It’s been three years since Afghanistan’s women cricketers escaped the Taliban. While determined to stay together,they are frustrated nothing has come of their pleas to play.
Australia’s pain from missing a first Twenty20 World Cup final in seven tournaments will carry into the home summer,after captain Alyssa Healy revealed the extent of the foot injury that kept her out of the knockout game.
Australia’s resilience was on full display as they shrugged off the losses of captain Alyssa Healy and pace bowler Tayla Vlaeminck to take down India in Sharjah and progress unbeaten to the Twenty20 World Cup semi-finals
Australia know they will have to find much more polish to get past New Zealand in their next match,but Alyssa Healy’s behind-the-stumps chatter was the picture of efficiency as her side claimed the wicket of Chamari Athapaththu.
Meg Lanning knows how to win Twenty20 World Cups,and she set out how Australia can claim a seventh title with the tournament starting for the Aussies on Saturday.
Jay Shah will take over as chair of the International Cricket Council after forcing the resignation of the incumbent Greg Barclay,amid a $US3 billion dispute with its major broadcast rights holder.
Mitchell Starc has spoken of his unhappiness at being dropped for Australia’s T20 World Cup game against Afghanistan and has criticised the tournament’s format.
Amazon should simulcast Australia’s matches for the upcoming women’s Twenty20 World Cup with a free-to-air network to maximise its audience,according to the former executive who oversaw the WBBL’s rise to the fourth most-watched sporting league in the country.
Why was Jay Shah on the podium when India won the Twenty20 World Cup? There is an election coming up.
India had all the advantages in this World Cup,but it still took an extraordinary collapse by South Africa and a marginal umpiring decision to secure the trophy in Barbados.
Thirty-two years of World Cup hurt were wiped away in the couple of hours it took South Africa to hammer Afghanistan.