared their second innings at 226 for 2. Burns shared a 114-run partnership with Sibley – the first for England’s openers at home since 2016 – and then another 112 with Root, who remained not out after an momentum-stealing knock of 68 off 56 balls.With England needing to win the match to reclaim the Wisden Trophy, their tactics were in part dictated by a poor forecast for Monday.It meant West Indies had to face six overs before the close, and of course it was Broad who helped England make strides towards their goal of taking ten wickets. He had opener John Campbell caught by Root at first slip for a third-ball duck and then removed nightwatchman Kemar Roach, caught behind, to move to 499 Test wickets before stumps.Broad began the day with two wickets already, having combined well with James Anderson in favourable conditions the previous evening. But that was just the precursor to Broad’s spell of 4 for 14 from four overs which ended West Indies’ first innings.Chris Woakes and Jofra Archer opened the bowling on the third morning with Jason Holder not out 24 and Shane Dowrich on 10, their side still 33 runs from saving the follow-on.The batsmen successfully navigated a spell of short-pitched bowling and secured their first target. Dowrich did well to see off the barrage, given the fact England’s bowlers have targeted him with the short ball in this series.But when Broad came on, he struck with his third ball, removing the dangerous Holder four runs shy of his half-century with a lovely length ball that seamed in and struck the knee-roll, breaking up a partnership worth 68.Woakes thought he had Holder out for 38 four overs earlier to a brilliant diving catch by Ollie Pope at midwicket, until it was revealed he had overstepped for only the second time in his 35-Test career.Holder’s eventual dismissal, just after he had reached the milestone of 2000 Test runs, left his side exposed, and Broad swooped.In his third over of the day, Broad had Rahkeem Cornwall out lbw for 10 and, three balls later, he drew Roach forward with a ball that nipped away off the seam, found an edge and was swallowed by Root at slip to claim his five-wicket haul.”And another thing…” Broad wasn’t done. He then claimed last man out Dowrich, who top-edged a pull to mid-on, to give Broad figures of 6 for 31 from 14 overs. Broad is now the leading wicket-taker for the series with 14, despite missing that first Test.England’s second innings started terribly for West indies when Holder had to leave the field after Burns edged a Roach delivery in his direction at second slip and the ball bounced awkwardly into his left thumb.No sooner had Holder returned to the field after lunch, with his thumb heavily strapped, than wicketkeeper Dowrich was off nursing a swollen lip after Burns left a Shannon Gabriel short ball which deceived the keeper with some late swing, hit the top of his glove and smacked into his face.A bleeding Dowrich spent the rest of the day in the changing rooms – he was seen shortly after the incident holding a small piece of ice to his lip – as he was replaced initially by Shai Hope before substitute Joshua Da Silva donned his gear and took over, making his first appearance of the series.In the meantime, Burns and Sibley set about extending the England lead, their union eventually broken by Holder when he had Sibley out lbw for 56, which included seven fours.As soon as Burns was out, Root joined him on the walk back to the changing rooms, where Broad was preparing to return in full flight.