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ESPNcricinfo @espncricinfo.com · 4h

India haven't had a perfect game yet, and they head into Vizag bracing for a battle of resilience

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India, South Africa seek momentum amid unpredictable World Cup

Women's World Cup 2025/26 IND Women vs SA Women Match Preview: India haven't had a perfect game yet, and they head into Vizag bracing for a battle of resilience

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ESPNcricinfo @espncricinfo.com · 4h

India want to give the seam-bowling allrounder game time in home Tests so that he can improve for challenges overseas

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India trying to ready Reddy for greater challenges

India want to give the seam-bowling allrounder game time in home Tests so that he can improve for challenges overseas

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ESPNcricinfo @espncricinfo.com · 5h

Henil Patel, Naman Pushpak and Udhav Mohan finish Australia off for 116 in their second innings to set up a comfortable 81-run chase

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India rout Australia inside two days in Mackay to sweep Under-19s four-day series

AUS-U19 vs IND-U19 2025/26, AUS Under-19 vs IND Under-19 Match Report: Henil Patel, Naman Pushpak and Udhav Mohan finish Australia off for 116 in their second innings to set up 81-run chase, which is knocked off in 12.2 overs

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ESPNcricinfo @espncricinfo.com · 5h

A few areas that India still need to work on ⬇️

India need to fix flaws ahead of tougher challenges in World Cup

The right combination, troubles against left-arm spin, fielding lapses, and quiet starts and collapses with the bat are concerns

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ESPNcricinfo @espncricinfo.com · 6h

Northamptonshire coach Darren Lehmann has made a statement signing by luring Australia's Nathan McSweeney to Wantage Road for the 2026 season

Darren Lehmann lures Nathan McSweeney to Northants in statement signing

Three-cap Australian opener signs all-format deal for 2026 summer

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ESPNcricinfo @espncricinfo.com · 7h

West Indies have scored just 14 hundreds in their last 43 Tests - a combined 867 innings for their batters 😱

West Indies' Test-match batting a symptom of far deeper issues

Head coach Sammy is trying to address some of those but he faces an unimaginably difficult task

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ESPNcricinfo @espncricinfo.com · 8h

Kane Williamson: "The Test format needs greater importance placed on it by all playing nations, along with additional resources to support its growth"

Williamson wants 'additional resources to support the growth' of Test cricket globally

Kane Williamson accepts that "managing priorities on the calendar is a big task" but hopes all Test-playing countries give the format the attention it needs

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ESPNcricinfo @espncricinfo.com · 10h

Pat Cummins is yet to be cleared to bowl with just over six weeks to go before the first ball of the Ashes 👀

Doubts over Cummins' fitness for first Ashes Test grow, return remains unknown

Pat Cummins remains in rehab with no decisions made yet on when he will return to bowl

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ESPNcricinfo @espncricinfo.com · 10h

Joe Root says the circumstances for this year's Ashes trip are 'completely different' from the Covid tour of 2021-22

Joe Root relishes chance to make history as latest Ashes shot looms

Former captain says circumstances for this year's trip are 'completely different' from Covid tour of 2021-22

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ESPNcricinfo @espncricinfo.com · 11h

It came down to a good Knight knock for England to have a good night in Guwahati

Shining Knight sweeps in to rescue England

Old-school knock steers tricky chase and makes it goodnight, Bangladesh

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ESPNcricinfo @espncricinfo.com · 12h

From the right combinations in the playing XI to troubles against left-arm spin, fielding lapses, quiet starts and collapses with the bat, India have a few concerns to address as their schedule only gets tougher

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ESPNcricinfo @espncricinfo.com · 12h

In a press conference before the India tour, Daren Sammy revealed he had tried to reach out to Sherfane Rutherford - out of red-ball cricket since 2019 - to see if he might make himself available for this Test assignment...

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ESPNcricinfo @espncricinfo.com · 12h

Three matches, three defeats for Pakistan at #CWC25 😔

Lost to Bangladesh by 7 wickets
Lost to India by 88 runs
Lost to Australia by 107 runs

ESPNcricinfo @espncricinfo.com · 13h

One of the all-time great World Cup hundreds from Beth Mooney 🙌 #CWC25

That is, hands down, one of the best innings I have seen Mooney play - Alyssa Healy

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ESPNcricinfo @espncricinfo.com · 13h

Andrew Flintoff is parting ways with Northern Superchargers after two seasons as head coach, after failing to agree terms with Sun Group, the franchise's new owners

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We've got new owners, and I spoke to them when they phoned up. They said they
wanted us to do it, so I said: 'Yeah, fine. Make us an offer.’

I genuinely don't do it for the money, right, although it's nice… but I think I'm worth more than just over a quarter of the [salary of] other head coaches. I wasn't encouraged they wanted me anyway, but then also you want to feel valued. So I said that it's not going to work for me, and
they weren't going to move on it.

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ESPNcricinfo @espncricinfo.com · 13h

This Australia side always finds a way!

From 76/7 to a 107-run win 💪

Scorecard: bit.ly/CWC25-M9

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ESPNcricinfo @espncricinfo.com · 15h

Alana King is the first woman to score a half-century at No. 10 in women's ODIs 👏 #CWC25

Highest scores at No. 10 or lower in women's ODIs

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ESPNcricinfo @espncricinfo.com · 15h

Beth Mooney and Alana King are the first pair to put on a century partnership for the ninth wicket in women's ODIs 🤝 #CWC25

Highest partnerships for the ninth wicket or lower in women's ODIs

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ESPNcricinfo @espncricinfo.com · 16h

West Indies have the lowest batting average of any Test team this decade 😬

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ESPNcricinfo @espncricinfo.com · 16h

An absolute icon 🙇

Beth Mooney of Australia celebrates her century during the ICC Women's Cricket World Cup India 2025 match between Australia and Pakistan at R. Premadasa Stadium on October 08, 2025 in Colombo, Sri Lanka

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ESPNcricinfo @espncricinfo.com · 17h

Joe Root isn’t worrying about Matthew Hayden’s threat to walk naked across the MCG if he doesn’t score a century in Australia 😅

When we look back in five years' time, no one is going to remember what Matthew Hayden said
to me... Greg Blewett, Mark Waugh, whoever it is. They are going to look back on the scoreline and think that is a historic England win or not.

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ESPNcricinfo @espncricinfo.com · 18h

Swept in the T20Is, can Afghanistan bounce back in the ODIs?

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ESPNcricinfo @espncricinfo.com · 18h

With a cloud over Pat Cummins' fitness, will this be Australia's pace attack for the first Ashes Test?

Josh Hazlewood, Scott Boland and Mitchell Starc

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ESPNcricinfo @espncricinfo.com · 19h

A huge score by former South Africa opener Lizelle Lee for Tasmania in Australia's Women's National Cricket League!

It's the second-highest score in WNCL history, only behind Meg Lanning's 190 for Victoria against Tasmania in 2016 💪

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ESPNcricinfo @espncricinfo.com · 20h

Match 9️⃣ begins!

Follow live: bit.ly/CWC25-M9

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