It’s battle rejoined. Just in case there hadn’t been enough of England facing Australia in recent months, the semi-final of the Champions Trophy has thrown together a rematch. There shouldn’t be much these two sides don’t know about each other, but the intrigue of this meeting is that it’s a straight knockout. Most expected Australia [...]
Andrew Strauss is usually as affable as international captains come, but despite his upbeat sentiments, there was no disguising the exhausted despondency with which he addressed the media in Johannesburg on Wednesday, as England prepared to face the music in a one-day competition that has humiliation stamped all over it. True, they arrive in the [...]
Laughable as it now seems, England could have gone above Australia in the ODI rankings had they managed to win this seven-match series by at least five games to two. Three defeats later, and the limit of their ambitions would now appear to be the avoidance of a 7-0 whitewash.
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One down, six to go. Australia took an early lead in the one-day series by holding off a spirited late charge form England’s lower order to secure a four-run victory at The Oval. They almost let the match slip away in the closing overs, but Nathan Bracken held his nerve and Ryan Sidebottom will be [...]
Tim Paine, the Tasmania wicketkeeper, will replace Brad Haddin in Australia’s Champions Trophy squad after Cricket Australia confirmed Haddin’s recovery from finger surgery will rule him out until at least October. Haddin told Cricinfo on Wednesday of the extended recovery time, which will allow Paine to take step up in the eight-team tournament.
England batsman Joe Denly was assisted from The Oval with a knee injury sustained during Thursday’s training session. Denly clutched at his left knee while playing football with his England team-mates prior to practice and was carried to the dressing room by team staff.
The last time Dirk Nannes played a Twenty20 international, it was for Netherlands in their remarkable win over England in the World Twenty20. Now, however, he has switched alliance to his birth-country Australia, who have their first opportunity for Ashes revenge when they take on England in the first of two Twenty20s at Old Trafford [...]
One Day International (ODI) cricket match series between England and Australia is going to start from 30th August at Manchester, United Kingdom. Australia will play 2 T20 matches and 7 ODI matches. However, Australia has already lost their Ashes title to England. They will be trying to win the series to improve the status in [...]
Revenge will be one theme for sure. But bigger than that will be Pakistan’s opportunity to advance to the semi-finals; Sri Lanka’s narrow win over Ireland now means that any kind of Pakistan win against the Irish almost certainly sends them through to the semis (barring some outlandish scenarios) on net run-rate.
If they do get [...]
Well, that’s livened things up a bit. West Indies’ stunning seven-wicket win over India on Friday has transformed the dynamics of Group E, and left the holders facing what is, in effect, an elimination show-down with the hosts. On paper it ought not even to be close – when England and India last faced each [...]
