NewsHer debut was full of promise as one of the team’s next generation showed her paceDarcie Brown is hoping to soak up knowledge and experience from all corners during the tour of New Zealand as Australia’s young quick bowlers push each other to elevate the speed gun.Eighteen-year-old Brown made her debut in Napier on Tuesday,…

Big PictureNew Zealand are about to end their all-win home summer that has stretched seven series. They have hosted 21 international matches, the most by any country since the Covid-19 pandemic. It is regarded as an administrative success, particularly given their country’s stringent quarantine protocols. The only dampener is likely to be the rain in…

ReportMitchell Starc and Pat Cummins took three wickets apiece but NSW will lose five players to the IPLNew South Wales 2 for 204 (Hughes 101, Smith 86*) beat Queensland 203 (Peirson 59, Cummins 3-34, Starc 3-46) by eight wicketsNew South Wales secured the hosting rights for the Marsh Cup final with a thumping eight-wicket victory…

NewsDickwella, Bonner, Holder and Roach move up after the drawn first Test in North SoundDevon Conway has entered the top five among T20I batsmen after playing just 13 matches, while in ODIs, Ben Stokes has moved up to No. 2 among allrounders. Matt Henry is up to third and Bhuvneshwar Kumar up at No. 11…

NewsOffspinner is set to play competitive cricket for the first time since May 2019Harbhajan Singh has not played competitive cricket in nearly two years and is entering his first bio-bubble environment since the Covid-19 pandemic began, but feels sure of “what needs to be done” as he prepares to represent his third IPL franchise -…

Mike Hesson, the Royal Challengers Bangalore team director, is clear that the team is looking at Glenn Maxwell to be the finisher they have lacked in the recent past. Without giving away much of the team’s plans, Hesson stressed on clarity of roles as being key to getting the best out of “X-factor players” such…

NewsThe Australian allrounder is understood to have opted out because of concerns over the lengthy stay in biobubblesMitchell Marsh has pulled out of the Sunrisers Hyderabad’s IPL 2021 campaign because of “personal reasons”*. As reported by ESPNcricinfo earlier in the day, the Sunrisers have drafted in England opener Jason Roy as Marsh’s replacement, acquiring him…

News Analysis”I’d see myself anywhere in the top four, probably more comfortable up-top for the time being,” he saysA long, long time ago, in the age BC (Before Coronavirus), South Africa played an ODI series. And won. Really.In March 2020, they swept Australia 3-0 at home, prompting suggestion of a tide being turned, that came…

NewsRegulation tweak may lead to law change given mandatory use of headgearThe ECB are hopeful that a tweak to their playing regulations for this season’s County Championship may prompt a change to the game’s laws, after it was deemed that batsmen will remain not out if any part of their helmet falls on the stumps…

For England’s Test hopefuls the start of the County Championship season offers a simple, if slightly vague, formula for realising their dream: make runs, take wickets, get noticed by the national selectors.Ollie Robinson, the Sussex seam bowler, is among a handful of current players to have progressed considerably further along that path. Having spent the…